Egyptian-Hebrew stream·The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)·Book I — Book of the Watchers·Chapter XXIII — The Fire of the Luminaries
Fire that runs after the luminaries
Toward the west of the ends of the earth Enoch sees a fire that runs continuously and never rests, pursuing the heavenly luminaries through their courses.
Source context
- Theme
- vision of the repositories of souls of the dead and the luminaries governing their fate
- Soul-faculty
- Consciousness Soul
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Egyptian funerary traditionThe Duat's structured chambers housing categorized souls awaiting judgment offers cross-tradition congruence with Enoch's vision of differentiated post-mortem abodes governed by angelic custodians.
- Platonic eschatologyPlato's account in the Phaedo and Republic of regions where souls dwell between incarnations according to their moral quality exhibits cross-tradition congruence with Chapter XXIII's differentiated soul-repositories.
- Zoroastrian cosmologyThe Avestan teaching of the Chinvat Bridge and differentiated post-mortem realms governed by cosmic law exhibits cross-tradition congruence with this chapter's structured angelically-administered repositories of the dead.
Chapter XXIII
XXIII. The Fire that deals with the Luminaries of Heaven.
CHAPTER XXIII.
1From thence I went to another place to the west of the ends of the earth. 2. And I saw a ⌈⌈burning⌉⌉ fire which ran without resting, and paused not from its course day or night but (ran) regularly. 3. And I asked saying: 'What is this which rests not?' 4. Then Raguel, one of the holy angels who was with me, answered me ⌈⌈and said unto me⌉⌉: 'This course ⌈of fire⌉ ⌈⌈which thou hast seen⌉⌉ is the fire in the west which †persecutes† all the luminaries of heaven.'
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