5. I told him many wondrous things and showed him the secrets of the times and the end of the times. I commanded him, saying,
6. ‘You will make these words public, but you will keep these other words secret.’
7. Now I say to you,
8. the signs that I showed you, the dreams that you saw, and the interpretations you heard—place them in your heart!
9. You will be taken from among human beings, and you will associate from now on with my Son and with those who are like you until the times are finished.
10. The age is no longer young, and the times are beginning to grow old.
11. The age is divided into twelve parts. Nine parts and half of the tenth part have already passed.
12. Two parts in addition to half of the tenth part remain.
13. Now then put your house in order; give solemn instruction to your people. Console the humble among them, and instruct those who are wise. Renounce now this corruptible life,
14. put away short-lived thoughts, cast off from yourself human burdens, strip off your weak nature, push aside the thoughts that most trouble you, and hasten to depart from these times.
15. As for the evils that you have now seen happen, people will yet do worse than these.
16. The weaker the world becomes because of old age, the more will evils multiply upon those who dwell in it.
17. Truth will depart and falsehood will come near. Even now the eagle, which you saw in your vision, hastens to come."
18. I answered: "I will speak in your presence, Lord!
19. Look, I will go as you commanded me and warn the people who are now living. But who will warn those who will be born in the future?
20. The world is in darkness. Those who live in it have no light,
21. because your Law has been burned, and so no one knows what things you have done or what works are about to come to pass.
22. If then I have found favor before you, send a holy spirit into me, and I will write everything that has happened in the world from the beginning, the things that were written in your Law, so that human beings can find the path, and those who want to live in the last days may live."
23. He replied to me: "Go, gather the people and say to them that they shouldn’t seek you for forty days.
24. Gather up many writing tablets, and take with you Sarea, Dabria, Selemia, Ethanus, and Asiel, these five, who are trained to write fast.
25. Come here, and I will light in your heart the lamp of understanding. It won’t be extinguished until you have written everything down.