Never, O Destinies, never may ye behold me approaching as a partner the couch of Jupiter: nor may I be brought to the arms of any bridegroom from among the Sons of Heaven. Aeschylus, Prometheus, 896, 897. Neither did the Sons of the Titans smite him nor high GIANTS set upon Ioudith, xvi. 6, 7. him! PHILO'S Sanchoniathon says: "The mortals becoming proud and insolent married the daughters of Kronos and Taut." Homer says the Titans are the "Sons of Heaven.": They are the deities under the earth whom Zeus cast with their leader Saturn (Lucifer) into hell.' The furthest limits of land and ocean where Iapetos and Kronos sitting are delighted not with the splendor of Huperion Eeli nor with the winds, but profound Tartarus is around!-Iliad, viii. 479-481. Titan gods... the earth-born Titans . . . sent beneath the broad-wayed earth... in a dark, drear place, the extremities of vast Earth . . . And there are the sources and boundaries of dusky Earth, of murky Tartarus, of barren Pontos and starry Heaven, all in their order: . . . and the dread abodes of gloomy Night stand shrouded in dark clouds. In front of these the son of Iapetus stands and holds broad heaven with his head and unwearied hands unmovedly, where NIGHT and DAY also drawing nigh are wont to salute each other as they cross the vast brazen threshold. The one is about to go down within whilst the other comes forth abroad, nor ever does the abode constrain both within; but constantly one at any rate being outside the dwelling wanders over the earth, while the other again being within the abode awaits the season of her journey until it come!-Hesiod, Theog. 735-758; Banks. 2 1 Book 2, § viii. Iliad, v. 898. s Ibid. xiv. 203, 274, 279. Christ preached to the SPIRITS IN CUSTODY, DISOBEDIENT IN THE DAYS OF NOE!1 Peter, iii. 18-20. The ANGELS who kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath kept in everlasting chains under darkness.—Jude, 6. I keep for Neptune the bonds of Iapetus (Phut).—Nonnus, ii. 295. The Old Kronos found an excellent auxiliary O Tuphoe (Typhon, Tophet, Devil)!-Nonnus, ii. 565. Homer calls the Giants Otus and Ephialtes who contended against Jupiter "Sons of El (Aloe).”: 1 There were the GIANTS famous from the Beginning, that were of great stature and expert in war!-Baruch, iii. 26. And they were destroyed by not having wisdom.—Baruch, iii. 28. On what principle it was that "Giants" were born of Angels and women. Sometimes Moses styles the Angels "Sons of God." Philo, Quaest. et Solut. 92. And the fourth is like a son of the gods.-Daniel, iii. 25. You will see one according law and assertion in all the earth, that there is One God, the king and father of all things, and many gods, Sons of God, ruling together with him.—Maximus Tyrius (A. D. 150),* And it came to pass when mankind (HAdam) began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them, That the Sons of the gods (HAlahim) saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and took to themselves wives of all which they chose. The Nephilim (Giants) were on earth in those days; and also after that the sons of HAlhim (the gods) came in to the daughters of HAdam (men), these (women) bore (children) to them. These are those Valiant (the Gibborim) who once were men of renown! Gen. vi. 1, 2, 4. It is evident from the following quotation from the Book of Enoch that the SONS OF HELOHIM were the Angels of the stars, the SONS OF EL. It happened after the sons of men had multiplied in those days, that daughters were born to them, elegant and beautiful. And when the angels, the Sons of heaven, beheld them, they became enamored of them, saying to each other: Come let us select for ourselves wives from the progeny of men, and let us beget children... Then they swore all together, and all bound themselves by mutual execrations. Their whole number was two hundred, who descended on 2 Preface to Taylor's Proclus. 1 Iliad, v. 386. 800 Mount Armon... These are the names of their med: Šamyaza, vin was their leader, Urakabarameel, Akibeel, Tamiel, Ramuel Canet, Ari Sarakuyal, Asael, Armers, Batraal, Anane, Zarine Sumaven. Erel Turel, Yomyael, Arazyal. These were the prefects of the two hundred angels, and the remainder were all with them. Then they took wives, each choosing for himself; whom they bu pa a moromà, and with whom they cohabited; teaching them sorey, incaccions, and the dividing of roots and trees. And the women conceiving brought forth Giants; Whose stature was each three hundred cubits..... Moreover Aza yel taught men to make swords, knives, shields, breastplates, the fabri cation of mirrors, and the workmanship of bracelets and ornaments, the use of paint, the beautifying of the eyebrows, the use of stones of every valuable and select kind, and of all sorts of dyes, so that the world s came altered. Impiety increased; fornication multiplied; and they transgressed and corrupted all their ways. Amazarak taught all the sorcerers and dividers of roots; Armers taught the solution of sorcery ; Barkaval taught the observers of the stars; Akibeel taught signs; Tamiel taught astronomy; And Asaradel taught the motion of the moon. And men being destroyed, cried out; and their voice reached to heaven. Then Michael and Gabriel, Raphael, Suryal and Criel looked down from heaven, and saw the quantity of blood which was shed on earth, and all the iniquity which was done upon it and said one to another, It is the voice of their cries; The Earth deprived of her children has cried even to the gate of heaven. And now to you, O ye Holy Ones of heaven, the souls of men com plain saying; Obtain justice for us with the Most High. Then they said to their Lord the King; Lord of Lords, God of gods, King of kings, ... Thou hast seen what Azazyel has done, how he has taught every species of iniquity upon earth and has disclosed to the world all the secret things which are done in the heavens, Samyaza also has taught sorcery, to whom thou hast given authority over those who are associated with him. They have gone together to the daughters of men; have lain with them; have become polluted; And have discovered crimes to them. The women likewise have brought forth Giants.... Ardis, which is the top of Mount Armon... These are the names of their chiefs: Samyaza, who was their leader, Urakabarameel, Akibeel, Tamiel, Ramuel, Danel, Azkeel, Sarakuyal, Asael, Armers, Batraal, Anane, Zavebe, Samsaveel, Ertael, Turel, Yomyael, Arazyal. These were the prefects of the two hundred angels, and the remainder were all with them. Then they took wives, each choosing for himself; whom they began to approach, and with whom they cohabited; teaching them sorcery, incantations, and the dividing of roots and trees. And the women conceiving brought forth Giants; Whose stature was each three hundred cubits..... Moreover Azazyel taught men to make swords, knives, shields, breastplates, the fabrication of mirrors, and the workmanship of bracelets and ornaments, the use of paint, the beautifying of the eyebrows, the use of stones of every valuable and select kind, and of all sorts of dyes, so that the world became altered. Impiety increased; fornication multiplied; and they transgressed and corrupted all their ways. Amazarak taught all the sorcerers and dividers of roots; Armers taught the solution of sorcery ; Barkayal taught the observers of the stars; Akibeel taught signs; Tamiel taught astronomy; And Asaradel taught the motion of the moon. And men being destroyed, cried out; and their voice reached to heaven. Then Michael and Gabriel, Raphael, Suryal and Uriel looked down from heaven, and saw the quantity of blood which was shed on earth, and all the iniquity which was done upon it and said one to another; It is the voice of their cries; The Earth deprived of her children has cried even to the gate of heaven. And now to you, O ye Holy Ones of heaven, the souls of men complain saying; Obtain justice for us with the Most High. Then they said to their Lord, the King; Lord of Lords, God of gods, King of kings, .... Thou hast seen what Azazyel has done, how he has taught every species of iniquity upon earth and has disclosed to the world all the secret things which are done in the heavens. Samyaza also has taught sorcery, to whom thou hast given authority over those who are associated with him. They have gone together to the daughters of men; have lain with them; have become polluted; And have discovered crimes to them. The women likewise have brought forth Giants.... |