22 HANOCH - ENOCH 22
The Gathering Of Souls Till The Day Of Judgment
22:1 Then I went to another place, and he showed me on the west side a great and high mountain of hard rock
22:2 and inside it four beautiful corners; it had [in it] a deep, wide, and smooth thing which was rolling over; and it the place was deep, and dark to look at.
22:3 At that moment, Rufael, one of the kodesh malakim, who was with me, responded to me; and he said to me, “These beautiful corners are here in order that the spirits of the souls of the dead should assemble into them -they are created so that the souls of the children of the people should gather here.”
22:4 “They prepared these places in order to put them i.e. the souls of the people there until the day of their judgment and the appointed time of the great judgment upon them.”
22:5 I saw the spirits of the children of the people who were dead, and their voices were reaching unto heaven until this very moment.
22:6 I asked Rufael, the angel who was with me, and said to him, “This spirit, the voice of which is reaching into heaven like this and is making suit, whose spirit is it?”
22:7 And he answered me, saying, “This is the spirit which had left Abel, whom Cain, his brother, had killed; it continues to sue him until all of Cain's seed is exterminated from the face of the earth, and his seed has disintegrated from among the seed of the people.”
22:8 At that moment, I raised a question regarding him and regarding the judgment of all, “For what reason is one separated from the other?”
22:9 And he replied and said to me, “These three have been made in order that the spirits of the dead might be separated. And in the manner in which the souls of the righteous are separated by this spring of water with light upon it,”
22:10 “in like manner, the sinners are set apart when they die and are buried in the earth and judgment has not been executed upon them in their lifetime,”
22:11 “upon this great pain, until the great Day of Judgment -and to those who curse there will be plague and pain forever, and the retribution of their spirits. They will bind them there forever -even if from the beginning of the world.”
22:12 “And in this manner is a separation made for the souls of those who make the suit and those who disclose concerning destruction, as they were killed in the days of the sinners.”
22:13 “Such has been made for the souls of the people who are not righteous, but sinners and perfect criminals; they shall be together with other criminals who are like them, whose souls will not be killed on the day of judgment but will not rise from there.”
22:14 At that moment I blessed YAHWEH of Splendor and I said, “Blessed be my Sovereign Ruler, YAHWEH of righteousness who rules forever.”