# Christ (the Beloved)

Source: https://enocharchive.com/characters/christ (Enoch Archive).

Christ, called the Beloved in the Ascension of Isaiah, is the figure toward whom the later books in this archive point. In Isaiah's vision the Beloved descends through the seven heavens, is born of the virgin Mary at Bethlehem, is crucified, descends to the angel of Sheol, rises on the third day and ascends again to the seventh heaven.

The Cave of Treasures places His birth at Bethlehem in the forty-second year of Augustus, with the Magi following a star that had appeared two years earlier. Joseph circumcises Him on the eighth day, the family flees to Egypt, and at thirty He is baptized by John. He is crucified on Golgotha, the centre of the earth, directly above the grave of Adam, so that the blood and water from His side run down into Adam's mouth and become his baptism. The book ends with the harrowing of Sheol and the resurrection.

The Kebra Nagast gathers the prophecies it reads as foretelling Him and treats Zion, the Tabernacle of the Law, as a figure of Mary. The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs speak of 'the Lamb of God' and 'the Saviour of the world' who will arise from Levi and Judah.

**books:** The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs; The Ascension of Isaiah; The Cave of Treasures; The Kebra Nagast