cosmology
Watchers Descent
The 1 Enoch narrative in which a class of originally-good angelic beings (the Watchers) descends, mates with women, and teaches forbidden arts — the substrate that Gnostic archons inherits and inverts: archons are born malevolent, the Watchers fall through transgression.
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The Book of Concealed Mystery (Siphra Dtzenioutha) | 1d
“5; "And thou shalt place upon me thine hand:" KPKH, Khephakha .
(Where this word KPKH, if it be written according to the usual p.
100 custom KPK, Khephakh , yieldeth the number 120.
But now by adding the paragogic H of the female, there…”
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Page 3 (part 7)
“xix as Burkitt says, "most of the most convincing proofs that the Greek text of Enoch is a translation from a Semitic language fit equally well with a Hebrew or an Aramaic original"; his opinion is that Aramaic was the original language, "b…”
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Page 3 (part 8)
“Of special interest here is the mention of the Garden of Righteousness, and the Tree of Wisdom (xxviii.-xxxvi.).
Much that is written in these chapters may appear p.
xxi pointless and uninspiring; but we must bear in mind the purpose that…”
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Page 3 (part 10)
“The author's reckoning of the year at 364 days may be partly due to his opposition to heathen systems, and partly to the fact that 364 is divisible by seven, and amounts to fifty-two weeks exactly." 1 In any case, he is opposed to the lunar…”
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Page 3 (part 11)
“1-10, 18, 19 as a natural sequel, where p.
xxvi [paragraph continues] Enoch summons his children to receive his parting words.
Then comes the Apocalypse of weeks, xciii.
1-10, xci.
12-17.
The original order of the text, therefore, was:…”
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter I
“p. 31 BOOK OF ENOCH I-XXXVI I-V. Parable of Enoch on the Future Lot of the Wicked and the Righteous CHAPTER I. 1. The words of the blessing of Enoch, wherewith he blessed the elect ⌈⌈ and ⌉⌉ righteous, who will be living in the day of tribu…”
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter VI
“VI-XI. The Fall of the Angels: the Demoralisation of Mankind: the Intercession of the Angels on behalf of Mankind. The Dooms pronounced by God on the Angels: the Messianic Kingdom (a Noah fragment). CHAPTER VI. 1. And it came to pass when t…”
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter VII
“CHAPTER VII. 1. And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms and enchantments, and the cu…”
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter VIII
“CHAPTER VIII. 1. And 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…”
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter IX
“CHAPTER IX. 1. And then Michael, Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel looked down from heaven and saw much blood being shed upon the earth, and all lawlessness being wrought upon the earth. 2. And they said one to another: 'The earth made †without i…”
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter X (part 1)
“CHAPTER X.
1.
Then said the Most High, the Holy and Great One spake, and sent Uriel to the son of Lamech, and said to him: 2.
' 〈 Go to Noah 〉 and tell him in my name "Hide thyself!" and reveal to him the end that is approaching: that th…”
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter XII
“XII-XVI. Dream Vision of Enoch: his intercession for Azâzêl and the fallen Angels: and his announcement to them of their first and final doom . CHAPTER XII. 1. Before these things Enoch was hidden, and no one of the children of men knew whe…”
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter XIII
“CHAPTER XIII. 1. And Enoch went and said: 'Azâzêl, p. 40 thou shalt have no peace: a severe sentence has gone forth against thee to put thee in bonds: 2. And thou shalt not have toleration nor †request† granted to thee, because of the unrig…”
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter XIV (part 1)
“CHAPTER XIV.
1.
The book of the words of righteousness, and of the reprimand of the eternal Watchers in accordance with the command of the Holy Great One in that vision.
2.
I saw in my sleep what I will now say with a tongue of flesh an…”
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter XV
“CHAPTER XV. 1. And He answered and said to me, and I heard His voice: 'Fear not, Enoch, thou righteous man and scribe of righteousness: approach hither and hear my voice. 2. And go, say to ⌈⌈ the Watchers of heaven ⌉⌉ , who have sent thee t…”
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter XVI
“CHAPTER XVI. 1. From the days of the slaughter and destruction and death ⌈ of the giants ⌉ , from the souls of whose flesh the spirits, having gone forth, shall destroy without incurring judgement--thus shall they destroy until the day of t…”
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter XVIII
“CHAPTER XVIII 1. I saw the treasuries of all the winds: I saw how He had furnished with them the whole creation and the firm foundations of the earth. 2. And I saw the corner-stone of the earth: I saw the four winds which bear [ the earth a…”
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter XIX
“CHAPTER XIX. 1. And Uriel said to me: 'Here shall stand the angels who have connected themselves with women, and their spirits assuming many different forms are defiling mankind and shall lead them astray p. 46 into sacrificing to demons ⌈⌈…”
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter XXI
“XXI. Preliminary and final place of punishment of the fallen angels (stars) . CHAPTER XXI. 1. And I proceeded to where things were chaotic. 2. And I saw there something horrible: I saw neither a heaven above nor a firmly founded earth, but…”
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter LIV
“CHAPTER LIV. 1 And I looked and turned to another part of the earth, and saw there a deep valley with burning fire. 2. And they brought the kings and the mighty, and began to cast them into this deep valley. 3. And there mine eyes saw how t…”
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter LV
“CHAPTER LV. 1. And after that the Head of Days repented and said: 'In vain have I destroyed all who dwell on the earth.' 2. And He sware by His great name: 'Henceforth I will not do so to all who dwell on the earth, and I will set a sign in…”
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter LXIV
“p. 85 LXIV. Vision of the fallen Angels in the Place of Punishment . CHAPTER LXIV. 1. And other forms I saw hidden in that place. 2. I heard the voice of the angel saying: 'These are the angels who descended to the earth, and revealed what…”
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter LXV
“LXV. Enoch foretells to Noah the Deluge and his own Preservation . CHAPTER LXV. 1. And in those days Noah saw the earth that it had sunk down and its destruction was nigh. 2. And he arose from thence and went to the ends of the earth, and c…”
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter LXVII
“p. 87 LXVII. God's Promise to Noah: Places of Punishment of the Angels and of the Kings . CHAPTER LXVII. 1. And in those days the word of God came unto me, and He said unto me: 'Noah, thy lot has come up before Me, a lot without blame, a lo…”
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter LXVIII
“LXVIII. Michael and Raphael astonished at the Severity of the Judgement . CHAPTER LXVIII. 1. And after that my grandfather Enoch gave me the teaching of all the secrets in the book in the Parables which had been given to him, and he put the…”
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter LXIX (part 1)
“LXIX.
The Names and Functions of the ( fallen Angels and ) Satans: the secret Oath .
CHAPTER LXIX.
1 And after this judgement they shall terrify and make them to tremble because they have shown this to those who dwell on the earth.
2 An…”
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter LXIX (part 2)
“This (angel) requested Michael to show him the hidden name, that he might enunciate it in the oath, so that those might quake before that name and oath who revealed all that was in secret to the children of men.
15.
And this is the power…”
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter LXXXIII
“THE DREAM-VISIONS (LXXXIII-XC.) LXXXIII. LXXXIV. First Dream-Vision on the Deluge . CHAPTER LXXXIII. 1. And now, my son Methuselah, I will show thee all my visions which I have seen, recounting them before thee. 2. Two visions I saw before…”
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter LXXXIV
“CHAPTER LXXXIV. 1. And 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 p. 113 tongue of flesh, which God has made for the children of the flesh of men, that they…”
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter LXXXVI
“LXXXVI. The Fall of the Angels and the Demoralization of Mankind . CHAPTER LXXXVI. 1. And again I saw with mine eyes as I slept, and I saw the heaven above, and behold a star fell from heaven, and it arose and eat and pastured amongst those…”
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter LXXXVIII
“LXXXVIII. The Punishment of the Fallen Angels by the Archangels . CHAPTER LXXXVIII. 1. And I saw one of those four who had come forth first, and he seized that first star which had fallen from the heaven, and bound it hand and p. 116 foot a…”
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter XC (part 2)
“And I saw till that man, who wrote down the names of the shepherds [ and ] carried up into the presence of the Lord of the sheep [ came and helped it and showed it everything: he had come down for the help of that ram ] .
17.
And I saw th…”
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter C
“C. The Sinners destroy each other: Judgement of the fallen Angels: the Safety of the Righteous: further Woes for the Sinners . CHAPTER C. 1. And in those days in one place the fathers together with their sons shall be smitten And brothers o…”
The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) | Chapter CVI (part 1)
“FRAGMENT OF THE BOOK OF NOAH (CVI-CVII.) CHAPTER CVI.
1.
And after some days my son Methuselah took a wife for his son Lamech, and she became p.
151 pregnant by him and bore a son.
2.
And his body was white as snow and red as the bloom…”
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The Secret Doctrine | Page 13 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 191 THE PRELIMINARY CREATION OF MAN.
[[This page continued from previous section ]] STANZA VI.
-- Continued.
5.
A T THE FOURTH ( Round , or revolution of life and bei…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 27 (part 1)
“The Secret Doctrine by H.
P.
Blavatsky -- Vol.
1 [[Vol.
1, Page]] 411 THE MYSTERY OF THE SEVEN THUNDERS.
[[This page continued from previous section ]] § XI.
DEMON EST DEUS INVERSUS.
T HIS symbolical sentence, in its many-sided forms…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 27 (part 3)
“Anger, my son, is the destruction of [[Vol.
1, Page]] 416 THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
all that man obtains .
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and prevents the attainment of emancipation.
The sages shun wrath.
Be not thou, my child, subject to its influence.
Let not th…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 37 (part 8)
“It teaches that before evolution began, Prakriti (Nature) was in a condition of laya or absolute homogeneity, as "matter exists in two conditions, the sukshma , or latent and undifferentiated, and the sthula or differentiated condition." Th…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 54 (part 4)
“Let us pause and ask ourselves seriously the question, regardless of the vagaries and sophisms of both the materialistic and the psychological modern sciences.
To some extent, it is admitted that even the esoteric teaching is allegorical.…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 55 (part 4)
“This is very plainly shown in various texts of the Rig Veda -- the highest authority for a Hindu of any sect whatever.
Therein Asura means "spiritual divine," and the word is used as a synonym for Supreme Spirit, while in the sense of a "G…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 55 (part 9)
“5, the Sloka simply says: "Bhutas -- fiends, frightful from being monkey-coloured and carnivorous"; and the word in India now means ghosts, ethereal or astral phantoms, while in esoteric teaching it means elementary substances, something ma…”
The Secret Doctrine | Page 60 (part 6)
“Divine Kings descended and taught men sciences and arts, for man could live no longer in the first land (Adi-Varsha, the Eden of the first Races), which had turned into a white frozen corpse.
" The above is suggestive.
We will see what ca…”
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The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 5 (part 9)
“1.) "Lucifer having left the harmony of God, the holy name of God separated from him and remained in its own unity; but Lucifer remained in the qualities of the central fire which he had awakened within himself." ( Theosophical Questions ,…”
The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 6 (part 1)
“p.
122 CHAPTER VI.
THE RESTORATION OF NATURE AND THE GENERATION OF MAN.
" If we speak about heaven and the birth of the elements, we are then not telling of things that are far away or foreign to us, but of that which is taking place wit…”
The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme | Chapter 10 (part 5)
“The wrath must kill and consume the external image that has grown in the wrath, but from its death springs forth the eternal life." ( Mysterium , xxviii.
14.) "Abel, representing an antitype of Christ, who was to suffer death for humanity,…”
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The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 9 (part 4)
“The sources of occult wisdom, it proceeds, are, firstly, in God; secondly, in spiritual essences--that is to say, the Angelical Hierarchy; thirdly, in corporeal creatures, the reference being probably to the signatura rerum of Paracelsus; f…”
The Book of Ceremonial Magic (A.E. Waite) | Page 24 (part 3)
“But seeing that until this present the Sovereign Pontiffs have alone possessed the Power of using invocations and commanding Spirits, His Holiness Honorius the Third, being moved by his Pastoral care, has benignly desired to communicate the…”
Psychic Self-Defence (Dion Fortune) | 13. The Motives Of Psychic Attack. I-b
“According to the Qabalists, Lilith was the first wife of Adam, who used to visit him in his dreams while he was as yet alone in the Garden of Eden, and the Lord God became so perturbed at these goings-on that He created Eve as a counter- at…”
gnosticism2
The Secret Writing According to John (Apocryphon of John), Codex II, 1 | The Vile Spirit
“I, however, asked: “Lord, where did the vile spirit originate?”
He then said to me: “The Mother- Father, who is abundant in mercy, the holy Spirit in every mode, the one who is merciful and [II, 28] who shows compassion for all of you – th…”
Gospel of Philip | Section 1d
“When the child is grown, however, then the father turns over all he possesses.
THE LOST Those who have gone astray are those born of the spirit.
And they are usually lost because of the spirit.
So from one single breath of spirit the fir…”
biblical1
Genesis (American Standard Version, 1901) | 6:2-7:1
“[6:2] that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all that they chose.
[6:3] And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not strive with man for ever, for that he also is flesh: yet shall his days b…”
finnic1
The Kalevala | Rune XLVII-b
“Quick the heavens are burst asunder, Quick the vault of Ukko opens, Downward drops the wayward Fire-child, Downward quick the red-ball rushes, Shoots across the arch of heaven, Hisses through the startled cloudlets, Flashes through the trou…”
sufism1
The Masnavi, Book I (Rumi) | STORY XIII
“The Prophet's Scribe. The Prophet had a scribe who used to write down the texts that fell from his lips. At last this scribe became so conceited that he imagined all this heavenly wisdom proceeded from his own wit, and not from the Prophet.…”