![]() ![]() Depending on your read on the situation, you could even say he took a sad psalm and made it better. ![]() Jude 1:14-15 has a particularly familiar piece of writing: ".Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convict 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."Ĭompare that to Enoch's version which, translated from Ge'ez, reads "And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His Saints To execute judgment upon all, And to destroy all the ungodly: And to convict all flesh Of all the works of their ungodliness which they have ungodly committed, And of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him." It's the sort of copy-pasting that gets folks thrown out of community college, but luckily, Moses never bothered to write down "thou shalt cite your sources," so Jude got away with it. Shop Barnes & Noble Primitive Mythology (The Masks of God, Volume 1) by Joseph Campbell online at. ![]() When those inhabiting the supernatural world jump into ours and discover that things are very different, they don’t like their new surroundings. Fragments of the Book of Enoch have made their way into mainstream religion, however. Here, the author details Enoch's vision of heaven and the fall of a subsect of angels who would go on to interbreed with human beings, creating a race called the Nephilim: supernatural, man-eating, cannibalistic, vampiric giants. Barnes & Noble The Place of the Lion By Charles Williams Written in 1931, this story starts when a curious mage opens a gateway to a spiritual and supernatural world. ![]()
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