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The Forgotten Books of Eden · 132 of 293
Secrets of Enoch: Chapter XXVII
Of how God founded the water, and surrounded it with light, and established on it seven islands.
1.AND I commanded that there should be taken from light and darkness, and I said: ‘Be thick,’ and it became thus and I spread it out with the light, and it became water, and I spread it out over the darkness, below the light, and then I made firm the waters, that is to say the bottomless, and I made foundation of light around the water, and created seven circles from inside, and imaged it (sc. the water) like crystal wet and dry, that is to say like glass, and the circumcession of the waters and the other elements, and I showed each one of them its road, and the seven stars each one of them in its heaven, that they go thus, and I saw that it was good.
2.And I separated between light and between darkness, that is to say in the midst of the water hither and thither, and I said to the light, that it should be the day, and to the darkness, that it should be the night, and there was evening and there was morning the first day.
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Why does Enoch say God made the water from light and darkness?
Enoch describes creation as God commanding light and darkness to “Be thick,” then spreading them until they become water; the water is framed as a formed substance bounded by light and organized into seven circles. This chapter presents water as a product of divine ordering — God gives shape and roads to elements and stars — so water’s origin emphasizes structure and purpose rather than chaos.
The language echoes Genesis’s separating of light and darkness but insists on active molding: God “made firm the waters” and “created seven circles,” a cosmology closer to other Jewish apocalypse texts like 1 Enoch where cosmic features are fixed and named. Those books treat creation as an arranged, readable map rather than a mere backdrop.
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