luminaries

_They 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_. They behold the earth, and understand what is there transacted, from the beginning to the end of it.

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

And said, This blazing fire, which thou beholdest running towards the west, is _that of_ all the luminaries of heaven.

The 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 conducts 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.

This 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.

Respecting them, men greatly err, for these luminaries truly serve, in the mansion of the world, one _day_ in the first gate, one in the third gate, one in the fourth, and one in the sixth gate.

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

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

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

Truly has been stated, and accurately has been computed 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.

How many are the numbers of the stars; and where all the luminaries remain at rest?

All the luminaries are agitated with great fear; and all the earth is spared, while it trembles, and suffers anxiety.

Wait 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.

be holy.' And the angel of the presence who went before the camp of Israel took the tables of the divisions of the years -from the time of the creation- of the law and of the testimony of the weeks of the jubilees, according to the individual years, according to all the number of the jubilees [according, to the individual years], from the day of the [new] creation when the heavens and the earth shall be renewed and all their creation according to the powers of the heaven, and according to all the creation of the earth, until the sanctuary of the Lord shall be made in Jerusalem on Mount Zion, and all the luminaries be renewed for healing and for peace and for blessing for all the elect of Israel, and that thus it may be from that day and unto all the days of the earth.

Noab, and Enoch, and Mahalalel, and Enos, and Seth, and Adam. And these shall serve To lay the foundations of the heaven, And to strengthen the earth, And to renew all the luminaries which are in the firmament.

And the Lord blessed Levi, and the Angel of the Presence, me; the powers of glory, Simeon; the heaven, Reuben; the earth, Issachar; the sea, Zebulun; the mountains, Joseph; the tabernacle, Benjamin; the luminaries, Dan; Eden, Naphtali; the sun, Gad; the moon, Asher.