28-08-2026, 09:22 AM
A description of the Seventh Heaven from the Second Book of Enoch. The great light Enoch sees there is a mandorla. I am including an example of a mandorla surrounding saints.
An example of a mandorla depiction:
"The Last Judgment" (originally *Il Giudizio Universale*), created by the famous Italian painter and Dominican friar Fra Angelico (also known as Beato...
A mandorla (from the Italian word for "almond") is a specific type of halo or aureole in Christian art.
20 |From there they took Enoch into the 7th heaven. Word “19.”|
And those men lifted me up from there, and they carried me up to the 7th heaven. And I saw there an exceptionally great light, and all the fiery armies of the great archangels, and the incorporeal forces and the dominions and the origins and the authorities, the cherubim and the seraphim and the many-eyed thrones; (and) 5 {9|P|, 10〈R〉} regiments and the shining otanim stations. And I was terrified, and I trembled with a great fear.
An example of a mandorla depiction:
"The Last Judgment" (originally *Il Giudizio Universale*), created by the famous Italian painter and Dominican friar Fra Angelico (also known as Beato...
A mandorla (from the Italian word for "almond") is a specific type of halo or aureole in Christian art.
20 |From there they took Enoch into the 7th heaven. Word “19.”|
And those men lifted me up from there, and they carried me up to the 7th heaven. And I saw there an exceptionally great light, and all the fiery armies of the great archangels, and the incorporeal forces and the dominions and the origins and the authorities, the cherubim and the seraphim and the many-eyed thrones; (and) 5 {9|P|, 10〈R〉} regiments and the shining otanim stations. And I was terrified, and I trembled with a great fear.