The Book of Enoch 88

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 I saw one of those four who had come forth first, and he seized that first star which had fallen from the heaven, and bound it hand and foot and cast it into an abyss: now that abyss was narrow and deep, and horrible and dark.

And I saw one of those four who had come forth first, and he seized that first star which had fallen from the heaven, and bound it hand and foot and cast it into an abyss — the bound state in the subconscious deep, the prison appointed for faculties that transgressed their order: now that abyss was narrow and deep, and horrible and dark.

2And one of them drew a sword, and gave it to those elephants and camels and asses: then they began to smite each other, and the whole earth quaked because of them.

And one of them drew a sword — the cutting word of truth — and gave it to those elephants and camels and asses, the swollen offspring-states: then they began to smite each other, and the whole earth quaked because of them.

3And as I was beholding in the vision, lo, one of those four who had come forth stoned (them) from heaven, and gathered and took all the great stars whose privy members were like those of horses, and bound them all hand and foot, and cast them in an abyss of the earth.

And as I was beholding in the vision, lo, one of those four who had come forth stoned them from heaven — struck them down from the inner realm — and gathered and took all the great stars whose privy members were like those of horses — the great light-faculties whose generation was given to sense — and bound them all hand and foot, and cast them in an abyss of the earth — the bound state within the outer life, held unfruitful until the reckoning.

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.