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(#2) Solomon Uses His Ring's Unprecedented Power To Make Demons Build His Temple
Using the ring provided to him by the archangel Michael, Solomon begins to call on every demon to bring them into his presence. Once they show themselves to the King of Jerusalem, he uses the ring to bend them to his will.
With the power of the ring, he forces the demons to reveal their evil duties, learns how to subdue them, and then orders them to create various part for the Temple of Jerusalem.
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(#6) A Medusa-Like Demon Instructs Solomon To Wash His Hands Before Her Interrogation
Obyzouth, mentioned earlier, is a female demon brought before Solomon. The demon has crazy hair reminiscent of Medusa and orders the king to wash his hands before she will answer any of his questions. After Solomon does this, the she-demon reveals that her job is to commit infanticide during childbirth and attack children throughout their lives.
After learning that the angel Raphael is her downfall, Solomon orders Obyzouth's hair secured and hangs the demoness in front of the Temple of God to illustrate his power over demons.
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(#3) Solomon Foils Each Demon By Calling On Their Angel Nemesis
Solomon orders each demon to reveal their name, their purpose, their zodiac association, and the means by which to bind them from doing harm. The demons provide the names of their angelic counterparts, who are then used to defeat them.
Ornias is connected to the angel Uriel, so Solomon invoke the angel's name and forces the demon to bring more of its cohorts before him. Onoskelis is defeated by the angel Joel, Asmodeus by Raphael, Beezlebub by Emmanuel, and so on.
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(#8) Solomon Identifies The Demons By Placing Them On The Zodiac
Solomon brings every demon before him and forces them to reveal their name, the zodiac sign they represent, and which angel has power over them. The first demon he encounters, Ornias, tells the king that it is connected to "the water-pourer," or Aquarius.
A group of 36 demons, known as "the decani of the twelve zodiacal signs," answer the king's summons in one voice and reveal their connections to the astrological signs, as well. Every one of the twelve zodiac signs is represented in the collection of demons, which confess to causing illnesses in people as their job.
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(#11) The Book Closes With Solomon's Fall Into Idolatry
The entire Testament of Solomon follows the king as he uses the gifts bestowed upon him by God to subdue demons, build the Temple of Jerusalem, and speak about the glory of the Lord. The end of the writing, however, recounts his fall from God's grace due to lust and idolatry.
Solomon marries multiple wives from different foreign lands before falling in love with Jebusaean while conquering her people. In order to receive permission from the priests of her home to marry Jebusaean, Solomon refuses to worship their multiple gods, but agrees to make sacrifices to them. He also allows himself to build a temple for Jebusaean filled with statues of demons such as Baal.
These actions cause his fall from God's grace and are presented as a cautionary tale to the reader.
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(#4) Lilith May Appear As Obyzouth In Solomon's Testament
Lilith does not appear in the Testament of Solomon by her popularly known name, but one female demon mentioned may actually be Lilith - or at least related to her. Obyzouth appears to Solomon as a feminine demon that slays babies during childbirth, imposes ailments on children throughout their lives, and snatches kids.
Author Siegmund Hurwitz points out that Obyzouth may also be the demon called Byza or Abouzou, known also as Gyllou. Gyllou is a mystic name of Lilith.
Lilith crosses paths with Solomon multiple times - once as a mother arguing over a child and again as the Queen of Sheba.
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The Testament of Solomon is a Greek work dating back to the 1-3th century. It is also the earliest and most typical Solomon’s Codex known. Its existence is very important in both academia and occult circles. of. This book describes in detail Solomon’s method of exorcism in the first person of King Solomon, which is very important for studying the origin of Western magical technology.
This ancient Jewish document was originally classified as one of the apocryphal scriptures of the Old Testament and later classified as a magic book. The random tool shares 13 demonic texts from this book that the church does not want you to know.
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