The Invisible Enoch
Woe is me, what has befallen me? And I cannot tell the quantity of his many instructions, and various voices, the Lord 's throne is very great and not made with hands, nor the quantity of those standing round him, troops of Cherubim and seraphim , nor their incessant singing, nor his immutable beauty, and who shall tell of the ineffable greatness of his glory. Let Enoch stand before my face into eternity, and the glorious ones bowed down to the Lord , and said: Let Enoch go according to Your word. Go and take Enoch from out of his earthly garments, and anoint him with my sweet ointment, and put him into the garments of My glory.
Bring out the books from my store-houses, and a reed of quick-writing, and give it to Enoch , and deliver to him the choice and comforting books out of your hand. Chapter 23, XXIII 1 And he was telling me all the works of heaven , earth and sea, and all the elements, their passages and goings, and the thunderings of the thunders, the sun and moon, the goings and changes of the stars, the seasons, years, days, and hours, the risings of the wind, the numbers of the angels , and the formation of their songs, and all human things, the tongue of every human song and life, the commandments, instructions, and sweet-voiced singings, and all things that it is fitting to learn.
All the things that I have told you, we have written.
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Sit and write all the souls of mankind, however many of them are born, and the places prepared for them to eternity; for all souls are prepared to eternity, before the formation of the world. Enoch , sit down on my left with Gabriel.
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Enoch , beloved, all that you see, all things that are standing finished I tell to you even before the very beginning, all that I created from non-being, and visible physical things from invisible spiritual. Chapter 25, XXV 1 I commanded in the very lowest parts , that visible physical things should come down from invisible spiritual , and Adoil came down very great, and I beheld him, and lo! He had a belly of great light.
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Become undone, Adoil, and let the visible physical come out of you. And I was in the midst of the great light, and as there is born light from light, there came forth a great age, and showed all creation, which I had thought to create. Go thence up higher and fix yourself high above the throne, and be A foundation to the highest things. Let Archas come forth hard, and he came forth hard from the invisible spiritual.
Be opened, Archas, and let there be born from you, and he came undone, an age came forth, very great and very dark, bearing the creation of all lower things, and I saw that it was good and said to him: Be thick, and it became thus, and I spread it out with the light, and it became water, and I spread it out over the darkness, below the light, and then I made firm the waters, that is to say the bottomless, and I made foundation of light around the water, and created seven circles from inside, and imaged the water like crystal wet and dry, that is to say like glass, and the circumcession of the waters and the other elements, and I showed each one of them its road, and the seven stars each one of them in its heaven , that they go thus, and I saw that it was good.
Chapter 28, XXVIII 1 And then I made firm the heavenly circle, and made that the lower water which is under heaven collect itself together, into one whole, and that the chaos become dry, and it became so. Behold I give you your eternal limits, and you shalt not break loose from your component parts.
This day I called me the first-created [Sunday]. Chapter 29, XXIX 1 And for all the heavenly troops I imaged the image and essence of fire, and my eye looked at the very hard, firm rock, and from the gleam of my eye the lightning received its wonderful nature, which is both fire in water and water in fire, and one does not put out the other, nor does the one dry up the other, therefore the lightning is brighter than the sun, softer than water and firmer than hard rock.
Chapter 30, XXX 1 On the third day I commanded the earth to make grow great and fruitful trees, and hills, and seed to sow, and I planted Paradise, and enclosed it, and placed as armed guardians flaming angels , and thus I created renewal. On the fourth day I commanded that there should be great lights on the heavenly circles.
On the fifth day I commanded the sea, that it should bring forth fishes, and feathered birds of many varieties, and all animals creeping over the earth, going forth over the earth on four legs, and soaring in the air, male sex and female, and every soul breathing the spirit of life. On the sixth day I commanded my wisdom to create man from seven consistencies: And I took from him A rib, and created him a wife, that death should come to him by his wife, and I took his last word and called her name mother, that is to say, Eva Eve.
Chapter 31, XXXI 1 Adam has life on earth, and I created a garden in Eden in the east, that he should observe the testament and keep the command.
For not even to my angels have I explained my secrets, nor related to them their origin, nor my endlessness, as I devise the creatures, as I am making them known to you today. For before any visible things had come into existence, I the ONE, moved around in the invisible things, like the sun, from east to west and from west to east.
But the sun has rest in himself; yet I did not find rest, because everything was not yet created. And I thought up the idea of establishing a foundation, to create a visible creation. And I commanded the lowest things: And I looked at him, and behold, in his belly he had a great light.
The Book of Enoch: An Appendix to the Book of Enoch: Chapter CVIII
And I was in the midst of the great light. And light out of light is carried thus. And the great age came out, and it revealed all the creation which I had thought up to create. And I saw how good it was. And I placed for myself a throne, and I sat down on it. And then to the light I spoke: And again I bowed myself, and I looked upward from my throne. God summons from the very lowest things a second time, so that Arkhas, both heavy and red, should come out.
And Arkhas came out, solid and heavy and very red. There came out an age, dark, very large, carrying the creation of all lower things. Even in its present form, 2 Enoch shows clearly that it was originally Greek or even Semitic. Some have plausibly argued that it was written around the turn of the Christian era in Syria, Palestine, or Egypt Morfill and Charles, p.
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The book is distinguished by an intense interest in cosmogony and cosmology and foreshadows features of later Jewish Hekhalot literature and classical gnostic cosmogonies. The difficulties in identifying Iranian influences upon the Enochic corpus are aggravated by disputes concerning the dating of Zoroastrian sources and doctrinal developments.
The nascent dualism between the divine and earthly spheres of 1 Enoch, its developed angelology, concern with an other-worldly origin for evil and its eschatological consequences, and interest in the periodization of world epochs may reflect Iranian speculations but do not require such an explanation Boyce, Zoroastrianism III, pp. Winston calls attention to 1 Enoch Attention has also been devoted to possible Iranian influences in 2 Enoch. Concerning 2 Enoch