Egyptian-Hebrew stream·The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)·Book II — Book of Parables (Similitudes)·Chapter LXX — The Translation of Enoch
Lifted aloft on chariots of the spirit
The name of the Son of Man was lifted aloft to the Lord of Spirits, beyond the dwellings of the righteous. Enoch is translated from earth on chariots of the spirit; his name vanishes among them.
Source context
- Theme
- Translation of Enoch — bodily ascent and transformation of the patriarch into an angelic being
- Soul-faculty
- Consciousness Soul
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Hebrew biblical tradition (Genesis 5:24)The Genesis account of Enoch being 'taken by God' provides the narrative seed from which the Similitudes' elaborated ascent-and-transformation motif grows.
- Merkabah mysticismEarly Jewish throne-mysticism traditions treat the ascent of a seer and his transformation into a luminous angelic figure as a structural parallel to Enoch's final translation in this chapter.
- Egyptian initiatic traditionCross-tradition congruence appears in Egyptian funerary texts where the deceased's identity is merged with Osiris, structurally parallel to the Enochic patriarch's absorption into a celestial rank.
Chapter LXX
LXX. The Final Translation of Enoch.
CHAPTER LXX.
1And it came to pass after this that his name during his lifetime was raised aloft to that Son of Man and to the Lord of Spirits from amongst those who dwell on the earth. 2. And he was raised aloft on the chariots of the spirit and his name vanished among them. 3. And from that day I was no longer numbered amongst them: and he set me between the two winds, between the North and the West, where the angels took the cords to measure for me the place for the elect and righteous. 4. And there
I saw the first fathers and the righteous who from the beginning dwell in that place.
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