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World War IV: The Early Days, May 10 2002
· undemocratic Muslim countries really dislike us all that much? Who can
· ``Muslim rage'' in an article in the
· attacks] has involved a Muslim or an Arab, raising the specter of racial
· . . . rejected by Muslim scholars and the vast majority of Muslim
· American officials are still waiting for Muslim politicians to
· U.S. diplomat.They don't because the Muslim world is bursting with
· is a very, very, very, very good Muslim." A Kenyan adds: "Every Muslim
· represents Islam." In France, Muslim youths chant bin Laden's name as
· Muslim world.
· The wide and deep Muslim enthusiasm for bin Laden is an extremely
· "You, who have always caused blows to Iran's interests, how dare you request help (from us) in order to attack the innocent Muslim nation of Afghanistan which has suffered
· Breaking ranks with allies reaching out to the Muslim world, Silvio
· Islamic Scholars Say U.S. Muslim Soldiers Must Fight for Country
· Muslim chaplain serving in the U.S. military, Army Capt. Abdul-Rasheed
· Muhammad, 48, the first Muslim chaplain ever appointed in the U.S. armed
· innocents in combat, the scholars said that when "a Muslim is a citizen of
· reservation or harm to the soldiers, or to the other American Muslim
· "To sum up, it's acceptable -- God willing -- for the Muslim American
· Muslim world since his tenure as Secretary of the Navy in the late
· 2001-sep-9: Iraq wants Muslim condemnation of US attacks
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Chapter 7: Is there an Asian Economic Model, Mar 21 2000
Consider the geographical scope of Asia. In economic terms the reference is really to East or South East Asia, a region stretching from Japan as far west as Thailand and Malaysia and as far south as Indonesia. To Western eyes, this may seem like a coherent group of countries, but there are major differences. The Catholic Philippines and a largely Protestant Korea contrast with Muslim Indonesia, communist China and Vietnam, Buddhist Thailand and mainly agnostic Japan. Singapore and Malaysia contain a rich racial mix, while Korea and Japan are very homogenous societies. All were embroiled in a regional war fifty years ago (and some more recently), for which the aggressor has shown little remorse. Important territorial disputes remain. (As recently as June 20, 1997, Philippine troops fired warning shots in order to drive Chinese fishing boats away from the contested Spratly Islands. Other islands are also the subject of regional territorial disputes including the Kuriles (involving Japan and Russia) and the Senkaku Islands (involving China, Japan and Taiwan).) Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore have three decades or more of democracy (of sorts), while Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan and Thailand are more recent converts. The people of China and Hong Kong have little say in how their country is run. If businessmen from two countries of the region converse the language used is more likely to be English than any other (unless they are both ethnic Chinese).

AMPP: Defining America, Feb 1 2005
you be an agnostic or atheist or Buddhist or Muslim and a believing American
It should be clear to all that Islam -- the faith of one-fifth of humanity -- is consistent with democratic rule. Democratic progress is found in many predominantly Muslim countries -- in Turkey and Indonesia, and Senegal and Albania, Niger and Sierra Leone. Muslim men and women are good citizens of India and South Africa, of the nations of Western Europe, and of the United States of America.
Governments across the Middle East and North Africa are beginning to see the need for change. Morocco has a diverse new parliament; King Mohammed has urged it to extend the rights to women. Here is how His Majesty explained his reforms to parliament: "How can society achieve progress while women, who represent half the nation, see their rights violated and suffer as a result of injustice, violence, and marginalization, notwithstanding the dignity and justice granted to them by our glorious religion?" The King of Morocco is correct: The future of Muslim nations will be better for all with the full participation of women. (Applause.)
These vital principles are being applies in the nations of Afghanistan and Iraq. With the steady leadership of President Karzai, the people of Afghanistan are building a modern and peaceful government. Next month, 500 delegates will convene a national assembly in Kabul to approve a new Afghan constitution. The proposed draft would establish a bicameral parliament, set national elections next year, and recognize Afghanistan's Muslim identity, while protecting the rights of all citizens. Afghanistan faces continuing economic and security challenges -- it will face those challenges as a free and stable democracy. (Applause.)
One of the first to vote was President Ghazi al-Yawar, a Sunni Muslim Arab with a large tribal following, who cast his ballot inside Baghdad's fortress-like Green Zone.
AMPP: Ancient Rites, May 8 2005
the exception tends to prove the rule: only the Muslim immigrant
People are designed to communicate through language, but they speak English, French or Chinese because of the part of the world they grew up in. Similarly, genetic makeup urges people to believe in a Creator or find spiritual fulfillment, but culture, history and environment determine whether one is a Christian, Hindu, Jew, Buddhist or Muslim.
Take a look at Europe. The native Europeans are almost totally secularized. They're experiencing a negative growth rate. But their countries are flooded with immigrants with strong religious orientations, many of them Muslim. The demographics in Europe are changing. Over there, the replacement population looks different. In America, they look the same as the rest of us. But it's the same phenomenon. You see the rise [of religious fundamentalism] in Europe among the immigrant population.
Asked about the spiritual history of the residents, Lukwago said most of them were staunch believers, who did not believe in demons, adding that the Muslim community constituted the largest percentage.
One of the other witnesses was a Turkish newspaper columnist with no science background but a nearly 10-year-old interest in intelligent design. Mustafa Akyol testified that the naturalistic bias in Kansas' science standards contributes to the ill will between the Muslim world and the United States.
There are lessons here for us today. If, for example, you think the Palestinian national movement headed by Yasser Arafat seeks only to form a state within the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, then the answer to the problem is to get the Israelis to make way. If, however, you think Palestinians are in the grip of a fantasy ideology, acting as the vanguard for a Muslim counterattack against a latter-day Crusader state, then granting a Palestinian state becomes a bit like allowing Hitler to march into the Rhineland: It perpetuates a fantasy that deserves to die.
over the Muslim world through schools and through the media, through
``You buy the same things with the money whether it has the same message or not,'' Langan says. ``You don't have to worry about it. No one is going to ask you if you're Protestant, Catholic, Jewish or Muslim. They'll just take the money.''
belief systems - Sumerian, Zoroastrian, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim
Elysium, Christian heaven and hell, or Muslim Falak al aflak - are
Several Muslim cattle traders have been assaulted, and their animals have
Asked if Muslim mosques or Buddhist temples should be eligible for money,
Incarnations: None, as only God is worshipped. Muhammad is revered as the last and greatest of about 124 Prophets/Messengers. Jesus Christ was a Prophet/Messenger of miraculous birth who performed miracles, ascended to heaven before crucifixion, and will return as a Muslim -- but he was not an incarnation of God.
All this would be rather puzzling if your background was entirely secular, but it would be very familiar indeed if you adhered to another monotheistic world religion, Islam. In some respects, Muslim beliefs about Mary--the most honoured woman in Islam, and the only one to have an entire chapter named after her in the Koran--seem to be quite close to those of the Roman Catholics. The Islamic tradition holds that Jesus and his mother are the only two human souls who were not touched by Satan at birth.
In other respects, the Muslim understanding of Mary seems close to that of the eastern Christians. Both cherish the story of Mary's childhood in a place of supreme holiness that had hitherto been a bastion of male priests. Both name Mary's guardian as the priest Zechariah or Zakariya. In Islam the story is told of Zakariya bringing food to the child Mary and finding that she had already been given nourishment by God; this is cited as a sign of her extreme receptivity to God. In Orthodox Christianity it is stressed that Mary was born an ordinary human, burdened like others with the capacity to sin.
First, the Christian (and Muslim) story of the young Mary going into the heart of the Temple indicates, in Mrs Barker's view, that sex is transcended in the divine reality that Jewish high priests entered when they made their annual procession into the holy of holies. There is thus, she argues, a sense in which the priest entering the holy of holies ceases to be male. Mrs Barker, a Methodist preacher herself, concludes that this journey to a ``place beyond gender'' can be made by a person of either sex, and there is no reason why women cannot be Christian priests. Conservatives may regard this as feminist claptrap but, whatever they believe about that thorny topic, many Christians may be sympathetic to the stress that Mrs Barker lays on the traditional story of Mary's early life among the temple priests, in a place of pure holiness where nobody except an elite caste of males had ever been.
Having spent most of last year traveling through the Muslim
``The urge to destroy may not come from Islam, but creation is not Islam's strong suit either. In his immense book "The Creators," historian Daniel Boorstin explains the Islamic approach to innovation. While Judaism and Christianity begin with the Creation, Islam reveres a God who creates nothing. It is a central tenet of Islam that God did not even create the Koran. According to Boorstin, mullahs explain that since "the speech of God is uncreate, the words must be eternal uncreate." The world comes into being not by God's energy and initiative, but by fiat. As Boorstin says: "For a believing Muslim, to create is a rash and dangerous act."''
The depravity of this is hard to believe, but believe it we must. For it is the new reality of this current age in which innocents are specifically targeted by Muslim terrorists in the name of some Islamic cause. In Russia, the murderers were Chechens, aided by Arabs believed to be allied with al Qaeda. And so the children of Beslan join the ranks of other victims of Islamic terror--in a Moscow theater, a Bali nightclub, a Karachi church, and the Twin Towers of New York.
As should be obvious by now, the war on terror cannot be won only by disrupting terrorist networks and shoring up homeland defenses. It is also a war of ideas, and as such can be won only if the widespread ideological support for terrorism found in the Muslim world and some quarters of the West can be transformed into widespread condemnation.
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AMPP: Hating America, Apr 13 2005
Although anti-Americanism is genuinely widespread among Arab governments and peoples, however, there is something seriously misleading in this account. Arab and Muslim hatred of the United States is not just, or even mainly, a response to actual U.S. policies -- policies that, if anything, have been remarkably pro-Arab and pro-Muslim over the years. Rather, such animus is largely the product of self-interested manipulation by various groups within Arab society, groups that use anti-Americanism as a foil to distract public attention from other, far more serious problems within those societies.
What makes this strategy remarkable, however, is the reality of past U.S. policy toward the region. Obviously, the United States, like all countries, has tried to pursue a foreign policy that accords with its own interests. But the fact remains that these interests have generally coincided with those of Arab leaders and peoples. For example, the United States may have had its own reasons for saving Kuwait from annexation by Iraq's secular dictatorship in 1991 -- mainly to preserve cheap oil. But U.S. policy was still, in effect, pro-Kuwaiti, pro-Muslim, and pro-Arab. After all, Washington could have used the war as a pretext to seize Kuwait's oil fields for itself or demand lower prices or political concessions in exchange for fighting off Iraq. Instead, U.S. leaders did none of these things and sought the widest possible support for their actions among Arabs and Muslims.
All the same, when conflicts in the region did erupt during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s pitting Islamists against more moderate governments, the United States avoided taking sides. During Iran's 1979 revolution, for example, although Washington clearly wanted the shah to survive, it nonetheless restrained him from taking tougher actions to save his throne. And once the revolution had succeeded, President Jimmy Carter then sought to conciliate the new Islamist government. (It was American contact with moderates in the new regime, in fact, that provoked the seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran in November 1979.) Although the United States did not want Iran to spread its radical Islamism throughout the Muslim world, it nonetheless sought the best possible relations with Tehran in order to minimize its cooperation with Moscow. And even though relations subsequently soured, Washington has never seriously tried to overthrow the Islamic government; on the contrary, it has periodically sought detente with Tehran.
Over the years, the United States has also spent blood and treasure saving Muslims in Afghanistan from the Soviets; in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia from Iraq; and in Bosnia and Kosovo from Yugoslavia. It has supported Muslim Pakistan against India and Muslim Turkey against Greece. Washington has courted Damascus, even tacitly accepting Syria's control over Lebanon. The United States supported Arab Iraq against Persian Iran during the Iran-Iraq War and also refrained from overthrowing Saddam Hussein after pushing him out of Kuwait in 1991.
For decades, the United States kept its forces out of the Persian Gulf to avoid offending Arabs and Muslims there. They entered, in fact, only when invited in to protect Arab oil tankers against Iran and to save Kuwait from Iraq. In Somalia, where no vital U.S. interests were at stake, the United States engaged in a humanitarian effort to help a Muslim people suffering from anarchy and murderous warlords.
Third, Washington's real record is constantly distorted. The United States, for example, is blamed for the suffering of Muslims whom it protected in Kosovo and Bosnia. U.S. humanitarian efforts in Somalia are portrayed as part of an imperialistic, anti-Muslim campaign defeated by heroic local resistance.
There are, of course, legitimate Arab and Muslim grievances against the United States. But put into accurate perspective -- and compared to the legitimate anti-American complaints of people in other regions, not to mention American grievances with Arab states -- the level of violence or hatred such grievances provoke in the Middle East seems grossly disproportionate. In fact, Arabs and Muslims have suffered far less from U.S. policies than many other groups or peoples. Yet virtually none of these other peoples evinces anything like the level of anti-American sentiment that exists in the Middle East or commits acts of terrorism against the United States.
To be effective, anti-Americanism must therefore persuade masses and leaders that the United States is simultaneously horrible and helpless, and that it will not do anything if it is attacked, ridiculed, or disregarded. Powerless against their own dictators and dysfunctional polities and dissatisfied with their societies, every Arab or Muslim may at least feel it possible to spit on the United States and get away with it.
1 Muslim versus non-Muslim states: Turkey vs. Greece, Bosnia vs. Yugoslavia, Kosovo vs. Yugoslavia, Pakistan vs. India, Afghans vs. Soviets, and Azerbaijan vs. Armenia. Arab versus non-Arab states: Iraq vs. Iran. Muslim states versus secular forces: Saudi Arabia and other monarchies vs. Egypt, Jordan and other regimes vs. Syria and Iraq, and Kuwait and Saudi Arabia vs. Iraq.
In his lengthy study, which is being circulated in many Muslim countries, Silwadi noted that the US has often been compared to a tree that grows very quickly and bears fruit, but has no roots.
countries and fifty-five Muslim countries.’ He:’ The Jews have no right to
relentlessly for the fifth week running. This is true not only in Arab and other Muslim countries, where the U.S. military campaign has provoked popular outrage, but in other
Public support in Kenya for the U.S. campaign appears to be holding firm, despite a demonstration in the heavily Muslim port city of Mombasa that turned into a riot. That
. . . rejected by Muslim scholars and the vast majority of Muslim
American officials are still waiting for Muslim politicians to
U.S. diplomat.They don't because the Muslim world is bursting with
is a very, very, very, very good Muslim." A Kenyan adds: "Every Muslim
represents Islam." In France, Muslim youths chant bin Laden's name as
Muslim world.
The wide and deep Muslim enthusiasm for bin Laden is an extremely
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The BCCI Affair - 3 THE ORIGIN AND EARLY YEARS OF BCCI, Apr 25 1997
of Muslim India in the final period of British rule prior to
the new Muslim state of Pakistan, but remained forever regarded
a clannish class of Muslim professionals who kept themselves
AMPP: The Systems Method: Bilderberg and Club of Rome, Jul 2 2004
Muslim neighbors.
Muslim resupply was, of course, blocked by "the UN arms embargo."
Solidarity With Terror (Continued), Jul 13 2004
ADC as a civil rights organization for Muslim-Americans in no way involved
“Instead of OCCUPATION say MILITARY OCCUPATION to make people think the occupation is a MILITARY DICTATORSHIP.” The only military dictator in Israel and the West Bank is Yasser Arafat. The page this appeared on was supplied by the Muslim Public Affairs Council, yet another purportedly Muslim “civil rights group” like the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.
/ampp/china/j51.html, Apr 9 2000
then Catholic, Protestant and Muslim leaders.
AMPP: Murder, Inc., Jul 20 2004
The emir was buried before sundown Saturday, a private and traditional Muslim ceremony in which his body was
Partners in Hate: Noam Chomsky and the Holocaust Deniers, Sep 30 2001
undermanned British police. (4) Many were saved by Muslim neighbors.*
the Muslim demonstration there the next day ... the bloody [Hebron] outbreaks
AMPP: Socialism Surveyed and in the Abstract, Feb 19 2005
Despite these qualifications, it still seems to me that those who value solidarity should take care that it is not eroded by a refusal to acknowledge the constraints upon it. The politician who has recently laid most stress on those constraints, especially in relation to immigration, is the home secretary, David Blunkett. He has spoken about the need for more integration of some immigrant communities - especially Muslim ones - while continuing to welcome high levels of net immigration into Britain of over 150,000 a year.
AMPP: European Socialism, Jun 12 2005
So Spain, bloodied by Islamic terror, does little today to aid the struggle for democracy in the Muslim world. Here, America's post-9/11 story passed through a post-modern European looking glass. The backpack bombs that claimed 191 lives on Madrid commuter trains that March 11 morning were expected to be a wake-up call about Islamic terrorism. How naïve. No, Spain blamed its own leaders, withdrew into a shell and opened old wounds from decades ago. A year later, Spain may be divided in spirit and, soon enough, in body. But Mr. Zapatero is more popular than ever.
Appeasement generates a mentality that allows Europe to ignore 300,000 victims of Saddam's torture and murder machinery and, motivated by the self-righteousness of the peace-movement, to issue bad grades to George Bush. A particularly grotesque form of appeasement is reacting to the escalating violence by Islamic fundamentalists in Holland and elsewhere by suggesting that we should really have a Muslim holiday in Germany.
The recent assassination of Dutch author and moviemaker, Theo van Gough, by a Muslim extremist in Amsterdam should come as no surprise to those familiar with the condition of multiculturalism in Holland.
concluded, among other things, that Muslim immigrants, who make up almost
up the Muslim ghettoes would be like trying to dissolve San Francisco’s Chinatown or New York’s Harlem.
Secondly, there is the little problem of Muslim fundamentalism that the dangerously
A substantial portion of the Muslim population Holland has imported since the sixties, while not violent, abhors Dutch society, the most liberal in all of Europe.
van Gogh’s death against mosques and a Muslim school.
This philosophy is as misplaced as it is ineffectual. As Muslim attorney Waleed Aly recently wrote in the newspaper the Australian, responding to a controversy over Christmas decorations in Sydney: "Denying the Christianity in Christmas or, worse, doing away with it altogether, helps no one. This is not multiculturalism. It is anticulturalism."
This new Euro-Muslim entity — which she has dubbed “Eurabia” — has been consciously
The fallout has been cultural and demographic as well, as Bat Ye’or details in her forthcoming book, Eurabia. In exchange for the opening of Arab markets, Europeans encouraged Muslim immigration into Europe, discouraged
the biggest radical Muslim victory since 9/11, or even the Khomeini revolution
Osama bin Laden, if he is alive, and other radical Muslim terrorists will
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and the author of Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West (Regnery Publishing), and Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World’s Fastest Growing Faith (Encounter Books).
The chairman of the coalition is one Andrew Murray, a former employee of the Soviet Novosty Agency and leader in the British Communist party. Cochair is Muhammad Asalm Ijaz of the London Council of Mosques. Members include John Rees of the Socialist Workers' party and Ghayassudin Siddiqui of the Muslim Parliament. Tanja Salem of the Al-awdah (The Return) group, an outfit close to Yasser Arafat, is also a member along with Shahedah Vawda of "Just Peace," another militant Arab group, and Wolf Wayne of the "Green Socialist Network."
AMPP: North American Socialism, Jun 12 2005
Europe is also making the disenchanting journey from social democracy, but via a different route. Its elites had not foreseen that a virtually unchecked Muslim immigration might hijack the welfare state and poison the postwar culture of relative tolerance that supported its politics. To the contrary, Europe's leftist elites lulled the electorates into a false feeling of security that the new arrivals were simply doing the work that unprecedented low European birth rates were leaving undone. No social or cultural costs were to be incurred. Transaction closed. Well, it was not quite so simple. And, while the workforce still needs more workers, the economies of Europe have been dragged down by social guarantees to large families who do not always have a wage-earner in the house. So, even in the morally self-satisfied Scandinavian and Low Countries, the assuring left-wing bromides are no longer believed.
Muslim immigrants, and an anti-war rally October 26, 2002 in Washington,
hours (!) before, while excusing any possible Arab or Muslim links.
of law enforcement among the Muslim community while advising those who are
Of the two groups that organized the anti-Iraq protests, one was International ANSWER, a front group for the Worker's World party, which is a Marxist-Leninist party aligned with the Communist dictatorship in North Korea. The other -- a group the New York Times described as "moderate" -- was the Coalition United for Peace and Justice. It was led by Leslie Cagan, a veteran 60's leftist and pro-Castro enthusiast and a member of the Communist Party until after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Coalition itself was composed of organizations that ranged from the Communist Party to Muslim supporters of the terrorists' jihad.
Before the fighting started in Iraq, some critics voiced a concern that an armed intervention would cause the "Arab street" to erupt and inflame the Muslim world. Such a criticism was voiced by Brent Scowcroft, the National Security Adviser in the previous Bush Administration. It was obviously made from legitimate concerns for America's security and (it may be said) a substantial amount of the criticism of the war in Iraq is based on similar concerns. Scowcroft's attack on the President's policy was a harsh criticism. He said that under no circumstances should the President go to war over Iraq. But it was obvious that Scowcroft's criticism was made from legitimate concerns about America's security, concerns which proved wrong when Saddam was toppled in the swiftest and least costly victory on historical record, and without the consequences that Scowcroft imagined.
These resolutions were passed by the majority of the nations who comprise the United Nations Security Council because Saddam Hussein invaded two countries - Iran and then Kuwait, and used chemical weapons on his own people. In passing, let me note that America's participation in the Iran/Iraq war has also been tremendously distorted by the political left in its effort to undermine American security and cause us to lose the war on terror. So let it be said that yes, we provided intelligence and some weapons to Iraq (most of their weapons came from the Soviet Union). That was to prevent Iran from winning the war, not because we were friends of Saddam Hussein or approved what he was doing, as leftists like Michael Moore and Norman Mailer and others have insinuated. It was Iran's radical Islamic government that launched the Muslim jihad against the West and coined the term "Great Satan" with which to label us. Iran has three times the population of Iraq. It was a prudent policy, therefore, to tilt to Saddam in order to prevent radical Islamists from conquering Iraq as well and controlling the Gulf and its oil. That's what our participation in this war was about, and it is just another slander of an America that is under attack to say that we "supported" Saddam Hussein. This is just one more leftist way of saying that America is an "outlaw" power and thus that there can be no moral basis for our war against Saddam.
In Saddam's eyes, we were ultimately a paper tiger. This is perhaps the main cause of his miscalculations that led to the second Gulf War. But that is, in fact, what we were until 9/11 -- a power that had been unable to put an army in the field for more than four days since 1973. On September 11, 2001, the world changed. It changed because the perceptions of an American president changed. President Bush understood that this act carried out against us was a declaration of war. He understood that the world we live in is a world in which terrorists who are supported by terrorist states like Saddam Hussein's can get access to resources, including chemical, biological, and soon nuclear weapons, which they can smuggle into the United States and use to do incalculable damage. America could not wait for such an attack to respond to the threat that these regimes represented. The consequences were unacceptable. Therefore, America had to strike before the threat became imminent. It had to act to promote democracy in the Muslim world or risk the creation of regime's like Saddam's which constituted a permanent threat to its own security and peace. That is the Bush doctrine. It was to engage the war that had been declared against us by the terrorists and the regimes -- Iran, Syria, Libya, North Korea, and others -- that "harbored" them.
Sami Al-Arian is hardly alone. Lynne Stewart, a National Lawyers Guild attorney, has also been indicted by John Ashcroft. Like Al-Arian, Stewart is defended by the ACLU and the American Association of University Professors. The Middle Eastern Studies Department at this university, headed by John Esposito, has spent years throwing a smoke screen over terrorist groups, defending terrorist leaders like Sami al-Arian, pretending that they are no threat to the United States and claiming, along with Salon.com and The Nation magazine, that the head of Palestine Islamic Jihad is being persecuted by Ashcroft simply because he's a Muslim and a Palestinian.
How is it possible that people who think of themselves as advocates of social justice can lend aid and comfort to Islamic radicals who behead people and blow women's heads off with AK-47s when they are suspected of having sexual relations outside of marriage? How can self-styled progressives embrace these people? They embrace them under the logic that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and their enemy is the United States. They do it under the delusion that is common to all radicals. It's the radical analog to the 72 virgins that await jihadists in heaven. Think of how sick our enemy is. The Muslim martyrs in Palestine kill their own children by strapping bombs to them, to 14-year-olds, and telling them if they blow up Jewish 14-year-olds -- and if they are lucky enough to be male -- they will go straight to heaven and get 72 virgins. They're committing mass murder to get into paradise. That is exactly what the left does. Why does the left want to destroy America? To get into paradise. Call it socialism, call it Communism, call it social justice. It's a dream of paradise that is so enticing it will justify any crime necessary to achieve it.
One probably should not rest too much on the similarity between Bin Laden's last video and the newly available DVD of Fahrenheit 9/11. I would only say that, if Bin Laden had issued a tape that with equal fealty followed the playbook of Karl Rove (and do please by all means cross yourself at the mention of this unholy name), it might have garnered some more attention. The Bearded One moved pedantically through Moore's bill of indictment, checking off the Florida vote-count in 2000, the "Pet Goat" episode on the day of hell, the violent intrusion into hitherto peaceful and Muslim Iraq, and the division between Bush and the much nicer Europeans. (For some reason, unknown to me at any rate, he did not attack the President for allowing the Bin Laden family to fly out of American airspace.)
from terrorism, or advancing democracy in the Muslim Middle East, or
The striking characteristic of such judgments is that they, too, are wholly at odds with the known facts. Confident forecasts of American defeat take no notice of what is the largest and best-trained military in history, and fly in the face of recent American victories in the Gulf War (where, at the time, Anthony Lewis likewise predicted quagmire and disaster) and Kosovo, both achieved at the cost of scarcely any American casualties. Alleged American hatred of Muslims hardly comports with our record of saving Kuwaitis from fascist Iraqis, Kosovars and Bosnians from Christian Serbs, or Afghans from Russian communists and then from their own Islamist overlords, all the while providing billions of dollars in aid to Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority. It was Jordanians and Kuwaitis, not we and not Israelis, who ethnically cleansed Palestinians; Iraqis and Egyptians, not we, who gassed Muslim populations. And it is to our shores that Muslims weary of Middle Eastern despotism are desperate to emigrate.
Muslim world in a dialogue."
slavery-ridden past, and today's Muslim extremists who kill innocent
woman and child who was a Muslim on the Temple Mount. I can tell you that
"This is partly a Muslim issue, because there is a war raging within Islam.
We need to reach out and engage the Muslim world in a debate."
featured two interviews with Muslim clerics, one more anti-American than
Karadzic claimed he was just defending his Serb people from their Muslim
AMPP: Latin American Socialism, Apr 23 2005
At the end of the '70s, Cuba's Communist dictator, Fidel Castro, launched a new turn in Cuban foreign policy, sponsoring and arming a series of guerrilla offensives in Central America -- Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala -- along the lines laid down by Regis Debray and Che Guevara a decade before. The leaders of these movements were generally not Indians but Hispanics, principally the disaffected middle- and upper-class scions of the ruling castes of those countries. They were often the graduates of cadre training centers in Moscow and Havana, and of terrorist training camps in Lebanon and East Germany. (The leaders of the Salvadoran guerrillas even included a Lebanese Communist and Shi'ite Muslim named Shafik Handal.)
/ampp/cosmology-old.html, Aug 25 2001
systems - Sumerian, Zoroastrian, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim - are
Viruses of the Mind, Mar 21 2000
book. By the way, the apparently opposite symptom of ``sympathy'' for Muslim
AMPP: Eco-Psychos and Animal Supremacists, Feb 25 2005
Environmental fanatics, like Muslim ones, have been known to resort to terrorism,
as well as foreign, Christian and secular as well as Muslim.
see it as unstoppable as some "moderate" Muslim nations view radical Islam.
Returning to Eden - The Eden Motif, May 7 2005
For radical socialists, such as are to be found in the psychiatric profession (e.g. Bruce Rind, Phillip Tromovitch and Robert Bauserman), the garbling of the childhood and romance motifs, and the phylogenetic neoteny of the human adult female, lead to open advocation for the social acceptance and proliferation of pedophilia. (This garbling, and institutionalized paternalism and in some cases celibacy, likely contribute to the proliferation of pedophilia among Christian and Muslim clergy.) Seeming to countervail this agitation for sexual disinhibition, socialists have instigated a witchhunt for men who engage in sexually suggestive or provocative behavior with female business associates. However, in fact this is simply a program to harm and demoralize businessmen and businesses (who flagrantly offend against socialism), protest behavior that evidences inequality of the genders, and persecute those who exhibit them. Indeed, long-established in radical feminism is the political strategy of granting sexual favours to politically compliant partners and withholding them from defiant ones. Arguably, Genesis suggests that Eve had just such a defiant and dominant streak, since she communed with the Garden serpent independently, and prevailed upon Adam thereafter, whereas there is no example of Adam prevailing on Eve in Eden.

Returning to Eden - Progenitors of Edenism, May 9 2005
3. The Muslim heaven or elysium.
AMPP: Enslaving Speech, Jun 14 2005
'Canada is a pleasantly authoritarian country," Alan Borovoy, general counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, said a few years ago. An example of what he means is Bill C-250, a repressive, anti-free-speech measure that is on the brink of becoming law in Canada. It would add "sexual orientation" to the Canadian hate propaganda law, thus making public criticism of homosexuality a crime. It is sometimes called the "Bible as Hate Literature" bill, or simply "the chill bill." It could ban publicly expressed opposition to gay marriage or any other political goal of gay groups. The bill has a loophole for religious opposition to homosexuality, but few scholars think it will offer protection, given the strength of the gay lobby and the trend toward censorship in Canada. Law Prof. David Bernstein, in his new book You Can't Say That! wrote that "it has apparently become illegal in Canada to advocate traditional Christian opposition to homosexual sex." Or traditional Jewish or Muslim opposition, too.
Christianity is fair game and so is Judaism. But you never hear these comics, brave defenders of free speech they pretend to be, having a go at Islam. We don't hear -- at least on the mainstream shows -- jokes about the so-called "honor killings" of Muslim girls or about allegations of wife-beating and worse. There are always scores of jokes going the rounds about Mary's virginity, but never a one about Muhammad. Do the "enlightened" liberals among the chattering classes think it not offensive to see Victoria Beckham dressed as the Blessed Virgin? There may be Muslim comedians who joke about their own religion -- more likely in private clubs than in public settings -- but I've never heard of them.
Griffin, later released on bail until next March, told reporters on Tuesday: "This is an electoral scam to get the Muslim block vote back for the Labour Party."
Another member told how he put dog faeces through an Asian shop's letterbox, while a third described how he beat up a Muslim man. "I'm kicking away...it was fantastic," he said.
The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), the biggest lobby group for the country's 1.8 million Muslims, also welcomed the arrests, saying it hoped police would now press charges.
For example, a person hawking girlie calendars in a conservative Muslim land is clearly violating the laws there, as is someone who knowingly ships wine to a dry county. Generally, laws governing such issues have considered whether the seller was actively trying to promote products to a population that's banned from buying them.
How nauseating it has been, in the aftermath of the attacks by Muslim fanatics, to watch the first big defeat for freedom of thought and speech as tens of thousands of Americans demanded the head of Politically Incorrect host Bill Maher and came away with enough of Maher's noggin to parade through the public square.If you are in a semicomatose state and have not heard, Maher, while talking to author Dinesh D'Souza on his September 17 show, said: "We have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly."
· The CIA funded the movement of tens of thousands of Muslim radicals from all over the world into Afghanistan to fight the Russians. We trained them and we armed them, even as bin Laden's clerics initiated them into his extreme Wahabbi sect of Islam. As the war wound down, these radicals fanned out all over the world as bin Laden's new agents, with new names and new identities.
top U.S. officials and air the views of American Muslim clerics.
Frank Gaffney exposes Grover Norquist's compromise by Islamists, Dec 11 2003
Institute’s stated purpose was to cultivate Muslim-Americans and Arab-Americans
the prime-mover behind the American Muslim Council (AMC) and a number of
him and his associates to secure the right to select, train and certify Muslim
the end of the 1990s, an AMC spin-off called the American Muslim Armed Forces
U.S. Muslim chaplains.4 One of these
train “soldiers and civilians to provide spiritual guidance when paid Muslim
Muslim Council and its leader with suspicion, or worse.
the extent of the access, influence and legitimacy the American Muslim Council
that time, the Saudi Ministry of Religious Affairs established the Muslim
dominating the Muslim world and, in due course, forcing the non-Muslim world
as a “secretive group of tightly connected Muslim charities, think tanks
is a Muslim Palestinian by birth. Prior to joining Alamoudi’s group (where
he served for almost three years15), Saffuri was active in Muslim-support operations in Bosnia,16a
state-sponsor of terrorism); the innocent nature of the process whereby Muslim
women in the Muslim world; and efforts to promote Islamic causes and candidates
fact that Alamoudi’s American Muslim Council was among the groups invited
astonished to discover that it was dignifying so-called Muslim leaders who
for facilitating the President’s Muslim outreach, who profess to support
National Advisor on Arab and Muslim Affairs.21 Holding
Muslim populations (notably, Michigan, Florida and New Jersey), Saffuri and
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AMPP: Genocide, Apr 1 2005
Sri Lanka and has changed his identity by becoming a Muslim. Tears
Assad has not been a peacemaker with his own Muslim neighbors. He supports
Jerusalem conquered 7/15/1099 more than 60,000 victims (jewish, muslim, men, women, children). [WW37-40](In the words of one witness: "there [in front of Solomon's temple] was such a carnage that our people were wading ankle-deep in the blood of our foes", and after that "happily and crying for joy our people marched to our Saviour's tomb, to honour it and to pay off our debt of gratitude")
Full Text: Giuliani Addresses United Nations, Oct 5 2001
ollowing is the text of an address by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to the United Nations Monday morning, as recorded by The New York Times: MAYOR GIULIANI. Thank you, president of the General Assembly, Dr. Han Seung-soo and Secretary General Annan. And thank you very much for the opportunity to speak and also for the consideration you showed the city in putting off your general session. And as I explained to the secretary general and the president of the General Assembly, we are now open and we're ready and at any time that we can arrange it, we look forward to having your heads of state and your foreign ministers here for that session. On Sept. 11, 2001, New York City, the most diverse city in the world, was viciously attacked in an unprovoked act of war. More than 5,000 innocent men, women and children of every race, religion and ethnicity are lost. Among these were people from 80 different nations.
To their representatives here today, I offer my condolences to you as well on behalf of all New Yorkers who share this loss with you. This was the deadliest attack - terrorist attack - in history. It claimed more lives than Pearl Harbor or D-Day. This was not just an attack on the city of New York or on the United States of America. It was an attack on the very idea of a free, inclusive and civil society. It was a direct assault on the founding principles of the United Nations itself. The preamble to the U.N. Charter states that this organization exists to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, to practice tolerance and live together in peace as good neighbors and to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security. Indeed, this vicious attack places in jeopardy the whole purpose of the United Nations.
Terrorism is based on the persistent and deliberate violation of fundamental human rights. With bullets and bombs and now with hijacked airplanes, terrorists deny the dignity of human life. Terrorism preys particularly on cultures and communities that practice openness and tolerance. Their targeting of innocent civilians mocks the efforts of those who seek to live together in peace as neighbors. It defies the very notion of being a neighbor. This massive attack was intended to break our spirit. It has not done that. It's made us stronger, more determined and more resolved. The bravery of our firefighters, our police officers, our emergency workers and civilians we may never learn of, in saving over 25,000 lives that day, and carrying out the most effective rescue operation in our history, inspires all of us. I'm very honoured to have with me as their representatives the fire commissioner of New York City, Tom Von Essen. Tom, please stand up. And the police commissioner of New York City, Bernard Kerik. The determination, resolve and leadership of President George W. Bush has unified America and all decent men and women around the world. And the response of many of your nations, your leaders and people, spontaneously demonstrating, in the days after the attack, your support for New York and America and your understanding of what needs to be done to remove the threat of terrorism gives us great hope that we will prevail.
The strength of America's response, please understand, flows from the principles upon which we stand. Americans are not a single ethnic group. Americans are not of one race or one religion. Americans emerge from all of your nations. We're defined as Americans by our beliefs, not by our ethnic origins, our race or our religion. Our belief in religious freedom, political freedom, economic freedom - that's what makes an American. Our belief in democracy, the rule of law and respect for human life. That's how you become an American.
It's these very principles and the opportunities these principles give to so many to create a better life for themselves and their families that make America and New York a shining city on a hill. There's no nation in the history of the world, and no city that has seen more immigrants in less time than America. And people continue to come here in large large numbers to seek freedom, opportunity, decency, civility. Each of your nations, I'm certain, has contributed citizens to the United States and to New York. I believe I can take every one of you someplace in New York City and you can find someone from your country, someone from your village or town, that speaks your language and practices your religion. In each of your lands, there are many who are Americans in spirit by virtue of their commitment to our shared principles. It's tragic and perverse that it's because of these very principles, particularly our religious, political and economic freedoms, that we find ourselves under attack by terrorists.
Our freedom threatens them because they know if our ideas of freedom gain a foothold among their people, it will destroy their power. So they strike out against us to keep those ideas from reaching their people. The best long-term deterrent and approach to terrorism, obviously, is the spread of the principles of freedom and democracy and the rule of law and respect for human life. The more that spreads around the globe, the safer we will all be. These are very very powerful ideas and once they gain a foothold, they cannot be stopped. In fact, the rise that we've seen in terrorism and terrorist groups I believe is in no small measure a response to the spread of these ideas - freedom and democracy - to many nations, particularly over the past 15 years.
The terrorists have no ideas or ideals with which to combat freedom and democracy. So their only defense is to strike out against innocent civilians, destroying human life in massive numbers and hoping to deter all of us from our pursuit and expansion of freedom. But the long-term deterrent of spreading our ideals throughout the world is just not enough. And may never be realized if we do not act and act together, to remove the clear and present danger posed by terrorism and terrorists. The United Nations must hold accountable any country that supports or condones terrorism.
Otherwise, you will fail in your primary mission as peacekeeper. It must ostracize any nation that supports terrorism. It must isolate any nation that remains neutral in the fight against terrorism. Now is the time in the words of your charter, the United Nations Charter, to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security. This is not a time for further study or vague directives. The evidence of terrorism's brutality and inhumanity, of its contempt for life and the concept of peace is lying beneath the rubble of the World Trade Center less than two miles from where we meet today.
Look at that destruction, that massive, senseless, cruel loss of human life and then I ask you to look in your hearts and recognize that there is no room for neutrality on the issue of terrorism. You're either with civilization or with terrorists. On one side is democracy, the rule of law and respect for human life. On the other is tyranny, arbitrary executions and mass murder. We are right and they are wrong. It's as simple as that. And by that I mean that America and its allies are right about democracy, about religious, political and economic freedom. And the terrorists are wrong, and in fact evil, in their mass destruction of human life in the name of addressing alleged injustices. Let those who say that we must understand the reasons for terrorism come with me to the thousands of funerals we're having in New York City - thousands -and explain those insane maniacal reasons to the children who will grow up without fathers and mothers and to the parents who have had their children ripped from them for no reason at all.
Instead, I ask each of you to allow me to say at those funerals that your nation stands with America in making a solemn promise and pledge that we will achieve unconditional victory over terrorism and terrorists. There's no excuse for mass murder, just as there's no excuse for genocide. Those who practice terrorism, murdering or victimizing innocent civilians, lose any right to have their cause understood by decent people and lawful nations. On this issue - terrorism - the United Nations must draw a line. The era of moral relativism between those who practice or condone terrorism and those nations who stand up against it must end.
Moral relativism doesn't have a place in this discussion and debate. There's no moral way to sympathize with grossly immoral actions. And by so doing, and by trying to do that, unfortunately a fertile field has been created in which terrorism has grown. The best and most practical way to promote peace is to stand up to terror and intimidation. The Security Council's unanimous passage of Resolution 1373 adopting wide-ranging antiterrorism measures into the international community is a very good first step. It's necessary to establish accountability for the subsidizing of terrorism. As a former United States attorney, I am particularly encouraged that the United Nations has answered President Bush's call to cut terrorists off from their money and their funding. It's enormously important. We've done that successfully with organized crime groups in America by taking away their ability to amass large amounts of money. You take away their ability to have others carry on their functioning for them, even if they're removed, arrested, prosecuted or eliminated through war or through law enforcement. It cuts off the lifeblood of the organization. So I believe this was a very good first step. But now it's up to the member states to enforce this and other aspects of the resolution and for the United Nations to enforce these new mechanisms to take the financial base away from the terrorists. Take away their money, take away their access to money, and you reduce their ability to carry out complex mi

The Case Against Henry Kissinger, Aug 7 2001
Cyprus was not the first instance in which a perceived need to mollify China outweighed even the most minimal concern for human life elsewhere. On April 6, 1971, a cable of protest was written from the United States Consulate in what was then East Pakistan, the Bengali "wing" of the Muslim state of Pakistan, known to its restive nationalist inhabitants by the name Bangladesh. The cable's senior signatory, the consul general in Dhaka, was named Archer Blood, though it might have become known as the Blood Telegram in any case. Sent directly to Washington, its purpose was, quite simply, to denounce the complicity of the United States government in genocide. Its main section read:
Other reports, since amply vindicated, were supplied to the London Times and Sunday Times by the courageous reporter Anthony Mascarenhas and flashed around a horrified world. Rape, murder, dismemberment, and the state murder of children were employed as deliberate methods of repression and intimidation. At least 10,000 civilians were butchered in the first three days. The eventual civilian death toll has never been placed at less than half a million and has been put as high as 3 million.
Since almost all Hindu citizens were at risk by definition from Pakistani military chauvinism (not that Pakistan's Muslim co-religionists were spared), a vast movement of millions of refugees--perhaps as many as 10 million began to cross the Indian frontier. To summarize, then: first, the direct negation of a democratic election; second, the unleashing of a genocidal policy; third, the creation of a very dangerous international crisis. Within a short time, Ambassador Kenneth Keating, the ranking American diplomat in New Delhi, had added his voice to those of the dissenters. It was a time, he told Washington, when a principled stand against the authors of this aggression and atrocity would also make the best pragmatic sense. Keating, a former senator from New York, used a very suggestive phrase in his cable of March 29, 1971, calling on the administration to "PROMPTLY, PUBLICLY AND PROMINENTLY DEPLORE THIS BRUTALITY." It was "MOST IMPORTANT THESE ACTIONS BE TAKEN NOW," he warned, "PRIOR TO INEVITABLE AND IMMINENT EMERGENCE OF HORRIBLE TRUTHS."
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Islam is an Arabic word meaning "pious submission to the will of God." It is used as the name of the religion of the orthodox Mohammedans (also called Moslems or Muslims) the name given to it by the prophet Mohammed (570-632) himself. The Mohammedans religion is therefore generally known as Islam and the Mohammedans, Muslim or Muslim is used for one who professes this religion. Islam and its adherents claim that it is a divinely revealed religion given to the world by Mahomet, also called Mohammed, who was the last of a succession of inspired prophets. Its doctrine and practices are to be found in the Book of God, the Quran (Qur'an) or Koran, the sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Mohammed during his life at Mecca and Medina. The Five Pillars of Islam

"There is no God but God, and Mohammed is the Prophet of God."
The aspect of Islam that represents its "Faith" can be summarised thus:
Belief in the Prophets sent by God to guide mankind to the Truth
Belief in all the messages sent down by God to mankind by way of His prophets
Belief in God's angels
God alone rules the Universe without any consorts or associates. Belief in the Prophets sent by God to guide mankind to the Truth
Prophets although pious God-fearing men, were nevertheless mortal and are in no way divine. Islam started with Adam and continued through many prophets, most notably Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and lastly, and finally, Mohammed. Belief in all the messages sent down by God to mankind by way of His prophets
Belief in God's angels
God created spiritual creatures created out of light called angels, who have the inherent characteristic of total-obedience to God and cannot disobey God, ever. One of the most well known angels is Gabriel who revealed God's message to, among others, Jesus and Mohammed.
Natural moral order, the universal order of things decreed by God, is recognised in the Koran, since it tells us that God vouchsafed knowledge to his prophets that He has created a purpose for everything. Islam can thus be conveniently divided under two heads of "Faith," or "Iman," and "Practical Religion," or "Din."
These Articles of Faith and the so-called Five Pillars of Islam are incumbent on all believers in God and can be found in the Book of God, the Quran (Qur'an) or Koran, the sacred writings of Islam and in the words and actions of the Prophet Mohammed. Moreover, anyone expecting to enter Paradise must to follow the strictures Islam. God in His Infinite Wisdom has gifted mankind a most perfect manual of instruction in this most important of matters: His Holy Book, the Koran described in great detail to Mohammed, His last and most exalted messenger to mankind. That the beliefs and behaviour expected of mankind is contained in God's Own Words, the Koran, and in the words and actions of his Prophet Mohammed, called the Ahadeeth (Hadith) and Sunna (Sunnah): Ahadeeth, "sayings," and Sunna, "way of life." According to Islam, its adherents and apologists, it is God's true religion contained in the written text called the Koran and the Prophet Mohammed's Ahadeeth/Sunna (Words and Actions). According to Islam, its adherents and apologists, the religion centres its entire belief system on the Greatness of God, the Creator and Sustainer of all things. Moreover, that Islam is the only world religion whose name is not attributed to a human, such as Christianity (Jesus Christ), Buddhism (Buddha) and so on, but rather does not take its name from anyone. Rather, it is a name that God Himself has chosen for mankind meaning that man's religion should be "a submission to God." That is why his religion is called "Islam" meaning "submission." Moreover, these very same people tell us that the Koran, or Quran, is the only Holy Book in existence today, which speaks of and defines a religion called Islam. Furthermore, that in this Holy Book, Islam is described as the ultimate religion for mankind regardless of tribe, race or nationality. According to Islam, its adherents and apologists, the Koran details that God taught Islam to the Prophet Adam, the father of mankind, and that all the prophets after him, such as Noah, Abraham, Lot, and Moses, taught Islam to their people. Even Jesus Christ, who in the Islamic conception is merely regarded as a Great Prophet born of the miraculous Virgin-birth and not the Son of God, was sent specifically to the Children of Israel to teach them the true meaning of God's religion. That is, Christ taught Islam before Mohammed and was a sort of John the Baptist to Mohammed, so to speak. Thus, the adherents and apologists of Islam tell us that after Jesus, God decided to send a final messenger to establish and forever maintain His religion on Earth and so sent His last Prophet, Mohammed. Moreover, God in His great wisdom decided to give Mohammed a Holy Book containing His Spoken Words, to help teach all of mankind how to best worship and love God. The adherents and apologists of Islam point out that this Holy Book, the Koran, clearly and repeatedly states that it is the absolute and only true Word of God. Furthermore, as well as the unquestioned acceptance of the Koran as the Word of God, the acceptance of all of God's Prophets, from Adam to Mohammed, is also a requisite a requirement in Islam. Over a billion people call themselves Muslim. They believe that the only god is their god who they call Allah who they regard as the Supreme Being, the perfect, omnipotent, and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe, and Mohammed was his Prophet. Mohammed, "the Praised One," the prophet of Islam and the founder of Mohammedanism, was born in the nation of Arabia at Mecca in AD 570. This expedition, the so-called "Raid of the Elephant," seems to be of great importance for explaining the spectacular rise of Islam. The Koran in several verses tells of the miracle whereby Allah repelled the "People of the Elephant." The Koran tells us that Allah found the Prophet an orphan, poor and astray. The conduct of the Meccans toward Mohammed, for instance, were merely echoes of actions of earlier peoples toward the messengers and prophets sent to mankind, from time to time, by Allah. It is essential for Muslims to believe that Ishmael and hence Mohammed, through an unidentified line, was the inheritor of Abrahamic Covenant of "God's Chosen People." Islam tradition insists that Mohammed was an ordinary man. Islamic scholars and its adherents claim that Mohammed from the first formulated a definite notion of his work, proclaiming it to be the restoration of the religion of Abraham, or, as the Koran calls him, Ibrahim. Adherents and apologists of Islam point out stories relating to precursors of Mohammed going abroad in search of the "religion of Abraham." Apocryphal stories helped engender this supposed affiliation between Islam, Judaism and Christianity. In the Koran, Jesus is called a prophet and Mary is praised.
An attitude that changed completely after he gained religious strength and political power. For, inevitably, Mohammed's followers soon found that Christian and Jewish teachings contradicted the Koran, but since "God is one," and Mohammed his Prophet infallible, they reasoned that Jews and Christians must have misunderstood God's word.
Moreover, these followers were a veritable secret society. The Islamic doctrines and practices from the first attacked the ancient Arab heathenism and the doctrines to which the Prophet himself assigned most value were the unity of God and the future life, or resurrection of the body. Moreover, some of them were devoted adherents of the gods or goddesses whom he attacked. The move to military means to spread Islamic doctrines rapidly brought success and Mohammed's fanatical army conquered several Arabian, Jewish and Christian tribes. There are five important points to make about Allah, Mohammed's god and the supernatural object of veneration in the Koran.
This "Allah" can be traced back to "Il" and "Ilah" and from there to the ancient Moon-God of the Arabian peoples.
Under Mohammed's tutelage, the relatively anonymous "Ilah," became "Al-Ilah," "The God," or "Allah," the Supreme Being.
Mohammed equated his "Allah" with Yahweh of the Bible, the god of Abraham.
Thus, the source of "Allah" goes back to pre-Muslim times, to "Il" and from there back to the Moon-God. Moreover, that "Allah" is not a common name meaning "God" (or a "god") and Muslims must use another word or form if he wishes to indicate any other than his own peculiar deity. In short, the god of the Koran is not the God of the Bible. The moon god Allah is not the same as the Gods of the Bible who were first, Yahweh, and second, Christ, who replaced Yahweh in a process are called "The Disappearance of Yahweh." For, God does not play dice with His Creation.
The Babylonian "ilu" and the Arabic "Allah" also represent this ancient common term for a pre-eminent god. Eloah's Arabic cognomen is "Allah." The rise of Allah in Arabia and the spectacular spread across the known world of his spirituality was not fortuitous but divinely ordained. It was mandate by Divine Powers that Islam was to become a most potent weapon by which other spiritual streams that threatened Natural Moral Order were smothered and thereby attenuating their threat. Islam is the latest of the so-called world-religions. It grew up amongst two, Judaism and Christianity, which were practised in Arabia at the time of Mohammed. It is obvious from Islamic scripture that the Prophet of Allah, but especially his immediate followers, arrogated some of the doctrines and practices of Islam from these. A convenient assertion made by Muslims, especially those who wish to conceal Islam's true nature, is that the God of the Bible is Allah by a different name. Consequently, there has been a modern tendency of using the name "God" in place of "Allah" in many translations of the Koran. Again an attempt to make Islam compatible with Western sensibilities. However, the true nature of Islam is discerned from the revealed word of Allah and from the words and deeds of his Prophet. (Surah 29:46). "Fight those who believe not in God nor the last day ... Nor acknowledge the religion of truth [Islam], [even if they are] of the people of the Book [Christians and Jews], until they pay Jizya [tribute tax] with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued". (Surah 9:29).
The God of the Bible is not the god of Islam yet the two are linked because they both belong to godhead. Islam's origins are traced back to the ancient fertility religion of the worship of the moon god, which was always the dominant religion of Arabia. In short, the central observances of Islam were pagan rites practised by the Arabs long before Mohammed was born. The nature of godhead is more complex than that elaborated by orthodox Christianity and Islam. Moreover that the Divine Powers brought the ferocious, fanaticism of Islam into being for a very definite purpose. One must understand that the spectacular rise of Islam and the creation of the Islamic Empire were not the issue of chance occurrence or fortuitous events. For reader, God does not play dice with His Creation ……….
The Koran, or Quran, is said to be the sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Mohammed during his life at Mecca and Medina presented in 114 chapters, or "suras." Mohammed proclaimed the Koran as the miracle that proved his oracular function and the great evidence that supported his claim to be the final word on the matter of God's revealed Word. Moreover, Islam not only claims that the Koran is God's Word, but also that it is the final revelation given to humanity. Muslims maintain that the Koran is an exact copy, word-for-word, of God's final revelation that is found on the original heavenly tablets. The language of the Koran is universally acknowledged throughout Islam to be the perfect form of Arab speech. The evidence suggests that the Koran was an evolved text rather than simply the Word of God as revealed in its entirety to the Prophet Mohammed in the seventh century. Others find it disturbing fearing, with good reason, what might be revealed other than God's revealed Word. Furthermore, ideally, though not always in reality, Islamic history has been the grand effort to pursue and work out the commandments of the Koran in human life. In short, the Sana'a manuscripts and other evidence present considerable problems for the traditional Muslim account of the history of Islam. Moreover, that Mecca was not the initial Islamic sanctuary and that evidence points to a sanctuary in northwest Arabia as the centre of Islam with Mecca secondary. Furthermore, that the spectacular Arab conquests preceded the institutionalisation of Islam. Puin's opinion on the Koran's history is:
Even within the Islamic traditions there is a huge body of contradictory information, including a significant Christian substrate; one can derive a whole Islamic anti-history from them if one wants."
Today, Muslim apologists face a serious threat from Western Koranic scholarship. That is, secular scholars of Islam (known as "Orientalists") whose researches put into serious doubt many of the assertions made by traditional Muslim scholars concerning their holy book, the Koran, and their prophet, Mohammed. Consequently, the formative stage of Islam was not within the lifetime of Mohammed but evolved over a period of 200-300 years after the Prophets death. Before 750, AD there is no extant Muslim documents that provide information about this formative period of Islam. More damagingly for the traditional Islamic position, nothing exists with which to corroborate Muslim tradition, that is, Islamic history based on Islamic traditions. Around 800 AD, when the Koran became codified, can therefore be regarded as the classical period of Islam. The devout Muslim, be he a redactor of the Koran or chronicler of Islam viewed their Prophet with such reverence that criticism was wholly absent. According to orthodox Muslim scholars, Islam gives complete credence to divine intervention for its revelation.
Muslim tradition asserts that Mohammed received revelations from Allah via the angel Gabriel (Jibril) over a period of twenty-two years (610-632 AD), in which time most of the laws and traditions were formulated and worked out, which distinguish that which we define as Islam.
Thus, Muslim tradition asserts that Islam was given once and only to Mohammed who in a short period, with the help several remarkable followers, brought about in the early seventh century a religion of immense sophistication, of intricate laws and traditions.
Muslims contend that we can only understand the origins of the Koran through the eyes of Muslim tradition, which tells us that Allah revealed his truth through the Koran which was sent down to Mohammed. In short, that on its pages is the Word of God. Muslims also contend that the Koran itself is a source for Islam, and its own best authority. In short, modern treatment of the Muslim tradition and the Koran by Orientalists using literary criticism and modern scientific techniques of analysis leaves the Muslim faithful and Islamic apologist with little on which to hold. Unfortunately for the people of the world everything is going according to the New World Order Plan. But what is this New World Order Plan? The dark agenda of the secret planners of the New World Order is to impose upon the world a global feudal –fascist state with a World Government, World Religion, World Army, World Central Bank, World Currency and a micro-chipped population. Whatever else one may think about Mohammed. of Mahomet, and his creed, one thing that is indisputable about Islam is this: the rapid and victorious spread of Islam is wholly without parallel in the history of the world. For in a space of a few years the Arab hoards swept away established order and replaced it with the Islamic world conception. A breathtaking phenomenon that suggests that Islam somehow was ordained for this purpose of shattering nations. Even human wrath, unknowing serves that all-controlling will; Man proposes; God disposes; All things His design fulfill. For, gentle reader, God does not play dice with His Creation.
The Prophet Mohammed established Islam with a minimum of innovations, employing the hallowed personages, historic legends and sacred sites of Judaism, Christianity and Arab paganism, by Islamizing them. Many Biblical legends ("asatir al-awwalin"), familiar to the pagan Arabs before the advent of Islam suffered an Islamic conversion, and, consequently, the Koran as well as the Ahadeeth (the Islamic oral tradition) is replete with them. A strange fact given that Muslims now regard it as the third most treasured city in Islam. It is thus a seeming quirk of history that Islam now arrogates spiritual control of Jerusalem in direct conflict with the other religions that also claim this: Judaism and Christianity. Moreover, that the religion of Mohammed would today, at this most sensitive of times, be the mortal foe of Christianity and the West and regard Jerusalem as a most holy place that is Islam's by divine right, thereby bringing the three monotheist religions into terrible conflict. (Surah 17:1).
Moreover, that Islam regards Jerusalem as a most holy place that is it's by divine right, thereby bringing the three monotheist religions into terrible conflict. For, gentle reader, God does not play dice with His Creation.
Jihad is a word that contains within it the concept of the holy struggle by Muslims to bring the entire world under Islam. "Jihad" is an Arabic word which means "struggle" and in this sense it is the struggle for the cause of the world ambition of Islam, using all means available to Muslims, including violence. Used in this manner, Jihad is often referred to as "Holy War." In the Ahadeeth, we read that Mohammed frequently urges Muslims to practice Jihad. For instance, Mohammed once was asked what was the best deed for the Muslims next to believing in Allah and his Apostle, the Prophet, the Apostle Mohammed answered: "To participate in Jihad in Allah's cause." (Al Bukhari vol. 1:25) Mohammed was quoted by Al Bukhari as saying: "I have been ordered to fight with the people till they say, none has the right to be worshipped but Allah" (Al Bukhari vol. 4:196). Furthermore, we read that Mohammed also said:
(Al Bukhari vol. 1:35).
Surah 9, verse 5 of the Koran reads:
(Surah 8:60)
(Surah 9:14)
(Surah 8:13-17)
(Surah 9:123)
"… fight People of the Book [Christians and Jews], who do not accept the religion of the truth [Islam], until they pay tribute [penalty tax] by hand, being inferior." A constant state of war exists between the two until such time the non-Muslims convert to Islam. In other words, Muslims can never peacefully co-exist with non-Muslims until a Muslim World Empire exists on this Earth. Islam does. Even in Mohammed's time, the striving for world Islamic Empire took the form of total war and extreme violence against non-believers who refused to submit to the will of Allah. During Mohammed's lifetime, there were frequent clashes with Christians and Jews. In March 632, Mohammed completed the revelation of God's message during a "Farewell Pilgrimage" to Mecca, on the plain of Arafat outside the city, where he announced God's words:
"God has made inviolable for you each other's blood."
By this decree, Mohammed meant that Muslim was not to fight Muslim. Contemporary apologists of Islam attempt to portray the bloody history of the Mohammedan creed in anodyne fantasies wholly at odds with its true nature or proper history. Wahhabism is a Mohammedan sect founded by Mohammed ibn 'Abdul-Wahhab (1703-1792) who instituted a great reform in the religion of Islam in Arabia in the 18th century. As a reform movement, Wahhabism therefore sought to eliminate non-Muslim elements, which had become popular over the centuries and corrupted Islam. However, the second goal was to return Islam to the purity of its roots since contemporary Muslims had been ignoring Islamic obligations. In this context, Abdul Wahhabi was one of the first to use the term "Jahiliyya", the barbarous state of Arabia before the advent of Islam, before Mohammed received his revelation from God and brought Islam to the world. Abdul Wahhabi thus used the term to illustrate the great benefits of the pure spirit of Islam when applied to ostensibly Islamic lands and thereby justifying the use of force to make fundamental changes to bring about this perfect society. Abdul Wahhabi claimed that the majority of Muslims lived in jahiliyya, and accused them of not being Muslims proper. Reform movements that attempted to reinterpret aspects of Islamic law in order to bring it closer to secular standards arising from the West, particularly with regards to matters like gender relations, family law, and democratic government.
Mohammed ibn 'Abdul-Wahhab and all his followers were Hanbali. What distinguished the movement from the "traditional" Islamic schools was the revolutionary zeal and ferocious nature since the adherents sought to rekindle Islam's pristine original nature. Abdul-Wahhab believed, like all Muslims, that the most important principle in Islam is the unity of God but unlike other Muslims, he did something about it. Furthermore, Abdul-Wahhab believed in unifying all Muslims under a single state- this is the reawakening of the Islamic world ambition. As in all puritanical movements, the supporters of Mohammed ibn 'Abdul-Wahhab were pious and strict, especially in matters of worship and their movement inspired other reform movements across the Muslim world. This dichotomy, the "liberal" and "conservative" perspectives of the Koran and Sunna, also appears in Shia Islam. Apologists of Islam, especially Saudi officials, argue that Wahhabism is a term now used by the enemies of the religion to demonise it further in the eyes of the West. Moreover, that the purpose of this attack on Islam is to be found in the desire of certain groups to convince the world that the conflict in the Middle East has nothing to do "with a quarrel over a bit of land in the Middle East." To recreate the pristine, ferocious and unforgiving nature of original Islam by sloughing off the later accretions that most people regard as "traditional" Islam and return to the pure roots of their faith. A faith that has at its core a ruthless, merciless ambition to create an Islamic World Empire that contains no other religion but that of Allah. It is a Muslim sect founded by Mohammed ibn 'Abdul-Wahhab who instituted a great reform in the religion of Islam in Arabia in the eighteenth century.
It sought to overthrow the abuses and corruptions of Islam, which had overgrown the practice of original religion instituted by the Prophet Mohammed, that is, to return Islam to the purity of its roots.
It is a reform movement that sought to eliminate non-Muslim elements, which had become popular over the centuries and had corrupted Islam: that is, to destroy "traditional" Islam and resurrect the pristine, original form of Islam.
Its doctrines were extended by force and imposed by the sword just as had the original Islam instituted by Mohammed.
It rejects any reinterpretation of the fundamentals of Islam contained in the Koran and Sunna.
Unification of all Muslims under a single state and the elimination of non-Muslim nations: that is, the reawakening of the Islamic world ambition.
Associated with Wahhabism is the fundamentalist movement arising from a school in medieval Islam known as the Salafiyya. Some early Salafis argued that Western democracy was perfectly compatible with Islam, and had even been anticipated by the Islamic concept of "shura," a consultation between ruler and ruled. The early optimism faded after the Great War, when the Western powers carved up the Ottoman Empire, created by the Ottoman Turks in the 13th century, into nation-states. A crucial time was in the 1930's, when Muslim radicals began to argue that Islam was in real danger of being extinguished through Western influence. Qutb soon rejected democracy and nationalism as decadent Western ideas incompatible with Islam. Even the tremendously popular concept of pan-Arabism in the Arab world, Qutb deemed simply an obstacle to the foundation of an Islamic state. Qutb simply argued that the contemporary rulers of the Muslim world are no longer Muslims that they were in effect infidels. Such a declaration was an audacious move since Islamic tradition states that if one Muslim falsely calls another an infidel the accuser could burn in hell. Ibn Taimiyya is a towering figure in the history of Muslim thought and lived in Damascus in a period when the Mongols threatened Syria. The document was addressed to other Muslims rather than to the West and provided reasoned argument why assassination of leaders and rebellion, which is forbidden by most Islamic authorities, becomes a duty if those rulers have abandoned true Islam.
When Saudi princes from various tribes were placed on the thrones of the artificially created states of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Gulf States, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon. It is therefore a most salient feature of Islam that, with a few notable exceptions, no secular republic, let alone popular rule through institutionalised constitutional government, has ever prevailed or existed anywhere long in the Muslim world. The Muslim world is thus characterised by autocrats, despots and militarism, chasms between rulers and ruled, huge gulfs between elites and the masses and the absence of the notions of universal human rights. Even the trade and practice of slavery, in which the Muslim excelled, was only officially relinquished after the liberal democratic powers Great Britain and the US declared war on it in the 19th century. Apart from these few places the rest of the Muslim world is, and always has been, ruled with an iron fist.
Not all religious or political martyrs are Muslim fanatics, the Japanese kamikaze pilots in the Second World War and the Tamils in Sri Lanka are notable examples. Islam on the other hand advocates the use of all forms of violence to achieve its ultimate aim: the establishment of a Muslim World Empire. The true nature of Islam is ferocious and its ultimate ambition is the destruction of all other religions and political systems and the establishment of the rule of Islam across the globe. Who similarly argue that terrorist attacks such as that of 11 September 2001 on the World Trade Center are simply not compatible with orthodox Muslim theology, citing the Koran as source on this matter. That the holy book of Islam cautions soldiers '"in the way of Allah" to fight their enemies face-to-face, without harming non-combatants, women or children. Moreover, that most Muslims around the world, especially those when in the minority, are clearly law-abiding citizens of their host countries. Islam in its pristine state was violent, intolerant, and it followers fanatical beyond measure and Wahhabism is simply the modern revival of this ancient creed.
First, that the vast majority of Muslims are peaceful people who would prefer the establishment of Western democracy in their own countries. Moreover, that this Wahhabism is subsidised by Saudi Arabia. A Muslim country and hotbed of Wahhabism that affects friendship with the West while at the same time spreading Wahhabi ideology everywhere Muslims are to be found. In short, the Saudis have played a double game for years, just as the evil and very wicked Joseph Stalin did with the West during the Second World War. In conclusion, what should be understood about Islam is this. Nothing in history occurs by accident. Divine Powers initiated Islam for a very definite purpose and to achieve this, then nature of Islam was required to be ferocious and unforgiving. The consequence of the inherent nature of Islam was the spectacular successes of the Arab armies and the creation of the Muslim Empire in the seventh and eight centuries. Moreover, that unforgiving Islam became attenuated in the subsequent centuries even finding itself amenable to Western influences. Furthermore, that the radical reform movements such as Salafiyya and Wahhabism are appeals to the Muslim world return to the original nature of Islam and not perversions of it, as so many apologists and mealy-mouthed journalists and politicians have expressed. What is called today in the liberal media and elsewhere as "perversions of Islam" are in effect merely reassertions of Islamic founding principles. 'O God, destroy the Jews and their supporters. Sheikh Akram Abd-al-Razzaq al-Ruqayhi, preaching in the Grand Mosque in Sanaa broadcast live on Yemeni state TV (9 August 2002).
'O God, destroy the usurper Jews and the vile Christians.'
The recent trend in the controlled and corrupt Western media and elsewhere is to whitewash the negative and violent image of Islam in the West and to emphasise it as a religion of peace. Especially since the World Trade Center attack, there has been a flood of statements and articles making these assertions. Moreover, we are often told that the word Islam means "peace" when in truth it Islam actually means "submission" rather different from "peace." Furthermore, the contradictory reactions to the Islamic terrorist attacks, official condemnation at leadership level and widespread support amongst the ordinary Muslim masses, are a stark indication that Islam is not always "a religion of peace". The wholesale rejoicing in the Muslim world at the tragic loss of American lives and the humiliation of the American government cannot be dismissed as "a few extremists." A central belief in the Muslim faith is that the Koran the very word of God, is immutable, applying to all people, in all times, in all places. The Koran is the source of the Muslim faith and the law that orders the Islamic culture and society. For if it where then the ferocious and unforgiving nature of Islam would never have developed and its spectacular rise to world power through conquest would never have occurred. The development of Shariah, the Islamic law that underpins the Muslim world, created a society where non-Muslims lived as second-class citizens subject to and humiliated by numerous laws. The Koran speaks of this enduring enmity between Muslims and non-Moslems:
(Surah 5, verse 85).
Islamic terrorist atrocities cannot be dismissed as merely the work of a small group of Wahhabi extremists considering the mass appeal of the humbling of the US by acts of terror has throughout the Muslim world. Thus, the many Muslims that celebrate every act of terror against America doubtless recall the words of the Koran, urging Muslims to:
"... fight a mighty nation, fight them until they embrace Islam."
Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohamed, leader of the radical Islamic organisation Al-Muhajiroun, that works to bring Britain under the rule of Islam, has indicated that civilian targets are wrong, but military and government targets are legitimate. Citizens vote, it argued, for the government and pay taxes to support it. The Koran contains many exhortations to violence in defence of Islam, for instance:
(Surah 9, verse 5).
The sixth pillar of Islam, which has developed over 1,400 years in many political settings, is "jihad," a word in the Koran that means personal "effort" to improve or to wage war against aggressors. Thus, "Jihad" means a just war in response to aggression; Islamic terrorist acts would not qualify as "jihad," since in Islamic law, "jihad" can only come from a consensus. Since Islam has no central earthly authority or council, which has led to much disagreement or flexibility on what the Koran demands or Allah expects.
Apologists also argue that a millennium ago Muslim political forces determined that Islam would reject a rational element that could have helped it cope with modernity. Many apologists argue that social frustration, suppression and alienation more than doctrine has produced the modern violence in Islam, though on the grounds of doctrinal purity, jihad often has been waged by Muslim against Muslim. The only true faith in God's sight is Islam (Surah 3:19).
There are passages in which the faithful are exhorted to leave their homes and fight for Islam, if necessary slaying unbelievers and those who worship false gods (Surah 8:39, 9:5, 9:123).
"First the Saturday People; then the Sunday People"
Muslim maxim for Jihad against the world but especially the Jew and the Christian
Apologists of Islam argue that in no sense are terrorist atrocities such as the assassination of Anwar Sadat, the murder of tourists at Luxor, the Muslim killers of Christians around the world or the World Trade Centre bombers representatives of Islam. Moreover, they point out that neither Osama bin Laden or his principal associate, Ayman al-Zawahiri, are graduates of Islamic universities or seminaries and their proclamations ignore 14 centuries of Muslim scholarship. The occupation by Zionist Israel of Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem has unquestionably contributed to terrible and precarious state of affairs in the world but especially in the Middle East. The hatred of the Muslim masses for Israeli policy, and thus for the United States, is now unbounded. Western policy in support of Zionist ambitions is a major source of Muslim fury that fuels Islamic fundamentalism.
Decadent contemporary Islam deems Wahhabism as heretical. Apologists of decadent contemporary Islam call this attenuated form of Islam "traditional Islam" since they can cite over a thousand years of examples in which Islamic history illustrates extraordinary feats of toleration and Muslim lands as havens for diverse religions and sects. Salafiyya and Wahhabism are attempts to rekindle the original ferocious spirit of Islam and bring about the Islamic World Empire. Another result of this rejection of "traditional Islam" i.e. the decadent contemporary Islam not the original form of it, claim the apologists has been the notion that political power should be in the hands of men of religion. A radical departure from the norm of Islam that mainstream Islamic scholarship regards it with deep suspicion. Moreover, mainstream Islamic theologians have come out unanimously against the terrorists and it is incumbent upon these leaders of the Islamic world to refute the aberrant doctrines that underpin terrorism theologically.
Dishonest or poorly informed liberals or, more commonly, poorly informed dishonest liberals, argue that that the idea that Islam as intrinsically hostile to Western democracy is precisely the position of those who carry out Islamic terrorism. For, many of the Arab states most hostile to Western interests are secular (e.g. Iraq, Syria, Libya), while some the West's strongest Muslim friends are mildly theocratic (e.g. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates). Positing some kind of culture-clash between the religions is not only insulting to those Muslim states that loathe Islamic fundamentalism (e.g. the Taliban) but also contributes to the alienation of millions of Muslims resident in the West. Moreover, although the natural unease in the world around them of the Muslim living in the West need not compromise a Moslem's loyalty as a citizen. That during the so-called Dark Ages, Islamic scholars preserved the knowledge of the ancients that Christendom was disposed to forget. Furthermore, that because Islam had no real hierarchy and that the faithful were encouraged to develop a direct relationship with God, the Islam is closer to the values of the Enlightenment than Roman Catholic Christianity. The apologists of Islam fail to point out that the current religious revival in Muslim countries has not been accompanied by any equivalent intellectual or cultural renaissance. That is, modern textual scholarship of the Koran (as honest Muslim scholars themselves will admit) has become retarded in some of the great centres of Muslim learning. Moreover, that the corrupt despotisms that rule so much of the Middle East make a mockery of the Muslim claim to establish social justice. A state of affairs that is the cause of the rage that all drives the Islamic fundamentalists.
Muslim- Imam Ahmed.
Allah's prophet Mohammed.
The Islam tenets of "Faith," or "Iman," and "Practical Religion," or "Din:" the so-called Five Pillars and Articles of Faith
Jihad is the Sixth Pillar of Islam. Jihad or "Holy War" is one of many sacred duties "good" Muslims are obliged to perform. Allah repeatedly described the difference between a "good" and "bad" Muslim. Allah hates a "bad" Muslim, the peaceful Muslim who does not do Jihad, but Allah loves a "good" Muslim who leaves home to carry out Jihad: to convert, kill or tax to extinction non-Muslims.
The Arrogation of the Abrahamic Covenant, or "The Promise" that legitimises the claim that the Muslims are via Mohammed the "Chosen People of God" and not the Israelites or the Judeans.
The decree that Muslim was not to fight Muslim.
Muslims can never peacefully co-exist with non- Muslims due to the division of the world into two warring factions: the Muslims or the "Dar al Islam" (The abode of Islam) and non- Muslims or the "Dar al Harb" (The abode of war).
Islam does.
Jerusalem is the third most holy city in Islam and Muslims claim that it should be under control of Islam.
The pristine, original form of Islam is ferocious, merciless and unforgiving; otherwise its spectacular success would never have happened in so short a time.
"Traditional" Islam is in fact an amalgam of distortions that constitute abuses and corruptions of pure, pristine Islam.
Radical Muslim sects such as Wahhabism and Salafiyya sought to overthrow the abuses and corruptions of "traditional" Islam. Wahhabism and Salafiyya advocate that Islamic doctrines are extended by force and imposed by the sword just as had original Islam instituted by Mohammed.
Wahhabism and Salafiyya advocate the unification of all Muslims under a single state and the elimination of non-Muslim nations: that is, the reawakening of the Islamic world ambition and the wish to create a Muslim World Empire in which Islam reigns supreme.
Wahhabism is the official ideology of Saudi Arabia who nurtures its creed inside its own borders but also sends out Wahhabi clerics to wherever Muslims are found in the world.
The so-called "rogue states" [Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Libya, etc.] are less important in the radicalisation of Islam than Saudi Arabia, which is the single most important sponsor and supporter of the radicalisation of Islam. Thus, if the West wants to do something about radical Islam or Islamic extremism it has to deal with Saudi Arabia. In short, anti-terror experts and politicians in the West must consider the Saudi connection in all major Muslim outrages against Western targets.
Mohammed invoked Allah's name to encourage his followers to murder those who did not submit to his claims. Yet today, apologists of Islam and Western Muslims claim that Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance. This was not the Islam of Mohammed.
The political doctrine of Islam is FEAR.
Barbaric, horrific Muslim terrorist attacks personified by the terrifying spectacle of the "suicide bomber" cause great unease and confusion in the West. Although these terrorists and murderers are deemed Muslims, this does not mean that every Muslim is a terrorist. While politicians, many news commentators and talking heads proclaim that Islam is a peace-loving religion, others warn of Islamic Jihad, or Holy War. These conflicting descriptions of Islam can be explained by examining:
"Wealth and children are the adornment of the life of this world" (Surat Al-Kahf 18:46).
It is therefore not surprising to find that Islam, in large measure a product of Mohammed's psyche, is similarly a complex faith. Muslim clerics cynically use Koranic verses, including those kind to Jews and Christians, to paint a scenario in which Islam is depicted as a religion of peace, brotherhood, modesty, morality, self-discipline and family values. In truth, the true face of Islam is revealed in the Koranic verses calling "good" Muslims to "Jihad," or "holy war" against all non-Muslims to bring about the World Muslim Empire.
Fundamentalists
These Muslims want to re-establish the pristine, pure original nature of Islam by applying the extreme verses of the Koran to the letter. The Prophet Muhammad urges Muslims to fight in the cause of Allah:
"O prophet Muhammad urge the believers [Muslims] to fight" (Surat Al-Anfal 8:65). "Jihad ["holy war" in Allah's name] is ordained for you" (Surat Al-Baqarah 2:216).
The Koran commands Muslims not to befriend Jews or Christians:
The Koran commands Muslims to fight Jews and Christians:
The Koran commands Muslims to fight non-Muslims until the Muslim world ambition is achieved: the Muslim World Empire in which all other religions are extinguished and Islam reigns supreme:
Jihad or "holy war" in Allah's name must be prosecuted against those who live in the "camp of war" [Dar Al-Harb] should continue until they are exterminated. Modern Islamic fundamentalists dream of a global Islamic Empire, of making real Mohammed's desire to establish a Muslim World Empire. These Islamacists believe that if they destroy the US and the Western countries they will achieve this ancient dream.
Prominent radical Muslim clerics call suicide bombers martyrs for Islam. The Koran commands Muslims to terrorise, torture and kill anyone who disobeys Allah and his Prophet Mohammed:
That is their disgrace in this world, and a great torment is theirs in the Hereafter" (Surat Al-Maidah 5:33).
The Koran declares Allah's love of those who fight his cause:
The Koran commands Muslims to convert forcibly non-Muslims to Islam:
There are two types of Muslim Terrorist: the Secular Muslim terrorist and the Fundamentalist Muslim terrorist. Secular Muslim Terrorist
Yasser Arafat and his creature called the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) personify the Secular Muslim terrorist movement. Islamic Fundamentalist Muslim Terrorist
Radical, fundamentalist Islamic terrorists believe what Allah told Mohammed that the gates of Paradise are under the "shadows of the swords." Islamic fundamentalists know that death is the common lot of humanity. Islamic fundamentalists therefore believe that martyrdom is the highest expression of their faith in Islam. "The purest joy in Islam is to kill and be killed for Allah."
Islamic fundamentalists terrorists or Islamist groups, include the Lebanese Shiite militants of Hezbollah (which Iran helped found in the 1980s), the Kashmir Militant Extremists, the Algerian Armed Islamic Group and such Palestinian terrorist groups as Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.
The Marxist-Socialists Muslim terrorists fear, hate and detest the Fundamentalist Muslim terrorists who reciprocate this hatred with a peculiar zealotry imbued with the ferocity of the pristine Islamic faith.
Islamic fundamentalist terrorism is distinct in two ways. Islamism rejects the modern state and its secular law in the name of a "brotherhood of Moslems" that appeals to all Muslim hearts, uniting them against the infidel. Western prosperity, Western legal systems, Western forms of banking, Western communications and Western consumerism now reaches across frontiers to affect the lives and aspirations of people all over the globe. The cohorts of this type of Islamic fundamentalism accept no territory as home, and no human law as authoritative, but commit themselves to a state of permanent exile, while concurrently resolving to carry out God's work of punishment. Western forms of banking finance that enables Osama bin Laden to conceal his wealth and to deploy it anywhere in the world. Western technology and communications al Qaeda exploits so effectively against the West. What it represents is an implacable summons to war, issued by cosmopolitan bourgeois Muslims. Attendant with this is the global export of the moral degeneracy of corrupt Western liberal democracies. Pornography in the United States is protected as free speech and people indulge this assault on human dignity as the price paid for freedoms too precious to relinquish. Globalization is a most potent means by which militant Islam can prosecute its Jihad against the world but especially the West. In fact, Globalization offers Islam the opportunity to attack Christendom that it has lacked since the Ottoman Turk retreat from central Europe. Islamic states do not have the loyalty of their people, who are not citizens but subjects and for the most part are contemptuous of their rulers, who themselves, invariably despise the Muslim masses. Modern Muslim states have not posed a threat to the West. Globalization has spawned a new phenomenon: globalised Islam, a true Islamic umma, the worldwide community of Muslims that identifies itself across borders in terms of a global form of legitimacy. Globalised Islam invokes the nostalgia of the Muslim Empire under Allah, of Jihad that forged this empire, and directs this rekindled ferocity at Allah's enemies, wherever they are.
Islamic fundamentalists... consider Spain to be an apostate country, since we were once part of the ummah [community of believers], and, in their view, 'abandoned' Islam."
For, powerful dark forces are manipulating this ancient angst and hatred for a more sinister design than merely the restoration of the grand Islamic Empire or the establishment of a World Empire under Allah.
It is the United States, conceived as a sovereign nation-state. These Islamists do not perceive the American people as the enemy but the American state, conceived as an autonomous agent acting freely on the stage of international politics. Moreover, for the crimes against Islam and the Muslim people these Islamists believe America is calling on itself the wrath of Allah. By contrast to corporate agency established by Western political systems are the other types of state of the non-Western world. The United Nations has contrived these fictions for dealing with whichever despot, clique or faction is at that time holding the peoples of these countries hostage.
The attacks were designed to wound the corporate person, the nation-state that is the United States in its decision-making part. For, the three targets, the Pentagon, the White House, and the World Trade Center represent the three principal spheres of political agency — military, governmental, and economic — and the three ways in which the United States exercises its power around the globe. To grasp the significance of what is taking place in the modern world you must understand Islamic Fundamentalism and its attendant terrorism, and the forces that are ultimately behind it. Salafiyya and Wahhabism were forces that appeared spent before the First World War but have ever since inexorably strengthened. In 1928, The Muslim Brotherhood was established by fundamentalists whose aim was to unite the Muslim world, and create an Islamic empire but which never gained a large following. A radical cleric who hated the West, but especially the United States, and who advocated strict adherence to Islamic law, and a worldwide Jihad. However, the astute chronicler of history always understands that behind the tableau of visible history there lies the hidden stream of history, in which the power moves by groups vying for power and influence are made. What the reader must understand is that within the US State Department and all other power structures within the West are elements that are inimical to the sovereign nations and organisations they claim to faithfully serve. The Globalist agenda is part of the Evil Agenda that is the Great Conspiracy against God brought to Earth. One ramification of this Evil Agenda is that human freedom is in grave danger in the rapid moves toward a unified global system, the New World Order. This shadowy group, this cabal of power, work behind the scenes through this network of powerful Globalist bodies whose collective power is immense and which, in effect, makes this group a world government in the shadows. That is, the Shadow Government of the world that plots and schemes to come out of the shadows and proclaim itself the legitimate and only representative of the whole of humanity, a veritable One World Government.
The champions of the New World Order are a cadre of powerful industrialists, bankers, academics and politicians who have been, since the end of the First World War, a grey eminence behind the governance of Britain and America. They represent what some have called the Anglo-American Establishment whose outward manifestation is the Council on Foreign Relations. More importantly, they are the true governors of the Western world. The New World Order has thus two aspects: the secular and the spiritual. The first is contained in the idea of the One World Government and the second in the idea of the One World Religion. Although certain Jews, Freemasons and Jesuits may think otherwise, the move to World Empire predicated on Evil is not a World Jewish Conspiracy, nor a Freemasonic or Jesuit World Conspiracy. Nor is it an Islamic World ambition. The real powerbrokers are the Lords of Power who serve non-human intelligences inhabiting the Cosmos that are the Evil spiritual forces that have been a constant presence in human history. The Lords of Power are the human agents of Evil and are the Occult Hierarchy who are verily the Black Adepts from the Cult of Evil that control the secret societies that really run the temporal affairs of this Earth. They are the dark spiritual warlords that control the "International Bankers," industrialists, academics and politicians through control of these occult groups and who will use these corrupt people and the United Nations as the means to form their super-government of the world- the One World Government under their sway. The Evil Powers this cult worship is hostile to mankind's spiritual freedom and has plotted for millennia to remove it from evolution. A world moreover that is rapidly descending into chaos and madness for no apparent reason. Crucial to this Great Conspiracy against God orchestrated by these Dark Powers is the need to maroon mankind on Earth cut-off from his spiritual inheritance and all knowledge of God. This is the reason behind the ascendancy of materialism and the plethora of stratagems, collectively called the Humanist Agenda, which attacks Natural Moral Order on Earth. The worship of materialism and the Humanist Agenda are the two main aspects of the Evil Agenda, which is the Great Conspiracy against God brought to Earth. Moreover, the arbiters of this Evil Agenda are the human agents of Evil, the Brotherhood of Darkness, the Occult Hierarchy who are verily the Black Adepts from the Cult of Evil. The intergenerational occultists who worship the Dark Gods, Ahriman and Lucifer and who control the temporal affairs of this world by their control of the secret societies, Freemasonry, the Jesuits, the Vatican and organised Jewry. The Black Adepts from the Cult of Evil, the Lords of Power, are the true temporal power in this world and are the Shadow Government that is truly the One World Government-in-waiting. Wars and conflicts are engineered for the effects they cause within Western society. A crucial part of this engineered conflict is the controlled clash of cultures between Christianity, Judaism and Islam. These three so-called world religions have been targeted by the Cult of Evil for their use in the final war, the Third World War that has been long planned by this Cult. Those who are privy to this plan know that three world conflagrations were planned to bring about world government under the sway of the wicked and evil men who are Lords of Power. In the coming Third World War, Christianity, Judaism (in the form of Zionism) and Islam are to be pitted against each other. The architects of the third world conflagration have planned to use Islam as the anvil on which Western society, the" Zionist Powers" but especially the republic of the United States of America, is finally smashed and its remnant willing to accept the Globalist dream. That is, breaking of the last vestiges of self-confidence, self-esteem, and the sense of independence of people to the point where they will relinquish national sovereignty, all personal freedoms and accept a One World Government predicated on tyranny. That is why the Cult of Evil and its minions had to resurrect the ancient pristine Islamic spirit, the pure Islam of Allah and his Prophet that energised the Arab armies to destroy everything that opposed it. The plan is to use Islam and so its pristine original nature had to be resurrected and this is the raison d'être of the modern phenomenon often called the Islamic fundamentalist movement. For the Cult of Evil not only created its modern form, they directly control it as well.
The long-planned goal of plutocratic global dictatorship is the raison d'être of the so-called Anglo-American Establishment: to bring the world into the Globalist New Age dream: a global feudal state. Key to this plan is the use of Islam, especially the ancient form of this religion that once made the Arab army the most feared in the world. That is why this group of wicked and evil men has carefully nurtured Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism. Thus, we find the headquarters of Islamic terrorism not in Baghdad, Mecca or Islamabad but in London, where the Anglo-American Establishment keeps a close eye on its creation, the radical "Muslim Brotherhood."
Consequently, the West has been duped into believing that Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism are an autonomous and wholly Muslim reaction against the West. The so-called "war on terror" posited by President Bush is a bogus war fabricated by these Globalists who are using Islamic fundamentalism and Muslim terrorists as the dupes, the patsies, to demonise the Muslim world and bring it in conflict with the West. The "War on Terror" is merely the euphemism of the Globalist gambit for world conflagration designed to crush the remaining vestiges of nationalism and democracy in both Muslim countries and the West.
Although the controlled media and the Globalists lackeys have successfully made Osama bin Laden the Islamic bogeyman he is not, nor has he ever been, the leader of the international Islamist movement that is directed by the International Muslim Brotherhood. Similarly, the Muslim Brotherhood is a tool by the British-based Globalists; the Anglo-American establishment whose main objective is to overthrow the established world order and create a new one-world system of global governance. By fabricating a bogus war between Islamic fundamentalism and the West, and the West's response to it called the "War on Terror," the Globalists are able to attack their real enemy, which is humanity per se. The great puppet masters, the Lords of Power, the Black Adepts from the Cult of Evil, whom control the Anglo-American Establishment, also pull the strings of the Muslim Brotherhood. Moreover, that their stratagems using Islamic radicals and fundamentalism will ensure that both Western and Muslim states are so degraded that they will all finally succumb to their odious rule. The Lords of Power who control the Globalists and their collective activities have long been using wars to subvert, demoralise and destroy Western civilisation. Modern wars are not fought to defeat an enemy but to change society but especially to move society towards acceptance of the New World Order. In the Korean War and Vietnam War, they effectively tied US hands while backing the communist insurgents.
Steven Emerson has studied Islamic terrorism for almost 20 years and whose book, Terrorist (1991), tells us that during the 1980s the US State Department officials (the traitors who are Globalists) protected terrorist organisations, terrorist leaders and terrorist nations. In his book, American Jihad, he quotes Khalid Duran, a prominent Islamic scholar, who wrote:
Basically, it's a revolt against the modern world. People in modern societies are very cosmopolitan and tolerant of ethnic and cultural differences. . . . Wahhabism and Salafiyya are attempts to resurrect the pure pristine state whose natural consequence is the repudiation of Western secularism. Wahhabism and Salafiyya are in effect the antithesis of Western secular society. The video was effectively suppressed until after the 9/11/01 attack on the World Trade Center because it exposed things that the Globalists who are using Islamic terror did not want the American people to learn. Such things as the involvement of Islamic extremists in the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, and their plan to attack the infrastructure of the American nation. In the video, Emerson states:
Hoping to halt the spread of Communism, the United States actively backed the Mujahideen, Afghanistan's Islamic rebels, dedicated to spreading Jihad. most . . . [Islamic] institutions in the United States are controlled by either extremists or profiteers. The American Muslim Council is an umbrella group of the 'Muslim Brotherhood' and it is actively involved in championing the movements of Hamas, Algerian FIS, Tunisian Al- Nahda movement, Turkish Welfare Party, Jordanian Islamic Action Front and the Sudanese National Islamic Front. The American Muslim Council does not represent American Muslims, it represents the extremists and those that believe in terrorism. Steven Emerson reveals that State Department officials allowed Azzam, to tour the US between 1985 and 1988:
". . . exhorting new recruits to pick up the sword against the enemies of Islam. According to The New York Times, our State Department allowed Dr. al-Zawahiri to tour the United States in 1995 despite the fact he was a known terrorist, and the Egyptian government wanted him for murder. "
Speaking at the Islamic training center in Oklahoma City in 1988, Azam said:
"O, brothers, after Afghanistan, nothing in the world is impossible for us anymore. There are no super powers or mini-powers - what matters is the will power that springs from our religious belief."
"Allah's religion - be he praised - must offer skulls, must offer martyrs. There are more than 88 in American cities. Their centres became clearing houses and recruiting offices to support Jihad around the world. The Globalists, to keep the American people from learning of the Islamic threat, suppressed Steven Emerson's video and other sources of information on the phenomenon. The US State Department allowed The American Muslim Council to act as an umbrella organisation for international terrorism. It also allowed the terrorist leaders Abdullah Azzam and Dr. al-Zawahiri to come to America, raise money, and recruit followers. The CIA financed Osama bin Laden and his followers during the Afghan war. It continued funding the Afghan Jihad after the war ended. Bin Laden also knew the CIA and the Saudis were financing the Islamic movement, and allowing leaders like Azzam and al-Zawahiri to raise funds unimpeded in the United States. The Washington Times reports:
If the information is accurate, then it is obvious that bin Laden is a CIA "asset" and explains why the US State Department and CIA are reluctant to apprehend Mr Osama bin Laden. However, the CIA chief George Tenet testified to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (02/06/02) that: Osama bin Laden:
"... did not believe that the United States would respond to the Sept. 11 attacks by attacking Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden was mistaken, for his group, al Qaeda, the Taliban regime and Afghan Jihad soon learned that they were mere pawns in the Great Game whose masters are the Lords of Power. Who are the secret masters of the Anglo-American Establishment whose benign front is the Council on Foreign Relations that has controlled American Foreign Policy since at least 1940.
"Notable among these new threats is the prospect of an attack on US cities by independent or state-supported terrorists using weapons of mass destruction. . . . States, terrorists, and other disaffected groups will acquire weapons of mass destruction and mass disruption, and some will use them. "... the US would be attacked on its own soil mostly by a small group of foreign terrorists, and that the attack could result in the loss of many American lives."
The World Future Society styles itself as a "nonprofit educational and scientific organization, a nonpartisan clearinghouse, for people interested in how social and technological developments are shaping the future." An article in the Nov/December 1994 issue states:
"The Muslim population in this country is not like any other group, for it includes within it a substantial body of people - many times more numerous than the agents of Osama bin Laden - who share with the suicide hijackers a hatred of the United States and the desire, ultimately, to transform it into a nation living under the structures of militant Islam."
In such conditions, one would expect a concerned government addressing the real problems and concerns of its people on such matters. Joseph D'Agostino's article "7000 Men Recently Entered From Al Qaeda 'Watch' Countries" in Human Events (December 17, 2001) we find two months after the 9/11/01 attack that:
". . . the State Department granted non-immigrant US visas to at least 7,000 men from countries in which al Qaeda is active. It appears for some unknown reason that the governments of the West, but especially the US, do not want to keep al Qaeda and other Muslim terrorists from entering their countries.
In The Washington Times "Militant Madrassas Ordered To Shut Down" (December 3, 2001) and the "New Law Targets Islamic Schools" (December 21, 2001) we read that Wahhabism is the official religion of Saudi Arabia. In Ahmed Rashid's book Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (2001) we learn that "Taliban" is the Afghan word for student. In short, Rashid tells us that the Wahhabi regime in Afghanistan and the other branches of political Islam, want not only to re-establish the Muslim Empire that existed a thousand years ago, but to bring about a Muslim World Empire by killing Infidels and destroying Christian civilisation.
From other sources, such as Danna Harman's article "Links to 'mother al Qaeda' Probed" in The Washington Times (December 20, 2001), we learn that many other graduates were sent overseas to join al Qaeda cells in the United States, Europe, and other Muslim countries throughout the world. Moreover, Western society allows political dissent.
Steven Emerson's work is not the only example of this censorship designed to keep the American people in ignorance of the threat of domestic Islamic terrorism. Dr. Robert Morey, who has a degree in Islamic studies, wrote a book about this threat called The Islamic Invasion of America. However, shortly after the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center, powerful pressure was placed on Dr. Morey's publisher to recall his book and prevent it from being distributed. Simply because the US intelligence agencies, and the Shadow Government it serves, do not want the American people to understand what is happening in their country. Morey not only claims the Saudi government has spent billions of dollars building mosques, funding radical Muslim clerics, and promoting fundamental Islamic belief in the US, but also expended hundreds of millions of dollars on the propaganda. The astute reader will probably perceive a pattern emerging in the treatment of Islam in the West. While, on the other hand, the ancient pristine ferocious nature of Islam has been nurtured and encouraged to flourish wherever Muslims are found by the Globalists, but whose enmity and hatred for the West is concealed from the people of the West.
Thus we find in Jeffery Sheler's article in US News and World Report entitled "Muslim in America," (October 29, 2001) that
One moderate American Islamic leader, Sheikh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, told a State Department forum in 1999 that 80 percent of the nation's mosques are headed by clerics who espouse 'extremist ideology' - which Kabbani associates with Wahhabism, an Islamic fundamentalist movement that began in Saudi Arabia in the 18th century."
Some Californian schools also force children to memorise verses from the Koran, and discuss the "problems" of Christianity as opposed to the "solutions" contained in the Muslim faith.
It is without question that several Muslim governments support the al Qaeda movement. One of the greatest supporters of Wahhabism and its export around the world is Saudi Arabia. One of the greatest supporters of Islamic terrorism and its export around the world is Saudi Arabia. Some of the terrorist organizations funded by Saudi Arabia include:
Al Qaeda
The Egyptian Islamic Jihad
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad
Regional branches of the Muslim Brotherhood
Jamiat-Ul-Ulema-e-Islam (the Muslim party with a strong presence in Pakistan and India)
Jund-al-Islam (Soldiers of Islam – strong Kurdish involvement)
Ansar-al-Islam (Guardians of Islam – until recently with bases in northern Iraq)
Islamic People's Congress of Sudan (strong ties to al-Qaeda and the Egyptian Jihad)
Islamic Army of Aden (operating in Yemen with strong financial ties to al-Qaeda and other Saudi sources)
Hiz-al-Takhrir-al-Saudi (The Saudi Liberation Party)
Arabian Peninsula Peoples Union
Islamic Reform Movement
Laurie Mylroie in her book, A Study of Revenge: Saddam Hussein's Unfinished War against America (2000) asserts that Saddam Hussein was responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Yossef Bodansky, an expert in Islamic terrorism, and Director of The Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, in his book, Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America (1999)
Knowledge, if true that has been deftly concealed form the American people by their own government. Moreover, if true, why did the US government exact revenge on these forces? Brzezinski also laid the foundation for the Islamic terrorist movement that now threatens the peace of the world. The 09/11/01 attack on the World Trade Center and the subsequent anthrax attack created the "widely perceived direct external threat" needed to unite the American people behind the Globalist agenda contained in the foreign policy of Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the ethos of the Trilateral Commission. For, these atrocities were brought about by the Shadow Government to justify the "war against terrorism," and establish the New World Order.
Alexander Stille in an article in The New York Times entitled "What is America's Place in the World Now?" Three days after the attack on the World Trade Center, former Senator Gary Hart, a Globalist insider, addressed the Council on Foreign Relations:
The so-called Anglo-American Establishment is the exoteric expression of an ancient occult idea of a New World Order. This idea is the enduring ambition of an ancient occult organisation that seeks the total control of the world. This something was to bring about the government of the world under one supreme authority. In Quigley's The Anglo-American Establishment we read that:
Both sought to unite the world, and above all the English-speaking world, in a federal structure around Britain. The shadowy group has been very successful in keeping their sinister role in shaping world events a secret. Carroll Quigley's research concerning the role of the Rhodes-Milner Secret Societies in Britain from 1891 through World War II is the source of so much information about this group and is often quoted. Moreover, it appeared at a time when the Council on Foreign Relations began to attract attention. In 1909-1903 they organised semi-secret groups, known as Round Table Groups, in the chief British dependencies and in the United States."
Between 1910-1915 the Rhodes Secret Society evolved into an international group of co-conspirators collectively called Round Table Groups that set up in seven nations: Britain, South Africa, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, India, and the United States. The men who attended the meeting were British and American Rhodes Secret Society members who were also British and American delegates to the Paris Peace Conference convened to inaugurate the new Europe after the First World War. Moreover, their members occupy executive positions in the various branches of government, control the news agencies and television networks, head the largest law firms, direct the largest private foundations, are presidents of the most prestigious universities, and hold top commands in the military. It is thus through this organisational ring of "Institutes of International Affairs" and the outward control of tax-exempt foundations, universities, government agencies and media, that they determine the destiny of their nations, and other nations throughout the world. It is because of this octopus of power and influence, the Anglo-American Establishment, that the Globalist conspiracy has dominated the domestic and foreign policies of Britain and the United States for over seventy-five years. Anglo-American Establishment through its proxies in the CFR runs the State Department and the CIA. This 100 CFR member Praetorian Guard that surrounds the president is called "the Secret Team." This treacherous crew help carry out psycho-political operations (Psy-ops), the mass psychology, scripted by CFR members in the US State Department and the Intelligence Organizations. A group of Council on Foreign Relations members called the Special Group, evolved from the Psychological Strategy Board, co-ordinate the psycho-political operations (Psy-ops). An insider to this power structure was John Dewey (1859-1952), the American pragmatic philosopher and advocated of the so-called "progressive education." A coterie of men thus unlawfully and knowingly combine and conspire to bring about the conditions propitious for the establishment of a One World Government under the direct and total control of members of their group. The shadowy group influences public opinion through mass psychology, that is, well planned and co-ordinated psycho-political operations (Psy-ops). By these subtle, pervasive and powerful techniques and operations of manipulation of public opinion and mind control the group seeks to undermine people's confidence in their beliefs, their strength, their leaders and themselves.
In short, they seek to dissolve Natural Moral Order, Western civilisation, national sovereignty, nationalism, patriotism and society predicated on the spirituality often called Christianity.
The Humanist Agenda is the powerful weapon this sinister group uses to bring the destruction of Western society about. The sinister group works assiduously to destroy people's belief in their nation, the traditional family, Christ and God. The power to manipulate and mould opinion is phenomenal and this is what they do, creating false realities, illusions, false reality worlds, for people to believe. This control of people is indeed great but the group desires to make it absolute by the creation of its great ambition, the One World Government predicated on tyranny in which everyone is controlled, absolutely, from the cradle to the grave.
The group operates under the so-called Chatham House Rule.
Today the "Rule" is used by organizations and gatherings throughout the world.
By creating tension and hate between different groups of people, this group uses a very ancient ploy indeed to further their aims and increase their power and wealth. This secret-society continually creates a state of perpetual warfare within nations and between nations all over the world for it is only by these conflicts, these distractions that they think that they will gain their New World Order. The group, often called the Anglo-American Establishment, was responsible for the Boer War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam as well as the unrest and constant warfare in the Middle East by their sponsorship of both Zionism and fundamental Islam. British disciples of Rhodes and their American counterparts, who would later be identified as the Anglo-American Establishment, provoked the First World War in order to create a demand for world government. This group was also responsible for the Second World War again whose purpose was to bring the idea of world government more palatable to public opinion. The Korean and Vietnamese Wars were also created to advance the agenda of the wicked and evil men who work to bring about a New World Order.
Reginald Baliol Brett (1852-1930), the second Lord Esher, was chairman of the war office reconstitution committee after the South African War, the Boer War, in 1904. For Brett was a leader in the Rhodes secret society, the so-called Round Table that later became the Anglo-American Establishment, whose overarching ambition is the creation of a World Empire under its control. Contrived and controlled World wars and major conflicts are the means to this end.
Reader, understand, history is made by men in secret societies, in secret unions and in secret meetings and Freemasonry's hands are dripping with much blood.
King George V (1865-1936), who gave up his German title in 1917 during World War I, assured his cousin, Prince Henry, the Kaiser Wilhelm's brother, that Britain would not enter the coming war. History shows that Kaiser Wilhelm believed King George's promise that England would not enter the conflict that quickly became the First World War. The testimony of George Tenet, the chief of the CIA, to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence shows that Osama bin Laden did not believed that the United States would attack his sanctuary. Remember, reader, that modern wars are not fought to defeat an "enemy" but to change society. "Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. This newly inaugurated US government department is designed to co-ordinate government services during periods of civil unrest or terrorist attack. President Bush authorised formation of the Office of Homeland Security just nine days after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center buildings and the Pentagon. The event caused the war that became known as Spanish-American War. The Globalist agenda called for the entry of the United States into the terrible conflict that became the Great War. The Lusitania went down taking with her 1198 people. The tragedy, along with a skilfully crafted propaganda programme that manipulated public opinion, eventually forced the United States into World War I. Fifty years after the sinking of the Lusitania the British authorities opened their files about the tragedy and British journalist Colin Simpson produced book, The Lusitania (1972). The attack on Pearl Harbor brought America into the Second World War, a war the majority of Americans did not want to join. Yet, the blueprint for World Empire demanded that the US was brought into this war and thus the Globalist traitors in government saw to it that this condition of the Evil Agenda was satisfied. Roosevelt and his secret masters had devised a plan to provoke the Japanese to attack the US in order to gain the support of the people who were adamantly opposed to entering the war. Stinnett shows that ample warning of the attack was on Roosevelt's' desk and that a plan to push Japan into war was initiated at the highest levels of the US Government. This Japanese "sneak attack" was the supposed act of treachery that forced the United States into World War II. "Yesterday," Roosevelt later told Congress, "December 7, 1941 –a date which will live in infamy- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked…" This "infamy" however comes from the Globalists within government, the Shadow Government, who continually betray the American and British peoples and sacrifices them, their country and their freedoms on the altar of world government. From Carroll Quigley's book Tragedy and Hope: A History of The World In Our Time (1966) not only do we read that the Round Table Group was a front organisation for Cecil Rhodes' secret society but also that they supported Adolph Hitler's aggressive policies. This entanglement of great business relations all over the world would seem to me to argue strongly for peace. The book Hope of the Wicked: The Master Plan to Rule the World by Ted Flynn documents the duplicity of American corporations by helping the Nazis both before and during World War II. Professor Quigley relates in Tragedy and Hope: A History of The World In Our Time how the Round Table Group encouraged Hitler to take Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland while they quietly rearmed England for the coming war they had meticulously planned:
". . . the British government, especially the small group controlling foreign policy [the Round Table Group], had reached a seven-point decision regarding their attitude toward Germany:
Moreover, the Foreign Office submitted the seven-point plan to Germany, and expressed tacit support for Hitler's success. In his book, Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace (1953) he wrote:
The Round Table Group controlled the British Foreign Office before, during and after the Second World War. Britain and the United States subsequently gave substantial military supplies and aid to the Soviet Union. Moreover, after the war the Round Table Group did not object when the United States, following the treachery of the 32º Freemason, Franklin D. Roosevelt, turned Eastern Europe and China over to Communism. Rather, they used Hitler to foment the Second World War, just as the rulers of the US used Osama bin Laden to justify their "war against terrorism." Professor Quigley revealed the active and treasonous part played by The Round Table and the CFR in the events leading up to the Second World War. In 1942, delegates from many countries gathered to issue a Declaration of the United Nations, the first time the term "United Nations" had been publicly aired. Furthermore, the Shadow Government had compelled certain US political and military leaders to extend the war both in Europe and in the Pacific, even using the atomic bomb on civilian targets. This was done specifically to make modern war appear so horrible that world government could be presented to mankind as the only viable alternative.
General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) described in his autobiography, Reminiscences (1964) how the US State Department precipitated the Korean War. Moreover, President Truman refused to call it war for a very definite reason. One of the main reasons why the Globalists brought about the Korea War was that immediately after the Second World War the spirit of isolationism swept the US. Many of the American people and a significant portion of the US Congress favoured an end to US intervention in the world's affairs. Significant opposition to government-led internationalism began to increase. US Secretary of State Dean Acheson, a veteran member of the Council on Foreign Relations, shameless promoter of the United Nations and insider of the Globalist agenda, worked with his fellow travellers to bring the US into the Korean War. The "us" are the Globalists; the traitors who desire world government advanced by US interventionism in world affairs and the sacrifice of national sovereignty on the altar of internationalism. Acheson and other Globalists knew well that war not only brings about more government but also speeds the way toward world government. Moreover, in modern times such things are the norm in public life.
McCarthy asserted that some of these people were passing secret information to the Soviet Union, adding:
The "communists" who were in truth the internationalist, the Globalists, the "liberal establishment," such as people like Dean Acheson, Alger Hiss et al working to bring about a One World Government.
In his book In Love and War (1984), Stockdale revealed that:
Wars are the preferred choice of the Globalists. The Global Elite design wars to enable their plans to purloin the freedoms of the world's citizens by bringing about a global fascist state with them as absolute rulers and the masses as the absolute slaves. This world ambition is a clandestine process of incremental implementation of all things that a world government requires. The plan for a New World Order was so secret that knowledge of it was kept within the secret societies that plotted to bring it about. The contempt and arrogance of these people is staggering as is their world ambition.
Wars are paramount in this endeavour. The central banking system is in effect the world's most sophisticated cartel. However, most people, as was intended, consider them legitimate government agencies. Money is the fuel of war and without money, wars cannot be fought. These wicked people to bring them more wealth and power create Modern wars. For instance, in the initial stages of the First World War, Britain and France had to borrow heavily from investors in America. The absolute wealth and power of the Shadow Government is in large measure a product of war, of planned war, and of death, destruction and untold misery. Modern wars are not fought to defeat an enemy but to bring about changes in Western civilisation. The traumatic times when grief, fear, anxiety and anger distracts populations allowing the traitors, the internationalists, the Globalists, the Shadow Government, to social engineer Western society.
In 1963, a special commission of government experts met secretly in an underground base deep inside the earth in New York State called Iron Mountain. Its purpose was to devise stratagems for the worlds' governments to use to insure continuing control of the people of Earth, once the spurious Cold War was ended. The hidden rulers of this world, the Shadow Government, knew that wars were a tremendously effective means to channel the masses' energies into controlled events while permitting governments to establish and maintain social control. Wars were thus promoted as unavoidable for such things as state security and defence needs, to present a common front against the enemy, protect the people's way of life and economic standards and so forth. If however, hidden rulers of this world, the Shadow Government abolished wars; the committee's task was to come up with alternative mechanisms and methods of social control. The secret committee's final report to the President of the United States was informally entitled Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace (RFIM) in which was presented five substitutes for war in the future event when the worlds secret rulers chose to end the bogus Cold War and to establish a New World Order based on "peace" and "co-operation" among the world nations but especially the so-called "superpowers." War, argued the report, was too important to the world economy, and therefore it was necessary to continue a state of war indefinitely:
"War has provided both ancient and modern societies with a dependable system for stabilizing and controlling national economies. Moreover, the authority of the government over the people stemmed from its ability to wage war, therefore, without war the government might cease to exist since:
The elimination of war implies the inevitable elimination of national sovereignty and the traditional nation-state."
"War can be used to arouse human passion and patriotic feelings of loyalty to the Nations leader. So many things that otherwise are incomprehensible suddenly become clear: foreign aid, wasteful spending, the destruction of American industry, a job corps, gun control, a national police force, the apparent demise of soviet power, a UN army, disarmament, a world bank, a world money, the surrender of national independence through treaties, and the ecology hysteria."
The power brokers, the Lords of Power, who make vast profits from war are not only interested in money but in a world ambition as well
Now, gentle reader, the reason for attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center, on Afghanistan and on Iraq may now become a little clearer. That wars are never fought for the reasons given to the men who fight them and that terrorist atrocities within sovereign nations invariably are not the fruits of those terrorist organisations blamed for them. Wars are created to change society. A bogus war in which all opposition to it is vilified as treason, where all opponents are deemed traitors and where money and power will consistently flow to the Global Elite, the Lords of Power, whose ancient and sacred mission is to control the world absolutely and for all time.
the Radical Islamic Super-terrorist ..... and that is why Western Intelligence Agencies created the modern phenomenon of Radical Fundamentalist Islam.
The world, and especially the American people, whose taxes were used in this, has not been told the truth about the origin of the Afghan war and al Qaeda. Practically everyone knows about the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the culpability of Muslim extremists. Yet, very few people know that radical Islam and its attendant terrorism is largely the creation and creature of Western intelligence agencies.
From John Cooley's book Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism (1999) we learn that during the 1980s, the Central Intelligence Agency recruited thousands of Arabs from Muslim countries ostensibly to fight the wicked and nasty communists in Afghanistan. Moreover, that the Muslims trained by the US Special Forces went on to train others, and when the Afghan war ended, many of them joined al Qaeda. These young men were radicalised by a deliberate, well-funded programme of indoctrination financed and carried out by the CIA, the Pakistani Intelligence agency (ISI), and Saudi Arabia government. Richard Labeviere's book Dollars for Terror: The United States and Islam (2000) tells us that the CIA printed thousands of copies of the Koran in Virginia. "Iran was encouraging a Muslim religious revival in Soviet Central Asia. "A specter haunts the world . . . the specter of religious fanaticism . . . theocratic ideologies have declared a cold war on the democracies. . . . Where does the money for this dangerous proselytism come from - the money that finances mosques and Koran schools, supports Islamist organizations, orchestrates the fight against the 'impious' regimes of the Arab-Muslim world, and organizes the activism of certain Muslim communities of Europe . . . four years of research have established that the real threat lies . . . in Saudi Arabia and other oil monarchies allied with the United States. The greatest world power is fully aware of this development. In certain parts of the world, the CIA and its Saudi and Pakistani homologues continue to sponsor Islamism."
". . . the United Arab Emirates . . . but US officials say that financial systems in other countries - including Pakistan and Germany - were also used to funnel money to accounts controlled by suspected ringleader Mohammed Atta and other hijackers. This money was then forwarded to Mohammed Atta who apparently led the September 11 attack.
As well . . . "Time Magazine" is reporting that some of that money came in the days just before the attack and can be traced directly to people connected to Osama bin Laden. Pakistani Intelligence (ISI) is a surrogate of the Central Intelligence Agency and the British Intelligence Service themselves surrogates of the Anglo-American Establishment- the Shadow Government of this world. The role of these agencies is crucial in the unfolding of the wicked and evil plan for this world, the bringing about of the blueprint for world government that is the Evil Agenda. An organisation founded in 1921 on the principles of the Rhodes secret society, the British Round Table Group An organisation that has since 1940 controlled US Foreign Policy. The Anglo-American Establishment created the CIA, and the CIA largely created the Islamic terrorists that threaten the West today. James Cooley, who writes for the Christian Science Monitor, in his book, Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America, and International Terrorism (1999), informs us that:
Cooley also described the funding of the Islamic movement during the Afghan war:
Cooley further reveals that the KMS, a British Muslim mercenary organization, provided the British Muslim contingent sent to Afghanistan:
"In the twilight of the Cold War, the United States spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with textbooks filled with violent images and militant Islamic teachings. . . . For although the Afghan war ended in 1989, Agency for International Development officials continued to provide the textbooks until 1994:
"AID officials say in interviews that they left the Islamic materials intact because they feared Afghan educators would reject books lacking a strong dose of Muslim thought. The AID spokeswoman stated: 'It's not AID's policy to support religious instruction,' . . . . A war that was itself a creation of the Anglo-American Establishment whose agent, Zigbniew Brzezinski represented their interests and those of the Rockefeller family. The pristine, original form of Islam is ferocious, merciless and unforgiving, otherwise its spectacular successes would never have happened in so short a time
"Traditional" Islam is in fact an amalgam of distortions that constitute abuses and corruptions of pure, pristine Islam
Radical Muslim sects such as Wahhabism and Salafiyya sought to overthrow the abuses and corruptions of "traditional" Islam. Jihad is the Sixth Pillar of Islam and is one of many sacred duties Muslims are obliged to perform
Salafiyya cult arose in the thirteenth century and became fashionable again in certain parts of the Muslim world but especially in Egypt in the Muslim Brotherhood whose motto is:
"Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. It is the official ideology of Saudi Arabia who nurtures its creed inside its own borders but now sends out Wahhabi clerics to wherever Muslims are found in the world
Islamic fundamentalism of the last half-century is a stranger to "traditional Islam" and is based on something entirely different- the pristine, original form of Islam. It is thus essentially a revolt against the modern world. Islamic fundamentalism tries to re-establish the pristine original nature of Islam, withdraw from cosmopolitan secular society and establish an ethnic purity based upon the Islam taught by Mohammed
The radical Islamic doctrines were extended by force and imposed by the sword just as had the original Islam instituted by Mohammed. The renewal of the belief that Muslims can never peacefully co-exist with non- Muslims due to the division of the world into two warring factions: the Muslims or the "Dar al Islam" (The abode of Islam) and non- Muslims or the "Dar al Harb" (The abode of war)
The renewal of the ambition to unify all Muslims under a single state and the elimination of non-Muslim nations. That is, the reawakening of the Islamic world ambition and the wish to create a Muslim World Empire in which Islam reigns supreme
Islam does
There are two fundamental types of Muslim terrorist: the Islamic fundamentalist Muslim and the Marxist-Socialist Muslim. The former are united in their radical, fundamental belief in the pure creed of Mohammed and hate, among others, the Marxist-Socialist Muslim. Their one leader is Allah. The latter are secular Muslims who hate, among others, Islamic fundamentalist Muslims. The radical Islamic movement has been energised and funded by Western intelligence services but especially by the CIA and its dependents such as the Pakistani Intelligence agency (ISI)
The CIA and Saudi Arabia largely finance the Islamic movement
The CIA has financed the radical Islamic movement since its inception including the Algerian FIS, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Jordanian Islamic Action Front, the Sudanese National Islamic Front, the Tunisian Al-Nahda movement, the Turkish Welfare Party and al Qaeda
During the 1980s, the CIA financed Osama bin Laden and his followers during the Afghan war and they continued funding the Afghan Jihad after the war ended in 1989. Osama bin Laden worked for the CIA and helped the United States force the Soviets to withdraw their troops from Afghanistan. The United States supplied both Iran and Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war.
CIA conceived textbooks that the Agency for International Development (AID) provided to Afghan and Pakistani schoolchildren promote radical Islamic belief, militancy, violence, hatred of foreigners, and jihad.
This programme indoctrinated several hundred thousand Muslim children in Islamic fundamentalism, and encouraged a rabid hatred of infidels. Pakistan established 20-30,000 Islamic schools and seminaries where Muslims were indoctrinated in the original form of Islam, the pristine pure form of Islam that today is called the radical Islam. In 1990, the American Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, assured the nasty, wicked, Saddam Hussein that the United States would not intervene if he invaded Kuwait. The United States defeated the Iraqi army in a few days, and left the nasty, wicked, Saddam Hussein in power.
In 1994, the Taliban movement had come to power in Afghanistan. The US State Department and CIA to counter the havoc they help create allied themselves with two Islamic powers, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. The schools in which young Muslims were indoctrinated in the original form of Islam. In short, the United States helped Saudi Arabia and Pakistan create the Taliban, financed the Taliban, and then destroyed the Taliban.
US officials coerced Saudi leaders into allowing the United States to station troops in their country to "protect" them from the nasty, wicked, Saddam Hussein. The presence of infidels living close to Mecca and Medina horrified radicals like Osama bin Laden and other members of al Qaeda who turned against the Saudi government and the United States.
Fifteen of the nineteen terrorists who supposedly attacked America by apparently attacking the WTC and the Pentagon on "9/11" were Saudi citizens. The US State Department, directed by the CIA allows leaders of the Islamic terrorist movement like Abdulla Azzam and Dr al-Zawahiri to raise funds in the United States. Despite the fact they are known terrorists, and the Egyptian government wanted al-Zawahiri for murder
US government officials knew Osama bin Laden was involved in the attacks on US military bases, but they did not try to arrest him. The CIA-bin Laden links stretches back years and appears to suggest bin Laden gave the CIA information regarding future terrorist strikes
Richard Labeviere, the author of Dollars for Terror, as well as other researchers, claims that the Islamic terrorist movement is ultimately the creation of the CIA, Saudi Arabia, Pakistani Intelligence (ISI) and some US agencies.
Because Western Intelligence Agencies and their surrogates control much of what is called "International Terrorism" and especially "Islamic Terrorism" the apparent failure to defeat them or stop further outrages sometime manifests as personal attacks on leaders and politicians alluding to their incompetence by less informed commentators.
"Your government failed you. Consequently, it is internationalist in outlook and works secretly to bring about World Government and it is, like all modern administrations since the time of Woodrow Wilson, traitors to the American people. Why? Because it works to undermine the fact that the United States of America was founded as a Constitutional Republic of Sovereign States based upon Biblical principles and whose supreme law of the land was contained in the inspired document called the "Constitution of the United States" but ultimately that wisdom and truth found in "The Declaration of Independence." Clark's allegation that Bush's national security team was asleep at the wheel in the months before September 11 2001 when certain intelligence specialists were warning of an impending terrorist strike is symptomatic of the phenomenon of uniformed, outsider analysis of the agenda to deliver America and its people, hog-tied, to the Globalists and their long-dreamed, long-awaited and long planned, One World Government. Intrinsic to this plan is the use of FEAR to coerce people and nations to abandon ancient affiliations, to cut age-old bonds and to adopt internationalist principles so that they will be more amenable to the concept of World Government and so that much easier to merge into the New World Order. For, these architects of the New World Order understand completely that people are more than willing to sacrifice what freedoms they still posses for a greater sense of security. That is why they control those things, such as "Global Terrorism", which significantly increases the fear of people. Some US government officials knew all about the plan to attack the World Trade Center and the Pentagon just as some officials knew about the terrorist plan to bomb the World Trade Center in 1993, and the terrorists plan to bomb the Murrah Building in 1995, the so-called "Oklahoma City bombing." Corruption of the US government agencies is rife and the higher echelons of them work for this Globalist dream and thus work for the Shadow Government and not the US Government. All refused to examine Jayna Davis's material, because it they were stark documentation that give compelling evidence that connect the Oklahoma City bombing and the 09/11/01 attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Not all government agents are corrupt or willingly serving the Shadow Government and dozens of FBI and Defense Intelligence agents were threatened with arrest by the federal government if they got in the way of al-Qaeda operations. "A former Iranian-government intelligence officer who has defected to the West tells Insight during telephone interviews from Germany that he personally informed the FBI at the beginning of September of a plot by Iran to crash civilian jumbo jets into the World Trade Center and government buildings in Washington. "Mr. Tenet . . . said Mr. Bin Laden did not believe that the United States would respond to the Sept. 11 attacks by attacking Afghanistan. Furthermore, when George Tenet appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee on February 6, 2002, and stated that:
Mr. Bin Laden did not believe that the United States would respond to the Sept. 11 attacks by attacking Afghanistan. Tenet's testimony raises two important questions: How did he know that Osama bin Laden "did not believe we would invade his sanctuary,'" and why did Osama bin Laden assume the US would not respond to the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon? Control of every aspect of an individual's existence is a crucial part of the Evil Agenda and that is why the New World Order necessitates the total removal of personal and societal freedoms. This is the raison d'être of manufactured wars and the creation of urban terrorism: to frighten people into relinquishing ever more of their God-given freedoms. In short, Echelon is the global electronic communications surveillance system that represents an extreme threat to not only the privacy of people all over the world but also their very freedoms. In short, we live in the most monitored and controlled society that has ever existed. To understand this question one must understand how this world is truly organised and how and who really runs the temporal affairs of it. MODERN WARS AND CONFLICTS ARE CONCEIVED BY MEN IN DARK UNIONS AND SECRET MEETINGS AND THEY ARE NOT FOUGHT TO DEFEAT A POSITED ENEMY BUT TO CHANGE SOCIETY INTO A DESIRED STATE.
If one begins to understand this, then one may also understand that there is a similarity between the origin of the wars and conflicts of the last two centuries, and the so-called "war against terrorism." In modern times, this method of population manipulation and control is not used merely to strengthen the grip of petty tyrants but to bring about the conditions propitious for a world government. In fact, the Globalists and the secret societies that they haunt have a blueprint for world government that demands three World Wars: two have been affected; the conditions for the third are rapidly being brought together. The First World War was intended to create a demand for world government that would be so clamorous that it would dissolve all opposition to it. The Third World War will use Islam and its opposition and hatred of the West and Zionism as the touch paper for world conflagration.
The Shadow Government controlling American killed its own people
To appreciate that the official story of the events now often called "9/11" or "September 11" are a myth and that the perpetrators are not those identified by the US Government and its lackeys in the controlled media is a major step towards understanding how the world is manipulated by very powerful, evil and wicked forces. These forces have used wars, conflicts and terrorism as convenient yet potent means of manipulating public opinion and sentiment to further their own secret agenda for world government. ■ 1994: members of the Armed Islamic Group hijacked an Air France flight, flew it to Marseilles and demanded 27,000 tons of fuel. Intelligence agencies throughout the world knew that Arab terrorists planned to use commercial airliners as weapons to attack high-profile targets.
■ 1995: Philippine police confiscated a lap top computer that belonged to an Islamic terrorist called Abdul Murad. Bill Gertz of the Washington Times in an article called "Airliner terror plan was code-named 'Project Bojinka,'" reported that:
The operation called for hijacking US-bound commercial airliners. . . . The hijacked air- craft were to be crashed into structures in the United States, including the World Trade Center, the White House, Pentagon, the Transamerica Tower in San Francisco and the Sears Tower in Chicago."
■ 1998 August: CIA intelligence reports that Arab terrorists are planning to fly a bomb-laden aircraft into the WTC (World Trade Center).
■ 2001 before August: US intelligence agencies give copious warnings to the US government of possible terrorist attacks by al Qaeda and other groups against American targets, including commercial aircraft. ■ 2001, July: US and Italian officials were warned that Islamic terrorists might attempt to kill President Bush and other leaders by crashing an airliner into the Genoa summit of industrialized nations. ■ 2001 August: New York Times staff writers Richard Serrano and John-Thor Dahlburg reported in an article called "Officials Told of 'Major Assault' Plan":
"FBI and CIA officials were advised in August that as many as 200 terrorists were slipping into this country and planning 'a major assault on the United States,' a high-ranking law enforcement official said Wednesday. ■ 2001 September: a 29-year old Iranian phoned US police before September 11th from his German deportation cell to warn of the planned attack on the World Trade Center. The Muslim community across the world was aware of the possibility of a terrorist attack against major US targets. ■2001 September 11: Muslim fundamentalists apparently crashed three hijacked commercial airliners into the "twin towers" at the World Trade Center complex and the Pentagon.
■ 2001 September 13: Michael Duffy writing in Time magazine (October 15, 2001) in an article called "War on All Fronts," quoted Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld warning America that the coming conflict will:
■ 2001September 15: President Bush told the American people in a radio address that:
First, that US and other Western governments were acutely aware of the threat of jetliners-as-bombs. ■ 1993 February: Arab Fundamentalists bombed the World Trade Center complex. The explosion in the basement of the World Trade Center killed six people, wounded 1000, and the structures sustained a half-billion dollars damage. ■ An FBI informant called Emad A. Salem had warned his handlers that an Arab Fundamentalist terrorist group planned to bomb the "twin towers" at the World Trade Center. (2) In the book Study of Revenge: Saddam Hussein's Unfinished War Against America (2000 Dr. Laurie Mylroie claims that both Jim Fox, former FBI Supervisor in New York, and James Woolsey, former Director of the CIA, believed Saddam Hussein was responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Moreover, why was Saddam Hussein not punished immediately after the attack?
■ 1995: Former President Clinton and his security chiefs repeatedly scorned vital intelligence that would have destroyed numerous worldwide terror cells, especially Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. In August, a CIA intelligence report asserts that Arab terrorists are planning to fly a bomb-laden aircraft into the WTC.
■ 1998-2000: spies in Afghanistan report bin Laden's location on three occasions. Each time, Clinton approves an attack and each time, the CIA Director says the attack can not go forward
President Bush ordered the FBI to "back off" from investigating Abdullah bin Laden, the Saudi royals, and the World Association of Muslim Youth (WAMY), a front for Islamic terrorism who openly extols the virtues and ideals of Osama bin Laden in their education pamphlets. Bin Laden apparently provided Mitchell with "precise information" regarding "an imminent attack" on the US. Congress and the justice department were not interested in receiving Schippers' information of impending terrorist attacks. ■ 2001 September 10: "Newsweek reports (9/24/01) that a group of top Pentagon officials suddenly cancelled travel plans for the next morning, the day of the "9/11" attack, apparently because of security concerns."
Pentagon officials therefore knew the time and locations of the imminent attack as well as the method of using jetliners-as-bombs.
George Walker Bush, the President of the United States
■ 2001 September 11: Hours after the "9/11" attacks; a "shadow government" is formed around the President. ■ 2001 September 13-19: Bin Laden's family living in America are taken under FBI supervision to a secret assembly point and leave the country on a private charter plane when airports reopen three days after the attacks.
You're not going to believe what state I was in when I heard about the terrorist attack. ■ 2002 October 27: Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld recommends the creation of a super-intelligence body that would launch secret operations to "stimulate reactions" among terrorists and states owning weapons of mass destruction. It would prod terrorists into action to force "quick-response" attacks by US.
An event that has enormous ramifications for not only America but also the whole world. Waleed Al Shehri, a Saudi Arabian pilot, was named by the FBI as one of the suicide pilot who had crashed American Airlines flight 11 into the World Trade Centre. My son called me the day after the attacks on September 12 at around midday. The scenario painted by the US Government and its lackeys in the press is that a group of nineteen Islamic fundamentalists with an abiding hatred of America carried out an audacious and outrageous attack on the symbols of US power and prestige. Moreover, what help they got was from foreign nationals and rogue states with an equally abiding hatred of the "Great Satan" that is America. The team of eminent architects designed the World Trade Center to withstand the direct impact and fuel fire of a commercial airline crash. It is certainly nowhere near high enough to even begin explaining the World Trade Center Tower collapse. The evidence showing that explosive devices demolished the World Trade Center towers is compelling. Various witnesses and survivors reported hearing bombs going off inside the World Trade Center. Manning understood this and wrote despairingly:
The New York Times reported that:
"FEMA is controlling everything," the team member said."
Controlled Demolition is indeed controlled …. by the US Government ……..
One of them was the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA):
"Central Intelligence Agency's clandestine New York station was destroyed in Sept 11 attack on World Trade Center, seriously disrupting US intelligence operations; station was in 7 World Trade Center, one of smaller office towers destroyed in aftermath of collapse of twin towers; all CIA employees at site were safely evacuated; agency immediately dispatched special team to scour rubble in search of secret documents and intelligence reports stored in station"
Evidence destruction of course may be part of the reason but the primary reason was the psychological and emotional manipulation of the American people into supporting future wars that if proposed before "9/11" would have met with stiff opposition. Would the American people have supported the adventure in Afghanistan or the invasion of Iraq, Syria and Iran if the bogeyman of radical Islam and "weapons of mass destruction" supposedly held by Muslim rogue states had not been raised?
Then, the people who orchestrate these mass psychology exercises are masters of their dark art and understand how easily people wishfully think the best out of every situation, especially when confronted with evidence of high treason from high government officials. So to is the aftermath of this tragedy, when the war drums were beat, the trumpets blasted, and the lumbering beast that is the USA was moved to make war with the Muslim World. The personal tragedy involved with the mass murder of three thousand people notwithstanding, "Black Tuesday" was indeed a dark event in the history of human liberty.
"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."
Omar M. Ahmad, Chairman of the Board of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Islamic conference held in Freemont, California July 1998
Apologists tell us that the fundamentalist Islamic terrorists are wholly unrepresentative of Islam. Moreover, that they are terrorists committing crimes against humanity, who pervert Islam in a vain attempt to justify the unjustifiable. Islamic apologists tell us that the great majority of Muslims are totally opposed to the terrorist atrocities carried out by co-religionists. Muslims danced in the streets of the West Bank towns and in Gaza when they heard the news of attacks on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon. They danced in parts of Lebanon while in Baghdad, state television played a song "Down with America" as the World Trade Centre towers collapsed. It was also well documented phenomenon throughout the World and in certain cities in the West that classes of students and children of the Muslim faith cheered and punched the air in glee at news of the World Trade Center tragedy while making fun of the American national anthem. Nothing in the history or the culture of Arabs and Muslims allows them to put this peculiarly Western experience into any form of political practice. From the dawn of Islam, the Muslim World has been subject to a theocratic system, a cast-iron absolute system, in which the ruler does as he pleases, and the rest have no redress. There is virtually an absence of processes of compromise at all levels of Islamic society: Islam is not and never will be fertile ground for democracy. In the absence of processes of compromise at any level of society, it is not coincidences that throughout the history of Islam despots have ruled the Muslim World. If Secular Muslims live in Muslim countries, only the bravest of them will dare say what they really think of resurrected pure pristine Islam, for fear of persecution and assassination. From time to time, Islamic Fundamentalists threaten to overthrow their secular rulers, which invariably produce ghastly tests of strength between the two. The hatred of the ordinary Muslim for the West ultimately derives from his deep conviction that Allah lives through the Koran and that this book tells him to hate and destroy that, which is not Islam. However, the flagrant injustice and violence of daily Muslim life in Muslim states exacerbate this hatred. The peculiar position of the Muslim, one foot in the past and one in the present, under absolute conformity to Allah or unfettered freedom offer by the West, causes great tension within the psyche of the modern Muslim. The terrorists took great care in the selection of their targets: the World Trade Centre stood as a symbol of American success, just as the Pentagon symbolises its military might. The terrorists cannot make aircraft, but in their attack, they also took great care to convert American technology into an instrument against America. Moreover, that it is now time for Americans to suffer, in the eyes of the world but especially the Muslim World, the shame and humiliation oppressing them and their like. Apologists of Islam state that Islam is a tolerant religion, but neglect the caveat that this tolerance exists only in Western countries; it is most certainly not tolerant on its own home ground. Christian churches if allowed to operate are forbidden to call themselves churches. In Muslim World, the Christian Church is secretly hated but indulged because of geopolitical realities and fear of retribution if this secret desire is satisfied. The fact of the matter of mass Muslim migration and the presence of large minorities of Muslims throughout the Western world is that are large proportion of these is not prepared to adapt to Western way of life. The enacting of immigration laws throughout the West by its corrupt liberal governments crudely interrupted this certainty and changed Western culture forever.
The history of immigration acts pushed through the parliaments and senates of the Western world after the Second World War, and to the great dismay of the vast majority, are a shameful betrayal of the inheritance of the Western people whose forbears sacrificed so much to secure. This seemingly irresistible force is the true temporal government of this world, the Shadow Government, the secret cabal of very powerful men who have the leaders of the world, the Bushes and Blairs, dancing on the end of strings.
Multiculturalism is one of the most potent weapons in the armoury of the Globalists in their battle to destroy nations and peoples, but especially Western nations, in readiness for their long-planned and their eagerly awaited New World Order.
The great obstacle to One World Government is the human propensity to nationalism and patriotism predicated on ancient tribal loyalty and tribal blood-consciousness centred upon the folk-soul. The exoteric expressions of this ancient Brotherhood of Evil are such political power structures as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Royal Institute for International Affairs, the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderbergers. These modern, seemingly secular, affair" concerned with "international affairs" are in truth mechanisms of control, influence and corruption to undermine sovereignty, nationalism and patriotism of all nations and peoples by promoting all things that foster "internationalism" and ""Globalism."." The ruling class of America, the UK and most Western nations are a small band of people who have control of the political, corporate, financial spheres; they also effectively control public and academic discourse as well. "As one individual may be morally incapable, without moral self-command, without moral power, so may a whole state."
Every aspect of western civilisation has been impacted by these doctrines, beliefs and philosophies so much so that the modern world is indeed in an advanced state of decay. A most powerful and persuasive force is committed to a campaign of world wide revolution by destroying the existing order. This force manifests in countless ways but each one is designed to advance the ancient agenda for World Empire. A prerequisite of this agenda is the destruction of Natural Moral Order on Earth, by bringing the world into moral and physical chaos, but especially the Western world founded on the morality arising from Christianity. Simultaneously it seeks to impose on the whole world a "solution" to the chaos it has caused which is the "new world order," a totalitarian world government predicated on tyranny. The Humanist Agenda is the corrosive power that is dissolving the ancient social cement binding Western civilisation together. The ultimate aim is to create a multicultural society, to destroy the will of Western nations and tribes to resist, by playing one group or "community" against another thereby controlling them all, while irrevocably changing Western society. Why should this powerful force (some call it the Shadow Government, the Anglo-American Establishment or the Illuminati) want the destruction of Western civilisation? Because it wants to destroy the ancient moral order and resurrect from its shattered parts a New World Order with its One World Government and One World Religion. The creation of a New World Order is the ancient dream of secret societies throughout the ages and many people throughout history have worked to bring this diabolic scheme to fruition. Consequently, this ancient agenda for World Empire that had remained a closely guarded secret of the occult societies for centuries has now become an "Open Conspiracy." There are now a plethora of sources referring to this movement towards Global Governance, called variously "internationalism," "Globalism," "New World Order," "One World Government," "New Age Religion," "United Nations," "International Community" etc., etc. "The world is reeling from the impact of the recent invasion of Iraq by American and British forces. The world, too, awaits the emergence of Maitreya to show men the way ... They will make accord with their brothers and sisters throughout the world, and in unison, inspired by Maitreya, they will bring justice, and therefore peace, to the waiting world."
Two Word Wars were planned and precipitated by the secret societies to further this move towards the New World Order the third they believe will deliver them total victory on Earth in their war with God. The wicked and evil people behind the Evil Agenda have carefully nurtured the United States of America to be the main economic and military vehicle of this assault on the Natural Moral Order on Earth. It is the watchword of the secret societies that brought Europe to its knees in two World Wars, as it is the watchword of the same secret power that is working to bring the whole world into chaos in the long-planned Third World War.
The New World Order has two aspects to it: the secular which is contained in the idea of the One World Government and the spiritual that is contained in the idea of the One World Religion. Although the vast majority of Westerners have lost faith in God, the wicked and evil people behind the move towards the New World Order have not lost faith in their gods. The people who are behind the move towards the New World Order, the Humanist Agenda, the "New Age," "Globalism," the United Nations and the plethora of other organisations promoting "internationalism" are very powerful men who serve a different god than the God of the Bible. They are Luciferians and Satanists who work to bring about conditions in the world that will be propitious for the incarnation of their gods on earth. Although the majority of mankind has lost knowledge of its spiritual inheritance, the very powerful men and women who rule the world have never lost theirs. The spiritual force that energises the people who rule the world is Evil and the Dark Gods, Lucifer and Ahriman are at its head. Evil is twofold it has two faces: these are dark spirits of immense power, who are called Ahriman and Lucifer. For, they are the Dark Gods, Ahriman and Lucifer, who ultimately seek the Crown of Creation itself. Two spirits of immense power, the Dark Gods, Lucifer and Satan, who is called Ahriman, head the ancient spirituality that opposes God. The wicked and evil people who are the human agents of influence in this assault on Natural Moral Order on Earth worship these Dark Gods and work to bring about conditions propitious for the New World Order with Lucifer and Ahriman at its head. It is in effect controlled chaos: from the micro-managed event, such as an assassination of a President, to the macro-managed events such as a World War. The history of the world is littered with the corpses of nations and empires that took this course. Any honest student of history understands this reality. It is also, why the wicked and evil people who seek to create this New World Order have commanded their placemen in government, the media, the universities, the "think tanks," the "great tax-exempt foundations" to control public and academic discourse, to promote specious social theories and stifle debate, and work to destroy Western culture in whatever and by whatever means. Key to this plan is the destruction of the ancient tribal bloodlines and folk souls of the peoples who forged Western civilisation. Civic society is founded on laws based on shared values, and any state has the right to intervene to protect them. Behind the move to World Government are various groups, both exoteric and occult, which are described variously by different commentators as, for instance, internationalists, Globalists, the Global Elite, the Shadow Government, the Anglo-American Establishment or the Illuminati. Whatever one chooses to call this cabal working in the shadows to bring about global governance, the great obstacle to its plan is the concept of the sovereign nation state. This concept has to be destroyed before the majority of humanity adopts One World Government. The great weapon used by this secretive cabal in their assault on the sovereign nation state is multiculturalism and a primary component of this is Muslims and Islam.
Powell's now infamous speech to, which The Times called in an editorial titled "An Evil Speech,"
"Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. It is this contempt for the West that was, for instance, behind the inauguration in 1992 by Dr Kalim Siddiqui of The Muslim Parliament of Great Britain whose avowed aim was a radical new sort of Muslim political organisation for minority Muslim communities living the West: a "minority political system for Muslims in Britain" and a "non-territorial Islamic state". "I'm a Muslim who happens to live in Britain. My allegiance is to Allah and the religion he brought down, Islam."
The ethos to fight America not just on American soil, not just in the Middle East, but everywhere was inspired by the secret initiatives and funding of the crucial components of modern Islamic terror by Western intelligence agencies and their proxies. For the presence of millions of Muslims in the West, their barely concealed hatred and rancour for the West, the creation of modern Islamic terror and the attack on Islam by the West (the war in Afghanistan, Iraq and the future conflicts with Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia) are part of the meticulous plan to subvert Western civilisation. The attack on the WTC and Pentagon was indeed a dark event in the history of human liberty. Why was the destruction wrought by unknown agencies blamed on Islamic terrorists that by doing so constituted an apparent declaration of war by Islam on the United States, on the hub of the world economy, on the Jewish people, on Zionist State of Israel and on Western civilisation? Especially, if these unknown agencies understood that such an act of aggression would oblige the free world to respond to this challenge, if these same unknown agencies understood that the people of America would not tolerate such an assault on their peaceful way of life.
A belief derived form an instinctive sense that geography somehow isolated the United States from the tumult of the world. This new land called America, an optimistic country where only the optimists went. For with the supposed Muslim inspired and led attacks, involving suicide crashes hitting America at the centre of its wealth and - in the Pentagon - at the epicentre of its military power, it now appeared that the outside world is doing to Americans what was once thought inconceivable. Muslim suicide missions are nothing new. The founder and spiritual leader of the Ashishin was Hasan ibn al-Sabah who from his mountain stronghold spread terror across the Muslim world. This power was only broken by the determined efforts of Muslim states, which not only feared for their continued existence but also believed it was doing enormous damage to the Islamic faith.
Democracy literally means government by the people as a whole rather than by any section, class or interest within. In general terms, democracy is the political orientation of those who favour government by the people or by their elected representatives and a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them. Democracy is thus either "direct" or "representative" government. This then is "democratic government." The shear scale of modern society precludes "direct" government by the people. Modern Western civilisation has thus developed a form of government best described as "constitutional democracy." The people are not threatened with arbitrary arrest and imprisonment
The people have universal suffrage and elections to select "representatives."
Change of government according to the majority vote, that is, the "will" of the "people"
The second enemy of democracy are those who profess to favour the principles of democracy but assert that they are inadequate for the modern world. In most modern dictionaries, "Republic" is usually defined as political system whose head of state is not a monarch and in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them. In short, a Republic is a government of elected representatives. "REPUBLIC, n. In short, the power of government arises from the people and that government operates within and in accordance with strict laws and regulations. Moreover, that because of this restriction on personal abuse of elected office, Republic is a form of limited government operating on the authority of "We the people." In this sense, the Constitution is not only the grant of authority for the US government but also it is the Law of the People for the control of the government.
The 32nd President of the United States who worked to betray his nation to the ambition of the secret societies, of which he was a member, which is to bring about a New World Order with its One World Government and One World Religion. The Globalists want to foster this confusion because they understand all too well that the Republic is an almost insurmountable obstacle to bringing about One World Government and has to be destroyed. In contrast, Democracies are the stepping-stones to tyranny: all thinking people and tyrants understand this. Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States; chief drafter of the Declaration of Independence:
John Adams, 2nd President of the United States (1815):
Remember, democracy never lasts long. James Madison, 4th President of the United States, Federalist Paper #10 (1787)
Wells was an ardent socialist of the Fabian persuasion and so wrote from this perspective and was thus an advocate of and defender of Big Government –of World Government- with democratic methods; Moreover, World Government established by gradual reforms within the law, by avoiding direct confrontation and using cautious slow strategy to wear down any opposition. Tyrants also understand the corrupt and corruptible nature of men and democracy: for instance, Karl Marx, Rothschild crony and supposed founder of modern Communism:
Mikhail Gorbachev, former KGB chief and dictator of Soviet Russia in Perestroika - New Thinking for Our Country and the World:
Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence. To repeat: the United States of America is not a democracy but a Republic.
"Democracy
1. A government of masses.
Republic
1. Authority is derived through the election by the people of public officials best fitted to represent them.
Consequently, those who work to establish World Empire understood immediately that the destruction of this great obstacle was a prerequisite of their secret agenda. For the New World Order to become a reality, national sovereignty, both the idea and actuality, had to be destroyed and because the United States of America is its last great expression then this bastion of freedom was the prime target of organised Evil behind the ancient agenda to establish World Empire. That is why the great experiment in human governance predicated on the Natural Moral Order, gifted to humanity by God and preserved for two centuries by the Constitution and Bill of Rights, has been subjected to remorseless subversion by those working to build a World Empire. The subtle non-human genius behind this Evil Agenda has used the industrious invention, power; might, ingenuity, magnanimity, innocence and arrogance of America to greatly accelerate the creation of the New World Order while simultaneously destroying the essence of America: "the land of the free and home of the brave" that was verily the beacon of hope for the dispossessed of the world. The evil and wicked architects of the agenda for World Empire understood that the spirituality that underpinned the establishment of America was that which underpinned Western civilisation, which is of course the Christ Impulse released from the Cross at Calvary. The majority of the Founding Fathers of America were Christians who used the Natural Moral Order described in such breathtaking ways in the Bible as the source and inspiration for their philosophical justifications of the sovereign state they created that was the United States of America. In short, the United States of America was founded as a Constitutional Republic of Sovereign States based upon Biblical principles and whose supreme law of the land was contained in the inspired document called the "Constitution of the United States" but ultimately that wisdom and truth found in "The Declaration of Independence." What one must understand in this great spiritual battle now raging about this Earth is the central role of the United States of America in the unfolding events in these End Times. That the ethos of the Founding Fathers of America was Christian; that the Natural Moral Order instilled into the idea of the Republic came from God and contained in the Bible; that the Constitution and Bill of Rights contain the Christian ideal of proper human governance; that sovereignty and personal freedoms are assured by this arrangement were all sufficient to make America the prime target of the wicked and evil leaders of the ancient, secret agenda for the establishment of a World Empire. A global governance based upon principles inimical to those arising from Natural Moral Order and personified by the idea that was the United States of America founded as a Constitutional Republic of Sovereign States: a World Empire predicated on tyranny and not the rule of law inspired by the Christ Impulse released from the Cross at Calvary. The Cult of Evil has been a perennial presence in the history of mankind that has worked ceaselessly to destroy God's moral order and rule on Earth. The Cult of Evil is the "hidden hand" behind much of what is called "History" and whose ultimate goal is world hegemony. The Cult of Evil is the ancient secret society dedicated to the worship of Evil that has gained almost total command over the secular affairs of the world because of its control over the secret societies, of which Freemasonry is its grandest expression, and through this, control over the vital organs of the modern world, especially the mass media, the political process, the intelligence agencies, the military and banking. Furthermore, people from other regions and cultures were welcomed and were free to practice their religion; however the predominant faith of America was Christianity. Yet there has been an orchestrated, organised effort to destroy the pristine nature of the United States of America founded as a Constitutional Republic of Sovereign States just as there has been an ancient orchestrated, organised effort to destroy Natural Moral Order on Earth. Most thinking people who understand these things can trace the history of this subversion with depressing ease. The main agent of the destruction of the United States as a Constitutional Republic is the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) an organisation integral to the projection of the power and aims of the Anglo-American Establishment and a cabal of people who are the de facto rulers of America. "The people elected and appointed to manage the affairs of the United States Government have in large measure become puppets, controlled by powerful persons working in and through a network of tax-exempt organizations. In short, the Council on Foreign Relations is the invisible government of the United States. The Council on Foreign Relations is a major front organisation of the power structure that rules the world today. The power behind the Council on Foreign Relations is hidden from public scrutiny and has been called a variety of names such as the Anglo-American Establishment, The Eastern Establishment, The Power Elite, The Ruling Class, Our Unelected Government, America's Invisible Government, The Secret Government, The Shadow Government, and The Military Industrial Complex while some referred to it simply as Wall Street. A power that has for the past century promoted wars and revolutions in pursuit of its goal of creating a New Social Order… the New World Order with its One World Government and One World Religion.
A power that has perforce sought to destroy the Old World Order, which is Western civilisation and the spirituality upon which its was founded- Christianity. And thus a power that has had in its sights the destruction of the United States of America as a Constitutional Republic of Sovereign States founded on Biblical principles. Professor Quigley in his influential book, Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in our Time (1966) describes how Rhodes organised a secret society for this purpose:
The Round Table Groups were semi-secret discussion and lobbying groups. . . . The original purpose of these groups was to seek to federate the English-speaking world along lines laid down by Cecil Rhodes. . . . It is the power structure that researchers of the calibre of Professors Carroll Quigley and Antony C. Sutton called the Anglo-American Establishment. It is however in effect the exoteric expression of the occult agenda of the secret society that rules the temporal affairs of this world. Primarily is the control it has gained over the political process and the mass media. The secret unelected rulers of the West…
To find the true source of the power behind the drive for World Empire one must look to the secret societies and then to their source, which is spiritual power… of a very peculiar kind.
What most commentators on the subject of the New World Order fail utterly to understand is the spiritual nature of the conspiracy. Any account of the phenomenon of the New World Order that leaves out the spiritual aspect is a flawed explanation at best that can only offer a partial and incomplete picture of the ancient Evil Agenda for World Empire. An ancient agenda of Evil that is the Great Conspiracy against God, Nature and mankind, which has been ever present throughout history. Furthermore, these flawed accounts name or accuse peoples, races, groups, organisations and dynastic families as the sole perpetrators or co-conspirators in the move to create World Empire. The forces behind the Great Conspiracy are spiritual powers and principalities that are called 'evil' by all that understand their proper nature and intentions. To find the true source of the power behind the drive for World Empire one must look to the dark Empire of the Secret Societies and then to their source, which is a spiritual power of a very peculiar kind. For, Evil is twofold, it comprises two contrasting Powers or Principalities, called in the Bible Lucifer and Satan, who are the dual faces of Evil. Lucifer and Satan (Ahriman) who are spirits of immense power and who are the Dark Gods of Evil, the true Lords of Power, who are behind every act inimical to Natural Moral Order on Earth for they truly desire to filch control of Creation and if this fails, then to crash it to the ground. Lucifer and Satan are very different spirits united in a diabolical lese majesty against God. Evil Powers have worked assiduously to ensnare mankind in a web of delusion and illusion whereby the spirit worlds are cloaked from its vision and terrestrial man is thereby isolated for eternity from the gods. Evil powers are the forces of Chaos that gain from man's spiritual impoverishment and the denial of his spiritual inheritance. They gain in strength by draining mankind of his innate spiritual powers. These Evil Powers are masters of cunning. The Overlords of Chaos, the Dark Gods of Evil, working to overthrow God and to strike down Nature are unremitting and diligent in their aim. They work ceaselessly in all spheres of existence and at all times to corrupt Nature and mankind. The Evil Agenda, the Great Conspiracy, encompasses many centuries and many generations, for its human adherents are worshippers of the Dark Gods, the Evil Powers, of Lucifer and of Satan who are truly the Overlords of Chaos. These human disciples of Evil do not deny the spiritual world; on the contrary, they worship gods in it: but what they worship are the Dark Gods who desire to tear down Creation. The human agents of Evil are the first to sneer and ridicule those who worship God or Christ because they are agents of deception who desire to cloak the higher spiritual realities from the masses. The unholy trinity that blasphemes against God and Creation are known by different names by different peoples and different times. Most people know the two main protagonists in this cabal as Lucifer and Satan; the third evil spirit is called Sorath, the sun demon. Lucifer and Satan are the powerful Evil spirits that have manifested through history in different guises. They represent the dual face of Evil that confronts mankind. The Beast is therefore the Evil spirit that the Bible often calls Satan and who was known to the Ancient Iranians as Angra Mainyu, the Evil Spirit or the Evil One of the Avestic or Zoroastrian religion. The first describes the Luciferic power; the second describes the Ahrimanic power. The insidious relationship between these two Evil Powers is this: the Luciferic power assails man in his inward life whereas the cold calculating Ahrimanic corruption acts through the social evil in the impersonal relationships of modern civilisation. It is the social evil working to corrupt the impersonal relationships between individuals, groups, and nations. Man separated from his true spiritual inheritance is prey to the inducements of the two Evil powers. The Evil forces at work in modern society have remorselessly attacked ancient morality that has sustained humanity and steered it away from the spiritual abyss. The alliance between the two Evil powers is not static. Consequently, the world had entered the time of the 'balance of terror' and Mutually Assured Destruction, a period in the world's history the prophet John the Divine called the 'Age of the Pale Horse'. The apparent ideological divide after the Second World War created the tensions that fuelled the mass paranoia called the 'Cold War'. The tenor of both systems is control of its people using the most modern computer technology to do so. The power to control the masses is derived from each of the Evil principalities. It served the purposes of the Evil hierarchy to have the 'ideal' socialist state as a belligerent to the 'free' world thereby creating the contrived tension of the specious 'Cold War'. It is nothing less than treason against God and Nature. The Great Conspiracy necessitates humanity marooned in the world of matter, wholly unaware of its natural spiritual inheritance.

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The Book of Enoch

The Book of Enoch

translated from Ethiopic by Richard Laurence,
London, 1883.

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Chapter 1

1The word of the blessing of Enoch, how he blessed the elect and the righteous, who were to exist in the time of trouble; rejecting all the wicked and ungodly. Enoch, a righteous man, who was (1) with God, answered and spoke, while his eyes were open, and while he saw a holy vision in the heavens. This the angels showed me.

(1) N.B. The italicized words supply a gap in the text.

2From them I heard all things, and understood what I saw; that which will not take place in this generation, but in a generation which is to succeed at a distant period, on account of the elect.

3Upon their account I spoke and conversed with him, who will go forth from his habitation, the Holy and Mighty One, the God of the world:

4Who will hereafter tread upon Mount Sinai; appear with his hosts; and be manifested in the strength of his power from heaven.

5All shall be afraid, and the Watchers be terrified.

6Great fear and trembling shall seize them, even to the ends of the earth. The lofty mountains shall be troubled, and the exalted hills depressed, melting like a honeycomb in the flame. The earth shall be immerged, and all things which are in it perish; while judgment shall come upon all, even upon all the righteous:

7But to them shall he give peace: he shall preserve the elect, and towards them exercise clemency.

8Then shall all belong to God; be happy and blessed; and the splendour of the Godhead shall illuminate them.

Chapter 2

1Behold, he comes with ten thousands of his saints, to execute judgment upon them, and destroy the wicked, and reprove all the carnal for everything which the sinful and ungodly have done, and committed against him. (2)

(2) Quoted by Jude, vss. 14, 15.

Chapter 3

1All who are in the heavens know what is transacted there.

2They know that the heavenly luminaries change not their paths; that each rises and sets regularly, every one at its proper period, without transgressing the commands, which they have received. The behold the earth, and understand what is there transacted, from the beginning to the end of it.

3They see that every work of God is invariable in the period of its appearance. They behold summer and winter: perceiving that the whole earth is full of water; and that the cloud, the dew, and the rain refresh it.

Chapter 4

1They consider and behold every tree, how it appears to wither, and every leaf to fall off, except of fourteen trees, which are not deciduous; which wait from the old, to the appearance of the new leaf, for two or three winters.

Chapter 5

1Again they consider the days of summer, that the sun is upon it at its very beginning; while you seek for a covered and shady spot on account of the burning sun; while the earth is scorched up with fervid heat, and you become incapable of walking either upon the ground or upon the rocks in consequence of that heat.

Chapter 6

1They consider how the trees, when they put forth their green leaves, become covered, and produce fruit; understanding everything, and knowing that He who lives for ever does all these things for you:

2That the works at the beginning of every existing year, that all his works, are subservient to him, and invariable; yet as God has appointed, so are all things brought to pass.

3They see, too, how the seas and the rivers together complete their respective operations:

4But you endure not patiently, nor fulfill the commandments of the Lord; but you transgress and calumniate his greatness; and malignant are the words in your polluted mouths against his Majesty.

5You withered in heart, no peace shall be to you!

6Therefore your days shall you curse, and the years of your lives shall perish; perpetual execration shall be multiplied, and you shall not obtain mercy.

7In those days shall you resign your peace with the eternal maledictions of all the righteous, and sinners shall perpetually execrate you;

8Shall execrate you with the ungodly.

9The elect shall possess light, joy, and peace; and they shall inherit the earth.

10But you, you unholy, shall be accursed.

11Then shall wisdom be given to the elect, all of whom shall live, and not again transgress by impiety or pride; but shall humble themselves, possessing prudence, and shall not repeat transgression.

12They shall not be condemned the whole period of their lives, not die in torment and indignation; but the sum of their days shall be completed, and they shall grow old in peace; while the years of their happiness shall be multiplied with joy, and with peace, for ever, the whole duration of their existence.

Chapter 7

1It happened after the sons of men had multiplied in those days, that daughters were born to them, elegant and beautiful.

2And when the angels, (3) the sons of heaven, beheld them, they became enamoured of them, saying to each other, Come, let us select for ourselves wives from the progeny of men, and let us beget children.

(3) An Aramaic text reads "Watchers" here (J.T. Milik, Aramaic Fragments of Qumran Cave 4 [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976], p. 167).

3Then their leader Samyaza said to them; I fear that you may perhaps be indisposed to the performance of this enterprise;

4And that I alone shall suffer for so grievous a crime.

5But they answered him and said; We all swear;

6And bind ourselves by mutual execrations, that we will not change our intention, but execute our projected undertaking.

7Then they swore all together, and all bound themselves by mutual execrations. Their whole number was two hundred, who descended upon Ardis, (4) which is the top of mount Armon.

(4) Upon Ardis. Or, "in the days of Jared" (R.H. Charles, ed. and trans., The Book of Enoch [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1893], p. 63).

8That mountain therefore was called Armon, because they had sworn upon it, (5) and bound themselves by mutual execrations.

(5) Mt. Armon, or Mt. Hermon, derives its name from the Hebrew word herem, a curse (Charles, p. 63).

9These are the names of their chiefs: Samyaza, who was their leader, Urakabarameel, Akibeel, Tamiel, Ramuel, Danel, Azkeel, Saraknyal, Asael, Armers, Batraal, Anane, Zavebe, Samsaveel, Ertael, Turel, Yomyael, Arazyal. These were the prefects of the two hundred angels, and the remainder were all with them. (6)

(6) The Aramaic texts preserve an earlier list of names of these Watchers: Semihazah; Artqoph; Ramtel; Kokabel; Ramel; Danieal; Zeqiel; Baraqel; Asael; Hermoni; Matarel; Ananel; Stawel; Samsiel; Sahriel; Tummiel; Turiel; Yomiel; Yhaddiel (Milik, p. 151).

10Then they took wives, each choosing for himself; whom they began to approach, and with whom they cohabited; teaching them sorcery, incantations, and the dividing of roots and trees.

11And the women conceiving brought forth giants, (7)

(7) The Greek texts vary considerably from the Ethiopic text here. One Greek manuscript adds to this section, "And they [the women] bore to them [the Watchers] three races–first, the great giants. The giants brought forth [some say "slew"] the Naphelim, and the Naphelim brought forth [or "slew"] the Elioud. And they existed, increasing in power according to their greatness." See the account in the Book of Jubilees.

12Whose stature was each three hundred cubits. These devoured all which the labor of men produced; until it became impossible to feed them;

13When they turned themselves against men, in order to devour them;

14And began to injure birds, beasts, reptiles, and fishes, to eat their flesh one after another, (8) and to drink their blood.

(8) Their flesh one after another. Or, "one another’s flesh." R.H. Charles notes that this phrase may refer to the destruction of one class of giants by another (Charles, p. 65).

15Then the earth reproved the unrighteous.

Chapter 8

1Moreover Azazyel taught men to make swords, knives, shields, breastplates, the fabrication of mirrors, and the workmanship of bracelets and ornaments, the use of paint, the beautifying of the eyebrows, the use of stones of every valuable and select kind, and all sorts of dyes, so that the world became altered.

2Impiety increased; fornication multiplied; and they transgressed and corrupted all their ways.

3Amazarak taught all the sorcerers, and dividers of roots:

4Armers taught the solution of sorcery;

5Barkayal taught the observers of the stars, (9)

(9) Observers of the stars. Astrologers (Charles, p. 67).

6Akibeel taught signs;

7Tamiel taught astronomy;

8And Asaradel taught the motion of the moon,

9And men, being destroyed, cried out; and their voice reached to heaven.

Chapter 9

1Then Michael and Gabriel, Raphael, Suryal, and Uriel, looked down from heaven, and saw the quantity of blood which was shed on earth, and all the iniquity which was done upon it, and said one to another, It is the voice of their cries;

2The earth deprived of her children has cried even to the gate of heaven.

3And now to you, O you holy one of heaven, the souls of men complain, saying, Obtain Justice for us with (10) the Most High. Then they said to their Lord, the King, You are Lord of lords, God of gods, King of kings. The throne of your glory is for ever and ever, and for ever and ever is your name sanctified and glorified. You are blessed and glorified.

(10) Obtain justice for us with. Literally, "Bring judgment to us from." (Richard Laurence, ed. and trans., The Book of Enoch the Prophet [London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883], p. 9).

4You have made all things; you possess power over all things; and all things are open and manifest before you. You behold all things, and nothing can be concealed from you.

5You have seen what Azazyel has done, how he has taught every species of iniquity upon earth, and has disclosed to the world all the secret things which are done in the heavens.

6Samyaza also has taught sorcery, to whom you have given authority over those who are associated with him. They have gone together to the daughters of men; have lain with them; have become polluted;

7And have discovered crimes (11) to them.

(11) Discovered crimes. Or, "revealed these sins" (Charles, p. 70).

8The women likewise have brought forth giants.

9Thus has the whole earth been filled with blood and with iniquity.

10And now behold the souls of those who are dead, cry out.

11And complain even to the gate of heaven.

12Their groaning ascends; nor can they escape from the unrighteousness which is committed on earth. You know all things, before they exist.

13You know these things, and what has been done by them; yet you do not speak to us.

14What on account of these things ought we to do to them?

Chapter 10

1Then the Most High, the Great and Holy One spoke,

2And sent Arsayalalyur (12) to the son of Lamech,

(12) Arsayalalyur. Here one Greek text reads "Uriel."

3Saying, Say to him in my name, Conceal yourself.

4Then explain to him the consummation which is about to take place; for all the earth shall perish; the waters of a deluge shall come over the whole earth, and all things which are in it shall be destroyed.

5And now teach him how he may escape, and how his seed may remain in all the earth.

6Again the Lord said to Raphael, Bind Azazyel hand and foot; cast him into darkness; and opening the desert which is in Dudael, cast him in there.

7Throw upon him hurled and pointed stones, covering him with darkness;

8There shall he remain for ever; cover his face, that he may not see the light.

9And in the great day of judgment let him be cast into the fire.

10Restore the earth, which the angels have corrupted; and announce life to it, that I may revive it.

11All the sons of men shall not perish in consequence of every secret, by which the Watchers have destroyed, and which they have taught, their offspring.

12All the earth has been corrupted by the effects of the teaching of Azazyel. To him therefore ascribe the whole crime.

13To Gabriel also the Lord said, Go to the biters, (13) to the reprobates, to the children of fornication; and destroy the children of fornication, the offspring of the Watchers, from among men; bring them forth, and excite them one against another. Let them perish by mutual slaughter; for length of days shall not be theirs.

(13) Biters. More accurately, "bastards" (Charles, p. 73; Michael A. Knibb, ed. and trans., The Ethiopic Book of Enoch [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978], p. 88).

14They shall all entreat you, but their fathers shall not obtain their wishes respecting them; for they shall hope for eternal life, and that they may live, each of them, five hundred years.

15To Michael likewise the Lord said, Go and announce his crime to Samyaza, and to the others who are with him, who have been associated with women, that they might be polluted with all their impurity. And when all their sons shall be slain, when they shall see the perdition of their beloved, bind them for seventy generations underneath the earth, even to the day of judgment, and of consummation, until the judgment, the effect of which will last for ever, be completed.

16Then shall they be taken away into the lowest depths of the fire in torments; and in confinement shall they be shut up for ever.

17Immediately after this shall he, (14) together with them, burn and perish; they shall be bound until the consummation of many generations.

(14) He. I.e., Samyaza.

18Destroy all the souls addicted to dalliance, (15) and the offspring of the Watchers, for they have tyrannized over mankind.

(15) Dalliance. Or, "lust" (Knibb, p. 90; cp. Charles, p. 76).

19Let every oppressor perish from the face of the earth;

20Let every evil work be destroyed;

21The plant of righteousness and of rectitude appear, and its produce become a blessing.

22Righteousness and rectitude shall be for ever planted with delight.

23And then shall all the saints give thanks, and live until they have begotten a thousand children, while the whole period of their youth, and their sabbaths shall be completed in peace. In those days all the earth shall be cultivated in righteousness; it shall be wholly planted with trees, and filled with benediction; every tree of delight shall be planted in it.

24In it shall vines be planted; and the vine which shall be planted in it shall yield fruit to satiety; every seed, which shall be sown in it, shall produce for one measure a thousand; and one measure of olives shall produce ten presses of oil.

25Purify the earth from all oppression, from all injustice, from all crime, from all impiety, and from all the pollution which is committed upon it. Exterminate them from the earth.

26Then shall all the children of men be righteous, and all nations shall pay me divine honours, and bless me; and all shall adore me.

27The earth shall be cleansed from all corruption, from every crime, from all punishment, and from all suffering; neither will I again send a deluge upon it from generation to generation for ever.

28In those days I will open the treasures of blessing which are in heaven, that I may cause them to descend upon earth, and upon all the works and labour of man.

29Peace and equity shall associate with the sons of men all the days of the world, in every generation of it.

(No Chapter 11)

Chapter 12

1Before all these things Enoch was concealed; nor did any one of the sons of men know where he was concealed, where he had been, and what had happened.

2He was wholly engaged with the holy ones, and with the Watchers in his days.

3I, Enoch, was blessing the great Lord and King of peace.

4And behold the Watchers called me Enoch the scribe.

5Then the Lord said to me: Enoch, scribe of righteousness, go tell the Watchers of heaven, who have deserted the lofty sky, and their holy everlasting station, who have been polluted with women.

6And have done as the sons of men do, by taking to themselves wives, and who have been greatly corrupted on the earth;

7That on the earth they shall never obtain peace and remission of sin. For they shall not rejoice in their offspring; they shall behold the slaughter of their beloved; shall lament for the destruction of their sons; and shall petition for ever; but shall not obtain mercy and peace.

Chapter 13

1Then Enoch, passing on, said to Azazyel: You shalt not obtain peace. A great sentence is gone forth against you. He shall bind you;

2Neither shall relief, mercy, and supplication be yours, on account of the oppression which you have taught;

3And on account of every act of blasphemy, tyranny, and sin, which you have discovered to the children of men.

4Then departing from him I spoke to them all together;

5And they all became terrified, and trembled;

6Beseeching me to write for them a memorial of supplication, that they might obtain forgiveness; and that I might make the memorial of their prayer ascend up before the God of heaven; because they could not themselves thenceforwards address him, nor raise up their eyes to heaven on account of the disgraceful offence for which they were judged.

7Then I wrote a memorial of their prayer and supplications, for their spirits, for everything which they had done, and for the subject of their entreaty, that they might obtain remission and rest.

8Proceeding on, I continued over the waters of Danbadan, (16) which is on the right to the west of Armon, reading the memorial of their prayer, until I fell asleep.

(16) Danbadan. Dan in Dan (Knibb, p. 94).

9And behold a dream came to me, and visions appeared above me. I fell down and saw a vision of punishment, that I might relate it to the sons of heaven, and reprove them. When I awoke I went to them. All being collected together stood weeping in Oubelseyael, which is situated between Libanos and Seneser, (17) with their faces veiled.

(17) Libanos and Seneser. Lebanon and Senir (near Damascus).

10I related in their presence all the visions which I had seen, and my dream;

11And began to utter these words of righteousness, reproving the Watchers of heaven.

Chapter 14

1This is the book of the words of righteousness, and of the reproof of the Watchers, who belong to the world, (18) according to that which He, who is holy and great, commanded in the vision. I perceived in my dream, that I was now speaking with a tongue of flesh, and with my breath, which the Mighty One has put into the mouth of men, that they might converse with it.

(18) Who belong to the world. Or, "who (are) from eternity" (Knibb, p. 95).

2And understand with the heart. As he has created and given to men the power of comprehending the word of understanding, so has he created and given to me the power of reproving the Watchers, the offspring of heaven. I have written your petition; and in my vision it has been shown me, that what you request will not be granted you as long as the world endures.

3Judgment has been passed upon you: your request will not be granted you.

4From this time forward, never shall you ascend into heaven; He has said, that on the earth He will bind you, as long as the world endures.

5But before these things you shall behold the destruction of your beloved sons; you shall not possess them, but they shall fall before you by the sword.

6Neither shall you entreat for them, not for yourselves;

7But you shall weep and supplicate in silence. The words of the book which I wrote. (19)

(19) But you shall weep…I wrote. Or, "Likewise despite your tears and prayers you will receive nothing whatever contained in the writing which I have written" (Charles, p. 80).

8A vision thus appeared to me.

9Behold, in that vision clouds and a mist invited me; agitated stars and flashes of lightning impelled and pressed me forwards, while winds in the vision assisted my flight, accelerating my progress.

10They elevated me aloft to heaven. I proceeded, until I arrived at a wall built with stones of crystal. A vibrating flame (20) surrounded it, which began to strike me with terror.

(20) Vibrating flame. Literally, "a tongue of fire"

11Into this vibrating flame I entered;

12And drew nigh to a spacious habitation built also with stones of crystal. Its walls too, as well as pavement, were formed with stones of crystal, and crystal likewise was the ground. Its roof had the appearance of agitated stars and flashes of lightning; and among them were cherubim of fire in a stormy sky. (21) A flame burned around its walls; and its portal blazed with fire. When I entered into this dwelling, it was hot as fire and cold as ice. No trace of delight or of life was there. Terror overwhelmed me, and a fearful shaking seized me.

(21) In a stormy sky. Literally, "and their heaven was water" (Charles, p. 81).

13Violently agitated and trembling, I fell upon my face. In the vision I looked.

14And behold there was another habitation more spacious than the former, every entrance to which was open before me, erected in the midst of a vibrating flame.

15So greatly did it excel in all points, in glory, in magnificence, and in magnitude, that it is impossible to describe to you either the splendour or the extent of it.

16Its floor was on fire; above were lightnings and agitated stars, while its roof exhibited a blazing fire.

17Attentively I surveyed it, and saw that it contained an exalted throne;

18The appearance of which was like that of frost; while its circumference resembled the orb of the brilliant sun; and there was the voice of the cherubim.

19From underneath this mighty throne rivers of flaming fire issued.

20To look upon it was impossible.

21One great in glory sat upon it:

22Whose robe was brighter than the sun, and whiter than snow.

23No angel was capable of penetrating to view the face of Him, the Glorious and the Effulgent; nor could any mortal behold Him. A fire was flaming around Him.

24A fire also of great extent continued to rise up before Him; so that not one of those who surrounded Him was capable of approaching Him, among the myriads of myriads (22) who were before Him. To Him holy consultation was needless. Yet did not the sanctified, who were near Him, depart far from Him either by night or by day; nor were they removed from Him. I also was so far advanced, with a veil on my face, and trembling. Then the Lord with his own mouth called me, saying, Approach hither, Enoch, at my holy word.

(22) Myriads of myriads. Ten thousand times ten thousands (Knibb, p. 99).

25And He raised me up, making me draw near even to the entrance. My eye was directed to the ground.

Chapter 15

1Then addressing me, He spoke and said, Hear, neither be afraid, O righteous Enoch, you scribe of righteousness: approach hither, and hear my voice. Go, say to the Watchers of heaven, who have sent you to pray for them, You ought to pray for men, and not men for you.

2Wherefore have you forsaken the lofty and holy heaven, which endures for ever, and have lain with women; have defile yourselves with the daughters of men; have taken to yourselves wives; have acted like the sons of the earth, and have begotten an impious offspring? (23)

(23) An impious offspring. Literally, "giants" (Charles, p. 82; Knibb, p. 101).

3You being spiritual, holy, and possessing a life which is eternal, have polluted yourselves with women; have begotten in carnal blood; have lusted in the blood of men; and have done as those who are flesh and blood do.

4These however die and perish.

5Therefore have I given to them wives, that they might cohabit with them; that sons might be born of them; and that this might be transacted upon earth.

6But you from the beginning were made spiritual, possessing a life which is eternal, and not subject to death for ever.

7Therefore I made not wives for you, because, being spiritual, your dwelling is in heaven.

8Now the giants, who have been born of spirit and of flesh, shall be called upon earth evil spirits, and on earth shall be their habitation. Evil spirits shall proceed from their flesh, because they were created from above; from the holy Watchers was their beginning and primary foundation. Evil spirits shall they be upon earth, and the spirits of the wicked shall they be called. The habitation of the spirits of heaven shall be in heaven; but upon earth shall be the habitation of terrestrial spirits, who are born on earth. (24)

(24) Note the many implications of vss. 3-8 regarding the progeny of evil spirits.

9The spirits of the giants shall be like clouds, (25) which shall oppress, corrupt, fall, content, and bruise upon earth.

(25) The Greek word for "clouds" here, nephelas, may disguise a more ancient reading, Napheleim (Nephilim).

10They shall cause lamentation. No food shall they eat; and they shall be thirsty; they shall be concealed, and shall not (26) rise up against the sons of men, and against women; for they come forth during the days of slaughter and destruction.

(26) Shall not. Nearly all manuscripts contain this negative, but Charles, Knibb, and others believe the "not" should be deleted so the phrase reads "shall rise up."

Chapter 16

1And as to the death of the giants, wheresoever their spirits depart from their bodies, let their flesh, that which is perishable, be without judgment. (27) Thus shall they perish, until the day of the great consummation of the great world. A destruction shall take place of the Watchers and the impious.

(27) Let their flesh…be without judgment. Or, "their flesh shall be destroyed before the judgment" (Knibb, p. 102).

2And now to the Watchers, who have sent you to pray for them, who in the beginning were in heaven,

3Say, In heaven have you been; secret things, however, have not been manifested to you; yet have you known a reprobated mystery.

4And this you have related to women in the hardness of your heart, and by that mystery have women and mankind multiplied evils upon the earth.

5Say to them, Never therefore shall you obtain peace.

Chapter 17

1They raised me up into a certain place, where there was (28) the appearance of a burning fire; and when they pleased they assumed the likeness of men.

(28) Where there was. Or, "where they [the angels] were like" (Knibb, p. 103).

2They carried me to a lofty spot, to a mountain, the top of which reach to heaven.

3And I beheld the receptacles of light and of thunder at the extremities of the place, where it was deepest. There was a bow of fire, and arrows in their quiver, a sword of fire, and every species of lightning.

4Then they elevated me to a babbling stream, (29) and to a fire in the west, which received all the setting of the sun. I came to a river of fire, which flowed like water, and emptied itself into the great sea westwards.

(29) To a babbling stream. Literally, "to water of life, which spoke" (Laurence, p. 23).

5I saw every large river, until I arrived at the great darkness. I went to where all of flesh migrate; and I beheld the mountains of the gloom which constitutes winter, and the place from which issues the water in every abyss.

6I saw also the mouths of all the rivers in the world, and the mouths of the deep.

Chapter 18

1I then surveyed the receptacles of all the winds, perceiving that they contributed to adorn the whole creation, and to preserve the foundation of the earth.

2I surveyed the stone which supports the corners of the earth.

3I also beheld the four winds, which bear up the earth, and the firmament of heaven.

4And I beheld the winds occupying the exalted sky.

5Arising in the midst of heaven and of earth, and constituting the pillars of heaven.

6I saw the winds which turn the sky, which cause the orb of the sun and of all the stars to set; and over the earth I saw the winds which support the clouds.

7I saw the path of the angels.

8I perceived at the extremity of the earth the firmament of heaven above it. Then I passed on towards the south;

9Where burnt, both by day and night, six mountains formed of glorious stones; three towards the east, and three towards the south.

10Those which were towards the east were of a variegated stone; one of which was of margarite, and another of antimony. Those towards the south were of a red stone. The middle one reached to heaven like the throne of God; a throne composed of alabaster, the top of which was of sapphire. I saw, too, a blazing fire hanging over all the mountains.

11And there I saw a place on the other side of an extended territory, where waters were collected.

12I likewise beheld terrestrial fountains, deep in the fiery columns of heaven.

13And in the columns of heaven I beheld fires, which descended without number, but neither on high, nor into the deep. Over these fountains also I perceived a place which had neither the firmament of heaven above it, nor the solid ground underneath it; neither was there water above it; nor anything on wing; but the spot was desolate.

14And there I beheld seven stars, like great blazing mountains, and like spirits entreating me.

15Then the angel said, This place, until the consummation of heaven and earth, will be the prison of the stars, and the host of heaven.

16The stars which roll over fire are those which transgressed the commandment of God before their time arrived; for they came not in their proper season. Therefore was He offended with them, and bound them, until the period of the consummation of their crimes in the secret year.

Chapter 19

1Then Uriel said, Here the angels, who cohabited with women, appointed their leaders;

2And being numerous in appearance (30) made men profane, and caused them to err; so that they sacrificed to devils as to gods. For in the great day there shall be a judgment, with which they shall be judged, until they are consumed; and their wives also shall be judged, who led astray the angels of heaven that they might salute them.

(30) Being numerous in appearance. Or, "assuming many forms" (Knibb, p. 106).

3And I, Enoch, I alone saw the likeness of the end of all things. Nor did any human being see it, as I saw it.

Chapter 20

1These are the names of the angels who watch.

2Uriel, one of the holy angels, who presides over clamor and terror.

3Raphael, one of the holy angels, who presides over the spirits of men.

4Raguel, one of the holy angels, who inflicts punishment on the world and the luminaries.

5Michael, one of the holy angels, who, presiding over human virtue, commands the nations.

6Sarakiel, one of the holy angels, who presides over the spirits of the children of men that transgress.

7Gabriel, one of the holy angels, who presides over Ikisat, (31) over paradise, and over the cherubim.

(31) Ikisat. The serpents (Charles, p. 92; Knibb, p. 107).

Chapter 21

1Then I made a circuit to a place in which nothing was completed.

2And there I beheld neither the tremendous workmanship of an exalted heaven, nor of an established earth, but a desolate spot, prepared, and terrific.

3There, too, I beheld seven stars of heaven bound in it together, like great mountains, and like a blazing fire. I exclaimed, For what species of crime have they been bound, and why have they been removed to this place? Then Uriel, one of the holy angels who was with me, and who conducted me, answered: Enoch, wherefore do you ask; wherefore do you reason with yourself, and anxiously inquire? These are those of the stars which have transgressed the commandment of the most high God; and are here bound, until the infinite number of the days of their crimes be completed.

4From there I afterwards passed on to another terrific place;

5Where I beheld the operation of a great fire blazing and glittering, in the midst of which there was a division. Columns of fire struggled together to the end of the abyss, and deep was their descent. But neither its measurement nor magnitude was I able to discover; neither could I perceive its origin. Then I exclaimed, How terrible is this place, and how difficult to explore!

6Uriel, one of the holy angels who was with me, answered and said: Enoch, why are you alarmed and amazed at this terrific place, at the sight of this place of suffering? This, he said, is the prison of the angels; and here they are kept for ever.

Chapter 22

1From there I proceeded to another spot, where I saw on the west a great and lofty mountain, a strong rock, and four delightful places.

2Internally it was deep, capacious, and very smooth; as smooth as if it had been rolled over: it was both deep and dark to behold.

3Then Raphael, one of the holy angels who were with me, answered and said, These are the delightful places where the spirits, the souls of the dead, will be collected; for them were they formed; and here will be collected all the souls of the sons of men.

4These places, in which they dwell, shall they occupy until the day of judgment, and until their appointed period.

5Their appointed period will be long, even until the great judgment. And I saw the spirits of the sons of men who were dead; and their voices reached to heaven, while they were accusing.

6Then I inquired of Raphael, an angel who was with me, and said, Whose spirit is that, the voice of which reaches to heaven, and accuses?

7He answered, saying, This is the spirit of Abel who was slain by Cain his brother; and who will accuse that brother, until his seed be destroyed from the face of the earth;

8Until his seed perish from the seed of the human race.

9At that time therefore I inquired respecting him, and respecting the general judgment, saying, Why is one separated from another? He answered, Three separations have been made between the spirits of the dead, and thus have the spirits of the righteous been separated.

10Namely, by a chasm, by water, and by light above it.

11And in the same way likewise are sinners separated when they die, and are buried in the earth; judgment not overtaking them in their lifetime.

12Here their souls are separated. Moreover, abundant is their suffering until the time of the great judgment, the castigation, and the torment of those who eternally execrate, whose souls are punished and bound there for ever.

13And thus has it been from the beginning of the world. Thus has there existed a separation between the souls of those who utter complaints, and of those who watch for their destruction, to slaughter them in the day of sinners.

14A receptacle of this sort has been formed for the souls of unrighteous men, and of sinners; of those who have completed crime, and associated with the impious, whom they resemble. Their souls shall not be annihilated in the day of judgment, neither shall they arise from this place. Then I blessed God,

15And said, Blessed by my Lord, the Lord of glory and of righteousness, who reigns over all for ever and for ever.

Chapter 23

1From there I went to another place, towards the west, unto the extremities of the earth.

2Where I beheld a fire blazing and running along without cessation, which intermitted its course neither by day nor by night; but continued always the same.

3I inquired, saying, What is this, which never ceases?

4Then Raguel, one of the holy angels who were with me, answered,

5And said, This blazing fire, which you behold running towards the west, is that of all the luminaries of heaven.

Chapter 24

1I went from there to another place, and saw a mountain of fire flashing both by day and night. I proceeded towards it; and perceived seven splendid mountains, which were all different from each other.

2Their stones were brilliant and beautiful; all were brilliant and splendid to behold; and beautiful was their surface. Three mountains were towards the east, and strengthened by being placed one upon another; and three were towards the south, strengthened in a similar manner. There were likewise deep valleys, which did not approach each other. And the seventh mountain was in the midst of them. In length they all resembled the seat of a throne, and odoriferous trees surrounded them.

3Among these there was a tree of an unceasing smell; nor of those which were in Eden was there one of all the fragrant trees which smelt like this. Its leaf, its flower, and its bark never withered, and its fruit was beautiful.

4Its fruit resembled the cluster of the palm. I exclaimed, Behold! This tree is goodly in aspect, pleasing in its leaf, and the sight of its fruit is delightful to the eye. Then Michael, one of the holy and glorious angels who were with me, and one who presided over them, answered,

5And said: Enoch, why do you inquire respecting the odour of this tree?

6Why are you inquisitive to know it?

7Then I, Enoch, replied to him, and said, Concerning everything I am desirous of instruction, but particularly concerning this tree.

8He answered me, saying, That mountain which you behold, the extent of whose head resembles the seat of the Lord, will be the seat on which shall sit the holy and great Lord of glory, the everlasting King, when he shall come and descend to visit the earth with goodness.

9And that tree of an agreeable smell, not one of carnal odor, there shall be no power to touch, until the period of the great judgment. When all shall be punished and consumed for ever, this shall be bestowed on the righteous and humble. The fruit of the tree shall be given to the elect. For towards the north life shall be planted in the holy place, towards the habitation of the everlasting King.

10Then shall they greatly rejoice and exult in the Holy One. The sweet odor shall enter into their bones; and they shall live a long life on the earth as your forefathers have lived; neither in their days shall sorrow, distress, trouble, and punishment afflict them.

11And I blessed the Lord of glory, the everlasting King, because He has prepared this tree for the saints, formed it, and declared that He would give it to them.

Chapter 25

1From there I proceeded to the middle of the earth, and beheld a happy and fertile spot, which contained branches continually sprouting from the trees which were planted in it. There I saw a holy mountain, and underneath it water on the eastern side, which flowed towards the south. I saw also on the east another mountain as high as that; and between them there were deep, but not wide valleys.

2Water ran towards the mountain to the west of this; and underneath there was likewise another mountain.

3There was a valley, but not a wide one, below it; and in the midst of them were other deep and dry valleys towards the extremity of the three. All these valleys, which were deep, but not side, consisted of a strong rock, with a tree which was planted in them. And I wondered at the rock and at the valleys, being extremely surprised.

Chapter 26

1Then I said, What means this blessed land, all these lofty trees, and the accursed valley between them?

2Then Uriel, one of the holy angels who were with me, replied, This valley is the accursed of the accursed for ever. Here shall be collected all who utter with their mouths unbecoming language against God, and speak harsh things of His glory. Here shall they be collected. Here shall be their territory.

3In the latter days an example of judgment shall be made of them in righteousness before the saints; while those who have received mercy shall for ever, all their days, bless God, the everlasting King.

4And at the period of judgment shall they bless Him for his mercy, as He has distributed it to them. Then I blessed God, addressing myself to Him, and making mention, as was meet, of His greatness.

Chapter 27

1From there I proceeded towards the east to the middle of the mountain in the desert, the level surface only of which I perceived.

2It was full of trees of the seed alluded to; and water leaped down upon it.

3There appeared a cataract composed as of many cataracts both towards the west and towards the east. Upon one side were trees; upon the other water and dew.

Chapter 28

1Then I went to another place from the desert; towards the east of that mountain which I had approached.

2There I beheld choice trees, (32) particularly, those which produce the sweet-smelling opiate, frankincense and myrrh; and trees unlike to each other.

(32) Choice trees. Literally, "trees of judgment" (Laurence, p. 35; Knibb, p. 117).

3And over it, above them, was the elevation of the eastern mountain at no great distance.

Chapter 29

1I likewise saw another place with valleys of water which never wasted,

2Where I perceived a goodly tree, which in smell resembled Zasakinon. (33)

(33) Zasakinon. The mastic tree (Knibb, p. 118).

3And towards the sides of these valleys I perceived cinnamon of a sweet odour. Over them I advanced towards the east.

Chapter 30

1Then I beheld another mountain containing trees, from which water flowed like Neketro, (34) Its name was Sarira, and Kalboneba. (35) And upon this mountain I beheld another mountain, upon which were trees of Alva. (36)

(34) Neketro. A nectar (Knibb, p. 119).
(35) Sarira, and Kalboneba. Styrax and galbanum (Knibb, p. 119).
(36) Alva. Aloe (Knibb, p. 119).

2These trees were full, like almond trees, and strong; and when they produced fruit, it was superior to all redolence.

Chapter 31

1After these things, surveying the entrances of the north, above the mountains, I perceived seven mountains replete with pure nard, odoriferous trees, cinnamon and papyrus.

2From there I passed on above the summits of those mountains to some distance eastwards, and went over the Erythraean sea. (37) And when I was advanced far beyond it, I passed along above the angel Zateel, and arrived at the garden of righteousness. In this garden I beheld, among other trees, some which were numerous and large, and which flourished there.

(37) Erythraean sea. The Red Sea.

3Their fragrance was agreeable and powerful, and their appearance both varied and elegant. The tree of knowledge also was there, of which if any one eats, he becomes endowed with great wisdom.

4It was like a species of the tamarind tree, bearing fruit which resembled grapes extremely fine; and its fragrance extended to a considerable distance. I exclaimed, How beautiful is this tree, and how delightful is its appearance!

5Then holy Raphael, an angel who was with me, answered and said, This is the tree of knowledge, of which your ancient father and your aged mother ate, who were before you; and who, obtaining knowledge, their eyes being opened, and knowing themselves to be naked, were expelled from the garden.

Chapter 32

1From there I went on towards the extremities of the earth; where I saw large beasts different from each other, and birds various in their countenances and forms, as well as with notes of different sounds.

2To the east of these beasts I perceived the extremities of the earth, where heaven ceased. The gates of heaven stood open, and I beheld the celestial stars come forth. I numbered them as they proceeded out of the gate, and wrote them all down, as they came out one by one according to their number. I wrote down their names altogether, their times and their seasons, as the angel Uriel, who was with me, pointed them out to me.

3He showed them all to me, and wrote down an account of them.

4He also wrote down for me their names, their regulations, and their operations.

Chapter 33

1From there I advanced on towards the north, to the extremities of the earth.

2And there I saw a great and glorious wonder at the extremities of the whole earth.

3I saw there heavenly gates opening into heaven; three of them distinctly separated. The northern winds proceeded from them, blowing cold, hail, frost, snow, dew, and rain.

4From one of the gates they blew mildly; but when they blew from the two other gates, it was with violence and force. They blew over the earth strongly.

Chapter 34

1From there I went to the extremities of the world westwards;

2Where I perceived three gates open, as I had seen in the north; the gates and passages through them being of equal magnitude.

Chapter 35

1Then I proceeded to the extremities of the earth southwards; where I saw three gates open to the south, from which issued dew, rain, and wind.

2From there I went to the extremities of heaven eastwards; where I saw three heavenly gates open to the east, which had smaller gates within them. Through each of these small gates the stars of heaven passed on, and proceeded towards the west by a path which was seen by them, and that at every period of their appearance.

3When I beheld them, I blessed; every time in which they appeared, I blessed the Lord of glory, who had made those great and splendid signs, that they might display the magnificence of this works to angels and to the souls of men; and that these might glorify all his works and operations; might see the effect of his power; might glorify the great labour of his hands; and bless him for ever.

(No Chapter 36)

Chapter 37

1The vision which he saw, the second vision of wisdom, which Enoch saw, the son of Jared, the son of Malaleel, the son of Canan, the son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam. This is the commencement of the word of wisdom, which I received to declare and tell to those who dwell upon earth. Hear from the beginning, and understand to the end, the holy things which I utter in the presence of the Lord of spirits. Those who were before us thought it good to speak;

2And let not us, who come after, obstruct the beginning of wisdom. Until the present period never has there been given before the Lord of spirits that which I have received, wisdom according the capacity of my intellect, and according to the pleasure of the Lord of spirits; that which I have received from him, a portion of life eternal.

3And I obtained three parables, which I declared to the inhabitants of the world.

Chapter 38

1Parable the first. When the congregation of the righteous shall be manifested; and sinners be judged for their crimes, and be troubled in the sight of the world;

2When righteousness shall be manifested (38) in the presence of the righteous themselves, who will be elected for their good works duly weighed by the Lord of spirits; and when the light of the righteous and the elect, who dwell on earth, shall be manifested; where will the habitation of sinners be? And where the place of rest for those who have rejected the Lord of spirits? It would have been better for them, had they never been born.

(38) When righteousness shall be manifested. Or, "when the Righteous One appears" (Knibb, p. 125; cp. Charles, p. 112).

3When, too, the secrets of the righteous shall be revealed, then shall sinners be judged; and impious men shall be afflicted in the presence of the righteous and the elect.

4From that period those who possess the earth shall cease to be powerful and exalted. Neither shall they be capable of beholding the countenances of the holy; for the light of the countenances of the holy, the righteous, and the elect, has been seen by the Lord of spirits. (39)

(39) For the light…Lord of spirits. Or, "for the light of the Lord of spirits will have appeared on the face of the holy, the righteous, and the chosen" (Knibb, p. 126).

5Yet shall not the mighty kings of that period be destroyed; but be delivered into the hands of the righteous and the holy.

6Nor thenceforwards shall any obtain commiseration from the Lord of spirits, because their lives in this world will have been completed.

Chapter 39

1In those days shall the elect and holy race descend from the upper heavens, and their seed shall then be with the sons of men. Enoch received books of indignation and wrath, and books of hurry and agitation.

2Never shall they obtain mercy, saith the Lord of spirits.

3A cloud then snatched me up, and the wind raised me above the surface of the earth, placing me at the extremity of the heavens.

4There I saw another vision; I saw the habitations and resting places of the saints. There my eyes beheld their habitations with the angels, and their resting places with the holy ones. They were entreating, supplicating, and praying for the sons of men; while righteousness like water flowed before them, and mercy like dew was scattered over the earth. And thus shall it be with them for ever and for ever.

5At that time my eyes beheld the dwelling of the elect, of truth, faith, and righteousness.

6Countless shall be the number of the holy and the elect, in the presence of God for ever and for ever.

7Their residence I beheld under the wings of the Lord of spirits. All the holy and the elect sung before him, in appearance like a blaze of fire; their mouths being full of blessings, and their lips glorifying the name of the Lord of spirits. And righteousness incessantly dwelt before him.

8There was I desirous of remaining, and my soul longed for that habitation. There was my antecedent inheritance; for thus had I prevailed before the Lord of spirits.

9At that time I glorified and extolled the name of the Lord of spirits with blessing and with praise; for he has established it with blessing and with praise, according to his own good pleasure.

10That place long did my eyes contemplate. I blessed and said, Blessed be he, blessed from the beginning for ever. In the beginning, before the world was created, and without end is his knowledge.

11What is this world? Of every existing generation those shall bless you who do not spiritually sleep but stand before your glory, blessing, glorifying, exalting you, and saying, The holy, holy, Lord of spirits, fills the whole world of spirits.

12There my eyes beheld all who, without sleeping, stand before him and bless him, saying, Blessed be you, and blessed be the name of God for ever and for ever. Then my countenance became changed, until I was incapable of seeing.

Chapter 40

1After this I beheld thousands of thousands, and myriads of myriads, and an infinite number of people, standing before the Lord of spirits.

2On the four wings likewise of the Lord of spirits, on the four sides, I perceived others, besides those who were standing before him. Their names, too, I know; because the angel, who proceeded with me, declared them to me, discovering to me every secret thing.

3Then I heard the voices of those upon the four sides magnifying the Lord of glory.

4The first voice blessed the Lord of spirits for ever and for ever.

5The second voice I heard blessing the Elect One, and the elect who suffer on account of the Lord of spirits.

6The third voice I heard petitioning and praying for those who dwell upon earth, and supplicate the name of the Lord of spirits.

7The fourth voice I heard expelling the impious angels, (40) and prohibiting them from entering into the presence of the Lord of spirits, to prefer accusations against (41) the inhabitants of the earth.

(40) Impious angels. Literally, "the Satans" (Laurence, p. 45; Knibb, p. 128). Ha-satan in Hebrew ("the adversary") was originally the title of an office, not the name of an angel.
(41) Prefer accusations against. Or, "to accuse" (Charles, p. 119).

8After this I besought the angel of peace, who proceeded with me, to explain all that was concealed. I said to him, Who are those whom I have seen on the four sides, and who words I have heard and written down? He replied, The first is the merciful, the patient, the holy Michael.

9The second is he who presides over every suffering and every affliction of the sons of men, the holy Raphael. The third, who presides over all that is powerful, is Gabriel. And the fourth, who presides over repentance, and the hope of those who will inherit eternal life, is Phanuel. These are the four angels of the most high God, and their four voices, which at that time I heard.

Chapter 41

1After this I beheld the secrets of the heavens and of paradise, according to its divisions; and of human action, as they weight it there in balances. I saw the habitations of the elect, and the habitations of the holy. And there my eyes beheld all the sinners, who denied the Lord of glory, and whom they were expelling from there, and dragging away, as they stood there; no punishment proceeding against them from the Lord of spirits.

2There, too, my eyes beheld the secrets of the lightning and the thunder; and the secrets of the winds, how they are distributed as they blow over the earth: the secrets of the winds, of the dew, and of the clouds. There I perceived the place from which they issued forth, and became saturated with the dust of the earth.

3There I saw the wooden receptacles out of which the winds became separated, the receptacle of hail, the receptacle of snow, the receptacle of the clouds, and the cloud itself, which continued over the earth before the creation of the world.

4I beheld also the receptacles of the moon, whence they came, whither they proceeded, their glorious return, and how one became more splendid than another. I marked their rich progress, their unchangeable progress, their disunited and undiminished progress; their observance of a mutual fidelity by a stable oath; their proceeding forth before the sun, and their adherence to the path allotted them, (42) in obedience to the command of the Lord of spirits. Potent is his name for ever and for ever.

(42) Their proceeding forth…path allotted them. Or, "the sun goes out first and completes its journey" (Knibb, p. 129; cp. Charles, p. 122).

5After this I perceived, that the path both concealed and manifest of the moon, as well as the progress of its path, was there completed by day and by night; while each, one with another, looked towards the Lord of spirits, magnifying and praising without cessation, since praise to them is rest; for in the splendid sun there is a frequent conversion to blessing and to malediction.

6The course of the moon’s path to the righteous is light, but to sinners it is darkness; in the name of the Lord of spirits, who created a division between light and darkness, and, separating the spirits of men, strengthened the spirits of the righteous in the name of his own righteousness.

7Nor does the angel prevent this, neither is he endowed with the power of preventing it; for the Judge beholds them all, and judges them all in his own presence.

Chapter 42

1Wisdom found not a place on earth where she could inhabit; her dwelling therefore is in heaven.

2Wisdom went forth to dwell among the sons of men, but she obtained not a habitation. Wisdom returned to her place, and seated herself in the midst of the angels. But iniquity went forth after her return, who unwillingly found a habitation, and resided among them, as rain in the desert, and as a dew in a thirsty land.

Chapter 43

1I beheld another splendour, and the stars of heaven. I observed that he called them all by their respective names, and that they heard. In a righteous balance I saw that he weighed out with their light the amplitude of their places, and the day of their appearance, and their conversion. Splendour produced splendour; and their conversion was into the number of the angels, and of the faithful.

2Then I inquired of the angel, who proceeded with me, and explained to me secret things, What their names were. He answered. A similitude of those has the Lord of spirits shown you. They are names of the righteous who dwell upon earth, and who believe in the name of the Lord of spirits for ever and for ever.

Chapter 44

1Another thing also I saw respecting splendour; that it rises out of the stars, and becomes splendour; being incapable of forsaking them.

Chapter 45

1Parable the second, respecting these who deny the name of the habitation of the holy ones, and of the Lord of spirits.

2Heaven they shall not ascend, nor shall they come on the earth. This shall be the portion of sinners, who deny the name of the Lord of spirits, and who are thus reserved for the day of punishment and of affliction.

3In that day shall the Elect One sit upon a throne of glory; and shall choose their conditions and countless habitations, while their spirits within them shall be strengthened, when they behold my Elect One, for those who have fled for protection to my holy and glorious name.

4In that day I will cause my Elect One to dwell in the midst of them; will change the face of heaven; will bless it, and illuminate it for ever.

5I will also change the face of the earth, will bless it; and cause those whom I have elected to dwell upon it. But those who have committed sin and iniquity shall not inhabit it, for I have marked their proceedings. My righteous ones will I satisfy with peace, placing them before me; but the condemnation of sinners shall draw near, that I may destroy them from the face of the earth.

Chapter 46

1There I beheld the Ancient of days, whose head was like white wool, and with him another, whose countenance resembled that of man. His countenance was full of grace, like that of one of the holy angels. Then I inquired of one of the angels, who went with me, and who showed me every secret thing, concerning this Son of man; who he was; whence he was and why he accompanied the Ancient of days.

2He answered and said to me, This is the Son of man, to whom righteousness belongs; with whom righteousness has dwelt; and who will reveal all the treasures of that which is concealed: for the Lord of spirits has chosen him; and his portion has surpassed all before the Lord of spirits in everlasting uprightness.

3This Son of man, whom you behold, shall raise up kings and the mighty from their dwelling places, and the powerful from their thrones; shall loosen the bridles of the powerful, and break in pieces the teeth of sinners.

4He shall hurl kings from their thrones and their dominions; because they will not exalt and praise him, nor humble themselves before him, by whom their kingdoms were granted to them. The countenance likewise of the mighty shall He cast down, filling them with confusion. Darkness shall be their habitation, and worms shall be their bed; nor from that their bed shall they hope to be again raised, because they exalted not the name of the Lord of spirits.

5They shall condemn the stars of heaven, shall lift up their hands against the Most High, shall tread upon and inhabit the earth, exhibiting all their acts of iniquity, even their works of iniquity. Their strength shall be in their riches, and their faith in the gods whom they have formed with their own hands. They shall deny the name of the Lord of spirits, and shall expel him from the temples, in which they assemble;

6And with him the faithful, (43) who suffer in the name of the Lord of spirits.

(43) Shall expel him…the faithful. Or, "will be driven from the houses of his congregation, and of the faithful" (Knibb, p. 132; cp. Charles, p. 131).

Chapter 47

1In that day the prayer of the holy and the righteous, and the blood of the righteous, shall ascend from the earth into the presence of the Lord of spirits.

2In that day shall the holy ones assemble, who dwell above the heavens, and with united voice petition, supplicate, praise, laud, and bless the name of the Lord of spirits, on account of the blood of the righteous which has been shed; that the prayer of the righteous may not be intermitted before the Lord of spirits; that for them he would execute judgment; and that his patience may not endure for ever. (44)

(44) That his patience…endure for ever. Or, "(that) their patience may not have to last for ever" (Knibb, p. 133).

3At that time I beheld the Ancient of days, while he sat upon the throne of his glory, while the book of the living was opened in his presence, and while all the powers which were above the heavens stood around and before him.

4Then were the hearts of the saints full of joy, because the consummation of righteousness was arrived, the supplication of the saints heard, and the blood of the righteous appreciated by the Lord of spirits.

Chapter 48

1In that place I beheld a fountain of righteousness, which never failed, encircled by many springs of wisdom. Of these all the thirsty drank, and were filled with wisdom, having their habitation with the righteous, the elect, and the holy.

2In that hour was this Son of man invoked before the Lord of spirits, and his name in the presence of the Ancient of days.

3Before the sun and the signs were created, before the stars of heaven were formed, his name was invoked in the presence of the Lord of spirits. A support shall he be for the righteous and the holy to lean upon, without falling; and he shall be the light of nations.

4He shall be the hope of those whose hearts are troubled. All, who dwell on earth, shall fall down and worship before him; shall bless and glorify him, and sing praises to the name of the Lord of spirits.

5Therefore the Elect and the Concealed One existed in his presence, before the world was created, and for ever.

6In his presence he existed, and has revealed to the saints and to the righteous the wisdom of the Lord of spirits; for he has preserved the lot of the righteous, because they have hated and rejected this world of iniquity, and have detested all its works and ways, in the name of the Lord of spirits.

7For in his name shall they be preserved; and his will shall be their life. In those days shall the kings of the earth and the mighty men, who have gained the world by their achievements, become humble in countenance.

8For in the day of their anxiety and trouble their souls shall not be saved; and they shall be in subjection to those whom I have chosen.

9I will cast them like hay into the fire, and like lead into the water. Thus shall they burn in the presence of the righteous, and sink in the presence of the holy; nor shall a tenth part of them be found.

10But in the day of their trouble, the world shall obtain tranquillity.

11In his presence shall they fall, and not be raised up again; nor shall there be any one to take them out of his hands, and to lift them up: for they have denied the Lord of spirits, and his Messiah. The name of the Lord of spirits shall be blessed.

Chapter 48A

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(45) Two consecutive chapters are numbered "48."

1Wisdom is poured forth like water, and glory fails not before him for ever and ever; for potent is he in all the secrets of righteousness.

2But iniquity passes away like a shadow, and possesses not a fixed station: for the Elect One stands before the Lord of spirits; and his glory is for ever and ever; and his power from generation to generation.

3With him dwells the spirit of intellectual wisdom, the spirit of instruction and of power, and the spirit of those who sleep in righteousness; he shall judge secret things.

4Nor shall any be able to utter a single word before him; for the Elect One is in the presence of the Lord of Spirits, according to his own pleasure.

Chapter 49

1In those days the saints and the chosen shall undergo a change. The light of day shall rest upon them; and the splendour and glory of the saints shall be changed.

2In the day of trouble evil shall be heaped up upon sinners; but the righteous shall triumph in the name of the Lord of spirits.

3Others shall be made to see, that they must repent, and forsake the works of their hands; and that glory awaits them not in the presence of the Lord of spirits; yet that by his name they may be saved. The Lord of spirits will have compassion on them; for great is his mercy; and righteousness is in his judgment, and in the presence of his glory; nor in his judgment shall iniquity stand. He who repents not before him shall perish.

4Henceforward I will not have mercy on them, saith the Lord of spirits.

Chapter 50

1In those days shall the earth deliver up from her womb, and hell deliver up from hers, that which it has received; and destruction shall restore that which it owes.

2He shall select the righteous and holy from among them; for the day of their salvation has approached.

3And in those days shall the Elect One sit upon his throne, while every secret of intellectual wisdom shall proceed from his mouth, for the Lord of spirits has gifted and glorified him.

4In those days the mountains shall skip like rams, and the hills shall leap like young sheep (46) satiated with milk; and all the righteous shall become like angels in heaven.

(46) Cp. Psalm 114:4

5Their countenance shall be bright with joy; for in those days shall the Elect One be exalted. The earth shall rejoice; the righteous shall inhabit it, and the elect possess it.

Chapter 51

1After that period, in the place where I had seen every secret sight, I was snatched up in a whirlwind, and carried off westwards.

2There my eyes beheld the secrets of heaven, and all which existed on earth; a mountain of iron, a mountain of copper, a mountain of silver, a mountain of gold, a mountain of fluid metal, and a mountain of lead.

3And I inquired of the angel who went with me, saying, What are these things, which in secret I behold?

4He said, All these things which you behold shall be for the dominion of the Messiah, that he may command, and be powerful upon earth.

5And that angel of peace answered me, saying, Wait but a short time, and you shalt understand, and every secret thing shall be revealed to you, which the Lord of spirits has decreed. Those mountains which you have seen, the mountain of iron, the mountain of copper, the mountain of silver, the mountain of gold, the mountain of fluid metal, and the mountain of lead, all these in the presence of the Elect One shall be like a honeycomb before the fire, and like water descending from above upon these mountains; and shall become debilitated before his feet.

6In those days men shall not be saved by gold and by silver.

7Nor shall they have it in their power to secure themselves, and to fly.

8There shall be neither iron for was, nor a coat of mail for the breast.

9Copper shall be useless; useless also that which neither rusts nor consumes away; and lead shall not be coveted.

10All these things shall be rejected, and perish from off the earth, when the Elect One shall appear in the presence of the Lord of spirits.

Chapter 52

1There my eyes beheld a deep valley; and wide was its entrance.

2All who dwell on land, on the sea, and in islands, shall bring to it gifts, presents, and offerings; yet that deep valley shall not be full. Their hands shall commit iniquity. Whatsoever they produce by labour, the sinners shall devour with crime. But they shall perish from the face of the Lord of spirits, and from the face of his earth. They shall stand up, and shall not fail for ever and ever.

3I beheld the angels of punishment, who were dwelling there, and preparing every instrument of Satan.

4Then I inquired of the angel of peace, who proceeded with me, for whom those instruments were preparing.

5He said, These they are preparing for the kings and powerful ones of the earth, that thus they may perish.

6After which the righteous and chosen house of his congregation shall appear, and thenceforward unchangeable in the name of the Lord of spirits.

7Nor shall those mountains exist in his presence as the earth and the hills, as the fountains of water exist. And the righteous shall be relieved from the vexation of sinners.

Chapter 53

1Then I looked and turned myself to another part of the earth, where I beheld a deep valley burning with fire.

2To this valley they brought monarchs and the mighty.

3And there my eyes beheld the instruments which they were making, fetters of iron without weight. (47)

(47) Without weight. Or, "of immeasurable weight" (Knibb, p. 138).

4Then I inquired of the angel of peace, who proceeded with me, saying, For whom are these fetters and instruments prepared?

5He replied, These are prepared for the host of Azazeel, that they may be delivered over and adjudged to the lowest condemnation; and that their angels may be overwhelmed with hurled stones, as the Lord of spirits has commanded.

6Michael and Gabriel, Raphael and Phanuel shall be strengthened in that day, and shall then cast them into a furnace of blazing fire, that the Lord of spirits may be avenged of them for their crimes; because they became ministers of Satan, and seduced those who dwell upon earth.

7In those days shall punishment go forth from the Lord of spirits; and the receptacles of water which are above the heavens shall be opened, and the fountains likewise, which are under the heavens and under the earth.

8All the waters, which are in the heavens and above them, shall be mixed together.

9The water which is above heaven shall be the agent; (48)

(48) Agent. Literally, "male" (Laurence, p. 61).

10And the water which is under the earth shall be the recipient: (49) and all shall be destroyed who dwell upon earth, and who dwell under the extremities of heaven.

(49) Recipient. Literally, "female" (Laurence, p. 61).

11By these means shall they understand the iniquity which they have committed on earth: and by these means shall they perish.

Chapter 54

1Afterwards the Ancient of days repented, and said, In vain have I destroyed all the inhabitants of the earth.

2And he sware by his great name, saying, Henceforwards I will not act thus towards all those who dwell upon earth.

3But I will place a sign in the heavens; (50) and it shall be a faithful witness between me and them for ever, as long as the days of heaven and earth last upon the earth.

(50) Cp. Gen. 9:13, "I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth."

4Afterwards, according to this my decree, when I shall be disposed to seize them beforehand, by the instrumentality of angels, in the day of affliction and trouble, my wrath and my punishment shall remain upon them, my punishment and my wrath, saith God the Lord of spirits.

5O you kings, O you mighty, who inhabit the world you shall behold my Elect One, sitting upon the throne of my glory. And he shall judge Azazeel, all his associates, and all his hosts, in the name of the Lord of spirits.

6There likewise I beheld hosts of angels who were moving in punishment, confined in a net-work of iron and brass. Then I inquired of the angel of peace, who proceeded with me, To whom those under confinement were going.

7He said, To each of their elect and their beloved, (51) that they may be cast into the fountains and deep recesses of the valley.

(51) To each of…their beloved. Or, "Each to his own chosen ones and to his own beloved ones" (Knibb, p. 139).

8And that valley shall be filled with their elect and beloved; the days of whose life shall be consumed, but the days of their error shall be innumerable.

9Then shall princes (52) combine together, and conspire. The chiefs of the east, among the Parthians and Medes, shall remove kings, in whom a spirit of perturbation shall enter. They shall hurl them from their thrones, springing as lions from their dens, and like famished wolves into the midst of the flock.

(52) Princes. Or, "angels" (Charles, p. 149; Knibb, p. 140).

10They shall go up, and tread upon the land of their elect. The land of their elect shall be before them. The threshing-floor, the path, and the city of my righteous people shall impede the progress of their horses. They shall rise up to destroy each other; their right hand shall be strengthened; nor shall a man acknowledge his friend or his brother;

11Nor the son his father and his mother; until the number of the dead bodies shall be completed, by their death and punishment. Neither shall this take place without cause.

12In those days shall the mouth of hell be opened, into which they shall be immerged; hell shall destroy and swallow up sinners from the face of the elect.

Chapter 55

1After this I beheld another army of chariots with men riding in them.

2And they came upon the wind from the east, from the west, and from the south. (53)

(53) From the south. Literally, "from the midst of the day" (Laurence, p. 63).

3The sound of the noise of their chariots was heard.

4And when that agitation took place; the saints out of heaven perceived it; the pillar of the earth shook from its foundation; and the sound was heard from the extremities of the earth unto the extremities of heaven at the same time.

5Then they all fell down, and worshipped the Lord of spirits.

6This is the end of the second parable.

Chapter 56

1I now began to utter the third parable, concerning the saints and the elect.

2Blessed are you, O saints and elect, for glorious is your lot.

3The saints shall exist in the light of the sun, and the elect in the light of everlasting life, the days of whose life shall never terminate; nor shall the days of the saints be numbered, who seek for light, and obtain righteousness with the Lord of spirits.

4Peace be to the saints with the Lord of the world.

5Henceforward shall the saints be told to seek in heaven the secrets of righteousness, the portion of faith; for like the sun has it arisen upon the earth, while darkness has passed away. There shall be light interminable; nor shall they enter upon the enumeration of time; for darkness shall be previously destroyed, and light shall increase before the Lord of spirits; before the Lord of spirits shall the light of uprightness increase for ever.

Chapter 57

1In those days my eyes beheld the secrets of the lightnings and the splendours, and the judgment belonging to them.

2They lighten for a blessing and for a curse, according to the will of the Lord of spirits.

3And there I saw the secrets of the thunder, when it rattles above in heaven, and its sound is heard.

4The habitations also of the earth were shown to me. The sound of the thunder is for peace and for blessing, as well as for a curse, according to the word of the Lord of spirits.

5Afterwards every secret of the splendours and of the lightnings was seen by me. For blessing and for fertility they lighten.

Chapter 58

1In the five hundredth year, and in the seventh month, on the fourteenth day of the month, of the lifetime of Enoch, in that parable, I saw that the heaven of heavens shook; that it shook violently; and that the powers of the Most High, and the angels, thousands and thousands, and myriads of myriads, were agitated with great agitation. And when I looked, the Ancient of days was sitting on the throne of his glory, while the angels and saints were standing around him. A great trembling came upon me, and terror seized me. My loins were bowed down and loosened; my reins were dissolved; and I fell upon my face. The holy Michael, another holy angel, one of the holy ones, was sent, who raised me up.

2And when he raised me, my spirit returned; for I was incapable of enduring this vision of violence, its agitation, and the concussion of heaven.

3Then holy Michael said to me, Why are you disturbed at this vision?

4Hitherto has existed the day of mercy; and he has been merciful and longsuffering towards all who dwell upon the earth.

5But when the time shall come, then shall the power, the punishment, and the judgment take place, which the Lord of spirits has prepared for those who prostrate themselves to the judgment of righteousness, for those who abjure that judgment, and for those who take his name in vain.

6That day has been prepared for the elect as a day of covenant; and for sinners as a day of inquisition.

7In that day shall be distributed for food (54) two monsters; a female monster, whose name is Leviathan, dwelling in the depths of the sea, above the springs of waters;

(54) Distributed for food. Or, "separated from one another" (Knibb, p. 143).

8And a male monster, whose name is Behemoth; which possesses, moving on his breast, the invisible wilderness.

9His name was Dendayen in the east of the garden, where the elect and the righteous will dwell; where he received it from my ancestor, who was man, from Adam the first of men, (55) whom the Lord of spirits made.

(55) He received it…first of men. Or, "my [great-] grandfather was taken up, the seventh from Adam" (Charles, p. 155). This implies that this section of the book was written by Noah, Enoch's descendant, rather than Enoch. Scholars have speculated that this portion of the book may contain fragments of the lost Apocalypse of Noah.

10Then I asked of another angel to show me the power of those monsters, how they became separated, how they became separated on the same day, one being in the depths of the sea, and one in the dry desert.

11And he said, You, son of man, are here desirous of understanding secret things.

12And the angel of peace, who was with me, said, These two monsters are by the power of God prepared to become food, that the punishment of God may not be in vain.

13Then shall children be slain with their mothers, and sons with their fathers.

14And when the punishment of the Lord of spirits shall continue, upon them shall it continue, that the punishment of the Lord of spirits may not take place in vain. After that, judgment shall exist with mercy and longsuffering.

Chapter 59

1Then another angel, who proceeded with me, spoke to me;

2And showed me the first and last secrets in heaven above, and in the depths of the earth:

3In the extremities of heaven, and in the foundations of it, and in the receptacle of the winds.

4He showed me how their spirits were divided; how they were balanced; and how both the springs and the winds were numbered according to the force of their spirit.

5He showed me the power of the moon's light, that its power is a just one; as well as the divisions of the stars, according to their respective names;

6That every division is divided; that the lightning flashes;

7That its troops immediately obey; and that a cessation takes place during thunder in continuance of its sound. Nor are the thunder and the lightning separated; neither do both of them move with one spirit; yet they are not separated.

8For when the lightning lightens, the thunder sounds, and the spirit at a proper period pauses, making an equal division between them; for the receptacle, upon which their periods depend, is loose as sand. Each of them at a proper season is restrained with a bridle; and turned by the power of the spirit, which thus propels them according to the spacious extent of the earth.

9The spirit likewise of the sea is potent and strong; and as a strong power causes it to ebb, so is it driven forwards, and scattered against the mountains of the earth. The spirit of the frost has its angel; in the spirit of hail there is a good angel; the spirit of snow ceases in its strength, and a solitary spirit is in it, which ascends from it like vapour, and is called refrigeration.

10The spirit also of mist dwells with them in their receptacle; but it has a receptacle to itself; for its progress is in splendour.

11In light, and in darkness, in winter and in summer. Its receptacle is bright, and an angel is in it.

12The spirit of dew has its abode in the extremities of heaven, in connection with the receptacle of rain; and its progress is in winter and in summer. The cloud produced by it, and the cloud of the mist, become united; one gives to the other; and when the spirit of rain is in motion from its receptacle, angels come, and opening its receptacle, bring it forth.

13When likewise it is sprinkled over all the earth, it forms an union with every kind of water on the ground; for the waters remain on the ground, because they afford nourishment to the earth from the Most High, who is in heaven.

14Upon this account therefore there is a regulation in the quantity of rain, which the angels receive.

15These things I saw; all of them, even paradise.

Chapter 60

1In those days I beheld long ropes given to those angels; who took to their wings, and fled, advancing towards the north.

2And I inquired of the angel, saying, Wherefore have they taken those long ropes, and gone forth? He said, They are gone forth to measure.

3The angel, who proceeded with me, said, These are the measures of the righteous; and cords shall the righteous bring, that they may trust in the name of the Lord of spirits for ever and ever.

4The elect shall begin to dwell with the elect.

5And these are the measures which shall be given to faith, and which shall strengthen the words of righteousness.

6These measures shall reveal all the secrets in the depth of the earth.

7And it shall be, that those who have been destroyed in the desert, and who have been devoured by the fish of the sea, and by wild beasts, shall return, and trust in the day of the Elect One; for none shall perish in the presence of the Lord of spirits, nor shall any be capable of perishing.

8Then they received the commandment, all who were in the heavens above; to whom a combined power, voice, and splendour, like fire, were given.

9And first, with their voice, they blessed him, they exalted him, they glorified him with wisdom, and ascribed to him wisdom with the word, and with the breath of life.

10Then the Lord of spirits seated upon the throne of his glory the Elect One;

11Who shall judge all the works of the holy, in heaven above, and in a balance shall he weigh their actions. And when he shall lift up his countenance to judge their secret ways in the word of the name of the Lord of spirits, and their progress in the path of the righteous judgment of God most high;

12They shall all speak with united voice; and bless, glorify, exalt, and praise, in the name of the Lord of spirits.

13He shall call to every power of the heavens, to all the holy above, and to the power of God. The Cherubim, the Seraphim, and the Ophanin, all the angels of power, and all the angels of the Lords, namely, of the Elect One, and of the other Power, who was upon earth over the water on that day,

14Shall raise their united voice; shall bless, glorify, praise, and exalt with the spirit of faith, with the spirit of wisdom and patience, with the spirit of mercy, with the spirit of judgment and peace, and with the spirit of benevolence; all shall say with united voice; Blessed is He; and the name of the Lord of spirits shall be blessed for ever and for ever; all, who sleep not, shall bless it in heaven above.

15All the holy in heaven shall bless it; all the elect who dwell in the garden of life; and every spirit of light, who is capable of blessing, glorifying, exalting, and praising your holy name; and every mortal man, (56) more than the powers of heaven, shall glorify and bless your name for ever and ever.

(56) Every mortal man. Literally, "all of flesh" (Laurence, p. 73).

16For great is the mercy of the Lord of spirits; long-suffering is he; and all his works, all his power, great as are the things which he has done, has he revealed to the saints and to the elect, in the name of the Lord of spirits.

Chapter 61

1Thus the Lord commanded the kings, the princes, the exalted, and those who dwell on earth, saying, Open your eyes, and lift up your horns, if you are capable of comprehending the Elect One.

2The Lord of spirits sat upon the throne of his glory.

3And the spirit of righteousness was poured out over him.

4The word of his mouth shall destroy all the sinners and all the ungodly, who shall perish at his presence.

5In that day shall all the kings, the princes, the exalted, and those who possess the earth, stand up, behold, and perceive, that he is sitting on the throne of his glory; that before him the saints shall be judged in righteousness;

6And that nothing, which shall be spoken before him, shall be spoken in vain.

7Trouble shall come upon them, as upon a woman in travail, whose labour is severe, when her child comes to the mouth of the womb, and she finds it difficult to bring forth.

8One portion of them shall look upon another. They shall be astonished, and shall humble their countenance;

9And trouble shall seize them, when they shall behold this Son of woman sitting upon the throne of his glory.

10Then shall the kings, the princes, and all who possess the earth, glorify him who has dominion over all things, him who was concealed; for from the beginning the Son of man existed in secret, whom the Most High preserved in the presence of his power, and revealed to the elect.

11He shall sow the congregation of the saints, and of the elect; and all the elect shall stand before him in that day.

12All the kings, the princes, the exalted, and those who rule over all the earth, shall fall down on their faces before him, and shall worship him.

13They shall fix their hopes on this Son of man, shall pray to him, and petition him for mercy.

14Then shall the Lord of spirits hasten to expel them from his presence. Their faces shall be full of confusion, and their faces shall darkness cover. The angels shall take them to punishment, that vengeance may be inflicted on those who have oppressed his children and his elect. And they shall become an example to the saints and to his elect. Through them shall these be made joyful; for the anger of the Lord of spirits shall rest upon them.

15Then the sword of the Lord of spirits shall be drunk with their blood; but the saints and elect shall be safe in that day; nor the face of the sinners and the ungodly shall they thenceforwards behold.

16The Lord of spirits shall remain over them:

17And with this Son of man shall they dwell, eat, lie down, and rise up, for ever and ever.

18The saints and the elect have arisen from the earth, have left off to depress their countenances, and have been clothed with the garment of life. That garment of life is with the Lord of spirits, in whose presence your garment shall not wax old, nor shall your glory diminish.

Chapter 62

1In those days the kings who possess the earth shall be punished by the angels of his wrath, wheresoever they shall be delivered up, that he may give rest for a short period; and that they may fall down and worship before the Lord of spirits, confessing their sins before him.

2They shall bless and glorify the Lord of spirits, saying, Blessed is the Lord of spirits, the Lord of kings, the Lord of princes, the Lord of the rich, the Lord of glory, and the Lord of wisdom.

3He shall enlighten every secret thing.

4Your power is from generation to generation; and your glory for ever and ever.

5Deep are all your secrets, and numberless; and your righteousness cannot be calculated.

6Now we know, that we should glorify and bless the Lord of kings, him who is King over all things.

7They shall also say, Who has granted us rest to glorify, laud, bless, and confess in the presence of his glory?

8And now small is the rest we desire; but we do not find it; we reject, and do not possess it. Light has passed away from before us; and darkness has covered our thrones for ever.

9 For we have not confessed before him; we have not glorified the name of the Lord of kings; we have not glorified the Lord in all his works; but we have trusted in the sceptre of our dominion and of our glory.

10In the day of our suffering and of our trouble he will not save us, neither shall we find rest. We confess that our Lord is faithful in all his works, in all his judgments, and in his righteousness.

11In his judgments he pays no respect to persons; and we must depart from his presence, on account of our evil deeds.

12All our sins are truly without number.

13Then shall they say to themselves, Our souls are satiated with the instruments of crime;

14But that prevents us not from descending to the flaming womb of hell.

15Afterwards, their countenances shall be filled with darkness and confusion before the Son of man; from whose presence they shall be expelled, and before whom the sword shall remain to expel them.

16Thus saith the Lord of spirits, This is the decree and the judgment against the princes, the kings, the exalted, and those who possess the earth, in the presence of the Lord of spirits.

Chapter 63

1I saw also other countenances in that secret place. I heard the voice of an angel, saying, These are the angels who have descended from heaven to earth, and have revealed secrets to the sons of men, and have seduced the sons of men to the commission of sin.

Chapter 64

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(57) Chapters 64, 65, 66 and the first verse of 67 evidently contain a vision of Noah and not of Enoch (Laurence, p. 78).

1In those days Noah saw that the earth became inclined, and that destruction approached.

2Then he lifted up his feet, and went to the ends of the earth, to the dwelling of his great-grandfather Enoch.

3And Noah cried with a bitter voice, Hear me; hear me; hear me: three times. And he said, Tell me what is transacting upon the earth; for the earth labours, and is violently shaken. Surely I shall perish with it.

4After this there was a great perturbation on earth, and a voice was heard from heaven. I fell down on my face, when my great-grandfather Enoch came and stood by me.

5He said to me, Why have you cried out to me with a bitter cry and lamentation?

6A commandment has gone forth from the Lord against those who dwell on the earth, that they may be destroyed; for they know every secret of the angels, every oppressive and secret power of the devils, (58) and every power of those who commit sorcery, as well as of those who make molten images in the whole earth.

(58) The devils. Literally, "the Satans" (Laurence, p. 78).

7They know how silver is produced from the dust of the earth, and how on the earth the metallic drop exists; for lead and tin are not produced from earth, as the primary fountain of their production.

8There is an angel standing upon it, and that angel struggles to prevail.

9Afterwards my great-grandfather Enoch seized me with his hand, raising me up, and saying to me, Go, for I have asked the Lord of spirits respecting this perturbation of the earth; who replied, On account of their impiety have their innumerable judgments been consummated before me. Respecting the moons have they inquired, and they have known that the earth will perish with those who dwell upon it, (59) and that to these there will be no place of refuge for ever.

(59) Respecting the moons…dwell upon it. Or, "Because of the sorceries which they have searched out and learnt, the earth and those who dwell upon it will be destroyed" (Knibb, p. 155).

10They have discovered secrets, and they are those who have been judged; but not you my son. The Lord of spirits knows that you are pure and good, free from the reproach of discovering secrets.

11He, the holy One, will establish your name in the midst of the saints, and will preserve you from those who dwell upon the earth. He will establish your seed in righteousness, with dominion and great glory; (60) and from your seed shall spring forth righteousness and holy men without number for ever.

(60) With dominion…glory. Literally, "for kings, and for great glory" (Laurence, p. 79).

Chapter 65

1After this he showed me the angels of punishment, who were prepared to come, and to open all the mighty waters under the earth:

2That they may be for judgment, and for the destruction of all those who remain and dwell upon the earth.

3And the Lord of spirits commanded the angels who went forth, not to take up the men and preserve them.

4For those angels presiding over all the mighty waters. Then I went out from the presence of Enoch.

Chapter 66

1In those days the word of God came to me, and said, Noah, behold, your lot has ascended up to me, a lot void of crime, a lot beloved and upright.

2Now then shall the angels labour at the trees; (61) but when they proceed to this, I will put my hand upon it, and preserve it.

(61) Shall…labour at the trees. Or, "are making a wooden (structure)" (Knibb, p. 156).

3The seed of life shall arise from it, and a change shall take place, that the dry land shall not be left empty. I will establish your seed before me for ever and ever, and the seed of those who dwell with you on the surface of the earth. It shall be blessed and multiplied in the presence of the earth, in the name of the Lord.

4And they shall confine those angels who disclosed impiety. In that burning valley it is, that they shall be confined, which at first my great-grandfather Enoch showed me in the west, where there were mountains of gold and silver, of iron, of fluid metal, and of tin.

5I beheld that valley in which there was great perturbation, and where the waters were troubled.

6And when all this was effected, from the fluid mass of fire, and the perturbation which prevailed (62) in that place, there arose a strong smell of sulphur, which became mixed with the waters; and the valley of the angels, who had been guilty of seduction, burned underneath its soil.

(62) The perturbation which prevailed. Literally, "troubled them" (Laurence, p. 81).

7Through that valley also rivers of fire were flowing, to which those angels shall be condemned, who seduced the inhabitants of the earth.

8And in those days shall these waters be to kings, to princes, to the exalted, and to the inhabitants of the earth, for the healing of the soul and body, and for the judgment of the spirit.

9Their spirits shall be full of revelry, (63) that they may be judged in their bodies; because they have denied the Lord of spirits, and although they perceive their condemnation day by day, they believe not in his name.

(63) Revelry. Or, "lust" (Knibb, p. 157).

10And as the inflammation of their bodies shall be great, so shall their spirits undergo a change for ever.

11For no word which is uttered before the Lord of spirits shall be in vain.

12Judgment has come upon them, because they trusted in their carnal revelry, and denied the Lord of spirits.

13In those days shall the waters of that valley be changed; for when the angels shall be judged, then shall the heat of those springs of water experience an alteration.

14And when the angels shall ascend, the water of the springs shall again undergo a change, and be frozen. Then I heard holy Michael answering and saying, This judgment, with which the angels shall be judged, shall bear testimony against the kings, the princes, and those who possess the earth.

15For these waters of judgment shall be for their healing, and for the death (64) of their bodies. But they shall not perceive and believe that the waters will be changed, and become a fire, which shall blaze for ever.

(64) Death. Or, "lust" (Charles, p. 176; Knibb, p. 158).

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1After this he gave me the characteristical marks (65) of all the secret things in the book of my great-grandfather Enoch, and in the parables which had been given to him; inserting them for me among the words of the book of parables.

(65) Characteristical marks. Literally, "the signs" (Laurence, p. 83).

2At that that time holy Michael answered and said to Raphael, The power of the spirit hurries me away, and impels me on. The severity of the judgment, of the secret judgment of the angels, who is capable of beholding–the endurance of that severe judgment which has taken place and been made permanent–without being melted at the site of it? Again holy Michael answered and said to holy Raphael, Who is there whose heart is not softened by it, and whose reins are not troubled at this thing?

3Judgment has gone forth against them by those who have thus dragged them away; and that was, when they stood in the presence of the Lord of spirits.

4In like manner also holy Rakael said to Raphael, They shall not be before the eye of the Lord; (66) since the Lord of spirits has been offended with them; for like Lords (67) have they conducted themselves. Therefore will he bring upon them a secret judgment for ever and ever.

(66) They shall not…eye of the Lord. Or, "I will not take their part under the eye of the Lord" (Knibb, p. 159).
(67) For like Lords. Or, "for they act as if they were Lord" (Knibb, p. 159).

5For neither shall angel nor man receive a portion of it; but they alone shall receive their own judgment for ever end ever.

Chapter 68

1After this judgment they shall be astonished and irritated; for it shall be exhibited to the inhabitants of the earth.

2Behold the names of those angels. These are their names. The first of them is Samyaza; the second, Arstikapha; the third, Armen; the fourth, Kakabael; the fifth, Turel; the sixth, Rumyel; the seventh, Danyal; the eighth, Kael; the ninth, Barakel; the tenth, Azazel; the eleventh, Armers; the twelfth, Bataryal; the thirteenth, Basasael; the fourteenth, Ananel; the fifteenth, Turyal; the sixteenth, Simapiseel; the seventeenth, Yetarel; the eighteenth, Tumael; the nineteenth, Tarel; the twentieth, Rumel; the twenty-first, Azazyel.

3These are the chiefs of their angels, and the names of the leaders of their hundreds, and the leaders of their fifties, and the leaders of their tens.

4The name of the first is Yekun: (68) he it was who seduced all the sons of the holy angels; and causing them to descend on earth, led astray the offspring of men.

(68) Yekun may simply mean "the rebel" (Knibb, p. 160).

5The name of the second is Kesabel, who pointed out evil counsel to the sons of the holy angels, and induced them to corrupt their bodies by generating mankind.

6The name of the third is Gadrel: he discovered every stroke of death to the children of men.

7He seduced Eve; and discovered to the children of men the instruments of death, the coat of mail, the shield, and the sword for slaughter; every instrument of death to the children of men.

8From his hand were these things derived to them who dwell upon earth, from that period for ever.

9The name of the fourth is Penemue: he discovered to the children of men bitterness and sweetness;

10And pointed out to them every secret of their wisdom.

11He taught men to understand writing, and the use of ink and paper.

12Therefore numerous have been those who have gone astray from every period of the world, even to this day.

13For men were not born for this, thus with pen and with ink to confirm their faith;

14Since they were not created, except that, like the angels, they might remain righteous and pure.

15Nor would death, which destroys everything, have effected them;

16But by this their knowledge they perish, and by this also its power consumes them.

17The name of the fifth is Kasyade: he discovered to the children of men every wicked stroke of spirits and of demons:

18The stroke of the embryo in the womb, to diminish it; (69) the stroke of the spirit by the bite of the serpent, and the stroke which is given in the mid-day by the offspring of the serpent, the name of which is Tabaet. (70)

(69) The stroke…to diminish it. Or, "the blows (which attack) the embryo in the womb so that it miscarries" (Knibb, p. 162).
(70) Tabaet. Literally, "male" or "strong" (Knibb, p. 162).

19This is the number of the Kasbel; the principal part of the oath which the Most High, dwelling in glory, revealed to the holy ones.

20Its name is Beka. He spoke to holy Michael to discover to them the sacred name, that they might understand that secret name, and thus remember the oath; and that those who pointed out every secret thing to the children of men might tremble at that name and oath.

21This is the power of that oath; for powerful it is, and strong.

22And he established this oath of Akae by the instrumentality of the holy Michael.

23These are the secrets of this oath, and by it were they confirmed.

24Heaven was suspended by it before the world was made, for ever.

25By it has the earth been founded upon the flood; while from the concealed parts of the hills the agitated waters proceed forth from the creation to the end of the world.

26By this oath the sea has been formed, and the foundation of it.

27During the period of its fury he established the sand against it, which continues unchanged for ever; and by this oath the abyss has been made strong; nor is it removable from its station for ever and ever.

28By this oath the sun and moon complete their progress, never swerving from the command given to them for ever and ever.

29By this oath the stars complete their progress;

30And when their names are called, they return an answer, for ever and ever.

31Thus in the heavens take place the blowings of the winds: all of them have breathings, (71) and effect a complete combination of breathings.

(71) Breathings. Or, "spirits" (Laurence, p. 87).

32There the treasures of thunder are kept, and the splendour of the lightning.

33There are kept the treasures of hail and of frost, the treasures of snow, the treasures of rain and of dew.

34All these confess and laud before the Lord of spirits.

35They glorify with all their power of praise; and he sustains them in all that act of thanksgiving; while they laud, glorify, and exalt the name of the Lord of spirits for ever and ever.

36And with them he establishes this oath, by which they and their paths are preserved; nor does their progress perish.

37Great was their joy.

38They blessed, glorified, and exalted, because the name of the Son of man was revealed to them.

39He sat upon the throne of his glory; and the principal part of the judgment was assigned to him, the Son of man. Sinners shall disappear and perish from the face of the earth, while those who seduced them shall be bound with chains for ever.

40According to their ranks of corruption shall they be imprisoned, and all their works shall disappear from the face of the earth; nor thenceforward shall there be any to corrupt; for the Son of man has been seen, sitting on the throne of his glory.

41Everything wicked shall disappear, and depart from before his face; and the word of the Son of man shall become powerful in the presence of the Lord of spirits.

42This is the third parable of Enoch.

Chapter 69

1After this the name of the Son of man, living with the Lord of spirits, was exalted by the inhabitants of the earth.

2It was exalted in the chariots of the Spirit; and the name went forth in the midst of them.

3From that time I was not drawn into the midst of them; but he seated me between two spirits, between the north and the west, where the angels received their ropes, to measure out a place for the elect and the righteous.

4There I beheld the fathers of the first men, and the saints, who dwell in that place for ever.

Chapter 70

1Afterwards my spirit was concealed, ascending into the heavens. I beheld the sons of the holy angels treading on flaming fire, whose garments and robes were white, and whose countenances were transparent as crystal.

2I saw two rivers of fire glittering like the hyacinth.

3Then I fell on my face before the Lord of spirits.

4And Michael, one of the archangels, took me by my right hand, raised me up, and brought me out to where was every secret of mercy and secret of righteousness.

5He showed me all the hidden things of the extremities of heaven, all the receptacles of the stars, and the splendours of all, from whence they went forth before the face of the holy.

6And he concealed the spirit of Enoch in the heaven of heavens.

7There I beheld, in the midst of that light, a building raised with stones of ice;

8And in the midst of these stone vibrations (72) of living fire. My spirit saw around the circle of this flaming habitation, on one of its extremities, that there were rivers full of living fire, which encompassed it.

(72) Vibrations. Literally, "tongues" (Laurence, p. 90).

9Then the Seraphim, the Cherubim, and Ophanin (73) surrounded it: these are those who never sleep, but watch the throne of his glory.

(73) Ophanin. The "wheels" of Ezek. 1:15-21 (Charles, p. 162).

10And I beheld angels innumerable, thousands of thousands, and myriads and myriads, who surrounded that habitation.

11Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, Phanuel and the holy angels who were in the heavens above, went in and out of it. Michael, Raphael, and Gabriel went out of that habitation, and holy angels innumerable.

12With them was the Ancient of days, whose head was white as wool, and pure, and his robe was indescribable.

13Then I fell upon my face, while all my flesh was dissolved, and my spirit became changed.

14I cried out with a loud voice, with a powerful spirit, blessing, glorifying, and exalting.

15And those blessings, which proceeded from my mouth, became acceptable in the presence of the Ancient of days.

16The Ancient of days came with Michael and Gabriel, Raphael and Phanuel, with thousands of thousands, and myriads and myriads, which could not be numbered.

17Then that angel came to me, and with his voice saluted me, saying, You are the Son of man, (74) who art born for righteousness, and righteousness has rested upon you.

(74) Son of man. Laurence's original translation renders this phrase "offspring of man." Knibb (p. 166) and Charles (p. 185) indicate that it should be "Son of man," consistent with the other occurrences of that term in the Book of Enoch.

18The righteousness of the Ancient of days shall not forsake you.

19He said, On you shall he confer peace in the name of the existing world; for from thence has peace gone forth since the world was created.

20And thus shall it happen to you for ever and ever.

21All who shall exist, and who shall walk in your path of righteousness, shall not forsake you for ever.

22With you shall be their habitations, with you their lot; nor from you shall they be separated for ever and ever.

23And thus shall length of days be with the Son of man. (75)

(75) Son of man. Literally, "offspring of man," or "the Christ who comes from the offspring of man."

24Peace shall be to the righteous; and the path of integrity shall the righteous pursue, in the name of the Lord of spirits, for ever and ever.

Chapter 71

1The book of the revolutions of the luminaries of heaven, according to their respective classes, their respective powers, their respective periods, their respective names, the places where they commence their progress, and their respective months, which Uriel, the holy angel who was with me, explained to me; he who conducted them. The whole account of them, according to every year of the world for ever, until a new work shall be effected, which will be eternal.

2This is the first law of the luminaries. The sun and the light arrive at the gates of heaven, which are on the east, and on the west of it at the western gates of heaven.

3I beheld the gates whence the sun goes forth; and the gates where the sun sets;

4In which gates also the moon rises and sets; and I beheld the conductors of the stars, among those who precede them; six gates were at the rising, and six at the setting of the sun.

5All these respectively, one after another, are on a level; and numerous windows are on the right and on the left sides of those gates.

6First proceeds forth that great luminary, which is called the sun; the orb of which is as the orb of heaven, the whole of it being replete with splendid and flaming fire.

7Its chariot, where it ascends, the wind blows.

8The sun sets in heaven, and, returning by the north, to proceed towards the east, is conducted so as to enter by that gate, and illuminate the face of heaven.

9In the same manner it goes forth in the first month by the great gate.

10It goes forth through the fourth of those six gates, which are at the rising of the sun.

11And in the fourth gate, through which the sun with the moon proceeds, in the first part of it, (76) there are twelve open windows; from which issues out a flame, when they are opened in their proper periods.

(76) Through which…part of it. Or, "from which the sun rises in the first month" (Knibb, p. 168).

12When the sun rises in heaven, it goes forth through this fourth gate thirty days, and by the fourth gate in the west of heaven on a level with it descends.

13During that period the day is lengthened from the day, and the night curtailed from the night for thirty days. And then the day is longer by two parts than the night.

14The day is precisely ten parts, and the night is eight.

15The sun goes forth through this fourth gate, and sets in it, and turns to the fifth gate during thirty days; after which it proceeds from, and sets in, the fifth gate.

16Then the day becomes lengthened by a second portion, so that it is eleven parts: while the night becomes shortened, and is only seven parts.

17The sun now returns to the east, entering into the sixth gate, and rising and setting in the sixth gate thirty-one days, on account of its signs.

18At that period the day is longer than the night, being twice as long as the night; and become twelve parts;

19But the night is shortened, and becomes six parts. Then the sun rises up, that the day may be shortened, and the night lengthened.

20And the sun returns toward the east entering into the sixth gate, where it rises and sets for thirty days.

21When that period is completed, the day becomes shortened precisely one part, so that it is eleven parts, while the night is seven parts.

22Then the sun goes from the west, from that sixth gate, and proceeds eastwards, rising in the fifth gate for thirty days, and setting again westwards in the fifth gate of the west.

23At that period the day becomes shortened two parts; and is ten parts, while the night is eight parts.

24Then the sun goes from the fifth gate, as it sets in the fifth gate of the west; and rises in the fourth gate for thirty-one days, on account of its signs, setting in the west.

25At that period the day is made equal with the night; and, being equal with it, the night becomes nine parts, and the day nine parts.

26Then the sun goes from that gate, as it sets in the west; and returning to the east proceeds by the third gate for thirty days, setting in the west at the third gate.

27At that period the night is lengthened from the day during thirty mornings, and the day is curtailed from the day during thirty days; the night being ten parts precisely, and the day eight parts.

28The sun now goes from the third gate, as it sets in the third gate in the west; but returning to the east, it proceeds by the second gate of the east for thirty days.

29In like manner also it sets in the second gate in the west of heaven.

30At that period the night is eleven parts, and the day seven parts.

31Then the sun goes at that time from the second gate, as it sets in the second gate in the west; but returns to the east, proceeding by the first gate, for thirty-one days.

32And sets in the west in the first gate.

33At that period that night is lengthened as much again as the day.

34It is twelve parts precisely, while the day is six parts.

35The sun has thus completed its beginnings, and a second time goes round from these beginnings.

36Into that first gate it enters for thirty days, and sets in the west, in the opposite part of heaven.

37At that period the night is contracted in its length a fourth part, that is, one portion, and becomes eleven parts.

38The day is seven parts.

39Then the sun returns, and enters into the second gate of the east.

40It returns by these beginnings thirty days, rising and setting.

41At that period the night is contracted in its length. It becomes ten parts, and the day eight parts. Then the sun goes from that second gate, and sets in the west; but returns to the east, and rises in the east, in the third gate, thirty-one days, setting in the west of heaven.

42At that period the night becomes shortened. It is nine parts. And the night is equal with the day. The year is precisely three hundred and sixty-four days.

43The lengthening of the day and night, and the contraction of the day and night, are made to differ from each other by the progress of the sun.

44By means of this progress the day is daily lengthened, and the night greatly shortened.

45This is the law and progress of the sun, and its turning when it turns back, turning during sixty days, (77) and going forth. This is the great everlasting luminary, that which he names the sun for ever and ever.

(77) That is, it is sixty days in the same gates, viz. Thirty days twice every year (Laurence, p. 97).

46This also is that which goes forth a great luminary, and which is named after its peculiar kind, as God commanded.

47And thus it goes in and out, neither slackening nor resting; but running on in its chariot by day and by night. It shines with a seventh portion of light from the moon; (78) but the dimensions of both are equal.

(78) It shines with…from the moon. Or, "Its light is seven times brighter than that of the moon" (Knibb, p. 171). The Aramaic texts more clearly describe how the moon's light waxes and wanes by a half of a seventh part each day. Here in the Ethiopic version, the moon is thought of as two halves, each half being divided into seven parts. Hence, the "fourteen portions" of 72:9-10 (Knibb, p. 171).

Chapter 72

1After this law I beheld another law of an inferior luminary, the name of which is the moon, and the orb of which is as the orb of heaven.

2Its chariot, which it secretly ascends, the wind blows; and light is given to it by measure.

3Every month at its exit and entrance it becomes changed; and its periods are as the periods of the sun. And when in like manner its light is to exist, (79) its light is a seventh portion from the light of the sun.

(79) And when in…is to exist. I.e., when the moon is full (Knibb, p. 171).

4Thus it rises, and at its commencement towards the east goes forth for thirty days.

5At that time it appears, and becomes to you the beginning of the month. Thirty days it is with the sun in the gate from which the sun goes forth.

6Half of it is in extent seven portions, one half; and the whole of its orb is void of light, except a seventh portion out of the fourteen portions of its light. And in a day it receives a seventh portion, or half that portion, of its light. Its light is by sevens, by one portion, and by the half of a portion. Its sets with the sun.

7And when the sun rises, the moon rises with it; receiving half a portion of light.

8On that night, when it commences its period, previously to the day of the month, the moon sets with the sun.

9And on that night it is dark in its fourteen portions, that is, in each half; but it rises on that day with one seventh portion precisely, and in its progress declines from the rising of the sun.

10During the remainder of its period its light increases to fourteen portions.

Chapter 73

1Then I saw another progress and regulation which He effected in the law of the moon. The progress of the moons, and everything relating to them, Uriel showed me, the holy angel who conducted them all.

2Their stations I wrote down as he showed them to me.

3I wrote down their months, as they occur, and the appearance of their light, until it is completed in fifteen days.

4In each of its two seven portions it completes all its light at rising and at setting.

5On stated months it changes its settings; and on stated months it makes its progress through each gate. In two gates the moon sets with the sun, viz. in those two gates which are in the midst, in the third and fourth gate. From the third gate it goes forth for seven days, and makes its circuit.

6Again it returns to the gate whence the sun goes forth, and in that completes the whole of its light. Then it declines from the sun, and enters in eight days into the sixth gate, and returns in seven days to the third gate, from which the sun goes forth.

7When the sun proceeds to the fourth gate, the moon goes forth for seven days, until it passes from the fifth gate.

8Again it returns in seven days to the fourth gate, and completing all its light, declines, and passes on by the first gate in eight days;

9And returns in seven days to the fourth gate, from which the sun goes forth.

10Thus I beheld their stations, as according to the fixed order of the months the sun rises and sets.

11At those times there is an excess of thirty days belonging to the sun in five years; all the days belonging to each year of the five years, when completed, amount to three hundred and sixty-four days; and to the sun and stars belong six days; six days in each of the five years; thus thirty days belonging to them;

12So that the moon has thirty days less than the sun and stars.

13The moon brings on all the years exactly, that their stations may come neither too forwards nor too backwards a single day; but that the years may be changed with correct precision in three hundred and sixty-four days. In three years the days are one thousand and ninety-two; in five years they are one thousand eight hundred and twenty; and in eight years two thousand nine hundred and twelve days.

14To the moon alone belong in three years one thousand and sixty-two days; in five years it has fifty days less than the sun, for an addition being made to the one thousand and sixty-two days, in five years there are one thousand seven hundred and seventy days; and the days of the moon in eight years are two thousand eight hundred and thirty-two days.

15For its days in eight years are less than those of the sun by eighty days, which eighty days are its diminution in eight years.

16The year then becomes truly complete according to the station of the moon, and the station of the sun; which rise in the different gates; which rise and set in them for thirty days.

Chapter 74

1These are the leaders of the chiefs of the thousands, those which preside over all creation, and over all the stars; with the four days which are added and never separated from the place allotted them, according to the complete calculation of the year.

2And these serve four days, which are not calculated in the calculation of the year.

3Respecting them, men greatly err, for these luminaries truly serve, in the dwelling place of the world, one day in the first gate, one in the third gate, one in the fourth gate, and one in the sixth gate.

4And the harmony of the world becomes complete every three hundred and sixty-fourth state of it. For the signs,

5The seasons,

6The years,

7And the days, Uriel showed me; the angel whom the Lord of glory appointed over all the luminaries.

8Of heaven in heaven, and in the world; that they might rule in the face of the sky, and appearing over the earth, become

9Conductors of the days and nights: the sun, the moon, the stars, and all the ministers of heaven, which make their circuit with all the chariots of heaven.

10Thus Uriel showed me twelve gates open for the circuit of the chariots of the sun in heaven, from which the rays of the sun shoot forth.

11From these proceed heat over the earth, when they are opened in their stated seasons. They are for the winds, and the spirit of the dew, when in their seasons they are opened; opened in heaven at its extremities.

12Twelve gates I beheld in heaven, at the extremities of the earth, through which the sun, moon, and stars, and all the works of heaven, proceed at their rising and setting.

13Many windows also are open on the right and on the left.

14One window at a certain season grows extremely hot. So also are there gates from which the stars go forth as they are commanded, and in which they set according to their number.

15I saw likewise the chariots of heaven, running in the world above to those gates in which the stars turn, which never set. One of these is greater than all, which goes round the whole world.

Chapter 75

1And at the extremities of the earth I beheld twelve gates open for all the winds, from which they proceed and blow over the earth.

2Three of them are open in the front of heaven, three in the west, three on the right side of heaven, and three on the left. The first three are those which are towards the east, three are towards the north, three behind those which are upon the left, towards the south, and three on the west.

3From four of them proceed winds of blessing, and of health; and from eight proceed winds of punishment; when they are sent to destroy the earth, and the heaven above it, all its inhabitants, and all which are in the waters, or on dry land.

4The first of these winds proceeds from the gate termed the eastern, through the first gate on the east, which inclines southwards. From this goes forth destruction, drought, heat, and perdition.

5From the second gate, the middle one, proceeds equity. There issue from it rain, fruitfulness, health, and dew; and from the third gate northwards, proceed cold and drought.

6After these proceed the south winds through three principal gates; through their first gate, which inclines eastwards, proceeds a hot wind.

7But from the middle gate proceed grateful odour, dew, rain, health, and life.

8From the third gate, which is westwards, proceed dew, rain, blight, and destruction.

9After these are the winds to the north, which is called the sea. They proceed from three gates. The first (80) gate is that which is on the east, inclining southwards; from this proceed dew, rain, blight, and destruction. From the middle direct gate proceed rain, dew, life, and health. And from the third gate, which is westwards, inclining towards the south, proceed mist, frost, snow, rain, dew, and blight.

(80) First. Or, "seventh" (Knibb, p. 178).

10After these in the fourth quarter are the winds to the west. From the first gate, inclining northwards, proceed dew, rain, frost, cold, snow, and chill; from the middle gate proceed rain, health, and blessing;

11And from the last gate, which is southwards, proceed drought, destruction, scorching, and perdition.

12The account of the twelve gates of the four quarters of heaven is ended.

13All their laws, all their infliction of punishment, and the health produced by them, have I explained to you, my son Mathusala. (81)

(81) Mathusala. Enoch's son, Methuselah. Cp. Gen. 5:21.

Chapter 76

1The first wind is called the eastern, because it is the first.

2The second is called the south, because the Most High there descends, and frequently there descends he who is blessed for ever.

3The western wind has the name of diminution, because there all the luminaries of heaven are diminished, and descend.

4The fourth wind, which is named the north, is divided into three parts; one of which is for the habitation of man; another for seas of water, with valleys, woods, rivers, shady places, and snow; and the third part contains paradise.

5Seven high mountains I beheld, higher than all the mountains of the earth, from which frost proceeds; while days, seasons, and years depart and pass away.

6Seven rivers I beheld upon earth, greater than all rivers, one of which takes its course from the west; into a great sea its water flows.

7Two come from the north to the sea, their waters flowing into the Erythraean sea, (82) on the east. And with respect to the remaining four, they take their course in the cavity of the north, two to their sea, the Erythraean sea, and two are poured into a great sea, where also it is said there is a desert.

(82) The Red Sea.

8Seven great islands I saw in the sea and on the earth. Seven in the great sea.

Chapter 77

1The names of the sun are these: one Aryares, the other Tomas.

2The moon has four names. The first is Asonya; the second, Ebla; the third, Benase; and the fourth, Erae.

3These are the two great luminaries, whose orbs are as the orbs of heaven; and the dimensions of both are equal.

4In the orb of the sun there is a seventh portion of light, which is added to it from the moon. (83) By measure it is put in, until the seventh portion of the light of the sun is departed. They set, enter into the western gate, circuit by the north, and through the eastern gate go forth over the face of heaven.

(83) A seventh portion…from the moon. Or, "seven parts of light which are added to it more than to the moon" (Knibb, p. 182).

5When the moon rises, it appears in heaven; and the half of a seventh portion of light is all which is in it.

6In fourteen days the whole of its light is completed.

7By three quintuples light is put into it, until in fifteen days its light is completed, according to the signs of the year; it has three quintuples.

8The moon has the half of a seventh portion.

9During its diminution on the first day its light decreases a fourteenth part; on the second day it decreases a thirteenth part; on the third day a twelfth part; on the fourth day an eleventh part; on the fifth day a tenth part; on the sixth day a ninth part; on the seventh day it decreases an eighth part; on the eighth day it decreases a seventh part; on the ninth day it decreases a sixth part; on the tenth day it decreases a fifth part; on the eleventh day it decreases a fourth part; on the twelfth day it decreases third part; on the thirteenth day it decreases a second part; on the fourteenth day it decreases a half of its seventh part; and on the fifteenth day the whole remainder of its light is consumed.

10On stated months the moon has twenty-nine days.

11It also has a period of twenty-eight days.

12Uriel likewise showed me another regulation, when light is poured into the moon, how it is poured into it from the sun.

13All the time that the moon is in progress with its light, it is poured into it in the presence of the sun, until its light is in fourteen days completed in heaven.

14And when it is wholly extinguished, its light is consumed in heaven; and on the first day it is called the new moon, for on that day light is received into it.

15It becomes precisely completed on the day that the sun descends into the west, while the moon ascends at night from the east.

16The moon then shines all the night, until the sun rises before it; when the moon disappears in turn before the sun.

17Where light comes to the moon, there again it decreases, until all its light is extinguished, and the days of the moon pass away.

18Then its orb remains solitary without light.

19During three months it effects in thirty days each month its period; and during three more months it effects it in twenty-nine days each. These are the times in which it effects its decrease in its first period, and in the first gate, namely, in one hundred and seventy-seven days.

20And at the time of its going forth during three months it appears thirty days each, and during three more months it appears twenty-nine days each.

21In the night it appears for each twenty days as the face of a man, and in the day as heaven; for it is nothing else except its light.

Chapter 78

1And now, my son Mathusala, I have shown you everything; and the account of every ordinance of the stars of heaven is finished.

2He showed me every ordinance respecting these, which takes place at all times and in all seasons under every influence, in all years, at the arrival and under the rule of each, during every month and every week. He showed me also the decrease of the moon, which is effected in the sixth gate; for in that sixth gate is its light consumed.

3From this is the beginning of the month; and its decrease is effected in the sixth gate in its period, until a hundred and seventy-seven days are completed; according to the mode of calculation by weeks, twenty-five weeks and two days.

4Its period is less that that of the sun, according to the ordinance of the stars, by five days in one half year (84) precisely.

(84) In one half year. Literally, "in one time" (Laurence, p. 110).

5When that their visible situation is completed. Such is the appearance and likeness of every luminary, which Uriel, the great angel who conducts them, showed to me.

Chapter 79

1In those days Uriel answered and said to me, Behold, I have showed you all things, O Enoch;

2And all things have I revealed to you. You see the sun, the moon, and those which conduct the stars of heaven, which cause all their operations, seasons, and arrivals to return.

3In the days of sinners the years shall be shortened.

4Their seed shall be backward in their prolific soil; and everything done on earth shall be subverted, and disappear in its season. The rain shall be restrained, and heaven shall stand still.

5In those days the fruits of the earth shall be late, and not flourish in their season; and in their season the fruits of the trees shall be withholden.

6The moon shall change its laws, and not be seen at its proper period. But in those days shall heaven be seen; and barrenness shall take place in the borders of the great chariots in the west. Heaven shall shine more than when illuminated by the orders of light; while many chiefs among the stars of authority shall err, perverting their ways and works.

7Those shall not appear in their season, who commanded them, and all the classes of the stars shall be shut up against sinners.

8The thoughts of those who dwell on the earth shall transgress within them; and they shall be perverted in all their ways.

9They shall transgress, and think themselves (85) gods; while evil shall be multiplied among them.

(85) Themselves. Or, "them" i.e., the chiefs among the stars (vs. 6) (Knibb, p. 186).

10And punishment shall come upon them, so that all of them shall be destroyed.

Chapter 80

1He said, O Enoch, look on the book which heaven has gradually dropped down; (86) and, reading that which is written in it, understand every part of it.

(86) The book which…dropped down. Or, "the book of the tablets of heaven" (Knibb, p. 186).

2Then I looked on all which was written, and understood all, reading the book and everything written in it, all the works of man;

3And of all the children of flesh upon earth, during the generations of the world.

4Immediately after I blessed the Lord, the King of glory, who has thus for ever formed the whole workmanship of the world.

5And I glorified the Lord, on account of his long-suffering and blessing towards the children of the world.

6At that time I said, Blessed is the man, who shall die righteous and good, against whom no catalogue of crime has been written, and with whom iniquity is not found.

7Then those three holy ones caused me to approach, and placed me on the earth, before the door of my house.

8And they said unto me, Explain everything to Mathusala your son; and inform all your children, that no flesh shall be justified before the Lord; for he is their Creator.

9During one year we shall leave you with your children, until you shalt again recover your strength, that you may instruct your family, write these things, and explain them to all your children. But in another year they shall take you from the midst of them, and your heart shall be strengthened; for the elect shall point out righteousness to the elect; the righteous with the righteous shall rejoice, congratulating each other; but the sinners with sinners shall die,

10And the perverted with the perverted shall be drowned.

11Those likewise who act righteously shall die on account of the works of man, and shall be gathered together on account of the works of the wicked.

12In those days they finished conversing with me.

13And I returned to my fellow men, blessing the Lord of worlds.

Chapter 81

1Now, my son Mathusala, all these things I speak unto you, and write for you. To you I have revealed all, and have given you books of everything.

2Preserve, my son Mathusala, the books written by your father; that you may reveal them to future generations.

3Wisdom have I given you, to your children, and your posterity, that they may reveal to their children, for generations for ever, this wisdom in their thoughts; and that those who comprehend it may not slumber, but hear with their ears; that they may learn this wisdom, and be deemed worthy of eating this wholesome food.

4Blessed are all the righteous; blessed are all who walk in righteousness; in whom no crime is found, as in sinners, when all their days are numbered.

5With respect to the progress of the sun in heaven, it enters and goes out of each gate for thirty days, with the leaders of the thousand classes of the stars; with four which are added, and appertain to the four quarters of the year, which conduct them, and accompany them at four periods.

6Respecting these, men greatly err, and do not calculate them in the calculation of every age; for they greatly err respecting them; nor do men know accurately that they are in the calculation of the year. But indeed these are marked down for ever; one in the first gate, one in the third, one in the fourth, and one in the sixth:

7So that the year is completed in three hundred and sixty-four days.

8Truly has been stated, and accurately has been calculated that which is marked down; for the luminaries, the months, the fixed periods, the years, and the days, Uriel has explained to me, and communicated to me; whom the Lord of all creation, on my account, commanded (according to the might of heaven, and the power which it possesses both by night and by day) to explain the laws of light to man, of the sun, moon, and stars, and of all the powers of heaven, which are turned with their respective orbs.

9This is the ordinance of the stars, which set in their places, in their seasons, in their periods, in their days, and in their months.

10These are the names of the those who conduct them, who watch and enter in their seasons, according to their ordinance in their periods, in their months, in the times of their influence, and in their stations.

11Four conductors of them first enter, who separate the four quarters of the year. After these, twelve conductors of their classes, who separate the months and the year into three hundred and sixty-four days, with the leaders of a thousand, who distinguish between the days, as well as between the four additional ones; which, as conductors, divide the four quarters of the year.

12These leaders of a thousand are in the midst of the conductors, and the conductors are added each behind his station, and their conductors make the separation. These are the names of the conductors, who separate the four quarters of the year, who are appointed over them: Melkel, Helammelak,

13Meliyal, and Narel.

14And the names of those who conduct them are Adnarel, Jyasusal, and Jyelumeal.

15These are the three who follow after the conductors of the classes of stars; each following after the three conductors of the classes, which themselves follow after those conductors of the stations, who divide the four quarters of the year.

16In the first part of the year rises and rules Melkyas, who is named Tamani, and Zahay. (87)

(87) Tamani, and Zahay. Or, "the southern sun" (Knibb, p. 190).

17All the days of his influence, during which he rules, are ninety-one days.

18And these are the signs of the days which are seen upon the earth. In the days of his influence there is perspiration, heat, and trouble. All the trees become fruitful; the leaf of every tree comes forth; the corn is reaped; the rose and every species of flowers blossoms in the field; and the trees of winter are dried up.

19These are the names of the conductors who are under them: Barkel, Zelsabel; and another additional conductor of a thousand is named Heloyalef, the days of those influence have been completed. The other conductor next after them is Helemmelek, whose name they call the splendid Zahay. (88)

(88) Zahay. Or, "sun" (Knibb, p. 191).

20All the days of his light are ninety-one days.

21These are the signs of the days upon earth, heat and drought; while the trees bring forth their fruits, warmed and concocted, and give their fruits to dry.

22The flocks follow and yean. (89) All the fruits of the earth are collected, with everything in the fields, and the vines are trodden. This takes place during the time of his influence.

(89) Follow and yean. Mate and bear young.

23These are their names and orders, and the names of the conductors who are under them, of those who are chiefs of a thousand: Gedaeyal, Keel, Heel.

24And the name of the additional leader of a thousand is Asphael.

25The days of his influence have been completed.

Chapter 82

1And now I have shown you, my son Mathusala, every sight which I saw prior to your birth. I will relate another vision, which I saw before I was married; they resemble each other.

2The first was when I was learning a book; and the other before I was married to your mother. I saw a potent vision;

3And on account of these things besought the Lord.

4I was lying down in the house of my grandfather Malalel, when I saw in a vision heaven purifying, and snatched away. (90)

(90) Purifying, and snatched away. Or, "was thrown down and removed" (Knibb, p. 192).

5And falling to the earth, (91) I saw likewise the earth absorbed by a great abyss; and mountains suspended over mountains.

(91) And falling to the earth. Or, "and when it fell upon the earth" (Knibb, p. 192).

6Hills were sinking upon hills, lofty trees were gliding off from their trunks, and were in the act of being projected, and of sinking into the abyss.

7Being alarmed at these things, my voice faltered. (92) I cried out and said, The earth is destroyed. Then my grandfather Malalel raised me up, and said to me: Why do you thus cry out, my son? And wherefore thus do you lament?

(92) My voice faltered. Literally, "the word fell down in my mouth" (Laurence, p. 118).

8I related to him the whole vision which I had seen. He said to me, Confirmed is that which you have seen, my son;

9And potent the vision of your dream respecting every secret sin of the earth. Its substance shall sink into the abyss, and a great destruction take place.

10Now, my son, rise up; and beseech the Lord of glory (for you are faithful), that a remnant may be left upon earth, and that he would not wholly destroy it. My son, all this calamity upon earth comes down from heaven; upon earth shall there be a great destruction.

11Then I arose, prayed, and entreated; and wrote down my prayer for the generations of the world, explaining everything to my son Mathusala.

12When I went down below, and looking up to heaven, beheld the sun proceeding from the east, the moon descending to the west, a few scattered stars, and everything which God has known from the beginning, I blessed the Lord of judgment, and magnified him: because he hath sent forth the sun from the chambers (93) of the east; that, ascending and rising in the face of heaven, it might spring up, and pursue the path which has been pointed out to it.

(93) Chambers. Literally, "windows" (Laurence, p. 119).

Chapter 83

1I lifted up my hands in righteousness, and blessed the holy, and the Great One. I spoke with the breath of my mouth, and with a tongue of flesh, which God has formed for all the sons of mortal men, that with it they may speak; giving them breath, a mouth, and a tongue to converse with.

2Blessed are you, O Lord, the King, great and powerful in your greatness, Lord of all the creatures of heaven, King of kings, God of the whole world, whose reign, whose kingdom, and whose majesty endure for ever and ever.

3From generation to generation shall your dominion exist. All the heavens are your throne for ever, and all the earth your footstool for ever and for ever.

4For you have made them, and over all you reign. No act whatsoever exceeds your power. With your wisdom is unchangeable; nor from your throne and from your presence is it ever averted. You know all things, see and hear them; nor is anything concealed from you; for you perceive all things.

5The angels of your heavens have transgressed; and on mortal flesh shall your wrath remain, until the day of the great judgment.

6Now then, O God, Lord and mighty King, I entreat you, and beseech you to grant my prayer, that a posterity may be left to me on earth, and that the whole human race may not perish;

7That the earth may not be left destitute, and destruction take place for ever.

8O my Lord, let the race perish from off the earth which has offended you, but a righteous and upright race establish for a posterity (94) for ever. Hide not your face, O Lord, from the prayer of your servant.

(94) For a posterity. Literally, "for the plant of a seed" (Laurence, p. 121).

Chapter 84

1After this I saw another dream, and explained it all to you, my son. Enoch arose and said to his son Mathusala, To you, my son, will I speak. Hear my word; and incline your ear to the visionary dream of your father. Before I married your mother Edna, I saw a vision on my bed; (95)

(95) This second vision of Enoch seems to portray in symbolic language the complete history of the world from the time of Adam down to the final judgment and the establishment of the Messianic Kingdom (Charles, p. 227).

2And behold, a cow sprung forth from the earth;

3And this cow was white.

4Afterwards a female heifer sprung forth; and with it another heifer: (96) one of them was black, and one was red. (97)

(96) Another heifer. The sense seems to require that the passage should read, "two other heifers" (Laurence, p. 121).
(97) Cain and Abel.

5The black heifer then struck the red one, and pursued it over the earth.

6From that period I could see nothing more of the red heifer; but the black one increased in bulk, and a female heifer came with him.

7After this I saw that many cows proceeded forth, resembling him, and following after him.

8The first female young one also went out in the presence of the first cow; and sought the red heifer, but found him not.

9And she lamented with a great lamentation, while she was seeking him.

10Then I looked until that first cow came to her, from which time she became silent, and ceased to lament.

11Afterwards she calved another white cow.

12And again calved many cows and black heifers.

13In my sleep also I perceived a white bull, which in like manner grew, and became a large white bull.

14After him many white cows came forth, resembling him.

15And they began to calve many other white cows, which resembled them and followed each other.

Chapter 85

1Again I looked attentively, while sleeping, and surveyed heaven above.

2And behold a single star fell from heaven.

3Which being raised up, ate and fed among those cows.

4After that I perceived other large and black cows; and behold all of them changed their stalls and pastures, while their young began to lament one with another. Again I looked in my vision, and surveyed heaven; when behold I saw many stars which descended, and projected themselves from heaven to where the first star was,

5Into the midst of those young ones; while the cows were with them, feeding in the midst of them.

6I looked at and observed them; when behold, they all acted after the manner of horses, and began to approach the young cows, all of whom became pregnant, and brought forth elephants, camels, and asses.

7At these all the cows were alarmed and terrified; when they began biting with their teeth, swallowing, and striking with their horns.

8They began also to devour the cows; and behold all the children of the earth trembled, shook with terror at them, and suddenly fled away.

Chapter 86

1Again I perceived them, when they began to strike and to swallow each other; and the earth cried out. Then I raised my eyes a second time towards heaven, and saw in a vision, that, behold, there came forth from heaven as it were the likeness of white men. One came forth from thence, and three with him.

2Those three, who came forth last, seized me by my hand; and raising me up from the generations of the earth, elevated me to a high station.

3Then they showed me a lofty tower on the earth, while every hill became diminished. And they said, Remain here, until you perceive what shall come upon those elephants, camels, and asses, upon the stars, and upon all the cows.

Chapter 87

1Then I looked at that one of the four white men, who came forth first.

2He seized the first star which fell down from heaven.

3And, binding it hand and foot, he cast it into a valley; a valley narrow, deep, stupendous, and gloomy.

4Then one of them drew his sword, and gave it to the elephants, camels, and asses, who began to strike each other. And the whole earth shook on account of them.

5And when I looked in the vision, behold, one of those four angels, who came forth, hurled from heaven, collected together, and took all the great stars, whose form partly resembles that of horses; and binding them all hand and foot, cast them into the cavities of the earth.

Chapter 88

1Then one of those four went to the white cows, and taught them a mystery. While the cow was trembling, it was born, and became a man, (98) and fabricated for himself a large ship. In this he dwelt, and three cows (99) dwelt with him in that ship, which covered them.

(98) Noah.
(99) Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

2Again I lifted up my eyes towards heaven, and saw a lofty roof. Above it were seven cataracts, which poured fourth on a certain village much water.

3Again I looked, and behold there were fountains open on the earth in that large village.

4The water began to boil up, and rose over the earth; so that the village was not seen, while its whole soil was covered with water.

5Much water was over it, darkness, and clouds. Then I surveyed the height of this water; and it was elevated above the village.

6It flowed over the village, and stood higher than the earth.

7Then all the cows which were collected there, while I looked on them, were drowned, swallowed up, and destroyed in the water.

8But the ship floated above it. All the cows, the elephants, the camels, and the asses, were drowned on the earth, and all cattle. Nor could I perceive them. Neither were they able to get out, but perished, and sunk into the deep.

9Again I looked in the vision until those cataracts from that lofty roof were removed, and the fountains of the earth became equalized, while other depths were opened;

10Into which the water began to descend, until the dry ground appeared.

11The ship remained on the earth; the darkness receded; and it became light.

12Then the white cow, which became a man, went out of the ship, and the three cows with him.

13One of the three cows was white, resembling that cow; one of them was red as blood; and one of them was black. And the white cow left them.

14Then began wild beasts and birds to bring forth.

15Of all these the different kinds assembled together, lions, tigers, wolves, dogs, wild boars, foxes, rabbits, and the hanzar.

16The siset, the avest, kites, the phonkas, and ravens.

17Then the white cow (100) was born in the midst of them.

(100) Abraham.

18And they began to bite each other; when the white cow, which was born in the midst of them, brought forth a wild ass and a white cow at the same time, and after that many wild asses. Then the white cow, (101) which was born, brought forth a black wild sow and a white sheep. (102)

(101) Isaac.
(102) Esau and Jacob.

19That wild sow also brought forth many swine.

20And that sheep brought forth twelve sheep. (103)

(103) The twelve patriarchs.

21When those twelve sheep grew up, they delivered one of them (104) to the asses. (105)

(104) Joseph.
(105) The Midianites.

22Again those asses delivered that sheep to the wolves, (106)

(106) The Egyptians.

23And he grew up in the midst of them.

24Then the Lord brought the eleven other sheep, that they might dwell and feed with him in the midst of the wolves.

25They multiplied, and there was abundance of pasture for them.

26But the wolves began to frighten and oppress them, while they destroyed their young ones.

27And they left their young in torrents of deep water.

28Now the sheep began to cry out on account of their young, and fled for refuge to their Lord. One (107) however, which was saved, escaped, and went away to the wild asses.

(107) Moses.

29I beheld the sheep moaning, crying, and petitioning their Lord.

30With all their might, until the Lord of the sheep descended at their voice from his lofty habitation; went to them; and inspected them.

31He called to that sheep which had secretly stolen away from the wolves, and told him to make the wolves understand that they were not to touch the sheep.

32Then that sheep went to the wolves with the word of the Lord, when another met him, (108) and proceeded with him.

(108) Aaron.

33Both of them together entered the dwelling of the wolves; and conversing with them made them understand, that thenceforwards they were not to touch the sheep.

34Afterwards I perceived the wolves greatly prevailing over the sheep with their whole force. The sheep cried out; and their Lord came to them.

35He began to strike the wolves, who commenced a grievous lamentation; but the sheep were silent, nor from that time did they cry out.

36I then looked at them, until they departed from the wolves. The eyes of the wolves were blind, who went out and followed them with all their might. But the Lord of the sheep proceeded with them, and conducted them.

37All his sheep followed him.

38His countenance was terrific and splendid, and glorious was his aspect. Yet the wolves began to follow the sheep, until they overtook them in a certain lake of water. (109)

(109) The Red Sea.

39Then that lake became divided; the water standing up on both sides before their face.

40And while their Lord was conducting them, he placed himself between them and the wolves.

41The wolves however perceived not the sheep, but went into the midst of the lake, following them, and running after them into the lake of water.

42But when they saw the Lord of the sheep, they turned to fly from before his face.

43Then the water of the lake returned, and that suddenly, according to its nature. It became full, and was raised up, until it covered the wolves. And I saw that all of them which had followed the sheep perished, and were drowned.

44But the sheep passed over this water, proceeding to a wilderness, which was without both water and grass. And they began to open their eyes and to see.

45Then I beheld the Lord of the sheep inspecting them, and giving them water and grass.

46The sheep already mentioned was proceeding with them, and conducting them.

47And when he had ascended the top of the lofty rock, the Lord of the sheep sent him to them.

48Afterwards I perceived their Lord standing before them, with an aspect terrific and severe.

49And when they all beheld him, they were frightened at his countenance.

50All of them were alarmed, and trembled. They cried out after that sheep; and to the other sheep who had been with him, and who was in the midst of them, saying, We are not able to stand before our Lord, or to look upon him.

51Then that sheep who conducted them went away, and ascended the top of the rock;

52When the rest of the sheep began to grow blind, and to wander from the path which he had shown them; but he knew it not.

53Their Lord however was moved with great indignation against them; and when that sheep had learned what had happened,

54He descended from the top of the rock, and coming to them, found that there were many,

55Which had become blind;

56And had wandered from his path. As soon as they beheld him, they feared, and trembled at his presence;

57And became desirous of returning to their fold,

58Then that sheep, taking with him other sheep, went to those which had wandered.

59And afterwards began to kill them. They were terrified at his countenance. Then he caused those which had wandered to return; who went back to their fold.

60I likewise saw there in the vision, that this sheep became a man, built a house (110) for the Lord of the sheep, and made them all stand in the house.

(110) A house. A tabernacle (Milik, p. 205).

61I perceived also that the sheep which proceeded to meet this sheep, their conductor, died. I saw, too, that all the great sheep perished, while smaller ones rose up in their place, entered into a pasture, and approached a river of water. (111)

(111) The river Jordan.

62Then that sheep, their conductor, who became a man, was separated from them, and died.

63All the sheep sought after him, and cried for him with bitter lamentation.

64I saw likewise that they ceased to cry after that sheep, and passed over the river of water.

65And that there arose other sheep, all of whom conducted them, (112) instead of those who were dead, and who had previously conducted them.

(112) The Judges of Israel.

66Then I saw that the sheep entered into a goodly place, and a territory delectable and glorious.

67I saw also that they became satiated; that their house was in the midst of a delectable territory; and that sometimes their eyes were opened, and that sometimes they were blind; until another sheep (113) arose and conducted them. He brought them all back; and their eyes were opened.

(113) Samuel.

68Then dogs, foxes, and wild boars began to devour them, until again another sheep (114) arose, the master of the flock, one of themselves, a ram, to conduct them. This ram began to butt on every side those dogs, foxes, and wild boars, until they all perished.

(114) Saul.

his eyes, and saw the ram in the midst of them, who had laid aside his glory.

70And he began to strike the sheep, treading upon them, and behaving himself without dignity.

71Then their Lord sent the former sheep again to a still different sheep, (115) and raised him up to be a ram, and to conduct them instead of that sheep who had laid aside his glory.

(115) David.

72Going therefore to him, and conversing with him alone, he raised up that ram, and made him a prince and leader of the flock. All the time that the dogs (116) troubled the sheep,

(116) The Philistines.

73The first ram paid respect to this latter ram.

74Then the latter ram arose, and fled away from before his face. And I saw that those dogs caused the first ram to fall.

75But the latter ram arose, and conducted the smaller sheep.

76That ram likewise begat many sheep, and died.

77Then there was a smaller sheep, (117) a ram, instead of him, which became a prince and leader, conducting the flock.

(117) Solomon.

78And the sheep increased in size, and multiplied.

79And all the dogs, foxes, and wild boars feared, and fled away from him.

80That ram also struck and killed all the wild beasts, so that they could not again prevail in the midst of the sheep, nor at any time ever snatch them away.

81And that house was made large and wide; a lofty tower being built upon it by the sheep, for the Lord of the sheep.

82The house was low, but the tower was elevated and very high.

83Then the Lord of the sheep stood upon that tower, and caused a full table to approach before him.

84Again I saw that those sheep wandered, and went various ways, forsaking that their house;

85And that their Lord called to some among them, whom he sent (118) to them.

(118) The prophets.

86But these the sheep began to kill. And when one of them was saved from slaughter (119) he leaped, and cried out against those who were desirous of killing him.

(119) Elijah.

87But the Lord of the sheep delivered him from their hands, and made him ascend to him, and remain with him.

88He sent also many others to them, to testify, and with lamentations to exclaim against them.

89Again I saw, when some of them forsook the house of their Lord, and his tower; wandering on all sides, and growing blind,

90I saw that the Lord of the sheep made a great slaughter among them in their pasture, until they cried out to him in consequence of that slaughter. Then he departed from the place of his habitation, and left them in the power of lions, tigers, wolves, and the zeebt, (120) and in the power of foxes, and of every beast.

(120) Zeebt. Hyenas. (Knibb, p. 209).

91And the wild beasts began to tear them.

92I saw, too, that he forsook the house of their fathers, and their tower; giving them all into the power of lions to tear and devour them; into the power of every beast.

93Then I began to cry out with all my might, imploring the Lord of the sheep, and showing him how the sheep were devoured by all the beasts of prey.

94But he looked on in silence, rejoicing that they were devoured, swallowed up, and carried off; and leaving them in the power of every beast for food. He called also seventy shepherds, and resigned to them the care of the sheep, that they might overlook them;

95Saying to them and to their associates, Every one of you henceforwards overlook the sheep, and whatsoever I command you, do; and I will deliver them to you numbered.

96I will tell you which of them shall be slain; these destroy. And he delivered the sheep to them.

97Then he called to another, and said, Understand, and watch everything which the shepherds shall do to these sheep; for many more of them shall perish than I have commanded.

98Of every excess and slaughter, which the shepherds shall commit, there shall be an account; as, how many may have perished by my command, and how many they may have destroyed of their own heads.

99Of all the destruction brought about by each of the shepherds there shall be an account; and according to the number I will cause a recital to be made before me, how many they have destroyed of their own heads, and how many they have delivered up to destruction, that I may have this testimony against them; that I may know all their proceedings; and that, delivering the sheep to them, I may see what they will do; whether they will act as I have commanded them, or not.

100Of this, however, they shall be ignorant; neither shall you make any explanation to them, neither shall you reprove them; but there shall be an account of all the destruction done by them in their respective seasons. Then they began to kill, and destroy more than it was commanded them.

101And they left the sheep in the power of the lions, so that very many of them were devoured and swallowed up by lions and tigers; and wild boars preyed upon them. That tower they burnt, and overthrew that house.

102Then I grieved extremely on account of the tower, and because the house of the sheep was overthrown.

103Neither was I afterwards able to perceive whether they again entered that house.

104The shepherds likewise, and their associates, delivered them to all the wild beasts, that they might devour them. Each of them in his season, according to his number, was delivered up; each of them, one with another, was described in a book, how many of them, one with another, were destroyed, in a book.

105More, however, than was ordered, every shepherd killed and destroyed.

106Then I began to weep, and was greatly indignant, on account of the sheep.

107In like manner also I saw in the vision him who wrote, how he wrote down one, destroyed by the shepherds, every day. He ascended, remained, and exhibited each of his books to the Lord of the sheep, containing all which they had done, and all which each of them had made away with;

108And all which they had delivered up to destruction.

109He took the book up in his hands, read it, sealed it, and deposited it.

110After this, I saw shepherds overlooking for twelve hours.

111And behold three of the sheep (121) departed, arrived, went in; and began building all which was fallen down of that house.

(121) Zerubbabel, Joshua, and Nehemiah.

112But the wild boars (122) hindered them, although they prevailed not.

(122) The Samaritans.

113Again they began to build as before, and raised up that tower, which was called a lofty tower.

114And again they began to place before the tower a table, with every impure and unclean kind of bread upon it.

115Moreover also all the sheep were blind, and could not see, as were the shepherds likewise.

116Thus were they delivered up to the shepherds for a great destruction, who trod them under foot, and devoured them.

117Yet was their Lord silent, until all the sheep in the field were destroyed. The shepherds and the sheep were all mixed together; but they did not save them from the power of the beasts.

118Then he who wrote the book ascended, exhibited it, and read it at the residence of the Lord of the sheep. He petitioned him for them, and prayed, pointing out every act of the shepherds, and testifying before him against them all. Then taking the book, he deposited it with him, and departed.

Chapter 89

1And I observed during the time, that thus thirty-seven (123) shepherds were overlooking, all of whom finished in their respective periods as the first. Others then received them into their hands, that they might overlook them in their respective periods, every shepherd in his own period.

(123) Thirty-seven. An apparent error for thirty-five (see verse 7). The kings of Judah and Israel (Laurence, p. 139).

2Afterwards I saw in the vision, that all the birds of heaven arrived; eagles, the avest, kites and ravens. The eagle instructed them all.

3They began to devour the sheep, to peck out their eyes, and to eat up their bodies.

4The sheep then cried out; for their bodies were devoured by the birds.

5I also cried out, and groaned in my sleep against the shepherd which overlooked the flock.

6And I looked, while the sheep were eaten up by the dogs, by the eagles, and by the kites. They neither left them their body, nor their skin, nor their muscles, until their bones alone remained; until their bones fell upon the ground. And the sheep became diminished.

7I observed likewise during the time, that twenty-tree shepherds (124) were overlooking; who completed in their respective periods fifty-eight periods.

(124) The kings of Babylon, etc., during and after the captivity. The numbers thirty-five and twenty-three make fifty-eight; and not thirty-seven, as erroneously put in the first verse (Laurence, p. 139).

8Then were small lambs born of those white sheep; who began to open their eyes and to see, crying out to the sheep.

9The sheep, however, cried not out to them, neither did they hear what they uttered to them; but were deaf, blind, and obdurate in the greatest degrees.

10I saw in the vision that ravens flew down upon those lambs;

11That they seized one of them; and that tearing the sheep in pieces, they devoured them.

12I saw also, that the horns grew upon those lambs; and that the ravens lighted down upon their horns.

13I saw, too, that a large horn sprouted out on an animal among the sheep, and that their eyes were opened.

14He looked at them. Their eyes were wide open; and he cried out to them.

15Then the dabela (125) saw him; all of whom ran to him.

(125) Dabela. The ibex, probably symbolizing Alexander the Great (Laurence, p. 140).

16And besides this, all the eagles, the avest, the ravens and the kites, were still carrying off the sheep, flying down upon them, and devouring them. The sheep were silent, but the dabela lamented and cried out.

17Then the ravens contended, and struggled with them.

18They wished among them to break his horn; but they prevailed not over him.

19I looked on them, until the shepherds, the eagles, the avest, and the kites came.

20Who cried out to the ravens to break the horn of the dabela; to contend with him; and to kill him. But he struggled with them, and cried out, that help might come to him.

21Then I perceived that the man came who had written down the names of the shepherds, and who ascended up before the Lord of the sheep.

22He brought assistance, and caused every one to see him descending to the help of the dabela.

23I perceived likewise that the Lord of the sheep came to them in wrath, while all those who saw him fled away; all fell down in his tabernacle before his face; while all the eagles, the avest, ravens, and kites assembled, and brought with them all the sheep of the field.

24All came together, and strove to break the horn of the dabela.

25Then I saw, that the man, who wrote the book at the word of the Lord, opened the book of destruction, of that destruction which the last twelve shepherds (126) wrought; and pointed out before the Lord of the sheep, that they destroyed more than those who preceded them.

(126) The native princes of Judah after its delivery from the Syrian yoke.

26I saw also that the Lord of the sheep came to them, and taking in his hand the sceptre of his wrath seized the earth, which became rent asunder; while all the beasts and birds of heaven fell from the sheep, and sunk into the earth, which closed over them.

27I saw, too, that a large sword was given to the sheep, who went forth against all the beasts of the field to slay them.

28But all the beasts and birds of heaven fled away from before their face.

29And I saw a throne erected in a delectable land;

30Upon this sat the Lord of the sheep, who received all the sealed books;

31Which were open before him.

32Then the Lord called the first seven white ones, and commanded them to bring before him the first of the first stars, which preceded the stars whose form partly resembled that of horses; the first star, which fell down first; and they brought them all before him.

33And he spoke to the man who wrote in his presence, who was one of the seven white ones, saying, Take those seventy shepherds, to whom I delivered up the sheep, and who receiving them killed more of them than I commanded. Behold, I saw them all bound, and standing before him. First came on the trial of the stars, which, being judged, and found guilty, went to the place of punishment. They thrust them into a place, deep, and full of flaming fire, and full of pillars of fire. Then the seventy shepherds were judged, and being found guilty, were thrust into the flaming abyss.

34At that time likewise I perceived, that one abyss was thus opened in the midst of the earth, which was full of fire.

35And to this were brought the blind sheep; which being judged, and found guilty, were all thrust into that abyss of fire on the earth, and burnt.

36The abyss was on the right of that house.

37And I saw the sheep burning, and their bones consuming.

38I stood beholding him immerge that ancient house, while they brought out its pillars, every plant in it, and the ivory infolding it. They brought it out, and deposited it in a place on the right side of the earth.

39I also saw, that the Lord of the sheep produced a new house, great, and loftier than the former, which he bound by the former circular spot. All its pillars were new, and its ivory new, as well as more abundant than the former ancient ivory, which he had brought out.

40And while all the sheep which were left were in the midst of it, all the beasts of the earth, and all the birds of heaven, fell down and worshipped them, petitioning them, and obeying them in everything.

41Then those three, who were clothed in white, and who, holding me by my hand, had before caused me to ascend, while the hand of him who spoke held me; raised me up, and placed me in the midst of the sheep, before the judgment took place.

42The sheep were all white, with wool long and pure. Then all who had perished, and had been destroyed, every beast of the field, and every bird of heaven, assembled in that house: while the Lord of the sheep rejoiced with great joy, because all were good, and had come back again to his dwelling.

43And I saw that they laid down the sword which had been given to the sheep, and returned it to his house, sealing it up in the presence of the Lord.

44All the sheep would have been inclosed in that house, had it been capable of containing them; and the eyes of all were open, gazing on the good One; nor was there one among them who did not behold him.

45I likewise perceived that the house was large, wide, and extremely full. I saw, too, that a white cow was born, whose horns were great; and that all the beasts of the field, and all the birds of heaven, were alarmed at him, and entreated him at all times.

46Then I saw that the nature of all of them was changed, and that they became white cows;

47And that the first, who was in the midst of them, spoke, when that word became (127) a large beast, upon the head of which were great and black horns;

(127) Spoke, when that word came. Or "was a wild-ox, and that wild-ox was…" (Knibb, p. 216).

48While the Lord of the sheep rejoiced over them, and over all the cows.

49I lay down in the midst of them: I awoke; and saw the whole. This is the vision which I saw, lying down and waking. Then I blessed the Lord of righteousness, and gave glory to Him.

50Afterwards I wept abundantly, nor did my tears cease, so that I became incapable of enduring it. While I was looking on, they flowed on account of what I saw; for all was come and gone by; every individual circumstance respecting the conduct of mankind was seen by me.

51In that night I remembered my former dream; and therefore wept and was troubled, because I had seen that vision.

Chapter 90

1And now, my son Mathusala, call to me all your brethren, and assemble for me all the children of your mother; for a voice calls me, and the spirit is poured out upon me, that I may show you everything which shall happen to you for ever.

2Then Mathusala went, called to him all his brethren, and assembled his kindred.

3And conversing with all his children in truth,

4Enoch said, Hear, my children, every word of your father, and listen in uprightness to the voice of my mouth; for I would gain your attention, while I address you. My beloved, be attached to integrity, and walk in it.

5Approach not integrity with a double heart; nor be associated with double-minded men: but walk, my children, in righteousness, which will conduct you in good paths; and be truth your companion.

6For I know, that oppression will exist and prevail on earth; that on earth great punishment shall in the end take place; and that there shall be a consummation of all iniquity, which shall be cut off from its root, and every fabric raised by it shall pass away. Iniquity, however, shall again be renewed, and consummated on earth. Every act of crime, and every act of oppression and impiety, shall be a second time embraced.

7When therefore iniquity, sin, blasphemy, tyranny, and every evil work, shall increase, and when transgression, impiety, and uncleanness also shall increase, then upon them all shall great punishment be inflicted from heaven.

8The holy Lord shall go forth in wrath, and upon them all shall great punishment from heaven be inflicted.

9The holy Lord shall go forth in wrath, and with punishment, that he may execute judgment upon earth.

10In those days oppression shall be cut off from its roots, and iniquity with fraud shall be eradicated, perishing from under heaven.

11Every place of strength (128) shall be surrendered with its inhabitants; with fire shall it be burnt. They shall be brought from every part of the earth, and be cast into a judgment of fire. They shall perish in wrath, and by a judgment overpowering them for ever.

(128) Every place of strength. Or, "all the idols of the nations" (Knibb, p. 218).

12Righteousness shall be raised up from slumber; and wisdom shall be raised up, and conferred upon them.

13Then shall the roots of iniquity be cut off; sinners perish by the sword; and blasphemers be annihilated everywhere.

14Those who meditate oppression, and those who blaspheme, by the sword shall perish.

15And now, my children, I will describe and point out to you the path of righteousness and the path of oppression.

16I will again point them out to you, that you may know what is to come.

17Hear now, my children, and walk in the path of righteousness, but shun that of oppression; for all who walk in the path of iniquity shall perish for ever.

Chapter 91

1That which was written by Enoch. He wrote all this instruction of wisdom for every man of dignity, and every judge of the earth; for all my children who shall dwell upon earth, and for subsequent generations, conducting themselves uprightly and peaceably.

2Let not your spirit be grieved on account of the times; for the holy, the Great One, has prescribed a period to all.

3Let the righteous man arise from slumber; let him arise, and proceed in the path of righteousness, in all its paths; and let him advance in goodness and eternal clemency. Mercy shall be showed to the righteous man; upon him shall be conferred integrity and power for ever. In goodness and in righteousness shall he exist, and shall walk in everlasting light; but sin shall perish in eternal darkness, nor be seen from that time forward for evermore.

Chapter 92

1After this, Enoch began to speak from a book.

2And Enoch said, Concerning the children of righteousness, concerning the elect of the world, and concerning the plant of righteousness and integrity.

3Concerning these things will I speak, and these things will I explain to you, my children: I who am Enoch. In consequence of that which has been shown to me, from my heavenly vision and from the voice of the holy angels (129) have I acquired knowledge; and from the tablet of heaven have I acquired understanding.

(129) Holy angels. A Qumran text reads, "Watchers and Holy Ones," clearly denoting heavenly Watchers who did not fall along with the wicked ones (Milik, p. 264). See also Dan. 4:13, "a watcher and a holy one came down from heaven"; 4:17, "watchers, and…holy ones."

4Enoch then began to speak from a book, and said, I have been born the seventh in the first week, while judgment and righteousness wait with patience.

5But after me, in the second week, great wickedness shall arise, and fraud shall spring forth.

6In that week the end of the first shall take place, in which mankind shall be safe. (130)

(130) Mankind shall be safe. Or, "a man will be saved" (Knibb, p. 224).

7But when the first is completed, iniquity shall grow up; and during the second week he shall execute the decree (131) upon sinners.

(131) The Deluge after the first (in the middle of the second) Millennium (2500 B.C.).

8Afterwards, in the third week, during its completion, a man (132) of the plant of righteous judgment shall be selected; and after him the Plant (133) of righteousness shall come for ever.

(132) King David at the end of the third Millennium (1000 B.C.).
(133) The Messiah at the end of the fourth Millennium (4 B.C. to 30 A.D.).

9Subsequently, in the fourth week, during its completion, the visions of the holy and the righteous shall be seen, the order of generation after generation shall take place, and a habitation shall be made for them. Then in the fifth week, during its completion, the house of glory and of dominion (134) shall be erected for ever.

(134) The establishment (30 A.D.) and building of the Church through the fifth (and sixth) Millennium.

10After that, in the sixth week, all those who are in it shall be darkened, the hearts of all of them shall be forgetful of wisdom, and in it shall a Man (135) arise and come forth.

(135) The Messiah at the end of the sixth Millennium.

11And during its completion He shall burn the house of dominion with fire, and all the race of the elect root shall be dispersed. (136)

(136) The destruction of Jerusalem and the disbursement of those who dwell in that land at the end of the sixth (and the beginning of the seventh) Millennium.

12Afterwards, in the seventh week, a perverse generation shall arise; abundant shall be its deeds, and all its deeds perverse. During its completion, the righteous shall be selected from the everlasting plant of righteousness; and to them shall be given the sevenfold doctrine of his whole creation.

13Afterwards there shall be another week, the eighth (137) of righteousness, to which shall be given a sword to execute judgment and justice upon all oppressors.

(137) The beginning of the eighth Millennium.

14Sinners shall be delivered up into the hands of the righteous, who during its completion shall acquire habitations by their righteousness; and the house of the great King shall be established for celebrations for ever. After this, in the ninth week, shall the judgment of righteousness be revealed to the whole world.

15Every work of the ungodly shall disappear from the whole earth; the world shall be marked for destruction; and all men shall be on the watch for the path of integrity.

16And after this, on the seventh day of the tenth week, there shall be an everlasting judgment, which shall be executed upon the Watchers; and a spacious eternal heaven shall spring forth in the midst of the angels.

17The former heaven shall depart and pass away; a new heaven shall appear; and all the celestial powers shall shine with sevenfold splendour for ever. Afterwards likewise shall there be many weeks, which shall externally exist in goodness and in righteousness.

18Neither shall sin be named there for ever and for ever.

19Who is there of all the children of men, capable of hearing the voice of the Holy One without emotion?

20Who is there capable of thinking his thoughts? Who capable of contemplating all the workmanship of heaven? Who of comprehending the deeds of heaven?

21He may behold its animation, but not its spirit. He may be capable of conversing respecting it, but not of ascending to it. He may see all the boundaries of these things, and meditate upon them; but he can make nothing like them.

22Who of all men is able to understand the breadth and length of the earth?

23By whom have been seen the dimensions of all these things? Is it every man who is capable of comprehending the extent of heaven; what its elevation is, and by what it is supported?

24How many are the numbers of the stars; and where all the luminaries remain at rest?

Chapter 93

1And now let me exhort you, my children, to love righteousness, and to walk in it; for the paths of righteousness are worthy of acceptation; but the paths of iniquity shall suddenly fail, and be diminished.

2To men of note in their generation the paths of oppression and death are revealed; but they keep far from them, and do not follow them.

3Now, too, let me exhort you who are righteous, not to walk in the paths of evil and oppression, nor in the paths of death. Approach them not, that you may not perish; but covet,

4And choose for yourselves righteousness, and a good life.

5Walk in the paths of peace, that you may live, and be found worthy. Retain my words in your inmost thoughts, and obliterate them not from your hearts; for I know that sinners counsel men to commit crime craftily. They are not found in every place, nor does every counsel possess a little of them.

6Woe to those who build iniquity and oppression, and who lay the foundation of fraud; for suddenly shall they be subverted, and never obtain peace.

7Woe to those who build up their houses with crime; for from their very foundations shall their houses be demolished, and by the sword shall they themselves fall. Those, too, who acquire gold and silver, shall justly and suddenly perish. Woe to you who are rich, for in your riches have you trusted; but from your riches you shall be removed; because you have not remembered the Most High in the days of your prosperity.

8You have committed blasphemy and iniquity; and are destined to the day of the effusion of blood, to the day of darkness, and to the day of the great judgment.

9This I will declare and point out to you, that he who created you will destroy you.

10When you fall, he will not show you mercy; but your Creator will rejoice in your destruction.

11Let those, then, who shall be righteous among you in those days, detest sinners, and the ungodly.

Chapter 94

1O that my eyes were clouds of water, that I might weep over you, and pour forth my tears like rain, and rest from the sorrow of my heart!

2Who has permitted you to hate and to transgress? Judgment shall overtake you, ye sinners.

3The righteous shall not fear the wicked; because God will again bring them into your power, that you may avenge yourselves of them according to your pleasure.

4Woe to you who shall be so bound by execrations, that you cannot be released from them; the remedy being far removed from you on account of your sins. Woe to you who recompense your neighbour with evil; for you shall be recompensed according to your works.

5Woe to you, false witnesses, you who aggravate iniquity; for you shall suddenly perish.

6Woe to you, sinners; for you reject the righteous; for you receive or reject at pleasure those who commit iniquity; and their yoke shall prevail over you.

Chapter 95

1Wait in hope, you righteous; for suddenly shall sinners perish from before you, and you shall exercise dominion over them, according to your will.

2In the day of the sufferings of sinners your offspring shall be elevated, and lifted up like eagles. Your nest shall be more exalted than that of the avest; you shall ascend, and enter into the cavities of the earth, and into the clefts of the rocks for ever, like conies, from the sight of the ungodly;

3Who shall groan over you, and weep like sirens.

4You shall not fear those who trouble you; for restoration shall be yours; a splendid light shall shine around you, and the voice of tranquility shall be heard from heaven. Woe to you, sinners; for your wealth makes you resemble saints, but your hearts reproach you, knowing that you are sinners. This word shall testify against you, for the remembrance of crime.

5Woe to you who feed upon the glory of the corn, and drink the strength of the deepest spring, and in the pride of your power tread down the humble.

6Woe to you who drink water at pleasure; for suddenly shall you be recompensed, consumed, and withered, because you have forsaken the foundation of life.

7Woe to you who act iniquitously, fraudulently, and blasphemously; there shall be a remembrance against you for evil.

8Woe to you, powerful, who with power strike down righteousness; for the day of your destruction shall come; while at that very time many and good days shall be the portion of the righteous, even at the period of your judgment.

Chapter 96

1The righteous are confident that sinners will be disgraced, and perish in the day of iniquity.

2You shall yourselves be conscious of it; for the Most High will remember your destruction, and the angels shall rejoice over it. What will you do sinners? And where will you fly in the day of judgment, when you shall hear the words of the prayer of the righteous?

3You are not like them who in this respect witness against you; you are associates of sinners.

4In those days shall the prayers of the righteous come up before the Lord. When the day of your judgment shall arrive; and every circumstance of your iniquity be related before the great and the holy One;

5Your faces shall be covered with shame; while every deed, strengthened by crime, shall be rejected.

6Woe unto you, sinners, who in the midst of the sea, and on dry land, are those against whom an evil record exists. Woe to you who squander silver and gold, not obtained in righteousness, and say, We are rich, possess wealth, and have acquired everything which we can desire.

7Now then will we do whatsoever we are disposed to do; for we have amassed silver; our barns are full, and the husbandmen of our families are like overflowing water.

8Like water shall your falsehood pass away; for your wealth will not be permanent, but shall suddenly ascend from you, because you have obtained it all iniquitously; to extreme malediction shall you be delivered up.

9And now I swear to you, crafty, as well as simple ones; that you, often contemplating the earth, you who are men, clothe yourselves more elegantly that married women, and both together more so than unmarried ones, (138) everywhere arraying yourselves in majesty, in magnificence, in authority, and in silver: but gold, purple, honour, and wealth, like water, flow away.

(138) Than married women…unmarried ones. Or, "than a woman and more coloured (garments) than a girl…" (Knibb, p. 230).

10Erudition therefore and wisdom are not theirs. Thus shall they perish, together with their riches, with all their glory, and with their honours;

11While with disgrace, with slaughter, and in extreme penury, shall their spirits be thrust into a furnace of fire.

12I have sworn to you, sinners, that neither mountain nor hill has been or shall be subservient (139) to woman.

(139) Subservient. Literally, "a servant." Perhaps in furnishing them with treasures for ornaments (Laurence, p. 159).

13Neither in this way has crime been sent down to us upon earth, but men of their own heads have invented it; and greatly shall those who give it efficiency be execrated.

14Barrenness shall not be previously inflicted on woman; but on account of the work of her hands shall she die childless.

15I have sworn to you, sinners, by the holy and the Great One, that all your evil deeds are disclosed in the heavens; and that none of your oppressive acts are concealed and secret.

16Think not in your minds, neither say in your hearts, that every crime is not manifested and seen. In heaven it is daily written down before the Most High. Henceforwards shall it be manifested; for every act of oppression which you commit shall be daily recorded, until the period of your condemnation.

17Woe to you, simple ones, for you shall perish in your simplicity. To the wise you will not listen, and that which is good you shall not obtain.

18Now therefore know that you are destined to the day of destruction; nor hope that sinners shall live; but in process of time you shall die; for you are not marked for redemption;

19But are destined to the day of the great judgment, to the day of distress, and the extreme ignominy of your souls.

20Woe to you, obdurate in heart, who commit crime, and feed on blood. Whence is it that you feed on good things, drink, and are satiated? Is it not because our Lord, the Most High, has abundantly supplied every good thing upon earth? To you there shall not be peace.

21Woe to you who love the deeds of iniquity. Why do you hope for that which is good? Know that you shall be given up into the hands of the righteous; who shall cut off your necks, slay you, and show you no compassion.

22Woe to you who rejoice in the trouble of the righteous; for a grave shall not be dug for you.

23Woe to you who frustrate the word of the righteous; for to you there shall be no hope of life.

24Woe to you who write down the word of falsehood, and the word of the wicked; for their falsehood they record, that they may hear and not forget folly.

25To them there shall be no peace; but they shall surely die suddenly.

Chapter 97

1Woe to them who act impiously, who laud and honour the word of falsehood. You have been lost in perdition; and have never led a virtuous life.

2Woe to you who change the words of integrity. They transgress against the everlasting decree; (140)

(140) They transgress…the everlasting decree. Or, "they distort the eternal law" (Knibb, p. 232).

3And cause the heads of those who are not sinners to be trodden down upon the earth.

4In those days you, O righteous, shall have been deemed worthy of having your prayers rise up in remembrance; and shall have deposited them in testimony before the angels, that they might records the sins of the sinners in the presence of the Most High.

5In those days the nations shall be overthrown; but the families of the nations shall rise again in the day of perdition.

6In those days they who become pregnant shall go forth, carry off their children, and forsake them. Their offspring shall slip from them, and while suckling them shall they forsake them; they shall never return to them, and never instruct their beloved.

7Again I swear to you, sinners, that crime has been prepared for the day of blood, which never ceases.

8They shall worship stones, and engrave golden, silver, and wooden images. They shall worship impure spirits, demons, and every idol, in temples; but no help shall be obtained for them. Their hearts shall become impious through their folly, and their eyes be blinded with mental superstition. (141) In their visionary dreams shall they be impious and superstitious, lying in all their actions, and worshipping a stone. Altogether shall they perish.

(141) Mental superstition. Literally, "with the fear of their hearts" (Laurence, p. 162).

9But in those days blessed shall they be, to whom the word of wisdom is delivered; who point out and pursue the path of the Most High; who walk in the way of righteousness, and who act not impiously with the impious.

10They shall be saved.

11Woe to you who expand the crime of your neighbour; for in hell shall you be slain.

12Woe to you who lay the foundation of sin and deceit, and who are bitter on earth; for on it shall you be consumed.

13Woe to you who build your houses by the labour of others, every part of which is constructed with brick, and with the stone of crime; I tell you, that you shall not obtain peace.

14Woe to you who despise the extent of the everlasting inheritance of your fathers, while your souls follow after idols; for to you there shall be no tranquillity.

15Woe to them who commit iniquity, and give aid to blasphemy, who slay their neighbour until the day of the great judgment; for your glory shall fall; malevolence shall He put into your hearts, and the spirit of his wrath shall stir you up, that every one of you may perish by the sword.

16Then shall all the righteous and the holy remember your crimes.

Chapter 98

1In those days shall fathers be struck down with their children in the presence of each other; and brethren with their brethren shall fall dead: until a river shall flow from their blood.

2For a man shall not restrain his hand from his children, nor from his children's children; his mercy will be to kill them.

3Nor shall the sinner restrain his hand from his honoured brother. From the dawn of day to the setting sun shall the slaughter continue. The horse shall wade up to his breast, and the chariot shall sink to its axle, in the blood of sinners.

Chapter 99

1In those days the angels shall descend into places of concealment, and gather together in one spot all who have assisted in crime.

2In that day shall the Most High rise up to execute the great judgment upon all sinners, and to commit the guardianship of all the righteous and holy to the holy angels, that they may protect them as the apple of an eye, until every evil and every crime be annihilated.

3Whether or not the righteous sleep securely, wise men shall then truly perceive.

4And the sons of the earth shall understand every word of that book, knowing that their riches cannot save them in the ruin of their crimes.

5Woe to you, sinners, when you shall be afflicted on account of the righteous in the day of the great trouble; shall be burnt in the fire; and be recompensed according to your deeds.

6Woe to you, perverted in heart, who are watchful to obtain an accurate knowledge of evil, and to discover terrors. No one shall assist you.

7Woe to you, sinners; for with the words of your mouths, and with the work of your hands, have you acted impiously; in the flame of a blazing fire shall you be burnt.

8And now know, that the angels shall inquire into your conduct in heaven; of the sun, the moon, and the stars, shall they inquire respecting your sins; for upon earth you exercise jurisdiction over the righteous.

9Every cloud shall bear witness against you, the snow, the dew, and the rain: for all of them shall be withholden from you, that they may not descend upon you, nor become subservient to your crimes.

10Now then bring gifts of salutation to the rain; that, not being withholden, it may descend upon you; and to the dew, if it has received from you gold and silver. But when the frost, snow, cold, every snowy wind, and every suffering belonging to them, fall upon you, in those days you will be utterly incapable of standing before them.

Chapter 100

1Attentively consider heaven, all you progeny of heaven, and all the works of the Most High; fear him, nor conduct yourselves criminally before him.

2If He shut up the windows of heaven, restraining the rain and dew, that it may not descend upon the earth on your account, what will you do?

3And if He send his wrath upon you, and upon all your deeds, you are not they who can supplicate him; you who utter against his righteousness, language proud and powerful. To you there shall be no peace.

4Do you not see the commanders of ships, how their vessels are tossed about by the waves, torn to pieces by the winds, and exposed to the greatest peril?

5That they therefore fear, because their whole property is embarked with them on the ocean; and that they forbode evil in their hearts, because it may swallow them up, and they may perish in it?

6Is not the whole sea, all its waters, and all its commotion, the work of him, the Most High; of him who has sealed up all its exertions, and girded it on every side with sand?

7Is it not at his rebuke dried up, and alarmed; while all its fish with everything contained in it die? And will not you, sinners, who are on earth, fear him? Is not He the maker of heaven and earth, and of all things which are in them?

8And who has given erudition and wisdom to all that move progressive upon the earth, and over the sea?

9Are not the commanders of ships terrified at the ocean? And shall not sinners be terrified at the Most High?

(No Chapter 101)

Chapter 102

1In those days, when He shall cast the calamity of fire upon you, whither will you fly, and where will you be safe?

2And when He sends forth his word against you, are you not spared, and terrified?

3All the luminaries are agitated with great fear; and all the earth is spared, while it trembles, and suffers anxiety.

4All the angels fulfill the commands received by them, and are desirous of being concealed from the presence of the great Glory; while the children of the earth are alarmed and troubled.

5But you, sinners, are for ever accursed; to you there shall be no peace.

6Fear not, souls of the righteous; but wait with patient hope for the day of your death in righteousness. Grieve not, because your souls descend in great trouble, with groaning, lamentation, and sorrow, to the receptacle of the dead. In your lifetime your bodies have not received a recompense in proportion to your goodness, but in the period of your existence have sinners existed; in the period of execration and of punishment.

7And when you die, sinners say concerning you, As we die, the righteous die. What profit have they in their works? Behold, like us, they expire in sorrow and in darkness. What advantage have they over us? Henceforward are we equal. What will be within their grasp, and what before their eyes for ever? For behold they are dead; and never will they again perceive the light. I say unto you, sinners, You have been satisfied with meat and drink, with human plunder and rapine, with sin, with the acquisition of wealth and with the sight of good days. Have you not marked the righteous, how their end is in peace? For no oppression is found in them even to the day of their death. They perish, and are as if they were not, while their souls descend in trouble to the receptacle of the dead.

Chapter 103

1But now I swear to you, righteous, by the greatness of his splendour and his glory; by his illustrious kingdom and by his majesty, to you I swear, that I comprehend this mystery; that I have read the tablet of heaven, have seen the writing of the holy ones, and have discovered what is written and impressed on it concerning you.

2I have seen that all goodness, joy, and glory has been prepared for you, and been written down for the spirits of them who die eminently righteous and good. To you it shall be given in return for your troubles; and your portion of happiness shall far exceed the portion of the living.

3The spirits of you who die in righteousness shall exist and rejoice. Their spirits shall exult; and their remembrance shall be before the face of the Mighty One from generation to generation. Nor shall they now fear disgrace.

4Woe to you, sinners, when you die in your sins; and they, who are like you, say respecting you, Blessed are these sinners. They have lived out their whole period; and now they die in happiness and in wealth. Distress and slaughter they knew not while alive; in honour they die; nor ever in their lifetime did judgment overtake them.

5But has it not been shown to them, that, when to the receptacle of the dead their souls shall be made to descend, their evil deeds shall become their greatest torment? Into darkness, into the snare, and into the flame, which shall burn to the great judgment, shall their spirits enter; and the great judgment shall take effect for ever and for ever.

6Woe to you; for to you there shall be no peace. Neither can you say to the righteous, and to the good who are alive, In the days of our trouble have we been afflicted; every manner of trouble have we seen, and many evil things have suffered.

7Our spirits have been consumed, lessened, and diminished.

8We have perished; nor has there been a possibility of help for us in word or in deed: we have found none, but have been tormented and destroyed.

9We have not expected to live day after day.

10We hoped indeed to have been the head;

11But we have become the tail. We have been afflicted, when we have exerted ourselves; but we have been devoured by sinners and the ungodly; their yoke has been heavy upon us.

12Those have exercised dominion over us who detest and who goad us; and to those who hate us have we humbled our neck; but they have shown no compassion towards us.

13We have been desirous of escaping from them, that we might fly away and be at rest; but we have found no place to which we could fly, and be secure from them. We have sought an asylum with princes in our distress, and have cried out to those who were devouring us; but our cry has not been regarded, nor have they been disposed to hear our voice;

14But rather to assist those who plunder and devour us; those who diminish us, and hide their oppression; who remove not their yoke from us, but devour, enervate, and slay us; who conceal our slaughter, nor remember that they have lifted up their hands against us.

Chapter 104

1I swear to you, righteous, that in heaven the angels record your goodness before the glory of the Mighty One.

2Wait with patient hope; for formerly you have been disgraced with evil and with affliction; but now shall you shine like the luminaries of heaven. You shall be seen, and the gates of heaven shall be opened to you. Your cries have cried for judgment; and it has appeared to you; for an account of all your sufferings shall be required from the princes, and from every one who has assisted your plunderers.

3Wait with patient hope; nor relinquish your confidence; for great joy shall be yours, like that of the angels in heaven. Conduct yourselves as you may, still you shall not be concealed in the day of the great judgment. You shall not be found like sinners; and eternal condemnation shall be far from you, so long as the world exists.

4And now fear not, righteous, when you see sinners flourishing and prosperous in their ways.

5Be not associates with them; but keep yourselves at a distance from their oppression; be you associated with the host of heaven. You, sinners, say, All our transgressions shall not be taken account of, and be recorded. But all your transgressions shall be recorded daily.

6And be assured by me, that light and darkness, day and night, behold all your transgressions. Be not impious in your thoughts; lie not; surrender not the word of uprightness; lie not against the word of the holy and the mighty One; glorify not your idols; for all your lying and all your impiety is not for righteousness, but for great crime.

7Now will I point out a mystery: Many sinners shall turn and transgress against the word of uprightness.

8They shall speak evil things; they shall utter falsehood; execute great undertakings; (142) and compose books in their own words. But when they shall write all my words correctly in their own languages,

(142) Execute great undertakings. Literally, "create a great creation" (Laurence, p. 173).

9They shall neither change or diminish them; but shall write them all correctly; all which from the first I have uttered concerning them. (143)

(143) Despite Enoch's mandate, his book was most certainly "changed" and "diminished" by later editors, though these fragments of it have survived.

10Another mystery also I point out. To the righteous and the wise shall be given books of joy, of integrity, and of great wisdom. To them shall books be given, in which they shall believe;

11And in which they shall rejoice. And all the righteous shall be rewarded, who from these shall acquire the knowledge of every upright path.

Chapter 104A

1In those days, saith the Lord, they shall call to the children of the earth, and make them listen to their wisdom. Show them that you are their leaders;

2And that remuneration shall take place over the whole earth; for I and my Son will for ever hold communion with them in the paths of uprightness, while they are still alive. Peace shall be yours. Rejoice, children of integrity, in the truth.

Chapter 105

1After a time, my son Mathusala took a wife for his son Lamech.

2She became pregnant by him, and brought forth a child, the flesh of which was as white as snow, and red as a rose; the hair of whose head was white like wool, and long; and whose eyes were beautiful. When he opened them, he illuminated all the house, like the sun; the whole house abounded with light.

3And when he was taken from the hand of the midwife, Lamech his father became afraid of him; and flying away came to his own father Mathusala, and said, I have begotten a son, unlike to other children. He is not human; but, resembling the offspring of the angels of heaven, is of a different nature from ours, being altogether unlike to us.

4His eyes are bright as the rays of the sun; his countenance glorious, and he looks not as if he belonged to me, but to the angels.

5I am afraid, lest something miraculous should take place on earth in his days.

6And now, my father, let me entreat and request you to go to our progenitor Enoch, and learn from him the truth; for his residence is with the angels.

7When Mathusala heard the words of his son, he came to me at the extremities of the earth; for he had been informed that I was there: and he cried out.

8I heard his voice, and went to him saying, Behold, I am here, my son; since you have come to me.

9He answered and said, On account of a great event have I come to you; and on account of a sight difficult to be comprehended have I approached you.

10And now, my father, hear me; for to my son Lamech a child has been born, who resembles not him; and whose nature is not like the nature of man. His colour is whiter than snow; he is redder than the rose; the hair of his head is whiter than white wool; his eyes are like the rays of the sun; and when he opened them he illuminated the whole house.

11When also he was taken from the hand of the midwife,

12His father Lamech feared, and fled to me, believing not that the child belonged to him, but that he resembled the angels of heaven. And behold I am come to you, that you might point out to me the truth.

13Then I, Enoch, answered and said, The Lord will effect a new thing upon the earth. This have I explained, and seen in a vision. I have shown you that in the generations of Jared my father, those who were from heaven disregarded the word of the Lord. Behold they committed crimes; laid aside their class, and intermingled with women. With them also they transgressed; married with them, and begot children. (144)

(144) After this verse, one Greek papyrus adds, "who are not like spiritual beings, but creatures of flesh" (Milik, p. 210).

14A great destruction therefore shall come upon all the earth; a deluge, a great destruction, shall take place in one year.

15This child which is born to your son shall survive on the earth, and his three sons shall be saved with him. When all mankind who are on the earth shall die, he shall be safe.

16And his posterity shall beget on the earth giants, not spiritual, but carnal. Upon the earth shall a great punishment be inflicted, and it shall be washed from all corruption. Now therefore inform your son Lamech, that he who is born is his child in truth; and he shall call his name Noah, for he shall be to you a survivor. He and his children shall be saved from the corruption which shall take place in the world; from all the sin and from all the iniquity which shall be consummated on earth in his days. Afterwards shall greater impiety take place than that which had been before consummated on the earth; for I am acquainted with holy mysteries, which the Lord himself has discovered and explained to me; and which I have read in the tablets of heaven.

17In them I saw it written, that the generation after generation shall transgress, until a righteous race shall arise; until transgression and crime perish from off the earth; until all goodness come upon it.

18And now, my son, go tell your son Lamech,

19That the child which is born is his child in truth; and that there is no deception.

20When Mathusala heard the word of his father Enoch, who had shown him every secret thing, he returned with understanding, and called the name of that child Noah; because he was to console the earth on account of all its destruction.

21Another book, which Enoch wrote for his son Mathusala, and for those who should come after him, and preserve their purity of conduct in the latter days. You, who have laboured, shall wait in those days, until the evil doers be consumed, and the power of the guilty be annihilated. Wait, until sin pass away; for their names shall be blotted out of the holy books; their seed shall be destroyed, and their spirits slain. They shall cry out and lament in the invisible waste, and in the bottomless fire shall they burn. (145) There I perceived, as it were, a cloud which could not be seen through; for from the depth of it I was unable to look upwards. I beheld also a flame of fire blazing brightly, and, as it were, glittering mountains whirled around, and agitated from side to side.

(145) In the bottomless fire shall they burn. Literally, "in the fire shall they burn, where there is no earth" (Laurence, p. 178).

22Then I inquired of one of the holy angels who was with me, and said, What is this splendid object? For it is not heaven, but a flame of fire alone which blazes; and in it there is the clamour of exclamation, of woe, and of great suffering.

23He said, There, into that place which you behold, shall be thrust the spirits of sinners and blasphemers; of those who shall do evil, and who shall pervert all which God has spoken by the mouth of the prophets; all which they ought to do. For respecting these things there shall be writings and impressions above in heaven, that the angels may read them and know what shall happen both to sinners and to the spirits of the humble; to those who have suffered in their bodies, but have been rewarded by God; who have been injuriously treated by wicked men; who have loved God; who have been attached neither to gold nor silver, nor to any good thing in the world, but have given their bodies to torment;

24To those who from the period of their birth have not been covetous of earthly riches; but have regarded themselves as a breath passing away.

25Such has been their conduct; and much has the Lord tried them; and their spirits have been found pure, that they might bless his name. All their blessings have I related in a book; and He has rewarded them; for they have been found to love heaven with an everlasting aspiration. God has said, While they have been trodden down by wicked men, they have heard from them revilings and blasphemies; and have been ignominiously treated, while they were blessing me. And now will I call the spirits of the good from the generation of light, and will change those who have been born in darkness; who have not in their bodies been recompensed with glory, as their faith may have merited.

26I will bring them into the splendid light of those who love my holy name: and I will place each of them on a throne of glory, of glory peculiarly his own, and they shall be at rest during unnumbered periods. Righteous is the judgment of God;

27For to the faithful shall he give faith in the habitations of uprightness. They shall see those, who have been born in darkness unto darkness shall be cast; while the righteous shall be at rest. Sinners shall cry out, beholding them, while they exist in splendour and proceed forwards to the days and periods prescribed to them.