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A dark-curled observer watches lightning above contrasting fertile and bare terrain.
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1 Enoch 59:1

Secrets of lightning

The Hidden Things of Thunder and Lightning · 1 Enoch 59

Story guide: Contrasting terrain evokes blessing and curse without identifying punished people. Lightning is visionary staging, not a weather forecast or picture of divine will.

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1In those days my eyes saw the secrets of the lightnings and the lights, and their courses, and they flash forth for blessing and for curse, as the Lord of Spirits has willed.

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