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I note that the 8 th Key mentions the “Third Heaven” (pirípson, PIRIPSON).
This is really curious, because one of the main literary mentions of this rare phrase is in
The Book of the Secrets of Enoch. Enoch describes the Third Heaven:
And I saw all the sweet-flowering trees and beheld their fruits, which were sweet-smelling,
and all the foods borne by them. And in the midst of the trees that of Life, in that place
whereon the Lord rests, when he goes up into paradise; and this tree is of ineffable
goodness and fragrance, and adorned more than every existing thing; and on all sides it
is in form gold-looking and vermilion and fire-like and covers all, and it has produce
from all fruits.
In the Bible this term appears in II Corinthians 12:2, where we find Paul the Apostle
describing probably his own experience of being “caught up in the third heaven”. From
the context of the passage the Third Heaven appears to be synonymous with paradise.
Dante uses the phrase in canto VIII of the Divine Comedy, Paradiso. Other than these
references, the notion of the Third Heaven hardly appears anywhere, so it is interesting
seeing it in an Enochian conjuration.
Very strange full moon tonight, and now it’s practically dawn and time for me to go
slug and snail hunting on my runner-bean patch.
JOEL
The rock-cutting worm
The name of the rock-cutting worm mentioned above was “Shamir”, it cut stone with
its “glance”. In one legend Solomon heard that Asmodeus knew the whereabouts of the
worm and forced the demon king to help him locate it. Asmodeus told Solomon that
all the shamirs belonged to the Angel of the Sea who had given the duty of guarding
the worm to moorhens. So Solomon’s helpers placed a glass dome over a moorhen’s
nest containing a few chicks, forcing the moorhen to fetch a shamir to cut a way in so
she could feed her young. Solomon’s assistants threw dirt on the moorhen, who dropped
the shamir, which Solomon then used to build his temple because the Torah forbade
the use of iron. Some writers have speculated that the shamir was not a magical worm
but a radioactive substance, such as Immanuel Velikovsky (Kronos, Vol. VI, No. 1, 1980)
and Frederic B Jueneman (“The Alchemy of Shamir” in his Essays in Speculative Science).
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