Who are the watchers in the Bible?
The Watchers are also portrayed as a high order of Angels (Archangels), known as Grigori or Irin. The Book of Enoch , says that God had sent a legion of angels to earth in order to watch over and subtlety assist man during the beginning of civilization.
Enoch is the son of Jared (Gen 5:19-21), the father of Methuselah, and the great-grandfather of Noah. Enoch lived 365 years before he was taken by God, which is small amount of time compared to his offspring Methuselah, who lived to be 969 years old.
The Roman Catholic Church. In future, prayers were only to be directed to the three archangels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael who are mentioned in the Bible. According to the apocryphal and banned Book of Enoch these were the angelic beings responsible for binding the wicked fallen angels or Watchers who had transgressed God’s law.
The news report said that the early Church had excluded the book, attributed to the Old Testament prophet and patriarch Enoch, from the authorized version of the Bible because it described these fallen angels and their activities.
Who are the Watchers or fallen angels and why was the early Church and the modern Vatican so concerned about them?
Genesis 6:1-4 says: “When men began to multiply on the face of the Earth, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and took them wives of all which they chose.” Traditionally the Ben Eloha or ‘sons of God’ numbered several hundred and they descended to Earth on Mount Harmon. Significantly this was a sacred place to both the Canaanites and the Hebrews who invaded their land.
In later times shrines to the gods Baal, Zeus, Helios and Pan and the goddess Astarte were built on its slopes.
These ‘fallen angels’ were also known as the Watchers. Grigori and the Irin. In Jewish mythology the Grigori were originally a superior order of angels who dwelt in the highest heaven with God and resembled human beings in their appearance. The title ‘Watcher’ simply means ‘one who watches’, ‘those who watch’, ‘those who are awake’ or ‘those who do not sleep’. These titles reflect the unique relationship between the Watchers and the human race since ancient times.
In the esoteric Luciferian tradition they were a special elite order of angelic beings created by God to be earthly shepherds of the first primitive humans. It was their task to observe and watch over the emerging human species and report back on their progress. However they were confined by the divine prime directive not to interfere in human evolution.
Unfortunately they decided to ignore God’s command and defy his orders and become teachers to the human race, with unfortunate repercussions for both themselves and humanity.
They teach bad things and magic.
Most of the information we have about the Watchers and their activities comes from the apocryphal Book of Enoch. In the orthodox Bible the prophet Enoch, from the Hebrew ‘hanokh’ or instructor, is a mysterious figure. In Genesis 4:16-23 he is described as the son of Cain, the “first murderer,” and the first city built by his father is named after him.
In the apocryphal Book of Jubilee, allegedly dictated by “an angel of the Lord” to Moses on Mount Sinai when he also received the Ten Commandments, it says that Enoch was “the first among men that are born on Earth [sic] who learn writing, knowledge and wisdom.” It says that Enoch wrote down “the signs of Heaven” (the zodiac signs) according to their months in a book.
This was so human beings would know the seasons of the years in relation to the order of the months and their respective stellar and planetary influences. The indication is that Enoch received this information from extraterrestrial angelic sources, i.e. the Watchers, and therefore he was a cultural exemplar.
These children were called the Nephilim and they were the giant race that once inhabited Old Earth. The fallen angels taught their wives and children a variety of new technological skills, magical knowledge and occult wisdom.Also magic powers.
This was the basis for the early Church condemning the fallen angels for teaching women to make necklaces from pieces of gold and bracelets for their arms. St Paul said that women should cover their head in the synagogue (Corinthians: 11:5-6).
This was because the fallen angels were supposed to be attracted to human females with long flowing hair. The custom of women covering their hair in churches is still found in Roman Catholicism and also in the customs of Islam.
The fallen angel Shemyaza, another form of Azazel, is said by Enoch to have taught humans the use of root cuttings and the magical art of enchantment; the fallen angel Armaros taught the resolving (banishing) of enchantments;
Baraqijal taught astrology; Kokabiel, the knowledge of the constellations (astronomy); Chazaqiel, the knowledge of the clouds and the sky (weather lore and divination);
Shamsiel, the signs of the sun (the solar mysteries)In Arabic they still call the sun Shams;
Sariel the courses of the moon (the lunar cycles used in horticulture and agriculture and the esoteric lunar mysteries);
Penemuel instructed humans in the art of writing and reading;
and Kashdejan taught the diagnosis and healing of diseases and the science of medicine.
It is obvious from these descriptions of the teaching abilities of the Watchers that they were cultural exemplars and the bringers of civilization to the early human race. It is therefore strange that in orthodox Judea-Christian religious texts they are misrepresented as evil corrupters of humanity.!
Shamsiel, possible originally a Babylonian sun god, was called “the prince of Paradise” because he was one of the guardian angels who watched over the gates to Eden.
In this role he took Moses to see the heavenly garden and he also watched over the treasures of King David and his son Solomon the Wise. This reference may be to spiritual treasures rather than physical gold and jewels. In the Jewish Zohar he is named as the chief aide-de-camp to the mighty Archangel Uriel and bore his standard into battle.
Sariel was an angel associated with fertility of the earth and the spring equinox (northern hemisphere) in March. He governed the martial zodiac sign of Aries the Ram and was invoked for protection against the malefic power of the Evil Eye.
Azazel – Lucifer – Lumiel
The Devil himself Azazel, the leader of the Watchers, as mentioned before, was identified with Lucifer or Lumiel. In the Quran it is said that Lucifer-Lumiel (Iblis) rebelled against God because he was told to bow down and worship the clay-born “man of earth” Adam and refused.
He was forced to fight a battle in Heaven with the Archangel Mikel or Michael and his Army of the Lord. As a result Lumiel and his rebel angels were cast out of Heaven and fell down to Earth.
Here Lumiel became the “Lord of the World” and in Christian mythology he was falsely identified with the bogeyman Satan. However, esoterically in the Luciferian tradition, Lumiel or Lumiel is not an evil satanic figure luring humankind into temptation and acts of evil as the Church represents him. He is “the angel of God rebelled against the static, established cosmic order and set in motion the forces of change and evolution…
It is possible that Lumiel may have originated in Canaan as Shahar, the Angel of the morning star (Venus). He had a twin called Shalem, or salem who was also symbolized by the planet Venus, but as the evening star.
These divine bright and dark twins represented the solar light emerging from the darkness of night at dawn and descending into it at dusk.
They were the children of Asherah, and there is archaeological evidence from the Middle East that the Hebrews adopted her worship when they settled in Canaan and practiced it alongside reverence of the tribal storm god Yahweh. Asherah means mid day.
The Old Testament has several references to the continued worship of Asherah as “Queen of Heaven” by the allegedly monotheistic Hebrews.
This took place at shrines in sacred groves on hills where they made offerings of cakes and incense to the goddess.
Eve. In a Persian text known as the Urm al-Khibab or The Primordial Book, dating from the 8th century CE, the angel Azazil or Azazel is said to have refused to acknowledge the superiority of Adam over the angels. This Angel is still worship by Yazedi cults in Iraq and Persia now days. They pray to the devil called tawoose the blue demon or the blue peacock .
More generally in Islamic lore Azazel or Azrael is the angel of death and he acts as a guide for the souls of the dead.
In Leviticus 16:8-10 and in the Dead Sea Scrolls a curious Hebrew ritual is recorded that features Azazel as the name for the ‘scapegoat’ that takes on the communal sins of Israel. It says that the
high priest Aaron took two goats from the flock and cast lots (practiced divination) to choose which one would be the scapegoat and sacrificed as a “sin offering.” The Scrolls say that the high priest confessed all the “impurities of the children of Israel” over the head of the Azazel goat.
By this ritually symbolic act he transferred to the unfortunate animal all their guilt and sins so they could be absolved of them. The goat was then either cast out into the wilderness to die or thrown over a cliff to be dashed to pieces on the rocks below.!
This ancient and archetypal concept of the scapegoat sacrificed for the sins of the human race and abandoned in the wilderness is a powerful and potent motif that appears several times in biblical myths.
It can be seen in the story of Cain who becomes an exiled wanderer on the Earth after being marked by God and banished “east of Eden” after killing his brother Abel.
In one Jewish legend the wise King Solomon, a powerful magician who could summon and control demons, fell from grace because he “whored after foreign gods.” He was forced by God to leave Jerusalem and wander in the desert disguised as a beggar.
Also after their exodus from slavery in Egypt, Moses and the Israelite were forced to spend forty years wandering in the desert before they were allowed to enter the Promised Land (Canaan).
In Ancient Egyptian mythology, the dark god Set is represented as a divine outcast who dwells in the desert and, after she left Adam, his first wife Lilith or Liliya fled to the wilderness away from human habitation.
In the New Testament Jesus wandered in the wilderness for forty days and nights. He was not accepted as a teacher in his own town of Nazareth and was rejected as the promised messiah by his people.
Mohammed PBAH also spent time in the desert and in cave worshiping God until the angel Gabriel send God message to him.
Shemyaza is seen by some modern Luciferian as either the emissary of Lumiel or one of his avatars (an incarnated divine being in human form). He not only fell in love with human women, but also with the Babylonian deity Ishtar, the goddess of love and war.
She promised to have sex with him if he would in return reveal to her the secret name of God. The powerful name that any one possess will do anything they want and gain the power of the creator. In Arabic they called it Al ser Al Aadham.
When Shemyaza told her, Ishtar used this forbidden knowledge to ascend to the stars and she reigned over the constellation of Pleiades or the Seven Sisters. While the other Watchers were rounded up by the archangels and punished by God, Shemyaza voluntarily repented his error and sentenced himself to hang upside down in the constellation of Orion the Hunter, with whom he is sometimes identified in the Luciferian tradition. In the Qabalistic tradition, Naamah, the sister of the biblical first smith Tubal-Cain, seduced Azazel and she has been associated with Ishtar.
The Muslim name for this angel Haroot and Maroot they also hanged upside down in one of the unknown area of Babylon under cave and well to the end of time.
“A race between Gods and men”
As we have seen, the end result of the illicit relationships between the Watchers and “the daughters of men” was, according to Judea-Christian propaganda, the spawning of a monstrous race of warlike, blood-drinking cannibalistic giants called the Nephilim.
10,000 BCE and the End of the Ice Age
It is known that around 10,000 BCE there seems to have been a cultural explosion that transformed early humankind. At the end of the last Ice Age the first signs of agriculture appeared in the Middle East with a shift from a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle to that of settled farming. This marked the beginning of civilization in this area. As early as 9500 BCE barley, wheat and rye were being cultivated and oats, peas and lentils were being grown by our Neolithic ancestors in what is now modern Kurdistan, between Turkey and Iraq. Also south of Iraq and later Egypt close to the rivers.
At the same time dogs, goats and sheep were also domesticated. Within a thousand years copper and lead smelting was being practiced in Anatolia (modern Turkey) and archaeologists believe this process was first discovered in north Iraq., along with weaving and pottery making. The ancient North Iraq culture was also the first to develop a script and was one of the earliest literate societies in the Middle East.
The Yezedis in north Iraq and Iran claim to be the descendants of the ‘Children of the falling angels’ (spirits), the offspring of a mating between the djinns and mortal women.
In some parts of north Iraq and Iran, especially among the sect of Yszedis, , who worship the Peacock Angel (Azazel, the leader of the fallen angels), can be found tall, fair-haired people with color eyes. Although anthropologists believe they may be of ancient European ancestry, as many of them were raped by the Greek army and Alexander the great army of Macedonia when he concurred all Iraq and Babylon and many Kurdish women married to Greek warriors .
In general the ancient Middle East was known as ‘the cradle of civilization’ with the earliest city-states being founded in the Mesopotamian area (modern Iraq ). The early indigenous people of the region, the Sumerians and Akkadians, developed the first written language, studied astronomy and created libraries.
The Babylonians and Assyrians followed them and in the mythology of all these races are stories of how the Gods descended to Earth and taught them the arts of civilization.
In the Bible Book of Enoch it says that when Yahweh saw the lawlessness, chaos, corruption and sexual immorality that had been caused by the interaction of the Watchers and humans he decided to intervene through the agency of the archangels Michael, Raphael, Gabriel and Uriel.
He commanded Raphael to bind Azazel hand and foot like a sacrificial goat and cast him into a deep ravine in the desert.
The bible mentioned that Gabriel was sent on a divine mission to destroy “the bastards and reprobates” and “the children of the Watchers amongst men.
The Archangel Michael, the commander of the Army of God, was sent to arrest Shemyaza and bind him “under the earth” until Judgement Day. As we have seen, the fallen angel repented his sins and sentenced himself to cosmic exile among the stars.
The Book of Jubilee says that the archangels bound the Watchers “in the depths of the earth” and in Judaic lore they are imprisoned in a mysterious “second Heaven.” However, it is also said that some of these “mighty warriors” have a special place reserved for them in Sheol, the Jewish underworld. There they are said to lie in state “with shield and spear intact.”
Christian O’Brien has suggested there is a connection between the biblical Watchers and the semi-divine, semi-mythical Tuatha De Danann (Children of the goddess Dana).
This race of ancient magicians descended to Earth on the sacred hill of Tara in prehistoric Ireland. With the coming of Christianity, the Tuatha De Danann was banished into the ‘hollow hills’ and became the Sidhe (Shee) or ‘Shining Ones’, the elves and faeries of Irish folklore.
There has always been a strong belief among the peasantry in Ireland that the Good People or faeries were originally the fallen angels who sided with Lucifer in the Battle of Heaven.
The Bible mentioned that the Watchers are angelic beings, with a spiritual form who incarnated in physical bodies to have sexual relations with mortal women.
In recent years a considerable amount of speculative literature has been published suggesting that instead they were of earthly origin. Popular best-selling authors such as Andrew Collins, Graham Hancock and Ian Lawson have claimed that the biblical myth of the Watchers represents memories of a primeval ‘elder race’ of super-humans belonging to a lost civilization who taught their technology to more primitive people.
Symbolically, Lucifer or Lumiel is known as the Lord of Light as he is the first-born of creation. He represents the active cosmic energy of the universe and has been identified with fire, light, phallic power, independent thought, consciousness, progress, liberty and independence.
The myth of the Watchers, the Fall of Lucifer and the Fall of Man all represent the primeval Dream time or ‘Golden Age’ of cosmic and earthy harmony and primal innocence that may have existed on the material plane or on some kind of astral or pre-material plane. Or in the mind of the human who cannot explain why the stars in the sky at that time.
It is the symbolic or actual physical destruction of this heavenly or earthly paradise, where humans and animals lived together and communicated by a universal language, which is reflected in such myths and legends. In shamanic terms it is known as the Great Separation when humans no longer knew or understood the language of the animals.
It was also a time when humans began to communicate together in different languages and this is represented by the biblical story of the Tower of Babel.
The myth of the Golden Age or Paradise on Earth is closely linked with the fall of Lucifer from Heaven and the diminishing of his former status as the first-born of creation to become the Lord of the World.
The Kurd mostly originated from the Akadians and the yazides who used to pray to Fire and to the sun, to this day they live in Iran, turkey and many run away to Iraq as turkey and Iran kinked them out and they took hold of north Iraq and called it home. There flag still show the sun with 21 spike the devil star sign of Ishtar.
in the world of Yazid , God created the world and is now supervised by the seven angels called ” Pet Pot ” ( seven mysterious ) . The senior one is ” Malac Taos ” Peacock Angel , corresponding to the devil in other religions ( source of this view is the other name of H”malac Taos “by the Yezidis – Witten , there is mentioned often in the Quran as the name of Satan ( شيطان ) ) . Yezidis believe that Mlac Taos is not the source of evil or evil , but a source of evil lies in the heart of man . H”citva Kliooh ” ( ” Ctab al- Jell-O , “” Book of Revelation Yazid ” ) , which deals mainly in reincarnation , artific Taos number that divided the world as he sees fit providence of angels , and born of woman can not appeal against it . Sheikh Adi believes he is the reincarnation of an angel Taos in this world . He was said in the book that he said was present when Adam lived in paradise and at that Nimrod threw Abraham into the fire . More Yazid prayer book is H”mtzhaf head ” ( ” The Black Book ” ), about the creation of the world , man and in worship . These books are written down by outside researchers religion Yazid early twentieth century , because until then mostly transferred orally , in part because of the prohibition of literacy applies to the Yezidis are not clerics .
Yazid belief about the creation of man is different from that of Islam , Christianity and Judaism . They believe that God created the angel of Taos own illumination first , and then the rest of the angels they were ordered to dust and dirt from the country and build the body of the person . So artific Taos volume soul dead man and taught him to pray to the sun, the representation of the Supreme Lord . In obedience to God , who commanded the angels did not bow down to any entity other than him , not bowed artific Taos man , while the other angels did so .
In later times , and the effect was identified Malek Christian Taos , Angel helps God and co- creation , with Luciferand created a legend that artific Taos refused to bow down to those who created the struggle , when he created the light of God . Yezidis believe that artific Taos is God ‘s representative to the world and falls on the first Wednesday of the month of Nissan , celebrated as the New Year Yazid . Yazidis believe that good and evil are located both in the human soul , and must choose between them .
Their work is important in the selection process Taos angel , as it faced a similar test in the face of God and he can direct them . For the creation of the world , they believe that it was originally a gem . He remained in this state for a long time , during which the seven angels were deposited on the world . Angels are : The Angel Taos , Sheikh Adi Ibn Msafr , Sheikh Hassan , and a group of four angels hidden : Shams al-Din al-Din Faher , Sag ‘ al-Din and Nasreddin . Two themes are important Yazid religion religious ritual and belief in reincarnation . Preserving the purity is expressed in seeing that the rigid social structure of caste , food laws , seclusion community and many taboos . Belief in reincarnation is also important because of the possibility that the fulfillment Yezidis believe the soul of one of the angels in human form .!
Thank you for reading.
Steve Ramsey, PhD.
Calgary, Alberta- Canada.