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Who was Enoch?
Enoch is one of the most suppressed figures in Abrahamic tradition — a pre-diluvian sage whose full corpus was deliberately excised from the canonical Bible. The Book of Enoch was removed from Western canon at the Council of Laodicea (364 CE) yet survived in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church as sacred scripture. Scholars like Margaret Barker argue Enoch traditions predate much of Torah theology, preserving a priestly cosmology older than the Jerusalem temple cult. His texts describe a universe of Watchers, dimensional travel, and cosmic judgment that the canonizers could not comfortably systematize.
Evidence
- According to Zecharia Sitchin's readings of Sumerian parallel texts, Enoch maps directly onto the antediluvian sage figure Utu-napishtim and the Akkadian Enmeduranki — a royal scribe initiated into the secrets of heaven and earth by the Annunaki council.
- The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch), a compilation of five independent works dated between the 4th century BCE and 1st century CE, describes Enoch as a 'scribe of righteousness' commissioned to deliver judgment to the Watchers — the Bene Elohim who descended to mate with human women.
- Mauro Biglino, working from the Leningrad Codex, argues the Hebrew 'Elohim' throughout Enoch's lineage refers to plural, physical beings — not a monotheistic deity — and that Enoch's 'translation' (being taken without death) describes literal physical relocation by these beings.
- Rudolf Steiner, in his Akashic Records lectures, identified Enoch as an initiate who traversed supersensible realms and encoded cosmic memory into what became Hermetic and Kabbalistic streams.
- Sitchin argued the 365-year lifespan is a solar cipher, encoding Enoch as a keeper of astronomical and calendrical knowledge.