The Book of Enoch 13

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)

1And Enoch went and said: 'Azâzêl, thou shalt have no peace: a severe sentence has gone forth against thee to put thee in bonds:

And Enoch — the faculty that walks with God — went and said: Azazel — the concentrated adversarial state to whom all error is ascribed — you shall have no peace, no rest within the order: a severe judgment has gone forth against you, to bind you in the bound state:

2And thou shalt not have toleration nor †request† granted to thee, because of the unrighteousness which thou hast taught, and because of all the works of godlessness and unrighteousness and sin which thou hast shown to men.'

And you shall have no forbearance, nor shall your plea be granted to you, because of the unrighteousness which you have taught, and because of all the works of godlessness and unrighteousness and sin — error apart from the divine order — which you have shown to men.

3Then I went and spoke to them all together, and they were all afraid, and fear and trembling seized them.

Then I went and spoke to them all together — the fallen Watchers — and they were all afraid, and fear and trembling seized them.

4And they besought me to draw up a petition for them that they might find forgiveness, and to read their petition in the presence of the Lord of heaven.

And they begged me to draw up a petition — a written plea — for them, that they might find forgiveness, and to read their petition in the presence of the indwelling LORD of the inner realm.

5For from thenceforward they could not speak (with Him) nor lift up their eyes to heaven for shame of their sins for which they had been condemned.

For from then on they could not speak with Him nor lift up their eyes to the inner realm, for shame of their sins — their acts apart from the order — for which they had been condemned.

6Then I wrote out their petition, and the prayer in regard to their spirits and their deeds individually and in regard to their requests that they should have forgiveness and length 〈of days〉†.

Then I wrote out their petition, and the prayer in regard to their spirits and their deeds, each one singly, and in regard to their requests that they should have forgiveness and length of days.

7And I went off and sat down at the waters of Dan, in the land of Dan, to the south of the west of Hermon: I read their petition till I fell aslee.

And I went off and sat down at the waters of Dan — the stream of thought in the land of Dan, the judging faculty — to the south of the west of Hermon: I read their petition till I fell asleep, the outer senses resting.

8And behold a dream came to me, and visions fell down upon me, and I saw visions of chastisement, ⌈and a voice came bidding (me)⌉ I to tell it to the sons of heaven, and reprimand them.

And behold, a dream — a message of the deeper mind — came to me, and visions fell down upon me, and I saw visions of chastisement, of corrective judgment, and a voice came bidding me tell it to the sons of heaven, the states born of the inner realm, and reprimand them.

9And when I awaked, I came unto them, and they were all sitting gathered together, weeping in ’Abelsjâîl, which is between Lebanon and Sênêsêr, with their faces covered.

And when I awaked, I came unto them, and they were all sitting gathered together, weeping in ’Abelsjâîl, which is between Lebanon and Sênêsêr, with their faces covered — their surface of awareness veiled in shame.

10And I recounted before them all the visions which I had seen in sleep, and I began to speak the words of righteousness, and to reprimand the heavenly Watchers.

And I recounted before them all the visions which I had seen in sleep, and I began to speak the words of righteousness — of right relation to the divine order — and to reprimand the heavenly Watchers, the guarding faculties who had left their watch.

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.