Existence/1 Enoch 10; 18; 21; Leviticus 16
Where a Watcher goes when the lesson is over
Dudael, and the other prisons
Azazel is thrown into Dudael under jagged rocks. Shemihazah is bound under the hills for seventy generations. Stars that left their stations burn in a waste. The scapegoat still walks in the direction of that idea.
Dudael is a desert-cauldron of jagged stones. Raphael opens it. Azazel is the industrial ringleader, so his pit is mineral. Shemihazah is the oath-maker, so his prison is time: seventy generations under the earth. The wandering stars are already there when Enoch visits — a precedent in the sky for a sentence on the ground.
Leviticus 16’s goat ‘for Azazel’ is, in Enochic reading, not a payment to a demon but a pointing: sin is sent toward the pit where the teacher of sin is already held. Later midrash will not always keep that distinction. The geography remains: a wilderness, a going-out, a not-coming-back.
Existence includes rooms that do not open from the inside. That is part of what the two hundred taught around, and never taught. They had looked at the storehouses. They had not believed in the locks.