The Book of Enoch · 44 of 109
Chapter XLIV. Astronomical Secrets
Also another phenomenon I saw in regard to the lightnings: how some of the stars arise and become lightnings and cannot part with their new form.
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Why do some stars become lightnings and keep that new form in this chapter?
Enoch reports a vision where celestial bodies change form: “some of the stars arise and become lightnings” and afterward they “cannot part with their new form.” He treats the change as a fixed transformation observed in the heavens rather than a temporary flash.
This detail fits the chapter’s concern with astronomical secrets and altered celestial behavior; it presents the cosmos as governed by fixed, revealed rules rather than human expectation. The idea echoes passages in Genesis that give cosmic phenomena moral or ordained significance and resembles later apocalyptic imagery about altered skies in Revelation.
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