Book III — Astronomical Book
Source context· Egyptian-Hebrew stream · Egypto-Chaldean cultural impulse
- Stream
- Egyptian-Hebrew
- Cultural impulse
- Egypto-Chaldean (3rd post-Atlantean cultural age)
- Composed
- c. 200 BCE
- Written down
- Greco-Latin (4th post-Atlantean cultural age) manuscript epoch
- 1Chapter LXXII — The Sun's Twelve Gates — Uriel reveals the courses of the sun
Opens the Book of the Heavenly Luminaries. Uriel shows Enoch the law of all the luminaries, beginning with the sun: twelve gates in heaven through which it rises and sets, the lengthening and shortening of days through the year.
1,280 words - 2Chapter LXXIII — The Moon's Phases — The waxing and waning
The course of the moon: the law of her waxing and waning, the gates through which she rises and sets, how she becomes full and how she diminishes. The moon's months counted by fifty and twenty-nine days alternately.
306 words - 3Chapter LXXIV — The Lunar Year Differs — The moon falls behind the sun by ten days a year
Detailed calculation of how the lunar year of 354 days falls behind the solar year of 364 days. The intercalations needed to bring the moon back to its place. Eight years; twelve years; the great cycles.
534 words - 4Chapter LXXV — The Leaders of the Heads of Thousands — The four intercalary days
The leaders of the thousands set over creation; the four intercalary days that mark the year's transitions and that humans often miscount; the divisions and seasons appointed in the heavens for sun, moon, and stars.
414 words - 5Chapter LXXVI — The Twelve Winds — Twelve gates open in the directions
The twelve gates of heaven open at the four quarters from which the winds proceed: three gates in each quarter (east, south, west, north). The winds bring blessing or harm depending on which gate they issue from.
462 words - 6Chapter LXXVII — The Four Quarters and the Seven Mountains — The geography of the cosmos
The names of the four quarters of the earth; the names of the seven great mountains, seven great rivers, seven great islands. The geographic schema of the cosmos as Enoch beholds it from the heights.
272 words - 7Chapter LXXVIII — Names of the Sun and Moon — The sun and moon equal, both shining alike
The names of the sun (Oryares, Tomases) and of the moon (Asonja, Ebla, Benase, Erae). The phases of the moon described in detail: the increasing of her light from one-seventh to fullness; the decreasing back to darkness.
620 words - 8Chapter LXXIX — Summary of the Astronomical Vision — Uriel completes the law of the luminaries
Uriel concludes the astronomical revelation: this is the complete law of the luminaries; this is the complete vision of the laws of the universe. Enoch is to teach his son Methuselah.
193 words - 9Chapter LXXX — The Last Days' Disruption — In the days of the sinners, the courses of heaven shall change
In the days of the sinners the rains will be withheld; the moon will change her order; the stars will alter their appearance and not be seen in their proper seasons. Many heads of stars will transgress the commandment — apostasy in heaven as on earth.
310 words - 10Chapter LXXXII — Enoch Charges Methuselah — The book of the courses of the luminaries given
Enoch addresses Methuselah: 'Preserve the words of thy father.' The leaders of the thousands and their offices; the four intercalary days; the seasons; the months. The whole book of the heavenly luminaries given to Methuselah for the generations.
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