The Book of Enoch
by Robert Henry Charles · first published 1988
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Adding to this that many of the scriptures were censored from the Christian Bible. Emperor Constantine and his council left out some notable scriptures such as the Book of Enoch. That is a fairly significant redaction in my opinion. I would suggest reading up on it if anyone has the time.
on “India defuses its population bomb: fertility falls to two children per woman” ↗…etc. I am leaning more on the Steiner interpretation than the strict Zoroastrian one. One could also say "The Devil", but that will really get you people squealing. One could refer to the apocryphal "Book of Enoch" for the details on that one.
on “$70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x Their Money” ↗…number of other surviving works, fragments, and archaeological evidence that provide clues about religious practice in that time. (For example, one prominent text that Barker frequently draws on is the Book of Enoch, which was considered canonical by many Jewish communities in the time of Christ --- and actually still is by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church --- and was cited in the Letter of Jude.) Of course, a lot…
on “How an obscure cult grew to become the dominant religion of the Western world” ↗…גַּלְגַּל galgal), refer to the wheels seen in Ezekiel's vision of the chariot (Hebrew merkabah) in Ezekiel 1:15–21. One of the Dead Sea scrolls (4Q405) construes them as angels; late sections of the Book of Enoch (61:10, 71:7) portray them as a class of celestial beings who (along with the Cherubim and Seraphim) never sleep, but guard the throne of God. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophanim I mean, look at renditions…
on “The origins of cannabis smoking: evidence from the first millennium BCE (2019)” ↗It would be greatly appreciated if you could provide any scholarly evidence, or even a cited critical reading of the Book of Enoch, showing that this character (whom has been a noted point of contention and much thought and writing amongst theologians and secular researchers alike for millennia) is intended to be an invented metaphorical…
on “An Unorthodox Scholar Uses Technology to Expose Biblical Forgeries” ↗…here millions of years ago, I might be on board. Ancient Sumerian texts paint a fairly clear picture of the "Sky People" and their tampering with DNA often represented as the tree of life covered in the Book of Enoch, somewhat represented in the Torah and missing from the Christian bible covers the sky people a little bit as well. It is missing many of the scrolls however. Until such time, I will assume its the…
on “What would make you believe Aliens visit Earth” ↗There are a number of different texts. According some rabbinical traditions it was a pomegranate, but according to the Book of Enoch and other intertestamental texts it was "like a species of tamarind tree". I'm not aware of any tradition that calls it an apple tree, although this may have been the case in some medieval paintings.
on “Kazakhstan’s forest is the birthplace of modern apples” ↗…ever about the authorship being true or not just like how Pseudepigrapha works were also very much accepted with the full knowledge that another author wrote that work. Clearly Enoch didn't write the Book of Enoch but that didn't keep people from reading it and accepting it. Heck The Book of Enoch is quoted in Jude.
on “New Evidence on When Bible Was Written” ↗The Catholic Church at the Council of Rome formally defined what books were considered authentic and which ones were not (and this list was, with some reduction, also used by Protestants). The Book of Enoch was a bit contentious because of the quotation in an inspired book - but it was ultimately determined to be not inspired, and the quotation not necessarily either. (I.e. Imagine if scripture quoted a…
on “An Unorthodox Scholar Uses Technology to Expose Biblical Forgeries” ↗Yeah, but just a couple lines. Most of the mystique is probably from the Book of Enoch et al.
on “An Unorthodox Scholar Uses Technology to Expose Biblical Forgeries” ↗The Book of Enoch certainly has mystique, but even the brief mentions of Enoch in canonical scripture attract a lot of commentary, because he is described as not having died: “Thus all the days that Adam lived were 930…
on “An Unorthodox Scholar Uses Technology to Expose Biblical Forgeries” ↗There is a wonderful sequence in the (2nd?) Book of Enoch (~150AD?), where the viewer is transported up through the heavens, past the planets, and finally beyond the stars, and eventually sees the incomprehensible face of God lying behind it all, visible all…
on “The James Webb Space Telescope is finding too many early galaxies” ↗…better answers. It did say seven archangels, but I don't see what's wrong with that, and it hedged and said different Abrahamic religions say different things. Certainly 7 is correct from the Torah's Book of Enoch and the Christian Eastern Orthodox's standpoint.
on “The Waluigi Effect: an explanation of bizarre semiotic effects in LLMs” ↗St. Michael is an Angel, so either has existed since before the Earth was made or if you want the earliest literary reference from the Book of Enoch which dates to around 300 BCE but might have existed in an oral tradition before that. Earth being round dates to around 500 BCE so depending on how old the oral tradition of the angel Michael were around…
on “Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?” ↗…odd obsession with exciting women called Helen. In apocryphal Bible texts, it's claimed corrupted angels called "The Watchers" gave humans various technologies, in exchange for their women. > In the Book of Enoch, the watchers are angels dispatched to Earth to watch over the humans. They soon begin to lust for human women and, at the prodding of their leader Samyaza, defect to illicitly instruct humanity and procreate…
on “Deals with the devil aren't what they used to be” ↗