Egyptian-Hebrew stream·The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)·Book II — Book of Parables (Similitudes)·Chapter LIX — The Lights and Lightnings
The judgments of the luminaries
Enoch sees the secrets of the lightnings and luminaries: how their judgment proceeds; how some are appointed for blessing and some for cursing according to the word of the Lord of Spirits.
Source context
- Theme
- cosmic lightning, thunder, and the meteorological secrets entrusted to angelic custodians
- Soul-faculty
- Sentient Soul
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Vedic tradition — Indra / ParjanyaCross-tradition congruence exists between Enoch LIX's angelic stewardship of lightning and thunder and the Vedic figures of Indra and Parjanya as divine administrators of storm forces, with both frameworks positing hierarchic spiritual beings as the functional causes behind meteorological phenomena.
- Mesopotamian cosmologyCross-tradition congruence appears with Babylonian texts in which storm-deities such as Adad are described as holding specific cosmic offices over thunder and lightning, structurally parallel to Enoch LIX's named angelic custodians assigned to those same forces.
Chapter LIX
LIX. The Lights and the Thunder.
CHAPTER LIX.
[1. In those days mine eyes saw the secrets of the lightnings, and of the lights, and the judgements they execute (lit. 'their judgement'): and they lighten for a blessing or a curse as the Lord of Spirits willeth. 2. And there I saw the secrets of the thunder, and how when it resounds above in the heaven, the sound thereof is heard, and he caused me to see the judgements executed on the earth, whether they be for well-being and blessing, or for a curse according to the word of the Lord of Spirits. 3. And after that all the secrets of the lights and lightnings were shown to me, and they lighten for blessing and for satisfying.]
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