The Lantern

Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice10

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Mas1k Frag. 2 Col. 2 (with 4Q404 Frag. 6 and 4Q405 Frags. 8–9)

perfect light, a weaving of an utterly holy spiritual substance […]

raised places of knowledge. At the footstool of his feet, […]

appearance of the glorious bodies belonging to the princes of the spiritual kingdom […]

His glory; and with all their turning back, the gates of […]

the flashing of the [lig]htning […] to the chief of the godlike beings of […]

running between them are god[li]ke beings having the appearance of [glowing] coals […]

walking to and fro. The utterly holy spirits […]

the utterly holy, divine spirits, an ete[rnal] vision […]

and divine spirits, fiery shapes round about the […]

wondrous spirits. And the most exalted tabernacle, the glory of His kingdom, innermost sanctuary of […]

and He consecrates the seven lofty holy places. A voice of blessing issues forth from the princes of His innermost sanctuary […]

and the voice of blessing is glorious in the hearing of the divine beings and those who establish […]

the blessing. All the crafted furnishings of the innermost sanctum shall hasten to take part in the wondrous psalms in the innermost sanctum. […]

of wonder, sanctum to sanctum with the sound of thronging holy ones. All the crafted furnishings […]

The chariots of His innermost sanctum shall offer praise as one, and their Cherubim and wheel-beings shall marvelously bless […]

the chiefs of the divine building. They shall praise Him in His holy innermost sanctum.