Who is Metatron? The Origins of the Angel from the 3rd Book of Enoch - Sefer Hekhalot Mysticism
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- Metatron is probably the most powerful and mysterious Angel in Jewish lore. But what are the origins of this being known as the "Lesser Yahweh (יהוה הקתן)" ? In the 5/6th century ce Sefer Hekhalot (Book of Palaces or 3 Enoch), we go on a heavenly journey to the Throne (merkavah) of God with Rabbi Ishmael to learn that the angel Metatron was once Enoch, transformed into a being of fire, witness a host of angelic systems, a tour of the Paradise and She'ol, the Underworld, a glimpse of the Right Hand of the Divine and even a glimpse of all of cosmic history as embroidered on the veil (pargod) covering the very face of God. While the first Book of Enoch is more famous, the Third Book of Enoch is a true tour de force of apocalyptic visions and the ancient occult mysticism of those that allegedly descended to the Chariot-Throne of the Divine.
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Recommended Readings:
Odeberg - 3 Enoch - archive.org/details/ksigaxiie...
ספר חנוך לר׳ ישמעאל כ׳׳ג - hebrewbooks.org/33533
Charlesworth - Old Testament Pseudepigrapha - 978-1598564891
Segal - Two Powers in Heaven: Early Rabbinic Reports about Christianity and Gnosticism - 978-1602585492
Schäfer - Two Gods in Heaven: Jewish Concepts of God in Antiquity - 978-0691181325
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I'm glad to see you're feeling better.
I keep thinking about that skin Walker Ranch episode with the rabbi guy doing that ritual and bring that cold energy vortex and then watched a later interview with Travis and he said the rabbi said they spirit thing was gonna visit him later then Travis that night said he had a waking dream and a stereotypical Indian guy show up shook his head and then pressed his finger into his cheek and he woke up later and had a bloody mark on his face for a day or so right where he dreamed the spirit guy touched him he even used the phrase stigmata in the interview
Yeah, I was waiting for that. Great talk as usual.
20:00 .. " bad saving throws .."
Someone rolled a 1 on d20 ? D&D is an .. ehh .. ?
Or multiple 1s on d10s ? Whitewolf/World of Darkness: Mage the Awakening, that is bad .. very, very, .. bad.
Come on man, I clicked on it because I thought it said Megatron hahaha no worries 👍 great video I love it! 😎👍
Looking back on this episode, I realize I made a serious blunder - not even a single Transformers joke....
How could you? I'm crushed😢
Enochbots, roll out!
Enoch was taken up by Unicron and reformed to become Metatron before he descended again and killed Starscream.
I might be the only person in the world who routinely calls the retired hall of fame wide receiver Calvin Johnson, nicknamed megatron, metatron, at least I would be if it wasn’t for supernatural and that history youtuber, who seems quite full of himself to pick that as a name.
But Dr Justin you made an awesome D&D joke so you are forgiven
Metatron sounds like he should be one of the Transformers.
Sounds like gaudy stadium scoreboard but the words now mean beyond sub atomic particles though it sounds like the most futuristic meaning possible will matter.
Sounds like a videogame I'd wish they'd port to PC.
@@sampleoffers1978 haha true
I'm reminded of a poem I jotted down years ago by an Omar Khayyam for some reason: Up from Earth's, centre through the seventh gate I rose, and on the throne of Saturn sate,
And many a knot unraveld by the road;
But not the master knot of human fate;
There was the veil through which I might not see; There was the door to which I found no key: Some talk a while of me and thee
There was-and then no more of thee and me!
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well said
@@SacGeoTV maybe just not a public one?
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You paid 50$ I’d like to think the guy would at least acknowledge your comment
This channel is so great. It feels like I'm able to learn the things I would have wanted from the MA in religious studies I couldn't afford to do. Thanks so much, Doctor!
@@briteness that checks, honestly. My grad school History experience was, to be polite, lacking.
I love this channel 😄😄
Metatron/Enoch is one of my favorite figures in mystical literature, probably because of his heavy involvement with so many mystic traditions - especially interesting to me is his identification as Idris in Islam, who has also been posited as an identity for Hermes Trismegistus!
Wrong Enoch
@@turtleswim05 No, it's the same Enoch. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idris_(prophet)
Yeah, but in islam, it's never said that Idris was transformed into an angel. Just that his soul was reaped while he was in the 4th heaven to, ironically, ask God for more time.
@@TheQuinis believe what you would like.
In reading the books of Enoch you’ll see a clear difference in the 2 figures. Enoch1 is Enoch of the line of Seth. Enoch2 and enoch3 are Enoch of the line of Cain.
The name Enoch means initiated or initiating
Enoch of Seth was called up into the presence of God.
Enoch of Cain is sitting on a throne(the imitation of the throne of God)
Enoch of Seth was on his face before the throne
Enoch of Cain has no problem accepting worship
There are 2 types of initiations. Initiation in Mystery of Christ in you(good initiating) or initiation In the mystery of iniquity or mystery Babylon (bad initiating)
We must remember that for everything holy of the father there is an imitation of satan. And the sons of Cain were jealous of the sons of Seth. So I think Enoch of Cain was initiated into the mystery of iniquity by the fallen watchers and taught things like the building of the pyramid and Enochian magic. And all that is of the mystery schools.
Since the fallen watcher couldn’t ascend and through jealousy of Enoch of Seth ascending. The watchers taught Enoch of Cain all the mystery’s so he could build/find a way to ascend thus creating this imitation for the throne.
Since acquiring this knowledge and as it is written in genesis 3:22 behold the man is become as one of us. Through the initiation of the mysteries becoming enlightened and received his name Metatron after transforming into an angle.
@@juanbeans9534 Quite a thorough breakdown. Thank you for sharing.
These depictions look nothing like Alan Rickman, the one true Metatron.
This should be the top post
RIP... Alan Rickman 🙏
@@Drax899As long as men continue to do " the Rickman " , the leg opening move on a lady from the film Robin Hood then Alan lives on .
Or is it part of gods ineffable plan of omens...❤
@@DavidRexGlennno it should not.. this is how BS is spread. humourous or not.
I love this channel. I was raised fundamentalist Baptist Christian and once in a while I would catch a short gaze of the more mysterious things and be entranced. I now am fully open minded and wish to learn more because I enjoy it so much. I absolutely love all that you do and am full here for the mystery alone. I am at once less religious and also much more religious in other ways. Your channel builds a bonfire of mystery that many of us never saw. To me, it's the joy of religion: the mystery.
I was raised Southern Baptist as well. They felt like a cult to me.
@@travisahhs11 I feel the Baptist , are too steeped in traditions, not emphasizing the message as much as their culture of organization, however the spirit and faith of a true believer can be found there as well.
The problem with this whole story is that it is written in 500ad
“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it." While people always want things to be easier and entertaining. That's now how things work in life. If you want to be good at something, you have to give your all to the cause. Think of the athletes, they live and breathe sport. Composers breathe music. Artist breath art. While Baptists breathe Bible. You live according to what is valuable to you.
I would image you have read the Nag Hammadi? Lots of mystery there❤
Somewhere along the line I got the idea that Metatron wasn't an 'additional power in Heaven' per se but that the 'lesser Yahweh' applied because when a natural (post-flood?) human would communicate with the Lord, it was Metatron who made the actual appearance, as a mystical loudspeaker, because The Almighty is so far beyond the bounds of human comprehension that using the Metatron as an intermediary creates an encounter humans can process. But the words of the Metatron in that context are Yahweh verbatim so the human really is communicating with Yahweh.
PS everything makes more sense with D&D references.
I was taught that the reason Metatron can sit down in heaven whilst the other angles can't is because he indeed used to be a human and therefore has knees whilst the angles who started off as angles don't. (Another teaching I was given about knees is that the reason that they are so dodgy is that they were created right before Shabbat). Great video.
On an extremely shitty day like today, this is a comfort. Thank you, Dr. Sledge.
No doubt. Cheesus.
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Two powers in heaven (even after the older El-Yahweh or Yahweh-Asherah as two main gods) seems to be present in final Biblical text. The "Angel of the Lord" is talked about as a being which can manifest on earth and through which God acts and speaks - in first person, and people interacting with it say they have heard and/or seen God, but besides that identification of the two it is also clear they are not the one and the same, being that they talk to each other and one is sent by the other. Add to that the personification of God's wisdom in the wisdom literature, plus the 'son of man' in Daniel, and you have a clear Two powers in heaven theology, which then Paul and the 'Apostolic Fathers' just apply to Jesus. Of course it helped that the then contemporary philosophies of Middle Platonism and Neopythagoreanism had developed basically the same theology, saying how God doesnt simply create the world, but acts through a secondary divinity which is emanated from him, a view that already found its way in Judaism by Philo, who used the term Logos for it. Certainly an interesting topic to read more about.
Very good. So are you a trinitarian then?
Reminds me of the Gnostic idea that the one responsible for the creation of our planet wasn't one but two divine beings, whom were named Saklas and Nebro.
Malak ha mavet (the angel of death) was also a representative of the divine judge of judges.
There is one God with 3 faces. Not 2 Gods or 3, but 1 God made up of 3 parts that make God. The father, the son, and the holy spirit. They are seperate but the same. One being but 3 also. Jesus is the part of God we are modelled after, The Father is the creator and the vengeful God seen in the old testament, and the holy spirit is how the father and son physically manifest themselves to us.
@@plugmanjohnson7456 your modernism is showing 😉
Thank you for sharing with us all of this knowledge. Even after listening to this particular episode 6-7 times, I am still gleaning new information - this is what I love most about your channel. Thank you, Dr. Justin Sledge
I have been an amateur theologian and historian for most of my adult life and its nice to finally receive an understandable explanation to so many esoteric mysteries. Thank you so much!
But do you follow any one path or just the ology.
I am searching for God, or at least how to worship him so that it is pleasing to God. Any ideas.
It is said that
Religions are like 7-11, 10,000 of them and they are all the same. I don't believe this.
@@jmontoya4689 By searching for God, you serve God. If you search sincerely, which includes not being afraid of finding; in fact, it might be natural that if you are not afraid during the process, then you haven't really found God.
If you can accept that God is the realm of love, then you have to understand that love is a uniting force, non-discriminating, and that reconnecting to God (=religare) means shedding distinctions, eventually fully merging with The One. From that can come a pantheistic understanding, somewhat related to the christian concept of the holy spirit, that God is all that is, including us, and that we are the living implementation of God's will of infinite diversity as a self-exploration. Then from that can come a more mature understanding of fear, the egoic mind's discriminations, as a necessary counterpole on the search for God so that through contrast we can come to understand the journey.
The really scary part of the journey is not the confrontation with death but the acceptance of death as part of the divine experience. Because the egoic mind was made to protect from death, and by regarding death as meaningless, the ego experiences a destruction of its purpose, its reason to exist, because it lacks the mature understanding that transcending fear of death doesn't mean letting death reign supreme; quite the opposite, because resistance to the concept, fear of it, is what creates the suffering.
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Keep going, Doc.
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I was really wanting to see your analysis of these texts, geographical origins and timelines of the assembled text. I always admire your investigative techniques. Fantastic, and thank you so much!
Dr. Justin Sledge thank you again for all the hard work, considering your fam just recovering from Covid and then your livestream had to be rescheduled. Thanks for putting the effort to this episode which was a very jam packed with info. Thank you for putting in the work and hard effort.
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As always, another great video. When we hear the word "angel" in the West we think of fluffy Scandinavian beings with wings but the actual Aramaic word used is "malakha" and means "messenger." Wings were symbolic of higher consciousness. These teachings were symbolic about the inner workings of the nephesh (soul) and not literal realms above our heads. Again, great video with great material references.
The wings may be a representation of consciousness but i have an actual picture of a lil 3' cone headed winged being in my kitchen! Ill cherish that pic as long as i live!❤
The wings just represent the fact that angels (lit., envoys of a lord) can fly. Wings make the idea of flight (or levitation) comprehensible to a pre-industrial people who had no technological context for flight (except for birds). Also, it’s not symbolic.
@@hermes_logios You take on it is your literal interpretation but biblically, it is symbolic.
@@youforgotyourcrap Again, Western Literalism from reading it in English. Read the original Aramaic. The same Aramaic idioms and metaphors used in the Bible are also in the books of Enoch.
Angel also just means messenger in Greek. the "angel" in the word "evangelize" or "evangelical" doesn't refer to the servants of god, it just means a message. eu - good, angel - message, messenger. so really, angel is just a translation of malakh
also angels are not said to have wings in the Bible. the idea of angels having wings comes from Renaissance art
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Thanks for continuing to produce quality informative videos like this. This is fascinating to me, and it really does feel like the esoteric theological speculation of a group of people at a particular place and time influenced not only literary works like this, but also the development of early Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism, and as a result the nature of Western Culture itself.
With my own faith background my mind immediately goes to the phrase "and is seated at the right hand of the Father" from the Nicean Creed. And since every word in the creed is there for a reason, they must have considered that important enough to include.
That's from the bible
furries cant be christians
Evolution and creation are both bs. We didn't evolve from apes, advanced life forms put us here. There is no god that listens or intervenes, all religions are cultural and mixed with myths. Jesus is a greek and roman invention to
make sheeple. Afterlife we are energy that transforms from one type to another, we go back to the universe.
The contents of your shelves are wonderful, thank you for sharing your space with us.
Such a wonderful episode. Thank you Dr Sledge.
Ive always liked Metatron ever since I read a book about angels. I love that he teaches all the lil kids and babies. Especially since some angels seem to openly disdain humans lmao
They don't disdain us. They are far removed from human emotion. We take that as disdain because we can't relate or understand. They are pure unconditional love.
What does he tech the children/babies?
This has always been one of my favorite heresies. I'd love to hear more about Metatron in Kabbalah!
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This is brilliant……just discovered your enchanting,educating,spiritual,eye/heart opening and very peaceful channel……”Follow your inner moonlight, don’t hide your madness.”
Mr. I as Ethiopian who loves the book of Henok/Enoch the first , i am also awar of the third Enoch book of Rabbi, the metaphysical world that dicribes what become of Enoch eventually ....
and so far you have presented in objective method
So great to see this
Wow. I knew about the scene in the Talmud where Metatron is whipped. (Which I took as a simple common sense "Don't mistake even this powerful Archangel for God!" message.) And I knew Metatron was popular among Jewish mystics, especially in the Merkavah school(s). I even knew about the tale of the Rabbis who practiced Merkavah - one going insane, another apostate, another became a heretic, and only the Baal Shem Tov returned intact. BUT - I had never realized all of these things were connected in a massive "Two Powers in Heaven" heresy that went down around the same time Christianity was getting started... Great episode!!! :) :) :)
It was Akiva that emerged successfully - he's also the shaman-hero in Hekhalot Zutartey - the Besht is from the 18th century....but also probably visited the hekhalot as well ;) hope you are well, brother!
@@TheEsotericaChannel Ah Ok! Either I got Akiva confused with Baal Shem Tov, or I ran into some legend along the way that credited the Baal Shem Tov with it. LOL
You don't practice Merkavah, it comes to you spontaneously in the right incarnatio. You may not even have the words or understand what it is until much later in your life. Very similar to Ezekial, not symbolic at all, very literal. And you have to surrender all parts of yourself into oblivion to "sit at the throne of the just" most people do not make it back after that point, unless you are truly pure and you surrender wholly to the divine. And you have no fear or hate in your heart.
And it is the same in Sufism as in Christianity and Judaism. FYI.
@@aquasol333 - I disagree that Merkavah is not a "practice." It very much is, and there are some rather dense texts concerning it. I also disagree that the Vision of Ezekiel is "not symbolic." It is entirely symbolic. Interpreting spiritual Scripture as "literal" is called Fundamentalism, and that is the exact opposite of being spiritual or connected to God in any way.
i wasnt expecting that ''bad saving throws'' comment at all, it was hilarious.
very interesting video by the way, i found this channel very recently and its great, keep up the great work and thank you very much for sharing all this info with everyone!
Phenomenal exposition. Really clear and well presented, with some extremely useful bibliography suggestions at the end. Superb stuff
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I love this channel, I always learn something new.
Nicely done... the saving throw reference caught me completely by surprise as I was in fact writing about saving throws while listening and had to double check that its what you actually said.
Another excellent and fascinating episode, Dr. Sledge! Thank you!
Clicked on this because I’ve had a recent interest in things like this and I also watched the show His Dark Materials which had Metatron as the antagonist of the series so I was fascinated to find out the character wasn’t made up for the book series they based the show on. Apparently the writer based it on actual mythology! Fascinating. No wonder so many religious folks absolutely hate that series 😂 gonna have to research it more.
Wrote my undergrad thesis on Enoch-Metatron and surrounding literature/related figures, so this was a pretty great refresher, though there is still SO much more to be explored. Thanks for this.
I would love to read it. How can you get it to me. Thank you so much.
Im just now seeing your comment, let me put it on Google doc and perhaps I can send you the link if you're still interested.
@@MJZMD I wanna read it too
@@jes9223 I forgot to post it haha. I'll create a link for anyone interested and post it here.
@@MJZMD amazing!!!
Love your ability to distill all this great text into this nice video.
I’m fascinated with this and this clip is brilliantly presented. Just the right balance of skilfully manipulated information and lively commentary.
There is a section on Metatron in my own book, ‘The Book of Angels: Seen and Unseen’ (2019). The Zohar calls Metatron ‘the Youth’, a title also used in 3 Enoch, where it appears to mean something like ‘servant’. Indeed, he has been identified with the ‘suffering servant’/ ‘man of sorrows’ of Isaiah 53 (more usually equated with Christ). He has been called the ‘Liberating Angel’ and the Shekinah (the glory of the divine presence). It has been claimed that he is the twin brother, or alternatively the half-brother, of the angel Sandalphon and with the possible exception of Anafiel (‘the branch of God’, the angel that carried Enoch to Heaven in the first place) is said to be the tallest angel in heaven. (The Zohar calculates his size as ‘equal to the breath of the whole world’, which in rabbinic lore was the size of Adam before he sinned.) Metatron is said to reside in the seventh Heaven (the dwelling place of God), with the seraphim, cherubim and thrones.
Gershom Scholem, the 20th century German-born Israeli philosopher and historian, argues that Metatron’s character has been influenced by two streams of thought-one which linked Metatron with Enoch and a second that fused different obscure entities and mythic motifs. Scholem argues that this second tradition was originally separate but later became fused with the Enoch tradition. Scholem theorizes that the two Hebrew spellings of Metatron’s name (one of six letters טטרון) and one of seven מיטטרון are representative of these two separate traditions. In his view, the second Metatron is linked to Yahoel (seen as a substitute for the Ineffable Name). Scholem also links Yahoel with Michael. In 2 Enoch, Enoch is assigned titles commonly used by Metatron such as ‘the Youth’, ‘the prince of the Presence’ and ‘the prince of the World’, while in 3 Enoch, Metatron (as mentioned) is called the ‘lesser YHWH’.
The second chapter of the Tractate Hagigah describes Elishah ben Abuyah (a rabbi and Jewish authority born in Jerusalem sometime before 70 AD), also called Acher (אחר, ‘other’, as he became apostate), in paradise and observes Metatron seated in the presence of God (a prohibited action). Elishah ben Abuyah concluded that Metatron must be a deity himself and exclaimed: ‘There are indeed two powers in Heaven!’ The rabbis explain that Metatron had permission to sit because of his function as the heavenly scribe and the Talmud states, it is proven that Metatron could not be a second deity by the fact that he received 60 ‘strokes with fiery rods’ to demonstrate that he was not a god, but an angel, and could be punished.
In 3 Enoch, or the Sefer Hekhalot (Book of Palaces), Enoch’s transformation into the angel Metatron is described, in which Enoch’s flesh was turned to flame, his veins to fire, his eye-lashes to flashes of lightning and his eyeballs to flaming torches. God placed him on a throne next to the throne of glory and gave him the name Metatron. According to one particular legend he was transformed into a fiery angel with 36 wings and countless eyes. It is speculated that the name Metatron may have been made up of two Greek words for after and throne μετὰ θρóνος (meta-thronos), taken together as ‘one who serves behind the throne’ or ‘one who occupies the throne next to the throne of glory’. However, Scholem sees ‘no merit’ in ‘this widely repeated etymology’.
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Some information was disclosed to me recently and I wanted to find out more. This is a very good channel.
Thank you for the amazing stuff you continue to make. I hope you get around to making the cobbler mystic class, or the Santa Muerte one. Whatever you do next, I'm sure I'll enjoy it anyways.
So thrilled for this particular amazing episode and your insightful and rigorous esoteric videos!! So excited for it I am unable to articulate as much! It’s that good! Your excellent work and research and study delivers such depth and insight! It’s also that angels are perennially fascinating and when studied esoterically with your historical rigorous perspective, makes them all the more fascinating and yet more grounded historically.
Very Helpful information explained with precision and clarity!
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Had someone ask me if I was Abaddon a month ago. That’s the first time I looked up anything to do with angels specifically. Looking forward to more in-depth discussions because I can read the same thing and it never sinks in until I hear it talked about by others. And you Dr. Sledge are a favorite for listening to.
Keep the great videos coming
Huge fan of this content and your commitment to academic integrity.
You had me at "missed their saving throws". That was good. That was informative and interesting. Nice work.
Thanks for your channel Dr.Sledge - been binge watching for 3 days now and loving it.
This video about what you might call the apotheosis of Enoch is something I've always wondered about. I grew up Mornon, and after leaving the religion I've wondered so many things about how Joseph Smith and, to some extent Brigham Young, developed their thought.
The ability to become a god in Mormonism seems so divorced from a any version of Christianity Smith may have been exposed to in the New England 2nd Great Awakening. But, Smith and a number of his cohorts learned Hebrew from Josiah Seixas made me wonder if he was able.to come into contact with literature like 3rd Enoch and that is where he got his ideas on ascension from. He was heavily influenced by free masonry of course, but even that doesn't seem to explain how he came up with becoming a god, while be becoming a "little Yahweh" explains his theology almost exactly.. Being exposed to Enochian literature might have. I don't know how available it was at the time to him, but still. Anyway, thanks for this episode and all you do.
Excellent work, Dr Sledge! An interesting moment to contemplate is when Enoch was asked to come before the lord, and as he does, trembling, cowering, the lord states something to the effect of: "Enoch, I knew thee in name". Seeming to imply that, even though Enoch had forgotten his previous life, somehow his soul had a relationship with the lord (perhaps as Sandalphon or a scribe?).
thank you for refreshing my knowledge on metatron. it's been a while.
I'm so happy I found this channel!
I’m convinced that a lot of the raison d’être of mystical literature was the repressive societies in which they were produced. Scholars wrote about their beliefs in such allegorical ways to avoid being seen as subversive or heretical.
Great video as always Dr. Sledge.
Wow! That was a walk down history lane all by itself. Excellent work. You are good. I came here not wanting to watch the whole thing but in the end, I did. Orthodox Judaism would require more than a lifetime to learn and then you aren't getting the occult stuff. Like any other religion nobody ever knows that much because they are all like bottomless pits in their enormity.
Thank you so much for your videos man, it takes me a long time to get to sleep, you've made that time interesting for me.
Thank you for the references listed at the end. Great presentation, thank you.
Thank you for this. I have always wondered how people connected Enoch to Metatron.
🤙Aloha Dr. Sledge definitely interesting Mahalo ⚡I appreciate your efforts⚡
And I appreciate your kind words and support!
I dont know why im just now finding this channel... but absolutely beautiful work. thank you
Dr. Your production is outstanding! I enjoyed it.🙂 Thank You
Great video and an amazing topic! I can imagine how (with the comment that Enoch is much discussed in Nag Hammadi inferring possible popularity with the Essene Sect) this idea of two powers in heaven could lead into the trinity of Christianity. It's a short ride from Lesser Yahweh to Son of G_d. With Jesus on the right hand of G_d and the Holy Spirit as the connection for the downloading of divine power (pure speculation for sure, but there is so little to go on here). It does lead me to put it together with a dash of the Pythagorean School, shake vigorously and add a few Roman Emperors to the mix and Voila! a recipe for a new apocalyptic religion. But that is a lot of conclusion jumping....I better wait for backup.
Thank you so much for this great content. I'm loving it! It is great to hear a truly Jewish perspective on this material. I was wondering what is the relationship between Metatron and the Shechinah? These are often associated with each other in the neo-Gnostic literature. Thanks again, I've found my new home.
Yo brother. I have been watching for a while now but only just subscribed. Thank you for putting out all this stuff. I love it.
Love the information you share just came across your site today thank you for your hard work and studies
Thank you for these videos! I’m currently studying the Kabbalah, Gnosticism, and everything in between. It’s WILDLY interesting from top to bottom (literally and figuratively).
Do you have any thoughts on Dr. Karlsson’s works? I love how he crosses lore so that the identities of deities are consolidated. He also has some interesting thoughts on his Gothic Kabbalah in the book ‘The Nightside of the Runes’.
Thomas Karlsson is GREAT!
Personally, I was introduced to Kabbalah, first of all, through Black Metal music. Specifically, through the music of Swedish bands DISSECTION and WATAIN, whose lyrics deal specifically with the realm of the Qliphoth and the notion of the "Anti-cosmic Deities"... the Divine, Demonic entities born from the "Left Side of God", the utter depths of His Anti-Creation pulsion, the Aur She-Ain Bo Machshavah, the Blessed Black Light, the "Light-Devoid-Of-Thoughts-of-Creation" (or simply "Thoughtless Light", in Scholem ´s words).
After that, came the great "Qabbalah, Qliphoth and Goetic Magic" by mr. Karlsson. And after that... the Occult books of N.A-A.218. Yup. It has been a long journey exploring these realms of Jewish Esoterism.
Joined patreon just for this video. Thank you
Many thanks!
Me too
just found a new favorite on youtube. love your videos. thank you so much for all this information.
your videos are actually fascinating to me. thank you!!!
When I first read The Book of Enoch, I could visualize what was written.
It was, as if I were there.
It was very moving.
Thank you.
I'm currently learning German (with an average of 97%). However, whereas I had planned to teach myself French next... I think you've convinced me to choose Hebrew. I recently found out that my my great grandmother (that is my mother's, mother's, mother) was born, in Germany, in 1901, an Ashkenazi Jew. When she married, she took her husband's religion (Lutheran), in a last-ditch effort to avoid being snatched up by the Nazis, before they started investigating bloodlines, and they had to come here (interestingly the man who got them out, was my great-uncle Jorge, an SS officer)... anyway... since learning of my origin story, the Hebrew definition of my name, and it's Gematria value (1143...or it's reduction 9), I've been getting more and more interested in learning more.
I didn't want to check this channel out because I knew I would be hooked. I'm going to have to binge your videos now.
Enoch Becoming Metatron Sounds like Goku turning Super Saiyan 🔥
Thank you so much for your work and dedication and wisdom and generosity!
Haha bro I remember when you had tens of thousands of subscribers now look at you. Congratulations.
Thanks for being around, friend!
@@TheEsotericaChannel likewise thanks for the incredible insight to a better understanding of sacred text and occult topics. Sending you and your circle peace, safety, and strength brotha
Enoch is my favorite followed shortly by Methuselah. I’m absolutely intrigued by the ages of these great people as well as the stature. What a world it must have been!
That was great !! Appreciate the content greatly !! Big love !!
It is the first video of yours, that i saw. I am interested in hermetic and esoteric knowledge! So i became a new fan of the work you are doing!
Thank you Dr Sledge! I have long been curious regarding Metatron. The only information I have come across previously has been a version of him often described by devotees of the ' new age ' community who channel him, and invariably depict him wearing a rather 1980s looking head band. 💜
Thanks!
Thank you for your page/content.
I've been watching a lot of your videos, thank you!
Awesome as always. RIP alan Rickman. The true voice of god. :]
I was very interested in angels for a long time, to the extent of hand-editing and organizing Davison's "A Dictionary of Angels". One of the things I remember from that project is how many titles Metatron has, from the vague to what I can best describe as "Names To Run Away From Really Fast".
Aren't there TWO kinds of angels:
Fallen angels
Real & good angels
Shouldn't we be specific when talking about them. 😉
Can you expand on "names to run away from really fast*? I'm intrigued by what you mean with this.
@@rasul01 If you were to ever encounter the creature that name is attached to you would not be alive long.
You do great work! I really enjoy. Happy New Year!