Egyptian-Hebrew stream·The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)·Book III — Astronomical Book·Chapter LXXX — The Last Days' Disruption
In the days of the sinners, the courses of heaven shall change
In the days of the sinners the rains will be withheld; the moon will change her order; the stars will alter their appearance and not be seen in their proper seasons. Many heads of stars will transgress the commandment — apostasy in heaven as on earth.
Source context
- Theme
- disruption of celestial order and the darkening of luminaries as signs of cosmic disturbance
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Hebrew prophetic literatureCross-tradition congruence exists between Chapter LXXX's portrayal of disordered sun, moon, and stars as harbingers of judgment and the prophetic imagery in Isaiah and Joel, where the darkening of luminaries signals eschatological disruption.
- Babylonian astronomical omens (Enuma Anu Enlil)Cross-tradition congruence exists between Enoch LXXX's listing of corrupted celestial cycles and the Babylonian omen-corpus, which interpreted anomalous planetary and lunar behaviour as indicators of disorder in cosmic-divine governance.
- Egyptian stellar religionCross-tradition congruence exists between Chapter LXXX's concern with the failure of proper luminous functioning and Egyptian texts treating the cessation of solar order (Maat) as the supreme catastrophe threatening both cosmos and humanity.
Chapter LXXX
CHAPTER LXXX.
1And in those days the angel Uriel answered and said to me: 'Behold, I have shown thee everything, Enoch, and I have revealed everything to thee that thou shouldst see this sun and this moon, and the leaders of the stars of the heaven and all those who turn them, their tasks and times and departures.
LXXX. 2-8. *Perversion of Nature and the heavenly Bodies owning to the Sin of Men*.
2And in the days of the sinners the years shall be shortened,
And their seed shall be tardy on their lands and fields, And all things on the earth shall alter, p. 107 And shall not appear in their time: And the rain shall be kept back And the heaven shall withhold (it).
3And in those times the fruits of the earth shall be backward,
And shall not grow in their time, And the fruits of the trees shall be withheld in their time.
4And the moon shall alter her order,
And not appear at her time.
5[And in those days the **sun** shall be seen and he shall journey in the **evening** †on the extremity of the great chariot† in the west]
And shall shine more brightly than accords with the order of light.
6And many chiefs of the stars shall transgress the order (prescribed).
And these shall alter their orbits and tasks, And not appear at the seasons prescribed to them.
7And the whole order of the stars shall be concealed from the sinners,
And the thoughts of those on the earth shall err concerning them, [And they shall be altered from all their ways], Yea, they shall err and take them to be gods.
8And evil shall be multiplied upon them,
And punishment shall come upon them So as to destroy all.'
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