The Book of Enoch 40

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 after that I saw thousands of thousands and ten thousand times ten thousand, I saw a multitude beyond number and reckoning, who stood before the Lord of Spirits.

And after that I saw thousands of thousands and ten thousand times ten thousand — a multitude beyond number and reckoning — who stood before the indwelling LORD of Spirits (the Source as sovereign of every spirit-state).

2And on the four sides of the Lord of Spirits I saw four presences, different from those that sleep not, and I learnt their names: for the angel that went with me made known to me their names, and showed me all the hidden things.

And on the four sides of the indwelling LORD of Spirits I saw four presences, different from those that sleep not, and I learnt their names: for the angel — the divine idea that went with me — made known to me their names, and showed me all the hidden things.

3And I heard the voices of those four presences as they uttered praises before the Lord of glory.

And I heard the voices of those four presences as they uttered praises before the Lord of glory — the Lord of the manifested Presence.

4The first voice blesses the Lord of Spirits for ever and ever.

The first voice blesses the indwelling LORD of Spirits for ever and ever.

5And the second voice I heard blessing the Elect One and the elect ones who hang upon the Lord of Spirits.

And the second voice I heard blessing the Elect One — the Anointed pattern enthroned — and the elect ones who hang wholly upon the indwelling LORD of Spirits.

6And the third voice I heard pray and intercede for those who dwell on the earth and supplicate in the name of the Lord of Spirits.

And the third voice I heard pray and intercede for those who dwell in the outer life and supplicate in the name of the indwelling LORD of Spirits.

7And I heard the fourth voice fending off the Satans and forbidding them to come before the Lord of Spirits to accuse them who dwell on the earth.

And I heard the fourth voice fending off the Satans — the adversarial accuser-voices within consciousness — and forbidding them to come before the indwelling LORD of Spirits to accuse them who dwell in the outer life.

8After that I asked the angel of peace who went with me, who showed me everything that is hidden: 'Who are these four presences which I have seen and whose words I have heard and written down?'

After that I asked the angel of peace — the divine idea of rest within the order — who went with me, who showed me everything that is hidden: 'Who are these four presences which I have seen and whose words I have heard and written down?'

9And he said to me: 'This first is Michael, the merciful and long-suffering: and the second, who is set over all the diseases and all the wounds of the children of men, is Raphael: and the third, who is set over all the powers, is Gabriel: and the fourth, who is set over the repentance unto hope of those who inherit eternal life, is named Phanuel.'

And he said to me: 'This first is Michael — "who is like God?" — the champion faculty, merciful and long-suffering: and the second, who is set over all the diseases and all the wounds of the children of men — every disordered and injured state — is Raphael, the healing faculty: and the third, who is set over all the powers, is Gabriel, the strength-faculty: and the fourth, who is set over the repentance — the turning of the mind — unto hope of those who inherit eternal life, is named Phanuel, the faculty of the Face of God.'

10And these are the four angels of the Lord of Spirits and the four voices I heard in those days.

And these are the four angels — the four chief divine ideas — of the indwelling LORD of Spirits, and the four voices I heard in those days.

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.