Watchers
The Watchers were angels who left off from their service to God, abandoned their God-estate (consciousness), and fell to earth through lust.
False Hierarchy
The Watchers had once shared with the holy Kumaras the heavenly offices of the Great Silent Watchers and the World Teachers as guardians of the soul purity and the evolution of the I AM Race. The Great Silent Watchers guard the purity of the Christ consciousness and Christ image out of which souls of Light are created.
Some of the Watchers were sent by God to instruct the children of men, according to the Book of Jubilees 4:15. These Watchers subsequently fell when they began to cohabit with the “daughters of men.” G. B. Caird (Principalities and Powers) cites the Apocalypse of Baruch, which says that it was “the physical nature of man which not only became a danger to his own soul, but resulted in the fall of the angels.”[1]
Watchers and the Book of Enoch
Once cherished by Jews and Christians alike, the Book of Enoch later fell into disfavor with powerful theologians because of its controversial statements on the nature and deeds of the fallen angels. The Book of Enoch speaks from that obscure realm where history and mythology overlap. A primordial drama of good and evil, light and dark, unfolds.
The trouble began, according to the Book of Enoch, when the heavenly angels and their leader named Samyaza developed an insatiable lust for the ‘daughters of men’ upon earth and an irrepressible desire to beget children by these women. Samyaza feared to descend alone to the daughters of men, and so he convinced two hundred angels called Watchers to accompany him on his mission of pleasure.
Then the angels took oaths and bound themselves to the undertaking by “mutual execrations”—curses. Once such a pact was sealed, betrayal was punishable by unnamed horrors. The angels descended and took wives from among the daughters of men. They taught the women sorcery, incantations, and divination—twisted versions of the secrets of heaven.
The women conceive children from these angels—evil giants. The giants devour all the food that the men of earth can produce. Nothing satiates their hunger. They kill and eat birds, beasts, reptiles, and fish. To their gargantuan appetites, nothing is sacrosanct. Soon even Homo sapiens becomes a delicacy.[2]
As the story goes, one spiteful angel named Azazyel creates accouterments for their consorts—like eye makeup and fancy bracelets—to enhance their sex appeal. As for the men, Azazyel teaches them “every species of iniquity,” including the means for making swords, knives, shields, breastplates—all the instruments of war.[3]
There, millennia ago, someone explained war not as a man-invented or God-sent plague, but as a vengeful act of a fallen angel barred from the planes of God’s power. The implication is that man, through one form of manipulation or another, latched on to the war games of the fallen angels and allowed himself to commit genocide in defense of their archrivalries.
The judgment of the Watchers
But there is more to Enoch’s account of the Watchers. When the men of earth cry out against the atrocities heaped upon them, heaven hears their plea. The mighty archangels—Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Suryal, and Uriel—appeal on behalf of earth’s people before the Most High, the King of kings.[4]
The Lord orders Raphael to bind Azazyel hand and foot. Gabriel is sent to destroy the “children of fornication,” the offspring of the Watchers—by inciting them to their own self-destruction in mutual slaughter. Michael is then authorized to bind Samyaza and his wicked offspring “for seventy generations underneath the earth, even to the day of judgment.”[5] And God sends the Great Flood to wipe out the evil giants, the children of the Watchers.
But in succeeding generations (after the sinking of the continent of Atlantis) the giants return once again to haunt mankind. Likewise it seems that the Watchers will hold power over man (in some curiously undefined way) until the final judgment of these angels comes, which, the author implies, is long overdue.
The main theme of the Book of Enoch is the final judgment of these fallen angels, the Watchers, and their progeny, the evil spirits.[6]
See also
Sources
Archangel Gabriel, Mysteries of the Holy Grail
Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Fallen Angels and the Origins of Evil, pp. 8–12, 15, 87.
- ↑ A Dictionary of Angels, s.v. “fallen angels.”
- ↑ En. 7:1–15.
- ↑ En. 8:1–9.
- ↑ En. 9:1–14.
- ↑ En. 10:15. I believe that the seventy generations have long passed and that this is the era of judgment. The offspring of the Watchers are unbound and have been loosed on the earth for the final testing of the souls of Light.
- ↑ En. 15:8.