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The Book of Enoch 28

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 ⌈⌈towards the east⌉⌉, into the midst ⌈⌈of the mountain range of the desert⌉⌉, and I saw a wilderness and it was solitary, full of trees and plants.

And from there I went toward the east, into the midst of the exalted states of the waste-state, and I saw a wilderness — the untended waste-state of consciousness — solitary, full of trees, established beliefs, and tender plants, the first tender thoughts of truth.

2⌈⌈And⌉⌉ water gushed forth from above.

And spiritual truth gushed forth from above, from the waters held in the higher mind.

3Rushing like a copious watercourse [which flowed] towards the north-west it caused clouds and dew to ascend on every side.

Rushing like an abundant current of life toward the north-west, it caused clouds, gathered veiling thoughts, and dew, the gentle settling of truth, to ascend on every side.

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.