Egyptian-Hebrew stream·The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)·Book II — Book of Parables (Similitudes)·Chapter LVII — The Return of the Dispersion
A host of wagons from east and west
Enoch beholds a host of wagons coming from the east and the west — the return of the dispersion of Israel; the foundations of the earth tremble; the pillars of heaven are moved.
Source context
- Theme
- departure of the righteous and holy from the earth, and the gathering of angels over their dwelling-places
- Soul-faculty
- Consciousness Soul
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Jewish apocalyptic traditionThe motif of the righteous being escorted by angelic hosts at the end-time parallels themes in the Dead Sea Scrolls War Scroll and 4 Ezra, where the separation of the elect from earthly habitation is administered by angelic orders.
- Zoroastrian eschatologyThe concept of a final gathering of the pure souls under celestial guardians shows cross-tradition congruence with the Zoroastrian fravashs — protective spirit-essences that escort the righteous at the renovation of existence.
Chapter LVII
LVII. The Return from the Dispersion.
CHAPTER LVII.
1And it came to pass after this that I saw another host of wagons, and men riding thereon, and coming on the winds from the east, and from the west to the south. 2. And the noise of their wagons was heard, and when this turmoil took place the holy ones from heaven remarked it, and the pillars of the earth were moved from their place, and the sound thereof was heard from the one end of heaven to the other, in one day. 3. And they shall all fall down and worship the Lord of Spirits. And this is the end of the second Parable.
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