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Enoch and the Nephilim
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"More and more we are finding that mythology in general though
greatly contorted very often has some historic base.  And the
interesting thing is that one myth which occurs over and over
again in many parts of the world is that somewhere a long time
ago supernatural beings had sexual intercourse with natural
women and produced a special breed of people."

-Francis A. Schaeffer


Having seriously studied the complex and multi-faceted subject of
UFOlogy for some time now, it has come to my attention that there
is a perspective which is noticably absent in current "ET" inter-
species hybridization syntheses; that of the ancient and perhaps
currently unfashionable mythologies, folklore and belief systems
regarding "otherworldly" or intradimensional beings which somehow
managed to copulate with human females and produce an odd sort of
hybridized spawn.

It has been my observation that people will talk all day long about
flying saucers or alleged ET species such as Reticulans, Sirians,
Pleiadeans, Arcturans, Reptillians and so forth but seem to stop
just short of reconciling these alleged beings and their alleged
activities with the metaphysical or religious beliefs they purport
to espouse.

Such appears to be specifically the case in regards to fundamentalists
who apparently intrinsically sense that should there turn out to be
"space aliens" form other planets or other dimensional realities,
their faith would be somehow irrevocably shaken; as though God were
for some reason incapable of dealing with such issues. This despite
the fact that even in the butchered scriptural texts extant, there are
all manner of odd goings on and references to clearly non-human entities.

For instance, the apostle Paul had an apparently life-changing OOBE/
NDE in which he saw, and I quote, "things which it is not lawful for
a man to speak."  Why not, I have often wondered.  The now-popular
star systems of Orion and Arcturus are mentioned by name in what may
be the oldest book in the current bible; the book of Job.  A most
interesting gentleman by the name of Melchizedek who had "neither
beginning nor end of days" mysteriously appeared in Abraham's time,
the apostle John had a most profound apocalyptic vision which dealt
with numerous non-human intelligences, Ezekiel saw what could only
be described as a flying saucer, a mobile star guided three wise men
to the birthplace of Christ and the appearances of both angels and
demons were apparently relatively commonplace throughout the whole
of biblically documented history.

Yet in this day and age, we have become oh so civilized; oh so techno-
logical and brilliant.  We seem to feel that we have outgrown many
of our previous myths and arcane legends on the one hand, yet on the
other, we have become converts of the religion of science and tech-
nology.  We used to have sacred texts and spiritual revelations;
now we have textbooks and scientific breakthroughs.  There is really
surprisingly little difference between the seemingly opposing religions;
both have their dogmas, their priests, their disciples, their rituals
and, perhaps especially, their narrowmindedness.

Yet, as have all cultures before us, our perception is tainted by
the many filters we have in place and again, as all cultures before
us, we retrospectively view previous mythologies and belief systems
with disdain; pitying the poor, uneducated slobs before us who, in
our estimation, simply didn't have a clue.

Yet have we truly outgrown our need for mythologies, folklore and
legend or do we merely create new, time and culture-apropriate
versions to replace the old in a perhaps vain attempt to settle
the ambiguities we are loathe to leave contextually unpackaged?

Yesterday we had fiery chariots; today they are UFOs.  Yesterday we
had angels and demons; today we have positive and negative extra-
terrestrials.  Yesterday we had elves, leprechauns and faeries; today
it's Greys, Pleiadeans and Sirians.  Yesterday there were vampires;
today there are cattle mutilations where all blood is removed from
the corpse.  Yesterday we recorded a miraculous virgin birth; today
artificial insemination is commonplace.  Yesterday people ran the
risk of becoming demon-posessed; today we observe Arcturan entities
inhabiting the containers (bodies) of walk-ins.  Yesterday many
looked to mediums and seances for esoteric information; today we
have channelers and trance-channelers.  Etc.

I recall twenty-some years ago my surprise and immense curiosity
when I read the words of Jesus stating that "as it was in the days
of Noah, so shall it be in the days of the coming of the Son of Man."
Knowing full well at the time that one activity appeared to clearly
differentiate the culture of Noah's time from our own; a disturbing
program whereby the "sons of God" procreated with the "daughters
of men" and, in so doing, created an oddball hybrid species known
in many ancient texts (including the bible) as the Nephilim.

It was not until very recently that I began to see a mirror image of
this hybridization program reflected in our very own culture; that
of the grey abduction scenario whereby sperm and ova are extracted
from unwilling human participants, genetically engineered then
implanted back into the female womb--only to be extracted at the
end of the first trimester during subsequent abductions.  It appears
that the "sons of God" are once again copulating with the "daughters
of men" just like in the days of old Noah.

It's all there in the incredibly ancient book of Enoch.


::About the Book of Enoch::

In the year 1773, after a period of almost total obcurity lasting
1500 years, the Scottish explorer, James Bruce, discovered in what
is now Ethiopia, The Book of Enoch.

He writes: "Amongst the articles I consigned to the library at Paris
was a very beautiful and magnificent copy of the prophecies of Enoch,
in large Quarto; another is amongst the books of scripture that I
brought home, standing immediately before the book of Job, which is
it's proper place in the Abyssinian Cannon: and a third copy I
presented to the Bodleian Library at Oxford, by the hands of Dr.
Douglass, the Bishop of Carlisle."

It rested there, forgotten, until 1821 when Laurence issued his
first translation of which there were many additions, culminating
in the revised edition of 1883, compiled from notes in his estate.

As a former professor of Hebrew at Oxford, Laurence's familiarity
with Kabbalah and the Zohar (as shown in the introductions of
earlier editions) gave him unique qualifications that were especially
useful in translating a work of this type.

At present there are three versions of Enoch (not to be confused with
the tabloid clones "Keys of Enoch" or "Secrets of Enoch" which are
presently circulating amongst New Age groups).  The first being the
Ethiopian found by James Bruce in Abyssinia in 1773, and culminating
in the present translation of this volume.  The second is called the
Book of the Secrets of Enoch, or Slavonian Enoch.  It was discovered
in the Belgrade public library by Prof. Sokolov in 1886, and trans-
lated by Morfill and Charles in 1896.  The third is (of necessity)
called Enoch III, or the Hebrew Enoch, translated by Hugo Odeberg in
1922.  Each has some variations that will help understanding, and
one can hardly escape the conclusion that this book may be far older
than anyone suspects.

Further correlations can be found in: "Hypostasis of the Archons"
translated by Roger Bullard, 1970, from one of the Nag Hammadi
gnostic codexes.  In it are striking parallels with Enoch.  The
creation of giants or failures is again met with in the Mandaean
Codex Nazaraeu, or Ginza rabba, which can be found in "Gnosis:
It's Character and Testimony" by Roger Haardt, translated by
J.F. Hendry, 1971.  And of course, Blavatsky's "The Secret Doctrine"
has been in print continuously since 1888.

Although the Book of Enoch was apparently at one time recognized
as a valid piece of Hebrew (i.e. Judeo-Christian) belief systems
and although it was directly quoted from in the new testament
epistle of Jude, the Council of Nicene voted to exclude it from
"canonized" scripture in 325 AD.

Lyman Abbott notes: "Reverting to the second century of Christianity,
we find Irenaeus and Clement of Alexandria citing the Book of Enoch
without questioning it's sacred character.  Thus, Irenaeus, assigning
to the Book of Enoch an authenticity analogous to that of Mosaic
literature, affirms that Enoch, although a man, filled the office of
God's messenger to the angels.  Tertullian, who flourished at the
close of the first and at the beginning of the second century, whilst
admitting that the 'Scripture of Enoch' is not received by some
because it is not included in the Hebrew Canon, speaks of the author
as 'the most ancient prophet, Enoch,' and of the book as the divinely
inspired autograph of that immortal patriarch..."

After reading Enoch, I was left with the impression that it was
either an extremely precise historical document (one vision of
many cows succinctly traces the developement of Israel and Judah
through a few centuries) with fascinating astronomical data added
to the mix which had to have been written after the fact, or, if
written when it was said to have been, it was without a doubt the
most profoundly accurate prophetic work extant.  In either case,
Enoch should not be taken lightly.

Following is a breakdown of this series as posted:

File 1    = this introduction
File 2    = relevant excerpt from the book of Enoch
Files 3-8 = excerpts from The Omega Conspiracy by Dr. I.D.E. Thomas
            (ISBN 0-9624517-4-6)
File 9    = excerpt from Madame Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine
File 1   = a relevant abduction experience

Some may find Thomas' work to be too flavored with fundamentalism
for their particular taste but I personally found it to be some
exceptionally well-researched stuff.  I make no apologies for it
and challenge you, the reader, to lay aside any predispositions
and consider the work on it's own merits.

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Subject: Enoch and the Nephilim (2/10)
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 02:15:29 -0400

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[Relevant excerpt from the book of Enoch]

CHAP. VII. [SECT. II.]

1.  It happened after the sons of men had multiplied in those days,
    that daughters were born to them, elegant and beautiful.
2.  And when the angels, the sons of heaven, beheld them, they
    became enamored of them, saying to each other, Come, let us
    select for ourselves wives from the progeny of men, and let us
    beget children.
3.  Then their leader Samyaza said to them; I fear that you may
    perhaps be indisposed to the performance of this enterprise;
4.  And that I alone shall suffer for so grievous a crime.
5.  But they answered him and said; We all swear;
6.  And bind ourselves by mutual execrations, that we will not
    change our intention, but execute our projected undertaking.
7.  Then they swore all together, and all bound themselves by mutual
    execrations.  Their whole number was two hundred, who descended
    upon Ardis, which is the top of mount Armon.
8.  That mountain therefore was called Armon, because they had sworn
    upon it, and bound temselves by mutual execrations.
9.  These are the names of their chiefs: Samyaza, who was their
    leader, Urakabarameel, Akibeel, Tamiel, Ramuel, Danel, Azkeel,
    Saraknyal, Asael, Armers, Batraal, Anane, Zavebe, Samsaveel,
    Ertael, Turel, Yomyael, Arazyal.  These were the prefects of the
    two hundred angels, and the remainder were all with them.
10. Then they took wives, each choosing for himself; whom they began
    to approach, and with whom they cohabited; teaching them sorcery,
    incantations, and the dividing of roots and trees.
11. And the women conceiving brought forth giants,
12. Whose stature was each three hundred cubits.  These devoured all
    which the labor of men produced; until it became impossible to
    feed them;
13. When they turned themselves against men, in order to devour them;
14. And began to injure birds, beasts, reptiles, and fishes, to eat
    their flesh one after another, and to drink their blood.
15. Then the earth reproved the unrighteous.


CHAP. VIII.

1. Moreover Azazyel taught men to make swords, knives, shields,
   breastplates, the fabrication of mirrors, and the workmanship of
   bracelets and ornaments, the use of paint, the beautifying of
   the eyebrows, the use of stones of every valuable and select
   kind, and of all sorts of dyes, so that the world became altered.
2. Impiety increased ; fornication multiplied ; and they transgressed
   and corrupted all their ways.
3. Amazarak taught all the sorcerers, and dividers of roots:
4. Armers taught the solution of sorcery;
5. Barkayal taught the observers of the stars
6. Akibeel taught signs;
7. Tamiel taught astronomy;
8. And Asaradel taught the motion of the moon.
9. And men, being destroyed, cried out; and their voice reached to
   heaven.


CHAP. IX.

l.  Then Michael and Gabriel, Raphael, Suryal, and Uriel, looked down
    from heaven, and saw the quantity of blood which was shed on
    earth, and all the iniquity which was done upon it, and said one
    to another, It is the voice of thei cries;
2.  The earth deprived of her children has cried even to the gate of
    heaven.
3.  And now to you, O ye holy ones of heaven, the souls of men
    complain, saying, Obtain Justice for us with the Most High.  Then
    they said to their Lord, the King, Thou art Lord of lords, God of
    gods, King of kings.  The throne of thy glory is for ever and
    ever, and for ever and ever is thy name sanctified and glorified.
    Thou art blessed and glorified.
4.  Thou hast made all things; thou possessest power over all things;
    and all things are open and manifest before thee.  Thou beholdest
    all things, and nothing can be concealed from thee.
5.  Thou hast seen what Azazyel has done, how he has taught every
    species of iniquity upon earth, and has disclosed to the world
    all the secret things which are done in the heavens.
6.  Samyaza also has taught sorcery, to whom thou hast given authority
    over those who are associated with him.  They have gone together
    to the daughters of men; have lain with them; have become polluted;
7.  And have discovered crimes to them.
8.  The women likewise have brought forth giants.
9.  Thus has the whole earth been filled with blood and with iniquity.
10. And now behold the souls of those who are dead, cry out.
11. And complain even to the gate of heaven.
12. Their groaning ascends; nor can they escape from the unrighteous-
    ness which is committed on earth.  Thou knowest all things,
    before they exist.
13. Thou knowest these things, and what has been done by them; yet
    thou dost not speak to us.
14. What on account of these things ought we to do to them ?


CHAP. X.

1.  Then the Most High, the Great and Holy One spoke,
2.  And sent Arsayalalyur to the son of Lamech,
3.  Saying, Say to him in my name, Conceal thyself.
4.  Then explain to him the consummation which is about to take place;
    for all the earth shall perish; the waters of a deluge shall come
    over the whole earth, and all things which are in it shall be
    destroyd.
5.  And now teach him how he may escape, and how his seed may remain
    in all the earth.
6.  Again the Lord said to Raphael, Bind Azazyel hand and foot; cast
    him into darkness; and opening the desert which is in Dudael,
    cast him in there.
7.  Throw upon him hurled and pointed stones, covering him with
    darkness;
8.  There shall he remain forever; cover his face, that he may not
    see the light.
9.  And in the great day of judgment let him be cast into the fire.
10. Restore the earth, which the angels have corrupted; and announce
    life to it, that I may revive it.
11. All the sons of men shall not perish in consequence of every
    secret, by which the Watchers have destroyed, and which they have
    taught, their offspring.
12. All the earth has been corrupted by the effects of the teaching
    of Azazyel.  To him therefore ascribe the whole crime.
13. To Gabriel also the Lord said, Go to the biters, to the repro-
    bates, to the children of fornication; and destroy the children
    of fornication, the offspring of the Watchers, from among men;
    bring them forth, and excite them one against another.  Let them
    perish by mutual slaughter; for length of days shall not be theirs.
14. They shall all entreat thee, but their fathers shall not obtain
    their wishes respecting them; for they shall hope for eternal
    life, and that they may live, each of them, five hundred years.
15. To Michael likewise the Lord said, Go and announce his crime to
    Samyaza, and to the others who are with him, who have been
    associated with women, that they might be polluted with all their
    impurity.  And when all their sons shall be slain, when they
    shall see the perdition of their beloved, bind them for seventy
    generations underneath the earth, even to the day of judgment,
    and of consummation, until the judgment, the effect of which will
    last for ever, be completed.
16. Then shall they be taken away into the lowest depths of the fire
    in torments; and in cnfinement, shall they be shut up for ever.
17. Immediately after this shall he, together with them, burn and
    perish; they shall be bound until the consummation of many
    generations.
18. Destroy all the souls addicted to dalliance, and the offspring
    of the Watchers, for they have tyrannized over mankind.
19. Let every oppressor perish from the face of the earth;
20. Let every evil work be destroyed;
21. The plant of righteousness and of rectitude appear, and its
    produce become a blessing.
22. Righteousness and rectitude shall be for ever planted with
    delight.
23. And then shall all the saints give thanks, and live until they
    have begotten a thousand children, while the whole period of
    their youth, and their Sabbaths shall be completed in peace.
    In those days all the earth shall be cultivated in righteousness;
    it shall be wholly planted with trees, and filled with
    benediction; every tree of delight shall be planted in it.
    In it shall vines be planted; and the vine which shall be planted
    in it shall yield fruit to satiety; every seed, which shall be
    sown in it, shall produce for one measure a thousand; and one
    measure of olives shall produce ten presses of oil.
25. Purify the earth from all oppression, from all injustice, from
    all crime, from all impiety, and from all the pollution which
    is committed upon it.  Exterminate them from the earth.
26. Then shall all the children of men be righteous, and all nations
    shall pay me divine honors, and bless me; and all shall adore me.
27. The earth shall be cleansed from all corruption, from every crime,
    from all punishment, and from all suffering; neither will I again
    send a deluge upon it from generation to generation for ever.
28. In those days I will open the treasures of blessing which are in
    heaven, that I may cause them to descend upon earth, and upon all
    the works and labor of man.
29. Peace and equity shall associate with the sons of men all the days
    of theworld, in every generation of it.


(No CHAP. XI.)
CHAP. XII. [SECT. III.]

1. Before all these things Enoch was concealed; nor did any one of
   the sons of men know where he was concealed, where he had been,
   and what had happened.
2. He was wholly engaged with the holy ones, and with the Watchers
   in his days.
3. I, Enoch, was blessing the great Lord and King of peace.
4. And behold the Watchers called me Enoch the scribe.
5. Then the Lord said to me: Enoch, scribe of righteousness, go tell
   the Watchers of heaven, who have deserted the lofty sky, and their
   holy everlasting station, who have been polluted with women.
6. And have done as the sons of men do, by taking to themselves wives,
   and who have been greatly corrupted on the earth;
7. That on the earth they shall never obtain peace and remission of
   sin.  For they shall not rejoice in their offspring; they shall
   behold the slaughter of their beloved; shall lament for the
   destruction of their sons; and shall petition for ever; but shall
   not obtain mercy and peace.


CHAP. XIII

1.  Then Enoch, passing on, said to Azazyel: Thou shalt not obtain
    peace.  A great sentence is gone forth against thee.  He shall
    bind thee;
2.  Neither shall relief, mercy, and supplication be thine, on account
    of the oppression which thou hast taught;
3.  And on account of every act of blasphemy, tyranny, and sin, which
    thou hast discovered to the children of men.
4.  Then departing from him I spoke to them all together;
5.  And they all became terrified, and trembled;
6.  Beseeching me to write for them a memorial of supplication, that
    they might obtain forgiveness; and that I might make the memorial
    of their prayer ascend up before the God of heaven; because they
    could not themselves thenceforwards address him, nor raise up
    their eyes to heaven on account of the disgraceful offence for
    which they were judged.
7.  Then I wrote a memorial of their prayer and supplication, for
    their spirits, for everything which they had done, and for the
    subject of their entreaty, that they might obtain remission and
    rest.
8.  Proceeding on, I continued over the waters of Danbadan, which is
    on the right to the west of Armori, reading the memorial of their
    prayer, until I fell asleep.
9.  And behold a dream came to me, and visions appeared above me.  I
    fell down and saw a vision of punishment, that I might relate it
    to the sons of heaven, and reprove them.  When I awoke I went to
    them.  All being collected together stood weeping in Oubelseyael,
    which is situated between Libanos and Seneser, with their faces
    veiled.
10. I related in their presence all the visions which I bad seen, and
    my dream;
11. And began to utter these words of righteousness, reproving the
    Watchers of heaven.


CHAP. XIV.

1.  This is the book of the words of righteousness, and of the reproof
    of the Watchers, who belong to the world, according to that which
    He, who is holy and great, commanded in the vision.  I perceived
    in my dream, that I was now speaking with a tongue of flesh, and
    with my breath, which the Mighty One has put into the mouth of men,
    that they might converse with it.
2.  And understand with the heart.  As he has created and given to men
    the power of comprehending te word of understanding, so has be
    created and given to me the power of reproving the Watchers, the
    offspring of heaven.  I have written your petition; and in my
    vision it has been shown me, that what you request will not be
    granted you as long as the world endures.
3.  Judgment has been passed upon you: your request will not be
    granted you.
4.  From this time forward, never shall you ascend into heaven; He
    has said, that on the earth He will bind you, as long as the
    world endures.
5.  But before these things you shall behold the destruction of your
    beloved sons; you shall not possess them, but they shall fall
    before you by the sword.
6.  Neither shall you entreat for them, nor for yourselves;
7.  But you shall weep and supplicate in silence.  The words of the
    book which I wrote.
8.  A vision thus appeared to me.
9.  Behold, in that vision clouds and a mist invited me; agitated
    stars and flashes of lightning impelled and pressed me forwards,
    while winds in the vision assisted my flight, accelerating my
    progress.
10. They elevated me aloft to heaven.  I proceeded, until I arrived
    at a wall built with stones of crystal.  A vibrating flame
    surrounded it, which began to strike me with terror.
11. Into this vibrating flame I entered;
12. And drew nigh to a spacious habitation built also with stones of
    crystal.  Its wells too, as well as pavement, were formed with
    stones of crystal, and crystal likewise was the ground.  Its roof
    had the appearance of agitated stars and flashes of lightning;
    and among them were cherubim of fire in a stormy sky.  A flame
    burned around its walls; and its portal blazed with fire.  When
    I entered into this dwelling, it was hot as fire and cold as ice.
    No trace of delight or of life was there.  Terror overwhelmed me,
    and a fearful shaking seized me.
13. Violently agitated and trembling, I fell upon my face.  In the
    vision I looked,
14. And behold there was another habitaton more spacious than the
    former, every entrance to which was open before me, erected in
    the midst of a vibrating flame.
15. So greatly did it excel in all points, in glory, in magnificence,
    and in magnitude, that it is impossible to describe to you either
    the splendor or the extent of it.
16. Its floor was on fire; above were lightnings and agitated stars,
    while its roof exhibited a blazing fire.
17. Attentively I surveyed it, and saw that it contained an exalted
    throne;
18. The appearance of which was like that of frost; while its circum-
    ference resembled the orb of the brilliant sun; and there was the
    voice of the cherubim.
19. From underneath this mighty throne rivers of flaming fire issued.
20. To look upon it was impossible.
21. One great in glory sat upon it:
22. Whose robe was brighter than the sun, and whiter than snow.
23. No angel was capable of penetrating to view the face of Him, the
    Glorious and the Effulgent; nor could any mortal behold Him.  A
    fire was flaming around Him.
24. A fire also of great extent continued to rise up before Him; so
    that not one of those who surrounded Him was capable of approach-
    ing Him, among the myriads of myriads who were before Him.  To
    Him holy consultation was needless.  Yet did not the sanctified,
    who were near Him, depart far from Him either by night or by day;
    nor were they removed from Him.  I also was so far advanced, with
    a veil on my face, and trembling.  Then the Lord with his own
    mouth called me, saying, Approach hither, Enoch, at my holy word.
25. And He raised me up, making me draw near even to the entrance.
    My eye was directed to the ground.


CHAP. XV.

1.  Then addressing me, He spoke and said Hear, neither be afraid, O
    righteous Enoch, thou scribe of righteousness: approach hither,
    and hear my voice.  Go, say to the Watchers of heaven, who have
    sent thee to pray for them, You ought to pray for men, and not
    men for you.
2.  Wherefore have you frsaken the lofty and holy heaven, which
    endures for ever, and have lain with women; have defiled your-
    selves with the daughters of men; have taken to yourselves wives;
    have acted like the sons of the earth, and have begotten an
    impious offspring?
3.  You being spiritual, holy, and possessing a life which is eternal,
    have polluted yourselves with women; have begotten in carnal
    blood; have lusted in the blood of men; and have done as those
    who are flesh and blood do.
4.  These however die and perish.
5.  Therefore have I given to them wives, that they might cohabit
    with them; that sons might be born of them; and that this might
    be transacted upon earth.
6.  But you from the beginning were made spiritual, possessing a life
    which is eternal, and not subject to death for ever.
7.  Therefore I made not wives for you, because, being spiritual,
    your dwelling is in heaven.
8.  Now the giants, who have been born of spirit and of flesh, shall
    be called upon earth evil spirits, and on earth shall be their
    habitation.  Evil spirits shall proceed from their flesh, because
    they were Created from above; from the holy Watchers was their
    beginning and primary foundation.  Evil spirits shall they be
    upon earth, and the spirits of the wicked shall they be called.
    The habitation of the spirits of heaven shall be in heaven; but
    upon earth shall be the habitation of terrestrial spirits, who
    are born on earth.
9.  The spirits of the giants shall be like clouds, which shall
    oppress, corrupt, fall, contend, and bruise upon earth.
10. They shall cause lamentation.  No food shall they eat; and they
    shall be thirsty; they shall be concealed, and shall not rise up
    against the sons of men, and against women; for they come forth
    during the days of slaughter and destruction.


CHAP. XVI.

1. And as to the death of the giants, wheresoever their spirits
   depart from their bodies, let their flesh, that which is perish-
   able, bewithout judgment.  Thus shall they perish, until the
   day of the great consummation of the great world.  A destruction
   shall take place of the Watchers and the impious.
2. And now to the Watchers, who have sent thee to pray for them, who
   in the beginning were in heaven,
3. Say, In heaven have you been; secret things, however, have not
   been manifested to you; yet have you known a reprobated mystery.
4. And this you have related to women in the hardness of your heart,
   and by that mystery have women and mankind multiplied evils upon
   the earth.
5. Say to them, Never therefore shall you obtain peace.

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Subject: Enoch and the Nephilim (3/10)
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 02:16:46 -0400



The Evidence Mounts
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"More and more we are finding that mythology in general though
greatly contorted very often has some historic base.  And the
interesting thing is that one myth which occurs over and over
again in many parts of the world is that somewhere a long time
ago supernatural beings had sexual intercourse with natural
women and produced a special breed of people."

-Francis A. Schaeffer


Evidence for the existence of the Nephilim goes beyond the
biblical record.  The story of Lamech, found in the Genesis
Apocryphon, relates how Lamech had been away from home on a long
journey.  When he finally came back, he discovered to his
chagrin, that his wife, Bat-Enosh (sometimes spelled as "Bit-
Enosh," i.e. the daughter of Enosh) had given birth to a baby
boy in his absence.  He was sure that the chld had not been
sired by him, and what is more, the child bore no resemblance to
him or to anyone else in the family.  Adding to the mystery was
the fact that the boy was extremely beautiful, and when he
opened his eyes he lighted up the whole house.  "I have begotten
a strange son," said Lamech, "...his nature is different and he
is not like us, and his eyes are as the rays of the sun, and his
countenance is glorious.  And it seems to be that he is not
sprung from me but from the Angels..." (1)

Lamech did what most husbands would have done: he reproached his
wife for infidelity.  Bat-Enosh, however, swore by all that was
sacred that Lamech himself must have fathered the child.  She
had not known any other man, not a stranger and note this--not a
Watcher or Heavenly Being.

How enlightening for our study!  Who were these Watchers or
Heavenly Beings?  According to the Book of Daniel they were
fallen angels (Daniel 4:13,17, 23).

Here is the statement made by Bat-Enosh as it reads in the
Lamech Scroll:

"My lord and kinsman, remember my delicate feelings.  How (ever),
the occasion is indeed alarming, and my soul (is writhing) in
it's sheath.  I will tell you everything truly."

Then she saw how perturbed her husband was, and decided to
repress her passion and indignation a little:

"My lord and kinsman, (I will ignore) delicate feelings and swear
to you by the Holy (and) Great One, the Sovereign of heaven (and
earth) that this seed came from you, conception was by you, and
this fruit was planted by you and not by some stranger or any of
the Watchers or heavenly beings.  (Have done with) this troubled
and marred expression and this gloomy mood.  I am telling you
the truth." (2)

Lamech by this time must have begun to realize that the child
born could have been conceived by one of these Watchers or
Heavenly Beings.  If so, his child belonged to the Nephilim.


::MYSTERY OF NOAH'S BIRTH::

Not completely sure as to what to believe, Lamech sought the
advice of his father on the matter.  Metuselah listened
attentively as Lamech revealed this strange story, then promised
his son that he would seek the advice of his father, the wise
and godly Enoch.  Since the family's reputation was at stake,
something had to be done.

Enoch, whose name meant "the intelligent" or "the learned,"
sensed the meaning of what had happened.  He sent Methuselah
home with the disturbing news that the Earth would soon be
visited by a terrible catastrophe and judgment.  It was clear
that corruption had taken place, and that the human race had
become tainted.  God would soon be moving in judgment, and human
flesh would perish.  And as for this little boy, whose birth
remained a mystery, he should be raised by Lamech, and should be
called Noah.  What is more, little Noah had been specially
chosen by God to survive this coming judgment, and would be the
progenitor of the new inhabitants of planet Earth.

Despite the mystery surrounding his birth, Noah could not be one
of the Nephilim, as we shall see in a later chapter.  There is
no doubt, however, that the unusual circumstances of his birth
convinced Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech and Bat-Enosh that strange
things were happening on the Earth.

The Genesis Apocryphon is not the only extrabiblical
documentation.  Numerous other documents indicate the existence
of the Nephilim.  I do not place these documents on par with
Scripture, nevertheless they seem to corroborate Scripture.  My
sole purpose for introducing them is simply to state that they
exist and that they share common features with the Scriptures.
My task is similar to that of Montaigne: "Gentlemen, all I have
done is make a bouquet from flowers already picked, adding
nothing but the string to tie them together." (3)

One such document is the Book of Enoch.  This is a composite
volume, and, although not know in Europe until the 18th Century,
it was a veritable best-seller in the days of Christ.  In the
centuries immediately preceding and following the coming of
Christ, this book was widely read nd discussed, and its impact
was tremendous.  Without question it is the most notable
apocalyptical work outside the canonical Scriptures.  R. H.
Charles, an outstanding authority in this field tells us that,
"the influence of 1 Enoch on the New Testament has been greater
than that of all the other apocryphal and pseudoepigraphical
books put together."

For one thing, the book of Enoch gave to the world the concept
of a pre-existent Messiah, and by so doing prepared the way for
Christian doctrine.  It was from this same book that the Manual
of Discipline (found at Qumran) received its solar calendar.
What is more, this book became so influential that it became an
exemplar and a catalyst for the burgeoning apocalyptic
literature of the time.  Indeed, it can be claimed, that the
Book of Enoch was one of the most important apocalyptic books
ever written.

Tertullian and some of the other Church Fathers considered it of
such import that they included it as part of the sacred canon of
Scripture.  Jude 14 is a direct quote from Enoch 1:9, 5:4, and
27:2.  There is also in the Book of Enoch a doctrine that one
finds nowhere else.  Other authors tell us that each nation has
its sar or parton, and that of Israel was Michael, or sometimes
God Himself.  However, in the Book of Enoch we are told that
"God was Israel's shepherd till the last years of the Kingdom of
Judah; then in disgust He turned them over, not to their own
guardian, but to the sarim of the Gentiles." (4)

An amazing book!  Such a doctrine prefigures and predicts the
"times of the Gentiles" mentioned in the Bible.  Yet, of all
mysteries, this book remained neglected for more than 1,800
years, and continues to remain neglected, and even shunned, in
the 20th Century.


::ENOCH::

Who was this Enoch, whose name is attached to the book?  Enoch
is mentioned in the Scriptures, but we are told little about him.
Just four verses in all--two in the Old Testament, and two in
the New.  That little, however, is sufficient to distinguish him
as one of the outstanding men of all times.  He is listed as the
seventh of the ten patriarchs between Adam and Noah.  He was the
father of Methuselah, the man holding the world's record for
longevity.  Interestingly, Enoch became a believer and started
"walking with God" after his son was born.  Soon he became known
for his exceptional piety and godliness.  The most remarkable
fact of all is that he did not die.  "Enoch walked with God; and
he was not, for God took him."  He is one of the only two men
mentioned in the Bible who were translated to Heaven without
tasting death.

In the Book of Enoch other significant facts are given about
this patriarch.  It claims that Enoch will return to Earth at
the end of time, and that he will be one of the two martyrs (or
witnesses) slain on the streets of Jerusalem.

The Book of Yasher adds still more detail.  It tells how Enoch
would periodically withdraw himself from earthly company, and
visit the ten heavens.  He would then return to Earth with a
divine luster on his face, just as Moses emerged from the
presence of God on Mt. Sinai, and knew not that his face shone.
Such was the regard in which Enoch was held by some of the
Jewish mystics that they referred to him as "the lesser Yahweh"--
a title bordering on the blasphemous.

In the book of Jude (verses 14-15), we are told of a prophecy
Enoch made concerning the coming of the Lord.  This may well be
the oldest literary statement in existence.  In it, Enoch
predicts:

"Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, to
execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly
among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly
committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners
have spoken against him."

It is obvious that Jude had access to the Book of Enoch, and he
did not hesitate to quote from it.

Most scholars claim that the Book of Enoch could not have been
written by the Enoch of the Bible.  Because of this, the book is
labeled a pseudoepigraph.  What happened, they suggest, is that
a much later author compiled the work--probably around the 2nd
Century B.C.--and used a number of different sources.  The
author then added the name of the biblical Enoch.  In this way,
he was assured of the book's acceptance!  Whether or not this
was so, is not our present concern.  But even if it were true,
it is obvious that the compiler of the book must have used
ancient sources that were at his disposal.  He was not so much
the author as the compiler or redactor of the book.  What could
be more honest, more modest, than for a compiler to attach to
his book not his own name but that of his oldest source.  And
who older than Enoch?


::AN ANCIENT ASTRONAUT::

Enoch obviously had access to knowledge and information
completely beyond the reach of mortal man at that stage in man's
development.  Some of this knowledge Enoch couches in
terminology that is allegorical and symbolical, and its meaning
frequently escapes us.  However, beneath the abstruse verbal
descriptions there is some amazing data.  The fact that it is
conveyed in imaginative and allegorical terminology should not
be allowed to detract from its basic accuracy.

The important question in considering the Book of Enoch is
whether it contains any reference to the strange and bizarre
event recorded in Genesis 6?  Does it have anything to say about
the "sons of God" and the "daughters of men" coming together in
sexual union?  Yes it does, many times.  It contributes a number
of details not found in the Genesis record.  But none of these
facts contradict in any way what is told us in Genesis.
Instead, they elaborate on the facts already given.  What, then,
is this additional information?

One item of interest is Enoch's account of a visit to the "fifth
heaven," where he saw giants with their "faces withered, and the
silence of their mouth perpetual."  Enoch calls them the
"Grogori" or "fallen angels," who broke their vows, married the
daughters of men, and "befouled the earth with their deeds."  He
also mentions that "giants were born and marvelous big men and
great enmity."


::THE WATCHERS::

Significantly, the Book of Enoch (like the Genesis Apocryphon)
refers to these "sons of God" as Watchers.  A term, as already
noted, found in the Book of Daniel. (5)  Why this particular
word should be used, we are not told; possibly because part of
their function was to keep vigil.  R. H. C. Charles, who
translates the word "watchers" as "the angels, the children of
heaven," obviously believed they referred to one and the same
beings.

The Book of Enoch alleges that two hundred of these Watchers
descended to Earth in the days of Jared (Genesis 5:18), and some
of them are given names.  The worst one of all is called Azazel.
The name occurs in other Jewish documents, like the Apocalypse
of Abraham.  Azazel is accused of having "scattered over the
earth the secrets of heaven and hath rebelled against the Mighty
One." His name is also found in ancient Jewish ritual concerning
the Day of Atonement.  On that day, the iniquities of the people
of Israel were laid on the scapegoat, and then the scapegoat was
driven away "to Azazel, to the wilderness" (Leviticus 16).
Azazel was a demon who inhabited a region in the Judean
wilderness.

There is an interesting aside on Azazel in a brilliant essay by
Dr. Jacob Z. Lauterbach explaining certain "stray references to
the activity of Satan on Yom Kippur."  The ritual of that day,
said Lauterbach, sought to negate Satan's efforts in three ways:
The Azazel sacrifice to appease im; the smoke of the incense to
drive him away; and the white robes of the High Priest, so
different from his usual vestments, a disguise to mislead him.
(6)

In the Book of Jubilees a different reason is given as to why
the Watchers came to Earth.  It was in order "to instruct the
children of men and to bring about justice and equity on the
Earth."  However, the story ends in the same way: instead of
instigating justice and equity, they lusted after the women of
Earth, and merited the full judgment of God.


::SECRETS OF THE COSMETIC TRADE::

According to the Book of Enoch, these Watchers instructed the
people of Earth in many studies, including the use of charms and
enchantments, the arts of magic, and the secrets of the cosmetic
trade.  And the Book of Jubilees adds to the list, "a medical
herbal" which Noah wrote down at the dictation of the angels.

It is interesting how the early Church Fathers used some of
these details for preaching purposes and moralistic instruction.
Foremost among these was Tertullian, and certainly one of the
most original.  He asks with astringent irony why should the
angels have to instruct the women of Earth in the cosmetic arts?
Surely, if they had succeeded in charming angels without any
cosmetic aids, it were an easy matter to charm men!


::ASTROLOGY, WEAPONS, ET AL::

Another study in which the Watchers instructed earthlings was
astrology, with all its concomitant evils.  And last but not
least, they instructed men how to fashion weapons of
destruction, particularly swords, knives and shields.  Comyns
Beumont deduces that they also made ammunition, and even
explosives. (7)

The Book of Enoch confirms the Book of Genesis to the letter
when it states:

"There arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication,
and they were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways."
(8)

Things got so bad on planet Earth, according to the Book of
Enoch, that the archangels of heaven--Michael, Uriel and Gabriel--
reported the matter to the Most High God:

Th whole earth has been filled with blood and unrighteousness.
And now, behold, the souls of those who have died are crying and
making their suit to the gates of heaven, and their lamentations
have ascended; and cannot cease because of the lawless deeds
which are wrought upon the earth.

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From: ur-valhalla!aol.com!Density4
Subject: Enoch and the Nephilim (4/10)
Message-ID: <950914021815_18927942@mail04.mail.aol.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 02:18:16 -0400


::CLASSIFIED MATERIAL::

God was moved to anger at these Watchers, because of the
horrible practices that they had introduced upon the Earth.  And
there was something else: God was angry at the fact that they
had disclosed certain secrets, and were teaching them to their
sons, the Nephilim.  We are not told exactly what these secrets
were, except that they were "eternal secrets" which men of Earth
were striving to learn, and which God did not intend for fallen
man to discover.

Things deteriorated rapidly, and soon the Nephilim were
practicing the most repulsive and revolting behavior.  They
began to "devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood."
This cannibalism shocked even the depraved citizens of Earth, to
the extent that they brought accusation against the Watchers.

Enoch is instructed by the Most High to deliver this warning to
the Watchers:

"Enoch, thou scribe of righteousness, go, declare to the watchers
of 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.'"

These same Watchers in turn approached Enoch to mediate on their
behalf, and to write out a petition in their favor.  God,
however, rejects the petition and Enoch is summoned to speak to
the Watchers again:

"Go, say to the Watchers of heaven, who have sent thee to
itercede for them: 'Ye should intercede for men, and not men
for you.  Wherefore have ye left high, holy and eternal heaven,
and lain with women and defiled yourselves with the daughters of
men, and taken wives unto yourselves and done like the child of
earth and begotten giants as sons.  And although ye were holy,
spiritual living and eternal life, you have defiled yourselves
with the blood of women, and have begotten children with the
blood of flesh, have lusted after flesh and blood as those who
do die and perish.'"

And as for the giants or Nephilim produced by them:

"The giants, who are produced from the spirits and flesh, shall
be called evil spirits upon the earth...Evil spirits have
proceeded from their bodies; because they are born from men and
from the holy Watchers is their beginning and primal origin...
And the spirits of the giants afflict, oppress, attack, do
battle, and work destruction on the earth...And these spirits
shall rise up against the children of men and against the women,
because they have proceeded from them...thus shall they destroy
until the day of the consummation, the great judgment in which
the age shall be consummated over the Watchers and the godless,
yea, shall be wholly consummated.  And now as to the Watchers...
say to them therefore: 'Ye have no peace.'"

Such was the message given to Enoch, who transmitted it to the
Watchers and their progeny on Earth.

The next question is: How was this information preserved for us?
How did the succeeding generation learn these facts?  The Book
of Enoch supplies the answer:

"And now, my son Methuselah, I tell thee everything and write it
down for thee: I have revealed everything to thee, and handed
thee the books which have to do with all these things.  My son
Methuselah, preserve the books that come from thy father's hand
and hand them on to the coming generations of the world."

Enoch was also given a message to deliver to Noah, telling him
that the whole Earth was to be destroyed.  He was also to
instruct Noahin the way of escape, so that his seed be
preserved for all generations.

Unquestionably, the Book of Enoch confirms the biblical record
that the Earth was defiled and polluted by the incursion of
extraterrestrial beings, and particularly by their shameful
behavior with the "daughters of men."  And as in the Book of
Genesis, so in the Book of Enoch, God is incensed with this
sexual coupling between celestial and terrestrial beings, and
begins to move in an act of terrible judgment.  "And the Lord
said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of
the earth" (Genesis 6:7).


::THE SONS OF JARED::

Other books, like The Book of Jubilee add a few more details to
this awesome story.  It reveals the date when these heavenly
Watchers descended to Earth--461 Annus Mundi, a date which
Bishop Usher would interpret as 3543 B.C.  It also notes that
these Watchers were specifically associated with Jared, the
fifth in line from Adam.

Interestingly, there is an American organization called "The
Sons of Jared."  Their publication is called, "The Jaredite
Advocate."  The aim of this group, as far as one is able to
understand is to declare war on all the descendants of the
Watchers--including notorious kings and dictators, who have
tyrannized mankind.  A sort of celestial Mafia!

Regarding this association with Jared, the Book of Jubilees
tells us:

"And in the second week of the tenth jubilee of Mahalelel took
unto him a wife Dinah, the daughter of Barakel, the daughter of
his brother's brother and she bore him a son in the sixth year
and he called his name Jared for in his days the angels of the
Lord descended on the earth, those so named the Watchers." (9)


::OTHER ANCIENT DOCUMENTS::

Another minor source of data is the Zadokite Document.  This was
discovered about a half century ago in the attic of an old
synagogue in Cairo and is thought to be related to the Dead Sea
Scrolls.  This document also refers to the descent of the
Watchers, and to their giant offspring:

"Because they walkd in the stubbornness of their hearts, the
Watchers of heaven fell, yea, they were caught thereby because
they kept not the commandments of God.  So too their sons whose
bodies were as mountains.  They also fell." (10)

The Apocalypse of Baruch is another ancient document which
confirms the story of the fallen angels.  Written in Syriac, it
adds this new concept to the story of the fallen angels: that
the source of the corruption was the sinfulness of mankind.  It
was human sin that caused the angels to fall.

A series of booklets called The Testament of the Twelve
Patriarchs, purporting to come from the twelve sons of Jacob,
(11) also refer to the fallen angels.  They contain nothing like
the detail of the Book of Enoch, but they do make an interesting
statement: the women of Earth were the prime movers in alluring
and enticing the angels.  In this they agree with the Apocalypse
of Baruch.  They also introduce a brand new element, suggesting
that the act in which the angels and the women participated was
more psychological than physical:

"Thus they allured the Watchmen before the flood, for as these
continually beheld them, they lusted after them and conceived
the act in their mind; for they changed themselves into the
shape of men and appeared to them when they were with their
husbands; and the women, lusting in their minds after their
forms, gave birth to giants." (12)

It appears from this Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs that the
"lusting" and the "conceiving" were in the mind.  Nonetheless,
the results were physical enough--they gave birth to giants!

Jewish documents are not the only ones which refer to fallen
angels.  The Koran contains brief reference to two angels, Harut
and Maru who came to Earth.  Their fall takes place when a
beautiful woman appears before them.  The angels had been warned
in advance that there were three things they were not to do:
admit existence of other gods; murder; drink intoxicants.  It
was precisely these three things that the charming woman
dmanded, if the angels were to enjoy her favors.  Finally the
angels agreed to drink wine--as the least of the three sins--and
their paramour granted their desires.


::FOLKLORE AND FABLES::

Another source of information is the abundance of myths,
legends, folklore and fables that speak of "giants" upon the
Earth in ancient times, and how there was sexual union between
demi-gods from Heaven and women from Earth.  Many scholars
believe that myths emerged from a kernel of historical fact.
According to Andrew Tomas, mythology and folklore are "thought-
fossils depicting the story of vanished cultures in symbols and
allegories."  If this is so, do we find anything in myths and
legends resembling the bizarre event of Genesis 6?  There are
indeed numerous such traditions among many nations.

Most people are acquainted with the mythologies of ancient
Greece and Rome.  The gods or semi-gods in these traditions go
under different names, but their behavior has a common
denominator.  Whether these gods are called Zeus or Jupiter,
Poseidon or Neptune, Aphrodite or Venus, Eros or Cupid...their
sex orgies, promiscuities, cruelties and violence are all of the
same cloth.  And so are their offspring.

The Genesis story, according to Tom Horner, corresponds
precisely to the Age of the Heroes in ancient Greece.  These
heroes were also "spawned by divine fathers and human mothers.
One of them was Hercules." (14)

The story of Zeus also is well known.  Promotheus was aware of
the secret that Zeus had no control over his lusts, and aware
also of the names of the women whom he would seduce.  Because of
this and other reasons, Zeus planned for Promotheus to be
chained in the Caucasius, where an eagle would feed on his liver
each day.  But each night his liver would be renewed.  In this
way, the torture of Promotheus was endless.  Eventually however,
he and Zeus were reconciled.  But cruelty was not the only
distinctive of Zeus.  There seemed to be no boundaries or limits
to his lust, and numerous women wee seduced by him, including
Thetis, Europa, Leda, Metis and Dione.  Emile Gaverluk
says:

"Zeus' amorous victories illustrate the. actions of uncontrolled
spirit-beings lusting after human flesh.  The whole story of
Greek mythology is an expanded version of that astonishing verse
in the Bible: 'The sons of God saw the daughters of men that
they were fair, and took them wives of all they chose.' (Genesis
6.-2)...The mythology of the past is a startling revelation of
the uncontrolled behavior of both spirit-beings and rebellious
man." (15)

But the mythologies of Greece and Rome are not the only ones
that relate such strange events.  Erich Von Daniken has supplied
us with a wealth of samples from around the world. (16)  We
admit that his speculative outbursts frequently outmatch his
theological soundness, nevertheless we are indebted to him for
bringing to our attention many incontrovertible facts which
others had left buried and undisturbed.

Ancient Sumerian records tell of gods descending from the stars
and fertilizing their ancestors.  This interbreeding of gods
from heaven and women from earth is supposed to have produced
the first men upon earth.

The native inhabitants of Malekula, in the New Hebrides believe
that the first race of men were direct descendants of the sons
of heaven.

The Incas held that they were the descendants of the "sons of
the Sun."

The Teutons claimed that their ancestors came with the flying
Wanen.

Some of the South Sea islanders trace their ancestry to one of
the gods of heaven, who visited them in an enormous gleaming egg.

The Koreans believed that a heavenly king, "Hwanin," sent his
son, "Hwanung," to earth, married an earth woman who gave birth
to Tangun Wanggom.  It was he who was supposed to have welded
all the primitive tribes together into one kingdom.

The ancient tradition Tango-Fudoki in Japan tells the story of
the Island Child.  The only difference here is that it was a man
from earth and a maiden from heaven that came together in
marriage, and spent their time together in heaven and not on
earth.

From India comes the Mahabharata and other ancient Sanskrit
texts, which tell of "gods" begetting children with women of
earth, and how these children inherited the "supernatural"
skills and learning of their fathers.

A similar mythology is found in the Epic of Gilgamesh, where we
read of "watchers" from outer space coming to planet Earth, and
producing giants.

An early Persian myth tells that before the coming of Zoroaster,
demons had corrupted the Earth, and allied themselves with women.

When these and many other accounts, are all tied together, they
amaze us by their common core.  Each one refers, with slight
variations, to the traffic between "the sons of God" and "the
daughters of men"; to the sexual activities in which they
engaged; and to the unusual and abnormal offspring they produced.
A further convincing element in this string of samples, is
that thes myths and legends belong to people so far removed
from each other by time, space and language that collaboration
or conspiracy is out of the question.  How then does one explain
this phenomenon?


::FABLE OR FACT::

Could it be, that at some distant point in time these bizarre
events actually did take place?  Rather than being the fertile
product of the imagination of primitive man, they were simply
man's crude description of what actually happened?  Beings from
Heaven and beings from Earth did actually come together, did
generate children, and did produce the Nephilim.

Later, of course, many of these myths and legends developed an
overgrowth of fictional imagery and imaginative fantasy, which
clung to them like moss to the mill.  There can be little doubt,
however, that beneath this dense overgrowth lies the plant of
truth.  What began history, ended up as legend.

Above all else, we are convinced that the Bible speaks of these
things.  The basic message of the apocryphal documents and the
various mythologies find corroboration in God's Word.  Spirit
beings from outer space did arrive on Earth, and did produce
these unnatural offspring.  By this cross-breeding, man became
more and more absorbed with evil and violence; the human race
became tainted and corrupted; and soon the Earth was
unsalvagable.  These extraterrestrial being by means of genetic
manipulation had succeeded in contaminating God's special
creation; so much so, that their destruction, as well as that of
man became a moral necessity.


Notes:

1.  R. H. C. Charles, Fragments of the Book of Noah (London:
    Oxford University Press).

2.  Theodor H. Gaster, The Dead Sea Scriptures (Garden City, New
    York: Doubleday and Co., Inc., 1956), p. 257.

3.  Michel Eyquem de Montaign (1533-92).

4.  Bernard J. Bamberger, Fallen Angels (Philadelphia: The Jewish
    Publication Society of America, 1952), p. 25.

5.  Daniel 4:13, 17, 23.

6.  Jacob Z. Lauterbach, Hebrew Union College Annual, IV, 173ff.

7.  Comyns Beaumont, The Ridle of Prehistoric Britain (London:
    Rider & Co., Ltd.).

8.  Trans. by R.H.C. Charles, (London).

9.  Dr. R.H.C. Charles, The Book of Jubilees (London:    A & C
    Black, 1902).

10. Theodore H. Gaster, The Scriptures of the Dead Sea Sect
    (London: Secker & Wartburg, 1957).

11. Bernard J. Bamberger, Fallen Angels (Philadelphia: The
    Jewish Publication Society of America, 1952), p. 27.

12. Ibid., p. 31.

13. Andrew Tomas, We Are Not The First (New York:       Bantam Books,
    Inc., 1973).

14. Tom Hoover, Sex in the Bible (Rutland, Vermont: Charles E.
    Tuttle Co., 1974), p. 145.

15. Emil Gaverluk, Did Genesis Man Conquer Space? (Nashville:
    Thomas Nelson, Inc., 1974), p. 89.

16. Erich Von Daniken, Gods from Outer Space (New York: Bantam
    Books, Inc., 1972) pp. 161-162.

[continued]




From: ur-valhalla!aol.com!Density4
Subject: Enoch and the Nephilim (5/10)
Message-ID: <950914021924_18928455@mail02.mail.aol.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 02:19:25 -0400



Who Are The Nephilim?
=====================


"...climax at the beginning."

-Arthur Custance.


Of all the imaginable phenomena on Earth, the progeny of this
union between extraterrestrials and humans is the most bizarre.
Man has paid little attention to them until now, for the fact of
their existence has been shrouded in legend.  But can they be
dismissed as myth any longer?  In this end time hour many
strange phenomena are occurring.  Jesus said, "As the days of
Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be"
(Matthew 24:37).  It was the wickedness of humanity and the
abominable union of the supernatural with the natural that moved
God to judge the world.  We are fast approaching a new period of
God's wrath.  The return of these super creatures may even now
be a threat to us.


::THE NEPHILIM: ETYMOLOGICAL EVIDENCE::

Who are these beings?  A clue to their identity is found in
their name--Nephilim.  The word itself is Hebrew, and it is
first used in Genesis 6:4.

There were giants in the earth in those days: and also after
that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men,
and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which
were of old, men of renown.

Nephilim is translated "giants" in the Authorized King James
Version, but "giants" is in no way a complete description.

Commentators like Lange trace the word "Nephilim" to the root
"Niphal" meaning "distinguished ones."  This corresponds
perfectly with the "men of renown" at the ed of Genesis 6:4,
nevertheless it is not a generally accepted translation.

Others have sought the root of the word in the Hebrew consonants
"npl" as found in Psalm 58:8.  Here it means "miscarriage."
Accepting this theory, the Nephilim would be those superhuman
beings that resulted from miscarriages.  Genesis Rabbah (26:7)
seems to confirm this translation when it states:

Nephilim denotes that they hurled the word down, themselves fell
(naflu) from the world, and filled the world with abortions
(nephilim) through their immorality. (1)

Most scholars, however, reject both these interpretations and
trace the word "Nephilim" to the Hebrew root "Naphal" meaning
"to fall."  The Nephilim are the "fallen ones."  A direct
reference to the fallen angels who sired them.  Some writers
such as Ben Adam believe the word "Nephilim" refers to the
fallen angels themselves and not to their offspring.

Because of some uncertainty in the translation of the Hebrew
word, more and more Bible versions are now leaving the original
word untranslated.  Thus the New International Version renders
the passage: "The Nephilim were on the earth in those days..."
(Genesis 6:4).  This also does justice to the fact that the
definite article precedes the word in the original.  "The
Nephilim were on the earth..."  The same definite article is
also found in the other biblical passage where the word
"Nephilim" occurs, namely, Numbers 13:33.  "We saw the Nephilim
there..."

Interpreting the Nephilim as "the fallen ones" dismisses the
suggestion of one modern author that belief in the Nephilim
could lead to racism.  He fears that people would boast of
having celestial blood in their veins and consider themselves
superior to those of ordinary, human ancestry.  To claim descent
from stellar explorers could lead to a class distinction
surpassing anything ever seen in society, but he need have no
such qualms!  If the Nephilim are stellar, they are also
infernal.  To claim descent from such beings would be to admit
an ancesty from Hell.

Although there is no etymological evidence to justify "giants"
as an accurate translation for "Nephilim," such a translation is
not without merit.  In more senses than one, Nephilim were
giants.


::GIANTS IN SIZE::

For one thing, they were giants in size and strength.  Much
documentation of the exceptional physical stature and super-
human strength of the Nephilim exists, and this is not in the
least surprising, knowing that they were "fathered" by angels.
Angels as already stated, do "excel in strength" (Psalm 103:20).
They are greater "in power and might" than men of earth (2
Peter 2:1 1).

What applies to holy angels, applies equally to rebellious
angels.  Their moral fall does not seem to have reduced their
physical prowess.  The Book of Enoch states that their "height
was like the tallness of cedars and whose bodies were like
mountains."

A modern author describes them in the following terms:

Perverted power and strength are (thus) conspicuous attributes
of fallen angels.  This titanic energy is displayed in the
supernatural strength demons can impart to the human body when
they enter it and possess it. (2)

The New Testament supplies many such examples.  One of the most
noted is that of the Gadarene demoniac, who by his super-human
strength could snap fetters and break chains.

The Roman Catholic Church confirms this attribute of fallen
angels when it demands the presence of super-human strength
before it will diagnose a person as being demon-possessed.

Actually a person under investigation must reveal the presence
of three phenomena before the Roman Catholic Church will
categorize him as "possessed."  First, he must be able to speak
in a language unknown to him.  Second, he must have knowledge of
secret facts, previously unknown to him.  Third, he must possess
unnatural strength beyond his age and ability. (3)

Dr. Kurt Koch, from his vast experience and extensive research
into occultism, has discovered that even children or delicately
built women can offer effctive resistance to three or four
strong men when demon possessed. (4)

Similarly, Professor Oesterreich cites a number of examples from
his research, demonstrating the same super-human strength in
demon-possessed people.  One example he gives is of a ten-year-
old boy who could be scarcely held down by three adults.
Another is of a young girl who could barely be controlled by two
men. (5)

In a similar vein, Robert Pearson wrote from Borneo in 1967
concerning the Dyak uprising:

Evidences of demonic power were witnessed at Andjungan.  Dyaks
used their fists and feet to break display cases with glass
flying all over the place.  Some actually danced on it with bare
feet but no one was injured.  One missionary watched Dyaks step
into pans of acid used to coagulate rubber.  Undiluted, this
acid can normally burn the flesh to the bone, but these men were
unharmed.  Others struck locked and barred doors with their bare
hands, breaking them down so easily as if they had been rammed
by a truck...These things are hard to understand, but we know
that Satan is powerful and...able to endow men with his power
when it suits his purpose. (6)

John Wesley in his journal entry for May 2, 1739, writes of a
certain John Haydon, a respectable person, present in one of his
meetings, and who "fell off his chair and began screaming
terribly and beating himself against the ground ...Two or three
men were holding him as well as they could.  The man then roared
out, "O thou devil! thou cursed devil!  Yea, thou legion of
devils! thou canst not stay!  Christ will cast thee out!"'
Fortunately, after prayer, Wesley reports that "both his body
and soul were set at liberty."

These and countless similar examples are reminiscent of what
happened to the seven sons of Sceva in Acts 19.  A demonized man
out-numbered seven to one, was able to overcome all seven by a
phenomenal show of strength.  The Bible states that they were
fortunate to escape from the house naked and wounded.


::A SECOND INCURSION::

In Genesis 6 where the word "Nephilim" is first used, we are
told that the Nephilim appeared on the Earth just before the
Flood, and that their appearance was the main reason for the
Flood.  There followed another incursion of these fallen angels
at a later date.  We read in Genesis 6: "The Nephilim were on
the earth in those days and also afterward..." (N.I.V.).  This
data is found in Numbers 13:33: "We saw the Nephilim there (the
descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim)" (N.I.V.).

This second eruption was probably on a more limited and
restricted scale than the first.  Nevertheless, God ordered
their complete destruction.

One has often wondered at the severe an extreme measures that
God asked Joshua to put into effect once he entered the land of
Canaan.  God commanded him to "utterly destroy them."  We have
found it difficult to reconcile this with the character of God.
One can only surmise that God had a special reason to issue such
a command.  Could it be that God knew the heritage of these
Nephilim?

God was aware that the Canaanites and their neighbors manifested
the whole gamut of demonical practices, and that they were a
threat to the character and destiny of His chosen people, who
were entering the land at that time.  This is why He warned the
Israelites not to imitate the occult practices of these people
whom they dispossessed.  With the same unmatched anger that He
had displayed in Genesis 6, God orders the complete
extermination of the inhabitants of Canaan.  "But thou shalt
utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites,
the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the
Jebusites; as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee" (Deuteronomy
20:17). However, Israel, as so often in her history, failed to
obey God, and there is reason to believe that some of the
Nephilim survived (Joshua 13:13, 16:1 0; Judges 1:28-34).

The progeny of these Nephilim went under various names.  We read
of the Anakim, descended from Anak (Numbers 13:28); the Rephaim,
descended from Raha; the Zamzummims, the Emims, the Avims, etc.
All shared the characteristics of being huge, tall and strong.
Rabbi Bahya ben Asher, a Spanish Cabalist, claimed the Nephilim
were heads of the family called "sons of God."  They were so
called because terror fell on those who saw them.  As the
virility of the stock declined, they were called Anakim and
later Rephaim. (7)  Here is an Old Testament description of the
Emim:

"The Emim dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many,
and tall, as the Anakim; which also were accounted giants, as
the Anakim; but the Moabites called them Emims.  (Deuteronomy
2:10, 11)."

These men were such giants that the Israelite spies who went in
to reconnoiter the land, cowered before them:

"And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the
giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we
were in their sight." (Numbers 13:33).

Flavius Josephus, the noted Jewish historian of the first
century A.D., described these giants as having "bodies so large
and countenances so entirely different from other men that they
were surprising to the sight and terrible to the hearing." (8)
And he adds that in his day, the bones of the giants were still
on display!


Deuteronomy 3:11 describes one of these giants in more detail:

"For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants:
behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in
Rabbath of the children of Ammon?  Nine cubits was the length
thereof and four cubits the breadth of it, after the cubit of
a man."

A super king-sized bed!  In modem measurements it was 18 feet, 6
inches long, and 8 feet, 4 inches wide!

Some of these giants carried spears that weighed from ten to
twenty-five pounds.  One carried a spear whose staff was "like a
weaver's beam" (II Samuel 21:19).  Goliath wore a coat of armor
that weighed 196 pounds, and he was said to be about nine feet
tall.  Some of these giants had six fingers on each hand and six
toes on each foot.


::EVIDENCE FROM OUTSIDE THE MIDDLE EAST::

These giants were not confined to the Middle East.  Two dozen
human footprints of abnormal size have been found in the Paluxi
riverbed, Texas, some of them measuring eighteen inches long.
Other giant markings have been discovered in such diverse places
as Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and California.  In the Mt.
Vernon area of Ohio, Dr. Wilbur G. Burroughs of the Geological
Division of the Berea College, Kentucky, reported finds of human
foot prints 23.75 cm. long and 10.25 wide!  Near Antelope
Springs, Utah, William Meister discovered in 1968 two human
footprints 32.5 cm. long and 11.25 wide.

Similar giant footprints have been discovered in other countries
especially in the Mt. Victoria region of Australia.

Not only do we have footprints of giants but actual skeletons as
well.  In 1936 Larson Kohl, the German paleontologist and
anthropologist, found the bones of gigantic men on the shore of
Lake Eyasi in Central Africa.  Other giant skeletons were later
found in Hava, the Transvaal and China.  The evidence for the
existence of giants is incontrovertible.  "A scientifically
assured fact," says Dr. Louis Burkhalter. (9)

[continued]


From: ur-valhalla!aol.com!Density4
Subject: Enoch and the Nephilim (6/10)
Message-ID: <950914022046_18929104@mail06.mail.aol.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 02:20:48 -0400



::GIANTS IN KNOWLEDGE::

The Nephilim also were giants in knowledge.  According to the
Book of Enoch, God was incensed against the fallen angels partly
because they disclosed certain classified information to humans.
The ancient world associated demons with special esoteric
knowledge and with superior intelligence.  The word "demon" in
Greek (daimon) comes from the root meaning "knowledge" or
"intelligence."  The Scriptures also testify to the fact that
demons have access to knowledge and information denied to
ordinary mortals.  We read in the Gospels how they recognized
and acknowledged the deity of Christ when humans seemed totally
blind to the fact.  When the Gaderene demoniac saw Jesus, he
fell down before him, and cried out, "What have I to do with
thee, Jesus, thou Son of God most high?" (Luke 8:28).  These
demons recognized Jesus at the beginning of His ministry, way
ahead of His own disciples.

In the Book of Acts, with the same supernatural knowledge,
demons recognized the mission and message of the Apostle Paul.
The possessed damsel at Philippi cried, "These men are the
servants of the most high God, which shew unto us the way of
salvation" (Acts 16:17).  This happened at a time when the
people of Philippi had no idea who Paul was, nor did they know
the nature of his mission.  We cannot but note that every
recorded statement made by demons in the New Testament
concerning Christ or Paul was one-hundred percent accurate.

Clement of Alexandria suggested aninteresting reason for this
superior knowledge of demons:

It is evident, since they are demoniac spirits, that they know
some things more quickly and more perfectly than men, for they
are not retarded in learning by the heaviness of a body.

Examples of this trait in demons is supplied by various
missionary organizations.  They tell us how people possessed by
evil spirits acquire superior knowledge, far above that of their
brethren.  In an editorial in Christian Life Magazine we find
these words concerning the murder of five young American
missionaries in the jungles of Ecuador in 1956:

"Indians at Arajuno mission base knew in a few hours what had
happened when five missionaries deep in Ecuador's Auca territory
in 1956 failed to make radio contact with anxiously waiting
fellow missionaries.  How?  They asked a local witch doctor.  He
obliged by falling into a trance, calling up his favorite demons
and asking them to tell him where the missing missionaries were.
According to the friendly Indians, they heard demons leave the
scene and, in a short time, returned with the message that the
missionaries were in the Curaray River with Auca lances in them."

John L. Nevius, a medical missionary in China at the end of the
last century gathered a significant compendium of data on this
subject.  After sending a detailed questionnaire to Protestant
missionaries all over China, he gleaned a vast amount of
information about the symptoms of demonism.  One characteristic
he found again and again was the prevalence of superior
2knowledge and intelligence in the possessed person--even on
subject matters of which the person had no prior knowledge.


::PROGRAMMED FROM SPACE::

This may well supply the key to the great knowledge and
expertise that characterized certain men in ancient times.  As
already seen, such knowledge and expertise by "primitive" men
continue to defy explanation.  P. J. Wiseman admits to this
mysterious factor:

It was expected that the more ancient the period, the more
primitive wuld excavators find it to be, until traces of
civilization ceased altogether and aboriginal man appeared.
Neither in Babylonia, nor Egypt, the land of the oldest known
habitations of man, has this been the case. (10)

Arthur Custance pertinently states this strange sequence right
at the beginning of human history:

"...an unbelievably long time with almost no growth; a sudden
spurt leading within a very few centuries to a remarkably high
culture; a gradual slowing up, and decay, followed only much
later by recovery of lost arts and by development of new ones
leading ultimately to the creation of our modern world.  What
was the agency which operated for that short period of time to
so greatly accelerate the process of cultural development and
produce such remarkable results?" (11)

Could this agency be the Nephilim?  Could this expertise have
been imparted by beings from outer space?  And could this
explain the mysteries surrounding Stonehenge, the Mayan Caracol,
Tiahuanaco, the Bay of Pisco, and particularly the Great
Pyramid?  Did the knowledge necessary to construct these
monolithic structures come from the Nephilim?  Were they the
ones responsible for what Custance calls the "climax at the
beginning"? (12)

As for the Great Pyramid, many scientists suggest a date back in
the generations preceding the Flood.  If so, those happen to be
the very times of the Nephilim, the generations of the "giants"
and of the "men of renown."  But what if it could be proven that
the Great Pyramid was not built until after the Flood?  There is
still no problem.

Could not Noah and his family have carried this information with
them into the Ark, and transmitted it later to their
descendants?  According to the Babylonian version of the Flood,
the "Chaldean" Noah was made to bury his books before the Flood,
and then disentomb them after emerging from the Ark.  But there
is still another possibility: Could this knowledge have come
from the second eruption of the Nephilim, which occurred after
the Flood


::"TREE OF KNOWLEDGE"::

If we go further back, could one find a linkage between this
esoteric knowledge and the "tree of knowledge" found in the
Garden of Eden?  We know that this was the one tree whose fruit
Adam and Eve were forbidden to eat, or even touch (Genesis 2:17,
3:3).  Why was this tree so named?  Few commentators have shed
any light on its meaning.  Many dismiss the account as mere
symbolism, without even telling us what the symbolism is
supposed to represent.  Others look upon the passage as poetry,
conveniently forgetting poetry is often the truest history.  It
not only relates facts but interprets them as well.  Poetry has
been described as "history written from the inside rather than
from the outside, and therefore incomparably truer. (13)  Or in
the words of British author Graham Green, "Poetry is the
photography of the invisible."

Supposing we applied this principle to the "tree of knowledge."
If it is a symbol, then obviously it must be a symbol of
something.  Or if poetry, then it must convey some inner truth.
But why should one speculate and search for cryptic meanings
when the truth may well be on the surface.  Obviously, the "tree
of knowledge" must have something to do with knowledge, or why
should it be so named?  It undoubtedly contained the key to
certain divinely classified material that God did not want early
man to possess.  But somehow, and it could well be by means of
the Nephilim, early man did come to possess that knowledge--at
least a part of it.

This was knowledge that primitive man could never have
discovered on his own.  Indeed, it was knowledge beyond the
capacity of modern man!  Kelly Segraves reminds
us:

"With all our intelligences, we cannot figure out how pyramids
were constructed." (14)

We ask again, could this intelligence have been transmitted by
the "sons of God"?

Egypt is not the only country that has pyramids.  A whole
network of them can be found around the planet--in Cambodia,
Shen Shi, China, Thailand, Mexico, Nazca, Yuctan, Alaska...How
does one account for such advanced scientific technology, on
such a universal scale, and in such prehistoric times?

Could the answer be man's longevity at that time?  The average
age span before the Flood was close to nine hundred years--
thirteen times the proverbial "three score and ten."  This, of
course, provided exceptional opportunity for learning, research,
experimentation and the accumulation of knowledge.  If only
modern-day scientists could live that long!  But longevity alone
could never account for the specialized knowledge that our
forefathers possessed.  Their awesome expertise indicates a
source outside of themselves.  No other viable explanation can
be offered except that mankind was preprogrammed from the depths
of space.

The Bible not only supplies the key to the source of this
knowledge, but to the way it was transmitted--space-beings
called "fallen-angels."  As we have seen, such extraterrestrials
possess superior knowledge.  This they transmitted to man in
direct contradiction to God's wishes.

Satan, the leader of fallen angels, is himself a creature of
rare brilliance and inimitable genius.  The Latin translation of
his name, "Lucifer" (from the Hebrew "Helel"), comes from a root
meaning "brilliance" or "magnificence."  This is a trait he
shares with his cohorts.  He and they have access to classified,
divine information, and are cognizant of hidden things (See Acts
16:16, 17).  According to Professor C. S. Dickerson, "The source
of their knowledge is found in their superior created nature and
in their vast experience, as they lived through many thousands
of years observing and collecting information." (15)

John L. Nevius, after surveying demon possession in China,
documents the amazing knowledge revealed by the demon-
possessed:

"Many persons while demon possessed give evidence of knowledge
which cannot be accounted for in ordinary ways.  They often
appear to know of the Lord Jesus as a divine person and show an
aversion to, and a fear of im.  They sometimes converse in
foreign languages of which in their normal states they are
entirely ignorant." (16)


::BETTY AND BARNEY HILL::

Betty and Barney Hill of New Hampshire, while returning home
from a vacation in Canada in 1961, spotted a flying saucer and
pulled off the road to watch it land.  The engine of their car
went dead, but they have no recollection of what happened after
that.  The next thing they remembered was being close to home...
sixty miles south!  After this bizarre experience, they suffered
from nightmares, anxiety syndromes and ulcers.  They finally
consulted a psychiatrist, the noted Dr. Benjamin Simon of Boston.
By the use of hypnosis, he was able to induce from them--quite
independently of each other--the story of those missing hours.
Both told the same story.  Taken aboard the flying saucer, they
underwent physical examination by the humanoid occupants.  Tape
recordings were made of their story (given under hypnosis), and
a book was published.  Later, an NBC television movie was made
of the event.

Stanton T. Friedman, a nuclear physicist, studied these reports
and was greatly impressed.  But what finally convinced him was
the map drawn in 1964 by Betty Hill of a star system unknown to
science at the time.  Betty claimed that she had been shown this
map aboard the UFO, and revealed the details of it under
hypnosis.  The astronomers who examined the map at that time,
dismissed it.  But since 1964 new evidence has appeared on the
subject--star systems that were invisible in 1964 have now been
discovered.  And an amazing fact has come to light.  Dr.
Friedman explains:

"Using these new data, a computer came up with a map of the Zeta
Reticuli system--faint stars 220 trillion miles away - which
astronomers agree matches Mrs. Hill's precisely." (17)


::GIANTS IN WICKEDNESS::

Giants in wickedness is another distinction of the Nephilim.
Sired by demonic beings, their character and activity certainly
reveal the nature of the "fallen ones."

Many of the legends surrounding the cross breeding between the
natural and the supernatural depict subhuman behavior.  To the
last one, the semi-gods of mythology--Zeus (the Roman Jupiter),
Poseidon (Neptune), Eros (Cupid), Hermes (Mercury)--were
violent, wanton, lustful and promiscuous beyond restraint.  They
constantly engaged in sex orgies and seduction, and produced the
strangest of offspring.  Emil Gaverluk tells of Zeus:

"He disregarded marriage laws and engaged in love affairs with
members of both sexes.  Zeus married Hera, his sister.  One of
the loves of Zeus was Europa.  He seduced her by becoming a bull
and carrying her away.  Another was Leda, daughter of Thestios,
King of Aetolia and the wife of Tyndereus, King of Sparta.  But
this did not stop Zeus...Athene was the daughter of Metis by
Zeus.  Metis tried to evade him.  He seduced her.  She warned
him that if he di this again and the child was a male, that
child would depose and conquer him.  Zeus didn't like the sound
of this and took no chances.  He swallowed the child whole.
Zeus' amorous victories illustrate the actions of uncontrolled
spirit-beings lusting after human flesh." (18)

This is only one example from Greek mythology of the evil
associations between spirit-entities from space and human beings
from Earth.  But it was not only the spirit-beings who acted
this way; they seem to have passed on the trait to their
descendants.

The Nephilim, in this respect more than in anything else, were
close imitators of their fathers.  They reflected the works of
their demon ancestry.  And just as there are degrees of goodness
among the saints, so there are degrees of evil among the demons.
Evidence of this is recorded in Matthew 12:43-45.  It tells of
the unclean spirit returning to occupy the house from which he
had been displaced, and returns with "seven other spirits more
wicked than himself."

Irrespective of the degree of evil, all demons are regarded by
God as vile and depraved.  A recurring biblical adjective is
"unclean" (Matthew 10:1, Mark 1:27, 3:11).  These spirits are
both morally and spiritually unclean, and the same distinctive
applies to their progeny on Earth.  What is more, those who
traffic with such beings, frequently end up like them.  Indeed
such is the degree of their degradation that the Lord abandons
them to their own depravity.  Romans 1:24-32 graphically states
that "God gave them up."  The depths of their degradation and
the infamy of their immoralities, puts them on a level lower
than animals.  Abandoned by God to the consequences of their
wickedness, and deranged by demonic harassment, people have been
driven to insane asylums and even to suicide.

Is it any wonder when incorrigible spirit-beings and rebellious
humans cooperated to pollute Earth, to seek genetic control and
produce hybrids that threatened the race itself, and even tried
to thwart the very plan of Gd, that God should intervene in a
judgment terrible to behold? (19)


::GIANTS IN PRIDE::

The Nephilim were giants in pride also.  Lord Acton claimed that
power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.  So does
knowledge.  With their superior intelligence and knowledge, the
Nephilim soon succumbed to the sin that became the downfall of
Lucifer--pride (1 Timothy 3:6).  Like Lucifer, his followers
also dreamed of being gods, desiring to control and rule the
Earth.  Their advanced knowledge was the desired diet for their
egoism.  Such knowledge wedded to an already arrogant nature led
to self-deification.  They craved divine honors and religious
worship.  This was the ambition of Lucifer, of the Nephilim, and
of every fallen creature.  They were propelled in all that they
did by self-will, self-determination, self-glorification, and
ultimately self-deification.  No wonder Josephus refers to the
Nephilim as "sons who were overbearing and disdainful of every
virtue."

Man's fascination with the occult and otherworld phenomena is
amazingly significant today.  At no other time has he been more
conditioned to accept the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
Having once escaped his Mother Earth, man now strains at his
celestial tether, wondering what or who lies beyond the final
frontier.  With this starward look, the stage could be set for
the coming of the unwelcome guests from space.  The "days of
Noah" are again here; perhaps even now agents from another realm
are plotting the return of the Nephilim.


Notes:

1.  Tr. I. Epstein 1.218.

2.  Merill Unger, Demons in the World Today (Wheaton: Tyndale
    House, 1971), p. 26.

3.  Quoted by F. Seth Dryness, Jr., The Journal of Christian
    Reconstruction, Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter 1974, p. 51.

4.  Kurt Koch, Christian Counseling and Occultism (Grand Rapids:
    Kregel Publications, 1973).

5.  Ibid., p. 22.

6.  Robert Pearson, Storm Over Borneo, (Overseas Missionary
    Fellowship, 1967).

7.  Rabbi Bahya ben Asher., Biur al ha Toral Venice, 1566), p.
    179.

8.  Josephus, The Work of Flavius Josephus; Antiquities of the
    Jews (London: G. G. Rutledge), 1.3.1., Book vii.

9.  Revue du Musee de Beyrouth.

10. P.J. Wiseman, New Discoveries in Babylon about Genesis
    (London: Marshall, Morgan and Scott, 2nd edition), pp. 28-29.

11. Arthur C. Custance, Genesis and Early Man (Grand Rapids:
    Zondervan Publishing House 1975), p. 103.

12. Ibid., pp. 81ff.

13. J. Cynddylan Jones, Primeval Revelation (London: Hodder &
    Stoughton, 1897), pp. 206-7.

14. Kelly Segraves, The Great Flying Saucer Myth (San Diego:
    Beta Books, 1975), p. 52.

15. C. S. Dickerson, Angels Elect and Evil (Chicago: Moody
    Press, 1975), p. 165.

16. John L. Nevius, Demon Possession and Allied Themes (Old
    Tappan, New Jersey: Fleming H. Revell, 1894), p. 161.

17. Stanton T. Friedman, UFOs A Complete Nightmare (Dick Adler,
    Los Angeles Times, October 20,1975), p. 14.

18. Emil Gaverluk, Did Genesis Man Conquer Space? (Nashville:
    Thomas Nelson, Inc., 1974), pp. 88-89.

19. C. S. Dickerson, Angels Elect and Evil (Chicago: Moody
    Press, 1975), pp. 170-174.

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From: ur-valhalla!aol.com!Density4
Subject: Enoch and the Nephilim (7/10)
Message-ID: <950914021810_18929882@emout04.mail.aol.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 02:18:11 -0400



Sons of God, Daughters of Men
=============================


"The craving of demons for a body, evident in the Gospels,
offers at least some parallel to this hunger for sexual
experience."

- Derek Kidne


In 1947 an Arab boy tending his sheep accidentally discovered an
ancient cave near the Dead Sea.  In it were found a priceless
collection of ancient scrolls which soon became known as the
Dead Sea Scrolls or the Qumran Texts.  Among these writings was
one known as the Genesis Apocryphon.  At first it was thought to
be the long lost Book of Lamech.  Although the scroll consisted
of a speech by Lamech and a story about some of the patriarchs
from Enoch to Abraham; it was not that book.

According to the Bible, Lamech was the son of Methuselah and the
father of Noah.  He was the ninth of the ten patriarchs of the
antedeluvian world.

It is significant, however, that the Genesis Apocryphon mentions
the Nephilim, and makes reference to the "sons of God" and the
"daughters of men" introduced in Genesis 6. The Apocryphon also
elaborates considerably on the succinct statements found in the
Bible, and provides valuable insights into the way these ancient
stories were interpreted by the ancient Jews.

The copy of the Genesis Apocryphon discovered at Qumran dates
back to the 2nd century B.C., but it was obviously based on much
older sources.  When discovered in 1947, it had been much
mutilated from the ravages of time and humidity.  The sheets had
become so badly stuck together that years passed before the text
was deciphered and made known.  When scholars finally made
public its content, the document confirmed that celestial beings
from the skies had landed on planet Earth.  More than that, it
told how these beings had mated with Earth-women and had begat
giants.

Is this story myth or history, fable or fact?  Specialized
research has revealed that many ancient legends have a basis in
fact.  But to answer the question, let us consult the most
authoritative document known to man--the Bible.

In Genesis 6:1-4 the "sons of God" are captivated by the beauty
of the "daughters of men."  They subsequently marry them and
produce an offspring of giants known as the Nephilim.  Genesis
goes on to say hat these Nephilim were "mighty men" and "men of
renown."

"Sons of God"?  "Daughters of men"?  What sort of beings were
these?  Were they human or did they belong to an alien species
from outer space?


::IDENTIFYING THE SONS OF GOD::

There is no problem in identifying the "daughters of men" for
this is a familiar method of designating women in the Bible.
The problem lies with the "sons of God."  Three major
interpretations have been offered to shed light on this cryptic
designation.

First, a group within orthodox Judaism theorized that "sons of
God" meant "nobles" or "magnates."  Hardly anyone today accepts
this view.

Second, some interpret the "sons of God" as fallen angels.
These were enticed by the women of Earth and began lusting after
them.  Many reputable Bible commentators have rejected this
theory on psycho-physiological grounds.  How can one believe,
they ask, that angels from Heaven could engage in sexual
relations with women from Earth?  Philastrius labeled such an
interpretation a down-right heresy.

Third, many famed scholars contend that the "sons of God" are
the male descendants of Seth, and that the "daughters of men"
are the female descendants of Cain.  According to this view,
what actually happened in Genesis 6 was an early example of
believers marrying unbelievers.  The good sons of Seth married
the bad daughters of Cain, and the result of these mixed
marriages was a mongrel offspring.  These later became known for
their decadence and corruption; indeed, it reached such a degree
that God was forced to intervene and destroy the human race.
This comment of Matthew Henry could be taken as representative
of those holding this view:

"The sons of Seth (that is the professors of religion) married
the daughters of men, that is, those that were profane, and
strangers to God and godliness.  The posterity of Seth did not
keep by themselves, as they ought to have done.  They inter-
mingled themselves with the excommunicated race of Cain." (1)

However, in spite of the xcellent pedigree of the proponents of
this theory, their argument is not convincing.  Their
interpretation is pure eisegesis--they are guilty of reading
into the text what is obviously not there.


::FALSE EXEGESIS::

Their interpretation fails on other grounds as well.  At no
time, before the Flood or after, has God destroyed or threatened
to destroy the human race for the sin of "mixed marriages."  It
is impossible to reconcile this extreme punishment with the mere
verbal strictures found elsewhere in the Bible for the same
practice.  If God is going to be consistent, He should have
destroyed the human race many times over!

The contrast made in Genesis 6:2 is not between the descendants
of Seth and the descendants of Cain, but between the "sons of
God" and the "daughters of men."  If by "sons of God" is meant
"sons of Seth," then only the sons of Seth engaged in mixed
marriages, and not the daughters.  And only the daughters of
Cain were involved, and not the sons.  And another strange
assumption is implied: that only the sons of Seth were godly,
and only the daughters of Cain were evil.

The strangeness is compounded when one seeks for evidence that
the sons of Seth were godly.  We know from Genesis that when the
time came for God to destroy the human race, He found only one
godly family left among them--that of Noah.  Where were all the
other supposedly godly sons of Seth?  Even Seth's own son could
hardly be called righteous.  His name was Enos, meaning "mortal"
or "frail."  And he certainly lived up to it!  Genesis 4:26
reads, "And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he
called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of
the Lord."  That statement seems harmless enough, but what does
it mean when it says that it was only now that men began to call
upon the name of the Lord?  Upon whom did Adam call?  And Abel?
And Seth himself?

Some scholars give us a more literal and exact translation to
this verse: "Then men began to call themselves by the name of
Jeovah."  Other scholars translate the statement in this
manner: "Then men began to call upon their gods (idols) by the
name of Jehovah."  If either of these be the correct translation
then the evidence for the so-called godly line of Seth is non-
existent.  The truth of the matter is that Enos and his line,
with few noted exceptions, were as ungodly as the other line.
The divine record could not be clearer: "all flesh had corrupted
his way upon the earth" (Genesis 6:12).

In the Old Testament, the designation "sons of God" (bene
Elohim) is never used of humans, but always of supernatural
beings that are higher than man but lower than God.  To fit such
a category only one species is known--angels.  And the term
"sons of God" applies to both good and bad angels.  These are
the beings of whom Augustine wrote:

"Like the gods they have corporeal immortality, and passions
like human beings." (2)

The designation "sons of God" is used four other times in the
Old Testament, each time referring to angels.  One example is
Daniel 3:25, where king Nebuchadnezzar looks into the fiery
furnace and sees four men, "and the form of the fourth is like
the son of God."  The translation is different and clearer in
our modern versions, "like a son of the gods."  Since Jesus had
not yet become the "only begotten son" of God, this "son" would
have had to be angelic.

Another example is Job 38:7 which says the sons of God shouted
for joy when God laid the foundations of the Earth.  Angels are
the only entities that fit this designation since man had not
been created at that time!

In Job 1:6 and Job 2:1 the "sons of God" came to present
themselves before the Lord in Heaven.  Among the sons of God is
Satan--a further implication that the "sons of God" must have
been angels.

Since the designation "sons of God" is consistently used in the
Old Testament for angels, it is logical to conclude that the
term in Genesis 6:2 also refers to angels.


::SONS OF GOD: THREE CATEGORIES::

In the New Testament, born-again blievers in Christ are called
the children of God or the sons of God (Luke 3:38, John 1:12,
Romans 8:14, 1 John 3:1).  Dr. Bullinger in the Companion Bible
states: "It is only by the divine specific act of creation that
any created being can be called 'a son of God.'"  This explains
why every born-again believer is a son of God.  It explains also
why Adam was a son of God.  Adam was specifically created by
God, "in the likeness of God made He him" (Genesis 5:1).  Adam's
descendants, however, were different; they were not made in
God's likeness but in Adam's.  Adam "begat a son in his own
likeness, after his image" (Genesis 5:3).  Adam was a "son of
God," but Adam's descendants were "sons of men."

Lewis Sperry Chafer expresses this in an interesting way when he
states:

"In the Old Testament terminology angels are called sons of God
while men are called servants of God.  In the New Testament this
is reversed.  Angels are the servants and Christians are the
sons of God." (3)

It is thus clear that the term "sons of God" in the Bible is
limited to three categories of beings: angels, Adam and
believers.  All three are special and specific creations of God.
As for the use of the term in Genesis 6, since it cannot
possibly refer to Adam nor believers in Christ, we conclude that
it has to refer to the angels whom God had created.


::LIGHT FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT::

Two New Testament passages shed further light on Genesis 6.
They are Jude 6-7 and 2 Peter 2:4.  These verses indicate that
at some point in time a number of angels fell from their
pristine state and proceeded to commit a sexual sin that was
both unusual and repugnant.  Jude 6-7 states:

"And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left
their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains
under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.  Even as
Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them in like manner,
giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange
flesh..."

These angels not only failed tokeep their original dominion and
authority, but they "left their own habitation."  Habitation is
a significant word: it means "dwelling place" or "heaven."  And
the addition of the Greek word "idion" ("their own") means that
they left their own private, personal, unique possession. (4)
Heaven was the private, personal residence of the angels.  It
was not made for man but for the angels.  This is why the
ultimate destination of the saints will not be Heaven but the
new and perfect Earth which God will create (Revelation 21:1-3).
Heaven is reserved for the angels, but as for the beings
referred to in Jude 6-7, they abandoned it.

Not only did these angels leave Heaven, they left it once-for-
all.  The Greek verb "apoleipo" is in the aorist tense, thus
indicating a once-for-all act.  By taking the action they did,
these angels made a final and irretrievable decision.  They
crossed the Rubicon.  Their action, says Kenneth Wuest, "was
apostasy with a vengeance." (5)

As to the specific sin of these angels, we are given the facts
in Jude 7.  As in the case of Sodom and Gomorrah it was the sin
of "fornication" and it means "going after strange flesh."
"Strange" flesh means flesh of a different kind (Greek
"heteros").  To commit this particularly repugnant sin, the
angels had to abandon their own domain and invade a realm that
was divinely forbidden to them.  Says Wuest:

"These angels transgressed the limits of their own natures to
invade a realm of created beings of a different nature." (6)

Alford confirms:

"It was a departure from the appointed course of nature and
seeking after that which is unnatural, to other flesh than that
appointed by God for the fulfillment of natural desire."

The mingling of these two orders of being, was contrary to what
God had intended, and summarily led to God's greatest act of
judgment ever enacted upon the human race.


::TEMPTING THE ANGELS::

Another New Testament verse may have bearing on Genesis 6.  In I
Corinthians 11:10, Paul instructs that a woman should cover her
head as a sign of subjection to her husband, and also "because
of the angels."  This observation has intrigued commentators
through the years.  Why this suden reference to angels?  Could
it be a reference to what happened in Genesis 6 where angels
succumbed to the inducements and physical charm of the women of
Earth?  Obviously, Paul believed that an uncovered woman was a
temptation even to angels.  William Barclay mentions an old
rabbinic tradition which alleges that it was the beauty of the
women's long hair that attracted and tempted the angels in
Genesis. (6)


::STRANGE PARENTAGE::

The off-spring of this union between the "sons of God" and the
"daughters of men" were so extraordinary that it indicates an
unusual parentage.  In no way could the progenitors of such
beings be ordinary humans.  Their mothers possibly could be
human, or their fathers, but certainly not both.  Either the
father or the mother had to be superhuman.  Only in such a way
can one account for the extraordinary character and prowess of
the off-spring.

God's law of reproduction, according to the biblical account of
creation, is "everything after his kind."  God's law makes it
impossible for giants to be produced by normal parentage.  To
produce such monstrosities as the Nephilim presupposes super-
natural parentage.


::GIANTS?::

"Nephilim" is a Hebrew word translated in the Authorized King
James version as "giants."  "There were giants in the earth in
those days" (Genesis 6:4).  It is true that they were giants in
more senses than one.  However, the word Nephilim does not mean
"giants."  It comes from the root "naphal," meaning "fallen
ones," and most modern versions of the Bible have left the word
"Nephilim" untranslated.

When the Greek Septuagint was made, "Nephilim" was translated as
"gegenes."  This word suggests "giants" but actually it has
little reference to size or strength.  "Gegenes" means "earth
born."  The same term was used to describe the mythical "Titans"-
-being partly of celestial and partly of terrestrial origin. (7)

The Hebrew and the Greek words do not exclude the presence of
great physical strength.  Indeed, a combined supernatural and natural parentage
would imply such a characteristic.  Angels,
according to Scripture, are known for their power.  They are
often referred to as "sons of the Mighty" (Psalm 103:20).
Therefore, if the ones who sired them were strong and mighty, it
could be assumed that their offspring were likewise.

No evidence exists in Scripture that the offspring of mixed
marriages (believers and unbelievers) were giants, excelling in
great strength and might.  No evidence can be found anywhere in
history for that matter.  Such an interpretation poses
impossible assumptions.

When the word "Nephilim" is used in Numbers 13:33, the question
of size and strength is explicit.  Here we are left in no doubt
as to their superhuman prowess.  When Joshua's spies reported
back from Canaan, they called certain of the inhabitants of
Canaan "giants."  "And there we saw the Nephilim, the sons of
Anak, which come of the Nephilim, and we were in our own sight
as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight."

Some commentators have speculated that the Nephilim of Numbers
13 belonged to a second eruption of fallen angels, since the
earlier Nephilim had been destroyed in the Flood.  And they see
an allusion to this in Genesis 6:4, where it states that "there
were Nephilim in the earth in those days; and also after that,
when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men."  Could
it be that the "after that" was a reference to the Nephilim
found in Canaan during the Israelite entry into the land?  If
so, it could explain why the Lord commanded the total
extermination of the Canaanites, as He had earlier ordered the
near annihilation of the human race.


::NEPHILIM - NO RESURRECTION::

The Book of Isaiah says that the Nephilim and their descendants
will not participate in a resurrection as is the portion of
ordinary mortals.  Isaiah 26:14 reads: "They are dead, they
shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise."  The
original Hebrew word translated "deceased" here is the word
"Rephaim."  It would have savd a lot of misinterpretation if
the translators had left the word as it was in the original.
The verse actually reads: "Dead, they shall not live; Rephaim,
they shall not rise."  The Rephaim are generally understood to
be one of the branches of the Nephilim, and God's Word makes it
clear that they are to partake in no resurrection.  But with
humans it is different: all humans will be resurrected either to
life or to damnation (John 5:28-29).

We have already seen that the Greek Version of the Old Testament
(The Septuagint) translated "Nephilim" as "gegenes;" we shall
now inquire how it translates "sons of God."  In some of the
manuscripts it is left as "sons of God," but in the others--
including the Alexandrian text--it is rendered by the word
"angelos."  This text was in existence in the time of Christ,
but there is no indication that He ever corrected or queried it.
Can we not assume from His silence that He agreed with the
translation!

[continued]



From: ur-valhalla!aol.com!Density4
Subject: Enoch and the Nephilim (8/10)
Message-ID: <950914022334_18930452@emout05.mail.aol.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 02:23:35 -0400



::RAPE OF THE TEXT::

Having studied all the arguments in favor of "sons of Seth," one
concludes that the only argument that is valid among them is
that of rationality.  "Sons of Seth" is an interpretation that
is more palatable to human reason.  Reason can never subscribe
to the incredible notion that fallen angels could have sex
relations with women of Earth.  Angels have no physical bodies!
They do not marry!  They belong to an entirely different species
of being!  The mind revolts against such absurdity.  So, what
does one do?  Settle, of course, for an easy, rational
interpretation--sons of Seth and daughters of Cain.  But what if
the meaning of Scripture is clearly otherwise?  There is the
rub!  Scripture is clearly otherwise!  To impose a human
interpretation at the expense of the obvious meaning of the
divine Word, is a rape of the biblical text.  Furthermore, when
one deals with the world of the supernatural, rationality is
never an argument.


::JEWISH AND PATRISTIC FATHERS::

The Jewish Fathers, when interpreting this expression from
Genesis 6:2, invariably interpreted it as "angels."  No less an
authority than W.F. Allbright tells us that:

"The Israelites who heard this section (Genesis 6.2) recited
unquestionably thought of intercourse between angels and women."
(8)

Philo of Alexandria, a deeply religious man, wrote a brief but
beautiful treatise on this subject, called "Concerning The
Giants."  Basing his exposition on the Greek version of the
Bibe, he renders it as "Angels of God."  Says Bamberger, "Had
he found the phrase 'sons of God' in his text, he most certainly
would have been inspired to comment on it." (9)

Philo certainly took the Genesis passage as historical,
explaining that just as the word "soul" applies both to good and
evil beings, so does the word "angel."  The bad angels, who
followed Lucifer, at a later point in time failed to resist the
lure of physical desire, and succumbed to it.  He goes on to say
that the story of the giants is not a myth, but it is there to
teach us that some men are earth-born, while others are heaven-
born, and the highest are God-born. (10)

The Early Church Fathers believed the same way.  Men like Justin
Martyr, Irenaeus, Athenagoras, Tertullian, Lactantius, Eusebius,
Ambrose...all adopted this interpretation.  In the words of the
Ante-Nicene Fathers, the angels fell "into impure love of
virgins, and were subjugated by the flesh...Of those lovers of
virgins therefore, were begotten those who are called giants."
(11)  And again, "...the angels transgressed, and were
captivated by love of women and begat children." (12)

Nowhere before the 5th century A.D. do we find any
interpretation for "sons of God" other than that of angels.  We
cannot deny the Jewish Fathers knowledge of their own
terminology!  They invariably translated "sons of God" as
"angels."  The testimony of Josephus, that colorful cosmopolitan
and historian, is also of paramount importance.  In his
monumental volume, "Antiquities of the Jews," he reveals his
acquaintance with the tradition of the fallen angels consorting
with women of Earth.  He not only knew of the tradition but
tells us how the children of such union possessed super human
strength, and were known for their extreme wickedness.  "For the
tradition is that these men did what resembled the acts of those
men the Grecians called giants."  Josephus goes on to add that
Noah remonstrated with these offspring of the angels for their
villainy. (13)

Perhaps themost conclusive argument for interpreting the
expression as "angels" is the simplest one of all.  If the
writer of Genesis wanted to refer to the "sons of Seth" he would
have just said so.  If God had intended that meaning, then the
verse would undoubtedly read, "the sons of Seth saw the
daughters of Cain that they were fair..."  But the Bible meant
something far more sinister--the sexual union between angels
from Hell and evil women from Earth.  Because of the gravity of
such a union, and its dire consequences for the human race, God
moved to destroy the race before it could destroy itself--except
for one family which had not been contaminated.


::THE ULTIMATE SIN::

God made man in His own image, the highest of all His earthly
creations.  While God said that everything He made was good, He
considered man very good.  Man had been made for fellowship with
God Himself, but he soon turned his back upon his Maker and
worshipped the creature more than the Creator.  Before many
generations, the human race was being polluted by this
abominable union with demons.  It seemed that Hell and Earth
were in league together against the God of Heaven.  God's
righteous anger was such that He regretted having made man.

"And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,
and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only
evil continually.  And it repented the Lord that he had made man.
..."(Genesis 6:5-6)

It was specifically because of this ultimate sin that God
brought about a deluge of such magnitude that man and beast were
drowned from the face of the Earth.  In the words of old Joseph
Hall:

"The world was so grown foul with sin, that God saw it was time
to wash it with a flood: and so close did wickedness cleave to
the authors of it, that when they were washed to nothing, yet it
would not wash off, yea, so deep did it stick in the very grain
of the earth, that God saw it meet to let it soak long under the
waters." (14)


::WAS NOAH IMMUNE?::

Why Noah and his immediatefamily were the only ones immune from
this great judgment is significant.  Genesis 6:9 says, "Noah was
a just man."  He stood out as an example of righteousness and
godliness in a perverse age.  Like Enoch before him, Noah also
"walked with God."  But there was another reason why Noah was
spared, one that seems to have escaped most commentators.
Genesis 6:9 says that Noah was "perfect in his generation."
Does this mean moral and spiritual perfection?  Hardly.  Genesis
9:20-23 disproves any such perfection.  What, then, does the
Bible mean by calling him "perfect"?  The Hebrew word is
"tamiym" and comes from the root word "taman."  This means
"without blemish" as in Exodus 12:5, 29:1, Leviticus 1:3.  Just
as the sacrificial lamb had to be without any physical blemish,
so Noah's perfection.  In its primary meaning, it refers not to
any moral or spiritual quality, but to physical purity.  Noah
was uncontaminated by the alien invaders.

He alone had preserved their pedigree and kept it pure, in spite
of prevailing corruption brought about by the fallen angels. (15)

And again:

Noah's bloodline had remained free of genetic contamination. (16)

This implies, of course, that all the other families on Earth
had been contaminated by the Nephilim.  It also proves that the
assault of Satan on the human race had been far more extensive
than realized.  It is no wonder that God pronounced such a
universal fiat of judgment.

As for the fallen angels who participated in the abomination,
God put them in custody "in everlasting chains under darkness
unto the judgment of the great day" (Jude 6).  This is sometimes
interpreted as Tartarus or the "nether realms" (2 Peter 2:4).
This would also explain why some fallen angels are in custody
and why others are free to roam the heavens and torment mankind.

Such a drastic punishment, both for men and angels, presupposed
a drastic sin, something infinitely more evil and more sinister
than mixed marriages.  It was nothing less than the demonic
realm attemptig to pervert the human world.  By genetic control
and the production of hybrids, Satan was out to rob God of the
people He had made for Himself.

If Satan had succeeded in corrupting the human race, he would
have hindered the coming of the perfect Son of God, the promised
"seed of the woman," who would defeat Satan and restore man's
dominion (Genesis 3:15).  If Satan had by any means prevented
that birth, he would obviously have averted his own doom.  Satan
did succeed to a large extent.  It was for this reason that God
drowned mankind in the Deluge.


::ARE ANGELS SEXLESS?::

Interpreting the "sons of God" as fallen angels, the question
immediately arises--do angels marry?  In Matthew 22:30, Jesus
said angels neither marry nor are given in marriage.  This seems
a clear and emphatic negative.  However, it does not preclude
the possibility of such a thing happening--obviously contrary to
the will of God.  And it does not preclude fallen angels, who
had rebelled against God already, from cohabiting with women of
Earth, as the Scriptures state.

Some interpret the words of Jesus as meaning that angels do not
marry among themselves.  Is it because they are all male?  Or is
it because celestial beings are deathless and thus need no
offspring.  Only terrestrial beings need to find immortality in
their children. (17)  But if they do not need to marry and
procreate, is it still possible that they could engage in sexual
acts?  If not among themselves then with human spouses?  Jude
seems quite explicit on the matter: the angels left their own
habitation, and gave themselves over to fornication, going after
strange flesh.  In other words, they were capable of performing
human functions--eating, drinking, walking, talking, even sexual
activity and fathering children.

The fact that angels do not marry does not in itself prove they
are sexless.  Throughout the Bible, angels are referred to only
as men.  Finis Drake writes: "It is logical to say...that the
female was created specifically for the hman race in order that
it could be kept in existence; and that all angels were created
males, in as much as their kind is kept in existence without the
reproduction process.  Angels were created innumerable to start
with (Hebrews 12:22) whereas, the human multitudes began with
one pair." (18)

Even in the next world, when the saints will dwell in their
resurrection body and live forever, it does not imply that they
will be sexless.  The Bible teaches that everyone will have his
own body in the resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:35-38).  No
suggestion is made that they will be unsexed.  Furthermore,
Christ remained a man after His resurrection.


::DEMONS AT LARGE::

One other question has been raised.  If the fallen angels who
lusted after women of Earth in Genesis 6 have been interred in
Tartarus with "everlasting chains," how does one explain the
demons who have been operating since then?  They seemed to have
been quite active during the ministry of Jesus, and are busy
again in our day.  Following this reasoning, some share the
conclusion of Kent Philpott:

However one might wish to interpret Genesis 6: 1-4 to link this
passage with the verses in 2 Peter and Jude seems to post far
more problems than it would solve.  But 2 Peter 2.4 and Jude 6
clearly assert that the rebellious angels are being kept
prisoner in the "nether gloom."  If they are prisoners, they
could not very well function as the demons are described as
functioning in the New Testament. (19)

But Philpott failed to see that there are two categories of
fallen angels: Those cast out of Heaven with Lucifer, and who
are still free to torment mankind; and those who fell the second
time by committing carnal acts with the daughters of men.  The
spirits in this second category are those chained in the nether
regions.

It seems clear to me that the "sons of God" are none other than
fallen angels, and, because of their further sin of lusting
after the "daughters of men," many were imprisoned by God.  Both
the near annihilation of the human race and the incarceration of
the fallen angels in Tartarus indicate the magnitude of the sin
they committed.  By such drastic judgment, God saved the human
race from a calamity worse than the physical death originally
imposed upon them.


Notes:

l.  Matthew Henry's Commentary (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing
    House, 1961).

2.  Aurelius Augustine, The City of God (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark,
    1949), Transl.  Marcus Dods.

3.  Lewis Sperry Chafer, Systematic Theology, Volume 2. (Dallas:
    Dallas Seminary Press, 1947), p. 23.

4.  Kenneth S. Wuest, Word Studies in the Greek N.T (Grand Rapids:
    Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1966), Vol. 4, p. 240.

5.  Ibid., p. 240.

6.  Ibid., p. 241.

7.  Unger, Biblical Demonology (Wheaton: Van Kampen Press, 1957),
    p. 48.

8   W. F. Allbright, From the Stone Age to Christianity
    (Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 1940), p. 226

9.  Bemard J. Bamberger, Fallen Angels (Philadelphia: The Jewish
    Publication Society of America, 1952), p. 53.

10. Philo, DeGigantibus, pp. 58-60.

11. The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 8, pp. 85 and 273.

12. Ibid., p. 190.

13. Josephus, The Work of Flavius Josephus; Antiquities of the
    Jews (London: G. G. Rutledge), 1.3.1.

14. Joseph Hall, Contemplations (Otisville, Michigan:   Baptist
    Book Trust, 1976), p. 10.

15. Companion Bible (Oxford University Press).  Appendix 26.

16. The Gospel Truth Magazine, Vol. 18, (June 1978), No. 7.

17. Dr. Morgenstem, Hebrew Union College Annual, XIV, 29-
    40,114ff.

18. Finis Dake, Annotated R,?ference Bible, p.63.

19. Kent Philpott, A Manual of Demonology and the Occult (Grand
    Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1973), pp. 77-78.

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Subject: Enoch and the Nephilim (9/10)
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 02:25:05 -0400



Blavatsky's Theosophical "Secret Doctrine"
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The proceeding pages represent only a portion of the references
to Enoch within The Secret Doctrine.  This section is included
because it treats the subject exclusively.  The S.D. is
currently in print from 3 publishers in USA, and in translations
of German, Swedish.  Duth.  Danish, Italian (Vol I only)
Spanish, French, Portugese. and Russian (tr by Helena & Nicholas
Roerich & published at Riga, Latvia, 1937--nearly all destroyed).


::ENOICHION - HENOCH::

The history of the evolution of the Satanic myth would not be
complete if we omitted to notice the character of the mysterious
and Cosmopolitan Enoch, variously called Enos, Hanoch, and
finally Enoichion by the Greeks.  It is from his Book that the
first notions of the Fallen Angels were taken by the early
Christian writers.

The "Book of Enoch" is declared apocryphal.  But what is an
Apocrypha?  The very etymology of the term shows that it is
simply a secret book, i.e., one that belonged to the catalogue
of temple libraries under the guardianship of the Hierophants
and initiated priests, and was never meant for the profane.
Apocrypha comes from the [Greek] verb crypto, "to hide."  For
ages the Enoichion (the Book of the SEER) was preserved in the
"city of letters" and secret works-the ancient Kirjath-Sepber,
later on, Debir (see Joshua xv., 15).

Some of the writers interested in the subject--especially Masons--
have tried to identify Enoch with Thoth of Memphis, the Greek
Hermes, and even with the Latin Mercury.  As individuals, all
these are distinct one from the other; professionally--if one
may use this word, now so limited in its sense--they belong one
and all to the same category of sacred writers, of Initiators
and Recorders of Occult and ancient Wisdom.  Those who in the
Kuran (see Surat XIX.) are generically termed the Edris, or the
"Learned" (the Initiated), bore in Egypt the name of "Thoth,"
the inventor of arts, sciences, writing or letters, of music and
astronomy.  Among the Jews the Edris became "Enoch," who,
according to Bar-Hebraeus, "was the first inventor of writing,"
books, arts, and sciences, the first who reduced to a system the
progress of the planets.  In Greece he was called Orpheus, and
thus changed his name with every nation.  The number Seven being
attached to, and conected with, each of those primitive
Initiators (Khanoch, or Hanoch, or Enoch means the "Initiator"
and "teacher," as well as the "Son of Man," Enos (vide Genesis
iv., 26), esoterically), as well as the number 365, of the days
in the year, astronomically, it identifies the mission,
character, and the sacred office of all those men, but certainly
not their personalities.  Enoch is the seventh Patriarch;
Orpheus is the possessor of the phorminx, the 7-stringed lyre,
which is the sevenfold mystery of initiation.  Thoth, with the
seven-rayed Solar Discus on his head, travels in the Solar boat,
the 365 degrees, jumping out every fourth (leap) year for one
day.  Finally, Thoth-Lunus is the septenary god of the seven
days, or the week.  Esoterically and spiritually, Enoichion
means the "Seer of the Open Eye."

The story about Enoch, told by Josephus, namely, that he had
concealed under the pillars of Mercury or Seth his precious
rolls or books, is the same as that told of Hermes, "the father
of Wisdom," who concealed his books of Wisdom under a pillar,
and then, finding the two pillars of stone, found the science
written thereon.  Yet Josephus, notwithstanding his constant
efforts in the direction of Israel's unmerited glorification,
and though he does attribute that science (of Wisdom) to the
Jewish Enoch-writes history (Jewish Antiquities, I, ii, 3).  He
shows those pillars as still existing during his own time.  He
tells us that they were built by Seth; and so they may have
been, only neither by the Patriarch of that name, the fabled son
of Adam, nor by the Egyptian god of Wisdom--Teth, Set, Thoth,
Tat, Sat (the later Satan), or Hermes, who are all one,--but by
the "sons of the Serpent-god," or "Sons of the Dragon," the name
under which the Hierophants of Egypt and Babylon were known
before the Deluge, as were their forefathers, the Atlanteans.

What Josephus tells us, therefore, must be allegorically true,
with the exception of the application made of it.  According to
his version the wo famous pillars were entirely covered with
hieroglyphics, which, after the discovery, were copied and
reproduced in the most secret corners of the inner temples of
Egypt, and have thus become the source of its Wisdom and
exceptional learning.  These two "pillars," however, are the
prototypes of the two "tables of stones" hewn by Moses at the
command of the "Lord."  Hence, in saying that all the great
adepts and mystics of antiquity--like Orpheus, Hesiod,
Pythagoras and Plato--got the elements of their theology from
those hieroglyphics, he is right in one sense, and wrong in
another; for he errs in accuracy.  The Secret Doctrine teaches
us that the arts, sciences, theology, and especially the
philosophy of every nation which preceded the last universally
known, but not universal Deluge, had been recorded
ideographically from the primitive oral records of the Fourth
Race, and that these were the inheritance of the latter from the
early Third Root-Race before the allegorical Fall.  Hence, also,
the Egyptian pillars, the tablets, and even the "white Oriental
porphyry stone" of the Masonic legend--which Enoch, fearing that
the real and precious secrets would be lost, concealed before
the Deluge in the bowels of the Earth--were simply the more or
less symbolical and allegorical copies from the primitive
Records.  The "Book of Enoch" is one of such copies and is a
Chaldean, now very incomplete compendium.  As already said,
Enoichion means in Greek the "inner eye," or the Seer; in
Hebrew, and with the help of Masoretic points it means the
initiator and instructor.  It is a generic title; besides which
his legend is that of several other prophets, Jewish and
heathen, with changes of made-up details, the root-form being
the same.  Elijah is also taken up into Heaven alive; and the
astrologer, at the court of Isdubar, the Chaldean Hea-bani, is
likewise raised to heaven by the god Hea, who was his patron, as
Jehovah was of Elijah (whose name means in Hebrew "God-jah,"
Jehovah), and again o Elihu, which has the same meaning.  This
kind of easy death, or euthanasia, has an esoteric meaning.  It
symbolises the death of any adept who has reached the power and
degree, as also the purification, which enable him to die only
in the physical body and still live and lead a conscious life in
his astral bod