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Enoch, of course, is not a historical character but is part of the mythos. As Massey says, "In the Book of Enoch one form of the Messiah is the `Son of Woman'; this was Enoch or Enos, the Egyptian Sut-Anush [Set], who had been twin with Horus but was superseded by him."") Hazelrigg elaborates:
Then came Enoch, or Anush, words which mean knowledge; he was known as Ur-anous, and, according to a Hebrew manuscript, as Hermes, the inventor of astronomy, mathematics, and of divine worship. Aonac, an Irish word (pronounced Enoch), signifies a cycle of the sun. He was also known as Atlas, whence Atlantis, of which country he was the Supreme Pontiff. His symbol was the Bull, emblematic of the shepherd age.20
In actuality, the bull was the emblem of the Taurean age, which would mean that the book reflects a tradition 4,000 or more years old. The book is in fact highly astrological, as is to be expected since it contains the mythos. Regarding the Book of Enoch, Higgins relates:
Here are all the leading doctrines which I have been contending for clearly maintained. The residence or birth-place of the theology, Upper India; the signs of the Zodiac; the change of the Equinox from Taurus to Aries; . . . the Hindoo Trinity, than which nothing can be more clear ... and a history similar to the Jewish, but not copied from it; the prophecy of an elect one as described by all the prophets, including the prophecy of Virgil, and the elect one put to death, noticed by me in the cases of Buddha, Cristna, and him of the Apollo of Miletus . . . It has been the subject of this work to show that an universal system extended over the whole of the old world; and the principal facts for which I have contended are supported by this curious and unquestionably genuine document ... 21
Higgins avers that, based on the astrology, Enoch reflects it was originally composed around 2400 BCE in the latitude of Northern India.22
Another pseudepigraphic writing attributed to Enoch is the Book of the Secrets of Enoch, one of the "366 books" allegedly written by him, a number symbolic for the 365+ days of the year. As in the OT, in the Secrets it was said that Enoch lived to be 365 "years"; in other words, he is the sun, and his "life" is the length of a year. In the Secrets, Enoch continues the solar imagery when he describes how the "angels," or angles of the zodiac, "bore me away to the east, and placed me at the sun's gates, where the sun goes forth according to the regulation of the seasons and the circuit of the months of the whole year, and the number of the hours of day and night."23 This Enochian text is thus astrotheological, no doubt the reason it was eventually considered "apocryphal."
The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
Although they are purported to be the products of the mythical "sons of Jacob," the Jewish Pseudepigrapha "The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs" were written likely between 137 to 107 BCE. Of the Testaments, the editor of The Forgotten Books of Eden says:
When you look beyond the unvarnished-almost brutally frankpassages of the text, you will discern a remarkable attestation of the expectations of the Messiah which existed a hundred years before Christ.... The instances of the influence of these writings on the New Testament are notable in the Sermon on the Mount which reflects the spirit and even uses phrases from these Testaments. St. Paul appears to have borrowed so freely that it seems as though he must have carried a copy of the Testaments with him on his travels.24
Like the Dead Sea scrolls, these texts contain the blueprint for Christianity; however, some of them have been interpolated by conspiring Christians to give a semblance of "prophecy" of their pretended