Book IV — Book of Dream Visions
Source context· Egyptian-Hebrew stream · Egypto-Chaldean cultural impulse
- Stream
- Egyptian-Hebrew
- Cultural impulse
- Egypto-Chaldean (3rd post-Atlantean cultural age)
- Composed
- c. 200 BCE
- Written down
- Greco-Latin (4th post-Atlantean cultural age) manuscript epoch
- 1Chapter LXXXIII — Enoch's First Dream — The deluge foretold
Opens the Book of Dream Visions. Enoch's first dream-vision, seen before he took a wife: he sees heaven cast down upon the earth, the earth swallowed up by a great abyss, the mountains hanging on mountains — the coming deluge.
455 words - 2Chapter LXXXIV — Enoch's Prayer — That a remnant might remain
Enoch awakens trembling and prays that the Most High preserve some flesh of the children of men — that he not destroy all flesh nor leave the earth without inhabitant. Mahalalel his grandfather had counseled him to pray.
306 words - 3Chapter LXXXV — The Second Dream: the White Bull — The Animal Apocalypse begins
Enoch begins the great Animal Apocalypse. He sees a white bull (Adam) coming forth from the earth; a female heifer (Eve) with him; two bulls — one black (Cain), one red (Abel). The black bull gores the red and the red disappears.
303 words - 4Chapter LXXXVI — The Fallen Stars and the Elephants — Stars falling from heaven; mating with cows
Enoch beholds a star fall from heaven, and after it many stars; they descend to the cattle and become bulls that mate with the cows. The cows bring forth elephants, camels, and asses (the giants). The cattle are filled with fear.
221 words - 5Chapter LXXXVII — The Coming of the Seven — Seven white ones descending from heaven
Enoch sees seven white ones (the archangels) descending from heaven who seize the first star — Azâzêl. They lead him into the depth. One of them takes Enoch up by the hand to the high place to behold what happens.
154 words - 6Chapter LXXXVIII — The Stars Bound — The fallen stars cast into the abyss
The first of the seven angels casts the fallen stars and the bulls of mixed origin into the abyss; the second pours upon them a sword that they may slay each other. The earth is cleansed in preparation for what is to come.
151 words - 7Chapter LXXXIX — From the Flood to the Exile — The white bull Noah; the sheep of Israel; the seventy shepherds begin
The history of Israel told through animal symbols: Noah as a white bull becoming a man and building the ark; Abraham and the patriarchs as white bulls; Israel as sheep going down into Egypt; Moses leading them out; the wandering and the entry into the land; the kingdom and the exile. Toward the end the sheep are handed over to seventy shepherds.
3,011 words - 8Chapter XC — The Seventy Shepherds; the New Temple — Climax of the Animal Apocalypse
The seventy shepherds (angelic overseers of Israel's exile) destroy more sheep than commanded — their record is kept by another angel. The lambs (Maccabeans) grow horns; the great horn (the Messiah) appears. The Lord of the sheep arrives in wrath; the apostate sheep and the shepherds are judged; the old house (the Temple) is set aside; a new house (the messianic temple) is built; all the beasts and birds gather and become white bulls — the first of these a great white bull with great horns (the Messiah). The vision closes.
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