Andrei A.
Orlov
http://www.
andreiorlov.
com
Metatron as the Expert in Secrets
[an excerpt from A.
Orlov, The Enoch-Metatron Tradition (TSAJ, 107; Tuebingen:
Mohr-Siebeck, 2005), pp.
xii+383.
ISBN 3-16-148544-0.
]
Synopse §14 (3 Enoch 11) attests to the...
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Andrei A.
Orlov
http://www.
andreiorlov.
com
Metatron as the Expert in Secrets
[an excerpt from A.
Orlov, The Enoch-Metatron Tradition (TSAJ, 107; Tuebingen:
Mohr-Siebeck, 2005), pp.
xii+383.
ISBN 3-16-148544-0.
]
Synopse §14 (3 Enoch 11) attests to the omniscience of Metatron’s knowledge and his
immeasurable competence in esoteric lore.
In this Hekhalot tract the supreme angel
unveils to R.
Ishmael that he, Metatron, is the one to whom God revealed “all the
mysteries of wisdom, all the depths of the perfect Torah and all the thoughts of men’s
hearts.
”1
The text leaves the impression that the fullness of the disclosure of the
ultimate secrets to this angel can be comparable only to the knowledge of the Deity
itself, since according to Metatron, all the mysteries of the world and all the orders
(secrets)2
of creation are revealed before him “as they stand revealed before the
Creator”3
himself.
One learns from Sefer Hekhalot that the angel’s initiation into the ultimate secrets
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