The Book of Enoch 20

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 these are the names of the holy angels who watch.

And these are the names of the holy angels who watch — the guarding ideas, wholly of the divine order, set to keep watch over the states.

2Uriel, one of the holy angels, who is over the world and over Tartarus.

Uriel — “light of God,” the illumination-faculty — one of the holy angels, who is over the world and over Tartarus, the deepest bound shadow-state.

3Raphael, one of the holy angels, who is over the spirits of men.

Raphael — “healing of God,” the healing faculty, guide of the spirits of men — one of the holy angels, who is over the spirits of men.

4Raguel, one of the holy angels who †takes vengeance on† the world of the luminaries.

Raguel — the exacting faculty that keeps the account of the lights — one of the holy angels, who takes vengeance on the world of the luminaries: who calls every transgressing light to its reckoning.

5Michael, one of the holy angels, to wit, he that is set over the best part of mankind ⌈⌈and⌉⌉ over chaos.

Michael — “who is like God?” the champion faculty — one of the holy angels, to wit, he that is set over the best part of mankind and over chaos, the unformed and void state.

6Saraqâêl, one of the holy angels, who is set over the spirits, who sin in the spirit.

Saraqael — the watching faculty set over the spirits that sin — one of the holy angels, who is set over the spirits who sin in the spirit, who err within their own breath of life.

7Gabriel, one of the holy angels, who is over Paradise and the serpents and the Cherubim.

Gabriel — “strength of God,” the strength-faculty — one of the holy angels, who is over Paradise, the garden-state of delight, and the serpents, the subtle sense-consciousness, and the Cherubim, the guarding faculties that keep the way to the Tree of Life.

8Remiel, one of the holy angels, whom God set over those who rise.

Remiel — the faculty set over the rising of states — one of the holy angels, whom the Source set over those who rise, over the resurrection of the buried divine states into newness of life.

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.