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(#1) Solomon Has The Power To Entrap Demons With A Magic Ring
One of the workers on Solomon's Temple of Jerusalem receives visits from a demon called Ornias that takes half of his day's wages and sucks energy from his thumb. As the worker becomes smaller and more sickly, King Solomon learns about the demon and prays for assistance from God.
In response, the archangel Michael provides Solomon with a magic ring that allows him to conquer the demons. Entrapping the demon Ornias involves throwing the ring at his chest and ordering him to report to King Solomon, which forces the demon to do as requested.
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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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(#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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(#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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(#5) Solomon Commands A Mule-Legged Demon To Spin Hemp Into Ropes
Onoskelis is a demon that appears as an attractive woman with the legs of a mule. Solomon orders Beelzebub to bring the entity to him after learning that female demons exist. Onoskelis tells the king that it strangles people and lives near cliffs and other rock formations. It uses its feminine appearance to seduce men that worship its "star," which is the full moon.
Solomon orders Onoskelis to create ropes of hemp for the construction of the Temple of Jerusalem, binding it to the task with his ring. The demon spends all of its time fulfilling the demand.
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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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(#7) Solomon Tricked Two Demons Into Eternally Holding A Temple Pillar
Towards the end of the book, Solomon engages with Ephippas, a demon found in Arabia. The demon identifies itself as a son of the devil, weak only to God himself. Ephippas claims the ability to destroy with fire, move mountains, and unseat kings. When Solomon asks whether this is true, Ephippas affirms before bragging that with the help of a demon from the Red Sea, a certain pillar can be held midair in any spot in Jerusalem.
Solomon takes the opportunity to imprison Ephippas in order to move the stone into the prophesied location in the temple, leading the demon of the Red Sea with it. Solomon order the demons to hold the pillar aloft for him and they both promise to do so, with the toppling of the stone signaling the end of the world.
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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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(#9) Solomon Punishes Some Demons By Making Them Build Prisons For Their Fellow Entities
Solomon meets a demon composed of 36 spirits that each have a role in dispensing ailments to mortals. Each spirit presents its name, zodiac affiliation, job, and the angel that can defeat them.
Solomon uses that information to assign tasks to every one of them, including the job of creating cells to detain fellow demons.
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(#10) Solomon Confronts A Laughing Demon Who Predicts The Imminent Demise Of A Young Man
The demon Ornias figures prominently in the writings, as it is the first confronted by Solomon when one of the workers on the Temple of Jerusalem is stricken with illness. After he learns that Ornias appears to the young worker to take half of his food and money before sucking his thumb to remove his energy, Solomon prays for assistance and receives his powerful ring from the archangel Michael.
Later in the Testament of Solomon, an old man begs for the king to protect him from his son that beats him regularly. This plea brings the demon Ornias to a laughing fit, frustrating Solomon. Ornias explains that the laughter is because he foresees the old man's son perishing in three days. Solomon uses the demon's prediction to coax the father and son back into a healthy relationship before the young man's passing.
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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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(#12) Some See The Text As An Exorcism Manual
Exorcism is popular in horror movies, but the actual practice isn't advertised by the churches that utilize it as part of their faith. However, the information needed to exorcise specific demons is found within the pages of the Testament of Solomon.
Solomon lays out the names of the demons, along with their specific roles in serving the devil. He also orders them to offer up the angels that oppose them, allowing their invocations to bind the demons from doing harm. Furthermore, many of the demons in the text outline specific items or foliage that can be combined, burned, or otherwise used as a poultice to subdue them. All of these are things that one may use in abolishing a demon from the possession of a person, supposedly.
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(#13) Solomon's Demonic Interactions Reflect 1st-Century Judaism, Not Christianity
Christianity is not big on presenting forms of magic within the scriptures unless those acts come from Jesus or God himself. As such, many scholars insist that the Testament of Solomon does not present itself as a Christian text, but that of early Judaism.
The text is haggadic, or related to readings used in the Jewish service of seder. It also lines up with Jewish texts steeped in magic, including oft-presented notions that Solomon was a user of magic.
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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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