ENOCH : it appears in the Bible, Book of Genesis (5, 18-24), as Methuselah's grandfather. The text specifies that he was suddenly taken away by God.
The Book of Enoch is a very old text. In the Essene Tradition, Enoch is the first man who has walked the path of union with God. The book of Enoch reveals the Creation of the world, how some men united with the divine world and others got caught by forces of power, greed and destruction. The book of Enoch illuminates the world today with disconcerting simplicity, it is these sacred texts that have built humanity through the ages, to arrive at the world we know today.
It has always been said that the Book of Enoch brought luck to anyone who owned a copy. This legend probably comes from this sentence of Enoch in chapter 48 of the Ethiopian version:
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