Book of Enoch: Book 1 - The Watchers
Enoch Book 1: Watchers
Chapter 1
The words of the blessing of Enoch, wherewith he blessed the elect
and righteous, who will be 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 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, 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. 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. And the high
mountains shall be shaken, And the high hills shall be made low, And shall melt like wax before the flame. 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 (men).
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'.
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
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 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 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
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. 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. And behold how the sea and the rivers in like manner accomplish
and change not their tasks from His commandments'. 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. Therefore shall ye execrate your days, Enoch 7:1, 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.
In those days ye shall make your names an eternal execration unto
all the righteous, And by you shall all who curse, curse, And all the sinners and godless shall imprecate by you, And for
you the godless there shall be a curse. And all the . . . shall rejoice, And there shall be forgiveness of sins, And every
mercy and peace and forbearance: There shall be salvation unto them, a goodly light. And for all of you sinners there shall
be no salvation, But on you all shall abide a curse. But for the elect there shall be light and joy and peace, And they shall
inherit the earth. 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. 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
And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in
those days were born unto 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 and beget us children.'
And Semjaza, who was their leader, said unto them: 'I fear ye will not 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 not to abandon this plan but to do this thing.' Then sware they all together and bound themselves by
mutual imprecations upon it. And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon,
and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn 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,
Asael, Armaros, Batarel, Ananel, Zaqlel, Samsapeel, Satarel, Turel, Jomjael, Sariel. These are their chiefs of tens.
Chapter 7
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 and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with
plants. And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose
height was three thousand ells: Who consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, the giants
turned against them and devoured mankind. And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to
devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood. Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones.
Key to Music
Chapter 8
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 The king of Tyre was the agent of Lucifer according to Ezekiel. In describing the breastplate two
Israelite tribes are left out. They are replaced with tambourines and flutes or pipes:
Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was
thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the
carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
Eze.28:13 At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the span of a king's life. But at the end of these seventy
years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute: Is.23:15 Take up a harp, walk through the city, O prostitute
forgotten; play the harp well, sing many a song, so that you will be remembered." Is.23:16 At the end of seventy years, the
LORD will deal with Tyre. She will return to her hire as a prostitute and will ply her trade with all the kingdoms on the
face of the earth. Is.23:17
According to Psalm 41, Judas as the agent of Satan and the den of
vipers in Jerusalem, represented the same seductive force Satan always used against God's people. Jesus said that: They are
like unto children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have
not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept. Lu.7:32 Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and
mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: because the riches that he hath gotten are perished. Je.48:36
colouring tinctures. And there arose much godlessness, and they committed
fornication, and they 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 . . .
Enchantment:
Gurney describes the Hittite worship and shows that the rituals were
almost identical to the Canaanite and Hebrew worship. One of the features of 'sympathetic' magic among the Hittites was the
"Old Woman"
or "wise woman" which may mean "midwife." Other scholars note that
early musicians acted as midwifes between a worshipper and their god. Gurney notes that "thirteen such women are known, but
they function as
sorceresses in countless rituals." Of the sorceresses who performed
magic through the incantation of what we would call a poem or song,
the
"author" are 3 midwives, 1 doctor, 1 prostitute, and 2 temple singers."
"By contrast, many of the male practitioners or magicians were called priest, diviners, augurers, doctors (Gurney, O.R., Some
Aspects of Hittite Religion, Oxford University Press, 1977, p. 45).
"In the story of the goddess Ishtar's descent into the underworld
he (Ea) is described as creator god. In the deluge story he saves Utnapishtim, the Babylonian Noah. Ea's charicteristic is
wisdom, but this includes cunning deceit, as shown in the behavior to Adapa in the myth of mankind's loss of immortality.
He is patron of exorcists, the 'sons of Eridu.' His holy waters are used to purify places, priests and utensils at ceremonies
of exorcism, besides houses, temples, cities and persons inhabited by evil spirits... With his wisdom kings and craftsmen
are endowed: the arts of civilization are by his grace." (Britannica, Ea) (He is also patron god of music as the exorcist's
weapon).
Religious Symbolism: "Music, like the word, also may have symbolic
meaning. The basic elements out of which musical symbolism is built are sounds, tones, melodies, harmonies, and the various
musical instruments, among which is the human voice. Sound effects can have a numinous (spiritual) character and may be used
to bring about contact with the realm of the holy. A specific tone may call one to an awareness of the holy, make the holy
present, and produce an experience of the holy. This may be done by means of drums, gongs, bells, or other instruments. The
ritual instruments can, through their shape or the materials from which they are made, have symbolic meaning. The Uitoto in
Colombia, for example, believe that all the souls of their ancestors are contained in the ritual drums.
The enchantments in the Book of Enoch are described as the power of
Satan or Azazel to enter into the musical instruments. When the young Genun (Jubal) played on them people believed that the
gods were speaking to them. Indeed, in this story alluded to by Jude from the book of Enoch--referred to over 128 times in
the New Testament--teach that Satan is actually indwelling the music and the musican to deceive people: Notes from the Books
of Ysrael. From Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis By Robert Graves and Raphael Patai. Chapter 18 p. 100-107(p) It was the
Cainite's punishment to have a hundred daughters borne them for each son; and this led to such husband-hunger that their women
began to raid houses and carry off men. One day it pleased them to seduce them Sethites, after daubing their faces with rouge
and powder, their eyes with antimony, and the soles of their feet with scarlet, dyeing their hair, putting on golden earrings,
golden anklets, bracelets, and many-colored garments. In their ascent of the holy mountain, they twanged harps, blew trumpets,
beat drums, sang, danced, clapped hands; then, having addressed the five hundred and twenty anchorites in cheerful voices,
each caught hold of her victim and seduced him. These Sethites, after once succumbing to the Cainite women's blandishments,
became more unclean than dogs, and utterly forgot God's laws.(r) Genun the Canaanite, son of Lamech the Blind, living in the
Land of the Slime Pits, was ruled by Azael from his earliest youth, and invented all sorts of musical instruments. When he
played these, Azael entered into them too, so that they gave forth seductive tunes entrancing the hearts of all listeners.
Genun would assemble companies of musicians, who inflamed one another with music until their lust burned bright like fire,
and they lay together promiscuously. He also brewed beer, gathered great crowds in taverns, gave them to drink, and taught
them to forge iron swords and spear-points, with which to do murder at random when they were drunk.
In the land of the slime pits, Babylonia, it was Ishtar or Inanna
who
got her father, Ea, the patron god of music drunk and seduced him
into
giving her the ME. These included: "In the name of my power! In the
name of my holy shrine! To my daughter Inanna I shall give Truth! Descent into the underworld! Ascent from the underworld!
The art of lovemaking! The art of kissing the phallus!" He gave me the holy shrine. He gave me the holy priestess of heaven.
He gave me the resounding musical instrument. He gave me the art of song. He gave me the art of the elder. He gave me the
kurgurra. The kurgarru, the assinu, and the kulu'u performed plays, music, dances, and games (rising up to play) during rituals.
These were musical worship teams in addition to the eldership stolen from the "god."
The only historical characters which answer to the fallen angels in
Enoch are the children of Lamech. "Pilikam, the next name, means in Sumerian "with intelligence to build." In Babylonian Semitic
it would be literally Ina-uzni-eresu, or, rendered in one word, ummanu, "artificer." The Hebrew translation of this is Kenan,
which means "artificer." Melamkish gives us the Hebrew Lamech by the simple elision of the first and last consonants. "Langdon
makes the suggestion that Lamech is the Sumerian, LUMHA, an epithet of the Babylonian god Ea as the patron of music. (Barton,
p. 323)
Josephus notes that:
"Jubal, who was born of the same mother with him, exercised himself
in music; (7) and invented the psaltery and the harp. But Tubal, one of his children by the other wife, exceeded all men in
strength, and was very expert and famous in martial performances. He procured what tended to the pleasures of the body by
that method; and first of all invented the art of making brass. Lamech was also the father of a daughter, whose name was Naamah.
"And because she was so skillful in matters of divine revelation, that he knew he was to be punished for Cain's murder of
his brother, he made that known to his wives. "Nay, even while Adam was alive, it came to pass that the posterity of Cain
became exceeding wicked, every one successively dying, one after another, more wicked than the former. They were intolerable
in war, and vehement in robberies; and if any one were slow to murder people, yet was he bold in his profligate behavior,
in acting
unjustly, and doing injuries for gain. "Naamah, the sister of Tubal
Cain, was from the side of Cain the murderer; she was a seducer of men and spirits, including Aza and Azael, who again were
the children of God mentioned in Genesis. She became the mother of demons and is still abroad in the world, exciting the desires
of me... She is associated with Lilith... and the fall of Adam." "Waite, The Holy Kabbalah, p.274.)
In a similar story:
AFTER Cain had gone down to the land of dark soil, and his children
had multiplied therein, there was one of them, whose name was Genun (Jubal), son of Lamech the blind who slew Cain. But as
to this Genun, Satan came into him in his childhood; and he made sundry trumpets and horns, and string instruments, cymbals
and psalteries, and lyres and harps, and flutes; and he played on them at all times and at every hour. And when he played
on them, Satan came into them, so that from among them were heard beautiful and sweet sounds, that ravished the heart. Satan
also taught Genun (Jubal) how to make intoxicants and the women how to decorate their bodies.
During the Classical period
Whatever the clear teachings of the Bible, the literature of all of
the pagan "gods" carried the theme of wine, women and song. For instance, of Apollo whose oracle was at Delphi, just up the
coast from Corinth show the connection between music and speaking in tongues:"And there is this great wonder besides -- and
its renown shall never perish -- the girls of Delos, hand-maidens of the Far-shooter; for when they have praised Apollo first,
and also Leto and Artemis who delights in arrows, they sing a strain-telling of men and women of past days, and charm the
tribes of men. Also they can imitate the tongues of all men and their clattering speech: each would say that he himself were
singing, so close to truth is their sweet song. That is, the performance of the female singers seduces people into believing
that they are singing but they are mere spectators even if their lips move.
His half-brother, Hermes (Mercury) was similar: The story is the same,
the gods bless only the youth to steal the cattle of the oder people or gods. Remember, that in Enoch the people are identified
with the name of beasts, often cows. "And when the purpose of great Zeus was fixed in heaven, she was delivered and a notable
thing was come to pass. For then she bare a son, of many shifts, blandly cunning, a robber, a cattle driver, a bringer of
dreams, a watcher by night, a thief at the gates, one who was soon to show forth wonderful deeds among the deathless gods.
Born with the dawning, at mid-day he played on the lyre, and in the evening he stole the cattle of far-shooting Apollo on
the fourth day of the month; for on that day queenly Maia bare him.
After the Biblical period, according to Lucian of Samosata:
"Alexander, on the other hand, preferred his native place, urging
very truly that an enterprise like theirs required congenial soil to give it a start, in the shape of 'fat-heads' and simpletons;
that was a fair description, he said, of the Paphlagonians beyond Abonutichus; they were mostly superstitious and well-to-do;
one had only to go there with someone to play the flute, the tambourine, or the
cymbals, set the proverbial mantic sieve a-spinning, and there they
would all be gaping as if he were a god from heaven.
Chapter 9
And then Michael, Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel looked down from heaven
and saw much blood being 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. And now to you, the holy ones
of heaven, the souls of men make their suit, saying, "Bring our cause 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 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 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 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 women,
and have defiled themselves, and revealed to them all kinds of sins. And the women have 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 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
Then said the Most High, the Holy and Great One spake, and sent Uriel
to the son of Lamech, 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 upon the whole earth, and will destroy
all that is on it. And now instruct him that he may escape 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 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 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 Watchers have
disclosed and have taught their sons. And the whole earth has been corrupted through the works that were taught by Azazel:
to him ascribe all sin. And to Gabriel said the Lord: Proceed against the bastards 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 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 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 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 for ever and ever is consummated. In those days they shall be led off to the abyss of fire: and 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 generations. And destroy all the spirits of the reprobate and the children of the Watchers,
because 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 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. And then shall the whole earth be tilled in righteousness, and shall all be planted with trees and 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 destroy from off the earth.
And all the children of men shall become
righteous, and all nations 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.
Chapter 11
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
Before these things Enoch was hidden, and no one of the children of
men knew where he was 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. And I Enoch was blessing the Lord of majesty and the King of the ages, and lo! the Watchers
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 wives: "Ye have wrought great destruction on the earth: And ye shall have no peace
nor forgiveness of sin: and inasmuch 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.
Chapter 13
And Enoch went and said: Azazel, thou shalt have no peace: a severe
sentence has gone forth 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 and unrighteousness and
sin which thou hast shown to men. Then I went and spoke to them all 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 of the Lord of heaven. For from thenceforward they could not speak (with Him) nor lift up their 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 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: I read their petition till
I fell 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. And when I awaked, I came unto them, and they were
all sitting gathered together, weeping in 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.
Chapter 14
The book of the words of righteousness, and of the reprimand of the
eternal Watchers in accordance 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 of crystal. Its ceiling was like the path of the stars
and the lightnings, and between them were fiery cherubim, and their heaven was (clear as) water. A flaming fire
surrounded the walls, and its portals blazed with fire. And I entered
into that house, and it was hot as fire and cold as ice: there were no delights of life therein: fear covered me, and trembling
got hold upon me. And as I quaked and trembled, I fell upon my face. And I beheld a vision, And lo! there was a second house,
greater 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 you its splendour and its extent. And its
floor was of fire, and above it were lightnings and the path
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 cherubim. And from underneath the throne came streams of flaming fire so that I could not look thereon. And the
Great Glory sat thereon, and His raiment shone more brightly than the sun and was whiter than any snow. None of the angels
could enter and could behold His face by reason 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 ten thousand
(stood) before Him, yet He needed no counselor. And the most holy ones who were 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, 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.
Chapter 15
And He answered and said to me, and I heard His voice: 'Fear not,
Enoch, thou righteous 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 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 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 and perish. Therefore have I given them
wives also that they might impregnate them, and beget children by them, that thus nothing might be wanting to them on earth.
But you were formerly 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. And now, the giants,
who are produced from the spirits and flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon 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; 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 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
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 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 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." Say to them therefore:
" You have no peace."'
Chapter 17
And they took and brought me to a place in which those who were there
were like flaming fire, 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 a fiery bow and arrows and their quiver, and a fiery sword and
all the lightnings. And they took 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 the west. I saw the great rivers and came to the great river
and to the great darkness, and went to the place where no flesh walks. I saw the mountains of the darkness of winter and the
place 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
I saw the treasuries of all the winds: I saw how He had furnished
with them the whole creation and the firm foundations of the earth. And I saw the corner-stone of the earth: I saw the four
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 of the heaven. I saw the winds
of heaven which turn and bring the circumference of the sun and all the stars to their setting. I saw the winds on the earth
carrying the clouds: I saw the paths 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, three towards
the east, and three towards the south. And as for those towards the east, was of coloured stone, and one of pearl, and one
of jacinth, and those towards the south of red stone. But the middle one reached to heaven like the throne of God, of alabaster,
and the summit of the 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 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 birds, but it was a waste and horrible place. I saw there seven stars like great burning mountains, 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 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.'
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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 which they shall be judged
till they are made an end of. And the women also of the angels who 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
And these are the names of the holy angels who watch. Uriel, one of
the holy angels, who is over the world and over Tartarus. Raphael, one of the holy angels, who is over the spirits of men.
Raguel, one of the holy angels who takes vengeance on the world of the luminaries. Michael, one of the holy angels, to wit,
he that is set over the best part of mankind and over chaos. Saraqael, one of the holy angels, who is set over the spirits,
who sin in the spirit. Gabriel, one of the holy angels, who is over Paradise and the serpents and the Cherubim. Remiel, one
of the holy angels, whom God set over those who rise.
Chapter 21
And I proceeded to where things were chaotic. And I saw there something
horrible: I saw neither a heaven above nor a firmly founded earth, but a place chaotic and horrible. And there I saw seven
stars of the heaven bound together in it, like great mountains and burning with fire. Then 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 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, 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 fire: neither its extent or magnitude could I see, nor could I conjecture. Then I said: 'How
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 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
And thence I went to another place, and he mountain [and] of hard
rock. 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. 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 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, and his voice went forth to heaven and made suit. And I asked Raphael the angel who was with me, and
I said unto him: 'This spirit which maketh suit, whose is it, whose voice goeth forth and maketh suit to heaven ?' 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.' The
I asked regarding it, and regarding all the hollow places: 'Why is one separated from the other?' 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 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 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 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 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.'
The I blessed the Lord of glory and said: 'Blessed be my Lord, the Lord of righteousness, who ruleth for ever.'
Chapter 23
From thence I went to another place to the west of the ends of the
earth. And I saw a burning fire which ran without resting, and paused not from its course day or night but (ran) regularly.
And I asked saying: 'What is this which rests not?' Then Raguel, one of the holy angels who was with me, answered me and said
unto me: 'This course of fire which thou hast seen is the fire in the west which persecutes all the luminaries of heaven.'
Chapter 24
And from thence I went to another place of the earth, and he showed
me a mountain range of fire which burnt day and night. And I went beyond it and saw seven magnificent mountains all differing
each from the other, and the stones (thereof) were magnificent and beautiful, magnificent as a whole, of glorious appearance
and fair exterior: three towards the east, one founded on the other, and three towards the south, one upon the other, and
deep rough ravines, no one of which joined with any other. And the seventh mountain was in the midst of these, and it excelled
them in height, resembling the seat of a throne: and fragrant trees encircled the throne. And amongst them was a tree such
as I had never yet smelt, neither was any amongst them nor were others like it: it had a fragrance beyond all fragrance, and
its leaves and blooms and wood wither not for ever: and its fruit is beautiful, and its fruit resembles the dates of a palm.
Then I said: 'How beautiful is this tree, and fragrant, and its leaves are fair, and its blooms very delightful in appearance.'
Then answered Michael, one of the holy and honoured angels who was with me, and was their leader.
Chapter 25
And he said unto me: 'Enoch, why dost thou ask me regarding the fragrance
of the tree, and why dost thou wish to learn the truth?' Then I answered him saying: 'I wish to know about everything, but
especially about this tree.' And he answered saying: 'This high mountain which thou hast seen, whose summit is like the throne
of God, is His throne, where the Holy Great One, the Lord of Glory, the Eternal King, will sit, when He shall come down to
visit the earth with goodness. And as for this fragrant tree no mortal is permitted to touch it till the great judgement,
when He shall take vengeance on all and bring (everything) to its consummation for ever. It shall then be given to the righteous
and holy. Its fruit shall be for food to the elect: it shall be transplanted to the holy place, to the temple of the Lord,
the Eternal King. Then shall they rejoice with joy and be glad, And into the holy place shall they enter; And its fragrance
shall be in their bones, And they shall live a long life on earth, Such as thy fathers lived: And in their days shall no sorrow
or plague Or torment or calamity touch them.' Then blessed I the God of Glory, the Eternal King, who hath prepared such things
for the righteous, and hath created them and promised to give to them.
Chapter 26
And I went from thence to the middle of the earth, and I saw a blessed
place in which there were trees with branches abiding and blooming [of a dismembered tree]. And there I saw a holy mountain,
and underneath the mountain to the east there was a stream and it flowed
towards the south. And I saw towards the east another mountain higher
than this, and between them a deep and narrow ravine: in it also ran a stream underneath the mountain. And to the west thereof
there was another mountain, lower than the former and of small elevation, and a ravine deep and dry between them: and another
deep and dry ravine was at the extremities of the three mountains. And all the ravines were deep rand narrow, (being formed)
of hard rock, and trees were not planted upon them. And I marveled at the rocks, and I marveled at the ravine, yea, I marveled
very much.
Chapter 27
Then said I: 'For what object is this blessed land, which is entirely
filled with trees, and this accursed valley between?' Then Uriel, one of the holy angels who was with me, answered and said:
'This accursed valley is for those who are accursed for ever: Here shall all the accursed be gathered together who utter with
their lips against the Lord unseemly words and of His glory speak hard things. Here shall they be gathered together, and here
shall be their place of judgement. In the last days there shall be upon them the spectacle of righteous judgement in the presence
of the righteous for ever: here shall the merciful bless the Lord of glory, the Eternal King. In the days of judgement over
the former, they shall bless Him for the mercy in accordance with which He has assigned them (their lot).' Then I blessed
the Lord of Glory and set forth His glory and lauded Him gloriously.
Chapter 28
And thence I went towards the east, into the midst of the mountain
range of the desert, and I saw a wilderness and it was solitary, full of trees and plants. And water gushed forth from above.
Rushing like a copious watercourse [which flowed] towards the north-west it caused clouds and dew to ascend on every side.
Chapter 29
And thence I went to another place in the desert, and approached to
the east of this mountain range. And there I saw aromatic trees exhaling the fragrance of frankincense and myrrh, and the
trees also were similar to the almond tree.
Chapter 30
And beyond these, I went afar to the east, and I saw another place,
a valley (full) of water. And therein there was a tree, the colour (?) of fragrant trees such as the mastic. And on the sides
of those valleys I saw fragrant cinnamon. And beyond these I proceeded to the east.
Chapter 31
And I saw other mountains, and amongst them were groves of trees,
and there flowed forth from them nectar, which is named sarara and galbanum. And beyond these mountains I saw another mountain
to the east of the ends of the earth, whereon were aloe-trees, and all the trees were full of stacte, being like almond-trees.
And when one burnt it, it smelt sweeter than any fragrant odour.
Chapter 32
And after these fragrant odours, as I looked towards the north over
the mountains I saw seven mountains full of choice nard and fragrant trees and cinnamon and pepper. And thence I went over
the summits of all these mountains, far towards the east of the earth, and passed above the Erythraean sea and went far from
it, and passed over the angel Zotiel. And I came to the Garden of Righteousness, I and from afar off trees more numerous than
I these trees and great-two trees there, very great, beautiful, and glorious, and magnificent, and the
tree of knowledge, whose holy fruit they eat and know great wisdom.
(see Ezek. 31) That tree is in height like the fir, and its leaves are like (those of) the Carob tree: and its fruit is like
the clusters of the vine, very beautiful: and the fragrance of the tree penetrates afar. Then I said: 'How beautiful is the
tree, and how attractive is its look!' Then Raphael the holy angel, who was with me, answered me and said: 'This is the tree
of wisdom, of which thy father old (in years) and thy aged mother, who were before thee, have eaten, and they learnt wisdom
and their eyes were opened, and they knew that they were naked and they were driven out of the garden.'
Chapter 33
And from thence I went to the ends of the earth and saw there great
beasts, and each differed from the other; and (I saw) birds also differing in appearance and beauty and voice, the one differing
from the other. And to the east of those beasts I saw the ends of the earth whereon the heaven rests, and the portals of the
heaven open. And I saw how the stars of heaven come forth, and I counted the portals out of which they proceed, and wrote
down all their outlets, of each individual star by itself, according to their number and their names, their courses and their
positions, and their times and their months, as Uriel the holy angel who was with me showed me. He showed all things to me
and wrote them down for me: also their names he wrote for me, and their laws and their companies.
Chapter 34
And from thence I went towards the north to the ends of the earth,
and there I saw a great and glorious device at the ends of the whole earth. And here I saw three portals of heaven open in
the heaven: through each of them proceed north winds: when they blow there is cold, hail, frost, snow, dew, and rain. And
out of one portal they blow for good: but when they blow through the other two portals, it is with violence and affliction
on the earth, and they blow with violence.
Chapter 35
And from thence I went towards the west to the ends of the earth,
and saw there three portals of the heaven open such as I had seen in the east, the same number of portals, and the same number
of outlets.
Chapter 36
And from thence I went to the south to the ends of the earth, and
saw there three open portals of the heaven: and thence there come dew, rain, and wind. And from thence I went to the east
to the ends of the heaven, and saw here the three eastern portals of heaven open and small portals above them. Through each
of these small portals pass the stars of heaven and run their course to the west on the path which is shown to them. And as
often as I saw I blessed always the Lord of Glory, and I continued to bless the Lord of Glory who has wrought great and glorious
wonders, to show the greatness of His work to the angels and to spirits and to men, that they might praise His work and all
His creation: that they might see the work of His might and praise the great work of His hands and bless Him for ever.
