Egyptian-Hebrew stream·The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)·Book II — Book of Parables (Similitudes)·Chapter LIII — The Valley of Judgment
The kings and the mighty cast in
A deep valley filled with all kinds of gifts is shown to Enoch; the kings of the earth and the mighty bring gifts but find no escape. The angels of punishment prepare the instruments of Satan.
Source context
- Theme
- valley of the elect, instruments of judgment, and the concealment of the Son of Man before the angelic hosts
- Soul-faculty
- Consciousness Soul
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Jewish apocalyptic — Danielic traditionThe imagery of a hidden, pre-existent judge-figure revealed at the end of days parallels the Danielic 'one like a son of man' (Daniel 7:13–14), situating 1 Enoch 53 within a recognisable strand of Second Temple eschatological expectation.
- Zoroastrian eschatologyThe preparation of instruments of punishment for angelic transgressors shows cross-tradition congruence with Zoroastrian cosmology's ordered separation of righteous and wicked souls presided over by a divine judge at the end of an aeon.
Chapter LIII
LIII. LVI. 6. The Valley of Judgement: the Angels of Punishment: the Communities of the Elect One.
CHAPTER LIII.
1There mine eyes saw a deep valley with open mouths, and all who dwell on the earth and sea and islands shall bring to him gifts and presents and tokens of homage, but that deep valley shall not become full.
2And their hands commit lawless deeds,
And the sinners devour all whom they lawlessly **oppress**: Yet the sinners shall be destroyed before the face of the Lord of Spirits, And they shall be banished from off the face of His earth, And they shall perish for ever and ever.
3For I saw all the angels of punishment abiding (there) and preparing all the instruments of Satan. 4. And I asked the angel of peace who went with me: 'For whom are they preparing these instruments?' 5. And he said unto me: 'They prepare these for the kings and the mighty of this earth, that they may thereby be destroyed.
6And after this the Righteous and Elect One shall cause the house of his congregation to appear: henceforth they shall be no more hindered in the name of the Lord of Spirits.
7And these mountains shall not stand as the earth before his righteousness,
But the hills shall be as a fountain of water, And the righteous shall have rest from the oppression of sinners.'
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