The Book of Enoch 30

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)

1.And beyond these, I went afar to the east, and I saw another place, a valley (full) of water.

And beyond these I went far toward the east, and I saw another place: a valley — a low, humbled state — full of water, of unformed thought and feeling.

2And ⌈therein there was⌉ a tree, the colour (?) of fragrant trees such as the mastic.

And in it there was a tree — an established belief — fragrant as the mastic, a sweet-influencing belief in the low state.

3And on the sides of those valleys I saw fragrant cinnamon. And beyond these I proceeded to the east.

And on the sides of those low states I saw fragrant cinnamon — a sweet-influencing belief — and beyond these I proceeded toward the east.

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.