enoichion-henoch

“To accept Enoch as a Biblical character, a single living man, is like accepting Adam as the first one.

 
Enoch was a generic title, applied to, and borne by, scores of individuals, at all times and ages, and in every race and nation.

 
This may be easily inferred from the fact that the ancient Talmudists and the teachers of Midrashim are not agreed generally in their views about Hanokh, the son of Jared.

 
Some say Enoch was a great Saint, beloved by God, and taken alive to heaven (i.e., one who reached Mukti or Nirvana, on earth, as Buddha did and others still do); and others maintain that he was a sorcerer, a wicked magician.

 
This shows only that Enoch, or its equivalent, was a term, even during the days of the later Talmudists, which meant “Seer”, “Adept in the Secret Wisdom”, etc., without any specification as to the character of the title-bearer.

 
When Josephus, speaking of Elijah and Enoch, remarks that “it is written in the sacred books they (Elijah and Enoch) disappeared, but so that nobody knew that they died” (Jewish Antiquities, 9.2.2), it means simply that they had died in their personalities, as yogis die to this day in India, or even some Christian monks – to the world.

 
They disappear from the sight of men and die – on the terrestrial plane – even for themselves.”

 

H. P. Blavatsky