The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch, Charles translation) · 133 of 141 · tr. R.H. Charles
Chapter CIII
CIII. Different Destinies of the Righteous and the Sinners: fresh Objections of the Sinners . CHAPTER CIII. 1. Now, therefore, I swear to you, the righteous, by the glory of the Great and Honoured and 2 Mighty One in dominion, and by His greatness I swear to you: 2. I know a mystery And have read the heavenly tablets, And have seen the holy books, And have found written therein and inscribed regarding them: 3. That all goodness and joy and glory are prepared for them, And written down for the spirits of those who have died in righteousness, And that manifold good shall be given to you in recompense for your labours, And that your lot is abundantly beyond the lot of the living. 4. And the spirits of you who have died in righteousness shall live and rejoice, And their spirits shall not perish, nor their memorial from before the face of the Great One Unto all the generations of the world: wherefore no longer fear their contumely. 5. Woe to you, ye sinners, when ye have died, If ye die in the wealth of your sins, And those who are like you say regarding you: 'Blessed are the sinners: they have seen all their days. 6. And how they have died in prosperity and in wealth, And have not seen tribulation or murder in their life; p. 148 And they have died in honour, And judgement has not been executed on them during their life." 7. Know ye, that their souls will be made to descend into Sheol And they shall be wretched in their great tribulation. 8. And into darkness and chains and a burning flame where there is grievous judgement shall your spirits enter; And the great judgement shall be for all the generations of the world. Woe to you, for ye shall have no peace. 9. Say not in regard to the righteous and good who are in life: "In our troubled days we have toiled laboriously and experienced every trouble, And met with much evil and been consumed, And have become few and our spirit small. 10. And we have been destroyed and have not found any to help us even with a word: We have been tortured ⌈ and destroyed ⌉ , and not hoped to see life from day to day. 11. We hoped to be the head and have become the tail: We have toiled laboriously and had no satisfaction in our toil; And we have become the food of the sinners and the unrighteous, And they have laid their yoke heavily upon us. 12. They have had dominion over us that hated us †and smote us; And to those that hated us† we have bowed our necks But they pitied us not. 13. We desired to get away from them that we might escape and be at rest, But found no place whereunto we should flee and be safe from them. p. 149 14. And are complained to the rulers in our tribulation, And cried out against those who devoured us, But they did not attend to our cries And would not hearken to our voice. 15. And they helped those who robbed us and devoured us and those who made us few; and they concealed their oppression, and they did not remove from us the yoke of those that devoured us and dispersed us and murdered us, and they concealed their murder, and remembered not that they had lifted up their hands against us.
§ 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.
A stark contrast is drawn between the destinies of the righteous (glory, life) and sinners (darkness, Sheol, chains), reflecting a dualistic structure of outcomes.
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 text asserts that God has actively prepared goodness and glory for the righteous and will execute judgment on sinners.
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 final judgment of sinners and the recompense for the righteous, explicitly mentioning the 'great judgement' for all generations.
All passages →Funerary Navigationpraxis
Texts and rituals guiding the soul through death.
The text describes the fate of souls after death, serving as a prophetic guide on what awaits them beyond life.
All passages →Hidden Sayingssoteriology
Esoteric teachings reserved for those ready to receive them; outer meaning conceals an inner liberating truth.
Enoch reveals mysteries read from heavenly tablets and holy books that are not known to the general public, fitting the definition of esoteric teachings.
All passages →Living Godtheology
The divine conceived as active, present, and dynamic—not an abstract principle but a personal responsive reality.
The Great One is depicted as an active agent who swears oaths, prepares rewards, and executes judgment rather than an abstract principle.
All passages →Paradox As Teachingethics
Using apparent contradiction, reversal, or riddle to destabilise ordinary understanding and induce insight.
The righteous complain of becoming 'the tail' instead of 'the head,' using reversal to highlight the inversion of worldly expectations.
All passages →Psychopomp Journeycosmology
Guided passage of the soul through afterlife realms.
The passage mentions the descent of souls into Sheol after death, implying a post-mortem transition to an afterlife realm.
All passages →Renunciation Of Wealthethics
The spiritual danger of attachment to material possessions; wealth as a spiritual obstacle.
Wealth is associated with the sinners who die in prosperity and face woe, suggesting material attachment is spiritually dangerous.
All passages →Related passages · 12 parallels
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Shared concept: Cosmic Dualism — Ontological opposition between two primal principles (light/darkness, truth/lie, spirit/matter) as the fundamental structure of reality. (derived)
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“188 So writes Schopenhauer in his Counsels and Maxims , and indeed it is very effectively expressed, but we have no foundation whatsoever for regarding man as the summit of that which nature has created.
This is only THE HIGHEST THAT WE KN…”
Shared concept: Cosmic Dualism — Ontological opposition between two primal principles (light/darkness, truth/lie, spirit/matter) as the fundamental structure of reality. (derived)
egyptian|The Egyptian Heaven and Hell|Chapter 2 (part 1)
“p.
vi PREFACE THE present work is the outcome of two lectures on the Books of the Tuat, i.e., the Egyptian Underworld, or "Other World," which I had the honour to deliver at the Royal Institution in the spring of 1904, and it has been prep…”
Shared concept: Funerary Navigation — Texts and rituals guiding the soul through death. (derived)
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“41-43.] Selection and arrangement of chapters.
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Shared concept: Funerary Navigation — Texts and rituals guiding the soul through death. (derived)
egyptian|The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani)|Chapter 39 (part 3)
“8258, mottled glass buckle having the loop inlaid with blue composition; No.
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The g…”
Shared concept: Psychopomp Journey — Guided passage of the soul through afterlife realms. (derived)
neoplatonism|Select Works of Plotinus|Select Works, Section 161
“Section 5 5. Still more unreasonably: There are men, bound to human bodies and subject to desire, grief, anger, who think so generously of their own faculty that they declare themselves in contact with the Intelligible World, but deny that…”
Shared concept: Divine Providence — 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. (derived)
neoplatonism|Iamblichus: On the Mysteries|Chapter XXVII-a
“Moreover, neither is it sufficient to assert, “ that nature, art, and the sympathy of things in the universe, as if they were the parts of one animal, contain premanifestations of certain 188 things with reference to each other; nor that bo…”
Shared concept: Divine Providence — 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. (derived)
greek_mystery|Orphic Hymns|Hymn LVI. THE TERRESTRIAL HERMES
“LVI. TO THE TERRESTRIAL HERMES. The FUMIGATION from STORAX. HERMES I call, whom Fate decrees to dwell In the dire path which leads to deepest hell O Bacchic Hermes, progeny divine Of Dionysius, parent of the vine, p. 189 And of celestial Ve…”
Shared concept: Psychopomp Journey — Guided passage of the soul through afterlife realms. (derived)
native_american|The Soul of the Indian|Chapter I-b
“Sometimes an old man, standing upon the brink of eternity, might reveal to a chosen few the oracle of his long-past youth.
The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.
They forget…”
Shared concept: Renunciation Of Wealth — The spiritual danger of attachment to material possessions; wealth as a spiritual obstacle. (derived)
christian_mysticism|Pseudo-Dionysius: The Divine Names|Chapter 11, Section 1c
“And the perfect Peace guards each several individuality unalloyed by Its providential gift of peace, keeping all things without internal or mutual discord or confusion, and establishing all things, in the power of unswerving stability, so a…”
Shared concept: Paradox As Teaching — Using apparent contradiction, reversal, or riddle to destabilise ordinary understanding and induce insight. (derived)
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From a Greek Vase Painting.
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Shared concept: Paradox As Teaching — Using apparent contradiction, reversal, or riddle to destabilise ordinary understanding and induce insight. (derived)
christian_mysticism|The Life and Doctrines of Jacob Boehme|Chapter 13 (part 9)
“279 free will already in the beginning (of a desire) destroys the desire, so that it does not become substantial, then is the physician (for the cure of that disease) already born, and there will not be needed such great earnestness as will…”
Shared concept: Renunciation Of Wealth — The spiritual danger of attachment to material possessions; wealth as a spiritual obstacle. (derived)
Contrasts · where traditions diverge
christian_mysticism|Revelations of Divine Love|Chapter XXX
“"Two parts of Truth: the part that is open: our Saviour and our salvation;—and the part that is hid and shut up from us: all beside our salvation" He gave me understanding of two parts [of truth]. The one part is our Saviour and our salvati…”
Both passages discuss the concept of divine judgment and the differing fates of the righteous and the unrighteous. They share a conceptual parallel in emphasizing the rewards for the righteous and the punishments for the sinners, though they use different religious frameworks and vocabulary.
christian_mysticism|Revelations of Divine Love|Chapter LXXXII
“"In falling and in rising we are ever preciously kept in one Love" But here shewed our courteous Lord the moaning and the mourning of the soul, signifying thus: I know well thou wilt live for my love, joyously and gladly suffering all the p…”
Both passages discuss the fate of the righteous and the sinners, but they present contrasting views. Passage A emphasizes divine love and the idea that even in sin, one is kept in love and should turn to God's mercy. Passage B, on the other hand, describes a stark division between the rewards of the righteous and the punishments of the sinners, with no mention of divine love or mercy for the sinners.