Egyptian-Hebrew stream·The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)·Book IV — Book of Dream Visions·Chapter 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.
Source context
- Theme
- Enoch's prayer of blessing and praise addressed to the Lord of lords before the coming judgment
- Soul-faculty
- Consciousness Soul
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Hebrew Psalmic traditionThe structure of direct doxological address to the divine sovereign, culminating in acknowledgment of cosmic lordship and impending judgment, shows cross-tradition congruence with the Psalms of Ascent and enthronement psalms of the Hebrew canon.
- Merkabah mysticismEnoch's visionary ascent-prayer directed toward the Lord of lords shows cross-tradition congruence with the throne-room liturgy of early Merkabah texts, in which the ascendant seer pronounces praise before the divine chariot-throne.
- Zoroastrian cosmological prayerThe eschatological framing of praise — blessing the creator in anticipation of a world-renovating judgment — shows cross-tradition congruence with Gathic hymns addressed to Ahura Mazda as sovereign of cosmic order and coming renewal.
Chapter LXXXIV
CHAPTER LXXXIV.
1And I lifted up my hands in righteousness and blessed the Holy and Great One, and spake with the breath of my mouth, and with the
tongue of flesh, which God has made for the children of the flesh of men, that they should speak therewith, and He gave them breath and a tongue and a mouth that they should speak therewith:
2'Blessed be Thou, O Lord, King,
Great and mighty in Thy greatness, Lord of the whole creation of the heaven, King of kings and God of the whole world. And Thy power and kingship and greatness abide for ever and ever, And throughout all generations Thy dominion; And all the heavens are Thy throne for ever, And the whole earth Thy footstool for ever and ever.
3For Thou hast made and Thou rulest all things,
And nothing is too hard for Thee, Wisdom departs not **from the place of Thy throne**, **Nor turns away** from Thy presence. And Thou knowest and seest and hearest everything, And there is nothing hidden from Thee [for Thou seest everything].
4And now the angels of Thy heavens are guilty of trespass,
And upon the flesh of men abideth Thy wrath until the great day of judgement.
5And now, O God and Lord and Great King,
I implore and beseech Thee to fulfil my prayer, To leave me a posterity on earth, And not destroy all the flesh of man, And make the earth without inhabitant, So that there should be an eternal destruction.
6And now, my Lord, destroy from the earth the flesh which has aroused Thy wrath,
But the flesh of righteousness and uprightness establish as a plant of the eternal seed, And hide not Thy face from the prayer of Thy servant, O Lord.'
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