26
|God summons from the very lowest things a second time, so that Arkhas, both
heavy and red, should come out. Word "25."|
And I called out a second
time into the very lowest things, and I said, *Let one of the (in)visible things
come out visibly, solid.'
|And| Arkhas came out,
solid and heavy and very red. *And I said, *Open yourself up, Arkhas, and
let what is born from you become visible!' And he disintegrated himself. There
came out an age, dark, very large, carrying the creation of all lower things.
And I saw how good it was.
And I said to him, *Come down low and become solid! And
become the foundation of the lowest things!' |And it came about.| And he came
down and became solid. And he became the foundation of the lowest things. And
there is nothing lower than the darkness, except nothing itself.
27. |About
how God founded the water, and surrounded it with light, and established on it
seven islands. Word "26."|
"And I gave the command: *Let there be taken some of the
light and
some of the darkness.' *And I said, *Become thickened, and
be wrapped around with light!' And I spread it out, and it became water. And I
spread it out above the darkness, below the light. *And
thus I made the solid waters, that is to say, the Bottomless. And I made a
foundation of light around the water. And I created seven great circles inside
it, and I gave them an appearance of crystal, wet and dry, that is to say glass
and ice, and to be the circuit for water and the other elements. And I pointed
out to each one |of them| his route, to the seven stars, each one of them in his
own heaven, so that they might travel accordingly.
And I saw how good it was. *And I made a division between
the light and between the darkness, that is to say, in the middle of the waters,
this way and that way. And I said to the light that it should be day, and to the
darkness 〈I commanded〉
that it should be night. And evening came, and
〈again〉
morning came, 〈that is〉
the first day.
28 |The week
in which God showed Enoch all his wisdom and strength, throughout all of the
seven days; how he created all the forces of heaven and earth, and every kind of
thing that moves itself, even up to man.|
"And thus I made solid the heavenly circles. And
〈I said〉,
*Let the lower water, which is below heaven, collect itself
〈|into|〉
one collection, and let its waves become dry.' And it happened like that.
And from the waves I created rocks, solid and big. And from
the rocks I assembled the dry land; and I called the dry land Earth.
And what was in the middle of the earth I called chasm,
that is to
Say, Bottomless. *The sea I gathered into one place, and I
bound it with a yoke. And I said to the sea: *Behold, I give you an eternal
boundary. And you will not break through from your own waters.' And so I fixed
the solid structure and established it above the waters.
This first-created day I named for myself. Then evening
came and 〈|again|〉
morning, and it was the second day.
29 |Monday is
the day. The fiery substance.|
"And for all my own heavens I shaped a shape from the fiery
substance. My eye looked at the solid and very hard rock. And from the flash of
my eye I took the |marvelous| substance of lightning, both fire
in water and water in fire; *neither does this one
extinguish that one, nor does that one dry out this one. That is why lightning
is sharper and brighter than the shining of the sun, and softer than water, more
solid than the hardest rock.
And from the rock I cut off a great fire, and from the fire
I created the ranks of the bodiless armies * the myriad angels * and their
weapons are fiery and their clothes are burning flames. And I gave orders that
each should stand in his own rank.
|Here Satanail was hurled from
the hight, together with his angels.|
But one from the order of the archangels deviated, together
with the division that was under his authority. He thought up the impossible
idea, that he might place his throne higher than the clouds which are above the
earth, and that he might become equal to my power.
And I hurled him out from the height, together with his
angels. And he was flying around in the air, ceaselessly above the Bottomless.
And thus I created the entire heavens. And the third day
came.
30 |Tuesday|
"And on the third day I commanded the earth to make trees
grow, large and fruit-bearing; and the mountains * all kinds of
〈sweet grass and all kinds of〉
sown seed. And I laid out paradise as a garden, and I enclosed it; and I placed
armed guards, angels aflame with fire. And thus I created the renewal of the
earth.
And then evening came and morning came * the fourth day.
|Wednesday|
And on the fourth day I commanded: *Let there be great
lamps on the heavenly circles.'
On the first, the highest circle,
I placed the star Kronos;
on the 2nd,
〈lower down, I placed〉
Afridit;
on the 3rd
Arris;
on the 4th
the sun;
on the
fifth Zeous;
on the 6th
Ermis;
and on the 7th, the
lowest, the moon.
And with the lowest stars I beautified the air below.
And I appointed the sun over the illumination of the day,
but the
moon and stars over the illumination of the night. *And the
sun goes in accordance with each animal, and the twelve animals are the
succession of the months. And I assigned their names and the animals of their
seasons, and their connection with the newborn, and their horoscopes, and how
they revolve. *Then evening came and morning came * the fifth day.
|Thursday|
And on the 5th day I commanded the sea to
engender fishes and feathered birds of many different kinds, and every kind of
reptile that creeps on the earth and that walks on the earth of four legs and
that flies through the air * male sex and female * and every kind of soul that
breathes
the breath of all living things. *And evening came and
morning came * the sixth day.
|Friday|
And on the sixth day I commanded my wisdom to create man
out of the seven components:
|1| his flesh
from earth;
|second| his blood from
and from the sun;
|third| his eyes
from the bottomless sea;
|fourth| his bones
from stone;
|fifth| his reason
from the mobility of angels and from clouds;
|sixth| his veins
and hair from grass of the earth;
|seventh| his spirit
from my spirit and from wind.
And I gave him 7 properties:
hearing to
the flesh;
sight to the eyes;
smell to the
spirit;
touch to the veins;
taste to the
blood;
to the bones* endurance ;
to the reason* sweetness.
Behold, I have thought up an ingenious poem to recite:
From invisible and visible
substances I created man.
From both his natures come both
death and life.
And (as my) image he knows the
word like (no) other creature.
But even at his greatest he is
small,
and again at his smallest he is
great.
And on the earth I assigned him to be a second angel,
honored and
great and glorious. *And I assigned him to be a king, to
reign |on| the earth, |and| to have my wisdom. And there was nothing comparable
to
him on earth, even among my creatures that exist. *And I
assigned to him a name fromm the four components:
from East * (A)
from West * (D)
from North * (A) |South| *
(M)
from South * (M) |North| *
(A).
And I assigned to him four special stars, and called his
name Adam.
And I gave him his free will; and I pointed out to him the
two ways * light and darkness. And I said to him, *This is good for you, but
that is bad'; so that I might come to know whether he has love toward me or
abhorrence, and so that it might become plain who among his race loves me.
Whereas I have come to know his nature, he does not know
his own nature. That is why ignorance is more lamentable than the sin such as it
is in him to sin. And I said, *After sin there is nothing for it but death.'
And I assigned a shade for him; and I imposed sleep upon
him, and he fell asleep. And while he was sleeping, I took from him a rib. And I
created for him a wife, so that death might come
〈|to him|〉
by his wife.
And I took his last word, and I called her name Mother,
that is to say, Euva.
