(1) The Sumerian Watchers
"...Man and his early civilizations had a profoundly different mentality
from our own, that in fact men and women were not conscious as are we,
were not responsible for their actions, and therefore cannot be given
the credit or blame for anything that was done over these vast millennia
of time; that instead each person had a part of his nervous system that
was divine, by which he was ordered about like any slave, a voice or
voices which indeed were what we call volition and empowered what they
commanded and were related to the hallucinated voices of others in a
carefully established hierarchy."
"...The astonishing consistency
from Egypt to Peru, from Ur to Yucatan, wherever civilizations arose, of
death practices and idolatry, of divine government and hallucinated
voices, all are witness to the idea of a different mentality than our
own."
"The gods were in no sense 'figments of the imagination' of
anyone. They were man's volition. They occupied his nervous system,
probably his right hemisphere, and from stores of admonitory and
receptive experience, transmuted this experience into articulated speech
which then 'told' the man what to do."
"Throughout Mesopotamia, from the earliest times of Sumer and Akkad, all
lands were owned by gods and men were their slaves. Of this, the
cuneiform texts leave no doubt whatever. Each city-state had its own
principal god, and the king was described in the very earliest written
documents that we have as 'the tenant farmer of the god'."
- Julian Jaynes, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
"... The Akkadians called their predecessors Shumerians, and spoke of the Land of Shumer.
"It
was, in fact, the biblical Land of Shin'ar. It was the land whose name
- Shumer - literally meant the Land of the Watchers. It was indeed the
Egyptian Ta Neter - Land of the Watchers, the land from which the gods had come to Egypt."
- Zecharia Sitchin, The Stairway to Heaven
"It was from that planet [Nibiru], the Sumerian texts repeatedly and persistently stated, that the Anunnaki
came to Earth. The term literally means 'Those Who from Heaven to
Earth Came.' They are spoken of in the Bible as the Anakim, and in
Chapter 6 of Genesis are also call Nefilim, which in Hebrew means the same thing: Those Who Have Come Down, from the Heavens to Earth."
- Zecharia Sitchin, Genesis Revisited
"The Anakim may have been Mycenaean Greek colonists, belonging to the
'Sea Peoples' confederation which caused Egypt such trouble in the
fourteenth century B.C. Greek mythographers told of a Giant Anax
('king'), son of Heaven and Mother Earth, who ruled Anactoria (Miletus)
in Asia Minor. According to Appollodorus, the disinterred skeleton of
Asterius ('starry'), Anax's successor, measured ten cubits. Akakes, the
plural of Nanx, was an epithet of the Greek gods in general. Talmudic
commentators characteristically make the Anakim three thousand cubits
tall."
- Robert Graves and Raphael Patai, Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis
(2) The Egyptian Ntr
There is archaeological evidence of a strong cultural connection between Sumer and ancient Egypt.
"Ptah and the other gods were called, in Egyptian, Ntr - 'Guardian, Watcher'."
- Zecharia Sitchin, The Wars of Gods and Men
During the fabled "First Time, Zep Tepi, when the gods ruled in their
country: they said it was a golden age during which the waters of the
abyss receded, the primordial darkness was banished, and humanity,
emerging into the light, was offered the gifts of civilization. They
spoke also of intermediaries between gods and men - the Urshu, a
category of lesser divinities whose title meant 'the Watchers'. And
they preserved particularly vivid recollections of the gods themselves,
puissant and beautiful beings called the Neteru who lived on earth with
humankind and exercised their sovereignty from Heliopolis and other
sanctuaries up and down the Nile. Some of these Neteru were male and
some female but all possessed a range of supernatural powers which
included the ability to appear, at will, as men or women, or as
animals, birds, reptiles, trees or plants. Paradoxically, their words
and deeds seem to have reflected human passions and preoccupations.
Likewise, although they were portrayed as stronger and more intelligent
than humans, it was believed that they could grow sick - or even die, or
be killed - under certain circumstance."
- Graham Hancock, Fingerprints of the Gods
"'Deliver thou the scribe Nebseni, whose word is
truth, from the Watchers, who carry murderous knives, who possess cruel
fingers, and who would slay those who are in the following of Osiris.'
May these Watchers never gain the mastery over me, and may I never fall under their knives!'
"Who are these Watchers?
"'They are Anubis and Horus, [the latter being] in the form of Horus the
sightless. Others, however, say that they are the Tchatcha (sovereign
princes of Osiris), who bring to nought the operations of their knives;
and others say that they are the chiefs of the Sheniu chamber.
'May
their knives never gain the mastery over me. May I never fall under the
knives wherewith they inflict cruel tortures. For I know their names,
and I know the being, Matchet, who is among them in the House of Osiris.
He shooteth forth rays of light from his eye, being himself invisible,
and he goeth round about heaven robed in the flames which come from his
mouth, commanding Hapi, but remaining invisible himself. May I be strong
on earth before Ra, may I arrive safely in the presence of Osiris. O ye
who preside over your altars, let not your offerings to me be wanting,
for I am one of those who follow after Nebertcher, according to the
writings of Khepera. Let me fly like a hawk, let me cackle like a goose,
let me lay always like the serpent-goddess Neheb-ka.'"
- The Egyptian Book of the Dead
"They had come to Egypt, the Egyptians wrote, from Ta-Ur,
the 'Far/Foreign Land,' whose name Ur meant 'oldest' but could have also
been the actual place name - a place will known from Mesopotamian and
biblical records: the ancient city of Ur in southern Mesopotamia. And
the straits of the Red Sea, which connected Mesopotamia and Egypt, were
called Ta-Neter, the 'Place of the Gods,' the passage by
which they had come to Egypt. That the earliest gods did come from the
biblical lands of Shem is additionally borne out by the puzzling fact
that the names of these olden gods were of 'Semitic' (Akkadian)
derivation. Thus Ptah, which had no meaning in Egyptian, meant 'he who
fashioned things by carving and opening up' in the Semitic tongues."
- Zecharia Sitchin, The Wars of Gods and Men
"The Legend of Votan, who had built the first city that was the
cradle of Mesoamerican civilization, was written down by Spanish
chroniclers from oral Mayan traditions. The emblem of Votan, they
recorded, was the serpent; 'he was a descendant of the Guardians, of the
race of Can'. 'Guardians' was the meaning of the Egyptian term Neteru (i.e., 'gods'). Can, studies such as that by Zelia Nuttal (Papers of the Peabody Museum)
have suggested was a variant of Canaan who was (according to the Bible)
a member of the Hamitic peoples of Africa and a brother-nation of the
Egyptians."
- Zecharia Sitchin, When Time Began
(3) Bene Elohim
Note that plural gods elohim' appears in the earliest Hebrew texts, even though it is translated as God (El) in modern texts.
"...The sons of gods (bene ha-elohim') saw the daughters of men that they were fair..."
- Genesis 6:2a
"The sons of God (or children of God; 'bene elohim'
and variants) are divine members of God's heavenly host...The title
'sons/children of God' is familiar from Ugaritic mythology, in which the
gods collectively are the 'children of El'...The
sons/children of God are also found in Phoenician and Ammonite
inscriptions, referring to the pantheon of sub-ordinate deities,
indicating that the term was widespread in the West Semitic religions."
- Oxford Companion to the Bible
"The Watchers were "a specific race of divine beings known in Hebrew as nun resh 'ayin, 'irin' (resh 'ayin, 'ir' in singular), meaning 'those who watch' or 'those who are awake', which is translated into Greek as Egrhgoroi egregoris or grigori,
meaning 'watchers'. These Watchers feature in the main within the pages
of pseudepigraphal and apocryphal works of Jewish origin, such as the Book of Enoch and the Book of Jubilees. Their progeny, according to Hebrew tradition, are named as nephilim, a Hebrew word meaning 'those who have fallen' or 'the fallen ones', translated into Greek as gigantez, gigantes, or 'giants' - a monstrous race featured in the Theogony of the hellenic writer Hesiod (c. 907 BC)."
- Andrew Collins, From the Ashes of Angels - The Forbidden Legacy of a Fallen Race (1996) p. 3
"The statement (Gen. 6:1) that the 'sons of God' married the daughters of men is explained of the fall of the angels, in Enoch, vi-xi, and codices, D, E F, and A of the Septuagint read frequently, for 'sons of God',
oi aggeloi tou qeou ['angels of God']. Unfortunately, codices B and C are defective in Ge., vi, but it is probably that they, too, read
oi aggeloi in this passage, for they constantly
so render the expression 'sons of God'; cf. Job i, 6; ii, 1; xxxviii, 7;
but on the other hand, see Ps. ii, 1; lxxxviii, & (Septuagint).
Philo, in commenting on the passage in his treatise 'Quod Deus sit
immutabilis', i, follows the Septuagint."
- Hugh Pope, The Catholic Encyclopedia
"Angels came late into Jewish theology, generally from
the non-Jewish myths of the East. The early books of the Bible speak of
some vague heavenly beings called malochim (singular, malach). Although malach is usually translated angel, its literal meaning is messenger."
- Harry Gersh, The Sacred Books of the Jews
"The angel of the LORD found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur."
- Genesis 16:7
"At first the angels are regarded in quite an impersonal way (Gen. xvi,
7).They are God's vice-regents and are often identified with the Author
of their message (Gen. xlviii, 15-16). But while we read of 'the Angels
of God' meeting Jacob (Gen. xxxii, 1) we at other times read of one who
is termed 'the Angel of God' par excellence, e.g. Gen., xxxi, 11."
- Hugh Pope, The Catholic Encyclopedia
"But the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, 'Abraham! Abraham!'"
- Genesis 22:11
"It is true that, owing to the Hebrew idiom, this may mean no more than
'an angel of God', and the Septuagint renders it with or without the
article at will; yet the three visitors at Mambre
seem to have been of different ranks, though St. Paul (Heb. xiii, 2)
regarded them all as equally angels; as the story in Ge. xiii, develops,
the speaker is always 'the Lord'. Thus in the account of the Angel of
the Lord who visited Gideon (Judges vi), the visitor is alternately
spoken of as 'the Angel of the Lord' and as 'the Lord'. Similarly, in Judges xiii, the Angel of the Lord appears...."
- Hugh Pope, The Catholic Encyclopedia
"Then Manoah took a young goat,
together with the grain offering, and sacrificed it on a rock to the
LORD. And the LORD did an amazing thing while Manoah and his wife
watched: As the flame blazed up from the altar toward heaven, the angel
of the LORD ascended in the flame. Seeing this, Manoah and his wife
fell with their faces to the ground. When the angel of the LORD did not
show himself again to Manoah and his wife, Manoah realized that it was
the angel of the LORD.
'We are doomed to die!' he said to his wife. 'We have seen God!'"
- Judges 13:19-22
"This want of clearness is particularly apparent in the various accounts
of the Angel of Exodus. In Judges vi, just now referred to, the
Septuagint is very careful to render the Hebrew 'Lord' by 'the Angel of the Lord';
but in the story of the Exodus it is the Lord who goes before them in
the pillar of a cloud (Exod. xiii 21), and the Septuagint makes no
change (cf. also Num. xiv, 14, and Neh. ix, 7-20."
- Hugh Pope, The Catholic Encyclopedia
"By day the LORD went ahead of
them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way and by night in a
pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day or
night."
- Exodus 13:21
"Yet in Exod. xiv, 19, their guide is termed 'the Angel of God.
When we turn to Exod., xxxiii, where God is angry with His people for
worshipping the golden calf, it is hard not to feel that it is God
Himself who has hitherto been their guide, but who now refuses to
accompany them any longer. God offers an angel instead, but at Moses's
petition He says (14) 'My face shall go before thee', which the Septuagint reads by
autoV though the following verse shows that this rendering is clearly impossible, for Moses objects: 'If Thou Thyself dost not go before us, bring us not out of this place.' But what does God mean by 'my face'?
Is it possible that some angel of specially high rank is intended, as
in Is. lxiii, 9 (cf. Tobias xii, 15)? May not this be what is meant by 'the Angel of God' (cf. Num. xx, 16)?"
- Hugh Pope, The Catholic Encyclopedia
"He [the Lord] said, 'Surely
they are my people, sons who will not be false to me'; and so he became
their Savior. In all their distress he too was distressed, and the
angel of his presence saved them. In his love and mercy he redeemed
them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old. Yet they
rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. So he turned and became their
enemy and he himself fought against them."
- Isaiah 63:9-10
"The Massoretic text as well as the Vulgate of Exod. iii and xix-xx
clearly represent the Supreme Being as appearing to Moses in the bush
and on Mount Sinai; but the Septuagint version, while agreeing that it
was God Himself who gave the Law, yet makes it 'the angel of the Lord' who appeared in the bush."
- Hugh Pope, The Catholic Encyclopedia
"There the angel of the LORD
appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that
though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. Moses thought, 'I will
go over and see this strange sight--why the bush does not burn up.'
When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, 'Moses! Moses!'"
- Exodus 3:2-4a
"By New Testament times the Septuagint view has prevailed, and it is now
not merely in the bush that the angel of the Lord, and not God Himself
appears, but the angel is also the Giver of the Law (cf. Gal. iii, 19;
Heb. ii, 2; Acts vii, 30)."
- Hugh Pope, The Catholic Encyclopedia
"The law was put into effect through angels by a mediator"
- Galatians 3:19c
"The person of 'the angel of the Lord' finds a counterpart in the
personification of Wisdom in the Sapiential books and in at least one
passage (Zach. iii, 1) it seems to stand for that 'Son of Man' whom
Daniel (vii, 13) saw brought before 'the Ancient of Days'. Zacharias
says: 'And the Lord showed me Jesus the high
priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan stood on His
right hand to be His adversary'."
- Hugh Pope, The Catholic Encyclopedia
Unlike the "messengers" who could be mistaken for humans in the Book of
Genesis, Daniel's angel was resplendent in its divinity.
"I looked up and there before
me was a man dressed in linen, with a belt of the finest gold around his
waist.waist. His body was like chrysolite, his face like lightning, his
eyes like flaming torches, his arms and legs like the gleam of
burnished bronze, and his voice like the sound of a multitude. I,
Daniel, was the only one who saw the vision; the men with me did not see
it, but such terror overwhelmed them that they fled and hid
themselves."
- Daniel 10:5-7
"Later Biblical books developed the idea of malochim
[messengers], but it wasn't until the Book of Daniel, written in the
second century BC, that some of these heavenly creatures were given
names. Daniel mentions Gabriel (geber is man, El
is God) and Michael. The later non-canonical books built a whole
hierarchy of angels, headed by Metatron, prince of the heavenly hosts."
- Harry Gersh, The Sacred Books of the Jews
"In the Hebrew writings, the term 'Heavenly Hosts' includes not only the
counselors and emissaries of Jehovah, but also the celestial
luminaries; and the stars, imagined in the East to be animated
intelligences, presiding over human weal and woe, are identified with
the more distinctly impersonated messengers or angels, who execute the
Divine decrees, and whose predominance in heaven is in mysterious
correspondence and relation with the powers and dominions of the earth.
In Job, the Morning Stars and the Sons of God are identified; they join
in the same chorus of praise to the Almighty; they are both susceptible
of joy; they walk in brightness, and are liable to impurity and
imperfection in the sight of God."
- General Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma
"He [king Josiah] did away with
the pagan priests appointed by the kings of Judah to burn incense on
the high places of the towns of Judah and on those around
Jerusalem--those who burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the
constellations [Mazzaloth] and to all the starry hosts."
- 2 Kings 23:5
"Can you bring forth the
constellations [Mazzaloth] in their seasons [a reference to the twelve
signs of the Zodiac] or lead out the Bear [Arcturus] with its cubs?"
- Job 38:32
Arcturus is Ursa Major and the three stars in its tail are the cubs.
Click here to learn about the origin of the watchers in the Guardian Stars.
(4) The Apocryphal Tradition
Ca. 150 B.C.E., the author of 1 Enoch wrote of his spell-binding journey to heaven where he saw angels and their glory.
"And these are the names of the
holy angels who watch. Uriel, one of the holy angels, who is over the
world and over Tartarus. Raphael, one of the holy angels, who is over
the spirits of men. Raguel, one of the holy angels who takes vengeance
on the world of the luminaries. Michael, one of the holy angels, to wit,
he that is set over the best part of mankind and over chaos. Saraqael,
one of the holy angels, who is set over the spirits, who sin in the
spirit. Gabriel, one of the holy angels, who is over Paradise and the
serpents and the Cherubim. Remiel, one of the holy angels, whom God set
over those who rise."
- 1 Enoch 20:1-8
Essene proselytes swore to "preserve the books belonging to their sect, and the names of the angels." (Flavius Josephus, Wars of the Jews, Bk 2, Ch 8, Sn 7). The First Book of Enoch was the first piece of Jewish literature to describe a class of angels, the Watchers, who are positively evil and who lead the dead to a place of eternal torment.
"And all the angels shall execute their commandst
And shall seek to hide themselves from the presence of the Great Glory,
And the children of earth shall tremble and quake;
And ye sinners shall be cursed for ever,
And ye shall have no peace."
- 1 Enoch 102:3
The Book of Jubilees "was also known in early times as the Apocalypse of Moses,
for it allegedly was written down by Moses at Mount Sinai as an angel
dictated to him the histories of days past. (Scholars, though, believe
that the work was composed in the second century BC)."
- Zecharia Sitchin, The Stairway to Heaven
"For in his days the angels of
the Lord descended upon earth - those who are named The Watchers - that
they should instruct the children of men, that they should do judgment
and uprightness upon earth."
- The Book of Jubilees
"According to the Book of Jubilees, the Watchers are the sons of god
(Genesis 6) sent from heaven to instruct the children of men; they fell
after they descended to earth and cohabited with the daughters of men -
for which act they were condemned (so legend reports) and became fallen
angels. But not all Watchers descended: those that remained are the
holy Watchers, and they reside in the 5th Heaven. The evil Watchers
dwell either in the 3rd Heaven or in Hell."
- A Dictionary of Angels
"Several fragments with a clear Qumranic cast (4Q286-287, 4Q385-389, 4Q390...) parallel Belial with the angels of MA&+EMOWT ('enmity'), while Jubilees introduces Mastema/Satan into its story of the spirits of the giants, the offspring of the fallen Watchers (Jubilees 10:8,11; see also 11:5,11; 17:16; 18:9,12; 19:28; 48:2,9,12,15). Note that according to Jubilees, the angels of MA&+EMOWT
would be the spirits of the giants, the offspring of the angel
marriages, one tenth of whom become the servants of Mastema in leading
astray and punishing humanity, while 4Q390 makes them the ones
responsible for inspiring the sons of Aaron to pollute the Temple
through illegitimate marriages and violence."
- David W. Suter, Ioudaios Review, Vol. 3.019, July 1993
"According to the Book of Jubilees, Enoch...testified about the Watchers who had sinned with the daughters of men;
he testified against them all." And it was to protect him from the
revenge of the sinning angels of the Lord, that 'he was taken from
amongst the children of men, and was conducted into the Garden of Eden."
- Zecharia Sitchin, The Stairway to Heaven
"And I Enoch was blessing the
Lord of majesty and the King of the ages, and lo! the Watchers called me
-Enoch the scribe- and said to me: 'Enoch, thou scribe of
righteousness, go, declare to the Watchers of the heaven who have left
the high heaven, the holy eternal place, and have defiled themselves
with women, and have done as the children of earth do, and have taken
unto themselves wives: "Ye have wrought great destruction on the earth:
And ye shall have no peace nor forgiveness of sin: and inasmuch as they
delight themselves in their children, The murder of their beloved ones
shall they see, and over the destruction of their children shall they
lament, and shall make supplication unto eternity, but mercy and peace
shall ye not attain".'"
- 1 Enoch 10:3-8
As recounted in the Dead Sea Scrolls:
"...'In the days of Jared', two hundred Watchers 'descended' on 'Ardis',
the summit of Mount Hermon - a mythical location equated with the
triple peak of Jebel esh Sheikh (9,200 feet), placed in the most
northerly region of ancient Palestine. In Old Testament times its snowy
heights had been revered as sacred by various peoples who inhabited the
Holy Land; it was also the probable site of the Transfiguration of
Christ when the disciples witnessed their Lord 'transfigured before
them'.
"On this mountain the Watchers swear an oath and bind themselves by 'mutual imprecations',
apparently knowing full well the consequences their actions will have
both for themselves and for humanity as a whole. It is a pact
commemorated in the name given to the place of their 'fall', for in
Hebrew the word Hermon, or harem, translates as 'curse'. "
- Andrew Collins, From the Ashes of Angels - The Forbidden Legacy of a Fallen Race (1996) pp. 23-24
"In time, each of the 200 took an earthly spouse. These unions produced
children of extraordinary size, who quickly devoured the world's food.
To satisfy their enormous appetites, the angel-children roamed the
earth, slaughtering every species of bird, beast, reptile and fish.
Finally, the ravenous creatures turned on one another, stripping flesh
from the bones of their fellows and slaking their thirst in rivers of
blood. As this wave of destruction washed over the earth, the anguished
cries of humankind reached four powerful archangels - Uriel, Raphael,
Gabriel, and Michael - who upon orders from God enacted a swift
retribution. First Uriel descended to earth to warn Noah of a coming
deluge, advising him to prepare an ark to carry his family and a
menagerie of creatures to safety. Raphael then fell upon the leader of
the Watchers, bound him hand and foot, and thrust him into eternal
darkness. Next, Gabriel charged with slaying the dissenters' offspring,
encouraged the monstrous angel-children to fight one another. Finally,
Michael trussed up the remaining Watchers, forced them to witness the
deaths of their progeny, and condemned them to eternal torment. Only
then did the heavens open up and wash away the last traces of the
destruction that the fallen angels had wrought."
- Cosmic Duality
"Other Watchers stand accused of revealing to mortal kind the knowledge
of more scientific arts, such as the knowledge of the clouds, or
meteorology; the 'signs of the earth', presumably geodesy and geography; as well as astronomy and the 'signs',
or passage, of the celestial bodies, such as the sun and moon. Shemyaza
[the leader of the Watchers] is accredited with having taught men 'enchantments, and root-cuttings', a reference to the magical arts...One of their number, Penemue, taught 'the bitter and the sweet', surely a reference to the use of herbs and spices in foods, while instructing men on the use of 'ink and paper',
implying that the Watchers introduced the earliest forms of writing.
Far more disturbing is Kisdeja, who is said to have shown 'the
children of men all the wicked smitings of spirits and demons, and the
smitings of the embryo in the womb, that it may pass away'. In other words, he taught women how to abort their babies."
- Andrew Collins, From the Ashes of Angels - The Forbidden Legacy of a Fallen Race (1996) p. 26
"I saw Watchers in my vision,
the dream-vision. Two (men) were fighting over me, saying...and holding
a great contest over me. I asked them, 'Who are you, that you are thus
empo[wered over me?' They answered me, 'We] [have been em]powered and
rule over all mankind'. They said to me, 'Which of us do yo[u choose to
rule (you)?' I raised my eyes and looked.] [One] of them was
terri]fying in his appearance, [like a s]erpent, [his] cl[oa]k
many-colored yet very dark...[And I looked again], and...in his
appearance, his visage like a viper, and [wearing...] [exceedingly, and
all his eyes...]"
"[I replied to him,] 'This [Watcher,] so is he?' He answered me,
'This Wa[tcher...] [and his three names are Belial and Prince of
Darkness] and King of Evil.'"
- "Testament of Amram" (4Q535, Manuscript B)
One by one the angels of heaven are appointed by God to proceed against
the Watchers and their offspring the Nephilim, described as 'the bastards and the reprobates, and the children of fornication'.
Azazel is bound hand and foot, and cast for eternity into the
darkness of a desert referred to as Dudael. Upon him are placed 'rough and jagged rocks' and here he shall forever remain until the Day of judgment, when he will be 'cast into the fire'
for his sins. For their part in the corruption of mankind, the
Watchers are forced to witness the slaughter of their own children
before being cast into some kind of heavenly prison, an 'abyss of fire'.
Although the Watchers' leader, Shemyaza, is cast into this abyss
alongside his brothers, in other versions of the story he undergoes a
more dramatic punishment. Since he was tempted by a beautiful mortal
maiden named Ishtahar to reveal the Explicit Name of God in exchange for
the offer of carnal pleasure, he is to be tied and bound before being
made to hang for all eternity between heaven and earth, head down, in
the constellation of Orion."
- Andrew Collins, From the Ashes of Angels - The Forbidden Legacy of a Fallen Race (1996) p. 26
"These spirits were locked away in the earth, but Mastema persuaded God
to keep out one in ten to tempt humanity until the judgement and to
commit all forms of transgression.
"In the Day of Judgement all such spirits will be consigned to eternal
torment and humanity renewed in spirit back to the generations of Adam:
'And the days will begin to grow many and increase amongst the children of men till their days draw night to a thousand years ...
And there will be no old man ...For all will be as children and youths.'
"The Tree of Life,
fragrant and wonderful to behold will be returned to the centre ground,
and the New Jerusalem will be built by God - just as later described in
Revelation."
- Chris King, "The Apocalyptic Tradition"
"The corruption still left in the world after the imprisonment of the
Watchers, and the death of their Nephilim offspring, is to be swept away
by a series of global catastrophes, ending in the Great Flood so
familiar within biblical traditions. In a separate account of the
plight of the Nephilim, this mass-destruction is seen in terms of an
all-encompassing conflagration sent by the angels of heaven in the form
of 'fire, naphtha and brimstone'. No one
will survive these cataclysms of fire and water save for the 'seed' of
Noah, from whose line will come the future human race."
- Andrew Collins, From the Ashes of Angels - The Forbidden Legacy of a Fallen Race (1996) p. 28
"And now, the giants, who are
produced from the spirits and flesh, shall be called evil spirits upon
the earth, and on the earth shall be their dwelling. Evil spirits have
proceeded from their bodies; because they are born from men and from the
holy Watchers is their beginning and primal origin; they shall be evil
spirits on earth, and evil spirits shall they be called. [As for the
spirits of heaven, in heaven shall be their dwelling, but as for the
spirits of the earth which were born upon the earth, on the earth shall
be their dwelling.] And the spirits of the giants afflict, oppress,
destroy, attack, do battle, and work destruction on the earth, and cause
trouble: they take no food, but nevertheless hunger and thirst, and
cause offenses. And these spirits shall rise up against the children of
men and against the women, because they have proceeded from them."
- 1 Enoch 8-12
"The explanation of this myth, which has been a stumbling block to
theologians, may be the arrival in Palestine of tall, barabarous Hebrew
herdsmen early in the second millenium B.C., and their exposure, by
marriage, to Asianic civilization. 'Sons of El' in this sense would mean
the 'cattle-owning worshipper of the Semite Bull-god El'; 'Daughters of
Adam' would mean 'women of the soil' (adama), namely, the Goddess-
worshipping Canaanite agriculturists, notorious for their orgies and
premarital prostitution. If so, this historical event has been tangled
with the Ugaritic myth how El seduced two mortal women and fathered
divine sons on them, namely Shahar ('Dawn') and Shalem ('Perfect').
Shahar appears as a winged deity in Psalm CXXXIX:9, and his son,
according to Isaiah XIV:12, was the fallen angel Helel. Unions between
gods and mortals, that is to say between kings or queens and commoners,
occur frequently in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern myth. Since later
Judaism rejected all deities but its own transcendental God, and since
He never married or consorted with any female whatsoever, Rabbi Shimon
ben Yohai in Genesis Rabba felt obliged to curse all who read 'Sons of
God' in the Ugartic sense. Clearly, such an interperetation was still
current in the second century A.D., and lapsed only when Bene Elohim
meant 'God' and Judge,' the theory being that when a duly appointed
magistrate tried a case, the Spirit of El posessed him: 'I have said, ye are gods.' (Psalm LXXXII:6)"
- Robert Graves and Raphael Patai, Hebrew Myths: The Book of Genesis
Jewish religious authorities, concerned that the growing worship of
angels would be a threat to the belief in one God, excised works like
those of the Books of Enoch and the Book of Jubilees from canonical literature. These books are now part of what is known as the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha.
The mysterious "egregors"
of later magical tradition are linguistically derived from the Watchers
and indicate the continuation of an underground stream of knowledge.
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