I have taken it upon myself to translate the entire Book of Sajaha into English as the only published version by Joshua Free appears to be incomplete, some of the verses or part of verses left untranslated and there are errors. My translation is thus complete and hopefully is largely free from errors and has a greater amount of internal consistency.
Chapter One
(Letter to the king)
1. My king as you already know there are vibrations and currents of different type and strength everywhere, but everywhere and in all things and in everyone they are barely perceivable.
2. It is thus for everything, and thus for people that being is a constant existence in the midst of a sea of cosmic and magical vibrations and currents, yes it is like a wide sea which in turn hides many different seas in itself.
3. Thus it happens that each and everyone relentlessly receives from such seas vibrations and currents and also releases them again-without however being able to determine any of them, yes, mostly it is not noticeable.
4. This powerlessness towards the vibrations and currents, which indeed are so effective is above all due to the high gifts of the godly people who have remained pure, having been almost entirely lost since the fall of the primeval empire. And the racially mixed descendants lost most of their old power.
5. Therefore it has come about, especially in that area which is not conscious, the flowing forces which work there can only be guided a little to a limited extent by the wise ones but can never really be controlled or used appropriately.
6. This is because the nerves of the ancestors (of today's people) have atrophied, which were necessary for the mastery of the high power but are no longer available for their descendants and their progeny.
7. The only tool that can still absorb and manage these vibrations and currents is the long hair of women. Like a delicate, but large and dense network they can hold these forces and make them manageable, in so far as a (woman) understands what is necessary for that, which is known (from the magical teachings).
8. This means now that most people cannot handle the magical vibrations although they are in the midst of them; and therefore they are like rudderless ships on an unknown sea.
9. Therefore the few who are capable should use their ability to support the many others as lights in the silent invisible sea. (The vibrations of the forces of nature are regarded as masculine, the magical on the other hand as feminine.)
Chapter Two
("Ereschkigal and the owls")
1."Where you wise ones, has the circle its beginning? And where its end?"-Ereschkigal once asked the owls about that who live in deep caves by day and only look at the world at night.
2. The first owl said: "where the light ends is the beginning of the circle, and where the darkness ends there is its end."
3. The second owl spoke: "because everything has once started in the light, it wanders through the dark and returns to the light."
4. Ereschkigal however still wanted to know it differently and asked the owls further: "you speak to me about the course of eternity in infinity. However I have drawn here a circle with a stylus on a stone. You speak of that world-but I ask about the meaning in this one."
5. The first owl spoke: "everything that applies in that world applies also in this one; only that there are a thousand times more in that one."
6. The second owl spoke: "your circle which you have shown us there is nothing other than a small image of the large one."
7. Then Ereschkigal became impatient and called to the owls: "you want to make in to one what is different to the other! Tell me, where by this one, my circle, are the beginning and the end!"
8. Then the first owl laughed and the second one answered: "there is a beginning and an end, where you have one so it is with the other one as with the sign that you have drawn. But now you have forgotten it."
9. And the first owl spoke: "as you have forgotten this small one, so also the large one. Because if you knew about the beginning of all being you would not ask us about the circle. I will however explain to you the following because you need to know it: it is- whatever you start in the earthly world-not in it alone, it has a higher counterpart, in the sense of the other world, of which you, Ereschkigal must know.
10. If you draw the circle here with the stylus on the stone you have a self-contained line that according to its nature apparently can have neither a beginning nor an end-and never the less once had!
11. So it is with the great cycle of eternity in infinity: connected forever is everything with each other, from beginning to end it is known by he who created it.
12. In the beginning the end was well known to him and in the end the beginning. One thing is everything-every breath of eternity.
13. In case you still don't understand, so go and inquire more in the other world."
14. Then Ereschkigal got up from the stone on which she had been sitting, and left the owls.
15. The second owl however said to the first one: "Ereschkigal stays too often in the underworld. That is why the circle for her is if she is standing in it and caught by it. Only those who walk along their line are free."
16. As Ereschkigal however strode through the long corridors of her underground palace, remembering the words of the owls, she then suddenly saw the distant light at the exit at the end of the long tunnel; and she understood that at the source of the light end and beginning meet.
Chapter Three
1. A lot has been, a lot will still be, and in the middle of what has been and is coming lies the now.
2. The now however is always only the time span of half a breath, there is no means to measure it.
3. The gaze of Marduk overseas all. Before him the drops of the now add to the stream of eternity in infinity. He overseas everything.
4. He sees the beginning and the end. Human beings add what lies in between on earth, they cannot think that the gods would do it.
5. Humans are the shadows of the gods. They act according to their own will on earth. Theirs is the merit of light, theirs the guilt of darkness.
6. Deity gives the footwear to walk. People choose their own paths.
7. Marduk looks down full of pity on those who are astray, joyfully on those who take the right path. He gives advice to the seekers-not coercion.
8. The now is the way. And often the path is like a spider's web. It is difficult to always find the single straight path.
Chapter Four
("Dreams")
1. I want to speak to you about the dreams that come to you at night, of strange things, of alien things, I want you to discover.
2. Because there are dreams of a different kind. There are those which allow you to walk in the worlds of sleep. There are those which another brings to you. There are also those which you can create for others. And also there are those which hasten by without limits.
3. You can see some things in sleep which are simply a reflection of the day. This is not a real dream; such is a stringing together of images without deeper meaning.
4. But if in sleep your inner body raises itself out of the outer one, then you have dreams! Because it is so that the inner body, which comes from the kingdom of god cannot continuously carry the outer one, which is its afterbirth for the stay in the world of this side. And that's why sleep comes. During the hours of sleep spirit* and inner body rest.
5. And so the spirit then leaves the earthly body and goes on journeys. In the process it often looks for another person whose (essence-) vibration is similar to its own, and temporarily moves into it. And if you quite clearly experience a lot of this in your dreams, then all of this has really happened. However not to you , but to the person in whom your spirit moved in as a guest, in order to be carried and to silently experience.
6. It can however also happen the other way around, that the spirit of another sleeping person joins yours. It brings with it pictures from its life, and these mix with your own. And often it may appear confused. All images however are real in their own way.
7. These however are still the small tracks of dreams. There are bigger ones which are more significant. If for example your spirit moves out completely and enters fully into the worlds of sleep. Numerous spirits of sleeping people meet there together. So images that you remember after waking are frequently very strange to you.
8. A still further path can lead to the borders of Greenland * - and possibly even a little bit into it. Then your spirit experiences a great deal in the hours of sleep-and its gaze extends far. Because from there it also sees the beings of the earth world in their truth, nothing remains hidden from him, all thoughts lie open before him. And what you notice from there, that is really important knowledge.
9. It can however also happen that when your earthly body, resting in sleep is abandoned by your own spirit that strange and demonic spirits may inhabit it temporarily. This happens if the spirit is not strong enough to lock the earthly body against the intrusion of strangers. And then dangers lurks.
10. Everything that you see and experience in real dreams is real somewhere. Nothing is mere illusion.
11. And it is also possible to interpret some of it for you. Because the spirit is not seeking random paths, but because of its character or because it seeks what it lacks. You can learn a lot from that.
12. If the dreams that you have had often seem confused after waking it is because you no longer correctly or completely remember them, and also the memory of different dreams that you have had are confused together.
13. And there is also the knowledge that everything that has a mind also dreams, even where the mind cannot comprehend-such as in animals and plants. * Because all these creatures once came from the realms of the kingdom of god, following the comprehending ones (humans/angels), or also dragged along by them. And they all have a spirit according to their kind, and these also leave their sleeping earthly bodies from time to time.
*4 'Geist' may be translated as 'spirit' or 'mind' and the two terms have a closer association than in the English-speaking world.
*8 I have translated 'Gruenland' literally as Greenland but obviously this does not and indeed cannot refer to the island known as Greenland but instead some mystical domain that the seer is referring to. Joshua Free places the term 'Summerland' in parentheses after 'Greenland' and this is a term often used in spiritualist circles for the conceptualization of the afterlife and this describes it quite well.
*13 I have translated 'Geist' here as 'mind' as context indicates that 'mind' and not 'spirit' is the most appropriate translation.
Chapter Five
1. I flew through the starry sky like an eagle-in the deep blue night, which is a different night and lasts for ever. And it was an image which came to me: deep blue night between all the stars, the bright sparkling and the dull shining-hear and far.
2. My silent wings carried me through time. And there was no boundary anywhere-and indeed everywhere.
3. There I saw the earth world lying in a sea of currents, * which no one else sees and which I also did not quite see but felt: they were there, everywhere and which came up to and embraced the earth world and held everything there that was necessary as a basis for life.
4. And the earth world was not large, and the stars were not small and many resembled each other, although they were indeed all different. There were red worlds and yellow, blue and green, white and also some which were almost black. And others were streaked through with multiple colours. Some shone out of themselves and were very bright, so that I could not perceive any form. Others in turn were of a different kind.
5. And I saw the sun, which shone on the earth world; bright and hot and like glowing gold. I also saw the moon which shines on the earth world at night. Dull was its shine and it was not large as the sun is large. However I saw the earth world as if it were hanging on imperceptible strings: the sun's rays.
6. And the vibrations carried me through sparkling lights and through deep darkness and back again-I don't know where to. And there I also saw another earth world. Familiar and yet also strange at the same time. I went down to it. Its sky however was a blueish red, and there was no other day like now in this light. Another sun appeared to me there and another moon which was its twin. But I heard languages spoken which I (mentally) understood.
7. Then the vibrations pulled me back, a storm whirled and turned me around, and my hair got caught in the wing so that it stopped roaring and became quiet again. So I floated home, past other worlds and it seemed to me that gentle chants came from one of them. But the night, the dark, the blue, the mild, took me back.
8. I stand on the battlements of the temple and look up at the night. Now it is very quiet. It remains silent by day.
*3 'Stroeme' may be translated as 'streams' or 'currents' (including electrical ones). I have translated the word as 'currents' because this is in keeping with the use of this term elsewhere in the book. This is clearly a play on words by the seer.
Chapter Six
1. I saw demons lying on the edge of Greenland. And Schaddei crouched * before them with all his spirits of evil, begging for assistance against Bel's empire, inciting conflict against Ilu.
2. The demons paid no attention. Their ice-cold breath froze the spirit of hell-it did not care.
3. Then the dark one went home with its hordes to the hellish mud hole. The smell of slaughtered bodies enveloped them again.
4. The prince of shadows feels so homely, horror is refreshment to him, decay enjoyment, he thirsts after blood.
5. The evil spirits swarmed out to the earth world-so I have seen-, in order to cause evil, according to their kind, to instill hatred, to sow murder, to let the peoples drink out of cups of wrath, in order that there be war everywhere. Schaddei seeks the intoxication of blood and burning.
6. I saw demons floating on the borders of the world of this side.* Some made an alliance with Jaho (Schaddei); disaster threatens the people of the earth. Some here have surrendered to the evil one, and such serve him, such bear the cups of wrath amongst the nations of humanity in order to make them drunk and stumbling in lust for war and delusion - in order that Jaho may sip human blood and graze on the smell of burning human flesh.
7. The servants of the evil one serve evil, they are emissaries of Schaddei, the scum of hell in the world of this side.
8. I have seen bad things to come, the emissaries of Schaddei, the spirits of evil on earth are winning power for themselves.
9. Terrible things will come-still worse things will come-, until finally the spirit of the righteous awakens and takes up Babylon's sword, the pure, the light, in order to smash the darkness.
*1 The verb 'kauern' can mean either to 'crouch' or to 'cower'. The former seemed the more appropriate English word to use according to the context.
*6 I have seen some English translations that translate the term as 'this world' whilst 'diesseitigen Welt' strictly means 'the world of/on this side' in the sense of dimensions. This is a term which is commonly used in esoteric literature of this genre. See Das Vril Projekt (Norbert Juergen Ratthofer and Ralf Ettl)!
Chapter Seven
1. A grey cloud drifts closer. However it doesn't carry rain, it doesn't bring soft clouds-it obscures the light.
2. I cannot announce joyful tidings. Darkness will come in the coming time. The temples burst and the kings fall. The people falls into envy, envy stokes up hatred. Hatred nourishes the forces of evil and forms wars from them.
3. I cannot announce joyful tidings, neither something beautiful nor light. Because the light that will come in (a) meantime will slay the servants of darkness. And they will mix its appearance with false tones.
4. And the grey cloud drifts closer. It becomes black and darkens the sky over the world.
5. And the inhabitants of the earth in their majority no longer differentiate between black and white, they exchange evil and good, unaware staggering, raging, insane. Nothing lasts. Everything falls.
6. I cannot announce joyful tidings-only one thing: the seventh humanity will ascend again in a later time. Before that, however, all sick souls must pass away, who no longer separate white and black.
Chapter Eight
1. Evil faces are there-and melt away. They don't belong to demons, they don't belong to otherworldly beings: they belong to the earth world-in a special way.
2. White flowers are blooming. Blue flowers bloomed before. There are false plants somewhere. They hide under the leaves of others and secretly proliferate.
3. Ten kingdoms come and go. That of Babylon and Assyria is the first and greatest. That of the Aryan follows after, and then that of Egypt, then Iran, then Chad and then that on the coast of the sea, then the distant one in the east and also the distant one in the west, then that over the sea and also the midnight kingdom. Three afterbirths will still follow later. These pass quickly; they are not in the light. One eats up another straight away. Two remain.
4. Of all the kingdoms one returns twice-and always in a different place. The vibration that comes from Bab-Chomet (the Black Sun) causes this.
5. But the darkness suffocates the light again-and also suffocates itself.
6. However almost all the heroes fall. Flowers do not bloom anymore just strangling vines. * And the desert remains empty. Vultures perch in the branches of the tree. They have already eaten the owls, they have already eaten the pigeons, they have already eaten the eagles.
7. Grey animals grow out of the earth. They gnaw at the roots of the trees until they overturn and tear down with them the vultures. So then these are killed and the grey animals eat them up.
8. Between hills a blood-red animal sprouts up. It grows quickly. The grey rodents feed it until it is large. Then it also eats those who nourished it. And the red animal has eyes of false gold.
9. On the earth world no real kingdom rules anymore, only the afterbirths. And these are sick from birth. They choose the blood-red animal from the hills to be the leader. But soon they cut it up in a quarrel.
10. The red animal however is now doubled. And each of the (now) two has an eye of false gold. Tendrils hold firmly on to it. And these tendrils also reconnect the two parts of the animal together. So the hostile afterbirths remain connected to each other.
11. The blood-red animal bites, and bites the peoples of each of its followers. It tears open severe wounds. A lot of blood flows and the animal drinks it up. That makes it strong.
12. But the tendrils will also be strengthened by the blood. They are choking now the red animals and want to rule entirely by themselves. Their limbs burrow deeply into the bodies of the afterbirth. And their peoples bleed again even more.
13. Then the afterbirths and their peoples fall. They enter through the shadow of the real kingdoms. And also the red animal passes away. And also the tendrils come to an end because they have nothing more to hold on to.
14. There is everywhere a great crying and complaining and whining! Unbridled are the peoples, without order and kingdom.
15. Now they harbour the sprig of a white flower And it grows gradually-it brings forth a blossom. And so comes into being a new real kingdom. And all submit themselves freely to it. It is from the light.
16. There have been many evil spirits. But at the end a light. The evil spirits melt away-the light however remains.
*6 This is the translation of 'Wuergeranken' used by Joshua Free and I have chosen to use this term as it aptly describes what happens.
Chapter Nine
1. There are three images which I want to show you next; and each one of them an event for a certain time.
2. The first image shows you a new king. He lives on the shore of the lake. His race * is related to us by blood. He sends out many ships. He annexes lands, which since the great Sargon I no one had seen any more. He is learned, his gods are also ours.
3. The higher the sign of the new king climbs in the heavens, the more those who are envious forge hatred against him-and soon gather together to attack him. Terrible struggle comes, for the first time, the second time, and for the third time.
4. The new king finally succumbs to the majority. There remains no trace of him-only secret knowledge.
5. Another king rules as the first one over the world. He is not of our blood and has no knowledge of the light. * His land lies distant. Through industriousness however this king achieves a great deal. However as the industriousness passes, so also does his work.
6. The second image, that I also want to bring you, shows many praying people; they pray a great deal and in many countries. However they do not pray to the true deity, their understanding is blinded. The light that was once there, they have veiled in their temples, their holy stones bear false inscriptions. And they offer false sacrifices, cutting girls' hair and burning the wise. They do not see the signs of their gods anymore. And just as they pray and sacrifice, so they wage greedy wars.
7. Their thoughts are emptied, their spirits are sick, and their souls are deformed. Their gods slurp their blood, burn their flesh and eat the hair of their women. And they kill a great many.
8. The third image, that I want to give to you today, shows, how again a new king arises in the distance. And he is of our blood. His name is "Hope" because he closes the sources of evil. And every sign of heaven* gives him a year, the first half of it in peace and the second in war. However the sources of evil break out again, and they shower the young king with blood and fire from above and below and from all sides. Thus he perishes. And the name "Hope" falls with him.
9. Then the darkness completely seizes power in the world. The blinded people sacrifice in dull temples of the same impure kind. Schaddein (the prince of the shadow/evil) determines the course, his priests of the lie rule scornfully over the earth. Only the heirs of the heritage of Babylon, Assyria and Persia fight back. However these became weak long ago. The victory is far off. There is no new king anymore.
10. However a strong one will shake up the remnant of the heirs and wake some up. Like a comet which suddenly gives a sign. However the victory is far off, and there is no new king.
11. Something strange I see in addition to that: it is like a glowing wheel-gigantically large. And its spokes are intertwined people, who have no race. * They look sick, egoism * is in their breath. They are slaves to themselves and to the wheel. Those who hold the glowing circlet burn and scream at it. However the next push right away, although they resist. (This is) because the centre hub is likewise made of embers, and there the people burn. And thus yet more and more multitudes allow themselves to be driven towards the disaster that works from the centre of the embers.
12. This glowing wheel-gigantic to look upon-rolls over the earth. It brings fire, igniting countries and seas. A terrible noise sounds from everywhere-gruesome and without sense. The wheel however continues to race. The noise generated by scorched people in madness, drives it, making it quicker and quicker. In raging madness they jump on to the wheel of embers and turn into smoke.
13. Nowhere is there silence anymore, everywhere screaming and charging about and raging. The people do not recognise one another anymore. And none of them slow down the hideous rolling of the glowing wheel. A new king is still far off.
14. I then saw an entirely different image-and I don't know from where this image came; it was distant to the others.
15. Then I saw the golden portrait of a beautiful goddess. It was set up on a high mast. I took it to be the portrait of Ishtar, although it did not bear her sign.
16. I saw a king standing at the base of the Ishtar post. And a lot of people cheered him. All around lay a large city, and the entire city was in a celebratory mood. It was just as if the king of Babylon made a speech to his people. And I almost thought that I could detect a new Babylon, which lies there in a distant time-and I don't know, whether it is in the future, or past.
17. I saw a bright sun shine on the city with the golden goddess and on the entire land-up to the sea-into the mountains. And everywhere ruled great happiness, loud cheers sounded. And as the sun shone so brightly appeared also the light of love far and wide among people. I saw quarrels nowhere, I heard no anger, only joy everywhere and no trace of wild madness. Decorated ships sailed on the rivers and in the streets joyful wagons. And the desert was green in splendid forests."
*2 'Geschlecht' has various meanings including race, lineage and gender. Clearly the context rules out 'gender'! I have chosen to translate the word as 'race' although Joshua Free uses the term 'family'. He may or may not be correct.
*5 The literal translation is 'light knowledge' but this would not make a great deal of sense in English. I have thus translated the adjective as a noun.
*8 I have translated 'Himmelszeichen' in a literal sense-'sign of heaven'. The context indicates that the meaning may be 'sign of the zodiac', the German for which is 'Sternzeichen'-'star sign'.
*11 'Geschlecht'. Again I have translated this word as 'race' but Joshua Free uses the term 'gender' this tme. It is a judgement call as to which word to use according to the context.
* 11 I have translated 'Selbstsucht' as 'egoism'. For some reason Joshua Free has used the term 'selfishness'.
Chapter Ten
("Fragments")
1. Then a light will shine like a young star at the end of the sky. That is the lid of the water jug opening (the beginning of the age of Aquarius or actually age of the water jug).
2. And a horror will break out over all the servants of darkness and over all their helpers. All their gold will melt into screaming tears-under the shining ray of the new Babylon. And all their vows of revenge will meet them out of the mirror of their wickedness.
3. The just however will judge the unjust-and will shame them by their mercy.
4. Then will be the hour of the panther against the dragon, which a worm gave birth to in the desert and nourished the giant in the kingdom of the north-here as there.
5. The accused will become the plaintiffs; and the hypocrites whine at the ember gates of their darkness.
6. Darkness crouches deeply into the flesh of the peoples-like a secret worm-it will sit high: in the saddles (and) on the necks of the kings and princes. The light of the righteous appears to be darkened.
7. However the new Babylon will shine at the base of the mountain of the north.* And the one who was the most solitary will be the new king of Babylon, the king of the new kingdom.
*7 'Nordberges' is the genitive case of 'Nordberg' -mountain of the north which according to the Thule Tempel is the 'Berg in Mitternacht'-the 'midnight mountain', 'Weltenberg'-'mountain of the world', 'Goetterberg'-'mountain of the gods', 'Heiliger Berg'-'holy mountain' and 'Berg der Versammlung'- 'mount of the assembly'. It is believed by some that the Untersberg in Berchtesgaden is an earthly representation of this fabled mount and it is the place where the goddess Isais instructed the templar Ritter Hubertus Koch to construct a temple in Her name.
Chapter Eleven
(The first verses are lost)
1. At that time there will be a great flood over the high and once bright gardens of the earth; and it will not be a flood of water but an odour of putrefaction * everywhere.
2. And from the lower gardens swarms of greedy beetles come up. These will eat and place their larvae under the blossoming trees, and the larvae will eat the roots of the trees and die on them. But the blossom of the trees wilt-and also their leaves. And the greedy beetles continue to come. They have no thoughts, they do not know their meaning. They lay new larvae. No fire will is thrown to burn them. This is how the trees will wilt-and also the shrubs and also the grass.
3. And everything will be withered and bare everywhere. Many of the greedy beetles die of hunger. The inhabitants of the bright gardens also starve.
4. There are already more beetles than there are humans. And the greedy beetles eat up a lot of the humans.
5. The people therefore have lost their thinking and understanding through the flood of putrefying odour. They could have protected themselves and their children from the disaster. Because they lost the ability to understand they did nothing.
6. And so it was before the flood of voracious beetles the flood of putrefaction entered the bright gardens; and the one prepared the way for the other. And so humans finally brought about their own bad end because they tolerated it.
7. So the first flood will come and pave the way for the second, at the end of which stands extinction.
8. Then also the beetles that remain there in the lower gardens will spoil, because without the seeds of the trees from above nothing more will flourish. So this world dies. And people in different lands don't know each other anymore. Enmity arises everywhere due to the dying of the world. Thus the very last slay each other.
9. I saw this, this is (a) coming image. And yet it is a warning-not inevitable fate. Fend off, you humans, the first flood! If you fail, you are all lost!
10. In order that you can recognise it, I want to show you more precisely the images of the first coming flood, of which I spoke. These images are colourful, strange and alien. the clever one knows how to interpret them.
11. A white bird circled over the sea near the world mountain, noble and pure. He did no harm to anyone, anger never arose from him.
12. There are there however numerous other birds-less noble and without the shining whiteness. And these envied the white one and joined together against him so that he would not be allowed to land, in order that he may die of exhaustion and hunger and then fall down dead from the clouds into the sea, so that soon no one more would know that there had ever been such a white and noble bird.
13. The white bird circled for a long time until the need forced him to fight against all the others. And he knocked down many of these, remaining for long the victor in this struggle.
14. The others gathered still more comrades and attacked the white one again-after they had previously forced him to starve again.
15. And there were again many terrible struggles of the many against the one. Until finally the white bird lay bleeding on the ground and could no longer defend himself.
16. But because he hadn't sunk into the sea and therefore some of his white feathers could still be seen the others plucked out all his feathers and ate his raw flesh.
17. Now the white bird was no more. And soon it should be shown that he had been the leader of the sunlight and the father of the white clouds in the sky. And from then on there was no more any pure light, and only grey clouds, which stopped the rays of the sun and devoured their warmth between heaven and earth.
18. But the numerous ignoble birds who had survived the long struggle cried loudly now because it was becoming cold and ever darker on the earth; and they said that the white bird bore the guilt for that and that is why they murdered him. So they turned around what had happened and denied their guilt.
19. As now the time went by there came evil demons with the darkness, who feel at home in the dark. With these however came also the sickness of minds * -and-the lack of understanding.
20. Because dark demons resemble appearance:* they are essentially essenceless, they know no suffering and no joy, they have neither fear nor any other feeling. They do not understand what is essential and do not care about it.
21. In their following however came the dark spirits, in order to bear evil to the world. And some recognised that the white bird had also been a shield against the dark power.
22. What had therefore been a light to protect against the darkness had been slaughtered by the envious birds.
23. Now they were all prey to the lord of the shadows.
*1 'Fauelnis' can mean 'degeneracy' as well. Either word would of course fit the text.
*19 I have translated 'Geist' as 'mind', rather than 'spirit' as it fits the context better but the reader should be aware that in German the concept of 'mind' and 'spirit' are more closely related than in English.
*20 'gleichen dem Schein'-'resemble appearance'. There is no easier way of translating this. What the seer is saying is that demons only resemble things in the material world-they do not have any actual essence themselves.
Chapter Twelve
First chapter.
1. Conversation between Sajaha and king Nebukadnezar II (Nebokadarsur)
Nebukadnezar: "speak to me, Sajaha, what course is time taking? What course is the world taking?"
2. Sajaha: "darkness will cover the sky over the world and over time. Because the worshipers of the evil spirit are not completely destroyed, they are arising.
3. "Like poisonous thorns they burrow into the bodies of the countries, they also bring the spirit of evil into your country, into your city of light. Doom approaches us because darkness becomes strong in the world."
4. Nebukadnezar: " have I not frightfully beaten the servants of darkness? Destroyed their sites? Burned the shrine of hell? Executed their priests and leaders? Captured their superiors?"
5. Sajaha: "what use is it oh king, to tear up the stalk of the poisonous plant from the garden beds if you don't destroy its seed with it?
6. "Fresh seed will take the evil and mingle it again with the flowers, suck the juice from their roots and finally overgrow the pure flowers.
7. "Soon the day will come when you will no longer recognise your garden bed. The flowers will have suffocated but the stalks of the poisonous plants will dominate the picture.
8. "The light is extinguished by the dark shadow of the poisonous stalks. These will feed themselves on the marrow of the noble plants, which now overgrown will no longer see the energising rays of the sun, So they are weakened and weakened again-until the evil of darkness rules almost completely."
9. Nebukadnezar: "I dealt hard with the emissaries of the dark spirit. However the king of Babylon is a just man, he shows mercy toward he who repents and forswears evil."
10. Sajaha: "you believed lies oh king, you succumb to hypocrites. Can then a thorn stop pricking? Can a poison stop poisoning? Can the lie stop being a lie?
11. "You oh king love good and that is why you seek it. Your goodness hinders you from fully recognising wickedness. So it can deceive you, so have the emissaries of the evil spirit pretended-and you left many of them alive. Because of that the race of light will suffer heavily."
12. Nebukadnezar: "I am growing old, my faithful Sajaha, my mind has turned to the next world. I have never boasted of my military campaigns because my spirit has always longed for wisdom and brightness-for me and my people.
13. "The kingdom is now powerful. I will hand over a strong Babylonia to he who comes after me. But I was not the third Sargon."
14. Sajaha: "the third Sargon will come in a later time. He will eradicate the servants of darkness with all their seed, he will tear out evil by the roots.
15. "He will know no mercy, he will not spare a single one of the enemies of the light, he will show no mercy to any who kept silent, he will not tolerate anyone who does not recognise greatness. He will suppress the lower types, he will kill all the sick souls. No trace of the worshipers of the evil spirit will remain on the earth.
16. "The third Sargon will be dreadful against everything that hinders the unfolding of the pure light.
17. "He will purify the world, he will kill seven out of ten people and he will wipe out everything that is false and everything that bears the sign of falsehood.
18. "He will be cruel against the dark.
19. "He will pile up the bodies of the slain like high pyramids in order to burn them.
20. "Everything ignoble must fall. The eternal order which will be lost he restores, sent by the deity."
21. Nebukadnezar: "when oh Sajaha will all this be?"
22. Sajaha: "in so many years, reckoned from this day on, as have passed since the first Sargon.
23. "The earth world will then be bad.
24. "But in the span of the third part of a year the emissary will have done his work.
25. "He will come from the north; he will break in unexpectedly into the poison-living earthly world, he will shake everything up with one blow and his power will be invincible.
26. "He will ask no one. He will know everything.
27. "A host of upright ones will be around him. The third Sargon will give them the light and they will shine in the world.
28. "And the just will wade in the blood of the slain unjust.
29. "Until that work is done the fire of extermination will burn from one end of the earth to the other.
30. "Only the truthful will remain."
31. Nebukadnezar: "how will it fare with Babylon?"
Sajaha: "it will disappear for a long time. Not until the third Sargon will rebuild it in the land of the north. There and then there will be a new Babylon."
32. Nebukadnezar: "now tell me this, faithful Sajaha: will the new Babylon exist through the ages?"
Sajaha: "It will exist and reign in the light for a thousand years, oh king!"
Chapter Twelve
Second chapter.
1. Nebukadnezar: "tell me", so said the king to Sajaha in Esagila-"what do you see until the third Sargon comes? How will it be with people? How will it be with the kingdom?"
2. Sajaha: "it will be bad. Nothing can avert it, it already takes its course.
3. "The poison thorn proliferates and scatters its corrosive seeds near and far. Lies pave the way for it; lies showered the circle of the world with poisonous arrows, more and more.
4. "The sun darkens its light from Chaldea to the base of the midnight mountain. But the people do not notice it, they are blinded by the appearance of falsehood, by the reflection of sneaked in gold.
5. "Many good-natured people fall, many malicious people rise up in their stead. Schaddein's gruesome breath turns most people's thoughts.
6. "What is pure will fall, what is impure, that rises. What was below, that will be above; the evil and the good exchange places.
7. "The people will be drunk. Madness rules the world.
8. "Parents lose their children, children deny their parents. No one hears the voices of the gods anymore-except for the solitary righteous, who will not count in that time.
9. "The people will no longer know their minds. Armies will fight against their commanders. The kings fall, and the temples turn to dust. Refuse is coming up, refuse will govern.
10. "All power will lie in the hands of the unworthy. These will turn the world around.
11. "Customs will no longer be, but vice will be considered noble. Men unpunished will have intercourse with boys; women will no longer want to be women, but like men will go unpunished; people unpunished will mix with animals and breed bastards. And the bastards of the bastards will be numerous in the streets of the cities without being destroyed.
12. "And the lowest will be elevated to the highest by the servants of the evil spirit. And he observes all this jubilantly from out of his darkness."
13. Shuddering, the king interrupted the seer. Nebukadnezar: "oh Sajaha! Faithful counselor of your old king. Compassionately give me a better picture, that I may take to the other world."
14. "First of all the bad must come-and then the more terrible.
15. "Because the evil spirit itself will enter the world in human form-idolised by all emissaries of evil.
16. "He will extinguish in the souls of the people, what the spirit of godhood had brought them before. He will find a well-prepared camp, in order to feel comfortable; because the entire circle of the world will be of his spirit-only the solitary righteous will wait in silence for their hour, which also will come.
17. "Before that however evil must let off steam terribly on the earth world.
18. "Everything that is bad will be regarded as good; everything that is good will be regarded as bad.
19."The people will no longer recognise any god. Gluttony and fornication, betrayal and deception will be called their gods. They will drink blood and wallow in slime.
20. "They will call naughty lies truth, and truth will not be in them. Except in the solitary righteous ones, who longingly wait for the third Sargon, to whom they have secretly dedicated their courage.
21. "The first spark of the new will emerge from the ruined ground of Chaldea. It will climb to the sky and fly, carried by rushing clouds to the land of the north. Out of this battered earth rises the liberator, the avenger: the third Sargon!
22. "And from the north as from the south the solitary righteous will stand up and will be powerful and stormily will light the fire and carry it forward, which everywhere burns out all evil, yes, everywhere."
23. Then the king raised both hands to heaven. Nebukadnezar: "terrible shall they be, the righteous and merciless!"
24. Sajaha: "so will they be."
Chapter Twelve
Third chapter
1. The king went to Sajaha in the temple of the fair Ishtar; and he was old and tired and full of cares for the people and the kingdom. Because although Babylon was mighty and highly respected in all the world, the king indeed felt the disaster that threatened the kingdom in coming times. Also Sajaha had already prophesied this to him. So now he went to her in the temple.
2. Nebukadnezar: "Sajaha, my dear faithful one, tell me how it will be when the hour of light returns over the earthly world, when the times of evil will be over and the happy (times) will spread over my kingdom and the circle of the earth."
3. Sajaha: "there will first be the victory of the righteous, of the brave who persevered through all the shadows of evil.
4. "When the third Sargon will have come and will have fought the battle, so will these have been his swords-victorious against a numerous majority.
5. "Then will he, the avenger will have thundered over the circle of the earth with fiery chariots, hurling lightning against the powers of darkness, until they are completely destroyed.
6. "After all this will the earth world be cleansed of all wickedness and misery.
7. "Only small flocks of people will populate the earth world; but it will be the best who now live and rule.
8. "A tower will (then) be built-seven-seven times higher than E-Temen-An-Ki.
9. "The earthly world will shine beautifully and wonderfully. There will be no more conflict. No one will know greed anymore.No one will know straying or fornication anymore. No one will need weapons anymore.
10. "And you my king will see that from the other world, over the top of the mount of assembly. Then joy will embrace you."
11. Nebukadnezar: "the time is far distant. Solitary are the brave and the righteous. But the deity is with them."
Chapter Thirteen
1. I see two giant scavenging animals on the earth-and I don't know when.
2. They have heads like human heads, but bodies like grey pigs; but their feet have claws like the wild hands of a monstrosity. And each carries five atrophied horns on their heads. The heads indeed are almost like human heads, but they are indeed unspeakably ugly. Their noses are wide, somewhat like those of pigs or strange monkeys. Their mouths are like bulging caves. Their eyes resemble black stones that have no shine. And their necks are fat.
3. They stomp through the gardens of the lands and eat everything up. They wade through the rivers and seas and eat everything up. They crawl through the streets of the towns and eat everything up. But what they eat is that which decays before them.
4. But the people are so afraid of both of the scavenging animals that they die out of fear of them. And that alone is the reason why the bad animals are getting bigger, fatter and more powerful; because the people do not recognise that the fiends can eat nothing but carrion, that the living must be very afraid of them.
5. It remains that way for a long time. Until in the silence someone makes a huge spear, hidden from other people, who are only afraid and dare not fight. One of them however makes his spear, and Ishtar herself helps him to strengthen the weapon and Bel arms...
(End of the fragment)
Chapter Fourteen
1. I went to Greenland's shore for many hours. And I looked down on the earth world through the clear water. It appeared strange from there; people acted strangely.
2. I looked through the ages-like the bottom of a sea. And I saw no before and no after-everything was. However I finally felt the sequence.
3. Above a mountain in Greenland I saw softly towering up what looked like a strong braid, braided out of shimmering women's hair. And at the very top a head that possessed two faces: on one side that of a man, and on the other side that of a woman. And the woman's face was very young, almost like that of a girl's; and the giant braid was made from this hair. High up into Greenland's sky protruded this double head.
4. Then I realised that it is Ilu's high sign: male and female in one, and yet full of contrast which is why it resonates.
Chapter Fifteen
(Marduk's spear)
1. On the summit of the mountain of the gods Marduk rules over time. He sees bad things coming, but cannot prevent this from coming for a long time. The shaft of his spear is stuck firmly in the glass ceiling of the mountain.
2. Darkness come up, rules over the light. The midnight land is caught in distress. The bodies of fallen heroes are decaying at the foot of the holy mountain.
3. The army of darkness is closing in from the west; the mass of speechless ones rolls in wildly from the east. Babylon can no more be saved, Assyria is no longer there to help-the child of the north land lies down paralysed.
4. Marduk mourns by himself on the summit of the mountain of the world. The home of the gods is lost. They no longer sing, they no longer celebrate festivals, they stormily arms themselves for battle. Even their thoughts are in chains. And Ishtar weeps for her people.
5. Then Marduk raises his gaze up to the limits of the highest light, where Ishtar stands weeping. And he hears Ishtar's voice ringing: Lord Marduk! Guardian of the midnight mountain! Throw your spear against the enemy! Save our folk!
6. Then spoke Marduk and answered her: "oh Ishtar! How gladly I would do what you tell me to do! But the people lie down, the kingdom is crushed, countless is the violence of our enemies-and the new Sargon, the liberator, the avenger, he is not yet there."
7. But Ishtar looked at him and said: "oh Marduk! See what has come from below rules over the earth world and rules our people, who once came from above. Do not tolerate that the bottom dominates the top any longer! Throw your spear! The one who is ours who catches it will be the new Sargon!"
8. Then Marduk tore out the spear from the ground, lifted it up and threw it down with force on the earthly world. And whilst Marduk did that Ishtar commanded the stars to shine a new light, invisibly.
9. On the earthly world Marduk's spear had its effect: it gave birth to the people a new will, a new rage and a weapon-a new Sargon emerged from the people-and he soon seized Marduk's spear.
10. And an enormous struggle began-until the bottom was defeated and the top was raised, and the New Babylon was rebuilt. All this is to appear in a distant time, all this will be.
Chapter Sixteen
(Fragment)
1. (...This day) is a good day, that day is a bad one. And they often lie nested together like palm leaves.
2. Think of healthy leaves and rotten ones on the same branch. Most are still healthy-soon most will decay. Poison leaps over, decomposes quickly.
3. Evil is like a sharp knife, that knows how to hide its shape and can wrap itself in gold. A girl found it, thought that it was a glittering comb and before she was aware of it, three ells of dead hair fell down. It will take years to grow back.
4. Whoever bites evil quickly receives severe wounds. Only slowly do they heal again.
5. Because whoever is gripped by evil, he is like the girl whose length of hair fell: the strings which pick up the vibrations of the good are taken from him or weakened. It is difficult now to resist evil.-Take this as a meaningful picture.
6. If you are strong strengthen yourself by him who has been attacked unsuspectedly by the bite of evil. Not everyone...
(End of the fragment)
Chapter Seventeen
(Fragment)
1. The giant hand has stretched out. It reaches for the rays of the sun. Your fingers are bleeding-but not hurt by the sun.
2. The giant hand has grabbed the sun-and held it nine times. Then she backed away, erasing her pain in the sea.
3. The giant hand was not the hand of a giant. No one knows what it was. Now it is no more.
4. The ascending halo (corona) went to the dawn. Some moved away with him from Esagila.
5. They knew one another and yet were also strangers to each other.
(End of the fragment)
Chapter Eighteen
(Fragment)
1. A copper mirror-confusing the ignorant. You don't attack its shiny metal, it wants your look.
2. And you look through the mirror over the edges of time. The knowledgeable travel over its water.
3. On the summit of the world mountain lands the ship of the wanderer travelling there. The journey that began like this never finds an end. You hear the sound of the voices which no one else hears.
4. I saw through the mirror, I saw the wanderer. From the summit of the world mountain he beckoned to me, to follow him. However I remained, faithful to my king.
5. Up above the wanderer collects fruit...
(End of the fragment)
Chapter Nineteen
(Fragment)
1. You can indeed hear the songs of the blessed, accompanied by harps, flutes and timpani, if you listen to them!
2. And still more you can do if your will has strength.
3. Then you can leave the clothing of your world of this side and go to other worlds. And pay attention: all the dead you will meet there again-and they are young! And they...
(End of the fragment)
