Dave B.

“In one of the Scriptures we read: Under a banyan tree sat a youthful teacher and beside him an aged disciple. The mind of the disciple was full of doubts and questions, but although the teacher continued silent, gradually every doubt vanished from the disciple's mind. This signifies that the conveying of spiritual teaching does not depend upon words only. It is the life, the illumination, which counts.”
― Joseph B. Lumpkin, THE UPANISHADS

“9 Then I said: 'I am afraid of this place and cannot stand to look at it.!' Then Uriel, one of the holy angels who was with me, answered and said to me: 'Enoch, why are you so afraid?' 10 And I answered: 'Because of this fearful place, and because of the spectacle of the pain.' And he said to me: 'This place is the prison of the angels, and here they will be imprisoned for ever.'  ”
― Joseph B. Lumpkin, The Encyclopedia of Lost and Rejected Scriptures: The Pseudepigrapha and Apocrypha

“for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.   9”
― Joseph B. Lumpkin, The Books of Enoch

“Both men and angels were given the highest gift in the universe, that of free will. We have the power of choice. Evil resides within the problem of choice. It is free will that convicts us. We are guilty of being evil because we can choose good. Free will is the very foundation of love, and the cornerstone of evil.”
― Joseph B. Lumpkin, The Books of Enoch