Egyptian-Hebrew stream·The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)·Book II — Book of Parables (Similitudes)·Chapter XLVII — The Prayer of the Righteous
Their blood ascending to the Lord of Spirits
The prayer of the righteous and the blood of the righteous ascend to the Lord of Spirits. The Head of Days seated upon the throne of glory; the books of the living opened before him; the heavens rejoice that the righteous have been heard.
Source context
- Theme
- prayer of the holy ones, the blood of the righteous, and the petitioning of heavenly hosts before the Lord of Spirits for eschatological judgment
- Soul-faculty
- Consciousness Soul
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Jewish apocalyptic and liturgical traditionThe motif of angelic intercession carrying the prayers and blood-cry of the righteous before the divine throne has structural parallels in the Merkabah literature and in synagogal piyyutim, where the heavenly court serves as mediating tribunal for earthly supplication.
- Zoroastrian eschatologyThe accumulation of righteous deeds recorded before a cosmic judge and the consequent triggering of a final reckoning shows cross-tradition congruence with Zoroastrian accounts of the heavenly Book of Deeds reviewed at the Chinvat Bridge.
- Platonic cosmologyThe image of a pre-existent heavenly record in which the days of the world are numbered before they unfold in time shows cross-tradition congruence with the Platonic doctrine of eternal archetypes preceding temporal instantiation.
Chapter XLVII
XLVII. The Prayer of the Righteous for Vengeance and their Joy at its coming.
CHAPTER XLVII.
1And in those days shall have ascended the prayer of the righteous,
And the blood of the righteous from the earth before the Lord of Spirits.
2In those days the holy ones who dwell above in the heavens
Shall unite with one voice And supplicate and pray [and praise, And give thanks and bless the name of the Lord of Spirits] On behalf of the blood of the righteous which has been shed, And that the prayer of the righteous may not be in vain before the Lord of Spirits, That judgement may be done unto them, And that they may not have to suffer for ever.
3In those days I saw the Head of Days when He seated himself upon the throne of His glory,
And the books of the living were opened before Him: And all His host which is in heaven above and His counselors stood before Him,
4And the hearts of the holy were filled with joy;
Because the number of the righteous **had been offered**, And the prayer of the righteous had been heard, And the blood of the righteous been required before the Lord of Spirits.
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