Major Elucidator or Illuminations on the Reformation of the Whole Wide World

and by night I was not silent. There were written, however, in forty days, two hundred and four books. And it came to pass when the forty days were completed, the Highest spoke, saying: The former things that you have written, put in the open, and let the worthy and the unworthy read them; but the last seventy you shall preserve, so that you may deliver them to the wise among your people. For in these is the vein of understanding, and the fountain of wisdom, and the river of knowledge. And I did so. That is: And I took with me five men, as the Lord had commanded me, and we went out into the field, and remained there. And it came to pass on the other day, and behold, a voice said to me: Esdras, open your mouth, and drink what I give you to drink. And I opened my mouth, and behold, a chalice, filled to the brim, was offered to me. This