07-04-2009, 12:00 AM
This is the book of Enoch, it talks about 2012, and it is full of intent. some parts are not as strong(use feeling to skim to the best parts). but most of it is good if you read an excerpt and then recap or something. Songs full of intent include mettalica, rage against the machine, coldplay, radio head, and some evanescence. The movie Cooler's revenge(DBZ), which is violent yes, but towards the end when the world is about to be destroyed the character reflects the authors sadness and anger and it is beautiful. Usually you can find the stuff on youtube if u dare. There is more to this book and if you like I can post the rest here.
Section I. Chapters I-XXXVI
[Chapter 1] INTRODUCTION
1
The words of the blessing of Enoch, wherewith he blessed the elect and
righteous, who will be 2 living in the day of tribulation, when all the
wicked and godless are to be removed. And he took up his parable and
said - Enoch a righteous man, whose eyes were opened by God, saw the
vision of the Holy One in the heavens, which the angels showed me, and
from them I heard everything, and from them I understood as I saw, but
not for this generation, but for a remote one which is 3 for to come.
Concerning the elect I said, and took up my parable concerning them:
The Holy Great One will come forth from His dwelling, 4 and the eternal
God will tread upon the earth, [even] on Mount Sinai, [and appear from
His camp], and appear in the strength of His might from the heaven of
heavens. 5 And all shall be smitten with fear. And the Watchers shall
quake, and great fear and trembling shall seize them unto the ends of
the earth. 6 And the high mountains shall be shaken, and the high hills
shall be made low, and shall melt like wax before the flame. 7 And the
earth shall be wholly rent in sunder, and all that is upon the earth
shall perish, and there shall be a judgement upon all . 8 But with
the righteous He will make peace. And will protect the elect, and mercy
shall be upon them. And they shall all belong to God, and they shall be
prospered, and they shall all be blessed. And He will help them all,
and light shall appear unto them, and He will make peace with them'. 9
And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones to execute
judgement upon all, and to destroy all the ungodly: and to convict all
flesh of all the works of their ungodliness which they have ungodly
committed, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken
against Him.
[Chapter 2]
1
Observe ye everything that takes place in the heaven, how they do not
change their orbits, and the luminaries which are in the heaven, how
they all rise and set in order each in its season, and 2 transgress not
against their appointed order. Behold ye the earth, and give heed to
the things which take place upon it from first to last, how steadfast
they are, how none of the things upon earth 3 change, but all the works
of God appear to you. Behold the summer and the winter, how the whole
earth is filled with water, and clouds and dew and rain lie upon it.
[Chapter 3]
Observe
and see how [in the winter] all the trees seem as though they had
withered and shed all their leaves, except fourteen trees, which do not
lose their foliage but retain the old foliage from two to three years
till the new comes.
[Chapter 4]
And
again, observe ye the days of summer how the sun is above the earth
over against it. And you seek shade and shelter by reason of the heat
of the sun, and the earth also burns with growing heat, and so you
cannot tread on the earth, or on a rock by reason of its heat.
[Chapter 5]
1
Observe ye how the trees cover themselves with green leaves and bear
fruit: wherefore give ye heed and know with regard to all His works,
and recognize how He that liveth for ever hath made them so. 2 And all
His works go on thus from year to year for ever, and all the tasks
which they accomplish for Him, and their tasks change not, but
according as God hath ordained so is it done. 3 And behold how the sea
and the rivers in like manner accomplish and change not their tasks
from His commandments'. 4 But ye - ye have not been steadfast, nor done
the commandments of the Lord, but ye have turned away and spoken proud
and hard words, with your impure mouths against His greatness. Oh, ye
hard-hearted, ye shall find no peace. 5 Therefore shall ye execrate
your days, and the years of your life shall perish, and the years of
your destruction shall be multiplied in eternal execration, and ye
shall find no mercy. 6a In those days ye shall make your names an
eternal execration unto all the righteous, b and by you shall all who
curse, curse, and all the sinners and godless shall imprecate by you,
7c and for you the godless there shall be a curse. 6d And all the . . .
shall rejoice, e and there shall be forgiveness of sins, f and every
mercy and peace and forbearance: g there shall be salvation unto them,
a goodly light. i And for all of you sinners there shall be no
salvation, j but on you all shall abide a curse. 7a But for the elect
there shall be light and joy and peace, b and they shall inherit the
earth. 8 And then there shall be bestowed upon the elect wisdom, and
they shall all live and never again sin, either through ungodliness or
through pride: But they who are wise shall be humble. 9 And they shall
not again transgress, nor shall they sin all the days of their life,
nor shall they die of [the divine] anger or wrath, but they shall
complete the number of the days of their life. And their lives shall be
increased in peace, and the years of their joy shall be multiplied, in
eternal gladness and peace, all the days of their life.
[Chapter 6]
1
And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in
those days were born unto 2 them beautiful and comely daughters. And
the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and
said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the
children of men 3 and beget us children'. And Semjaza, who was their
leader, said unto them: 'I fear ye will not 4 indeed agree to do this
deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin'. And
they all answered him and said: 'Let us all swear an oath, and all bind
ourselves by mutual imprecations 5 not to abandon this plan but to do
this thing'. Then sware they all together and bound themselves 6 by
mutual imprecations upon it. And they were in all two hundred; who
descended in the days of Jared [foot-note one]
on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because
they had sworn 7 and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it.
And these are the names of their leaders: Samlazaz, their leader,
Araklba, Rameel, Kokablel, Tamlel, Ramlel, Danel, Ezeqeel, Baraqijal, 8
Asael, Armaros, Batarel, Ananel, Zaq1el, Samsapeel, Satarel, Turel,
Jomjael, Sariel. These are their chiefs of tens.
[foot-note one] Jared/ Jered was the father of Enoch/ Henoch [John].
[Chapter 7]
1
And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and
each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to
defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms 2 and
enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with
plants. And they 3 became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose
height was three thousand ells [foot-note two]:
who consumed 4 all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no
longer sustain them, the giants turned against 5 them and devoured
mankind. And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles,
and 6 fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood.
Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones.
[foot-note
two] An ‘ell’ is an old imperial measurement that is defined as ‘3 feet
9 inches’, and which was used as a method of measuring cloth. This unit
was also known as a ‘double forearm’ [John].
[Chapter 8]
1
And Azazel taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and
breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the earth and the
art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of
antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly
stones, and all 2 colouring tinctures. And there arose much
godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they 3 were led
astray, and became corrupt in all their ways. Semjaza taught
enchantments, and root-cuttings, 'Armaros the resolving of
enchantments, Baraqijal [taught] astrology, Kokabel the constellations,
Ezeqeel the knowledge of the clouds, Araqiel the signs of the earth,
Shamsiel the signs of the sun, and Sariel the course of the moon. And
as men perished, they cried, and their cry went up to heaven.
[Chapter 9]
1
And then Michael, Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel looked down from heaven
and saw much blood being 2 shed upon the earth, and all lawlessness
being wrought upon the earth. And they said one to another: 'The earth
made without inhabitant cries the voice of their cryingst up to the
gates of heaven. 3 And now to you, the holy ones of heaven, the souls
of men make their suit, saying, "Bring our cause 4 before the Most
High"'. And they said to the Lord of the ages: 'Lord of lords, God of
gods, King of kings, and God of the ages, the throne of Thy glory
[standeth] unto all the generations of the 5 ages, and Thy name holy
and glorious and blessed unto all the ages! Thou hast made all things,
and power over all things hast Thou: and all things are naked and open
in Thy sight, and Thou seest all 6 things, and nothing can hide itself
from Thee. Thou seest what Azazel hath done, who hath taught all
unrighteousness on earth and revealed the eternal secrets which were
[preserved] in heaven, which 7 men were striving to learn: and Semjaza,
to whom Thou hast given authority to bear rule over his associates. And
they have gone to the daughters of men upon the earth, and have slept
with the 9 women, and have defiled themselves, and revealed to them all
kinds of sins. And the women have 10 borne giants, and the whole earth
has thereby been filled with blood and unrighteousness. And now,
behold, the souls of those who have died are crying and making their
suit to the gates of heaven, and their lamentations have ascended: and
cannot cease because of the lawless deeds which are 11 wrought on the
earth. And Thou knowest all things before they come to pass, and Thou
seest these things and Thou dost suffer them, and Thou dost not say to
us what we are to do to them in regard to these'.
[Chapter 10]
1 Then said the Most High, the Holy and Great One spake, and sent Uriel to the son of Lamech [foot-note three],
2 and said to him: 'Go to Noah and tell him in my name "Hide thyself!"
and reveal to him the end that is approaching: that the whole earth
will be destroyed, and a deluge is about to come 3 upon the whole
earth, and will destroy all that is on it. And now instruct him that he
may escape 4 and his seed may be preserved for all the generations of
the world'. And again the Lord said to Raphael: 'Bind Azazel hand and
foot, and cast him into the darkness: and make an opening 5 in the
desert, which is in Dudael, and cast him therein. And place upon him
rough and jagged rocks, and cover him with darkness, and let him abide
there for ever, and cover his face that he may 6, 7 not see light. And
on the day of the great judgement he shall be cast into the fire. And
heal the earth which the angels have corrupted, and proclaim the
healing of the earth, that they may heal the plague, and that all the
children of men may not perish through all the secret things that the 8
Watchers have disclosed and have taught their sons. And the whole earth
has been corrupted 9 through the works that were taught by Azazel: to
him ascribe all sin'. And to Gabriel said the Lord: 'Proceed against
the *******s and the reprobates, and against the children of
fornication: and destroy [the children of fornication and] the children
of the Watchers from amongst men [and cause them to go forth]: send
them one against the other that they may destroy each other in 10
battle: for length of days shall they not have. And no request that
they [i.e. their fathers] make of thee shall be granted unto their
fathers on their behalf; for they hope to live an eternal life, and 11
that each one of them will live five hundred years'. And the Lord said
unto Michael: 'Go, bind Semjaza and his associates who have united
themselves with women so as to have defiled themselves 12 with them in
all their uncleanness. And when their sons have slain one another, and
they have seen the destruction of their beloved ones, bind them fast
for seventy generations in the valleys of the earth, till the day of
their judgement and of their consummation, till the judgement that is
13 for ever and ever is consummated. In those days they shall be led
off to the abyss of fire: and 14 to the torment and the prison in which
they shall be confined for ever. And whosoever shall be condemned and
destroyed will from thenceforth be bound together with them to the end
of all 15 generations. And destroy all the spirits of the reprobate and
the children of the Watchers, because 16 they have wronged mankind.
Destroy all wrong from the face of the earth and let every evil work
come to an end: and let the plant of righteousness and truth appear:
and it shall prove a blessing; the works of righteousness and truth
shall be planted in truth and joy for evermore. 17 And then shall all
the righteous escape, and shall live till they beget thousands of
children, and all the days of their youth and their old age shall they
complete in peace. 18 And then shall the whole earth be tilled in
righteousness, and shall all be planted with trees and 19 be full of
blessing. And all desirable trees shall be planted on it, and they
shall plant vines on it: and the vine which they plant thereon shall
yield wine in abundance, and as for all the seed which is sown thereon
each measure [of it] shall bear a thousand, and each measure of olives
shall yield 20 ten presses of oil. And cleanse thou the earth from all
oppression, and from all unrighteousness, and from all sin, and from
all godlessness: and all the uncleanness that is wrought upon the earth
21 destroy from off the earth. And all the children of men shall become
righteous, and all nations 22 shall offer adoration and shall praise
Me, and all shall worship Me. And the earth shall be cleansed from all
defilement, and from all sin, and from all punishment, and from all
torment, and I will never again send [them] upon it from generation to
generation and for ever.
[foot-note
three] Lamech, in the Bible was the descendant of Cain and therefore
supposedly accursed. He was the father of Jabal, Jubal, and Tubal-cain,
the descendant of Seth and father of Noah [John].
[Chapter 11]
1
And in those days I will open the store chambers of blessing which are
in the heaven, so as to send 2 them down upon the earth over the work
and labour of the children of men. And truth and peace shall be
associated together throughout all the days of the world and throughout
all the generations of men'.
[Chapter 12]
1
Before these things Enoch was hidden, and no one of the children of men
knew where he was 2 hidden, and where he abode, and what had become of
him. And his activities had to do with the Watchers, and his days were
with the holy ones. 3 And I Enoch was blessing the Lord of majesty and
the King of the ages, and lo! the Watchers 4 called me - Enoch the
scribe - and said to me: 'Enoch, thou scribe of righteousness, go,
declare to the Watchers of the heaven who have left the high heaven,
the holy eternal place, and have defiled themselves with women, and
have done as the children of earth do, and have taken unto themselves 5
wives: "Ye have wrought great destruction on the earth: And ye shall
have no peace nor forgiveness 6 of sin: and in-as-much as they delight
themselves in their children, the murder of their beloved ones shall
they see, and over the destruction of their children shall they lament,
and shall make supplication unto eternity, but mercy and peace shall ye
not attain"'.
[Chapter 13]
1
And Enoch went and said: 'Azazel, thou shalt have no peace: a severe
sentence has gone forth 2 against thee to put thee in bonds: And thou
shalt not have toleration nor request granted to thee, because of the
unrighteousness which thou hast taught, and because of all the works of
godlessness 3 and unrighteousness and sin which thou hast shown to
men'. Then I went and spoke to them all 4 together, and they were all
afraid, and fear and trembling seized them. And they besought me to
draw up a petition for them that they might find forgiveness, and to
read their petition in the presence 5 of the Lord of heaven. For from
thenceforward they could not speak [with Him] nor lift up their 6 eyes
to heaven for shame of their sins for which they had been condemned.
Then I wrote out their petition, and the prayer in regard to their
spirits and their deeds individually and in regard to their 7 requests
that they should have forgiveness and length. And I went off and sat
down at the waters of Dan, in the land of Dan, to the south of the west
of Hermon [foot-note four]: I read
their petition till I fell 8 asleep. And behold a dream came to me, and
visions fell down upon me, and I saw visions of chastisement, and a
voice came bidding [me] I to tell it to the sons of heaven, and
reprimand them. 9 And when I awaked, I came unto them, and they were
all sitting gathered together, weeping in 10 'Abelsjail, which is
between Lebanon and Seneser, with their faces covered. And I recounted
before them all the visions which I had seen in sleep, and I began to
speak the words of righteousness, and to reprimand the heavenly
Watchers.
[foot-note four] A
mountain, 9,400 feet high, in the extreme North-East of the Holy Land,
being the Southern point of a range of hills called Anti-Libanus. It is
visible not only from a great part of Galilee, but also from various
places as far South as Jericho [John].
[Chapter 14]
1
The book of the words of righteousness, and of the reprimand of the
eternal Watchers in accordance 2 with the command of the Holy Great One
in that vision. I saw in my sleep what I will now say with a tongue of
flesh and with the breath of my mouth: which the Great One has given to
men to 3 converse therewith and understand with the heart. As He has
created and given to man the power of understanding the word of wisdom,
so hath He created me also and given me the power of reprimanding 4 the
Watchers, the children of heaven. I wrote out your petition, and in my
vision it appeared thus, that your petition will not be granted unto
you throughout all the days of eternity, and that judgement 5 has been
finally passed upon you: yea [your petition] will not be granted unto
you. And from henceforth you shall not ascend into heaven unto all
eternity, and in bonds of the earth the decree 6 has gone forth to bind
you for all the days of the world. And [that] previously you shall have
seen the destruction of your beloved sons and ye shall have no pleasure
in them, but they shall fall before 7 you by the sword. And your
petition on their behalf shall not be granted, nor yet on your own:
even though you weep and pray and speak all the words contained in the
writing which I have 8 written. And the vision was shown to me thus:
behold, in the vision clouds invited me and a mist summoned me, and the
course of the stars and the lightnings sped and hastened me, and the
winds in 9 the vision caused me to fly and lifted me upward, and bore
me into heaven. And I went in till I drew nigh to a wall which is built
of crystals and surrounded by tongues of fire: and it began to affright
10 me. And I went into the tongues of fire and drew nigh to a large
house which was built of crystals: and the walls of the house were like
a tesselated floor [made] of crystals, and its groundwork was 11 of
crystal. Its ceiling was like the path of the stars and the lightnings,
and between them were 12 fiery cherubim [foot-note five],
and their heaven was [clear as] water. A flaming fire surrounded the
walls, and its 13 portals blazed with fire. And I entered into that
house, and it was hot as fire and cold as ice: there 14 were no
delights of life therein: fear covered me, and trembling got hold upon
me. And as I quaked 15 and trembled, I fell upon my face. And I beheld
a vision, And lo! there was a second house, greater 16 than the former,
and the entire portal stood open before me, and it was built of flames
of fire. And in every respect it so excelled in splendour and
magnificence and extent that I cannot describe to 17 you its splendour
and its extent. And its floor was of fire, and above it were lightnings
and the path 18 of the stars, and its ceiling also was flaming fire.
And I looked and saw therein a lofty throne: its appearance was as
crystal, and the wheels thereof as the shining sun, and there was the
vision of 19 cherubim. And from underneath the throne came streams of
flaming fire so that I could not look 20 thereon. And the Great Glory
sat thereon, and His raiment shone more brightly than the sun and 21
was whiter than any snow. None of the angels could enter and could
behold His face by reason 22 of the magnificence and glory and no flesh
could behold Him. The flaming fire was round about Him, and a great
fire stood before Him, and none around could draw nigh Him: ten
thousand times 23 ten thousand [stood] before Him, yet He needed no
counselor. And the most holy ones who were 24 nigh to Him did not leave
by night nor depart from Him. And until then I had been prostrate on my
face, trembling: and the Lord called me with His own mouth, and said to
me: 'Come hither, 25 Enoch, and hear my word'. And one of the holy ones
came to me and waked me, and He made me rise up and approach the door:
and I bowed my face downwards.
[foot-note five] Cherubim / Cherubs are angelic beings involved in the worship and praise of God [John].
[Chapter 15]
1
And He answered and said to me, and I heard His voice: 'Fear not,
Enoch, thou righteous 2 man and scribe of righteousness: approach
hither and hear My voice. And go, say to the Watchers of heaven, who
have sent thee to intercede for them: "You should intercede" for men,
and not men 3 for you: wherefore have ye left the high, holy, and
eternal heaven, and lain with women, and defiled yourselves with the
daughters of men and taken to yourselves wives, and done like the
children 4 of earth, and begotten giants [as your?] sons. And though ye
were holy, spiritual, living the eternal life, you have defiled
yourselves with the blood of women, and have begotten [children] with
the blood of flesh, and, as the children of men, have lusted after
flesh and blood as those also do who die 5 and perish. Therefore have I
given them wives also that they might impregnate them, and beget 6
children by them, that thus nothing might be wanting to them on earth.
But you were formerly 7 spiritual, living the eternal life, and
immortal for all generations of the world. And therefore I have not
appointed wives for you; for as for the spiritual ones of the heaven,
in heaven is their dwelling. 8 And now, the giants, who are produced
from the spirits and flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon 9 the
earth, and on the earth shall be their dwelling. Evil spirits have
proceeded from their bodies; because they are born from men and from
the holy Watchers is their beginning and primal origin; 10 they shall
be evil spirits on earth, and evil spirits shall they be called. [As
for the spirits of heaven, in heaven shall be their dwelling, but as
for the spirits of the earth which were born upon the earth, on the
earth shall be their dwelling.] And the spirits of the giants afflict,
oppress, destroy, attack, do battle, and work destruction on the earth,
and cause trouble: they take no food, but nevertheless 12 hunger and
thirst, and cause offences. And these spirits shall rise up against the
children of men and against the women, because they have proceeded from
them.
[Chapter 16]
1
From the days of the slaughter and destruction and death of the giants,
from the souls of whose flesh the spirits, having gone forth, shall
destroy without incurring judgement - thus shall they destroy until the
day of the consummation, the great judgement in which the age shall be
2 consummated, over the Watchers and the godless, yea, shall be wholly
consummated". And now as to the Watchers who have sent thee to
intercede for them, who had been aforetime in heaven, [say 3 to them]:
"You have been in heaven, but all the mysteries had not yet been
revealed to you, and you knew worthless ones, and these in the hardness
of your hearts you have made known to the women, and through these
mysteries women and men work much evil on earth". 4 Say to them
therefore: " You have no peace"'.
[Chapter 17]
1
And they took and brought me to a place in which those who were there
were like flaming fire, 2 and, when they wished, they appeared as men.
And they brought me to the place of darkness, and to a mountain the
point of whose summit reached to heaven. And I saw the places of the
luminaries and the treasuries of the stars and of the thunder and in
the uttermost depths, where were 4 a fiery bow and arrows and their
quiver, and a fiery sword and all the lightnings. And they took 5 me to
the living waters, and to the fire of the West, which receives every
setting of the sun. And I came to a river of fire in which the fire
flows like water and discharges itself into the great sea towards 6 the
West. I saw the great rivers and came to the great river and to the
great darkness, and went 7 to the place where no flesh walks. I saw the
mountains of the darkness of winter and the place 8 whence all the
waters of the deep flow. I saw the mouths of all the rivers of the
earth and the mouth of the deep.
[Chapter 18]
1
I saw the treasuries of all the winds: I saw how He had furnished with
them the whole creation 2 and the firm foundations of the earth. And I
saw the corner-stone of the earth [foot-note six]:
I saw the four 3 winds which bear [the earth and] the firmament of the
heaven. And I saw how the winds stretch out the vaults of heaven, and
have their station between heaven and earth: these are the pillars 4 of
the heaven. I saw the winds of heaven which turn and bring the
circumference of the sun and 5 all the stars to their setting. I saw
the winds on the earth carrying the clouds: I saw the paths 6 of the
angels. I saw at the end of the earth the firmament of the heaven
above. And I proceeded and saw a place which burns day and night, where
there are seven mountains of magnificent stones, 7 three towards the
East, and three towards the South. And as for those towards the East,
one was of coloured stone, and one of pearl, and one of jacinth, and
those towards the South of red stone. 8 But the middle one reached to
heaven like the throne of God, of alabaster, and the summit of the 9,
10 throne was of sapphire. And I saw a flaming fire. And beyond these
mountains is a region the end of the great earth: there the heavens
were completed. And I saw a deep abyss, with columns of heavenly fire,
and among them I saw columns of fire fall, which were beyond measure
alike towards 12 the height and towards the depth. And beyond that
abyss I saw a place which had no firmament of the heaven above, and no
firmly founded earth beneath it: there was no water upon it, and no 13
birds, but it was a waste and horrible place. I saw there seven stars
like great burning mountains, 14 and to me, when I inquired regarding
them, the angel said: 'this place is the end of heaven and earth: this
has become a prison for the stars and the host of heaven. And the stars
which roll over the fire are they which have transgressed the
commandment of the Lord in the beginning of 16 their rising, because
they did not come forth at their appointed times. And He was wroth with
them, and bound them till the time when their guilt should be
consummated [even] for ten thousand years'.
[foot-note six] Defined as ‘an indispensable and fundamental basis: the cornerstone of an argument’ [John].
[Chapter 19]
1
And Uriel said to me: 'here shall stand the angels who have connected
themselves with women, and their spirits assuming many different forms
are defiling mankind and shall lead them astray into sacrificing to
demons as gods, [here shall they stand], till the day of the great
judgement in 2 which they shall be judged till they are made an end of.
And the women also of the angels who 3 went astray shall become
sirens'. And I, Enoch, alone saw the vision, the ends of all things:
and no man shall see as I have seen.
[Chapter 20]
1,
2 And these are the names of the holy angels who watch. Uriel, one of
the holy angels, who is 3 over the world and over Tartarus [foot-note seven].
Raphael, one of the holy angels, who is over the spirits of men. 4, 5
Raguel, one of the holy angels who takes vengeance on the world of the
luminaries. Michael, one 6 of the holy angels, to wit, he that is set
over the best part of mankind and over chaos. Saraqael, 7 one of the
holy angels, who is set over the spirits, who sin in the spirit.
Gabriel, one of the holy 8 angels, who is over Paradise and the
Serpents and the Cherubim. Remiel, one of the holy angels, whom God set
over those who rise.
[foot-note
seven] Defined as ‘not hell but a holding compartment in the centre of
the Earth, where transgressors are to be held for judgment’ [John].
[Chapter 21]
1,
2 And I proceeded to where things were chaotic. And I saw there
something horrible: I saw neither 3 a heaven above nor a firmly founded
earth, but a place chaotic and horrible. And there I saw 4 seven stars
of the heaven bound together in it, like great mountains and burning
with fire. Then 5 I said: 'for what sin are they bound, and on what
account have they been cast in hither?' Then said Uriel, one of the
holy angels, who was with me, and was chief over them, and said:
'Enoch, why 6 dost thou ask, and why art thou eager for the truth?
These are of the number of the stars of heaven, which have transgressed
the commandment of the Lord, and are bound here till ten thousand
years, 7 the time entailed by their sins, are consummated'. And from
thence I went to another place, which was still more horrible than the
former, and I saw a horrible thing: a great fire there which burnt and
blazed, and the place was cleft as far as the abyss, being full of
great descending columns of 8 fire: neither its extent or magnitude
could I see, nor could I conjecture. Then I said: 'how 9 fearful is the
place and how terrible to look upon!' Then Uriel answered me, one of
the holy angels who was with me, and said unto me: 'Enoch, why hast
thou such fear and affright?' And 10 I answered: 'because of this
fearful place, and because of the spectacle of the pain'. And he said
unto me: 'this place is the prison of the angels, and here they will be
imprisoned for ever'.
[Chapter 22]
1
And thence I went to another place, and… mountain… of hard rock. 2 And
there was in it four hollow places, deep and wide and very smooth. How
smooth are the hollow places and deep and dark to look at. 3 Then
Raphael answered, one of the holy angels who was with me, and said unto
me: 'these hollow places have been created for this very purpose, that
the spirits of the souls of the dead should 4 assemble therein, yea
that all the souls of the children of men should assemble here. And
these places have been made to receive them till the day of their
judgement and till their appointed period [till the period appointed],
till the great judgement [comes] upon them'. I saw [the spirit of] a
dead man making suit, 5 and his voice went forth to heaven and made
suit. And I asked Raphael the angel who was 6 with me, and I said unto
him: 'this spirit which maketh suit, whose is it, whose voice goeth
forth and maketh suit to heaven?' 7 And he answered me saying: 'this is
the spirit which went forth from Abel, whom his brother Cain slew, and
he makes his suit against him till his seed is destroyed from the face
of the earth, and his seed is annihilated from amongst the seed of
men'. 8 Then I asked regarding it, and regarding all the hollow places:
'why is one separated from the other?' 9 And he answered me and said
unto me: 'these three have been made that the spirits of the dead might
be separated. And such a division has been make [for] the spirits of
the righteous, in which there is the bright spring of 10 water. And
such has been made for sinners when they die and are buried in the
earth and judgement has not been executed on them in their 11 lifetime.
Here their spirits shall be set apart in this great pain till the great
day of judgement and punishment and torment of those who curse for ever
and retribution for their spirits. There 12 He shall bind them for
ever. And such a division has been made for the spirits of those who
make their suit, who make disclosures concerning their destruction,
when they were slain in the days 13 of the sinners. Such has been made
for the spirits of men who were not righteous but sinners, who were
complete in transgression, and of the transgressors they shall be
companions: but their spirits shall not be slain in the day of
judgement nor shall they be raised from thence'. 14 Then I blessed the
Lord of glory and said: 'blessed be my Lord, the Lord of righteousness,
who ruleth for ever'.
Section I. Chapters I-XXXVI
[Chapter 1] INTRODUCTION
1
The words of the blessing of Enoch, wherewith he blessed the elect and
righteous, who will be 2 living in the day of tribulation, when all the
wicked and godless are to be removed. And he took up his parable and
said - Enoch a righteous man, whose eyes were opened by God, saw the
vision of the Holy One in the heavens, which the angels showed me, and
from them I heard everything, and from them I understood as I saw, but
not for this generation, but for a remote one which is 3 for to come.
Concerning the elect I said, and took up my parable concerning them:
The Holy Great One will come forth from His dwelling, 4 and the eternal
God will tread upon the earth, [even] on Mount Sinai, [and appear from
His camp], and appear in the strength of His might from the heaven of
heavens. 5 And all shall be smitten with fear. And the Watchers shall
quake, and great fear and trembling shall seize them unto the ends of
the earth. 6 And the high mountains shall be shaken, and the high hills
shall be made low, and shall melt like wax before the flame. 7 And the
earth shall be wholly rent in sunder, and all that is upon the earth
shall perish, and there shall be a judgement upon all . 8 But with
the righteous He will make peace. And will protect the elect, and mercy
shall be upon them. And they shall all belong to God, and they shall be
prospered, and they shall all be blessed. And He will help them all,
and light shall appear unto them, and He will make peace with them'. 9
And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones to execute
judgement upon all, and to destroy all the ungodly: and to convict all
flesh of all the works of their ungodliness which they have ungodly
committed, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken
against Him.
[Chapter 2]
1
Observe ye everything that takes place in the heaven, how they do not
change their orbits, and the luminaries which are in the heaven, how
they all rise and set in order each in its season, and 2 transgress not
against their appointed order. Behold ye the earth, and give heed to
the things which take place upon it from first to last, how steadfast
they are, how none of the things upon earth 3 change, but all the works
of God appear to you. Behold the summer and the winter, how the whole
earth is filled with water, and clouds and dew and rain lie upon it.
[Chapter 3]
Observe
and see how [in the winter] all the trees seem as though they had
withered and shed all their leaves, except fourteen trees, which do not
lose their foliage but retain the old foliage from two to three years
till the new comes.
[Chapter 4]
And
again, observe ye the days of summer how the sun is above the earth
over against it. And you seek shade and shelter by reason of the heat
of the sun, and the earth also burns with growing heat, and so you
cannot tread on the earth, or on a rock by reason of its heat.
[Chapter 5]
1
Observe ye how the trees cover themselves with green leaves and bear
fruit: wherefore give ye heed and know with regard to all His works,
and recognize how He that liveth for ever hath made them so. 2 And all
His works go on thus from year to year for ever, and all the tasks
which they accomplish for Him, and their tasks change not, but
according as God hath ordained so is it done. 3 And behold how the sea
and the rivers in like manner accomplish and change not their tasks
from His commandments'. 4 But ye - ye have not been steadfast, nor done
the commandments of the Lord, but ye have turned away and spoken proud
and hard words, with your impure mouths against His greatness. Oh, ye
hard-hearted, ye shall find no peace. 5 Therefore shall ye execrate
your days, and the years of your life shall perish, and the years of
your destruction shall be multiplied in eternal execration, and ye
shall find no mercy. 6a In those days ye shall make your names an
eternal execration unto all the righteous, b and by you shall all who
curse, curse, and all the sinners and godless shall imprecate by you,
7c and for you the godless there shall be a curse. 6d And all the . . .
shall rejoice, e and there shall be forgiveness of sins, f and every
mercy and peace and forbearance: g there shall be salvation unto them,
a goodly light. i And for all of you sinners there shall be no
salvation, j but on you all shall abide a curse. 7a But for the elect
there shall be light and joy and peace, b and they shall inherit the
earth. 8 And then there shall be bestowed upon the elect wisdom, and
they shall all live and never again sin, either through ungodliness or
through pride: But they who are wise shall be humble. 9 And they shall
not again transgress, nor shall they sin all the days of their life,
nor shall they die of [the divine] anger or wrath, but they shall
complete the number of the days of their life. And their lives shall be
increased in peace, and the years of their joy shall be multiplied, in
eternal gladness and peace, all the days of their life.
[Chapter 6]
1
And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in
those days were born unto 2 them beautiful and comely daughters. And
the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and
said to one another: 'Come, let us choose us wives from among the
children of men 3 and beget us children'. And Semjaza, who was their
leader, said unto them: 'I fear ye will not 4 indeed agree to do this
deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin'. And
they all answered him and said: 'Let us all swear an oath, and all bind
ourselves by mutual imprecations 5 not to abandon this plan but to do
this thing'. Then sware they all together and bound themselves 6 by
mutual imprecations upon it. And they were in all two hundred; who
descended in the days of Jared [foot-note one]
on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because
they had sworn 7 and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it.
And these are the names of their leaders: Samlazaz, their leader,
Araklba, Rameel, Kokablel, Tamlel, Ramlel, Danel, Ezeqeel, Baraqijal, 8
Asael, Armaros, Batarel, Ananel, Zaq1el, Samsapeel, Satarel, Turel,
Jomjael, Sariel. These are their chiefs of tens.
[foot-note one] Jared/ Jered was the father of Enoch/ Henoch [John].
[Chapter 7]
1
And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and
each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to
defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms 2 and
enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with
plants. And they 3 became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose
height was three thousand ells [foot-note two]:
who consumed 4 all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no
longer sustain them, the giants turned against 5 them and devoured
mankind. And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles,
and 6 fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood.
Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones.
[foot-note
two] An ‘ell’ is an old imperial measurement that is defined as ‘3 feet
9 inches’, and which was used as a method of measuring cloth. This unit
was also known as a ‘double forearm’ [John].
[Chapter 8]
1
And Azazel taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and
breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the earth and the
art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of
antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly
stones, and all 2 colouring tinctures. And there arose much
godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they 3 were led
astray, and became corrupt in all their ways. Semjaza taught
enchantments, and root-cuttings, 'Armaros the resolving of
enchantments, Baraqijal [taught] astrology, Kokabel the constellations,
Ezeqeel the knowledge of the clouds, Araqiel the signs of the earth,
Shamsiel the signs of the sun, and Sariel the course of the moon. And
as men perished, they cried, and their cry went up to heaven.
[Chapter 9]
1
And then Michael, Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel looked down from heaven
and saw much blood being 2 shed upon the earth, and all lawlessness
being wrought upon the earth. And they said one to another: 'The earth
made without inhabitant cries the voice of their cryingst up to the
gates of heaven. 3 And now to you, the holy ones of heaven, the souls
of men make their suit, saying, "Bring our cause 4 before the Most
High"'. And they said to the Lord of the ages: 'Lord of lords, God of
gods, King of kings, and God of the ages, the throne of Thy glory
[standeth] unto all the generations of the 5 ages, and Thy name holy
and glorious and blessed unto all the ages! Thou hast made all things,
and power over all things hast Thou: and all things are naked and open
in Thy sight, and Thou seest all 6 things, and nothing can hide itself
from Thee. Thou seest what Azazel hath done, who hath taught all
unrighteousness on earth and revealed the eternal secrets which were
[preserved] in heaven, which 7 men were striving to learn: and Semjaza,
to whom Thou hast given authority to bear rule over his associates. And
they have gone to the daughters of men upon the earth, and have slept
with the 9 women, and have defiled themselves, and revealed to them all
kinds of sins. And the women have 10 borne giants, and the whole earth
has thereby been filled with blood and unrighteousness. And now,
behold, the souls of those who have died are crying and making their
suit to the gates of heaven, and their lamentations have ascended: and
cannot cease because of the lawless deeds which are 11 wrought on the
earth. And Thou knowest all things before they come to pass, and Thou
seest these things and Thou dost suffer them, and Thou dost not say to
us what we are to do to them in regard to these'.
[Chapter 10]
1 Then said the Most High, the Holy and Great One spake, and sent Uriel to the son of Lamech [foot-note three],
2 and said to him: 'Go to Noah and tell him in my name "Hide thyself!"
and reveal to him the end that is approaching: that the whole earth
will be destroyed, and a deluge is about to come 3 upon the whole
earth, and will destroy all that is on it. And now instruct him that he
may escape 4 and his seed may be preserved for all the generations of
the world'. And again the Lord said to Raphael: 'Bind Azazel hand and
foot, and cast him into the darkness: and make an opening 5 in the
desert, which is in Dudael, and cast him therein. And place upon him
rough and jagged rocks, and cover him with darkness, and let him abide
there for ever, and cover his face that he may 6, 7 not see light. And
on the day of the great judgement he shall be cast into the fire. And
heal the earth which the angels have corrupted, and proclaim the
healing of the earth, that they may heal the plague, and that all the
children of men may not perish through all the secret things that the 8
Watchers have disclosed and have taught their sons. And the whole earth
has been corrupted 9 through the works that were taught by Azazel: to
him ascribe all sin'. And to Gabriel said the Lord: 'Proceed against
the *******s and the reprobates, and against the children of
fornication: and destroy [the children of fornication and] the children
of the Watchers from amongst men [and cause them to go forth]: send
them one against the other that they may destroy each other in 10
battle: for length of days shall they not have. And no request that
they [i.e. their fathers] make of thee shall be granted unto their
fathers on their behalf; for they hope to live an eternal life, and 11
that each one of them will live five hundred years'. And the Lord said
unto Michael: 'Go, bind Semjaza and his associates who have united
themselves with women so as to have defiled themselves 12 with them in
all their uncleanness. And when their sons have slain one another, and
they have seen the destruction of their beloved ones, bind them fast
for seventy generations in the valleys of the earth, till the day of
their judgement and of their consummation, till the judgement that is
13 for ever and ever is consummated. In those days they shall be led
off to the abyss of fire: and 14 to the torment and the prison in which
they shall be confined for ever. And whosoever shall be condemned and
destroyed will from thenceforth be bound together with them to the end
of all 15 generations. And destroy all the spirits of the reprobate and
the children of the Watchers, because 16 they have wronged mankind.
Destroy all wrong from the face of the earth and let every evil work
come to an end: and let the plant of righteousness and truth appear:
and it shall prove a blessing; the works of righteousness and truth
shall be planted in truth and joy for evermore. 17 And then shall all
the righteous escape, and shall live till they beget thousands of
children, and all the days of their youth and their old age shall they
complete in peace. 18 And then shall the whole earth be tilled in
righteousness, and shall all be planted with trees and 19 be full of
blessing. And all desirable trees shall be planted on it, and they
shall plant vines on it: and the vine which they plant thereon shall
yield wine in abundance, and as for all the seed which is sown thereon
each measure [of it] shall bear a thousand, and each measure of olives
shall yield 20 ten presses of oil. And cleanse thou the earth from all
oppression, and from all unrighteousness, and from all sin, and from
all godlessness: and all the uncleanness that is wrought upon the earth
21 destroy from off the earth. And all the children of men shall become
righteous, and all nations 22 shall offer adoration and shall praise
Me, and all shall worship Me. And the earth shall be cleansed from all
defilement, and from all sin, and from all punishment, and from all
torment, and I will never again send [them] upon it from generation to
generation and for ever.
[foot-note
three] Lamech, in the Bible was the descendant of Cain and therefore
supposedly accursed. He was the father of Jabal, Jubal, and Tubal-cain,
the descendant of Seth and father of Noah [John].
[Chapter 11]
1
And in those days I will open the store chambers of blessing which are
in the heaven, so as to send 2 them down upon the earth over the work
and labour of the children of men. And truth and peace shall be
associated together throughout all the days of the world and throughout
all the generations of men'.
[Chapter 12]
1
Before these things Enoch was hidden, and no one of the children of men
knew where he was 2 hidden, and where he abode, and what had become of
him. And his activities had to do with the Watchers, and his days were
with the holy ones. 3 And I Enoch was blessing the Lord of majesty and
the King of the ages, and lo! the Watchers 4 called me - Enoch the
scribe - and said to me: 'Enoch, thou scribe of righteousness, go,
declare to the Watchers of the heaven who have left the high heaven,
the holy eternal place, and have defiled themselves with women, and
have done as the children of earth do, and have taken unto themselves 5
wives: "Ye have wrought great destruction on the earth: And ye shall
have no peace nor forgiveness 6 of sin: and in-as-much as they delight
themselves in their children, the murder of their beloved ones shall
they see, and over the destruction of their children shall they lament,
and shall make supplication unto eternity, but mercy and peace shall ye
not attain"'.
[Chapter 13]
1
And Enoch went and said: 'Azazel, thou shalt have no peace: a severe
sentence has gone forth 2 against thee to put thee in bonds: And thou
shalt not have toleration nor request granted to thee, because of the
unrighteousness which thou hast taught, and because of all the works of
godlessness 3 and unrighteousness and sin which thou hast shown to
men'. Then I went and spoke to them all 4 together, and they were all
afraid, and fear and trembling seized them. And they besought me to
draw up a petition for them that they might find forgiveness, and to
read their petition in the presence 5 of the Lord of heaven. For from
thenceforward they could not speak [with Him] nor lift up their 6 eyes
to heaven for shame of their sins for which they had been condemned.
Then I wrote out their petition, and the prayer in regard to their
spirits and their deeds individually and in regard to their 7 requests
that they should have forgiveness and length. And I went off and sat
down at the waters of Dan, in the land of Dan, to the south of the west
of Hermon [foot-note four]: I read
their petition till I fell 8 asleep. And behold a dream came to me, and
visions fell down upon me, and I saw visions of chastisement, and a
voice came bidding [me] I to tell it to the sons of heaven, and
reprimand them. 9 And when I awaked, I came unto them, and they were
all sitting gathered together, weeping in 10 'Abelsjail, which is
between Lebanon and Seneser, with their faces covered. And I recounted
before them all the visions which I had seen in sleep, and I began to
speak the words of righteousness, and to reprimand the heavenly
Watchers.
[foot-note four] A
mountain, 9,400 feet high, in the extreme North-East of the Holy Land,
being the Southern point of a range of hills called Anti-Libanus. It is
visible not only from a great part of Galilee, but also from various
places as far South as Jericho [John].
[Chapter 14]
1
The book of the words of righteousness, and of the reprimand of the
eternal Watchers in accordance 2 with the command of the Holy Great One
in that vision. I saw in my sleep what I will now say with a tongue of
flesh and with the breath of my mouth: which the Great One has given to
men to 3 converse therewith and understand with the heart. As He has
created and given to man the power of understanding the word of wisdom,
so hath He created me also and given me the power of reprimanding 4 the
Watchers, the children of heaven. I wrote out your petition, and in my
vision it appeared thus, that your petition will not be granted unto
you throughout all the days of eternity, and that judgement 5 has been
finally passed upon you: yea [your petition] will not be granted unto
you. And from henceforth you shall not ascend into heaven unto all
eternity, and in bonds of the earth the decree 6 has gone forth to bind
you for all the days of the world. And [that] previously you shall have
seen the destruction of your beloved sons and ye shall have no pleasure
in them, but they shall fall before 7 you by the sword. And your
petition on their behalf shall not be granted, nor yet on your own:
even though you weep and pray and speak all the words contained in the
writing which I have 8 written. And the vision was shown to me thus:
behold, in the vision clouds invited me and a mist summoned me, and the
course of the stars and the lightnings sped and hastened me, and the
winds in 9 the vision caused me to fly and lifted me upward, and bore
me into heaven. And I went in till I drew nigh to a wall which is built
of crystals and surrounded by tongues of fire: and it began to affright
10 me. And I went into the tongues of fire and drew nigh to a large
house which was built of crystals: and the walls of the house were like
a tesselated floor [made] of crystals, and its groundwork was 11 of
crystal. Its ceiling was like the path of the stars and the lightnings,
and between them were 12 fiery cherubim [foot-note five],
and their heaven was [clear as] water. A flaming fire surrounded the
walls, and its 13 portals blazed with fire. And I entered into that
house, and it was hot as fire and cold as ice: there 14 were no
delights of life therein: fear covered me, and trembling got hold upon
me. And as I quaked 15 and trembled, I fell upon my face. And I beheld
a vision, And lo! there was a second house, greater 16 than the former,
and the entire portal stood open before me, and it was built of flames
of fire. And in every respect it so excelled in splendour and
magnificence and extent that I cannot describe to 17 you its splendour
and its extent. And its floor was of fire, and above it were lightnings
and the path 18 of the stars, and its ceiling also was flaming fire.
And I looked and saw therein a lofty throne: its appearance was as
crystal, and the wheels thereof as the shining sun, and there was the
vision of 19 cherubim. And from underneath the throne came streams of
flaming fire so that I could not look 20 thereon. And the Great Glory
sat thereon, and His raiment shone more brightly than the sun and 21
was whiter than any snow. None of the angels could enter and could
behold His face by reason 22 of the magnificence and glory and no flesh
could behold Him. The flaming fire was round about Him, and a great
fire stood before Him, and none around could draw nigh Him: ten
thousand times 23 ten thousand [stood] before Him, yet He needed no
counselor. And the most holy ones who were 24 nigh to Him did not leave
by night nor depart from Him. And until then I had been prostrate on my
face, trembling: and the Lord called me with His own mouth, and said to
me: 'Come hither, 25 Enoch, and hear my word'. And one of the holy ones
came to me and waked me, and He made me rise up and approach the door:
and I bowed my face downwards.
[foot-note five] Cherubim / Cherubs are angelic beings involved in the worship and praise of God [John].
[Chapter 15]
1
And He answered and said to me, and I heard His voice: 'Fear not,
Enoch, thou righteous 2 man and scribe of righteousness: approach
hither and hear My voice. And go, say to the Watchers of heaven, who
have sent thee to intercede for them: "You should intercede" for men,
and not men 3 for you: wherefore have ye left the high, holy, and
eternal heaven, and lain with women, and defiled yourselves with the
daughters of men and taken to yourselves wives, and done like the
children 4 of earth, and begotten giants [as your?] sons. And though ye
were holy, spiritual, living the eternal life, you have defiled
yourselves with the blood of women, and have begotten [children] with
the blood of flesh, and, as the children of men, have lusted after
flesh and blood as those also do who die 5 and perish. Therefore have I
given them wives also that they might impregnate them, and beget 6
children by them, that thus nothing might be wanting to them on earth.
But you were formerly 7 spiritual, living the eternal life, and
immortal for all generations of the world. And therefore I have not
appointed wives for you; for as for the spiritual ones of the heaven,
in heaven is their dwelling. 8 And now, the giants, who are produced
from the spirits and flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon 9 the
earth, and on the earth shall be their dwelling. Evil spirits have
proceeded from their bodies; because they are born from men and from
the holy Watchers is their beginning and primal origin; 10 they shall
be evil spirits on earth, and evil spirits shall they be called. [As
for the spirits of heaven, in heaven shall be their dwelling, but as
for the spirits of the earth which were born upon the earth, on the
earth shall be their dwelling.] And the spirits of the giants afflict,
oppress, destroy, attack, do battle, and work destruction on the earth,
and cause trouble: they take no food, but nevertheless 12 hunger and
thirst, and cause offences. And these spirits shall rise up against the
children of men and against the women, because they have proceeded from
them.
[Chapter 16]
1
From the days of the slaughter and destruction and death of the giants,
from the souls of whose flesh the spirits, having gone forth, shall
destroy without incurring judgement - thus shall they destroy until the
day of the consummation, the great judgement in which the age shall be
2 consummated, over the Watchers and the godless, yea, shall be wholly
consummated". And now as to the Watchers who have sent thee to
intercede for them, who had been aforetime in heaven, [say 3 to them]:
"You have been in heaven, but all the mysteries had not yet been
revealed to you, and you knew worthless ones, and these in the hardness
of your hearts you have made known to the women, and through these
mysteries women and men work much evil on earth". 4 Say to them
therefore: " You have no peace"'.
[Chapter 17]
1
And they took and brought me to a place in which those who were there
were like flaming fire, 2 and, when they wished, they appeared as men.
And they brought me to the place of darkness, and to a mountain the
point of whose summit reached to heaven. And I saw the places of the
luminaries and the treasuries of the stars and of the thunder and in
the uttermost depths, where were 4 a fiery bow and arrows and their
quiver, and a fiery sword and all the lightnings. And they took 5 me to
the living waters, and to the fire of the West, which receives every
setting of the sun. And I came to a river of fire in which the fire
flows like water and discharges itself into the great sea towards 6 the
West. I saw the great rivers and came to the great river and to the
great darkness, and went 7 to the place where no flesh walks. I saw the
mountains of the darkness of winter and the place 8 whence all the
waters of the deep flow. I saw the mouths of all the rivers of the
earth and the mouth of the deep.
[Chapter 18]
1
I saw the treasuries of all the winds: I saw how He had furnished with
them the whole creation 2 and the firm foundations of the earth. And I
saw the corner-stone of the earth [foot-note six]:
I saw the four 3 winds which bear [the earth and] the firmament of the
heaven. And I saw how the winds stretch out the vaults of heaven, and
have their station between heaven and earth: these are the pillars 4 of
the heaven. I saw the winds of heaven which turn and bring the
circumference of the sun and 5 all the stars to their setting. I saw
the winds on the earth carrying the clouds: I saw the paths 6 of the
angels. I saw at the end of the earth the firmament of the heaven
above. And I proceeded and saw a place which burns day and night, where
there are seven mountains of magnificent stones, 7 three towards the
East, and three towards the South. And as for those towards the East,
one was of coloured stone, and one of pearl, and one of jacinth, and
those towards the South of red stone. 8 But the middle one reached to
heaven like the throne of God, of alabaster, and the summit of the 9,
10 throne was of sapphire. And I saw a flaming fire. And beyond these
mountains is a region the end of the great earth: there the heavens
were completed. And I saw a deep abyss, with columns of heavenly fire,
and among them I saw columns of fire fall, which were beyond measure
alike towards 12 the height and towards the depth. And beyond that
abyss I saw a place which had no firmament of the heaven above, and no
firmly founded earth beneath it: there was no water upon it, and no 13
birds, but it was a waste and horrible place. I saw there seven stars
like great burning mountains, 14 and to me, when I inquired regarding
them, the angel said: 'this place is the end of heaven and earth: this
has become a prison for the stars and the host of heaven. And the stars
which roll over the fire are they which have transgressed the
commandment of the Lord in the beginning of 16 their rising, because
they did not come forth at their appointed times. And He was wroth with
them, and bound them till the time when their guilt should be
consummated [even] for ten thousand years'.
[foot-note six] Defined as ‘an indispensable and fundamental basis: the cornerstone of an argument’ [John].
[Chapter 19]
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And Uriel said to me: 'here shall stand the angels who have connected
themselves with women, and their spirits assuming many different forms
are defiling mankind and shall lead them astray into sacrificing to
demons as gods, [here shall they stand], till the day of the great
judgement in 2 which they shall be judged till they are made an end of.
And the women also of the angels who 3 went astray shall become
sirens'. And I, Enoch, alone saw the vision, the ends of all things:
and no man shall see as I have seen.
[Chapter 20]
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2 And these are the names of the holy angels who watch. Uriel, one of
the holy angels, who is 3 over the world and over Tartarus [foot-note seven].
Raphael, one of the holy angels, who is over the spirits of men. 4, 5
Raguel, one of the holy angels who takes vengeance on the world of the
luminaries. Michael, one 6 of the holy angels, to wit, he that is set
over the best part of mankind and over chaos. Saraqael, 7 one of the
holy angels, who is set over the spirits, who sin in the spirit.
Gabriel, one of the holy 8 angels, who is over Paradise and the
Serpents and the Cherubim. Remiel, one of the holy angels, whom God set
over those who rise.
[foot-note
seven] Defined as ‘not hell but a holding compartment in the centre of
the Earth, where transgressors are to be held for judgment’ [John].
[Chapter 21]
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2 And I proceeded to where things were chaotic. And I saw there
something horrible: I saw neither 3 a heaven above nor a firmly founded
earth, but a place chaotic and horrible. And there I saw 4 seven stars
of the heaven bound together in it, like great mountains and burning
with fire. Then 5 I said: 'for what sin are they bound, and on what
account have they been cast in hither?' Then said Uriel, one of the
holy angels, who was with me, and was chief over them, and said:
'Enoch, why 6 dost thou ask, and why art thou eager for the truth?
These are of the number of the stars of heaven, which have transgressed
the commandment of the Lord, and are bound here till ten thousand
years, 7 the time entailed by their sins, are consummated'. And from
thence I went to another place, which was still more horrible than the
former, and I saw a horrible thing: a great fire there which burnt and
blazed, and the place was cleft as far as the abyss, being full of
great descending columns of 8 fire: neither its extent or magnitude
could I see, nor could I conjecture. Then I said: 'how 9 fearful is the
place and how terrible to look upon!' Then Uriel answered me, one of
the holy angels who was with me, and said unto me: 'Enoch, why hast
thou such fear and affright?' And 10 I answered: 'because of this
fearful place, and because of the spectacle of the pain'. And he said
unto me: 'this place is the prison of the angels, and here they will be
imprisoned for ever'.
[Chapter 22]
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And thence I went to another place, and… mountain… of hard rock. 2 And
there was in it four hollow places, deep and wide and very smooth. How
smooth are the hollow places and deep and dark to look at. 3 Then
Raphael answered, one of the holy angels who was with me, and said unto
me: 'these hollow places have been created for this very purpose, that
the spirits of the souls of the dead should 4 assemble therein, yea
that all the souls of the children of men should assemble here. And
these places have been made to receive them till the day of their
judgement and till their appointed period [till the period appointed],
till the great judgement [comes] upon them'. I saw [the spirit of] a
dead man making suit, 5 and his voice went forth to heaven and made
suit. And I asked Raphael the angel who was 6 with me, and I said unto
him: 'this spirit which maketh suit, whose is it, whose voice goeth
forth and maketh suit to heaven?' 7 And he answered me saying: 'this is
the spirit which went forth from Abel, whom his brother Cain slew, and
he makes his suit against him till his seed is destroyed from the face
of the earth, and his seed is annihilated from amongst the seed of
men'. 8 Then I asked regarding it, and regarding all the hollow places:
'why is one separated from the other?' 9 And he answered me and said
unto me: 'these three have been made that the spirits of the dead might
be separated. And such a division has been make [for] the spirits of
the righteous, in which there is the bright spring of 10 water. And
such has been made for sinners when they die and are buried in the
earth and judgement has not been executed on them in their 11 lifetime.
Here their spirits shall be set apart in this great pain till the great
day of judgement and punishment and torment of those who curse for ever
and retribution for their spirits. There 12 He shall bind them for
ever. And such a division has been made for the spirits of those who
make their suit, who make disclosures concerning their destruction,
when they were slain in the days 13 of the sinners. Such has been made
for the spirits of men who were not righteous but sinners, who were
complete in transgression, and of the transgressors they shall be
companions: but their spirits shall not be slain in the day of
judgement nor shall they be raised from thence'. 14 Then I blessed the
Lord of glory and said: 'blessed be my Lord, the Lord of righteousness,
who ruleth for ever'.