Note 86 — Chapter I · PRIMITIVE SYMBOLISM OF HISTORY
Arthur Edward Waite translation
The design of the builders, according to the Zohar, Part I, Fol. 75a, was to abandon the celestial domain for that of Satan. They desired to rebuild heaven, apparently in the likeness of their own evil desires. They were the same quality of souls as the “giants in the earth in those days” and “the mighty men which were of old, men of renown.” See Genesis, c. vi. v. 4 and Zohar, Part I, Fol. 25b.