Enoch's Travels through the Cosmos and his Contact with Extraterrestrials

Enoch's Travels through the Cosmos and his Contact with 

Extraterrestrials

The book of Enoch contains all the supernatural experiences lived by Enoch until he was caught up and taken to heaven

Of course, the ancients did not have knowledge about spaceships today known as UFOs, as well as the existence of Ultraterrestrial and / or Extraterrestrial Beings, whom they identified as divine beings or angels, and much less did they have knowledge of the Cosmos and the Universe. , which they identified as Heaven.

So The Book of Enoch happens to be the most enigmatic and surprising of how many apocryphal exist, since it contains all the supernatural experiences lived by Enoch until he was caught up and taken to heaven.

The Old Testament does not mention anything about the reality of the Heavens, but this book does, and what it says, surprisingly, could well be the true cause for what was not included in the biblical canon.

The book explains that Enoch's contact with the celestial beings began in the following way: "While alone in my house, two men of great stature appeared to me. Their faces shone like the sun. Their clothes and their voices were magnificent."

Many interpreters identify these beings, who according to tradition were angels, with a kind of visitors from other worlds.

And this would be nothing more than a hypothesis, were it not for the fact that The Book of Enoch tells how the patriarch traveled as an astronaut through different worlds and spheres of the firmament "aboard a palace capable of soaring through the heavens."

Enoch says of the place where he made his travels: "It was a great palace made of carved glass. The floor was tiled with glass plates and the floor was also glass."

Through that ground, Enoch asserts that he was able to see the stars and planets that he passed through on his journey.

To the patriarch, the text points out, those beings who occupied crystal thrones in the "flying palace" explained an extensive cosmogony and told him the history of men.

They told him that God, in ancient times, sent his emissaries to Earth. These beings, of great stature, "were the watchers of the sky", but they mixed with the women, thus altering the divine plan, which according to the exegetes would serve to identify the "watchers of the sky" with the pre-diluvian giants. of which Genesis speaks.

Exegetes may say that Enoch's stories are a metaphor, however, in his book, Enoch assures that the crew of the "crystal palace" revealed some things to him about the functioning of the cosmos that science has confirmed as real for thousands of years after these accounts were written.

Enoch explains in his book in detail the solar and lunar orbits, as well as the celestial mechanics. He develops the laws that govern the density of the stars in such detail that they seem narrated by astronomers today.

He narrates that it takes the Earth three hundred and sixty-five days to rotate around the Sun and that the Moon does the same on Earth, dividing its calendar into four phases. In addition, he assures that there are more star and planetary systems.

Chapters 17 through 36 are described below, where Enoch recounts his travels to different worlds and describes distant firmaments.

Chapter 17

1 Then they took me to a place whose inhabitants are like burning fire, but when they wish they appear as humans.

2 They took me to the house of the tempest, on a mountain whose top touched the sky, 3 and I saw the mansions of the lights and the treasures of the stars and thunder, at the ends of the abyss where the arc of fire is, its arrows and quiver, the sword of fire and all the lightning bolts.

4 Then they took me to the waters of life and to the fire of the west, which gathered all the sunsets.

5 I came to a river of fire whose flames run like water and flows into the great sea that is on the west side;

6 I saw great rivers and I came to a great darkness and as far as no carnal being walks;

7 I saw the mountains of winter darkness and the place where all the waters of the deep flow;

8 and I saw the mouth of all the rivers of the earth and the mouth of the deep.

Chapter 18

1 I saw the treasures of the winds and I saw that with them He has adorned all creation and the foundations of the earth;

2 and I also saw the cornerstone of the earth and the four winds that sustain the earth and the firmament;

3 I saw how the winds spread the veil of heaven on high and how they have their place between heaven and earth: they are the columns of heaven;

4 I saw the winds that rotate and guide the orbits of the sun and the stars in their rooms;

5 I saw the winds that sustain the clouds over the earth; I saw the ways of the angels; I saw the firmament on high at the ends of the earth.

6 Then I went south and saw a place that burned day and night, where there were seven mountains of precious stones, three on the eastern side and three on the south side.

7 Thus, among those that were in the east, one was of multicolored stone, one of pearls, and the other of medicinal stones; and those in the south were made of red stone.

8 The middle one rose to heaven like the Lord's throne, and the upper part of the throne was made of sapphire.

9 I saw a blazing fire, and beyond those mountains

10 is a region where the great earth ends, and there the heavens culminate.

11 Then a deep abyss was shown to me between columns of celestial fire, and I saw in it columns of fire that descended to the bottom and whose height and depth were immeasurable;

12 and beyond this abyss I saw a place over which the firmament did not extend, under which there were also no foundations of the earth; on which there was neither water nor birds, but it was a deserted and terrible place.

13 There I saw seven stars like great mountains, burning, and when I asked about this,

14 The angel said to me: "This place is the end of heaven and earth; it has become the prison of the stars and the powers of heaven.

15 "The stars that roll on the fire are those that have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, from the beginning of his ascent, because they have not arrived in due time;

16 and He was angry with them and has bound them until the time of the consummation of his guilt forever, in the year of mystery. "

Chapter 19

1 Then Sariel told me: "Here will be the Watchers who have connected on their own account with women. Their spirits assuming many different appearances have been corrupted and have led humans astray to sacrifice demons and gods, until the day of the great judgment, in which they will be judged and meet their end.

2 "As for your women, those who were seduced by the Watchers, they will become mermaids."

3 I Enoch, alone, have seen the vision, the end of all things and no human has seen what I have seen.

Chapter 20

1 Here are the names of the holy angels who watch:

2 Uriel, one of the holy angels, called the one of thunder and trembling;

3 Raphael, another of the holy angels, that of the human spirits;

4 Ra'u'el, another of the holy angels, who takes revenge on the world of lights;

5 Miguel, another of the holy angels, in charge of the best part of humanity and the people;

6 Sariel, another of the holy angels, in charge of the spirits of the sons of men who sin in spirit;

7 Gabriel; another of the holy angels, in charge of paradise, the serpents and the cherubs;

8 Remeiel, other of the holy angels, whom God has entrusted to the risen ones.

Chapter 21

1 Then I went back to where everything was chaotic;

2 and there I saw something horrible: I saw neither heaven on high nor solid ground, but a formless and terrible place.

3 I saw four stars in the sky chained together that looked like great mountains burning like fire.

4 Then I asked: "For what sin are they chained and for what reason have they been thrown here?"

5 Uriel the Watcher and the Holy One who was with me and guided me, said to me: "Enoch, why do you ask and worry about the truth?

6 This number of stars in the heavens are those that have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and have been chained here until ten thousand years have passed, the time imposed according to their sins.

7 From there I went to another place more terrible than the previous one and I saw something horrible: there was a great fire burning and flaming and the place had cracks to the abyss, full of descending columns of fire, but I could not see neither its dimensions nor its size. magnitude or guesswork.

8 Then I said, "How dreadful and terrible it is to look at this place!"

9 Answering me, Uriel the Watcher and the Saint, who was with me, said to me: "Enoch, why are you so frightened and frightened?" I replied: "It is because of this terrible place and because of the spectacle of suffering."

10 And he said to me: "This place is the prison of the angels and here they will be prisoners forever."

Chapter 22

1 From there I went elsewhere, to a mountain of hard rock;

2 there were four deep, wide and very smooth wells there. And I said, "How smooth are these holes and how deep and dark they look!"

3 At that time, Raphael the Watcher and the Saint, who was with me, responded by saying: "These cavities have been created for the following purpose; that the spirits of the souls of the dead may be reunited and that all the souls of the children of men gather there, so those are the wells that will serve as jail;

4 "They are made for such a thing, until the day they are judged until the time of the great judgment that will be held on the last day."

5 I saw there the spirit of a dead man accusing, and his lament went up to heaven, shouting and accusing.

6 Then I asked Rafael the Watcher and the Saint, who was with me: "Of whom is this spirit that he is accusing that he complains in such a way that he rises up to heaven shouting and accusing?".

7 He answered me saying: "This is the spirit that came from Abel, whom his brother Cain murdered; he accuses him until his seed is eliminated from the face of the earth and his seed disappears from the lineage of men."

8 Then I asked looking at all the wells: "Why are they separated from each other?"

9 he answered Me by saying: "Those three have been made so that the spirits of the dead may be separated. Thus a division has been made for the spirits of the righteous, in which springs a fountain of living water.

10 "And so this has been done for sinners when they die and are buried, and no judgment has been executed against them while they were alive.

11 "Here their spirits will be set apart, for this great penalty, until the day of great judgment and punished and tormented forever who deserve such retribution for their spirits.

12 "This division has been separated for those who complain and denounce their destruction when they were killed in the days of sinners.

13 This has also been made for the spirits of men who were not righteous but sinners, for all transgressors and accomplices of transgression; that on the day of judgment they will be afflicted outside there, but they will not be raised from there. "

14 Then I blessed the Lord of Majesty and said: "Blessed be the judgment of justice and blessed be the Lord of Majesty and Justice who is the Lord of the world."

Chapter 23

1 From there I was transported to another place to the west, at the extremities of the earth;

2 I was shown a fire that ran without rest and without interrupting its race neither day nor night, remaining constant, meanwhile.

3 I asked saying: "What is this that has no rest?"

4 Ra'u'el answered me: "The function of this fire that runs towards the west is to guide all the luminaries of the sky.

Chapter 24

1 And he showed me the mountains: the ground between them was of blazing fire and blazed at night.

2 I went there and saw seven magnificent mountains, different from each other and made of precious and beautiful stones, and they were all splendid, glorious in appearance and beautiful in appearance: three on the east, leaning one against the other; and three to the south, one under the other; and I saw deep, winding ravines, none of which joined the others.

3 The seventh mountain was in the midst of them all, surpassing them in height like a throne, surrounded by aromatic trees,

4 among which there was a tree whose perfume I had never smelled and there was no similar perfume among these or among the other trees: it exhales a fragrance superior to any and its leaves, flowers and wood never dry, its fruit is beautiful and it looks like palm dates.

5 Then I said: "" What a beautiful tree! It is beautiful to look at, its foliage is graceful, and its fruit looks very nice. "

6 Then, Michael the Watcher and saint, who was with me and who was in charge of those trees, answered me.

Chapter 25

1 And he said to me: "Enoch, why do you ask me about the perfume of that tree and why do you want to know the truth?"

2 Then, I, Enoch, responded like this: "I want to learn about everything, but especially about this tree."

3 And he answered me saying: This high mountain that you have seen and whose top is like the throne of God, is his throne, where the Great Saint, the Lord of Glory, the Eternal King will sit when he descends to visit the earth with goodness.

4 "No being of flesh is allowed to touch this aromatic tree, until the great judgment when He will avenge everything and bring all things to their consummation forever, but then it will be given to the righteous and the humble.

5 "His fruit will serve as food for the elect and will be transplanted to the holy place, to the temple of the Lord, the Eternal King.

6 Then they will rejoice and be glad; they will enter the holy place and the fragrance will penetrate their bones; and they will live a long life, just like their ancestors lived. In your days no suffering or plague or torment or calamity will touch you. "

7 Then I blessed the God of Glory, the Eternal King, because he had prepared such things for humans, for the righteous. These things He has created and has promised to give them to you.

Chapter 26

1 I was transferred from there to the center of the earth and I saw a blessed place in which there were trees whose branches were constantly sprouting.

2 There I was shown a holy mountain and water was pouring out from under the mountain, from the east and down to the south.

3 And I saw to the east another mountain higher than that, and between them a deep and narrow canyon through which the water that came out of the mountain ran.

4 And to the west another mountain, lower than the previous one, slightly elevated, and below, between the two, a deep and dry hollow, and another hollow between the three mountains.

5 They were all deep gullies of hard rock and there were no trees planted in them.

6 I was amazed at the mountains and I was amazed at the ravines, I was amazed too much.

Chapter 27

1 Then I said: "Why is this land blessed and full of trees and in the middle are these cursed ravines?"

2 Then Sariel, the Watcher and the saint, who was with me, answered me and said: "This cursed ravine is for those who are cursed forever; there will be gathered all the cursed who with their mouth speak indecent words against the Lord and offend His Glory, there they will be gathered and there will be the place of their judgment.

3 In the end times the spectacle of judgment will be performed on them in righteousness, in the presence of the righteous forever; there the mercy and blessing of the Lord of Glory and the Eternal King will be manifested.

4 On the day of judgment on the former, they will bless him for the mercy he has reserved for them.

5 Then I blessed the Lord of Glory, I promulgated his Glory and praised his greatness.

Chapter 28

1 I went from there to the east, in the middle of the desert mountain range and I saw the desert: it was lonely and full of trees and plants;

2 water gushed from above,

3 rushing like a mighty river that flowed northwest, carrying water and dew everywhere.

Chapter 29

1 From there I went to another place in the desert and I went a long way, towards the east of this place.

2 There I saw wild trees that exude fragrances of frankincense and myrrh, and their fruits are similar to walnuts.

Chapter 30

1 And beyond them, I went far to the east and I saw another great place, with valleys of many waters,

2 in which there were aromatic sweet canes similar to the mastic;

3 and on the banks of these valleys I saw the fragrant cinnamon. And beyond these valleys I drifted to the east.

Chapter 31

1 Other mountains were shown to me and also in them I saw trees from which came the resin called tsaru and galbanum.

2 Beyond all the trees were full of resin that was similar to the bark of the almond tree.

3 When it is cracked on these trees, a perfumed smell comes out of them and when the barks are ground they are superior to any perfume.

Chapter 32

1 Beyond such mountains, to the northeast of them, other mountains were shown me, full of chosen tuberose, mastic, cardamom and pepper.

2 from there I continued to the east of all these mountains, far from them, to the east of the earth, I was carried above the Red Sea and I went far from it, I passed over the darkness, far from it;

3 and I was taken to the side of the Paradise of Justice, and trees in it were shown to me from afar, trees in excess of numerous and large, different from one another. I saw there a tree that was different from all the others, very big, beautiful and magnificent, the tree of wisdom, those who eat its fruit learn great wisdom.

4 The tree is as tall as a fir, its leaves resemble those of the carob and its fruit is like a bunch of grapes, very beautiful; and the fragrance of that tree penetrates far away.

5 And I said: "How beautiful this tree is and how attractive it is to look at it!"

6 Remeiel the Watcher and the saint, who was with me, answered me and said: "It is the tree of wisdom, from which your first father and your first mother ate and learned wisdom and their eyes were opened and they understood that they were naked and they were expelled from the garden of Eden. "

Chapter 33

1 From there I went to the ends of the earth and saw there great beasts different from one another and also birds that differed in their appearance, beauty and trills.

2 To the east of those beasts I saw the end of the earth, where heaven rests, and where the portals of heaven open.

3 I saw how the stars of heaven are born and the portals from which they come and I wrote down the outputs of each of the stars, according to their number, name, course and position and according to their time and months, as Uriel, one of the the watchers.

4  And he showed me and wrote everything for me, he even wrote their names for me according to their times.

Chapter 34

1 From there I was transported to the northern extremity of the earth and great works were shown to me:

2 I saw three gates of heaven open; North winds come through each of them and when they blow there is cold, hail, frost, snow, dew and rain.

3 If they go out through only one of the doors, they blow for good; but when they blow through the other two it is with violence and calamity on the earth because they blow with force.

Chapter 35

1 And from there I went to the western extremity of the earth and saw three gates of heaven open, the same number of doors and exits that I had seen in the east.

Chapter 36

1 From there I was transported to the southern extremity of the earth and there I was shown its three open doors from the south wind: for dew, rain and wind.

2 And from there I was transported to the eastern edge of the sky and saw the three eastern gates open the three eastern gates of heaven and above them some small gates

3 Through each of these small gates the stars of heaven pass and run along the course designed for them to the west.

4 Seeing this I blessed the Lord of Glory all the time, and I will continue to bless the Lord of Glory, who has performed great and magnificent wonders to show the greatness of his work to angels, spirits and humans, so that they can praise that work, all his creation, so that you can see the manifestation of his power and praise the great work of his hands and bless him forever.

It is evident that someone revealed to Enoch knowledge that no one had in his time, that someone is described as a being who had great stature, traveled aboard flying palaces and accompanied Enoch during his interstellar journey.

It should be noted that in the Bible several possible encounters with UFOs such as those experienced by Enoch are described. Just like the ones starring the prophets Elijah, Daniel and Ezekiel.

According to what is narrated in these chapters of the book of Enoch, it is important that we ask ourselves the following questions:

Who were those angels? Where they came from? Did they have something to do with those responsible for the strange last goodbye of Enoch, who according to the Bible did not die, but was caught up to heaven? What was the crystal palace that Enoch flew into? And the chariot of fire that kidnapped him at the end of his days?