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The first comprehensive examination of the Book of Enoch and its prophecies, origins, and history • Examines in depth Enoch’s full story of the Watchers, the fallen angels who came to Earth and shared corrupting forbidden knowledge • Explores how Enoch was a vital component of Second Temple messianic Judaism, speculative Jewish mysticism, the Kabbalah, and Gnostic mythology • Investigates the entire history of the Book of Enoch and its important esoteric offshoots, including the later 2 Enoch (the Slavonic “Book of the Secrets of Enoch”) and the so-called Hebrew “Book of Enoch” (3 Enoch) Said to have been written by the prophet Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah, the Book of Enoch disappeared for many centuries, except for one place: the Bible of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, which held the book as canonical. Revealing the profound influence of the Book of Enoch on world thought over the past two thousand years, Tobias Churton investigates the entire history of the Book of Enoch and its important esoteric offshoots, including the later 2 Enoch (the Slavonic ""Book of the Secrets of Enoch"") and the so-called Hebrew ""Book of Enoch"" (3 Enoch). He explains how Enoch was taken to Heaven where he received personal instruction from God and examines in depth Enoch’s full story of the Watchers, the fallen angels who came to Earth and shared corrupting forbidden knowledge. He explains how the Book was a vital component of Second Temple messianic Judaism and speculative Jewish mysticism, playing a key role in the development of both the Kabbalah and Gnostic mythology. Informed by continuing studies of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Churton provides the first comprehensive examination of the Book of Enoch, clarifying and refuting many errors of understanding about Enoch’s apocalyptic and sometimes sensational prophecies.

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Author:   Tobias Churton ,  Jeffrey J. Bütz
Publisher:   Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Imprint:   Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.578kg
ISBN:  

9781644119259

ISBN 10:   1644119250
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   24 April 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Jeffrey J. Bütz Preface PART ONE Out of Ethiopia ONE Bruce TWO A Long Time Coming THREE 1 Enoch A Note on Translation Introduction (chapters 1–5) The Book of the Watchers The Astronomical Book Dream Visions (chapters 83–90) The Epistle of Enoch (chapters 91–105) Fragment from a Book of Noah (chapters 106–107) An Addition (chapter 108) FOUR The Book of Enoch 2 The Similitudes or Parables of Enoch (chapters 37–71) Finale FIVE Further Adventures of 1 Enoch Enter R. H. Charles PART TWO The Qumran Explosion SIX AMAZING DISCOVERIES The Enoch Seminar The Essene Hypothesis Josephus and the Essenes The Enochic-Essene Hypothesis A New Age at Dan? Damascus PART THREE Enoch’s Reception in History SEVEN Enoch Received 1 The Book of Jubilees The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs EIGHT The Epistle of Jude 1 Peter, 2 Peter, and 1 Enoch NINE 2 Enoch Ten Heavens 2 Enoch Bounces Back—in Coptic! TEN Testimony to Enoch from Church Fathers, or . . . Enoch Gets Around ELEVEN Panopolis: Zosimos, Enoch, and Hermes Trismegistos Zosimos of Panopolis: Scourge of Demons TWELVE Hermes Trismegistos and Enoch A Jewish Temple . . . in Egypt THIRTEEN Ethiopia FOURTEEN 3 Enoch: Enoch-Metatron, Hero of Jewish Mysticism Merkaba and Hekhalot Mysticism Metatron FIFTEEN Enoch in Medieval Islamic Traditions SIXTEEN “Holy Enoch” and the Renaissance Lodovico Lazzarelli and Divine Regeneration Lazzarelli and Enoch SEVENTEEN John Dee, Guillaume Postel, and the Book of Enoch Enter John Dee EIGHTEEN A Rosicrucian Fludd and Freemasonry Interlude: The First Commentary on 1 Enoch by Pompeo Sarnelli (1710) Enter the Grand Lodge NINETEEN Prophets and Magic Galore The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and Aleister Crowley PART FOUR Enoch and Christian Origins TWENTY The Son of Man and Gospel Echoes Son of Man and Hermetic Poimandrēs Enoch, Priesthood, and Jesus TWENTY-ONE Enoch and Christian Origins II: Jesus Oppression in Galilee? Yeshua ben Yosef (a Hypothesis) More to Nazareth than Meets the Eye TWENTY-TWO Further Enochic Adventures in Galilee The Hypothesis Continued Jesus’s Anti-Demon Operation Ethics and Vision Back to Dan with the Son of Man—the Profound Ascent A Personal Coda Chronology Notes Bibliography Index

Reviews

“The Books of Enoch Revealed is an epic work of history that highlights Churton’s virtuosity in meticulously analyzing the theology of the texts and the historicity of their journey from biblical antiquity to our era. The Enochic texts present a maze of complexity, both historically and theologically. Tobias Churton is one of the few living scholars capable of disassembling and reassembling all the moving parts without losing any along the way.” * Mitch Horowitz, PEN Award–winning author of Occult America and Modern Occultism * “A fantastic new addition to our understanding of the Book of Enoch and its connection to the Watchers, Nephilim, the patriarchs Enoch and Noah, and the angels of heaven. It shows the text’s origins, its influences, and its impact on the early Christian world before its eventual banishment into oblivion and its eventual rediscovery by Scottish Freemason James Bruce in the eighteenth century. An essential addition to the mysteries bookshelf.” * Andrew Collins, author of Karahan Tepe and From the Ashes of Angels * “Tobias Churton has produced an encyclopedic summary of the myth, history, and importance of the Books of Enoch. Once relegated to the back shelves of libraries and ignored by mainstream academia, Enochic works and all associated with them have become the topic du jour. With their discussions of angels, demons, apocalypticism, spiritual revelations, heavenly realms, and hermetic, alchemical, and magical potencies, there is something for everyone in Enochic lore. Dive deep and enjoy!” * Mark Stavish, founder and director of the Institute for Hermetic Studies and author of Egregores and *

Author Information

Tobias Churton is an authority on Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Freemasonry, and Rosicrucianism. Appointed Honorary Fellow of Exeter University in 2005 to specialize in Western Esotericism, he is the author of many books, including The Lost Pillars of Enoch and Gnostic Philosophy as well as acclaimed biographies of Elias Ashmole, William Blake, Aleister Crowley, and G. I. Gurdjieff. He lives in the heart of England.

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