Faith and Righteousness of the Patriarchs

T¹he words of the blessing of Enoch, wherewith he blessed the elect and righteous, who will be living in the day of tribulation, when all the wicked and godless are to be removed.

² And he took up his parable and said—Enoch a righteous man, whose eyes were opened by God, saw the vision of the Holy One in the heavens, which the angels showed me, and from them I heard everything, and from them I understood as I saw, but not for this generation, but for a remote one which is for to come. ³ Concerning the elect I said, and took up my parable concerning them: The Holy Great One will come forth from His dwelling,

T⁵herefore shall ye execrate your days, And the years of your life shall perish, And the years of your destruction shall be multiplied in eternal execration, And ye shall find no mercy. 6_a._ In those days ye shall make your names an eternal execration unto all the righteous, _b._ And by you shall all who curse, curse. _c._ And all the sinners and godless shall imprecate by you, 7_c._ And for you, the godless, there shall be a curse. 6_d._ And all the ... shall rejoice, _e._ And there shall be forgiveness of sins, _f._ And every mercy and peace and forbearance: _g._ There shall be salvation unto them, a goodly light. _i._ And for all of you sinners there shall be no salvation, _j._ But on you all shall abide a curse. 7_a._ But for the elect there shall be light and grace and peace, _b._ And they shall inherit the earth.

⁶ And then there shall be bestowed upon the elect wisdom, And they shall all live and never again sin, Either through ungodliness or through pride; But they who are wise shall be humble. ⁷ And they shall not again transgress, Nor shall they sin all the days of their life, Nor shall they die of (the divine) anger or wrath, But they shall complete the number of the days of their life. And their lives shall be increased in peace, And the years of their joy shall be multiplied, In eternal gladness and peace, All the days of their life. VI-XI. _The Fall of the Angels: the Demoralisation of Mankind: the Intercession of the Angels on behalf of Mankind. The Dooms pronounced by God on the Angels: the Messianic Kingdom_ (a Noah fragment).

A¹nd now I know this mystery, that sinners will alter and pervert the words of righteousness in many ways, and will speak wicked words, and lie, and practise great deceits, and write books concerning their words.

² But when they write down truthfully all my words in their languages, and do not change or minish aught from my words, but write them all down truthfully—all that I first testified concerning them. ³ Then, I know another mystery, that books shall be given to the righteous and the wise to become a cause of joy and uprightness and much wisdom. ⁴ And to them shall the books be given, and they shall believe in them and rejoice over them, and then shall all the righteous who have learnt therefrom all the paths of uprightness be recompensed.’ ⁵ Be hopeful, and cast not away your hope; for ye shall have great joy as the angels of heaven. ⁶ What shall ye be obliged to do? Ye shall not have to hide on the day of the great judgement and ye shall not be found as sinners, and the eternal judgement shall be far from you for all the generations of the world.

A¹nd we have been destroyed and have not found any to help us even with a word: We have been tortured , and hoped not to see life from day to day.

² We hoped to be the head and have become the tail: We have toiled laboriously and had no satisfaction in our toil; And we have become the food of the sinners and the unrighteous, And they have laid their yoke heavily upon us. ³ They have had dominion over us that hated us and smote us; And to those that hated us we have bowed our necks, But they pitied us not. ⁴ We desired to get away from them that we might escape and be at rest, But found no place whereunto we should flee and be safe from them.

I¹n those days the Lord bade (them) to summon and testify to the children of earth concerning their wisdom: Show (it) unto them; for ye are their guides, and a recompense over the whole earth.

² For I and My Son will be united with them for ever in the paths of uprightness in their lives; and ye shall have peace: rejoice, ye children of uprightness. Amen. FRAGMENT OF THE BOOK OF NOAH. (CVI-CVII.)

A¹nd all the blessings destined for them I have recounted in the books. And He hath assigned them their recompense, because they have been found to be such as loved heaven more than their life in the world, and though they were trodden under foot of wicked men, and experienced abuse and reviling from them and were put to shame, yet they blessed Me.

² And now I will summon the spirits of the good who belong to the generation of light, and I will transform those who were born in darkness, who in the flesh were not recompensed with such honour as their faithfulness deserved. ³ And I will bring forth in shining light those who have loved My holy name, and I will seat each on the throne of his honour. ⁴ And they shall be resplendent for times without number; for righteousness is the judgement of God; for to the faithful He will give faithfulness in the habitation of upright paths. ⁵ And they shall see those who were born in darkness led into darkness, while the righteous shall be resplendent. ⁶ And the sinners shall cry aloud and see them resplendent, and they indeed shall go where days and seasons are prescribed for them.’ PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY RICHARD CLAY AND COMPANY, LTD., BUNGAY, SUFFOLK. ● Transcriber’s Notes: ○ Text that was in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_). ○ Text that was in bold face is enclosed by equals signs (bold). ○ Text that was in superscript is preceded by a caret (^) sign. A single character superscript is simply G^s; multiple characters in superscript are enclosed in curly brackets, like G^{s1}. ○ Footnotes have been moved to follow the chapters in which they are referenced. ⁷ And he said unto me: ‘This place which thou seest—here are cast the spirits of sinners and blasphemers, and of those who work wickedness, and of those who pervert every thing that the Lord hath spoken through the mouth of the prophets—(even) the things that shall be. ⁸ For some of them are written and inscribed above in the heaven, in order that the angels may read them and know that which shall befall the sinners, and the spirits of the humble, and of those who have afflicted their bodies, and been recompensed by God; and of those who have been put to shame by wicked men: ⁹ Who love God and loved neither gold nor silver nor any of the good things which are in the world, but gave over their bodies to torture. ¹⁰ Who, since they came into being, longed not after earthly food, but regarded everything as a passing breath, and lived accordingly, and the Lord tried them much, and their spirits were found pure so that they should bless His name.