XVII. 1. And they took ⌜and⌝ brought me to a place in which those who
were there were like flaming fire, and when they wished, they appeared
as men. 2. And they brought me to the place of darkness, and to a
mountain the point of whose summit reached to heaven. 3. And I saw the
places of the luminaries ⌜and the treasuries of the stars⌝ and of the
thunder, ⌜and⌝ in the =uttermost depths=, where were a fiery bow and
arrows and their quiver, 〚and a fiery sword〛 and all the lightnings. 4.
And they took me to the living waters, and to the fire of the west,
which receives every setting of the sun. 5. And I came to a river of
fire in which the fire flows like water and discharges itself into the
great sea towards the west. 6. I saw the great rivers and came to the
great ⌜river and to the great⌝ darkness, and went to the place where no
flesh walks. 7. I saw the mountains of the darkness of winter and the
place whence all the waters of the deep flow. 8. I saw the mouths of all
the rivers of the earth and the mouth of the deep.
XVIII. 1. I saw the treasuries of all the winds; I saw how He had
furnished with them the whole creation and the firm foundations of the
earth. 2. And I saw the corner-stone of the earth: I saw the four winds
which bear [the earth and] the firmament of the heaven. 3. 〚And I saw
how the winds stretch out the vaults of heaven〛, and have their station
between heaven and earth: 〚these are the pillars of the heaven〛. 4. I
saw the winds of heaven which turn and bring the circumference of the
sun and all the stars to their setting. 5. I saw the winds on the earth
carrying the clouds: I saw 〚the paths of the angels: I saw〛 at the end
of the earth the firmament of the heaven above. 6. And I proceeded and
saw a place which burns day and night, where there are seven mountains
of magnificent stones, three towards the east, and three towards the
south. 7. And as for those towards the east ‹one› was of coloured stone,
and one of pearl, and one of =jacinth=, and those towards the south of
red stone. 8. But the middle one reached to heaven like the throne of
God, of alabaster, and the summit of the throne was of sapphire. 9. And
I saw a flaming fire. And beyond these mountains 10. is a region, the
end of the great earth: there the heavens were completed. 11. And I saw
a deep abyss, with columns 〚of heavenly fire, and among them I saw
columns〛 of fire fall, which were beyond measure alike towards the
height and towards the depth. 12. And beyond that abyss I saw a place
which had no firmament of the heaven above, and no firmly founded earth
beneath it: there was no water upon it, and no birds, but it was a waste
and horrible place. 13. I saw there seven stars like great burning
mountains, and to me, when I inquired regarding them, 14. The angel
said: ‘This place is the end of heaven and earth: this has become a
prison for the stars and the host of heaven. 15. And the stars which
roll over the fire are they which have transgressed the commandment of
the Lord in the beginning of their rising, because they did not come
forth at their appointed times. 16. And He was wroth with them, and
bound them till the time when their guilt should be consummated (even)
⌜for ten thousand years⌝.’
XIX. 1. And Uriel said to me: ‘Here shall stand the angels who have
connected themselves with women, and their spirits, assuming many
different forms, are defiling mankind, and shall lead them astray into
sacrificing to demons 〚as gods〛, (here shall they stand), till 〚the day
of〛 the great judgement in which they shall be judged till they are made
an end of. 2. And the women also of the angels who went astray shall
become sirens.’ 3. And I, Enoch, alone saw the vision, the ends of all
things: and no man shall see as I have seen.