The Lost Books of the Bible: The Great Rejected Texts Page 17

  6 Before this you will see the destruction of your beloved sons and you shall have no pleasure in them, but they shall fall before you by the sword.

  7 Your petition shall not be granted on their behalf or on yours, even though you weep and pray and speak all the words contained in my writings.

  8 In the vision I saw clouds that invited me and summoned me into a mist, and the course of the stars and the flashes of lightning and hurried me and drove me,

  9 And the winds in the vision caused me to fly and lifted me up, and bore me into heaven. And I went in until I drew near to a wall which was built out of crystals and surrounded by tongues of fire, and it began to frighten me.

  10 I went into the tongues of fire and drew near a large house which was built of crystals: and the walls of the house were like a mosaic of hailstones and the floor was made of crystals like snow.

  11 Its ceiling was like the path of the stars and lightning flashes, and between them were fiery cherubim,

  12 Their sky was clear as water. A flaming fire surrounded the walls, and its doors blazed with fire.

  13 I entered that house, and it was hot as fire and cold as ice; there were no pleasures or life therein: fear covered me, and trembling got hold of me.

  14 As I shook and trembled, I fell on my face.

  15 And I saw a vision, And lo! there was a second house, greater than the first,

  16 And the all the doors stood open before me, and it was built of flames of fire. And in every respect it was splendid and magnificent to the extent that I cannot describe it to you.

  17 Its floor was of fire, and above it was lightning and the path of the stars, and its ceiling also was flaming fire.

  18 And I looked and saw a throne set on high, its appearance was like crystal, and its wheels were like a shining sun, and there was the vision of cherubim.

  1TI 6:16 Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.

  19 And from underneath the throne came rivers of fire so that I could not look at it.

  20 And He who is Great in Glory sat on the throne, and His raiment shone more brightly than the sun and was whiter than any snow.

  MAT 25:31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:

  21 None of the angels could enter or could behold His face because of the magnificence and glory and no flesh could behold Him.

  22 The sea of fire surrounded Him, and a great fire stood in front of Him, and no one could draw close to Him: ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him, but He needed no Holy council.

  23 The most Holy Ones who were near to Him did not leave night or day.

  24 And until then I had been prostrate on my face, trembling, and the Lord called me with His own mouth, and said to me:

  25' Come here, Enoch, and hear my word.' And one of the Holy Ones came to me picked me up and brought me to the door: and I bowed down my face.

  [Chapter 15]

  1 And He answered and said to me, and I heard His voice: 'Do not be afraid, Enoch, you righteous man and scribe of righteousness.

  2 Approach and hear my voice. Go and say to the Watchers of heaven, for whom you have come to intercede: "You should intercede for men, and not men for you.”

  3 Why and for what cause have you left the high, holy, and eternal heaven, and had sex with women, and defiled yourselves with the daughters of men and taken to yourselves wives, and done like the children of earth, and begotten giants (as your) sons?

  4 Though you were holy, spiritual, living the eternal life, you have defiled yourselves with the blood of women, and have begotten children with the blood of flesh, and, as the children of men, you have lusted after flesh and blood like those who die and are killed.

  5 This is why I have given men wives, that they might impregnate them, and have children by them, that deeds might continue on the earth.

  6 But you were formerly spiritual, living the eternal life, and immortal for all generations of the world.

  7 Therefore I have not appointed wives for you; you are spiritual beings of heaven, and in heaven was your dwelling place.

  LUK 20:34 And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: 35 But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: 36 Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.

  8 And now, the giants, who are produced from the spirits and flesh, shall be called evil spirits on the earth,

  9 And shall live on the earth. Evil spirits have come out from their bodies because they are born from men and from the holy Watchers, their beginning is of primal origin;

  10 They shall be evil spirits on earth, and evil spirits shall they be called spirits of the evil ones. [As for the spirits of heaven, in heaven shall be their dwelling, but as for the spirits of the earth which were born on the earth, on the earth shall be their dwelling.] And the spirits of the giants afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, war, destroy, and cause trouble on the earth.

  11 They take no food, but do not hunger or thirst. They cause offences but are not observed.

  12 And these spirits shall rise up against the children of men and against the women, because they have proceeded from them in the days of the slaughter and destruction.’

  [Chapter 16]

  1 ‘And at the death of the giants, spirits will go out and shall destroy without incurring judgment, coming from their bodies their flesh shall be destroyed until the day of the consummation, the great judgment in which the age shall be consummated, over the Watchers and the godless, and shall be wholly consummated.’

  MAT 8:28 And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way. 29 And, behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of God? art thou come here to torment us before the time?

  2 And now as to the Watchers who have sent you to intercede for them, who had been in heaven before,

  3 (Say to them): "You were in heaven, but all the mysteries of heaven had not been revealed to you, and you knew worthless ones, and these in the hardness of your hearts you have made known to the women, and through these mysteries women and men work much evil on earth."

  4 Say to them therefore: " You have no peace."'

  [Chapter 17]

  1 And they took me to a place in which those who were there were like flaming fire,

  2 And, when they wished, they made themselves appear as men. They brought me to the place of darkness, and to a mountain the point of whose summit reached to heaven.

  3 And I saw the lighted places and the treasuries of the stars and of the thunder and in the uttermost depths, where were a f a fiery bow and arrows and their quiver, and a fiery sword and all the lightning.

  4 And they took me to the waters of life, and to the fire of the west, which receives every setting of the sun.

  5 And I came to a river of fire in which the fire flows like water into the great sea towards the west.

  6 I saw the great rivers and came to the great darkness, and went to the place where no flesh walks.

  7 I saw the mountains of the darkness of winter and the place from where all the waters of the deep flow.

  8 I saw the mouths of all the rivers of the earth and the mouth of the deep.

  [Chapter 18]

  1 I saw the storehouse of all the winds: I saw how He had adorned the whole creation with them and the firm foundations of the earth.

  2 And I saw the corner-stone of the earth: I saw the four winds which support the earth and the firmament of the heaven.

  3 I saw how the winds stretch out the height of heaven, and have their station
between heaven and earth; these are the pillars of heaven.

  4 I saw the winds of heaven which turn and bring the sky and the sun and all the stars to their setting place.

  5 I saw the winds on the earth carrying the clouds: I saw the paths of the angels. I saw at the end of the earth the firmament of heaven above.

  6 And I continued south and saw a place which burns day and night, where there are seven mountains of magnificent stones, three towards the east, and three towards the south.

  7 And as for those towards the east, they were of colored stone, and one of pearl, and one of jacinth (a stone of healing), and those towards the south of red stone.

  8 But the middle one reached to heaven like the throne of God, and was made of alabaster.

  9 And the summit of the throne was of sapphire.

  10 And I saw a great abyss of the earth, with pillars of heavenly fire, and I saw among them fiery pillars of Heaven, which were falling,

  11 And as regards both height and depth, they were immeasurable.

  12 And beyond that abyss I saw a place which had no firmament of heaven above, and no firmly founded earth beneath it: there was no water on it, and no birds,

  13 But it was a desert and a horrible place. I saw there seven stars like great burning mountains,

  14 And an angel questioned me regarding them. The angel said: 'This place is the end of heaven and earth.

  15 This has become a prison for the stars and the host of heaven. And the stars which roll over the fire are they which have transgressed the commandment of the Lord in the beginning of their rising, because they did not come out at their proper times.

  16 And He was angry with them, and bound them until the time when their guilt should be consummated even for ten thousand years.'

  [Chapter 19]

  1 And Uriel said to me: 'The angels who have had sex with women shall stand here, and their spirits, having assumed many different forms, are defiling mankind and shall lead them astray into sacrificing to demons as gods, here shall they stand, until the day of the great judgment in which they shall be judged and are made an end of.

  2 And the women also of the angels who went astray shall become sirens (other versions read 'shall become peaceful' also, another version reads, 'shall salute them').'

  3 And I, Enoch, alone saw the vision, the ends of all things: and no man shall see as I have seen.

  1PE 4:7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

  [Chapter 20]

  1 These are the names of the holy angels who watch.

  2 Uriel, one of the holy angels, who is over the world, turmoil and terror.

  3 Raphael, one of the holy angels, who is over the spirits of men.

  4 Raguel, one of the holy angels who takes vengeance on the world of the luminaries.

  5 Michael, one of the holy angels, set over the virtues of mankind and over chaos.

  6 Saraqael, one of the holy angels, who is set over the spirits, who sin in the spirit.

  7 Gabriel, one of the holy angels, who is over Paradise and the serpents and the Cherubim.

  8 Remiel, one of the holy angels, whom God set over those who rise.

  [Chapter 21]

  1 Then, I proceeded to where things were chaotic and void.

  2 And I saw there something horrible:

  3 I saw neither a heaven above nor a firmly founded earth, but a place chaotic and horrible.

  4 And there I saw seven stars of heaven bound together in it, like great mountains and burning with fire.

  5 Then I said: 'For what sin are they bound, and on why have they been cast in here?' Then said Uriel, one of the holy angels, who was with me, and was chief over them: 'Enoch, why do you ask, and why art you eager for the truth?

  6 These are some of the stars of heaven, which have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and are bound here until ten thousand years, the time entailed by their sins, are consummated.'

  7 And I went out from there to another place, which was still more horrible than the former, and I saw a terrible thing: a great fire there which burnt and blazed, and the place was cleft as far as the abyss, full of great falling columns of fire:

  8 Neither its width or breadth could I see, nor could I see its source.

  9 Then I said: 'I am afraid of this place and cannot stand to look at it.!' Then Uriel, one of the holy angels who was with me, answered and said to me: 'Enoch, why are you so afraid?'

  10 And I answered: 'Because of this fearful place, and because of the spectacle of the pain.' And he said to me: 'This place is the prison of the angels, and here they will be imprisoned for ever.'

  [Chapter 22]

  1 And I went out to another place west where there was a mountain and hard rock.

  2 And there was in it four hollow places, deep and wide and very smooth. How smooth are the hollow places and looked deep and dark.

  3 Then Raphael answered, one of the holy angels who was with me, and said to me: 'These hollow places have been created for this very purpose, that the spirits of the souls of the dead should be gathered here, that all the souls of the children of men should brought together here. And these places have been made to receive them until the day of their judgment and until the period appointed, until the great judgment comes on them.'

  4 I saw the spirit of a dead man, and his voice went out to heaven and made petitions.

  5 And I asked Raphael the angel who was with me, and I said to him: 'This spirit which petitions,

  6 Whose is it, whose voice goes up and petitions heaven?'

  7 And he answered me saying: 'This is the spirit which went out from Abel, whom his brother Cain slew, and he makes his suit against him until his offspring is destroyed from the face of the earth, and his offspring are annihilated from among the children of men.'

  GEN 4:8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. 9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper? 10 And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground. 11 And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand; 12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

  8 Then I asked, regarding all the hollow places: 'Why is one separated from the other?'

  9 And he answered me and said to me: 'These three have been made that the spirits of the dead might be separated. Divisions have been made for the spirits of the righteous, in which there is the bright spring of water.

  10 And one for sinners when they die and are buried in the earth and judgment has not been executed on them in their lifetime.

  11 Here their spirits shall be set apart in this great pain until the great day of judgment and punishment and torment of those who curse for ever and retribution for their spirits.

  12 There He shall bind them for ever. And such a division has been made for the spirits of those who make their petitions, who make disclosures concerning their destruction, when they were slain in the days of the sinners.