The Book of Enoch 15

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 He answered and said to me, and I heard His voice: 'Fear not, Enoch, thou righteous man and scribe of righteousness: approach hither and hear my voice.

And He answered and said to me, and I heard His voice: 'Fear not, Enoch, thou righteous man and scribe of righteousness — the faculty that records the right order — approach hither and hear my voice.

2And go, say to ⌈⌈the Watchers of heaven⌉⌉, who have sent thee to intercede ⌈⌈for them: "You should intercede"⌉⌉ for men, and not men for you:

And go, say to the Watchers of heaven — the guarding faculties of the inner realm — who have sent thee to intercede for them: "You should intercede" for men, and not men for you:

3Wherefore have ye left the high, holy, and eternal heaven, and lain with women, and defiled yourselves with the daughters of men and taken to yourselves wives, and done like the children of earth, and begotten giants (as your) sons?

Wherefore have ye left the high, holy, and eternal heaven — the exalted inner realm, wholly of the divine order — and lain with women, coupled yourselves with the sense-affections you were set to guard, and defiled yourselves with the daughters of men and taken to yourselves wives, and done like the children of earth, the states of the outer life, and begotten giants — swollen offspring-states out of all measure — as your sons?

4And though ye were holy, spiritual, living the eternal life, you have defiled yourselves with the blood of women, and have begotten (children) with the blood of flesh, and, as the children of men, have lusted after flesh and blood as those ⌈also⌉ do who die and perish.

And though ye were holy, spiritual, living the eternal life, you have defiled yourselves with the blood of women — the life-stream of the sense-affections — and have begotten children with the blood of flesh, and, as the children of men, have lusted after flesh and blood as those also do who die and perish, the states bound to sense, which pass away.

5Therefore have I given them wives also that they might impregnate them, and beget children by them, that thus nothing might be wanting to them on earth.

Therefore have I given them wives also that they might impregnate them, and beget children by them, that thus nothing might be wanting to them on earth, in the order appointed for the outer life.

6But you were ⌈formerly⌉ spiritual, living the eternal life, and immortal for all generations of the world.

But you were formerly spiritual, living the eternal life, and immortal for all generations of the world.

7And therefore I have not appointed wives for you; for as for the spiritual ones of the heaven, in heaven is their dwelling.

And therefore I have not appointed wives for you; for as for the spiritual ones of the heaven, in heaven — the inner realm — is their dwelling.

8And now, the giants, who are produced from the spirits and flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon the earth, and on the earth shall be their dwelling.

And now, the giants, who are produced from the spirits and flesh — from guarding spirits coupled with sense-life — shall be called evil spirits upon the earth, disordered spirit-states in the outer life, and on the earth shall be their dwelling.

9Evil spirits have proceeded from their bodies; because they are born from men, ⌈⌈and⌉⌉ from the holy Watchers is their beginning and primal origin; ⌈they shall be evil spirits on earth, and⌉ evil spirits shall they be called. [

Evil spirits have proceeded from their bodies; because they are born from men, and from the holy Watchers is their beginning and primal origin; they shall be evil spirits on earth, and evil spirits shall they be called.

10As for the spirits of heaven, in heaven shall be their dwelling, but as for the spirits of the earth which were born upon the earth, on the earth shall be their dwelling.]

As for the spirits of heaven, in heaven — the inner realm — shall be their dwelling, but as for the spirits of the earth which were born upon the earth, on the earth — the outer life — shall be their dwelling.

11And the spirits of the giants afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, do battle, and work destruction on the earth, and cause trouble: they take no food, ⌈but nevertheless

And the spirits of the giants afflict, oppress, destroy, attack, do battle, and work destruction on the earth, and cause trouble: they take no food, no true spiritual nourishment, but nevertheless

12hunger⌉ and thirst, and cause offences. And these spirits shall rise up against the children of men and against the women, because they have proceeded ⌈from them⌉.

hunger and thirst — craving without nourishment — and cause offences, stumblings into error. And these spirits shall rise up against the children of men and against the women, because they have proceeded from them — the disordered offspring-states turning upon the very states that bore them.

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.