The first comprehensive examination of the Book of Enoch and its prophecies, origins, and history
- Examines in depth Enoch’s full story of the Watchers, the fallen angels who came to Earth and shared corrupting forbidden knowledge
- Explores how Enoch was a vital component of Second Temple messianic Judaism, speculative Jewish mysticism, the Kabbalah, and Gnostic mythology
- Investigates the entire history of the Book of Enoch and its important esoteric offshoots, including the later 2 Enoch (the Slavonic “Book of the Secrets of Enoch”) and the so-called Hebrew “Book of Enoch” (3 Enoch)
Said to have been written by the prophet Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah, the Book of Enoch disappeared for many centuries, except for one place: the Bible of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, which held the book as canonical.
Revealing the profound influence of the Book of Enoch on world thought over the past two thousand years, Tobias Churton investigates the entire history of the Book of Enoch and its important esoteric offshoots, including the later 2 Enoch (the Slavonic "Book of the Secrets of Enoch") and the so-called Hebrew "Book of Enoch" (3 Enoch). He explains how Enoch was taken to Heaven where he received personal instruction from God and examines in depth Enoch’s full story of the Watchers, the fallen angels who came to Earth and shared corrupting forbidden knowledge. He explains how the Book was a vital component of Second Temple messianic Judaism and speculative Jewish mysticism, playing a key role in the development of both the Kabbalah and Gnostic mythology.
Informed by continuing studies of the Dead Sea Scrolls, Churton provides the first comprehensive examination of the Book of Enoch, clarifying and refuting many errors of understanding about Enoch’s apocalyptic and sometimes sensational prophecies.
About the Author
Tobias Churton is Britain’s leading scholar of Western Esotericism, a world authority on Gnosticism, Hermeticism, and Rosicrucianism. He is a filmmaker and the founding editor of the magazine
Freemasonry Today. An Honorary Fellow of Exeter University, where he is faculty lecturer in Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, he holds a master’s degree in Theology from Brasenose College, Oxford, and created the award-winning documentary series and accompanying book
The Gnostics, as well as several other films on Christian doctrine, mysticism, and magical folklore. The author of many books, including
Gnostic Philosophy, The Invisible History of the Rosicrucians, and
Aleister Crowley: The Beast in Berlin, he lives in England.
Industry Reviews
“ The Books of Enoch Revealed is an epic work of history that highlights Churton’s virtuosity in meticulously analyzing the theology of the texts and the historicity of their journey from biblical antiquity to our era. The Enochic texts present a maze of complexity, both historically and theologically. Tobias Churton is one of the few living scholars capable of disassembling and reassembling all the moving parts without losing any along the way.”
– Mitch Horowitz, PEN Award–winning author of Occult America and Modern Occultism
“A fantastic new addition to our understanding of the Book of Enoch and its connection to the Watchers, Nephilim, the patriarchs Enoch and Noah, and the angels of heaven. It shows the text’s origins, its influences, and its impact on the early Christian world before its eventual banishment into oblivion and its eventual rediscovery by Scottish Freemason James Bruce in the eighteenth century. An essential addition to the mysteries bookshelf.”
– Andrew Collins, author of Karahan Tepe and From the Ashes of Angels
“Tobias Churton has produced an encyclopedic summary of the myth, history, and importance of the Books of Enoch. Once relegated to the back shelves of libraries and ignored by mainstream academia, Enochic works and all associated with them have become the topic du jour. With their discussions of angels, demons, apocalypticism, spiritual revelations, heavenly realms, and hermetic, alchemical, and magical potencies, there is something for everyone in Enochic lore. Dive deep and enjoy!”
– Mark Stavish, founder and director of the Institute for Hermetic Studies and author of Egregores and
