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 from all your creations, from all eternity to all eternity, and nought but peace, justice, and truth, is the habitation of your throne; and mercy shall go before your face and have no end: how is it that you can weep?

The Lord said unto Enoch, behold these your brethren: they are the work­manship of my own hands, and I gave unto them their knowledge, in the day I created them; and in the garden of Eden, gave I unto man his agency: and unto your brethren have I said, and also given commandment, that they should love one another, and that they should choose me, their Father; but behold, they are without affection; and they hate their own blood; and the fire of my indignation is kindled against them; and in my hot displeasure will I send in the floods upon them, for my fierce anger is kindled against them. Behold, I am God; Man of Holiness is my Name; Man of Counsel is my Name; and Endless, and Eternal is my Name, also. Wherefore, I can stretch forth my hands and hold all the creations which I have made; and my eye can pierce them also; and among all the workmanship of my hand there has not been so great wickedness as among your brethren; but behold, their sins shall be upon the heads of their fathers: Satan shall be their fa­ther, and misery shall be their doom; and the whole heavens shall weep over them, even all the workmanship of my hands: wherefore should not the hea­vens weep, seeing these shall suffer? But behold, these which your eyes are upon shall perish in the floods; and behold, I will shut them up: a pri­son have I prepared for them. And that which I have chosen has pleaded before my face. Wherefore, He suffers for their sins, inasmuch as they will repent in the day that my Chosen shall return unto me, and until that day they shall be in torment; wherefore, for this shall the heavens weep, yea, and all the workmanship of my hands.

And it came to pass that the Lord spake unto Enoch, and told Enoch all the doings of the children of men; wherefore Enoch knew, and looked upon their wickedness, and their misery, and wept and stretched forth his arms, and his heart swelled wide as eternity; and his bowels yearned, and all eter­nity shook. And Enoch saw Noah, also, and his family: that the posterity of all the sons of Noah should be saved with a temporal salvation: wherefore he saw that Noah built an ark; and the Lord smiled upon it, and held it in His hand; but upon the residue of the wicked came the floods, and swallowed them up. And as Enoch saw thus, he had bitterness of soul, and wept over his brethren, and said unto the heavens, I will refuse to be comforted; but the Lord said unto Enoch, lift up your heart, and be glad; and look. And it came to pass that Enoch looked; and from Noah, ho beheld all the families of the earth; and he cried unto the Lord, saying, when shall the day of the Lord come? When shall the blood of the Righteous be shed, that all they that mourn may be sanctified, and have eternal life? And the Lord said, it shall be in the meridian of time, in the days of wickedness and vengeance. And behold, Enoch saw the day of the coming of the Son of Man, even in the flesh; and his soul rejoiced, saying, the Righteous is lifted up, and the