Excerpt from Richard. Laurence's translation of The Book of Enoch
Chapter 8
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Moreover Azazyel taught men to make swords, knives, shields, breastplates, the fabrication of mirrors, and the workmanship of bracelets and ornaments, the use of paint, the beautifying of the eyebrows, the use of stones of every valuable and select kind, and all sorts of dyes, so that the world became altered.2
Impiety increased; fornication multiplied; and they transgressed and corrupted all their ways.3
Amazarak taught all the sorcerers, and dividers of roots:4
Armers taught the solution of sorcery;5
Barkayal taught the observers of the stars, (9)(9) Observers of the stars. Astrologers (Charles, p. 67).
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Akibeel taught signs;7
Tamiel taught astronomy;8
And Asaradel taught the motion of the moon,9
And men, being destroyed, cried out; and their voice reached to heaven.
Success is your proof; courage is your armour;
go on, go on, in my strength; & ye shall turn not back for any!
— Liber AL III:46
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