The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) · 40 of 141 · tr. R.H. Charles
Chapter XXII (part 1)
XXII.
Sheol, or the Underworld .
CHAPTER XXII.
1.
And thence I went to another place, and he showed me in the west ⌈ another ⌉ great and high mountain [ and ] of hard rock.
E 2 And there was in it †four† hollow places, deep and wide and very smooth.
†How† smooth are the hollow places and deep and dark to look at.
G g 2.
And there were †four† hollow places in it, deep and very smooth: †three† of them were dark and one bright; and there was a fountain of water in its midst.
And I said: '†How† smooth are these hollow places, and deep and dark to view.' 3.
Then Raphael answered, one of the holy angels who was with me, and said unto me: 'These hollow places have been created for this very purpose, that the spirits of the souls of the dead should assemble therein, yea that all the souls of the children of men should assemble here.
And these places have p.
48 been made to receive them till the day of their judgement and till their appointed period ⌈ till the period appointed ⌉ , till the great judgement (comes) upon them.' E 5.
I saw the spirits of the children of men who were dead, and their voice went forth to heaven and made suit.
6.
Then I asked Raphael the angel who was with me, and I said unto him: 'This spirit--whose is it whose voice goeth forth and maketh suit?' G g 5.
I saw (the spirit of) a dead man making suit, and his voice went forth to heaven and made suit.
6.
And I asked Raphael the angel who was with me, and I said unto him: 'This spirit which maketh suit, whose is it, whose voice goeth forth and maketh suit to heaven?' 7.
And he answered me saying: 'This is the spirit which went forth from Abel, whom his brother Cain slew, and he makes his suit against him till his seed is destroyed from the face of the earth, and his seed is annihilated from amongst the seed of men.' E 8.
Then I asked regarding it, and regarding all the hollow places : 'Why as one separated from the other?' 9.
And he answered me and said unto me: 'These three have been made that the spirits of the dead might be separated.
And such a division has been made 〈 for 〉 the spirits of the righteous, in which there as the bright spring of water .
10.
And such has G g 8.
Then I asked regarding all the hollow places : 'Why is one separated from the other?' 9.
And he answered me saying: 'These three have been made that the spirits of the dead might be separated.
And this division has been made for the spirits of the righteous, in which there is the bright spring of water.
10.
And this has been made for sinners p.
49 E been made for sinners when they die and are buried in the earth and judgement has not been executed on them in their lifetime.
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Here their spirits shall be set apart in this great pain till the great day of judgement and punishment and torment of those who †curse† for ever, and retribution for their spirits.
There He shall bind them for ever.
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And such a division has been made for the spirits of those who make their suit, who make disclosures concerning their destruction, when they were slain in the days of the sinners.
13.
Such has been made for the spirits of men who were not righteous but sinners, who were complete in transgression, and of the transgressors.
§ Ask Guru about this passage →Themes
Cosmic Dualismtheology
Ontological opposition between two primal principles (light/darkness, truth/lie, spirit/matter) as the fundamental structure of reality.
The afterlife is structured around a strict separation between the righteous (light) and sinners (darkness/pain).
All passages →Divine Providencetheology
Pronoia — the doctrine that the divine actively orders the unfolding of the cosmos and human affairs toward intelligible ends, against pure chance or blind necessity.
The hollow places are explicitly described as created by God for the specific purpose of holding souls until judgment.
All passages →Eschatological Judgmentsoteriology
Final, collective cosmic judgment as an event in which the wicked are sentenced and the cosmos restored; distinct from psychopomp_journey (individual passage at death) and emphasising verdict where Zoroastrian frashokereti emphasises restoration.
[auto] The passage centrally focuses on the separation of souls awaiting the 'great judgement' and final punishment or reward.
All passages →Funerary Navigationpraxis
Texts and rituals guiding the soul through death.
The text provides a detailed geographical map of the afterlife destinations for different categories of dead souls.
All passages →Numerical Mysticismtheology
Numbers, proportions, and mathematical relationships as the underlying structure of divine reality.
The structure of the underworld is defined by specific numbers: four hollow places, three dark and one bright.
All passages →Prayerpraxis
Direct address to the divine, whether petitionary, contemplative, or liturgical; speech and silence offered upward.
The spirits of the dead are described as making suit or crying out to heaven from their hollow places.
All passages →Psychopomp Journeycosmology
Guided passage of the soul through afterlife realms.
The angel Raphael acts as a guide leading Enoch through the underworld realms to explain the fate of the dead.
All passages →Spiritual Ascentpraxis
A staged journey of the soul upward through heavenly realms or levels of being toward the divine source.
Enoch travels to a 'great and high mountain' in the west to view these realms, indicating a visionary journey.
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