Egyptian-Hebrew stream·The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch)·Book I — Book of the Watchers·Chapter XXXIII
Source context
- Theme
- Celestial portals, stellar stations, and the angel Uriel's guardianship of the eastern gates of heaven
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Mesopotamian astral cosmologyBabylonian star-catalogues assign guardian-deities to the four cardinal gates of heaven, exhibiting cross-tradition congruence with Enoch's angelic gatekeepers stationed at the eastern and western portals.
- Kabbalistic angelology (Sefer ha-Razim)Hebrew esoteric literature enumerates angelic wardens over stellar paths and celestial stations, structurally paralleling the role Uriel plays in Chapter XXXIII as the authoritative interpreter of the stars' courses.
Chapter XXXIII
CHAPTER XXXIII.
1And from thence I went to the ends of the earth and saw there great beasts, and each differed from the other; and (I saw) birds also differing in appearance and beauty and voice, the one differing from the other. 2. And to the east of those beasts I saw the ends of the earth whereon the heaven rests, and the portals of the heaven open. 3. And I saw how the stars of heaven come forth, and I counted the portals out of which they proceed, and wrote down all their outlets, of each individual star by itself, according to their number and their names, their courses and their positions, and their times and their months, as Uriel the holy angel who was with me showed me. 4. He showed all things to me
and wrote them down for me: also their names he wrote for me, and their laws and their companies.
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