“Enoch”
Part One

In Neolithic times, there was a bold and brilliant pre-flood Messenger born of the line of Jared.
He was referenced by many names around the world, including Enoch, Khonoukh, Hermes, Thoth, and Idris. Although the name Enoch was also given to the son of Cain, Enoch, the spiritual and literal King, was a son of Jared, and the father of Methuselah, who was the father of Lamech and grandfather of Noah. This Enoch was the first of the ‘children’ of Adam to be given prophethood after Seth. Later on, he was called Hermes Trismegistus, or ‘thrice great,’ excellent as a great king, a legislator, and a priest. It is everything He said and did that really sets him apart.

He renewed his forefather, Adam’s, religion for the Babylonians, but only a handful listened. As usual with the appearance of one of God’s Messengers, the majority of His people turned away, and He was forced to abandon the land of His birth. Though Babylon failed to grasp His revelation, His teachings did succeed famously in other parts of the world.

He fled to Egypt, where, as Thoth, he was the first to invent a basic form of written language. There, He was also called Hermes by the Greeks, who visited Egypt in search of wisdom. Edouard Schure gives us this glimpse in his tome, The Great Initiates.

Leading his brave followers out of Babylon, He headed for Egypt. There, as Thoth to the Egyptian, and Hermes to the Greek, He carried on His mission, (having) His greatest effect on mankind from Egypt, where the effect of His Illumination was gargantuan and mysterious.

Beneath the seeming idolatry of its external polytheism, Egypt preserved the ancient foundations of esoteric theology and its priestly organization. In Assyria, royalty controlled and crushed the priesthood… whereas in Egypt, the priesthood disciplined royalty, and never abdicated even in the worst times, standing up to kings, driving out despots, and constantly governing the nation… for a period of over 5,000 years, Egypt was the stronghold of pure and exalted teaching.

Like other Prophets, He bade people to do what is just and fair, teaching them certain prayers and instructing them to fast on certain days, and to give a portion of their wealth to the poor.  He shared a vast amount of divine knowledge.”

He must have been a Supreme Prophet of God, destined to leave a prominent mark, even past the destruction of the flood and the millennia beyond. He still influences our society today. You might be interested to know that Enoch not only laid the foundation of philosophy, but also filled libraries in Egypt with scientific volumes.

Incidentally, He is known for his hermetic sealing techniques. Enochian knowledge and Hermetic ideas were basic to the turn of the last century’s secret societies like the Illuminati, and social fraternities which began with the Greeks and Egyptians, which continues even today with the Masons, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Rotary Club, Lions, etc.

But did he also influence black magic and sorcery? The introduction of the sciences seemed like nothing short of magic to many. The concept of dark magic, as seen today, forms in the realm of a twisted or influenced human mind. The following quote gives us more insight. In The Gods of the Egyptians (1899), E. A. Wallis Budge adds:

In Egypt, Thoth is considered to be Ra’s Will, translated into speech. He is associated with the arts of magic (dealing with Angels and Demons), a system of writing, as well as the development of science. He became associated with the judgment of the dead.

The Egyptians attributed forty-two books on esoteric science to Hermes. The Doctrine of the Fire-Principle and Words of Light contained in the Vision of Hermes became the climax of initiation into the Egyptian priesthood.

 Although there have been subsequent inventions and improvements in writing and communication systems coincidental with the arrival of other Revealers, Hermes/Thoth is credited with filling several Egyptian halls with collected spiritual wisdom, science, and magic.

Enoch, like other Messengers, is often shown in the company of a lamb or ram. He is a Healer with Stone Age roots and His head in space. According to Muhammad and Baha’u’llah, another name for the Shepherd of men was Idris.

The first person who devoted himself to philosophy was Idris. Some also called him Hermes. In every tongue, he hath a special name. He is who hath set forth in every branch of philosophy thorough and convincing statements. After him, Balínús derived his knowledge and sciences from the Hermetic Tablets, and most of the philosophers who followed him made their philosophical and scientific discoveries from his words and statements.

In summary, he was a Prophet, a philosopher, and the author of the esoteric work that is the source of the occultic philosophies and rituals, as well as a host of fraternities, and of benevolent and charitable orders, and all of the Greek secret societies.

Hermes and Osiris
Part Two

Here is a selection from the ‘Vision of Hermes‘ that tells us about death and salvation. And even the possible destruction of a soul as described by Osiris, the Lord of Light, as recorded in Edouard Schure’s book The Great Initiates.

One day, Hermes fell asleep after having reflected upon the origin of things. A heavy torpor took hold of his body, but as the latter became numb, his spirit ascended into space. Then it seemed to him that an immense being, without definite form, called him by name. ‘Who are you?’ asked Hemes, startled.

‘I am Osiris, Sovereign Intelligence, and I can unveil everything. What do you wish?’
“To look at the source of beings, O divine Osiris, to know God!’‘
You will be satisfied.’

Immediately, Hermes was flooded with a blissful light. Upon its diaphanous waves, the captivating forms of all beings passed. But suddenly, the terrifying shadows of sinuous shapes descended upon him. Hermes was plunged into a humid chaos filled with smoke and dismal moaning.

Then a voice arose from the abyss. It was the cry of light. Suddenly, a faint fire burst forth from the humid depths and reached the ethereal heights. Hermes arose with it and found himself once again in space. In the abyss, the chaos became ordered; the choirs of the stars stretched out over his head, and the voice of the light filled infinity. 

‘Did you understand what you saw?’
Osiris asked Hermes in his dream, suspended between earth and heaven.
‘No, replied Hermes.’

‘Well then, you will know. You have just seen what is for all time. The light you first saw is divine intelligence, which contains everything, including the archetypes of all beings. The gloom into which you were plunged is the material world where men of earth live. But the fire which you saw flame forth from the depths is the Divine Word, God is the Father, the Word is the Son, their union is Life.’

‘What wondrous sense has opened within me?
Asked Hermes, I no longer see with the eyes of the body, but those of the spirit.
How is this?’

‘Child of dust,’ said Osiris, ‘it is because the Word is within you! What in you hears, sees, acts — is the Word itself, the sacred fire, the Creative Word.’

‘Since that is so,’ said Hermes, ‘let me see the life of the worlds, the way of the souls, whence man comes and whither he returns.’

‘Let it be as you desire.’

Hermes again became heavier than a stone and fell through space like an aerolite. Finally, he saw himself at the top of a mountain; it was night; the earth was dark and bare; his limbs seemed heavy as iron.

‘Lift up your eyes and behold!’ said Osiris’ voice.

Then Hermes saw an amazing sight. Infinite space and the starry heaven enveloped him in seven luminous spheres. In a single glance, Hermes saw the seven heavens above him like seven transparent, concentric globes, whose sidereal center he occupied. The last had the Milky Way as an enclosure. In each sphere, a planet with a Genius of different form, sign, and light revolved. While the awestruck Hermes viewed their scattered efflorescence and their majestic movements, the voice said to him:

‘Look, listen, and understand. You see the seven spheres of all life. Through them, the fall of souls takes place, and also their ascension. The seven Genii are the seven rays of Word-Light. Each of them governs a sphere of the Spirit, a sphere of the life of souls. The one nearest you is the Genius of the Moon with a disquieting smile and wearing a silver sickle. He presides at births and deaths.

He disengages souls from bodies and draws them into his ray. Over him, pale Mercury shows descending or ascending souls the way with his staff, which contains knowledge. —Higher still, bright Venus holds the mirror of Love where souls alternately forget and recognize each other. Above her, the Genius of the Sun raises the Triumphal torch of everlasting Beauty. –Yet higher, Mars brandishes the sword of Justice. –Sitting on his throne over the azure sphere, Jupiter holds the scepter of supreme power, which is Divine Intelligence. –At the boundary of the world, under the signs of the zodiac, Saturn bears the globe of Universal Wisdom.’

The vision of Hermes gives us mesmerizing details regarding death and salvation. This sort of thing has been used a basis for all sorts of religious imagery, and I think you can see threads of it used in Dante’s Inferno.

Osiris speaks of the journey of the soul guided by the various Revealers of God’s Word through the realms of the visible and invisible worlds – the seven heavens so often referred to in other texts, and the outcome of irremediably base and wicked souls. Remember, this talk of the planets took place near the end of the Stone Age – before the Great Flood, and way before telescopes. 

 ‘I see,’ exclaimed Hermes, ‘the seven regions which make up the visible and invisible world. I see the seven rays of the Word-Light, of the only God, who penetrates and governs them by these rays. Can souls die?’ asked Hermes.

‘Yes,’ answered the voice of Osiris. ‘Many perish in the fatal descent. The soul is the daughter of heaven, and its journey is a test. If in its wild love of matter, it loses the memory of its origin, the divine spark which was in it and which would have become brighter than a star, returns to the ethereal region, a lifeless atom, and the soul disintegrates in the whirlpool of crude elements.’

At these words of Osiris, Hermes trembled, for a roaring storm enveloped him in a black cloud. The seven spheres disappeared beneath thick vapors. He saw human specters uttering strange cries, carried away and torn to pieces by phantoms of monsters and animals, amidst groans and endless blasphemies.

This,’ said Osiris, ‘is the fate of irremediably base and wicked souls. Their torture ends only with their destruction, which is the loss of all consciousness.
But see, the vapors disperse; the seven spheres reappear beneath the firmament!
Look this way!

Do you see that host of souls trying to climb back into the lunar region?
Some are pushed down to earth like flocks of birds in the blast of the storm. With a great stirring of wings, others reach the higher sphere which draws them into its revolving.

Like hosts of sparks! For you too can follow them; it is sufficient to will it, in order to lift oneself. See how they gather into divine choirs, each under its chosen Genius! The most beautiful live in the Solar region, and once they arrive, they recover the vision of divine things.

But now they are not content with reflecting the latter in a dream of powerless bliss. They become infused with the lucidity of conscience lighted by grief and with the strength of will acquired in battle. They become luminous, for they possess the divine in themselves and reflect it in their acts.

Therefore, strengthen your soul, O Hermes, and quiet your clouded mind by watching these distant flights of souls,’ mount to the seven spheres and scatter the most powerful rise as far as Saturn. Some even rise to the Father, themselves becoming powers among Power. For there where everything ends, everything eternally begins, and the seven spheres intone in unison, “Wisdom! Love! Justice! Beauty! Splendor! Knowledge! Immortality!’ 

“Think back to the Old Testament. Isn’t this amazing? Let’s finish the evening with a couple of quotes from the Stone-Age Prophet known as Enoch, Hermes, Khonoukh, Thoth, or Idris.”

From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived. Of these Souls, there are many changes; some move into a more fortunate estate, and some quite contrary. . . Not all human souls, but only the pious ones, are divine. Once separated from the body, and after the struggle to acquire piety, which consists in knowing God and injuring none, such a soul becomes all intelligence.

None of our thoughts can conceive of God, nor can any language define Him. The incorporeal, invisible, and formless cannot be comprehended by our senses…God is ineffable. …the First Cause remains hidden. 

Even today, Bahá’u’lláh of the Baha’i Faith mirrors this warning.

O SON OF DUST! Beware! Walk not with the ungodly and seek not fellowship with him, for such companionship turneth the radiance of the heart into infernal fire . . .


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