The Book of Enoch 7

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 all the others together with them took unto themselves wives, and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them, and they taught them charms and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants.

And all the others together with them took unto themselves wives — joined themselves to the affections — and each chose for himself one, and they began to go in unto them and to defile themselves with them; and they taught them charms and enchantments — the binding arts of error, the fascination of sense — and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants.

2And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells:

And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants — the swollen offspring-states begotten when vigilance couples with sense, faculties grown monstrous and out of measure — whose height was three thousand ells.

3Who consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them,

Who consumed all the acquisitions of men — all the increase the human states had gathered. And when men could no longer sustain them,

4the giants turned against them and devoured mankind.

the giants — those swollen offspring-states — turned against them and devoured mankind.

5And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood.

And they began to sin against birds — the soaring thoughts — and beasts — the untamed animal nature — and reptiles — the lowly thoughts that move close to the ground of sense — and fish — the knowledges of the deep — and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood, the life-stream of the state.

6Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones.

Then the earth — the outer life itself — laid accusation against the lawless ones, the states that had cast off the order.

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.