These books were denounced, banned, cursed, no doubt burned and
shredded-and last but not least, lost (and conveniently forgotten) for
a thousand years. But with an uncanny persistence, the Book of Enoch
found its way back into circulation two centuries ago.
In 1773, rumors of a surviving copy of the book drew Scottish explorer
James Bruce to distant Ethiopia. True to hearsay, the Book of Enoch
had been preserved by the Ethiopic church, which put it right
alongside the other books of the Bible.
Book I (The Book of Watchers) Chapter 15
Chapter 21:
Book II (The Book of Parables) Chapter 58 Book III (The Astronomical Book) Chapter 73:
Book IV (The Book of Dreams) Chapter 86
Book V (The Epistle of Enoch) Chapter 101
Chapter 42: THREE BOOKS IN ONE VOLUME: HiddenMysteries
Fragments were also found in the caves at Qumran and the Bible mentions this book in more than one place. Once in the Book of Jude.
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From Enoch 1
8 Now the giants, who have been born of spirit and of flesh, shall be
called upon earth evil spirits, and on earth shall be their
habitation. Evil spirits shall proceed from their flesh, because they
were created from above; from the holy Watchers was their beginning
and primary foundation. Evil spirits shall they be upon earth, and the
spirits of the wicked shall they be called. The habitation of the
spirits of heaven shall be in heaven; but upon earth shall be the
habitation of terrestrial spirits, who are born on earth.1
9 The spirits of the giants shall be like clouds,1 which shall oppress,
corrupt, fall, content, and bruise upon earth.
10 They shall cause lamentation. No food shall they eat; and they shall
be thirsty; they shall be concealed, and shall not1 rise up against
the sons of men, and against women; for they come forth during the
days of slaughter and destruction.
4 From there I afterwards passed on to another terrific place;
5 Where I beheld the operation of a great fire blazing and glittering,
in the midst of which there was a division. Columns of fire struggled
together to the end of the abyss, and deep was their descent. But
neither its measurement nor magnitude was I able to discover; neither
could I perceive its origin. Then I exclaimed, How terrible is this
place, and how difficult to explore!
6 Uriel, one of the holy angels who was with me, answered and said:
Enoch, why are you alarmed and amazed at this terrific place, at the
sight of this place of suffering? This, he said, is the prison of the
angels; and here they are kept for ever.
7 In that day shall be distributed for food two monsters; a female monster, whose name is Leviathan, dwelling in the depths of the sea, above the springs of waters;
8 And a male monster, whose name is Behemoth; which possesses, moving
on his breast, the invisible wilderness.
9 His name was Dendayen in the east of the garden, where the elect and
the righteous will dwell; where he received it from my ancestor, who
was man, from Adam the first of men, whom the Lord of spirits
made.
1 Then I saw another progress and regulation which He effected in the
law of the moon. The progress of the moons, and everything relating to
them, Uriel showed me, the holy angel who conducted them all.
2 Their stations I wrote down as he showed them to me.
3 I wrote down their months, as they occur, and the appearance of their
light, until it is completed in fifteen days.
4 In each of its two seven portions it completes all its light at
rising and at setting.
5 On stated months it changes its settings; and on stated months it
makes its progress through each gate. In two gates the moon sets with
the sun, viz. in those two gates which are in the midst, in the third
and fourth gate. From the third gate it goes forth for seven days, and
makes its circuit.
1 Again I perceived them, when they began to strike and to swallow each
other; and the earth cried out. Then I raised my eyes a second time
towards heaven, and saw in a vision, that, behold, there came forth
from heaven as it were the likeness of white men. One came forth from
thence, and three with him.
2 Those three, who came forth last, seized me by my hand; and raising
me up from the generations of the earth, elevated me to a high
station.
3 Then they showed me a lofty tower on the earth, while every hill
became diminished. And they said, Remain here, until you perceive what
shall come upon those elephants, camels, and asses, upon the stars,
and upon all the cows.
5 But you, sinners, are for ever accursed; to you there shall be no
peace.
6 Fear not, souls of the righteous; but wait with patient hope for the
day of your death in righteousness. Grieve not, because your souls
descend in great trouble, with groaning, lamentation, and sorrow, to
the receptacle of the dead. In your lifetime your bodies have not
received a recompense in proportion to your goodness, but in the
period of your existence have sinners existed; in the period of
execration and of punishment.
From Secrets of Enoch
1 And I saw the guardians of the keys of hell standing over against
the gates like great serpents, their faces like lamps that are gone
out, their eyes like darkened flames, and their teeth naked down to
their breasts.
2 And I spake to their faces: 'I had better not have
seen you, and may none of my tribe come to you.' Enoch's ascent into
the paradise of the righteous.
3 And I saw there a blessed place, and
all blessed creatures and all there living in joy and in infinite
happiness in eternal life,
6 Then I spake: 'My children, and now I
speak to you: Blessed is he who fears God and serves him. And you, my
children, learn to bring gifts
7 to the Lord, that you may enjoy life.
Blessed is
9 he who judges a judgement justly to the widow and orphan,
and helps every one that is wronged, 8 clothing the naked with
garments, and to the hungry giving bread.
Chapter 48:
1 That the sun go along the seven heavenly circles, which are the
appointment of one hundred and
2 eighty-two thrones, that it go down
on a short day, and again one hundred and eighty-two, that it go down
on a big day, and he has two thrones on which he rests, revolving
hither and thither above the thrones of the months, from the
seventeenth day of the month Tsivan it goes down to the month Thevan,
from the seventeenth of Thevad it goes up.
3 And thus it goes close to
the earth, then the earth is glad and makes grow its fruit, and when
it goes away, then the earth is sad, and trees and all fruits have no
florescence.
4 All this he measured, with good measurement of hours,
and fixed a measure by his wisdom, of the visible and the invisi
5 From the invisible he made all things visible, himself being
invisible.
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TWO translations of Enoch 1 &
Enoch 2 (known as the Secrets of Enoch)
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