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Laila'll love this one - but just for reference on the Nephilim in association with cannibalism and mating :
Book of Enoch (Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament) :
Chapter 7 states "And 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, made them acquainted with plants. And they become pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells: Who consumed all the aquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against them and devoured mankind. And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood. Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones."
And in regards more technological knowledge, chapter 8 states "And Azazel taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly sotnes, and all colouring tinctures. And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they were led astray, and became corrupt in their ways. Semjaza taught enchantments, and root-cuttings, 'Armaros the resolving of enchantments, Baraquijal [taught] astrology, Kokabel the constellations, Ezeqeel the knowledge of the clouds, Araquiel the signs of the earth, Shamsiel the signs of the sun, and Sariel the course of the moon. And as men perished, they cried, and their cry went up to heaven"
Furthermore, in chapter 9 we find the following exerpt : "'..Thou hast made all things, and power over all things hast Thou: and all things are naked and open in Thy sight, and Thou seest all things, and nothing can hide itself from Thee. Thou seest what Azazel hath done, who hath taught all unrighteousness on earth and revealed the eternal secrets which were [preserved] in heaven, which men were striving to learnve slept with the 9 women, and have defiled themselves, and revealed to them all kinds of sins." .... followed by "'And the woman have borne giants, and the whole earth has thereby been filled with blood and unrightousness'" ... and finally "'....Thou seest these things and Thou dost suffer them, and Thou dost not say to us what we are to do to them in regard to these.'"
...And then comes the deluge. They're referring to specific forms of knowledge ... I find that utterly fascinating. Naturally, this sort of thing must taken with many, many grains of salt.
And for the Sitchin fans, this particular chunk of Apocrypha is the source of the passage - "...And I looked and saw therin a lofty throne: its appearence was as crystal, and the wheels thereof as the shining sun, and there was the vision of cherubim. And from underneath the throne came streams of flaming fire so that I could not look thereon. And the Great Glory sat thereon, and His raiment shone more brightly than the sun and was whiter than any snow."
And of course, the Watchers are imprisoned here : "...And I saw a deep abyss, with columns of heavenly fire, and among them I saw a place which had no firmament of the heaven above, and no firmly founded earth beneath it: there was no water uopn it, and no bids, but it was a waste and a horrible place. I saw there seven stars like great burning mountains, and to me, when I inquired regarding them, The angel said: 'This place is the end of heaven and earth: this has become a prison for the stars and the host of heaven. And the stars which roll over the fire are they which have transgressed the commandment of the Lord in the beginning of their rising, because they did not come forth at their appointed times. And He was wroth with them, and bound them till the time when their guild should be consummated for ten thousand years.'" ... And in the next chapter, "...This place is the prison of the angels, and here they will be imprisoned for ever.". Absolutely contradictory, no?
But nonetheless, fascinating in compare to The Hypostatis of the Archons :
"...And Zoe (Life), the daughter of Pistis Sophia, cried out and said to him 'You are mistaken, Sakla!' - for which the alternative name is Yaldabaoth. She breathed into his face, and her breath became a fiety angel for her, and that angel bound Yaldabaoth and cast him down into Tartoros below the abyss."
Hmm. Naturally, correlations between Old Testament Apocrypha and Gnostic pieces are hardly surprising, but it's hard not to be fascinated by this stuff.
Hmm.
Not that I claim to know what it means, or anything.
"...Now when these [events] had come to pass, he [Sabaoth] made himself a huge four-faced chariot of cherubim, and infinitely many angels to act as ministers, and also harps and lyres." I'll stop now ... This is getting non-sensical.
I guess I'm trying to establish a 'Who's-Who of Antediluvian Mythology', or something.
[ 27-07-2001: Message edited by: Frances ] |
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