Egyptian-Hebrew stream·The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)·Book I — Book of the Watchers·Chapter XXVI — The Center of the Earth
The blessed land — Jerusalem and the valley of Hinnom
Enoch travels to the center of the earth where he sees a blessed land with trees flourishing; a deep valley with hard rocks; another holy mountain; and below it the accursed valley — Gehenna.
Source context
- Theme
- vision of the sacred center: Jerusalem as cosmic axis and holy mountain topography
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Hebrew cosmology / Temple theologyThe axis-mundi conception in Chapter XXVI — Jerusalem as the navel of the earth flanked by sacred mountains — corresponds structurally to the Hebrew omphalos tradition in which the Holy of Holies marks the meeting-point of cosmic and terrestrial orders.
- Mesopotamian sacred geographyCross-tradition congruence is visible between Enoch's mountain-and-valley schema and Mesopotamian ziggurat cosmology, in which a tiered sacred mountain mediates between underworld, earth, and divine realm.
- Vedic / Hindu cosmologyThe structured sacred topography of Chapter XXVI — a central holy peak surrounded by subordinate mountains and valleys — displays cross-tradition congruence with the Mount Meru cosmogram as the world-axis around which cosmic directions and spiritual hierarchies are ordered.
Chapter XXVI
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Jerusalem and the Mountains, Ravines and Streams*.
CHAPTER XXVI.
1And I went from thence to the middle of the earth, and I saw a blessed place ⌈in which there were trees⌉ with branches abiding and blooming [of a dismembered tree]. 2. And there I saw a holy mountain, ⌈⌈and⌉⌉ underneath the mountain to the east there was a stream and it flowed towards the south. 3. And I saw towards the east another mountain higher than this, and between them a deep and narrow ravine: in it also ran a stream ⌈underneath⌉ the mountain. 4. And to the west thereof there was another mountain, lower than the former and of small elevation, and a ravine ⌈deep and dry⌉
between them: and another deep and dry ravine was at the extremities of the three ⌈mountains⌉. 5. And all the ravines were deep ⌈⌈and narrow⌉⌉, (being formed) of hard rock, and trees were not planted upon them. 6. And I marveled ⌈⌈at the rocks, and I marveled⌉⌉ at the ravine, yea, I marveled very much.
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