Egyptian-Hebrew stream·The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)·Book I — Book of the Watchers·Chapter XXIV — The Seven Mountains and the Tree of Life
The fragrant tree reserved for the righteous
Enoch comes to seven mountains of precious stones; on the seventh, the tree of life — fragrant beyond all fragrance — reserved for the righteous and holy at the great judgment, when its fruit shall be given to the elect.
Source context
- Theme
- Vision of fragrant trees and the mountain of God's throne at the world's end
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Merkabah mysticism (Jewish esotericism)The throne-mountain vision in Chapter XXIV shows cross-tradition congruence with Merkabah literature's ascent to the divine chariot-throne, where the visionary approaches the locus of divine majesty through increasingly exalted spatial registers.
- Zoroastrian cosmologyThe seven mountains of precious stones surrounding a central fragrant tree of divine prerogative show cross-tradition congruence with Avestan descriptions of cosmic mountains (Hara Berezaiti) as the axial locus of divine sovereignty and eschatological renewal.
- Egyptian sacred geographyThe motif of a uniquely fragrant tree reserved for divine and royal use at the world's periphery shows cross-tradition congruence with Egyptian accounts of the divine perfume-tree (the myriad-scented tree of Punt) as a substance of royal and solar consecration accessible only at the cosmic boundary.
Chapter XXIV
XXIV. XXV. The Seven Mountains in the North-West and the Tree of Life.
CHAPTER XXIV.
1⌈⌈And from thence I went to another place of the earth⌉⌉, and he showed me a mountain range of fire which burnt ⌈⌈day and night⌉⌉. 2. And I went beyond it and saw seven magnificent mountains all differing each from the other, and the stones (thereof) were magnificent and beautiful, magnificent as a whole, of glorious appearance and fair exterior: ⌈⌈three towards⌉⌉ the east, ⌈⌈one⌉⌉ founded on the other, and three towards the south, one upon the other, and deep rough ravines, no one of which joined with any other. 3. And the seventh mountain was in the midst of these, and it excelled them in height, resembling the seat of a throne: and fragrant trees encircled the throne. 4. And amongst them was a tree such as I had never yet smelt, neither was any amongst them nor were others like it: it had a fragrance beyond all fragrance, and its leaves and blooms and wood wither not for ever: and its fruit ⌈⌈is beautiful, and its fruit⌉⌉ resembles the dates of a palm. 5. Then I said: '⌈How⌉ beautiful is this tree, and fragrant, and its leaves are fair, and its blooms ⌈⌈very⌉⌉ delightful in appearance.' 6. Then answered Michael, one of the holy ⌈⌈and honoured⌉⌉ angels who was with me, and was their leader.
JSON: /api/sources/book-of-enoch/enoch-watchers/24-chapter-xxiv.json