Egyptian-Hebrew stream·The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)·Book I — Book of the Watchers·Chapter XIX — The Spirits of the Watchers
Uriel explains the place of mingling
Uriel shows Enoch where the spirits of the angels who took wives stand; how their wives became sirens; and how their judgment is appointed. Enoch, alone among men, has seen what no one else has seen.
Source context
- Theme
- Uriel's disclosure to Enoch: the spirits of the angels who led humans astray, their wives transformed into sirens, and the pending judgment awaiting those who erred
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Zoroastrian demonologyThe assignment of distinct spiritual beings to categories of transgression and their binding until eschatological judgment shows cross-tradition congruence with Zoroastrian daeva-cosmology, where rebellious spiritual powers are segregated from the righteous order and await final defeat.
- Greek mythology — SirensThe transformation of the watchers' wives into sirens maps onto Greek mythological figures whose hybrid, alluring nature signals a corrupted intermediary state between human and spirit, exhibiting cross-tradition congruence in the motif of transgressed cosmic boundaries producing monstrous hybrid forms.
- Islamic angelology (fallen jinn)The Quranic and post-Quranic treatment of fallen jinn who led humanity astray and are detained pending eschatological reckoning shows cross-tradition congruence with Chapter XIX's picture of bound transgressive spirits awaiting final judgment.
Chapter XIX
CHAPTER XIX.
1And Uriel said to me: 'Here shall stand the angels who have connected themselves with women, and their spirits assuming many different forms are defiling mankind and shall lead them astray
into sacrificing to demons ⌈⌈as gods⌉⌉, (here shall they stand,) till ⌈⌈the day of⌉⌉ the great judgement in which they shall be judged till they are made an end of. 2. And the women also of the angels who went astray shall become sirens.' 3. And I, Enoch, alone saw the vision, the ends of all things: and no man shall see as I have seen.
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