Demons built Solomons temple

his text is an Old Testament Pseudepigraphic catalog of demons summoned by
King Solomon, and how they can be countered by invoking angels and other
magical techniques. It is one of the oldest magical texts attributed to King
Solomon, dating First to Third Century A.D. Translation is by F. C. Conybeare,
Jewish Quarterly Review, October, 1898. Compare with the translation of D. C.
Duling in The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, volume 1, Edited by James H.
Charlesworth, Doubleday, 1983, p. 935 ff.
[15]
The Testament of Solomon
(translated from the codex of the Paris Library, after
the edition of Fleck, Wissensch. Reise, bd. ii. abth. 3)
Greek title:--
NOTES:
1. Testament of Solomon, son of David, who was
king in Jerusalem, and mastered and controlled all
spirits of the air, on the earth, and under the earth.
By means of them also he wrought all the
transcendent works of the Temple. Telling also of the
authorities they wield against men, and by what
angels these demons are brought to naught.
Of the sage Solomon.
Blessed art thou, O Lord God, who didst give
Solomon such authority. Glory to thee and might
unto the ages. Amen.
2. And behold, when the Temple of the city of
Jerusalem was being built, and the artificers were
working thereat, Ornias the demon came among
them toward sunset; and he took away half of the
pay of the chief-deviser's (?)1 little boy, as well as half
his food. [16] He also continued to suck the thumb of
his right hand every day. And the child grew thin,
although he was very much loved by the king.
1. [D: master workman’s ]
3. So King Solomon called the boy one day, and
questioned him, saying: "Do I not love thee more
than all the artisans who are working in the Temple
of God? Do I not give thee double wages and a
double supply of food? How is it that day by day
and hour by hour thou growest thinner?"
4. But the child said to the king: "I pray thee, O king.
Listen to what has befallen all that thy child hath.
After we are all released from our work on the
Temple of God, after sunset, when I lie down to rest,
one of the evil demons comes and takes away from
me one half of my pay and one half of my food. Then
he also takes hold of my right hand and sucks my
thumb. And lo, my soul is oppressed, and so my
body waxes thinner every day."
5. Now when I Solomon heard this, I entered the
Temple of God, and prayed with all my soul, night
and day, that the demon might be delivered into my
hands, and that I might gain authority over him.
And it came about through my prayer that grace was
given to me from the Lord Sabaoth by Michael his
archangel. [He brought me] a little ring, having a
seal consisting of an engraved stone, and said to me:
"Take, O Solomon, king, son of David, the gift which
the Lord God has sent thee, the highest Sabaoth.
With it thou shalt lock up all demons of the earth,
male and female; and with their help thou shalt
build up Jerusalem. [But] thou [must] wear this seal
of God. And this engraving of the seal of the ring
sent thee is a Pentalpha."

 

And I Solomon was overjoyed, and praised and
glorified the God of heaven and earth. And on the
morrow I called the boy, and gave him the ring, and
said to him: "take this, and at the hour in which the
demon shall come unto thee, throw this ring at the
chest of the demon, and say to him: 'In the name of
God, King Solomon calls thee hither.3' And then do
thou come running to me, without having any
misgivings or fear in respect of aught thou mayest
hear on the part of the demon."
3. [D: Come! Solomon summons
you
7. So the child took the ring, and went off; and
behold, at the [17] customary hour Ornias, the fierce
demon, came like a burning fire to take the pay from
the child. But the child according to the instructions
received from the king, threw the ring at the chest of
the demon, and said: "King Solomon calls thee
hither." And then he went off at a run to the king.
But the demon cried out aloud, saying: "Child, why
hast thou done this to me? Take the ring off me, and
I will render to thee the gold of the earth. Only take
this off me, and forbear to lead me away to
Solomon4."
4. [D: Remove the ring and give it
back to Solomon]
8. But the child said to the demon: "As the Lord God
of Israel liveth, I will not brook thee. So come hither."
And the child came at a run, rejoicing, to the king,
and said: "I have brought the demon, O king, as thou
didst command me, O my master. And behold, he
stands before the gates of the court of thy palace,
crying out, and supplicating with a loud voice;
offering me the silver and gold of the earth if I will
only bring him unto thee5."
5. [D: would not deliver him to
you.]
9. And when Solomon heard this, he rose up from
his throne, and went outside into the vestibule of the
court of his palace; and there he saw the demon,
shuddering and trembling. And he said to him:
"Who art thou?" And the demon answered: "I am
called Ornias."
10. And Solomon said to him: "Tell me, O demon, to
what zodiacal sign thou art subject." And he
answered: "To the Water-pourer6. And those who are
consumed with desire for the noble virgins upon
earth . . . . . [there appears to be a lacuna here], these
I strangle7. But in case there is no disposition to
sleep8, I am changed into three forms. Whenever
men come to be enamoured of women, I
metamorphose myself into a comely female; and I
take hold of the men in their sleep, and play with
them. And after a while I again take to my wings,
and hie me to the heavenly regions. I also appear as
a lion, and I am commanded by all the demons. I am
offspring of the archangel Uriel9, the power of God."
6. [D: Aquarius.]
7. [D: I strangle those who reside
in Aquarius because of their
passion for women whose
zodiacal sign is Virgo.]
8. [D: while in a trance...]
9. [D: Ouriel.]
11. I Solomon, having heard the name of the
archangel, prayed and glorified God, the Lord of
heaven and earth. And I sealed the [18] demon and
set him to work at stone-cutting, so that he might cut
the stones in the Temple, which, lying along the
shore, had been brought by the Sea of Arabia. But he,
fearful of the iron, continued and said to me: "I pray
thee, King Solomon, let me go free; and I will bring
you all the demons." And as he was not willing to be
subject to me, I prayed the archangel Uriel to come
and succour me; and I forthwith beheld the
archangel Uriel coming down to me from the
heavens.
12. And the angel bade the whales10 of the sea come
out of the abyss. And he cast his destiny upon the
ground, and that [destiny] made subject [to him] the
great demon11. And he commanded the great demon
and bold Ornias, to cut stones at the Temple12. And
accordingly I Solomon glorified the God of heaven
and Maker of the earth. And he bade Ornias come
with his destiny, and gave him the seal, saying:
"Away with thee, and bring me hither the prince of
all the demons."
10. [D: sea monsters. ... The sea
monsters are named Behemoth
(the male) and Leviathan (the
female) in 4Ezra 6:48-52, 1En
60:7.]
11. [D: he withered up their
species and cast his fate to the
ground]
12. [D adds: and to bring to
completion the construction of the
Temple]
13. So Ornias took the fingerfinger-ring, and went off to
Beelzeboul, who has kingship over the demons. He
said to him: "Hither! Solomon calls thee." But
Beelzeboul, having heard, said to him: "Tell me, who
is this Solomon of whom thou speakest to me?" Then
Ornias threw the ring at the chest of Beelzeboul,
saying: "Solomon the king calls thee." But Beelzeboul
cried aloud with a mighty voice, and shot out a great
burning flame of fire; and he arose, and followed
Ornias, and came to Solomon.
14. And when I saw the prince of demons, I glorified
the Lord God, Maker of heaven and earth, and I said:
"Blessed art thou, Lord God Almighty, who hast
given to Solomon thy servant wisdom, the assessor
of the wise, and hast subjected unto me all the power
of he devil."
15. And I questioned him, and said: "Who art thou?"
The demon replied: "I am Beelzebub, the exarch of
the demons. And all [19] the demons have their chief
13. [D: The demon said, "I am
Beelzeboul, the ruler of the
demons." I demanded that

Here's the rest of it in case anyone's interested. but be careful, it's full of magic spells and other esoteric knowledge.

http://www.yankeeclassic.com/miskato...nabridged).pdf

 

Look for....the Union Labelllllllll.

 

Ok, let's go over this. When was Solomen's temple built, hundreds of years before the first century. You are telling me that a text, hundreds of years after the event it describes, knows exactly what happened? Do you know nothing about history? That would be like me writing an account, without reference to any actual evidence or texts and adding in random details about angels, of the American revolution.

 

please do not insert any hint of reason into this discussion.

 

There's no way you had time to read it, so you're condemning it without knowing what you're talking about. That is really stupid.

 

Except I am actually familiar with other Old Testament pseudo-pigrapha and none of it reflects historical reality.

 

That's like someone saying they are familiar with Einsteins theory of relativity and it has no basis in fact.

 

Have you read Einsteins ORIGINAL papers ? do you know how many other scientist disputed his theories and some still going so today ?

Criticism of Albert Einstein's relativity theory was mainly expressed in the early years after its publication on a scientific, pseudoscientific, philosophical, or ideological basis. Reasons for criticism were, for example, alternative theories, rejection of the abstract-mathematical method, misunderstandings, and alleged errors in the theory. . Even today there are some critics of relativity (sometimes called "anti-relativists"), however, their viewpoints are not taken seriously by the scientific community, since the theory of relativity is considered to be self-consistent, is in accordance with many experiments and serves as the basis of many successful theories such as quantum electrodynamics.

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Scientists reject startling claims that the speed of light has been broken for a second time

An experiment that threw the laws of physics into doubt was almost certainly faulty, scientists said yesterday.

Researchers had claimed to have twice beamed particles through the earth’s crust more quickly than the speed of light.

The findings were greeted with astonishment because Einstein’s theory of relativity holds that nothing can travel faster than this 186,282 miles a second limit.

Under Einstein's 1905 theory of special relativity, nothing can be accelerated to a speed faster than light.
That idea lies at the heart of all current science of the cosmos and of how the vast variety of particles that make it up behave.


NEVERTHELESS .......... hmmmmm.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...d-light-broken-second-time.html#ixzz1u7MjJJ4c



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Your link doesn't work.

Solomon's Temple was built by King Hiram of Tyre... 800 years earlier.

 

hiram assissted david and solomon

 

I doubt that.. The Jews had NO history of construction.. The materials came from Lebanon and the temple was modeled after existing temples in Byblos and Balbeck.

David wasn't allowed to build the Temple because of blood on his hands.

 

thats not what historians and the bible say.

 

http://www.yankeeclassic.com/miskatonic/library/stacks/magic/solomon/Solomon_-_The_Testament_Key_and_Legematon_of_Solomon_%28unabridged%29.pdf

 

seats close to me. And I it is who make manifest the
apparition of each demon."13 And he promised to
bring to me in bonds all the unclean spirits. And I
again glorified the God of heaven and earth, as I do
always give thanks to him.
without interruption he sit next to
me and explain the manifestations
of the demons.]
16. I then asked of the demon if there were females
among them. And when he told me that there were, I
said that I desired to see them. So Beelzeboul went
off at high speed, and brought unto me Onoskelis,
that had a very pretty shape, and the skin of a fairhued
woman; and she tossed her head14.
14. [D: "... fair complexion, but her
legs were those of a mule."
Onoskelis means "she who has
ass's legs."]
17. And when she was come, I said to her: "Tell me
who art thou?" But she said to me: "I am called
Onoskelis, a spirit wrought ...[?shabtai/Saturn?]15,
lurking upon the earth. There is a golden cave where
I lie. But I have a place that ever shifts16. At one time
I strangle men with a noose; at another, I creep up
from the nature to the arms [in marg: "worms"]17. But
my most frequent dwelling-places are the precipices,
caves, ravines. Oftentimes, however, do I consort
with men in the semblance of a woman, and above
all with those of a dark skin18. For they share my star
with me; since they it is who privily or openly
worship my star, without knowing that they harm
themselves, and but whet my appetite for further
mischief. For they wish to provide money by means
of memory (commemoration?)19, but I supply a little
to those who worship me fairly."
15. [D: My name is Onoskelis. I
am a spirit which has been made
into a body.]
16. [D: I have a many sided
character.]
17. [D: I pervert them from their
true natures.]
18. [D: honey-colored]
19. [D: by remembering (me)]
18. And I Solomon questioned her about her birth,
and she replied: "I was born of a voice untimely, the
so-called echo of a man's ordure20 dropped in a
wood."21
20. For the demon born of an echo
we have an analogue in the
Hebrew Bath Kol, "the daughter
of a voice." In the Gnostic Hymn
to Hermes, edited by Dieterich,
Abrasax, p 19, we read, l. 104...
21. [D: I was generated from an
unexpected voice which is called
a voice of the echo of a black
(lead?) heaven, emitted in matter.
(meaning uncertain)]
19. And I said to her: "Under what star dost thou
pass?" And she answered me: "Under the star of the
full moon, for the reason that the moon travels over
most things." Then I said to her: "And [20] what angel
22. [Instead of "and by the angel
Joel." D reads "So I uttered the
name of the Holy One of Israel
and

 

is it that frustrates thee?" And she said to me: "He
that in thee [or "through thee"] is reigning." And I
thought that she mocked me, and bade a soldier
strike her. But she cried aloud, and said: "I am
[subjected] to thee, O king, by the wisdom of God
given to thee, and by the angel Joel."22
20. So I commanded her to spin the hemp for the
ropes used in the building of the house of God; and
accordingly, when I had sealed and bound her, she
was so overcome and brought to naught as to stand
night and day spinning the hemp.
21. And I at once bade another demon to be led unto
me; and instantly there approached me the demon
Asmodeus23, bound, and I asked him: "Who art
thou?'' But he shot on me a glance of anger and rage,
and said: "And who art thou?&q2uot; And I said to
him: "Thus punished as thou art, answerest thou
me?" But he, with rage, said to me: "But how shall I
answer thee, for thou art a son of man; whereas I
was born an angel's seed by a daughter of man, so
that no word of our heavenly kind addressed to the
earth-born can be overweening24. Wherefore also my
star is bright in heaven, and men call it, some the
Wain25, and some the dragon's child. I keep near
unto this star. So ask me not many things; for thy
kingdom also after a little time is to be disrupted,
and thy glory is but for a season. And short will be
thy tyranny over us; and then we shall again have
free range over mankind, so as that they shall revere
us as if we were gods, not knowing, men that they
are, the names of the angels set over us."
23. [Asmodeus also appears in
Tobit 3:8, and is ultimately
derived from the Avestan demon
Aeshma-daeva ("demon of wrath").
-JHP]
24. [arrogant.]
25. [D: Great Bear.]
22. And I Solomon, on hearing this, bound him more
carefully, and ordered him to be flogged with thongs
of ox-hide26, and to tell me humbly what was his
name and what his business. And he answered me
thus: "I am called Asmodeus among mortals, and my
business is to plot against the newly wedded, so that
they may not know one another. And I sever them
utterly by many calamities, and I waste away the
beauty of virgin women, and estrange their hearts."
26. [D: flogged with a rod]
23. And I said to him: "Is this thy only business?"
And he answered me: "I transport men into fits of
27. [D: I spread (or, I *sting to ?)
madness about women through

 

madness and desire, when they have wives of their
own, so that they leave them, and go off by [21] night
and day to others that belong to other men; with the
result that they commit sin, and fall into murderous
deeds.27"
the stars, and I have often
committed a rash of murders.]
24. And I adjured him by the name of the Lord
Sabaôth, saying: "Fear God, Asmodeus, and tell me
by what angel thou art frustrated." But he said: "By
Raphael, the archangel that stands before the throne
of God. But the liver and gall of a fish put me to
flight, when smoked over ashes of the tamarisk28." I
again asked him, and said: "Hide not aught from me.
For I am Solomon, son of David, King of Israel. Tell
me the name of the fish which thou reverest." And
he answered: "It is the Glanos29 by name, and is
found in the rivers of Assyria; wherefore it is that I
roam about in those parts."
28. [D: smoking on coals of
charcoal. Compare Tobit, where
Raphael instructs him in the use
of the gall, heart, and liver for
various cures.]
29. [D: "sheatfish", a large catfish.
Gk. ho, hê glanis.]
25. And I said to him: "Hast thou nothing else about
thee, Asmodeus?" And he answered: "The power of
God knoweth, which hath bound me with the
indissoluble bonds of yonder one's seal, that
whatever I have told thee is true. I pray thee, King
Solomon, condemn me not to [go into] water." But I
smiled, and said to him: "As the Lord God of my
fathers liveth, I will lay iron on thee to wear. But
thou shalt also make the clay for the entire
construction of the Temple, treading it down with
thy feet." And I ordered them to give him ten waterjars
to carry water in. And the demon groaned
terribly, and did the work I ordered him to do. And
this I did, because that fierce demon Asmodeus
knew even the future. And I Solomon glorified God,
who gave wisdom to me Solomon his servant. And
the liver of the fish and its gall I hung on the spike of
a reed30, and burned it over Asmodeus because of his
being so strong, and his unbearable malice was thus
frustrated.
30. [D: liver and gall of the fish,
along with a branch of storax.]
26. And I summoned again to stand before me
Beelzeboul, the prince of demons, and I sat him
down on a raised seat of honour, and said to him:
"Why art thou alone, prince of the demons?" And he
said to me: "Because I alone am left of the angels of
heaven that came down32. For I was first angel in the
31. [D omits "on a raised seat of
honour"]
32. [i.e. fell

In case the link doesn't take you there, I'll post a few pages at a time.

 

That's exactly what the Bible says.. Read it.