Solomon Kohan is later revealed as one of the extremely long-lived " Wise " ( like Enoch Root ), and compares a courtyard full of inventors ' workstations to " an operation I used to have in Jerusalem a long time ago ," denominating either facility as " a temple.

It begins as Enoch Root arrives in Boston in October 1713 to deliver a letter to Daniel Waterhouse containing a summons from Princess Caroline.

Once they arrive at the mine, Jack wanders into the local town where he has a brief encounter with Enoch Root in an apothecary's shop.

* Enoch Root

* Enoch Root

The principal alchemist of the tale is the mysterious Enoch Root, who, along with the descendants of several characters in this series, is also featured in the Stephenson novel Cryptonomicon.

* Enoch Root, a mysterious and ageless man

* The character Enoch Root in the novels of Neal Stephenson also shares some of the characteristics of a whisky priest.

* 1988 – Alfred Enoch, British actor

* 1912 – Enoch Powell, English politician ( d. 1998 )

He also famously allied with the Tory right-winger Enoch Powell to scupper the government's plan to abolish the voting rights of hereditary peers and create a House of Lords comprising only life peers – a " seraglio of eunuchs " as Foot put it.

* June 16 – Enoch Powell, British politician ( d. 1998 )

* December 2 – Alfred Enoch, British actor

* September 8 – Enoch Poor, American Revolutionary general ( b. 1736 )

* June 21 – Enoch Poor, American general ( d. 1780 )

John Enoch Powell, MBE ( 16 June 1912 – 8 February 1998 ) was a British politician, classical scholar, poet, writer, linguist and soldier.

He was the only child of Albert Enoch Powell ( 1872 – 1956 ), a primary school headmaster, and his wife, Ellen Mary ( 1886 – 1953 ).

* Radio Enoch – Antisocialist pirate radio station that took its name from Powell

* Enoch Cree Nation – Winterburn, Alberta

The following year, Heath – who was Shadow Chancellor at the time, and had recently won favourable publicity for leading the fight against Labour's Finance Bill – unexpectedly won the party's leadership contest, gaining 150 votes to Reginald Maudling's 133 and Enoch Powell's 15.

Enoch Arnold Bennett ( 27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931 ) was an English writer.

Tartarus is only known in Hellenistic Jewish literature from the Greek text of 1 Enoch, dated to 400 – 200 BC.

* Enoch " Nucky " Johnson ( 1883 – 1968 ), Atlantic City political boss and racketeer.

* Enoch Cobb Wines ( 1806 – 79 ), minister of the Congregational church and prison reform advocate.

* Joel Hills Johnson ( 1802 – 1883 ), Mormon pioneer, published poet and gospel hymn writer, Utah politician, founded the Utah towns of Enoch and Johnson.

In 1 Enoch 9: 1 – 2, Gabriel, along with Michael, Raphael, Uriel and Suriel, hears the cries of humanity under the strain of the Nephilim.

* August 5 – Eric Clapton provokes an uproar over comments he makes on stage at a Birmingham concert, voicing his opposition to immigration using multiple racial slurs while exhorting the audience to support Enoch Powell and to " keep Britain white ".

Other African Americans, including Elijah Abel in 1832, Joseph T. Ball in 1835 or 1836 ( who also presided over the Boston Branch from 1844 – 1845 ), and Walker Lewis in 1843 ( and probably his son, Enoch Lovejoy Lewis ), were ordained to the priesthood during Smith's lifetime.

Jubilees remained a point of reference for priestly circles ( although they disputed its calendric proposal ), and the Temple Scroll and " Epistle of Enoch " ( 1 Enoch 91: 1 – 10, 92: 3 – 93: 10, 91: 11 – 92: 2, 93: 11 – 105: 3 ) are based on Jubilees.

It was Baker, working through Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder and Major Hugh S. ( `` Old Ironpants '' ) Johnson, who arranged for a secret printing by the million of selective service blanks -- again before the Act was passed -- until corridors in the Government Printing Office were full and the basement of the Washington Post Office was stacked to the ceiling.

The Book of Enoch describes Sheol as divided into four compartments for four types of the dead: the faithful saints who await resurrection in Paradise, the merely virtuous who await their reward, the wicked who await punishment, and the wicked who have already been punished and will not be resurrected on Judgment Day.

In this sense it is the western view of the Holy Grail which comes closest to the Sufic ideal ; for to the Sufis Perfection is the Grail ; and the Holy Grail is for those who after they become perfect by giving all they have to the poor then go on to become " Abdal " or " changed ones " like Enoch who was " taken " by God because he " walked with God ".

'", while Steve Buscemi's ' character Enoch ' Nucky ' Thompson has to correct Bader and inform him that is was in fact Peter Minuit who bought Manhattan, not Stuyvesant.

Among ancient Christian pseudepigrapha, one Book of Enoch states that He who is called “ Son of man ,” who existed before the worlds were, is seen by Enoch in company with the “ Ancient of Days ”

By this account Hermes Trismegistus was either, according to the fathers of the Christian church, a contemporary of Moses or the third in a line of men named Hermes, i. e. Enoch, Noah and the Egyptian priest king who is known to us as Hermes Trismegistus, or " thrice great " on account of being the greatest priest, philosopher and king.

From the time of Adam to the time of Dee and Kelley, Angelical was hidden from humans with the single exception of the patriarch Enoch who, according to the angels, recorded the " Book of Loagaeth " ( Speech From God ) for humanity.

In the spring of 1837 the town of Harrisonville was located by Enoch Rice, Francis Prine and Welcome Scott, who had been appointed commissioners by the state legislature in the winter of 1836.

It was named for Enoch Crowder, a Missouri general who was instrumental in developing the draft for World War I and the Selective Service.

Enoch Taylor was the blacksmith who built the first automatic croppers.

Within the rabbinic tradition, the Kabbalah, chapter 20 of the Book of Enoch, and the Life of Adam and Eve, the usual number of archangels given is at least seven, who are the focal angels.

The exception is Enoch, who does not experience death " for God took him.

In the Sefer Hekalot, Rabbi Ishmael is described as having visited the 7th Heaven, where he meets Enoch, who claims that earth had, in his time, been corrupted by the demons Shammazai, and Azazel, and so Enoch was taken to Heaven to prove that God was not cruel.

Later elaborations of this interpretation treated Enoch as having been a pious ascetic, who, called to mix with others, preached repentance, and gathered ( despite the small number of people on Earth ) a vast collection of disciples, to the extent that he was proclaimed king.

According to 1 Enoch ( a book of the Apocrypha ), Azazel ( here spelled ‘ ăzā ’ zyēl ) was one of the chief Grigori, a group of fallen angels who married women.