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The Book of Enoch

Notes

(9) THE FRAGRANT TREES (pages 39-44)

In this section, Enoch is taken on another tour. At the beginning, 24.1, there is
perhaps a volcano. Then the seven mountains again, 24.2-3, this time with more detail.

From-24.3 to 25.6, there are the fragrant trees. These sound like cannabis to me.

The description at 25.6 of "drawing the fragrance into the bones’’, is quite an apt
description of smoking it. The part where it says, at 25.4, "no one will have authority to

touch it,” could represent the present prohibition.

At 31.1 Enoch mentions galbanum, this is one of the ingredients of the incense
that was to be burned on the Incense Altar in the Tent of Appointment, Exodus 30:34.

Also, at 32.3-6, the Tree of Wisdom also sounds like cannabis. Here we get a
new insight into the Adam and Eve story.

At 33.3-4, Enoch mentions how Uriel gave him notes on astronomy. These
notes are in this book as sections 13, 14, and 16.

The angel Zotiel is mentioned at 32.2, east of the Red Sea, there are suggestions

based on weathering data that The Sphinx is much older (pre 10,000 BC) than the
pyramids, so this is a possible candidate for Zotiel.

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