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The usefulness of useless knowledge princeton university. It is in the book of enoch we find the most interesting accounts of the watchers. A muslim will not tire of knowledge until he reaches heaven. And by useless, i mean completely useful when you want to impress someone. The transmission of magical knowledge in 1 enoch rebecca lesses ithaca college 1.
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