Egyptian-Hebrew stream·The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)·Book II — Book of Parables (Similitudes)·Chapter LXVIII — Michael and Raphael Astonished
At the severity of judgment
Michael speaks with Raphael; both are astonished at the severity of the judgment against the Watchers — that they had to be hidden away in fetters before the great day, but that none of the angels can endure the wrath of the Lord of Spirits.
Source context
- Theme
- Michael's praise of the Lord of Spirits and the concealment of angelic secrets from the condemned Watchers
- Soul-faculty
- Consciousness Soul
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Jewish merkabah mysticismThe motif of angelic praise ascending before the divine throne and the withholding of celestial mysteries from fallen beings parallels the structure of hekhalot literature, where access to divine chambers is strictly conditioned on purity and standing.
- Zoroastrian angelologyThe hierarchy of praising angelic beings surrounding a supreme divine figure and the categorical exclusion of corrupted spirits from heavenly counsel shows cross-tradition congruence with Avestan descriptions of Ahura Mazda's Amesha Spentas and their opposition to the daeva-host.
Chapter LXVIII
LXVIII. Michael and Raphael astonished at the Severity of the Judgement.
CHAPTER LXVIII.
1And after that my grandfather Enoch gave me the teaching of all the secrets in the book in the Parables which had been given to him, and he put them together for me in the words of the book of the Parables. 2. And on that day Michael answered Raphael and said: 'The power of the spirit transports and **makes me to tremble** because of the severity of the judgement of the secrets, the judgement of the angels: who can endure the severe judgement which has been executed, and before which they melt away?' 3. And Michael answered again, and said to Raphael: 'Who is he whose heart is not softened concerning it, and whose reins are not troubled by this word of judgement (that) has gone forth upon them because of those who have thus led them out?' 4. And it came to pass when he stood before the Lord of Spirits, Michael said thus to Raphael: 'I will not
take their part under the eye of the Lord; for the Lord of Spirits has been angry with them because they do as if they were the Lord. Therefore all that is hidden shall come upon them for ever and ever; for neither angel nor man shall have his portion (in it), but alone they have received their judgement for ever and ever.'
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