Sacred Journey. M.K. Welsch
reproduced it through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. The Book of Enoch forms a literary bridge between the kind of prehistory found in the Bible and information from the Edgar Cayce readings, which discuss the presence on earth of Amilius in a non-corporeal form. In addition, Enoch’s writings relate a story very similar to the Genesis account of the fallen angels who interact with human beings and produce Nephilim or giants as offspring.
What is evident from the material attributed to Enoch are the clues left behind about a coming Messiah as well as certain portions of the text which closely resemble the philosophy and sayings of the Master. Among other highlights, the Book of Enoch weaves together threads of several of the same ideas and uses language similar to that recorded in the four gospels and the Book of Revelation. Interestingly the Genesis narrative describes Enoch as not only faithful to his God but also as someone who never actually dies. “And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.” (Gen. 5:23-24) While much of what is known or believed about the character of Enoch remains cloaked in mystery, this extraordinary soul nonetheless left a lasting imprint on the skein of time and spiritual evolution of humanity. His teachings and legacy lay one more brick in the foundation for the history-bending lifetime of Jesus the Christ, which will follow many generations later.
Joseph
… The greater meaning of the word Israel—those called of God for a service before the fellow man.
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Evidence of a spiritual “bloodline” tying the Adam soul to Jesus grows stronger with its incarnation as one of the twelve sons in the family of Jacob, later called Israel. In this instance the first begotten of God lived in the earth plane in the person of Joseph, the biblical character renowned for wearing a coat of many colors. (In an intriguing sidebar to the history of the Adam soul’s sacred lineage, the Bible notes that after Joseph’s mother Rachel dies, she is buried near Bethlehem—the place where the same soul one day will reenter the earth as the infant Jesus.)
The Joseph story actually begins to gel decades prior to his mother Rachel giving birth to her first child. The roots of this particular lifetime for the Adam soul were germinated in the history of his father Jacob whose biblical exploits reveal a man slowly but steadily growing in spiritual awareness. Early on Jacob is known for having played a trick on his twin brother Esau in order to steal the birthright of his more earthbound sibling, which in turn forces Jacob to become a spiritual wanderer. That is until the night he dreams about a ladder reaching up to heaven, full of angels ascending and descending on its rungs. During the course of this extraordinary visionary experience in which he sees the “Lord God O Abraham,” Jacob receives divine assurance that his God is with him. “And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.” (Gen. 28:13) Jacob’s heightened awareness has broken new ground and this enlightened state of being is the place he and his spiritual descendants will inhabit from that day forward.
As it was with Abraham, the God of Jacob reveals that one day the seeds of his spiritual understanding will cover the whole earth, blessing every nation. “And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.” (Gen. 28:14) The divine impartation continues by assuring Jacob that wherever he goes, his God will accompany his footsteps. “And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.” (Gen. 28:15) When Jacob awakens from his sleep and realizes the significance of what has just occurred, he declares, “Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.” (Gen. 28: 16)
Years later during a similar nighttime episode when he once more finds himself alone, Jacob will meet a mysterious stranger who suddenly sets upon him, wrestling with him until the dawn. His unearthly opponent ends up wounding Jacob’s thigh, but the injured man continues to hold on, refusing to let his adversary go until the stranger, a force he neither recognizes nor understands, blesses him. Once he has overcome his rival and won the struggle, Jacob, like the ever-loyal Abraham, also receives a new name. “And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.” (Gen. 32:28) It must have been Jacob’s sincerity and dogged persistence in seeking to be blessed that created the vibrations, which eventually would attract the Adam soul to the earth again as a member of his immediate family. This time the first begotten soul will enter the planet as the cherished son of the patriarch Israel who had wrestled with his lower nature and come away victorious—a man so devoted to his God he establishes a nation of God-seekers in the earth.
Into Egypt
See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt. Gen. 41:41
Over the course of many years Jacob has a dozen sons, but Joseph, the second-to-last born of his beloved wife Rachel, is his favorite—treasured more than all of his other offspring. The Joseph narrative takes a tragic turn one day, however, when Jacob’s ten older sons, jealous of their younger sibling whom they mockingly refer to as the dreamer, plot to get rid of him and end up throwing Joseph into a desert pit without any water. The eldest son, Rueben, who had convinced his brothers not to kill the boy, has every intention of coming back to retrieve him. But before he is able to save his little brother, a passing group of merchants removes Joseph from the pit and sells him into slavery for twenty pieces of silver to a band of Ishmeelites bound for Egypt. Forced to return home without their sibling, the ten sons lie to Jacob by showing him animal blood they had smeared on Josephs’ cloak and claiming a wild creature had killed the child. The distraught father believes their tale and is heartsick grieving the loss of the precious son he will never see again. (Gen. 37)
But God appears to have great plans for the young captive. Despite the dire straits he finds himself in, the Bible indicates the Lord was with Joseph and caused him to prosper. It turns out to be true when through a series of remarkable twists and turns the lowly slave rises to unforeseen heights in a country wholly foreign to him. An officer named Potiphar, captain of Pharaoh’s guard, makes Joseph a servant in his home and soon after, recognizing the young man’s unusual aptitude and innate wisdom, promotes him to oversee the entire household. As the spiritual drama progresses, Potiphar’s wife begins to cast her eye on the handsome young overseer and soon makes a move to try to get him into her bed. But Joseph will not betray his master Potiphar in such a manner and spurns her overtures. Angry at his rejection, the woman subsequently accuses Joseph of making unwanted advances and, although he is innocent of the charges, causes him to be thrown into another pit. Yet God resides in that dungeon too and has prepared a way out for his servant. The divine plan is to use Joseph’s skill as the “dreamer” his brothers had ridiculed to raise him up to greatness a second time.
Pharaoh’s Court
As it so happened during this period, Pharaoh had experienced a series of disturbing dreams, which neither the priests nor the magicians of the court were able to interpret. After exhausting every possible avenue to try to solve the nighttime mystery, Pharaoh appears to be out of options until his chief butler tells him about Joseph who had successfully explained a dream for him and another prisoner, a baker, when the three of them were incarcerated together. Pharaoh proceeds to call Joseph before him to get his help. “And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it. And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, [It is] not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.” (Gen. 41:15-16) Joseph successfully deciphers the meaning of Pharaoh’s nightmares by recognizing them as omens signifying seven years of bountiful harvests followed by seven