Egyptian-Hebrew stream·The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)·Book IV — Book of Dream Visions·Chapter 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.
Source context
- Theme
- descent of divine beings into human form during a period of cosmic crisis
- Soul-faculty
- Sentient Soul
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Cross-tradition
- Vedic / Hindu traditionCross-tradition congruence exists with the concept of avatara — divine beings taking embodied form to intervene in a fallen cosmic age — as elaborated in the Bhagavata Purana and Mahabharata.
- Zoroastrian traditionCross-tradition congruence appears with the Zoroastrian teaching of the Fravashis, pre-cosmic spirit-beings who descend into material existence to aid in the cosmic struggle against Angra Mainyu.
Chapter LXXXVII
LXXXVII. The Advent of the Seven Archangels.
CHAPTER LXXXVII.
1And again I saw how they began to gore each other and to devour each other, and the earth began to cry aloud. 2. And I raised mine eyes again to heaven, and I saw in the vision, and behold there came forth from heaven beings who were like white men: and four went forth from that place and three with them. 3. And those three that had last come forth grasped me by my hand and took me up, away from the generations of the earth, and raised me up to a lofty place, and showed me a tower raised high above the earth, and all the hills were lower. 4. And one said unto me: 'Remain here till thou seest everything that befalls those elephants, camels, and asses, and the stars and the oxen, and all of them.'
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