was terrified, but Gabriel appeared before him, caught him up as though a leaf caught up by wind, and transported him higher.
In the eighth heaven, called Muzaloth, Enoch saw the ‘changer of the seasons, of drought, and of wet, and of the twelve signs of the zodiac.’ The ninth heaven, called Kuchavim, holds the heavenly homes of the twelve signs of the zodiac.
Then archangel Michael escorted Enoch to the tenth heaven, where he held the face of God. It was, said Enoch:
… like iron made to glow in fire, and brought out, emitting sparks, and it burns.
Thus I saw the Lord’s face, but the Lord’s face is ineffable, marvelous and very awful, and very, very terrible…
And I cannot tell the quantity of his many instructions, and various voices, the Lord’s throne very great and not made with hands, nor the quantity of those standing round him, troops of cherubim and seraphim, nor their incessant singing, nor his immutable beauty, and who shall tell of the ineffable greatness of his glory?
God instructed Michael to ‘take Enoch from out of his earthly garments, and anoint him with my sweet ointment, and put him into the garments of my Glory.’ Enoch then took on a shining appearance, like the angels around him. God summoned the archangel Pravuil, ‘whose knowledge was quicker in wisdom than the other archangels, who wrote all the deeds of the Lord,’ to bring out the books of knowledge for Enoch to read.
After instruction from Pravuil, Enoch wrote his 366 books in thirty days. He was then summoned by the Lord, who revealed to him the creation story, and that the world would end on the eighth day of creation (or after 8,000 years), when time would cease. Enoch was given all the rules of morality and righteousness for humans to live by.
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