The Book of Enoch 108

How to read these pages: the text itself comes first, verse by verse, in the volume's own translation. Beneath each verse stands its Meaning — a rendering of what the passage's terms name in the inner life, drawn from the correspondences the text itself uses. The text is never altered; the meaning is offered, not imposed.

Charles translation (1917)

1Another book which Enoch wrote for his son Methuselah and for those who will come after him, and keep the law in the last days.

Another book — a further record of the order of states — which Enoch, the faculty that walks with God, wrote for his son Methuselah, the preserving faculty that carries the testimony down the line, and for those who will come after him, and keep the law, the written order of the divine life, in the last days, the closing season of the old order.

2Ye who have done good shall wait for those days till an end is made of those who work evil; and an end of the might of the transgressors.

Ye who have done good shall wait for those days till an end is made of those who work evil — the states twisted away from the order, acting from sense alone; and an end of the might of the transgressors, of every state that crosses the order.

3And wait ye indeed till sin has passed away, for their names shall be blotted out of the book of life and out of the holy books, and their seed shall be destroyed for ever, and their spirits shall be slain, and they shall cry and make lamentation in a place that is a chaotic wilderness, and in the fire shall they burn; for there is no earth there.

And wait ye indeed till sin — error apart from the order — has passed away, for their names shall be blotted out of the book of life, the record of the states alive in the divine order, and out of the holy books, and their seed — the word-idea from which their line of states reproduces — shall be destroyed for ever, its ruin lasting, and their spirits shall be slain, the animating breath of the error-state ended, and they shall cry and make lamentation in a place that is a chaotic wilderness, the untended waste-state in confusion, and in the fire shall they burn, in truth's consuming flame upon error; for there is no earth there, no formed outer life to stand on.

4And I saw there something like an invisible cloud; for by reason of its depth I could not look over, and I saw a flame of fire blazing brightly, and things like shining mountains circling and sweeping to and fro.

And I saw there something like an invisible cloud; for by reason of its depth I could not look over, and I saw a flame of fire blazing brightly — truth's consuming flame — and things like shining mountains, exalted states in brilliance, circling and sweeping to and fro.

5And I asked one of the holy angels who was with me and said unto him: 'What is this shining thing? for it is not a heaven but only the flame of a blazing fire, and the voice of weeping and crying and lamentation and strong pain.'

And I asked one of the holy angels — a divine idea wholly of the divine order — who was with me and said unto him: What is this shining thing? for it is not a heaven, not the inner realm, but only the flame of a blazing fire, and the voice of weeping and crying and lamentation and strong pain, the sound of the states held in that burning.

6And he said unto me: 'This place which thou seest--here are cast the spirits of sinners and blasphemers, and of those who work wickedness, and of those who pervert everything that the Lord hath spoken through the mouth of the prophets--(even) the things that shall be.

And he said unto me: This place which thou seest — here are cast the spirits of sinners and blasphemers, the animating states of those in error and of those who speak against the order, and of those who work wickedness, and of those who pervert everything that the indwelling LORD hath spoken through the mouth of the prophets, the forth-telling faculties — even the things that shall be.

7For some of them are written and inscribed above in the heaven, in order that the angels may read them and know that which shall befall the sinners, and the spirits of the humble, and of those who have afflicted their bodies, and been recompensed by God; and of those who have been put to shame by wicked men:

For some of them are written and inscribed above in the inner realm, set in the recorded order of states, in order that the angels, the divine ideas, may read them and know that which shall befall the sinners, and the spirits of the humble, the low and yielded states, and of those who have afflicted their bodies, holding the outer nature under discipline, and been recompensed by the Source; and of those who have been put to shame by wicked men, by states twisted away from the order:

8Who love God and loved neither gold nor silver nor any of the good things which are in the world, but gave over their bodies to torture.

Who love the Source and loved neither gold nor silver nor any of the good things which are in the world — no lesser good set in God's place, no trust settled on a thing — but gave over their bodies, their outer nature, to torture, to the affliction of the sense-life.

9Who, since they came into being, longed not after earthly food, but regarded everything as a passing breath, and lived accordingly, and the Lord tried them much, and their spirits were found pure so that they should bless His name.

Who, since they came into being, longed not after earthly food, the nourishment of sense, but regarded everything as a passing breath — a breath that moves and does not abide — and lived accordingly, and the indwelling LORD tried them much, and their spirits were found pure so that they should bless His name, His very nature.

10And all the blessings destined for them I have recounted in the books. And he hath assigned them their recompense, because they have been found to be such as loved heaven more than their life in the world, and though they were trodden under foot of wicked men, and experienced abuse and reviling from them and were put to shame, yet they blessed Me.

And all the blessings — the divine increases — destined for them I have recounted in the books, the recorded order of states. And He hath assigned them their recompense, because they have been found to be such as loved heaven, the inner realm, more than their life in the world, the outer world, and though they were trodden under foot of wicked men, of the twisted states, and experienced abuse and reviling from them and were put to shame, yet they blessed Me.

11And now I will summon the spirits of the good who belong to the generation of light, and I will transform those who were born in darkness, who in the flesh were not recompensed with such honour as their faithfulness deserved.

And now I will summon the spirits of the good who belong to the generation of light — the order of states born in understanding — and I will transform those who were born in darkness, in unilluminated consciousness, who in the flesh, in the outer sense-nature, were not recompensed with such honour as their faithfulness deserved.

12And I will bring forth in shining light those who have loved My holy name, and I will seat each on the throne of his honour.

And I will bring forth in shining light — understanding made manifest — those who have loved My holy name, My nature set apart in the divine order, and I will seat each on the throne of his honour, the seat of ruling authority appointed to his state.

13And they shall be resplendent for times without number; for righteousness is the judgement of God; for to the faithful He will give faithfulness in the habitation of upright paths.

And they shall be resplendent for times without number — age upon age without count; for righteousness — right relation to the divine order — is the judgement of the Source; for to the faithful He will give faithfulness in the habitation of upright paths, in the dwelling of the right-ordered ways.

14And they shall see those who were, born in darkness led into darkness, while the righteous shall be resplendent.

And they shall see those who were born in darkness led into darkness — held in the unilluminated state, darkness to the error — while the righteous, the right-ordered states, shall be resplendent in the light.

15And the sinners shall cry aloud and see them resplendent, and they indeed will go where days and seasons are prescribed for them.'

And the sinners — the error-bound states — shall cry aloud and see them resplendent, and they indeed will go where days and seasons are prescribed for them, to the cycles and seasons of consciousness appointed to their state.

Companion volume to The Why Bible — 1 Enoch in R. H. Charles's translation (1917), rendered in its spiritual meanings. First final edition, October 2026.