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Page 153-154 of my 10th Book Firmament: Vaulted Dome of the Earth.

4 On the first uppermost circle I placed the stars, Kruno, and on the second Aphrodit, on the third Aris, on the fifth Zeus, on the sixth Ermis, on the seventh lesser the moon, and adorned it with the lesser stars. 5 And on the lower I placed the sun for the illumination of day, and the moon and stars for the illumination of night. – Book of the Secrets of Enoch 30:4-5

This passage from 2 Enoch, is one of the more cryptic passages from that text which as passage describes the planets as stars, grouping them together with the sun, moon, stars, and did you notice “lesser the moon.” What in the world could Enoch be citing by this reference? Did he perhaps actually mean ‘the lesser moon’ and if so, is this the object which Samuel Birley Rowbotham wrote about in Chapter XI of his masterful work, Zetetic Astronomy, Earth Not a Globe when discussing the causes of solar and lunar eclipses? In it, he speculates upon the existence of some unnoticed unknown dark companion to the moon which as a body, he postulates could be the object responsible for casting a shadow upon and across its luminescent face during lunar eclipses? In that chapter he also shares eyewitness record of the unfolding of certain lunar eclipses where both moon and the sun remain positioned above the earth’s horizon, negating possibility that it was the shadow of the earth which obstructed sight of the moon during such viewing; also negating it as the cause of such happening.

“A SOLAR eclipse is the result simply of the moon passing between the sun and the observer on earth. But that an eclipse of the moon arises from a shadow of the earth, is a statement in every respect, because unproved, unsatisfactory. The earth has been proved to be without orbital or axial motion; and, therefore, it could never come between the sun and the moon. The earth is also proved to be a plane, always underneath the sun and moon; and, therefore, to speak of it’s intercepting the light of the sun, and thus casting its own shadow on the moon, is to say that which is physically impossible.
Besides the above difficulties or incompatibilities, many cases are on record of the sun and moon being eclipsed when both were above the horizon. The sun, the earth, and the moon, not in a straight line, but the earth below the sun and moon–out of the reach or direction of both–and yet a lunar eclipse has occurred! Is it possible that a “shadow” of the earth could be thrown upon the moon, when sun, earth, and moon, were not in the same line? From the facts and phenomena already advanced, we cannot draw any other conclusion than that the moon is obscured by some kind of semi-transparent body passing before it; and through which the luminous surface is visible: the luminosity changed in colour by the density of the intervening object. This conclusion is forced upon, us by the evidence; but it involves the admission that the moon shines with light of its own–that it is not a reflector of the sun’s light, but absolutely self-luminous. Although this admission is logically compulsory, it will be useful and strictly Zetetic to collect all the evidence possible which bears upon it.” – ‘Parallax’ (pseud. Samuel Birley Rowbotham, Zetetic Astronomy, Earth Not a Globe, XI

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