1 Enoch 87

LXXXVII. The Advent of the Seven Archangels.

1And again I saw how they began to gore each other and to devour each other, and the earth began to cry aloud.*The conflict of the bulls and giants. 2And I raised mine eyes again to heaven, and I saw in the vision, and behold there came forth from heaven beings who were like white men: and four went forth from that place and three with them.*The unfallen angels are symbolized by men, as men by animals. 3And those three that had last come forth grasped me by my hand and took me up, away from the generations of the earth, and raised me up to a lofty place, and showed me a tower raised high above the earth, and all the hills were lower.*3, 4. This tower seems to be Paradise, and thus we have in lxxxiii-xc a conception of its locality and inhabitants quite different from any that has preceded. See lx. 8 (note). 4And one said unto me: ‘Remain here till thou seest everything that befalls those elephants, camels, and asses, and the stars and the oxen, and all of them.’