The Second Book of Enoch

The Slavonic Book of the Secrets of Enoch

The Second Book of Enoch — preserved only in Slavonic manuscripts and known as the Slavonic Enoch or the Book of the Secrets of Enoch — describes Enoch's ascent through ten heavens, each inhabited by different orders of angels, culminating in his arrival before the throne of God where he is transformed into the great angel Metatron and dictates 360 books of divine wisdom. The cosmology is extraord

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TraditionLost Scripture

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01 / Historical context

1st century AD, preserved only in Slavonic. Enoch's ascent through the ten heavens, his transformation into the angel Metatron, and the secrets of creation. Suppressed as pseudepig

02 / Why it matters

Ten heavens. A man become an angel. The secrets of creation. All suppressed.

From / associated with the text

“"And I looked and saw an exceedingly great light, and the fiery hosts of the great archangels, and the incorporeal powers, and the dominions, and the principalities, and the powers."”

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The Second Book of Enoch

Context without the mythology.

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