Atlas of Celestial Intelligences Source-Based Celestial Archive

Jewish apocalyptic and related traditions

Second Temple

Second Temple and related apocalyptic literature greatly expands named angelology, watcher traditions, heavenly journeys, judgment scenes, and cosmic mediation language.

Cosmology

Layered heavens, watcher narratives, angelic lists, heavenly tablets, judgment scenes, and visionary journeys.

Intermediary Beings

  • Uriel
  • Raphael
  • Raguel
  • Michael
  • Sariel
  • Gabriel
  • Remiel
  • Phanuel

Celestial Hierarchy

Lists vary by text; the archive preserves those variations rather than harmonizing them.

Reflective Inquiry

What does this civilization's cosmology reveal about order, boundary, mediation, and the human attempt to describe the heavens?

Source References

  1. 1 Enoch
  2. 2 Enoch
  3. 2 Esdras / 4 Ezra
  4. Jubilees