Tag: Book of the Secrets of Enoch

Chapter 46 Of how an earthly ruler does not accept from man abominable and unclean gifts, then how much more does God abominate unclean gifts, but sends them away with wrath and does not accept his gifts 1 Hear, my people, and take in the words of my lips. 2 If any one bring any gifts to an earthly ...

Chapter 35 God leaves one righteous man of Enoch’s tribe with his whole house, who did God’s pleasure according to his will 1 Behold from their seed shall arise another generation, much afterwards, but of them many will be very insatiate. 2 He who raises that generation, shall reveal to them the boo...

Chapter 31 God gives over paradise to Adam, and gives him a command to see the heavens opened, and that he should see the angels singing the song of victory 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. 2 I made the h...

Chapter 12 Of the very marvellous elements of the sun 1 And I looked and saw other flying elements of the sun, whose names are Phoenixes and Chalkydri, marvellous and wonderful, with feet and tails in the form of a lion, and a crocodile’s head, their appearance is empurpled, like the rainbow; their ...

Chapter 13 The angels took Enoch and placed him in the east at the sun’s gates 1 Those men bore me away to the east, and placed me at the sun’s gates, where the sun goes forth according to the regulation of the seasons and the circuit of the months of the whole year, and the number of the hours day ...

Chapter 40 Enoch admonishes his children truly of all things from the Lord’s lips, how he saw and heard and wrote down 1 And now, my children, I know all things, for this is from the Lord’s lips, and this my eyes have seen, from beginning to end. 2 I know all things, and have written all things into...

Chapter 26 God summons from the very deepest a second time that Archas, heavy and very red should come forth 1 And I summoned the very lowest a second time, and said: Let Archas (8) come forth hard, and he came forth hard from the invisible. (8) Archas. Or, "Spirit of creation." 2 And Archas came fo...

Chapter 58 Enoch’s instructions to his sons 1 Listen to me, my children, to-day. 2 In those days when the Lord came down on to earth for Adam’s sake, and visited all his creatures, which he created himself, after all these he created Adam, and the Lord called all the beasts of the earth, all the rep...

Chapter 38 Mathusal continued to have hope and to await his father Enoch in his house day and night 1 And the Lord said to those men who first led me up: Let Enoch go down on to earth with you, and await him till the determined day. 2 And they placed me by night on my bed. 3 And Mathusal expecting m...

Chapter 19 Of the taking of Enoch to the sixth heaven 1 And thence those men took me and bore me up on to the sixth heaven, and there I saw seven bands of angels, very bright and very glorious, and their faces shining more than the sun’s shining, glistening, and there is no difference in their faces...

Chapter 10 Here they showed Enoch the terrible place and various tortures 1 And those two men led me up on to the Northern side, and showed me there a very terrible place, and there were all manner of tortures in that place: cruel darkness and unillumined gloom, and there is no light there, but murk...

Chapter 4 Of the angels ruling the stars 1 They brought before my face the elders and rulers of the stellar orders, and showed me two hundred angels, who rule the stars and their services to the heavens, and fly with their wings and come round all those who sail....