Hildegard of Bingen
wrote about fallen angels in 1150 AD. She states they
aligned themselves to the dark (negative) instead of to the light
(positive-God per the Bible).
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Another
non-canonical tradition says that God's Angels swarmed down
and killed the remaining Nephilim...
God seeing his creation on the brink of destruction acted to save man
from this treachery, and he set out to wipe corrupt man (and beast) from the
face of the earth. God did not do this so as to punish man but to save him from
an evil he had no way of understanding. God saved Noah and his family and man
began anew. As did the evil.
But it was the unauthorized act of revelation that outraged the archangels,
and it was that act which God punished. "I shall restore the Earth, so that not
all the sons of men shall be destroyed through the mystery which the Watchers
made known." Divinely commanded, the obedient Watchers swept down and defeated
their brothers, whose punishment was to watch the death of their children before
being themselves imprisoned in the mountains and deserts of the Earth until
Judgment Day, when they will be cast into the lake of eternal fire. (Azazel is
the only Watcher whose burial place is believed to be known: under a heap of
stones at the foot of the cliff of Haradan, in what is now the Sinai, where,
regarded as a demon, he received every year the scapegoat driven into the desert
with its burden of Israel's sins. --Alternately, he is sometimes said to have
hurled himself into the sky and become the constellation Orion.) God sends the
prophet Enoch to scold them in their imprisonment, saying that as spiritual
beings they were never intended to have wives as mortal men do (of course, their
creator could presumably have seen to it that they felt no longing for sex or
love, but he apparently neglected to do so) and even scorning the knowledge they
shared with humanity - "You were in heaven, but its secret had not been revealed
to you and a worthless mystery you knew." - although the Four Archangels'
concern surely contradicts this mocking remark. Other Apocryphal books say that
even now they are held and tortured in the terrible Fifth Heaven, set aside for
just this purpose. (I Enoch XIII describes the Watchers/Grigori as
stricken mute with guilt and terror after Enoch's reproof, and indeed in II
Enoch the Grigori imprisoned in the Fifth Heaven are voiceless giants.) The
world, meanwhile, is swept clean in a great earthquake and flood, destroying the
Nephilim's lands, to which many writers
trace the worldwide legends of a catastrophic inundation.But the Watchers' teaching continued to influence humankind in the ages after the Deluge, even though now condemned and studied in secret. In Jubilees VIII:1-5, Kainam, Noah's grandson, "came upon a writing which men of old had carved on a rock...it contained the teaching of the Watchers, in accordance with which they used to observe the omens of the sun and moon and all the signs of heaven. And he wrote it down and said nothing about it..." fearing punishment from Noah, who blamed the Watchers for the Flood and constantly warned his clan against any dealings with them or their descent. (Must have been one blessed huge rock, unless the Watchers' skills included micro-engraving.) This is especially notable because Kainam is the brother of Chesed, father of Ur, who is said in the Apocrypha to have founded the famous Chaldean city of that name. "And [they] grew up and lived in Ur of the Chaldees," says Jubilees (XI:7-8) of Serug and Nahor, Kainam's descendants, "and worshipped idols...and [Nahor's] father instructed him in the learning of the Chaldees, how to divine and foretell the future from the signs of heaven." It's most tempting to conclude that Kainam's grandchildren through generations inherited and studied the written record he had made from the stone; that the legendary wisdom of the Chaldeans, which amazes history, had descended to them from the Watchers themselves The Nephilim - and, some say, their children, the Elioud/Eljo - were physically exterminated by the avenging angel horde. But, though their half-mortal bodies could be slain, their half-angel souls could not, nor could they be held in chains. They remain on the earth, wandering at will, and though chaotic and destructive will not be punished for their deeds until the Final Judgment "in which the great age will be brought to an end". Occult tradition holds that now and then a Nephilim spirit will incarnate in human form (the souls of those who quit the body violently, it's said, are most pure...). The Apocrypha claim the disembodied Nephilim are the origin of demons, and accuse them of many crimes. Jubilees places the blame for the Flood squarely upon the fornication of the Watchers and the iniquity and bloodshed of the Nephilim. "And now the giants who were born from souls and flesh will be called evil spirits upon the earth," charges I Enoch XV-XVI, "From the day of...the slaughter and destruction of the giant Nephilim, the mighty ones of the earth, the great famous ones, the spirits that have gone out from their souls as from the flesh will destroy without judgment." Even the mortal women who are their mothers are cursed to become sirens and demonesses. In Jubilees X:1-6, Noah's sons beg him to protect their children from "unclean demons" who are "leading astray, blinding and killing" them; Noah, petitioning God to "let not wicked spirits rule over [my grandchildren] and destroy them", adds, "Thou knowest what thy Watchers, the fathers of these spirits, did in my day..." making it clear that the demonic spirits and the Nephilim are considered one and the same. (One wonders if Kainam was one of these grandchildren being "led astray" by a "demonic" Nephilim familiar. Maybe it was helping him interpret the stone...) |
Archeology News
November 2005 Archaeologists digging at the purported biblical home of Goliath have unearthed a shard of pottery bearing an inscription of the Philistine's name, a find they claim lends historical credence to the Bible's tale of David's battle with Goliath.
While the discovery is not definitive evidence of Goliath's existence, it does support the Bible's depiction of life at the time the battle was supposed to have occurred, said Dr. Aren Maeir, a professor at Bar-Ilan University and director of the excavation.
"What this means is that at the time there were people there named Goliath," he said. "It shows us that David and Goliath's story reflects the cultural reality of the time."
Some scholars assert the story of David slaying the giant Goliath is a myth written down hundreds of years later. Maeir said finding the scraps lends historical credence to the biblical story.
The shard dates back to around 950 B.C., within 70 years of when biblical chronology asserts David squared off against Goliath, making it the oldest Philistine inscription ever found, the archaeologists said.
Scientists made the discovery at Tel es-Safi, a dig site in southern Israel thought to be to be the location of the Philistine city of Gath.
Maeir doubts an archaeological find can ever prove Goliath's existence, but said the shard was exciting nonetheless because of its depiction of life during the time period.
Read more about the subject of Alien (demon) abductions at: http://www.bibleprobe.com/roswell.htm
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