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                  life, and prosperity.  And through the third Gate, which is towards the west

                  come mist and hoarfrost, and snow, and rain, and dew, and locusts.

                  76.12 And after these the winds towards the west.  Through the first Gate,

                  which inclines towards the north, come dew, and rain, and hoarfrost, and


                  cold, and snow, and frost.
                  76.13 And from the middle Gate, come dew and rain, prosperity and


                  blessing.  And through the last Gate, which is towards the south, come
                  drought and devastation, burning and destruction.


                  76.14 And thus the twelve Gates, of the four quarters of Heaven are
                  complete.  And all their laws, and all their punishments, and all their


                  benefits, I have shown to you, my son Methuselah.

                  77.1 They called the first quarter eastern because it is the first, and they call

                  the second the south because there the Most High descends, and there

                  especially the one who is blessed forever descends.

                  77.2 And the western quarter is called waning because there all the lights of

                  Heaven wane and go down.

                  77.3 And the fourth quarter, named the north, is divided into three parts.

                  And the first of them is the dwelling place for men; and the second contains

                  seas of water, and the deeps, and the forests, and rivers, and darkness and

                  mist; and the third part contains the Garden of Righteousness.

                  77.4 I saw seven high mountains, which were higher than all other

                  mountains on the earth; and from them snow comes.  And days and times

                  and years, pass away and go by.

                  77.5 I saw seven rivers on the earth, larger than all the other rivers; one of

                  them comes from the east and pours out its waters into the Great Sea.

                  77.6 And two of them come from the north to the sea and pour out their

                  water into the Erythraean Sea in the east.

                  77.7 And the remaining four flow out on the side of the north, to their seas,

                  two to the Erythraean Sea, and two into the Great Sea, and they discharge




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