16 In the sixth week, during its fifth year [1951], Abram sat at night — at the beginning of the seventh month — to observe the stars from evening to dawn in order to see what would be the character of the year with respect to the rains. He was sitting and observing by himself. 17 A voice came to his mind and he said: ‘All the signs of the stars and signs of the moon and the sun — all are under the Lord’s control. Why should I be investigating them?’ 18 ‘If he wishes, he will make it rain in the morning and evening; and if he wishes, he will not make it fall. Everything is under his control.’

70 The man who had been bred up in this doctrine, and who for a long time had studied the philosophy of the Chaldaeans, as if suddenly awakening from a deep slumber and opening the eye of the soul, and beginning to perceive a pure ray of light instead of profound darkness, followed the light, and saw what he had never see before, a certain governor and director of the world standing above it, and guiding his own work in a salutary manner, and exerting his care and power in behalf of all those parts of it which are worthy of divine superintendence.