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Enoch (attributed) · The Book of the Secrets of Enoch (2 Enoch) · 27 of 70

Chapter 26

Translated by W. R. Morfill; edited by R. H. Charles

God tells Enoch how out of the lowest Darkness, there comes Jorth the visible and the invisible

1 ‘And I commanded in the depths that visible And out came Adoil very great”, and I gazed upon him. And lo his colour wasred, of great brightness.

2 And I said unto him: “Burst asunder, Adoil

4 and let that which comes from thee be. And he burst asunder, and there came forth a great light, and I was in the midst of a great light, and as the light came forth from the light, there came forth the great world, revealing all the creation, which I had pur-. And I made for Myself a throne, and sat upon it, and I said to the light: things should come out of invisible. visible.” posed to make, and I saw that it was good. forth who had in his belly a great stone, B. 6 T was in the midst of light, and the light thus appear- “Go forth on high and be established above My throne ?, and be the foundation for things on high.’

5 And there was nothing higher than the light, and as I reclined, I saw it from My throne.