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Michael hauls a mortal scribe up through every heaven to Aravot, where a crystal palace burns and the great angels fight to sing first.
Two shining angels woke Enoch on his 365th birthday. In the first heaven he found a sea vaster than the world. In the second, chained angels wept.
When Enoch passed through the seven heavens, the third one stopped him. Below was a garden not destroyed when Adam was expelled. It had been moved.
Metatron carried seventy names through heaven, but the name Youth kept the mighty angel tied to service, speed, and human memory.
Enoch ascends through dark heavens, finds chained angels weeping in gloom, then silent Watchers stripped of light, still awaiting judgment.
Enoch rises through the sixth and seventh heavens, where angelic order becomes overwhelming fire, praise, and nearness to God's throne.
Everyone knows Metatron was once Enoch, the man taken by God. The Zohar preserves an older, stranger claim - Metatron was the first thing created.
Metatron showed Rabbi Ishmael where the stars are kept. Every light above the earth has a chamber, a spirit, and an appointed service in heaven's order.
The Watchers came down to instruct humanity. Among all the people alive in those ancient days, only one student mastered every lesson they brought.
In the second heaven, Enoch found angels chained in darkness, weeping without ceasing. They had obeyed only themselves. They asked a mortal to pray for them.
Enoch stood before God and was handed a reed. For thirty days and nights, Pravuil dictated all of creation -- every star and soul -- and Enoch wrote it down.
Enoch returned from heaven and stood before his sons. He had seen God's face and written 366 books. He had to find words for what no language was built to hold.
Returned from ten heavens, Enoch has one final night with his sons. He explains time, his 366 books, and what the calendar means for those he leaves behind.
An angel pulled Enoch from seclusion to rule the earth. He taught 130 kings for 243 years. When God called him back, eight hundred thousand men watched him go.
The Torah says Enoch pleased God and was taken. Philo of Alexandria read the word pleased as proof the soul keeps living after the body is gone.
Enoch is carried to the frayed edge of the world, where God opens a book half fire and half ice and looses the sword of heaven on the chained Watchers
