23.1 And he told me all the works of the heaven and the earth and the sea, and their goings and comings, the noise of the thunder; the sun and moon and the movement of the stars; their changings; the seasons and years; days and hours; and goings of the winds; and the numbers of the angels; the songs of the armed hosts.

23.2 And everything relating to man, and every language of their songs, and the lives of men, and the precepts and instructions, and sweet-voiced singings, and all which it is suitable to be instructed in.

23.3 And Vretil instructed me thirty days and thirty nights, and his lips never ceased speaking; and I did not cease thirty days and thirty nights writing all the remarks.

23.4 And Vretil said to me: ‘All the things which I have told thee, thou hast written down. Sit down and write all about the souls of men, those of them which are not born, and the places prepared for them for ever.

23.5 For every soul was created [by GOD] before the foundation of the world.’

23.6 And I wrote all out continuously during thirty days and thirty nights, and I copied all out accurately, and I wrote 366 books.