There is nothing very new about Andrew Collins' book From the Ashes of Angels. His main thesis is that modern technology was inspired by an advanced group of humans who appeared to primitive peoples as angels. These Atlanteans invested primitive humans in the Levant with the technology to begin agriculture and metal working. This has been the province of fiction for years, and Collins does not really bring anything new to the table. But he does manage to twist stuff around quite a bit.

Colling bases much of his argument on the Book of 1 Enoch. Now, this is really a collection of five different books: The Book of the Watchers, The Book of Parables of Enoch, The Astronomical Book, The Book of Dream Visions, The Epistle of Enoch. Now this book, 1 Enoch, is not to be confused with 2 Enoch or 3 Enoch, as those are from a different cultural background and tradition entirely, and are probably two or three hundred years older that 1 Enoch.

Collins uses the prophetic visions of angels in 1 Enoch to back up his ideas. 1 Enoch discusses the existence of angels that have fallen, that retreat to the earth, that set up with human women, that have monstrous progeny with these human women. Enoch is referring, of course, to the Nephilim mentioned in Chapter 6 of Genesis.

"Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. Then the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; nevertheless his days shall be one hundred and twenty years." The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown." (Genesis 6.1-4)

This is a problematic passage and one that has inspired lots of creative interpretations beyond the common sense one that Enoch obviously adopts. Collins is perhaps more creative than most. Collins claims that these fallen angels teach man technology, and are actually an advanced group of humans. But his other works directly imply that extraterrestrials were involved, and that they were located in Atlantis at some point, as we can see in works like Alien Energy and The Cygnus Mystery.

Here are the problems with Collins' book.

1. Collins gets it wrong when he discusses why 1 Enoch

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