3. And I came to the Garden of Righteousness, and
from afar off trees more numerous than these trees
and great—†two† trees there, very great, beautiful,
and glorious, and magnificent, and the tree of
knowledge, whose holy fruit they eat and know great
wisdom.
4. ⌜That tree is in height like the fir, and its leaves are⌝ like (those
of) the Carob tree: and its fruit is like the clusters of the vine, very
beautiful: and the fragrance of the tree penetrates afar. 5. Then I
said: ‘⌜How⌝ beautiful is the tree, and how attractive is its look!’ 6.
Then Raphael, the holy angel who was with me, answered me 〚and said〛:
‘This is the tree of wisdom, of which thy father old (in years) and thy
aged mother, who were before thee, have eaten, and they learnt wisdom
and their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked and they
were driven out of the garden.’
XXXIII. 1. And from thence I went to the ends of the earth and saw there
great beasts, and each differed from the other; and (I saw) birds also
differing in appearance and beauty and voice, the one differing from the
other. 2. And to the east of those beasts I saw the ends of the earth
whereon the heaven rests, and the portals of the heaven open. 3. And I
saw how the stars of heaven come forth, and I counted the portals out of
which they proceed, and wrote down all their outlets, of each individual
star by itself, according to their number and their names, their courses
and their positions, and their times and their months, as Uriel the holy
angel who was with me showed me. 4. He showed all things to me and wrote
them down for me: also their names he wrote for me, and their laws and
their companies.