1. From thence I went to another place, towards the west, unto the extremities of the earth.
2. Where I beheld a fire blazing and running along without cessation, which intermitted its course neither by day nor by right; but continued always the same.
3. l inquired, saying, What is this, which never ceases?
4. Then Raguel, one of the holy angels who were with me, answered,
5. And said, This blazing fire, which thou beholdest running towards the west, is that of all the luminaries of heaven.
[1 Enoch 23:1]
From thence I went to another place, towards the west, unto the extremities of the earth.
Rephrased:
From there, I proceeded to another location, heading west, to the farthest reaches of the earth.
Enoch continued his journey from where he saw the collectors of souls and spirits of the deceased, or from where he witnessed Abel's voice that reached heaven, accusing the man who killed him. This time Enoch and his companions of angels traveled towards the west, in reference to the earth and beyond. I like to state the West here was not just "the West" in reference to where they last stopped, but more of "the West" from the Earth's reference. The things below this Chapter's verse are the things Enoch witnessed in the extreme west.
[1 Enoch 23:2]
Where I beheld a fire blazing and running along without cessation, which intermitted its course neither by day nor by right; but continued always the same.
I witnessed a continuous and unceasing fire that burned and moved without pause, persisting both day and night, maintaining a constant course.
In Extreme West, where the Sun sets, Enoch saw running stream of fire, which flows like rapid or rushing water. The running stream fire never stopped or paused both night and day, yet maintaining the same velocity without needing acceleration or retardation. The direction of "The Running Fire" was constantly one way direction, and was not seen return its course to whence.
[1 Enoch 23:3]
l inquired, saying, What is this, which never ceases?
I asked, "What is this thing that never stops?"
Enoch became curious to know what he saw as running blazing fire that never ceases. He saw it as fire, and yet he asked what it was, because he saw it never ceases nor stopped. Is it still fire I know? If it is, how is it running ceaselessly, day and night, and yet never ceases nor quenched.
I assure you, there are advance kinds of fire in higher realms like this, which are not yet discovered to the earthly realms. These kinds of Fire are characterized with these four basic things about them, and more than these four:
*1* Dynamic— Those kinds of Fire are always in motion or running, and are rarely seen being static. E.g. Lightning etc. They are not as the fire of a lamp or a gas cooker that's relatively in one place burning or flaming. Those kinds of Fire both blazing and running or traveling by nature.
*2* Incessant —Those kinds of Fire do not pause, stop/cease, owing to the fact they are by nature dynamic and always running.
*3* Self driven —Those kinds of Fire do not run or moves by the forces of wind or gravity. Local fire expands or moves with help of the wind that spreads it, but those kinds of fire have no business with the winds as support. They are self driven and dynamic.
*4* Quick, Energetic and Self-sufficient —Those kinds of Fire do not depend on fuel or energy from any other source, but from themselves. Nothing charges them up, but they charge or recharge many things. Nothing powers or empowers them from outside them, but they are true powers themselves powering other lights, fire, electricity, stars and sun, etc.
[1 Enoch 23:4]
Then Raguel, one of the holy angels who were with me, answered,
Raguel, one of the holy angels accompanying me, then provided a response.
Since Raguel was the one who replied Enoch's question here, among the company of Archangels (Uriel, Raphael, Raguel, Michael, Gabriel, Saraqael), it safe to say Raguel is the Archangel in charge of Luminaries, Constellation or stars systems.
[1 Enoch 23:5]
And said, This blazing fire, which thou beholdest running towards the west, is that of all the luminaries of heaven.
This fiery blaze you see moving toward the west is the combined light of all the celestial bodies in the sky.
According to Raguel's reply to Enoch's inquiry here, "This luminous inferno that you see moving swiftly towards the west represents the collective radiance emanating from all the celestial bodies in the firmament of heaven."
How?
I will refer you back to Chapter 17 verse 4. You may use the pages in my website,www.peterch.org, to see "1 Enoch 17:4" for the comments I made there. In Enoch 17:4, there was the first mentioning of the Running Fire in the West: and according to the verse, when the Sun sets or goes down in the evening by the West, the Sun enters into that Stream of Fire (its Chamber) and gets recharged or refreshed. Then the sun rises again from the East the next day.
But here we see it's not only the Sun, but infact the entire Stars and Luminaries set or settle into this Running Fire in the West. Actually the a Fire is the collective light of all the luminaries, stars and sun together, as in synergy.
As analogy, the rivers of earth run into the seas, and yet somehow they are back again from where they came from to return to the seas again in repeated cycling.As it is written:
[Ecclesiastes 1:5-7 NKJV] — The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, And hastens to the place where it arose. The wind goes toward the south, And turns around to the north; The wind whirls about continually, And comes again on its circuit. All the rivers run into the sea, Yet the sea is not full; To the place from which the rivers come, There they return again.