Egyptian-Hebrew stream·The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)·Book IV — Book of Dream Visions·Chapter 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.
Source context
- Theme
- angelic punishment of the fallen Watchers and binding of their shepherd-stars
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Mesopotamian cosmologyCross-tradition congruence appears in Babylonian traditions of bound astral demons and heavenly wardens tasked with enforcing cosmic order against transgressing divine beings.
- Zoroastrian angelologyCross-tradition congruence appears in the Avestan figure of Angra Mainyu's bound followers, whose imprisonment by Ahura Mazda's emissaries structurally parallels the chaining of the Watchers' shepherd-stars by Michael and Raphael.
- Platonic cosmologyCross-tradition congruence appears in Plato's Phaedrus and Timaeus, where souls that violate cosmic law are bound to inferior spheres under the governance of demiurgic intermediaries.
Chapter LXXXVIII
LXXXVIII. The Punishment of the Fallen Angels by the Archangels.
CHAPTER LXXXVIII.
1And I saw one of those four who had come forth first, and he seized that first star which had fallen from the heaven, and bound it hand and
foot and cast it into an abyss: now that abyss was narrow and deep, and horrible and dark. 2. And one of them drew a sword, and gave it to those elephants and camels and asses: then they began to smite each other, and the whole earth quaked because of them. 3. And as I was beholding in the vision, lo, one of those four who had come forth stoned (them) from heaven, and gathered and took all the great stars whose privy members were like those of horses, and bound them all hand and foot, and cast them in an abyss of the earth.
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