Egyptian-Hebrew stream·The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)·Book II — Book of Parables (Similitudes)·Chapter LXII — Judgment of the Kings and the Mighty
Pain of a woman in travail
The kings, the mighty, the exalted shall behold the Son of Man on the throne of glory; pain shall seize them as the pain of a woman in travail. The righteous and the elect shall be saved; they shall eat with the Son of Man and rest forever.
Source context
- Theme
- Judgment of the mighty by the Son of Man and the eschatological reversal of earthly power
- Soul-faculty
- Consciousness Soul
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Daniel 7 (Hebrew Scripture)The enthronement and judicial authority of a 'Son of Man' figure in Daniel 7 presents a structural parallel to the Enochic Elect One seated in judgment, both employing heavenly-court imagery to frame the overthrow of earthly rulers.
- Zoroastrian eschatologyThe cross-tradition congruence with Zoroastrian Frashokereti lies in the motif of a final cosmic judgment where the powerful are humiliated and the righteous are vindicated through a divinely appointed agent.
- Orphic / Platonic judgment mythsPlato's eschatological myth in the Gorgias and Phaedo presents a structural parallel in which earthly status is stripped away at judgment, and the soul stands before divine adjudicators on the basis of inner moral condition alone.
Chapter LXII
LXII. Judgement of the Kings and the Mighty: Blessedness of the Righteous.
CHAPTER LXII.
1And thus the Lord commanded the kings and the mighty and the exalted, and those who dwell on the earth, and said: 'Open your eyes and lift up your horns if ye are able to recognize the Elect One.'
2And the Lord of Spirits seated him on the throne of His glory,
And the spirit of righteousness was poured out upon him, And the word of his mouth slays all the sinners, And all the unrighteous are destroyed from before his face.
3And there shall stand up in that day all the kings and the mighty,
And the exalted and those who hold the earth, And they shall see and recognize How he sits on the throne of his glory, And righteousness is judged before him, And no lying word is spoken before him.
4Then shall pain come upon them as on a woman in travail,
[And she has pain in bringing forth] When her child enters the mouth of the womb, And she has pain in bringing forth.
5And one portion of them shall look on the other,
And they shall be terrified, And they shall be downcast of countenance, And pain shall seize them, When they see that Son of Man Sitting on the throne of his glory.
6And the kings and the mighty and all who possess the earth shall bless and glorify and extol him who rules over all, who was hidden.
7For from the beginning the Son of Man was hidden,
And the Most High preserved him in the presence of His might, And revealed him to the elect.
8And the congregation of the elect and holy shall be sown,
And all the elect shall stand before him on that day.
9And all the kings and the mighty and the exalted and those who rule the earth
Shall fall down before him on their faces, And worship and set their hope upon that Son of Man, And petition him and supplicate for mercy at his hands.
10Nevertheless that Lord of Spirits will so press them
That they shall hastily go forth from His presence, And their faces shall be filled with shame, And the darkness grow deeper on their faces.
11And **He will deliver** them to the angels for punishment,
To execute vengeance on them because they have oppressed His children and His elect
12And they shall be a spectacle for the righteous and for His elect:
They shall rejoice over them, Because the wrath of the Lord of Spirits resteth upon them, And His sword is drunk with their blood.
13And the righteous and elect shall be saved on that day,
And they shall never thenceforward see the face of the sinners and unrighteous. p. 83
14And the Lord of Spirits will abide over them,
And with that Son of Man shall they eat And lie down and rise up for ever and ever.
15And the righteous and elect shall have risen from the earth,
And ceased to be of downcast countenance. And they shall have been clothed with garments of glory,
16And these shall be the garments of life from the Lord of Spirits:
And your garments shall not grow old, Nor your glory pass away before the Lord of Spirits.
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