(27) And then God confounded their Language, that they might yet see that they had only confounded Senses [or Thoughts,] and should turn them to God; that they also might see that they did not understand the Language of the Saints [or holy People,] of the Stock of Shem; and that they must be scattered abroad over the whole World, so that a holy Seed might be preserved, and that all might not perish; but it availed not, they were wicked.

(97) Therefore it is very hard to know Babel; every one supposes that he is not in it; and yet the Spirit shows me, that Babel incloses the whole Earth; therefore let every one look to his own Ways, and not hunt after Covetousness, for the Driver destroys it, and the Stormer eats it up and consumes it; the Council of the wise Man will not help then; all the Wisdom of this World is Folly; for that oFire is from the Anger of God; your Wisdom will turn to your Hurt and Scorn. Of Christ's Ascension into Heaven.

(2) Many of which [Things] have no Foundation in the Light of Nature, nor can be found [therein,] but were rather invented for Covetousness, and for Filling of the Belly, and for Deceit, upon which the antichristian Kingdom is founded. And from thence is a right Babel of Confusion come to be, out of which then also the [grim,] fierce, cruel Enmity and Hatred is arisen, from whence Babel is broken in herself, and [Enmity] is generated out of a Babel; and it is the fierce Wrath of God which appears in the Breaking [or Destruction] of Babel, because she is generated in the Deceit.

(18) O thou blind Babel! I must tell thee, how thou becamest thus mad; thou hast suffered thyself to be possessed by the Region of the Stars, and to be led by the abominable Devil, and art become a perjured [or forsworn] Whore to God, and nevertheless, thou hast built thyself a Kingdom upon Earth, as 1 they lead their Region, thou leadest thine; as they generate by the Elements, and consume it again, so dost thou with thy Children also; thou generatest them and killest them again; thou makest War, and art a Murderer for thy Pride and Covetousness Sake, so that thou hast no Room at all upon the Earth.

(26) Then God sent the Deluge [or Flood] upon the whole World, and drowned all Flesh, except Noah, who cleaved to the Word of God; he and his Sons and their Wives were preserved; and so the World was tried, whether it would be afraid of the horrible Judgment, and cleave to the Word, but it was all in vain. Then God chose to himself the Generation of Shem, (which cleaved to the Word,) that so he might erect a Light and Office of Preaching, that the World might learn from them. But all availed nothing; the Stars ruled Men according to their Source [or Quality,] in mere Covetousness, Unchastity, and Pride; which was indeed so very great, that they purposed to build a Tower, whose Top should reach to Heaven. Such blind People they were as to the Kingdom of God.

(5) "The speech of Balam-Quitzé, Balam-Acab, Mahucutah, and Iqui-Balam is different! Oh! We have given up our speech! What have we done? We are lost. How were we deceived? We had only one speech when we arrived there at Tulán; we were created and educated in the same way. It is not good what we have done," said all the tribes under the trees, under the vines.

(3) But now that the Wrath devours all, and wholly darkens the Mysteria, [Mysteries or hidden Secrets,] and makes the Source [or Quality] of the eternal Birth [to be] a Darkness, only that it may exalt its Wrath, and sees nothing in the Birth of Eternity, but brings all Things that are therein to nothing; that is a very great Babel, for it not only devours itself, but makes itself stark blind in Nature; and it makes of Man's Image mere evil wolfish Beasts, which think that they are gone out from Babel, and yet are begotten in Babel, and are in the Body of the evil devouring Beast, and so devour the House of their Mother, and manifest it to be a vile stinking Lake; and yet themselves will not go out from it, and it is altogether a Kingdom, which continually generates itself, in its own Voluptuousness and Pride, and also continually manifests its own Shame, and devours itself in the Wrath of its own Sins, and is rightly called Babel.

(9) The speech of the god was also changed when they were given their god there, in Tulán, near the stone; their speech was changed when they came from Tulán in the darkness. And being together, dawn came to them and the light shone on all the tribes, in the order of the names of the gods of each of the tribes.

(4) These are only the principal tribes, the branches of the people which we mention; only of the principal ones shall we speak. Many others came from each group of the people, but we shall not write their names. They also multiplied there in the East. Many men were made and in the darkness they multiplied. Neither the sun nor the light had yet been made when they multiplied. All lived together, they existed in great number and walked there in the East. Nevertheless, they did not sustain nor maintain [their God]; they only raised their faces to the sky, and they did not know why they had come so far as they did. There they were then, in great number, the black men and the white men, men of many classes, men of many tongues, that it was wonderful to hear them.

(79) O ye blind Wolves of Babel, what have we to do with you? We are not generated from your Kingdom. Why will you rend and tear our dear Immanuel out of our Hearts and Eyes, and so would make us blind? Is it a Sin for us to enquire after God our Salvation, and after our true native Country? Surely it is much more Sin to hearken after your Prating and Blasphemy, whereby you make our Women and Children Scoffers, so that they learn nothing but scornful and reproachful Speeches, and so persecute and vex one another therewith in Babel. Can the Kingdom of Christ be found in such Things? Or rather do you not build the scornful and reproachful Church of Babel? Where is your apostolical Heart, [consisting] in Love? Is your Scorn and Derision of others Christ's Meekness, who said, Love one another, be ye Followers of me, and so it shall be known that ye are my Disciples? To you it is said; the Anger burns in Babel; when the Flame thereof rises up, then will the Elements shake and tremble, and Babel shall be burnt in the Fire.

(50) O Babel, we have a great Deal to say to thee, but not here; thou shalt once be talked with in the Anger, at which the Elements shall shake and tremble; go forth (it is high Time) that the Anger may be allayed.

(6) Then Noah divides the whole earth among his sons, Ham and Japheth and Shem. He says to them, "My sons, hear me. Look, I have divided the earth among you. But serve him in fear and slavery all the days of your life. You children must not go away from the face of god almighty. . . ."