ALLUSIONS IN SACRED BOOKS OF THE KAST. 



ment ! And they shall be seven times brighter than the sun, for in 

 this age altogether the seventh part is separated." 

 And the author adds that he has 



" laid down the four seasons, and from the seasons made four circles, 

 and in the circles placed the years. . . . Concerning the years I 

 have calculated each hour. ... I have ascertained all their differ- 

 ences. As one year is more honourable than another, so is one man 

 more honourable than another. . . . There have been many books 

 . . . but none shall make things known to you like my writings."* 



until the reader turns instinctively to see if, at the end of the 

 paragraph, there is an (Advt.) inserted, such as would appear in 

 our newspaper press to-day after a similar article from a 

 ■• Zadkiel " or a " Paphael." Eor this pseudo-prophet was simply 

 a maker of horoscopes, doubtless for a price, as his analogues do 

 to-day, and both the theology and the astronomy in his book 

 were but the padding to attract his clients, and to clothe his 

 self-advertisement. It is worthy of note that B leaves out the 

 more technical details of astronomy; he was, perhaps, more 

 interested in the mystical patter which describes the serpents 

 at the northern gate of hell, or the window open between the 

 northern heaven and the Garden in the East. Probably the 

 366 astrological tables themselves never reached Little Eussia. 

 Let us hope that they were heaved overboard to lighten the 

 ship that took 0 front Alexandria. 



Ethiopic Enoch. 



But Slavonic Enoch is of small importance. Of the other 

 Book of Enoch or " Ethiopic Enoch," Professor Burkitt says in 

 the Schweich Lectures of 1913 (p. 17): — 



" It is best to begin at once with the prime reason that gives 

 the book interest to us, and this is, its influence on the Christian 

 Movement. ' Wandering Stars,' we read in the Canonical Epistle of 

 Jude, ' to these Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, 

 saving " Behold the Lord came with ten thousands of His Holy Ones 

 to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all 

 their works of ungodliness which they have ungodly wrought, and 

 of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against 

 Him." ' This is a definite quotation which cannot be gainsaid. As 



* These he does not give away ; they were doubtless contained in the 

 366 books which he wrote in heaven with a reed for speedy writing, given 

 him by the Archangel Vretil — unknown except in this connection. 

 Doubtless these 366 books were astrological tables. 



