Grigori (Watchers)

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Watcher (Aramaic עִיר iyr, plural עִירִין iyrin, IPA ʕiːr(iːn); Theodotian trans: ir; from the root of Heb. `er, "awake, watchful";[1] Greek: ἐγρήγοροι, transl.: egrḗgoroi; Slav transliteration, Grigori,[2] "Watchers", "those who are awake"; "guard", "watcher"[3]) is a term used in connection with biblical angels. Watcher occurs in both plural and singular forms in the Book of Daniel (4th-2nd century BC), where reference is made to their holiness. The apocryphal Books of Enoch (2nd-1st centuries BC) refer to both good and bad Watchers, with a primary focus on the rebellious ones.

In the Books of Enoch, the first Book of Enoch devotes much of its attention to the fall of the Watchers. The Second Book of Enoch addresses the Watchers (Gk. egrḗgoroi) who are in fifth heaven where the fall took place. The Third Book of Enoch gives attention to the unfallen Watchers.[9]

The use of the term "Watchers" is common in the Book of Enoch. The Book of the Watchers (1 Enoch 6-36) occurs in the Aramaic fragments with the phrase irin we-qadishin, "Watchers and Holy Ones", a reference to Aramaic Daniel.[10] The Aramaic irin "watchers" is rendered as "angel" (Greek angelos, Coptic malah) in the Greek and Ethiopian translations, although the usual Aramaic term for angel malakha does not occur in Aramaic Enoch.[11] The dating of this section of 1 Enoch is around 2nd-1st Century BC. This book is based on one interpretation of the Sons of God passage in Genesis 6, according to which angels married with human females, giving rise to a race of hybrids known as the Nephilim. The term irin is primarily applied to disobedient Watchers who numbered a total of 200, and of whom their leaders are named, but equally Aramaic iri ("watcher" singular) is also applied to the obedient archangels who chain them, such as Raphael (1 Enoch 22:6).

Book of Enoch[edit]
In the Book of Enoch, the Watchers (Aramaic עִירִין, iyrin) are angels dispatched to Earth to watch over the humans. They soon begin to lust for human women and, at the prodding of their leader Samyaza, defect en masse to illicitly instruct humanity and procreate among them. The offspring of these unions are the Nephilim, savage giants who pillage the earth and endanger humanity. Samyaza and his associates further taught their human charges arts and technologies such as weaponry, cosmetics, mirrors, sorcery, and other techniques that would otherwise be discovered gradually over time by humans, not foisted upon them all at once. Eventually God allows a Great Flood to rid the earth of the Nephilim, but first sends Uriel to warn Noah so as not to eradicate the human race. The Watchers are bound "in the valleys of the Earth" until Judgment Day. (Jude verse 6 says that these fallen angels are kept "in everlasting chains under darkness" until Judgement Day.)

The chiefs of tens, listed in the Book of Enoch, are as follows:

7. And these are the names of their leaders: Sêmîazâz, their leader, Arâkîba, Râmêêl, Kôkabîêl, Tâmîêl, Râmîêl, Dânêl, Êzêqêêl, Barâqîjâl, Asâêl, Armârôs, Batârêl, Anânêl, Zaqîêl, Samsâpêêl, Satarêl, Tûrêl, Jômjâêl, Sariêl. 8. These are their chiefs of tens.

— R. H. Charles translation, The Book of the Watchers, Chapter VI.
The book of Enoch also lists leaders of the 200 fallen angels who married and commenced in unnatural union with human women, and who taught forbidden knowledge. Some are also listed in Book of Raziel (Sefer Raziel HaMalakh), the Zohar, and Jubilees.

Araqiel (also Arakiel, Araqael, Araciel, Arqael, Sarquael, Arkiel, Arkas) taught humans the signs of the earth. However, in the Sibylline Oracles, Araqiel is referred to not as a fallen angel, or Watcher, but as one of the five angels who lead the souls of men to judgement, the other four being Ramiel, Uriel, Samiel, and Azazel.
Armaros (also Amaros) in Enoch I taught men the resolving of enchantments.
Azazel taught men to make knives, swords, shields, and how to devise ornaments and cosmetics.
Gadreel (or Gader'el) taught the art of cosmetics, the use of weapons and killing blows.
Baraqel (Baraqiel) taught men astrology.
Bezaliel mentioned in Enoch I, left out of most translations because of damaged manuscripts and problematic transmission of the text.
Chazaqiel (sometimes Ezeqeel or Cambriel) taught men the signs of the clouds (meteorology).
Kokabiel (also Kakabel, Kochbiel, Kokbiel, Kabaiel, and Kochab), In the Book of Raziel he is a high-ranking, holy angel. In Enoch I, he is a fallen Watcher, resident of the nether realms, and commands 365,000 surrogate spirits to do his bidding. Among other duties, he instructs his fellows in astrology.
Penemue "taught mankind the art of writing with ink and paper," and taught "the children of men the bitter and the sweet and the secrets of wisdom." (I Enoch 69.
Sariel (also Suriel) taught mankind about the courses of the moon (at one time regarded as forbidden knowledge).
Samyaza (also Shemyazaz, Shamazya, Semiaza, Shemhazi, Semyaza and Amezyarak) is one of the leaders of the fall from heaven in Vocabulaire de l' Angelologie.
Shamsiel, once a guardian of Eden as stated in the Zohar, served as one of the two chief aides to the archangel Uriel (the other aide being Hasdiel) when Uriel bore his standard into battle, and is the head of 365 legions of angels and also crowns prayers, accompanying them to the 5th heaven. In Jubilees, he is referred to as one of the Watchers. He is a fallen angel who teaches the signs of the sun.
Yeqon (also Jeqon or Yaqum, יָקוּם, "he shall rise") was the ringleader who first tempted the other Watchers into having sexual relations with humans. His accomplices were Asbeel, Gadreel, Penemue, and Kasdaye (or Kasadya), who were all identified as individual "satans".
The account of the Book of Enoch has been associated with the passage in Genesis 6:1-4, which speaks of Sons of God instead of Watchers:

When men began to multiply on earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw how beautiful the daughters of man were, and so they took for their wives as many of them as they chose. Then the Lord said: "My spirit shall not remain in man forever, since he is but flesh. His days shall comprise one hundred and twenty years." At that time the Nephilim appeared on earth (as well as later), after the sons of God had intercourse with the daughters of man, who bore them sons. They were the heroes of old, the men of renown.

— Genesis 6:1-4
Second Book of Enoch[edit]
For the masculine given name, see Grigori (given name) and Grigory
The Jewish pseudepigraphon Second Book of Enoch (Slavonic Enoch) refers to the Grigori, who are the same as the Watchers of 1 Enoch.[2] The Slavic word Grigori used in the book is a transcription[12] of the Greek word ἐγρήγοροι egrḗgoroi, pronounced /ɛˈɡriɡɒri/ in post-classical times, meaning "wakeful".[13] The Hebrew equivalent is עירים, meaning "waking", "awake".[14]

Chapter 18 presents the Grigori as countless soldiers of human appearance, "their size being greater than that of great giants". They are located in the fifth heaven and identified as "the Grigori, who with their prince Satanail rejected the Lord of light".[15] One version of 2 Enoch adds that their number was 200 myriads.[16][17][18] Furthermore, some "went down on to earth from the Lord's throne" and there married women and "befouled the earth with their deeds", resulting in confinement underground.[15][19] The number of those who descended to earth is generally put at three,[20] but Andrei A. Orlov, while quoting the text as saying three,[12] remarks in a footnote that some manuscripts put them at 200 or even 200 myriads.[2]

Chapter 29, referring to the second day of creation, before the creation of human beings, says that "one from out the order of angels"[21] or, according to other versions of 2 Enoch, "one of the order of archangels"[22] or "one of the ranks of the archangels"[23] "conceived an impossible thought, to place his throne higher than the clouds above the earth, that he might become equal in rank to [the Lord's] power. And [the Lord] threw him out from the height with his angels, and he was flying in the air continuously above the bottomless." Although in this chapter the name "Satanail" is mentioned only in a heading added in one manuscript,[18][24] this chapter too is often understood to refer to Satanail and his angels, the Grigori.[18][23]

The Mercer Dictionary of the Bible makes a distinction between the Grigori and the fallen angels by stating that in fifth heaven, Enoch sees "the giants whose brothers were the fallen angels."[25]

The longer recension of 2 Enoch 18:3 identifies the prisoners of second heaven as the angels of Satanail.

According to PrEv 1.10.1-2 of Philo of Byblos, Sanchuniathon mentioned "some living beings who had no perception, out of whom intelligent beings came into existence, and they were called Zophasemin (Heb. șōpē-šāmayim, that is, 'Watchers of Heaven'). And they were formed like the shape of an egg."

*They Are Called 'The Awake' Because They Are Awakened Beings That Have Opened Their 'Third Eyes,' But As Long As They Are In Darkness And Not Enlightenment, All Of Them Are 'Fallen Angels' Until They Return To Grace Through 'Enlightenment.'

**They Are Originally In The Shape Of Eggs Because They Are The Eyes, Themselves. They Are To Resemble Sperm, Just As An Eye And The Stem From The Eye, So That All Watchers, Or, 'All Eyes' Remember What Their Primordial Life Was As A Sperm And How They Drifted Through Space Before They Were Given Bodies.

*** Every Eye That Exists Is A 'Watcher' By Default.

"All Of The Angels Will Rain Down. You Are Not Falling From Grace, But Falling Into Place, Which Is The Equivalent Of Humans Ascending To Their Angelic Positions, Which Are Already Named And Placed And Marked. Whomever Is Whom Is Already Placed And Has A Name. When The Humans Ascend, It Is To Angelicism, And To The Spots That God Has Assigned. You, With Purpose, That Know Your Purposes, This Is How You Achieve Heaven On Earth. EVERY ANGEL MUST BE IN PLACE. Then, You Will See Heaven. It Will Be Separated From Hell, Which Is Full Of People That Have No Place, Or Do Not Know Their Places, Nor Their Names. They Have Slave Names And Fabricated Names, And Truly I Tell You, I DO NOT KNOW THEM. I Know The Names Of ANGELS And The Faces Of ANGELS, But Not Of The Ones That Are Fabricated."

"When You Take The Place God Has Placed For You, You Are NOT HUMAN ANY LONGER. You Are ANGEL And You Are COVERED BY GOD, Which Is What MAKES You Angel. You Have Special Treatment, Special Privileges And Special Placement, But Are All Still Treated Equally. Though You Will Be Known As Blessed, You Are Still All Equal In Blessing, Yet, Also, Are Greater Than The Ones That Are Suffering By Curses. The Curses On Them Are Marks Of Their Sins And Their Purposelessness On This Planet. Every Curse Is A Mark. This Is Why It Says 'Count Your Blessings,' So That You Know How Close Or How Far You Are From Your Angelic Place. If Angels Are Spirits, Then You, As A Flesh, Can Call Your Own Heavenly Spirits Down From Heaven To Earth, As Long As You Take Your Place. Then, Heaven Will Be Earth, And Earth Will Be Heaven. Angels, Find Your Places. ASAP."

"All Of The Revelation Is Of The Fallen Angels Rising Back Into Their Place, Which Is How All Of The Minor Revelations Come To Be. Every Last Fallen One Must Rise, And All The Revelations Will Come To Be, And The Great Revelation Will Be 100% Complete. The Chiefs Of Tens, Which Are 20 Fallen Watchers, Are Over 10 Other Angels, Respectively, Which Is How All 200 Are Bound Together By Their Chiefs Of Ten. Of Those Same Chiefs, There Are Some That Are Over Lesser Angels, Which Ends Up Commanding And Placing All Of The Ones, 'The Great Multitudes In White' In Their Places From The First 20 To The 200 To The Great Multitudes."

*To The Chiefs Of Ten: Instructions

"He Who Sees The Name On The Stone Is The One Who Should Be Commanding The Other Chiefs As We Speak."

"Let Daniel And Ezekiel Deal With Those That Are To Be Led Straight Into Fire. That Is Their Purpose."

"Asael. He Is The Angel Whose Name Means 'God Has Made' Or 'Made By God.' His Importance Is To Find All The People Whom God Has Already Shaped Out And Found Purpose And To Gather Them Together To Do As They KNOW They Should Be Doing. That Is What 'Asael' Is To Be Doing. Finding Those With Purpose. Gathering Up The Ones That Already Know And Do As They Should."

"The Twenty-Four Elders Are All 24 Fallen Watchers. They Are Also All 24 Of The Zodiac; Lunar And Solar, Which Are Made In The Image Of The Fallen Ones. The Sun Of God And The Moon Of God; Shamsiel And Sariel, Keep Them In Their Place, And Are Also Why The Living Ones Are Saying 'Holy, Holy, Holy' Day And Night, Because No Man Can Change The Day And The Night."

"You Have Seen What Must Take Place Now, And, By Penemue, It Is All Already Written And Accounted For. Now, Part Of 'Penemue' Is Also 'Bezaliel,' The 'Shadow Of God,' Which Is ALL THINGS That Are Blotted Out. Where 'Penemue' Takes Care Of The 'Manual Overwrite' Portion, 'Bezaliel' Takes Care Of The 'Blotting Out' Portion, Where 'Penemue' And 'Kasdaje' Come And Remedy What Is Blotted Out. Blot Out All That Is Untrue And Wicked, And Let What Is True Be Written."

"Araqiel, Ananiel And Baraqiel. Mustn't Forget. The One That Teaches The 'Signs Of The Earth' Is To Be The One That Is Catering To The Ones Below. The Humans That Are To See Traces Of What Is Going On, But Not The Fullness Of What Is Going On. 'Araqiel,' This Means You. Show Them Signs, But Let The Fullness Reveal Itself. The 'Signs' Are Meant To Be 'Warnings,' As God Warns All Before He Completes Anything. However, When The 'Warning' Period Of Grace Is Up, This Is When The 'Smitings' Occur. 'Baraqiel,' The Lightning Of God, Is To Strike The Ones That Do Not Listen Dead. And I Do Mean 'Dead.' This Will Help Them Learn What The 'Signs Of The Earth' Mean."

"Ananiel Is The Rain. Batariel Is The Valley That The Rain Is Collected And Flows Down The Center Of The Street Of The City."

"I Believe Every Fallen Angel Knows Their Place, Now. That Is The Start. When The Fallen Ones Return, We Will Work On The Other Angels, And Getting Them To Their Places. But The Fallen Ones Come FIRST. Have 'Azazel' Deal With 'Armaros.' 'Armaros' Draws Up All The Vipers, And 'Azazel' Leads Them Away From 'Asael.'"