The Book of Enoch 86

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 again I saw with mine eyes as I slept, and I saw the heaven above, and behold a star fell from heaven, and it arose and eat and pastured amongst those oxen.

And again I saw with mine eyes as I slept, and I saw the heaven above — the inner realm — and behold a star fell from heaven — a light-faculty, a fixed knowledge of truth, fallen from its station — and it arose and ate and pastured amongst those oxen, the serving powers of the natural line.

2And after that I saw the large and the black oxen, and behold they all changed their stalls and pastures and their cattle, and began to live with each other.

And after that I saw the large and the black oxen, and behold they all changed their stalls and pastures and their cattle, and began to live with each other — state mingling with state outside its appointed order.

3And again I saw in the vision, and looked towards the heaven, and behold I saw many stars descend and cast themselves down from heaven to that first star, and they became bulls amongst those cattle and pastured with them ⌈amongst them⌉.

And again I saw in the vision, and looked towards the heaven, and behold I saw many stars descend and cast themselves down from heaven to that first star — more light-faculties abandoning their stations — and they became bulls amongst those cattle and pastured with them amongst them.

4And I looked at them and saw, and behold they all let out their privy members, like horses, and began to cover the cows of the oxen, and they all became pregnant and bare elephants, camels, and asses.

And I looked at them and saw, and behold they all let out their privy members, like horses — their generative power wholly given to sense — and began to cover the cows of the oxen, and they all became pregnant and bare elephants, camels, and asses — the swollen offspring-states, the giants in their grades: monstrous faculties begotten when vigilance couples with sense.

5And all the oxen feared them and were affrighted at them, and began to bite with their teeth and to devour, and to gore with their horns.

And all the oxen feared them and were affrighted at them, and began to bite with their teeth and to devour, and to gore with their horns.

6And they began, moreover, to devour those oxen; and behold all the children of the earth began to tremble and quake before them and to flee from them.

And they began, moreover, to devour those oxen; and behold all the children of the earth — all the states born into the outer life — began to tremble and quake before them and to flee from them.

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.