The historic place of the Book of Enoch, when it is considered that Enoch wrote much the Book of Enoch before the time of Noah, is centuries before the Pyramid Texts were written inside the oldest pyramids of Egypt. This is an important sequence of events because the theological progress is very logical and enlightening. First we have Enoch telling the world that there are four places where people go very soon after death, and which of the four mainly depends on the behaviour or experiences of the person during their lifetime. Then time passes, there is a Flood, after Noah and Methuselah added more to the Book of Enoch, then some more centuries pass with Noah teaching the growing population descending from a few Flood survivors in Noah’s family, and then the pyramids are built which contain texts written on internal walls. These texts, among various ceremonial sayings and depictions concerning death, provide advice to the deceased ones buried in the pyramids, on how to approach the events that happen after death. The logical sequence makes sense. If there are these several places where spirits of newly deceased people go, then it follows logically that some kind of court-like hearing would be conducted with the deceased as a kind of defendant to determine their appropriate destination. Part of the purpose of these Pyramid Texts seems to have been to give lawyer-like advice, counsel, about this process and to provide some appropriate words to use to help towards the best outcome. So the historical sequence of the development of human thinking fits with the Book of Enoch coming before these Pyramid Texts, to first establish the facts of the afterlife, then the Pyramid Texts would be building on this knowledge, potentially handed on to post-Flood families by Noah and his disciples, based on the teachings of Enoch we find in the Book of Enoch. We too can learn from Enoch and realise that on death there must be some kind of adjudication to determine our destination after death.
