Forbidden Knowledge of Enoch
Forbidden Knowledge of Enoch
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Roth, Harold. The Forbidden Knowledge of the Book of Enoch: The Watchers, Nephilim, Fallen Angels, and the End of the World. Newburyport, MA: Weiser Books, 2024.
Examines the meaning, context, secrets, and impact of The Book of Enoch in a clear, accessible, secular, and respectful way so that readers can make up their own minds about this mysterious book of scripture. Forbidden knowledge is at the core of the Book of Enoch. Its text has captured interest from 300 BCE (about the time that it was written) up to the present day (except for a period between the 5th and 19th centuries when the text was "lost"). Ancient people living in the Qumran area of the Land of Israel, to the Near East, to Ethiopia, and to Eastern Europe have all consulted The Book of Enoch to inform their own magical and mystical practices.
Sometimes part of Jewish and Christian canon and doctrine and sometimes outrightly banned, The Book of Enoch has persisted for well over 2000 years. From early Christian apocalyptic texts, through Renaissance magic, and up to today's conspiracy theories and modern magical angelology The Book of Enoch has been influential in many spiritual, religious, and esoteric traditions. What has been missing from the various approaches has been any real attempt to find not only what is at the center of these stories but also their connections to magic. Harold Roth finds and elucidates those connections
Roth interprets the content of The Book of Enoch and addresses how that knowledge has been used in the past and can be useful in the present. The Forbidden Knowledge of the Book of Enoch shows that The Book of Enoch remains as vital, if not more so, today as it has been for centuries.
This new work will be useful to magic workers, mystics, those who work with angels, those interested in Jewish magic and mystical practices, and those who are simply curious to peek at apocalyptic visions.
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