Enoch

T¹he 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.

² 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. ³ 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 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 (men). 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.

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A¹nd it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters.

² 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.’ ³ And Semjâzâ, 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.’ ⁴ 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.’ ⁵ Then sware they all together and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. ⁶ 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. ⁷ And these are the names of their leaders: Sêmîazâz, their leader, Arâkîba, Râmêêl, Kôkabîêl, Tâmîêl, Râmîêl, Dânêl, Êzêqêêl, Barâqîjâl, Asâêl, Armârôs, Batârêl, Anânêl, Zaqîêl, Samsâpêêl, Satarêl, Tûrêl, Jômjâêl, Sariêl. ⁸ These are their chiefs of tens.

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A¹nd Azâzêl 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 colouring tinctures.

² And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways. ³ Semjâzâ taught enchantments, and root-cuttings, Armârôs the resolving of enchantments, Barâqîjâl, (taught) astrology, Kôkabêl the constellations, =Ezêqêêl the knowledge of the clouds=, ‹Araqiêl the signs of the earth, Shamsiêl the signs of the sun›, and Sariêl the course of the moon. ⁴ And as men perished, they cried, and their cry went up to heaven....

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B¹efore 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.

² 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 called me—Enoch the scribe—and said to me: ⁴ ‘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: ⁵ And ye shall have no peace nor forgiveness of sin: and inasmuch as they delight themselves in their children, ⁶ 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.”’

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A¹nd the Great Glory sat thereon, and His raiment shone more brightly than the sun and was whiter than any snow.

² None of the angels could enter and could behold His face by reason of the magnificence and glory, and no flesh could behold Him. ³ 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 counsellor. ⁴ And the most holy ones who were nigh to Him did not leave by night nor depart from Him. ⁵ 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.’ ⁶ 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. ⁷ And in every respect it so excelled in splendour and magnificence and extent that I cannot describe to you its splendour and its extent. ⁸ And its floor was of fire, and above it were lightnings and the path of the stars, and its ceiling also was flaming fire. ⁹ 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. ¹⁰ And from underneath the throne came streams of flaming fire so that I could not look thereon.

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A¹nd there I saw One, who had a head of days, And His head was white like wool, And with Him was another being whose countenance had the appearance of a man, And his face was full of graciousness, like one of the holy angels.

² And I asked the angel who went with me and showed me all the hidden things, concerning that Son of Man, who he was, and whence he was, (and) why he went with the Head of Days? ³ And he answered and said unto me: This is the Son of Man who hath righteousness, With whom dwelleth righteousness, And who revealeth all the treasures of that which is hidden, Because the Lord of Spirits hath chosen him, And whose lot hath the pre-eminence before the Lord of Spirits in uprightness for ever. ⁴ And this Son of Man whom thou hast seen Shall raise up the kings and the mighty from their seats, And shall loosen the reins of the strong, And break the teeth of the sinners; ⁵ Because they do not extol and praise Him, Nor humbly acknowledge whence the kingdom was bestowed upon them. ⁶ And he shall put down the countenance of the strong, And shall fill them with shame. And darkness shall be their dwelling, And worms shall be their bed, And they shall have no hope of rising from their beds, Because they do not extol the name of the Lord of Spirits. ⁷ And these are they who judge the stars of heaven, , And tread upon the earth and dwell upon it. And all their deeds manifest unrighteousness, And their power rests upon their riches, And their faith is in the gods which they have made with their hands, And they deny the name of the Lord of Spirits, ⁸ And they persecute the houses of His congregations, And the faithful who hang upon the name of the Lord of Spirits.

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A¹nd it came to pass after this that his name during his lifetime was raised aloft to that Son of Man and to the Lord of Spirits from amongst those who dwell on the earth.

² And he was raised aloft on the chariots of the spirit and his name vanished among them. ³ And from that day I was no longer numbered amongst them; and he set me between the two winds, between the north and the west, where the angels took the cords to measure for me the place for the elect and righteous. ⁴ And there I saw the first fathers and the righteous who from the beginning dwell in that place.

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A¹nd with them the Head of Days, His head white and pure as wool, And His raiment indescribable.

² And I fell on my face, And my whole body became relaxed, And my spirit was transfigured; And I cried with a loud voice, with the spirit of power, And blessed and glorified and extolled. ³ And these blessings which went forth out of my mouth were well pleasing before that Head of Days. ⁴ And that Head of Days came with Michael and Gabriel, Raphael and Phanuel, thousands and ten thousands of angels without number. ⁵ And he (_i. e._ the angel) came to me and greeted me with His voice, and said unto me: ‘=This is= the Son of Man who is born unto righteousness; And righteousness abides over him, And the righteousness of the Head of Days forsakes him not.’ ⁶ And he said unto me: ‘He proclaims unto thee peace in the name of the world to come; For from hence has proceeded peace since the creation of the world, And so shall it be unto thee for ever and for ever and ever. ⁷ And all shall walk in his ways since righteousness never forsakes him: With him will be their dwelling-places, and with him their heritage, And they shall not be separated from him for ever and ever and ever. ⁸ And so there shall be length of days with that Son of Man, And the righteous shall have peace and an upright way, In the name of the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever.’ THE BOOK OF THE COURSES OF THE HEAVENLY LUMINARIES. (LXXII-LXXXII.) ⁹ And I saw angels who could not be counted. A thousand thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. Encircling that house, And Michael, and Raphael, and Gabriel, and Phanuel, And the holy angels who are above the heavens, Go in and out of that house. ¹⁰ And they came forth from that house, And Michael and Gabriel, Raphael and Phanuel, And many holy angels without number.

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A¹nd He said unto me: “Because of their unrighteousness their judgement has been determined upon and shall not be withheld by Me for ever. Because of the sorceries which they have searched out and learnt, the earth and those who dwell upon it shall be destroyed.”

² And these—they have no =place of repentance= for ever, because they have shown them what was hidden, and they are the damned: but as for thee, my son, the Lord of Spirits knows that thou art pure, and guiltless of this reproach concerning the secrets. ³ And He has destined thy name to be among the holy, And will preserve thee amongst those who dwell on the earth, And has destined thy righteous seed both for kingship and for great honours, And from thy seed shall proceed a fountain of the righteous and holy without number for ever.’ ⁴ And I said unto him: ‘Tell me what it is that is falling out on the earth that the earth is in such evil plight and shaken, lest perchance I shall perish with it.’ ⁵ And thereupon there was a great commotion on the earth, and a voice was heard from heaven, and I fell on my face. ⁶ And Enoch my grandfather came and stood by me, and said unto me: ‘Why hast thou cried unto me with a bitter cry and weeping? ⁷ And a command has gone forth from the presence of the Lord concerning those who dwell on the earth that their ruin is accomplished because they have learnt all the secrets of the angels, and all the violence of the Satans, and all their powers—the most secret ones—and all the power of those who practise sorcery, and the power of witchcraft, and the power of those who make molten images for the whole earth: ⁸ And how silver is produced from the dust of the earth, and how soft metal originates in the earth. ⁹ For lead and tin are not produced from the earth like the first: it is a fountain that produces them, and an angel stands therein, and that angel is pre-eminent.’ ¹⁰ And after that my grandfather Enoch took hold of me by my hand and raised me up, and said unto me: ‘Go, for I have asked the Lord of Spirits as touching this commotion on the earth.

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A¹nd now, my father, hear me: unto Lamech my son there hath been born a son, the like of whom there is none, and his nature is not like man’s nature, and the colour of his body is whiter than snow and redder than the bloom of a rose, and the hair of his head is whiter than white wool, and his eyes are like the rays of the sun, and he opened his eyes and thereupon lighted up the whole house.

² And he arose in the hands of the midwife, and opened his mouth and blessed the Lord of heaven. ³ And his father Lamech became afraid and fled to me, and did not believe that he was sprung from him, but that he was in the likeness of the angels of heaven; and behold I have come to thee that thou mayest make known to me the truth.’ ⁴ And I, Enoch, answered and said unto him: ‘The Lord will do a new thing on the earth, and this I have already seen in a vision, and make known to thee that in the generation of my father Jared some of the angels of heaven transgressed the word of the Lord. ⁵ And behold they commit sin and transgress the law, and have united themselves with women and commit sin with them, and have married some of them, and have begotten children by them. ⁶ Yea, there shall come a great destruction over the whole earth, and there shall be a deluge and a great destruction for one year. ⁷ And this son who has been born unto you shall be left on the earth, and his three children shall be saved with him: when all mankind that are on the earth shall die . ⁸ And they shall produce on the earth giants not according to the spirit, but according to the flesh, and there shall be a great punishment on the earth, and the earth shall be cleansed from all impurity. ⁹ And now make known to thy son Lamech that he who has been born is in truth his son, and call his name Noah; for he shall be left to you, and he and his sons shall be saved from the destruction, which shall come upon the earth on account of all the sin and all the unrighteousness, which shall be consummated on the earth in his days. ¹⁰ And after that there shall be still more unrighteousness than that which was first consummated on the earth; for I know the mysteries of the holy ones; for He, the Lord, has showed me and informed me, and I have read (them) in the heavenly tablets.

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A¹nd I saw written on them that generation upon generation shall transgress, till a generation of righteousness arises, and transgression is destroyed and sin passes away from the earth, and all manner of good comes upon it.

² And now, my son, go and make known to thy son Lamech that this son, which has been born, is in truth his son, and that (this) is no lie.’ ³ And when Methuselah had heard the words of his father Enoch—for he had shown to him everything in secret—he returned and showed (them) to him and called the name of that son Noah; for he will comfort the earth after all the destruction.

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O¹h that mine eyes were waters That I might weep over you, And pour down my tears as a cloud of waters: That so I might rest from my trouble of heart!

² Who has permitted you to practise reproaches and wickedness? And so judgement shall overtake you, sinners. ³ Fear not the sinners, ye righteous; For again will the Lord deliver them into your hands, That ye may execute judgement upon them according to your desires. ⁴ Woe to you who fulminate anathemas which cannot be reversed: Healing shall therefore be far from you because of your sins. ⁵ Woe to you who requite your neighbour with evil; For ye shall be requited according to your works. ⁶ Woe to you, lying witnesses, And to those who weigh out injustice, For suddenly shall ye perish. ⁷ Woe to you, sinners, for ye persecute the righteous; For ye shall be delivered up and persecuted because of injustice, And heavy shall its yoke be upon you.

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A¹nd I lifted up my hands in righteousness and blessed the Holy and Great One, and spake with the breath of my mouth, and with the tongue of flesh, which God has made for the children of the flesh of men, that they should speak therewith, and He gave them breath and a tongue and a mouth that they should speak therewith:

² ‘Blessed be Thou, O Lord, King, Great and mighty in Thy greatness, Lord of the whole creation of the heaven, King of kings and God of the whole world. And Thy power and kingship and greatness abide for ever and ever, And throughout all generations Thy dominion: And all the heavens are Thy throne for ever, And the whole earth Thy footstool for ever and ever. ³ For Thou hast made and Thou rulest all things, And nothing is too hard for Thee, Wisdom departs not =from the place of Thy throne=, =Nor turns away= from Thy presence. And Thou knowest and seest and hearest everything, And there is nothing hidden from Thee . ⁴ And now the angels of Thy heavens are guilty of trespass, And upon the flesh of men abideth Thy wrath until the great day of judgement. ⁵ And now, O God and Lord and Great King, I implore and beseech Thee to fulfil my prayer, To leave me a posterity on earth, And not to destroy all the flesh of man, And make the earth without inhabitant, So that there should be an eternal destruction. ⁶ And now, my Lord, destroy from the earth the flesh which has aroused Thy wrath, But the flesh of righteousness and uprightness establish as a plant of the eternal seed, And hide not Thy face from the prayer of Thy servant, O Lord.’ LXXXV-XC. _The Second Dream-Vision of Enoch: the History of the World to the Founding of the Messianic Kingdom._

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