• Then they took wives, each choosing for himself; whom they began to approach, and with whom they cohabited; teaching them sorcery, incantations, and the dividing of roots and trees. • And the women conceiving brought forth giants, • Whose stature was each three hundred cubits. These devoured all which the labour of men provided; until it became impossible to feed them; • When they turned themselves against men, in order to devour them; • And began to injure birds, beasts, reptiles and fishes, to eat their flesh one after another, and to drink their blood.
The Book of Enoch characterizes the Nephilim as cannibals, vampires, or demons, while the Watchers are maligned as teachers. 1 Enoch Chapter 8 lists the division of labor that took place:
• Azazyel taught men to make swords, knives, breastplates,…
• Amazarak taught all sorcerers, and dividers of roots;
• Armers taught the solution of sorcery;
• Barkayal taught the observers of the stars;
• Akibeel taught signs;
• Tamiel taught astronomy;
• And Asaradel taught the motion of the moon.
• And men, being destroyed, cried out; and their voice reached to Heaven.
This description would be consistent with our knowledge of the Aryan “sons of God” with one flagrant exception — the last line — which states that men were “being destroyed” rather than blessed with the knowledge of Heaven. This final line item conflates the mathematics and science taught by the sons of God, with the greatly exaggerated evil erroneously attributed to their Nephilim offspring (sons of the “sons of God”). Unfortunately, certain Torah commentary tries hard to remain consistent with the Book of Enoch, and speaks about the Nephilim as “giants” who were among the evil “sons of Cain.” However, it must be emphasized that the Torah never actually states that the Nephilim were evil. It must be emphasized that the most authoritative translations of the word Nephilim renders: “heros of old” or “men of renown,” translations that are consistent with the Sanskrit term Aryan as “Noblemen.”
Christianity casts a great stigma upon learning the “heavenly secrets” of mathematics and science. This is the same mathematics and science that began civilization in Sumer, Egypt and Harappa. When the Emperor Constantine convened the First Ecumenical Council at Nicea, in 325 AD, ancient science officially became gnostic heresy. The Church appears to have equated knowledge of Heavenly secrets with Adam’s sin of knowing too much. Unfortunately, that perspective turns its back on the Aryan/Nephilim legacy of an integrated science and religion that began civilization and still holds the key to unlocking the secrets of Scripture.
Once the ancient science became heresy, it began a long history of enmity between the scientific community and the Church’s Orthodox religious community. The characterization of Nephilim as cannibals, vampires, and demons in the Book of Enoch, has literally demonized the Aryan founders of civilization, and seriously distorted Christianity’s notions of Hell. As a result, Christian demonology has been grossly exaggerated into a nightmarish fantasy, all beginning with the Book of Enoch’s exaggerations and misinterpretations regarding the Nephilim.
Mainstream Christianity’s notions of Satan as a synonym for the Devil began with the 1st Book of Enoch as the Watcher Satariel, and in the 2nd book of Enoch as Satanael. The Book of Enoch seriously conflicts with Abraham’s writings in the area of demonology, as well as with the intended meaning of the Hebrew Scriptures. Christianity’s concept of evil spirits grew into its exaggerated notions of Hell, based on the Book of Enoch’s misrepresentations of “Sheol.” 79
Now the giants, who have been born of spirit and of flesh, shall be called upon earth evil spirits, and on earth shall be their habitation. Evil spirits shall proceed from their flesh, because they were created from above; from the holy watchers was their beginning and primary foundation. Evil spirits shall they be upon earth, and the spirits of the wicked shall they be called. The habitation of the spirits in Heaven shall be in Heaven; but upon earth shall be the habitation of terrestrial spirits, who are born of earth.
Abraham’s theology, as described in the Sefer Yetzirah, does not differentiate terrestrial spirits from Heavenly spirits in this manner. In other words, every man’s immortal soul incarnates in a physical body, and then is liberated either through death or through the sacred practice, but only man’s soul is able to travel between Heaven and Earth. Abraham’s writings, therefore, contradict any notions of demons or bodily resurrection, and they clarify that people who die before purifying their body have pure souls that live in bodies tainted by sin. However, we certainly would not call them demons, since that would imply that most, if not all of mankind, is demonic. Adam is the archetype of sinful man, but how can we apply Christianity’s exaggerated notions of Hell to Adam, since Adam symbolizes the common man. The freakish and cannibalistic “Giants” who drank the blood of birds and reptiles in the Book of Enoch, does not, in any way, represent the plight of the common man. And further, it is completely inconsistent with the Hebrew Scriptures. Describing a race of cruel and evil giants is a problem rooted in the mistranslation of the word Nephilim based on unauthoritative, non-Canonical Enochian fantasy.
The Book of Enoch was excluded from both the Hebrew and Christian Canons, and thus, cannot be considered authoritative from the perspective of Orthodox religion, and rightly so.80 It might be a useful exercise to consider what the world might have become if the Nephilim were remembered as “men of renown” or “heros of old.” What if the Book of Enoch’s “Watchers” and their offspring were valued for all they taught mankind, rather then degraded as cannibalistic, vampire demons. One unfortunate result of this text’s influence is the Church’s long-standing opposition to the advances of mathematics and science. I believe the wedge between Christianity and the other two monotheistic religions began here.
Without the Book of Enoch, we can speculate that Christianity might not have been so quick to condemn Gnosticism and Moksha as the Gnostic and Arian heresies, respectively. Instead, the Church’s exaggerated notions were further influenced by such imaginative writings as Dante’s Inferno and Milton’s Paradise Lost.81 In this tradition, the demonology in today’s movie theaters reflect an other-worldly science-fiction imagination that boggles the mind and bombards the senses. Religion may have begun as a meditation practice to purify the body and liberate the soul, but Christianity has become dominated by a moralistic fervor driven by distorted notions of Satan and Hell.
God punished Adam by banishing him to wander the cursed Earth in the path of the cursed serpent, man’s alter-ego. Adam was in Hell as he wandered the Earth in exile from Heaven. It required no further embellishment. Christianity’s “Hell” has become seriously distorted by man’s active imagination. Clarifying these distorted ideas requires the Biblical mathematics described in Chapter 14. Hebrew notions of Sheol as the “abyss of the serpent” describes “the greatest possible distance from Heaven” (Job 11:8). The Bible borrows a bit from Egyptian notions of Hades as navigable rivers under the Earth, where the dead descend, and the revived ascend. It is from this perspective that David recites Psalm 30: “O LORD, you brought me up from Sheol, preserved me from going down into the Pit.”
The serpent’s abyss finds the serpent coiled 3½ times at the base of the spine. It is the unrealized Self in the dormancy of Hades often associated with death and darkness. Meditation uncoils the serpent energy, “awakening” the meditator as it climbs out of the abyss and up the spine. It vitalizes our Soul, saving us from sinful distractions and spiritual blindness. As man continues this spiritual practice, the abyss of Hell (unrealized dormancy) is ultimately transformed into “Enlightenment” at the Gates of Heaven. Thus, Sheol ambiguously defines the Gates of both Heaven and Hell — sin and salvation — and both are associated with the ayanamsa as the precessional gap or portal. From Abraham’s perspective, we experience