The Book of Enoch 22

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 thence I went to another place, and he showed me in the west ⌜another⌝ great and high mountain [and] of hard rock.

And from there I went to another place, and he showed me in the west a great and high mountain — an exalted state — of hard rock.

2And there was in it †four† hollow places, deep and wide and very smooth. †How† smooth are the hollow places and deep and dark to look at.

And there were in it four hollow places — separated holding-chambers in consciousness — deep and wide and very smooth; how smooth are the hollow places, and deep and dark to look at.

3Then Raphael answered, one of the holy angels who was with me, and said unto me: ‘These hollow places have been created for this very purpose, that the spirits of the souls of the dead should assemble therein, yea that all the souls of the children of men should assemble here.

Then Raphael — the healing faculty, guide of the spirits of men — one of the holy divine ideas who was with me, answered and said unto me: These hollow places have been created for this very purpose, that the spirits of the souls of the dead — states asleep in death — should assemble therein, yea, that all the souls of the children of men should assemble here.

4And these places have been made to receive them till the day of their judgement and till their appointed period [till the period appointed], till the great judgement (comes) upon them.’

And these places have been made to receive them till the day of their judgment and till their appointed period, till the great judgment — the divine order confronting these states all at once — comes upon them.

5I saw the spirits of the children of men who were dead, and their voice went forth to heaven and made suit.

I saw the spirits of the children of men who were dead, and their voice went forth to the inner realm and made suit — cried out in plea for justice to be done.

6Then I asked Raphael the angel who was with me, and I said unto him: ‘This spirit—whose is it whose voice goeth forth and maketh suit?’

Then I asked Raphael, the divine idea who was with me, and I said unto him: This spirit — whose is it, whose voice goes forth and makes suit?

7And he answered me saying: ‘This is the spirit which went forth from Abel, whom his brother Cain slew, and he makes his suit against him till his seed is destroyed from the face of the earth, and his seed is annihilated from amongst the seed of men.’

And he answered me, saying: This is the spirit which went forth from Abel — the shepherd-heart — whom his brother Cain — the first claim of the sense-mind — slew; and he makes his suit against him till his seed, his offspring-states, is destroyed from the face of the outer life, and his seed is annihilated from amongst the seed of men.

8Then I asked regarding it, and regarding all the hollow places: ‘Why is one separated from the other?’

Then I asked regarding it, and regarding all the hollow places: Why is one separated from the other?

9And he answered me and said unto me: ‘These three have been made that the spirits of the dead might be separated. And such a division has been made ‹for› the spirits of the righteous, in which there is the bright spring of water.

And he answered me and said unto me: These three have been made that the spirits of the dead might be separated. And such a division has been made for the spirits of the righteous — the right-ordered states — in which there is the bright spring of water, living truth rising clear.

10And such has been made for sinners when they die and are buried in the earth and judgement has not been executed on them in their lifetime.

And such has been made for sinners — states acting apart from the divine order — when they die and are buried in the outer life, and judgment has not been executed on them in their lifetime.

11Here their spirits shall be set apart in this great pain till the great day of judgement and punishment and torment of those who †curse† for ever, and retribution for their spirits. There He shall bind them for ever.

Here their spirits shall be set apart in this great pain till the great day of judgment and punishment and torment of those who curse for the lasting age, and retribution for their spirits. There He shall bind them for the lasting duration of their consequence.

12And such a division has been made for the spirits of those who make their suit, who make disclosures concerning their destruction, when they were slain in the days of the sinners.

And such a division has been made for the spirits of those who make their suit — who plead and make disclosure concerning their destruction, when they were slain in the days of the sinners, the error-bound states.

13Such has been made for the spirits of men who were not righteous but sinners, who were complete in transgression, and of the transgressors they shall be companions: but their spirits shall not be slain in the day of judgement nor shall they be raised from thence.’

Such has been made for the spirits of men who were not right-ordered but error-bound, who were complete in transgression, and of the transgressors they shall be companions; but their spirits shall not be slain in the day of judgment, nor shall they be raised from there.

14Then I blessed the Lord of glory and said: ‘Blessed be my Lord, the Lord of righteousness who ruleth for ever.’

Then I blessed the Lord of glory and said: Blessed be my Lord, the Lord of righteousness — the indwelling LORD in right relation to the divine order — who rules for ever.

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.