The Atlantis Blueprint by Rand Flem-Ath & Colin Wilson

Author:Rand Flem-Ath & Colin Wilson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-48175-7
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2024-04-14T00:00:00+00:00

Hell was a Christian concept that – like the Devil – was unknown to the Jews. ‘Sheol’, sometimes translated as ‘hell’, simply meant a place where rubbish was destroyed, and this passage, which seems to prefigure Dante’s Inferno, was probably a major reason that the Book of Enoch ‘vanished’. The idea that ‘heaven’ might include a place of torment would have been unacceptable to the Church Fathers.

After his glimpse of ‘hell’, Enoch was taken on a tour – this time by the angel Raphael – around Paradise, or the ‘Garden of Righteousness’. This seems to be the Garden of Eden, for when he commented on a particularly beautiful tree with a delicious fragrance, he was told that this was the Tree of Knowledge from which Eve plucked one of the fruits (apparently these fruits hung in clusters like grapes, so they cannot be apples). What seemed to be worrying the Lord – who is referred to as Yahweh-Elohim – is a second tree called the Tree of Life. If man ate the fruits of this tree, his life would be immensely extended.

Now comes one of the most interesting passages in the Book of Enoch: ‘And I saw in those days how long cords were given to the Angels, and they took themselves wings and flew, and went towards the north. And I asked an Angel, saying unto him: “Why have they taken cords and gone off?” and he replied: “They have gone to measure.”’

Knotted ‘cords’ were used by Egyptian priests to plan their temples. These cords were nothing less than practical geometric survey tools. Christian O’Brien, an engineer with surveying experience, translates this passage into secular terms: ‘Then I saw how long measuring “tapes” were given to some of the angels and they hurried off towards the north. So I asked the angel with me why the others had taken tapes and gone away, and he replied, “They have gone to make a survey”’7

Angels undertaking a survey? It doesn’t make sense within the Christian concept of angels. But what if these beings were ancient scientists pursuing a geological and geographic survey?

For the Book of Enoch also reveals the all-important purpose of the survey with the words: And these measures shall reveal all the secrets of the depths of the earth…’8 The survey was geological.

Rand was familiar with Andrew Collins’s book From the Ashes of Angels, which recounts the story of Enoch. Collins describes how, in the late nineteenth century, the Babylonian Expedition from the University of Pennsylvania discovered fragments of a broken clay cylinder at Nippur, in what was still called Mesopotamia. They were found in the temple of

Enlil, the supreme god of the Sumerians, less important only than Anu, Lord of the Universe, and were written in cuneiform wedge script. We may recall the tablets found in the mound of Kuyunjik in 1852, which proved to contain the epic of Gilgamesh, and might be forgiven for assuming that the translation of this cylinder became a matter of prime importance, but it was taken back to the University of Philadelphia by Professor Herman V.

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