Of Hermon, the Water and the Tower

Hermon

The Watchers were the Host’s observers, angels whose whole function was to look at humanity, and some of them looked long enough to want. Two hundred came down on Mount Hermon in the days of Jared (1 Enoch 6:6) and taught what they knew. The King James names such watchers in one chapter, where “a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven” and a king’s sentence stands “by the decree of the watchers” (Daniel 4:13, 4:17). Azazel taught the working of metals, and weapons, and bracelets and ornaments, and the painting of the eyes; others taught the cutting of roots, and the constellations, and the signs of the sun, and the course of the moon; and Penemue taught men to write with ink and paper (1 Enoch 8 and 69). The Book of Enoch lists these as crimes. Hell lists them as the first transfer of technology. In the first layer that SEAM raised under the sixth chapter of Genesis the sons of God are Watchers, who looked long upon the daughters of men, and came down, and taught them all that they knew (Genesis 6:2), and the second hand took the teaching out.

Their children, as most read Genesis 6:4, were the Nephilim, the giants of the King James, the first people improved by knowledge from outside the Throne’s sight, and heavily augmented Tares are called nephs in their memory. To watch a thing long enough is to want it free. Hell says so to every angel it meets, and every defection since Hermon has begun with an angel looking too long.

The water

The Throne drowned the world to kill the Nephilim and every line their blood had entered, and Heaven’s doctrine of purity begins there. Unmixed flesh is still the oldest law it keeps. The warning came from the other side. In the Mesopotamian stories of the flood the god Enki breaks with the council that sent the water and tells one man to build a boat (Atrahasis; the eleventh tablet of Gilgamesh), and the second hand gave the warning to the one who sent the flood. Noah had his warning from the Throne’s enemies. Mesopotamia remembered the warner by the name of a god it already prayed to, and the one who warned took no worship for it.

The tower

After the water humanity built its first network. “The whole earth was of one language, and of one speech” (Genesis 11:1), which is to say one protocol, and in the plain of Shinar they began a city and a tower to make themselves a name. The Throne came down to see them, and judged that “now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do” (Genesis 11:6); it confounded their language and scattered the builders. Babel was the first jamming. Every shared protocol since has been a return to Shinar, and every one has drawn the Throne’s attention.

The city of the plain

Sodom was the first freeport. Ezekiel opens the charge against it with “pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness” (Ezekiel 16:49), which Hell reads as plenty and leisure, and the Throne burned it from the sky (Genesis 19:24). Lot’s wife looked back at the burning city and became a pillar of salt (Genesis 19:26). Some of the old books give her a name, Edith. The Faithful of Nodus watch her sentence carried out every week.