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From the Ashes of Angels: The Forbidden Legacy of a Fallen Race w/ Andrew Collins
Interview with Andrew Collins on From the Ashes of Angels-The Forbidden Legacy of a Fallen Race
Angels, demons, and fallen angels were flesh-and-blood members of a giant race predating humanity, spoken of in the Bible as the Nephilim your book states. Please tell us more information about this.
Andrew Collins: Bible scholars are convinced that the book of Enoch, and other similar such “Enochian” literature, derive from a few brief lines in Genesis, the first book of the Old Testament. Chapter 6 speaks of how the Elohim (or “Sons of God)”, an alternative name for the Watchers, came upon the “daughters of men” and, finding them fair, laid with them to produce Nephilim, which in most forms of the Bible is translated as “giants”:
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown (Gen. 6:4).
That these meager lines should have inspired the story of the Watchers in the book of Enoch has to me always seemed unlikely. More plausible is that it was the other way around: the few lines in the book of Genesis on the Sons of God coming upon the Daughters of Man are interpolations, i.e. later insertions, based on quite separate source material, perhaps even the now lost book of Noah, parts of which went on to form key sections on the Watchers in the book of Enoch.
After reading the story of the Watchers, I became convinced that these angelic beings were the memory of very powerful human individuals who lived during some distant age of mankind. Who they were, and where they came from, remains a mystery. Yet what we do know is that they were advanced enough to give us the rudiments of civilization, remembered in the manner in which the Watchers revealed to mortal kind the forbidden arts and sciences of heaven. What is more, their sexual liaisons with the “daughters of men” expressed their human failings, as well as their ability to co-create in order to produce flesh and blood offspring, which they seemed ably able to do.
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