The Book of Enoch 85

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 this I saw another dream, and I will show the whole dream to thee, my son.

And after this I saw another dream — a message of the deeper mind, truth shown in symbol while consciousness rests — and I will show the whole dream to thee, my son.

2And Enoch lifted up (his voice) and spake to his son Methuselah: 'To thee, my son, will I speak: hear my words--incline thine ear to the dream-vision of thy father.

And Enoch lifted up his voice and spake to his son Methuselah — the preserving faculty: 'To thee, my son, will I speak: hear my words — incline thine ear to the dream-vision of thy father.'

3Before I took thy mother Edna, I saw in a vision on my bed, and behold a bull came forth from the earth, and that bull was white; and after it came forth a heifer, and along with this (latter) came forth two bulls, one of them black and the other red.

Before I took thy mother Edna, I saw in a vision on my bed, and behold a bull came forth from the earth — a ruling power-state rising in the outer life: Adam, the Complete Man in his first state — and that bull was white, in the purity of the unfallen order; and after it came forth a heifer — Eve, the affectional nature through which every state is born — and along with this latter came forth two bulls, one of them black and the other red.

4And that black bull gored the red one and pursued him over the earth, and thereupon I could no longer see that red bull.

And that black bull — Cain, the first claim of the sense-mind — gored the red one — Abel, the shepherd-heart in the life of sense — and pursued him over the earth, and thereupon I could no longer see that red bull.

5But that black bull grew and that heifer went with him, and I saw that many oxen proceeded from him which resembled and followed him.

But that black bull grew, and that heifer went with him, and I saw that many oxen — many serving powers and tamed affections — proceeded from him, which resembled and followed him.

6And that cow, that first one, went from the presence of that first bull in order to seek that red one, but found him not, and lamented with a great lamentation over him and sought him.

And that cow, that first one — the mother-affection — went from the presence of that first bull in order to seek that red one, but found him not, and lamented with a great lamentation over him and sought him.

7And I looked till that first bull came to her and quieted her, and from that time onward she cried no more.

And I looked till that first bull came to her and quieted her, and from that time onward she cried no more.

8And after that she bore another white bull, and after him she bore many bulls and black cows.

And after that she bore another white bull — Seth, the appointed seed, a new state granted to replace what was lost — and after him she bore many bulls and black cows, ruling states and sense-darkened affections in the multiplying line.

9And I saw in my sleep that white bull likewise grow and become a great white bull, and from Him proceeded many white bulls, and they resembled him. And they began to beget many white bulls, which resembled them, one following the other, (even) many.

And I saw in my sleep that white bull likewise grow and become a great white bull — Noah, rest, the still point of consciousness that rests in God — and from him proceeded many white bulls, and they resembled him. And they began to beget many white bulls, which resembled them, one following the other, even many.

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.