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and lay to one side the thoughts that are most grievous to you, and hasten to escape from these times.
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For evils worse than those which you have now seen happen shall be done hereafter.
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For the weaker the world becomes through old age, the more shall evils be multiplied among its inhabitants.
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For truth shall go farther away, and falsehood shall come near. For the eagle which you saw in the vision is already hastening to come."
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Then I answered and said, "Let me speak in thy presence, Lord.
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For behold, I will go, as thou hast commanded me, and I will reprove the people who are now living; but who will warn those who will be born hereafter? For the world lies in darkness, and its inhabitants are without light.
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For thy law has been burned, and so no one knows the things which have been done or will be done by thee.
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If then I have found favor before thee, send the Holy Spirit into me, and I will write everything that has happened in the world from the beginning, the things which were written in thy law, that men may be able to find the path, and that those who wish to live in the last days may live."
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He answered me and said, "Go and gather the people, and tell them not to seek you for forty days.
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But prepare for yourself many writing tablets, and take with you Sarea, Dabria, Selemia, Ethanus, and Asiel -- these five, because they are trained to write rapidly;
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and you shall come here, and I will light in your heart the lamp of understanding, which shall not be put out until what you are about to write is finished.