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UPON THE ANGELS OF PUNISHMENT. — It is tO be

known, that there are seven rulers of the world
over the seven stars which revolve within the twelve
signs of the zodiac; seven and twelve make nineteen,
and over these nineteen rulers, that Is, managers of
the world, are other nineteen inspectors. In the
space of the nether earth are seven powers of vege-
tation, viz.: that of nourishment, watering, birth,
retention, attraction, mildness, and repulsion.
There are twelve powers of animal life, viz.: five
exjernal, five internal senses, and two powers of
movement, namely, lust and anger. Mankind, as
long as they remain in prison beneath the heaven of
the moon, and not severed from sensuality and its
ties, is indispensably and continually subject to the
impressions of the upper and nether rulers, and to
sufferings; but if it rids itself of these conditions, it
enjoys freedom in this and in the other world.

Nakir and Monkir point to our praise-worthy or
blameable conduct. The body is a tomb, and so is
the belly of the mother, and the interior part of the
heaven of the moon.

AN ACCOUNT OF THE PAGES OF HUMAN ACTIONS AND THEIR
RECORDERS ; AND OF THE DESCENT OF ANGELS AND
DEMONS TO THE GOOD AND THE WlCKED.

Know that, of every speech or action which is