Ephesians 6:12
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Ishtar(Bacchus) & Aphrodite(Lazers) are more than just chip-heads, they are Powers & Principalities of satan's kingdom.Ishtar & Aphrodite are often confused as the same, but they are not the same. From my own experience Aphrodite is 2 evil spirits that have a connection to Sirius A & B; The Starbucks logo has Aphrodite holding her/his(heavenly hosts have no gender) fish tails. Whereas Ishtar has greatly annoyed a friend of mine, always pretending to be 3 different spirits, but it's a trick it plays.
These prim-evils work in a hierarchy; Ishtar rules addiction and gets the Pleiades(7 spirits of error) to trick people to make mistakes.
Aphrodite gets Eros/Asmodeus to make people love certain people in order to destroy them.
Aphrodite works mischief on the full moon.
Ishtar/Artemis/Shiva the destroyer, works mischief on the crescent moon.
satan tricks "supposed" christians to go to church on Sunday, and regardless of whom they claim to serve, SATAN gets his homage paid. "Saturday" is the Sabbath.
satan tricks "supposed" muslims to worship Ishtar, bowing down to that stupid black rock in Mecca, which Mohammad never sanctioned; Mohammad had his followers face Jerusalem.
Before "supposed" christians get on their high horse, let it be known they too are also worshiping ISHTAR on EASTER if they make kids chase fertility bunnies & eggs and stuff their faces with pork. Christ never ate pork, when he came back to life on the Monday, he asked for some fish to eat.
"supposed" christians are also worshipping Aphrodite if they eat fish on Good Friday; Originally Aphrodite Salacious had fish eating orgies on Friday.
satan tricks "supposed" jews by negating the prophets with that blasphemous Babylonian Talmud.
The days of the week are named after the powers & principalities satan wants everyone to worship:
SUNDAY (lucifer / baalzebub)
MONDAY (BACCHUS / ishtar)
TUESDAY (SET / mars)
WEDNESDAY (PAN / hermes)
THURSDAY (REGE / zeus)
FRIDAY (LAZERS / aphrodite)
SATURDAY (THIS DAY SATAN CAN'T TOUCH AND INSULTS THE "MOST HIGH" CALLING HIM CRONUS OF THE CROOKED WAYS)
Ex-Satanist John Todd explains: "..AND THEN THERE ARE OTHER THINGS SUCH AS THINGS OR BELONGINGS THAT ACTUALITY WERE CREATED BY THE DEVIL SUCH AS ROCK MUSIC. Now I want to specify this, I am down on this because I am an ex-witch. Without it witches don't function. I dropped this out of my testimony this morning, I should have given it. One of the things that I was supposed to be was the head of this Brenner Enterprises in Texas which explains to the IRS why I was making all this money.
IT WAS A LOT OF MONEY & ONE OF THE COMPANIES I WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE OWNED WAS CALLED ZODIAC PRODUCTIONS.--The name gives it away. It was a booking agency in Texas; it's changed its name, but it's still the largest booking agency in the U.S. for Rock groups. It was the group that was originally responsible for bringing the Beatles to the U.S. I got to meet most of the groups.
THE BEATLES WERE ALREADY APART WHEN I WAS THERE, BUT I GOT TO MEET SEVERAL OF THEM OFF & ON, & I met almost all of the groups that were in existence then, & a lot that are in existence now. I only found about this many (holds up a few fingers) that weren't occultists, that didn't confess when they were alone that their music came from "supernatural forces" as they would put it.
SO I WANT TO TELL THE TEENAGERS & THE PARENTS SOMETHING REAL QUICK BEFORE I GO ON: When witches do a book, they do a spell over the manuscript & they command demons which are under their authority to enter every manuscript that comes off the press, every copy of that book. So when you buy that book you get a little free gift, like when you open a little Cracker Jacks box & there's a little trinket in there. Well, you get a free demon, free of charge.
WELL, MOST OF THE ROCK GROUPS DO THE SAME THING, & I know, I've talked to one just recently--David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young that used to exist & is getting back together--& he told me this is why his records & others' records zoomed to the charts. Many people tell me they do this so their records will be best sellers, & you get free of charge your own private demon.
SO PARENTS, IF YOU'RE COMPROMIZING WITH YOUR KIDS to keep them from running away from home, you are responsible for that article in the home because you're the head of the house. (Audience: Amen, preach it, Brother!) Now this is an ex-witch talkin' who knows about demons, so you better pay attention!!
MAYBE THAT'S WHY YOUR FINANCES ARE MESSED UP! Maybe that's why your kids & you are sick once in a while & you shouldn't be. The preacher asked me how much credit do I give the Devil for sickness? I said, "All of it, lock, stock & barrel!" Now let's go on or I'll be on that all night.
ANYWAY, I WANT TO GIVE YOU SOMETHING REAL QUICK: THERE ARE SEVEN PRINCIPALITIES IN THE DEVIL'S KINGDOM. The way it's set up, there's Satan & then there's Beelzebub. I know a lot of Christians thought that was another title for Satan, but that's his prince. That would have been his position to God, that would have been his chosen angel. Under that are the seven principalities, & under the principalities are the powers, & under the powers, billions of demons. I just praise the Lord that the pit's locked & that most of them are there. But there's still millions running around.
BUT ANYWAYS, THE SEVEN PRINCIPALITIES ARE AS FOLLOWS: REGE, WHICH IS THE PRINCIPALITY OF THE OCCULT & many things that are under the occult. And this is for the young people; witches know the difference between witchcraft & Sorcery. That's why I don't like the modern translations of the Bible, because they list witchcraft as Sorcery.
SORCERY IS THE USE OF CERTAIN DRUGS THAT ARE ACTUALLY OCCULT DRUGS. There's a difference. Timothy Leary, when he wrote his book on LSD said, "You're not hallucinating when you take acid. Acid is blocking the physical senses out so that you can see a supernatural World!"--And since God doesn't use LSD, that only leaves one supernatural World left! And most people that have been on LSD for a long time will tell you, "I wasn't hallucinating when I saw that!"
NOW THIS IS WHY WE ASK MANY PEOPLE IF THEY'VE BEEN IN THE OCCULT & IF THEY'VE SAID NO, THEN WE'LL STOP & SAY, "BUT YOU'VE BEEN ON ACID, or you've been on coke, or you've been on a strong form of hashish of or you've been on speed!"--Something that's classified as a hallucinogenic. That's a sorcery drug. The word "sorcery" comes from the word that we receive "pharmacist" from meaning the dispenser of drugs. In this case, sorcery means the use of drugs for occult purposes. Now there's other things that are in this, of course, there's witchcraft & all this.
THE NEXT ONE IS LAZERS. I was going to put all of this on the board but I decided to go through it real quick so I can use the board for other things. Lazers is sexual lust, & that says it right there. You want to know all the things that are under Rege?--Everything that's in the 18th Chapter of Deuteronomy is under Rege.
ONE THING I USUALLY WARN CHRISTIANS ABOUT IS THIS CUTE LITTLE GAME GOING AROUND the Christian church that when a woman is pregnant with a child, somebody will get a button or a ring or a medallion of some type & swing it over their hand & say, "Let's see if you're going to have a girl or a boy."--That's called divination, fortune telling.
IF THAT WOMAN OR MAN THAT WAS DOING THAT CUTE LITTLE TRICK, THAT OLD WIVES TALE, were caught doing that in Israel, they'd take her out & stone him or her to death, & the person that was allowing it to be done! Today we're under grace, praise the Lord for that, or I wouldn't be here, but I'm telling you it's that serious! We could go into the demonic reasons for it, but you might gain troubles from it by allowing it to happen.
NEXT AFTER LAZERS, AFTER LUST, IS BACCHUS. I don't have the spelling on it, good luck. I'm sorry I didn't put everything on the board but I left my notes back in Ohio. Bacchus was even an old Roman god. A couple other of these principalities had gods named after them in different pagan countries during pagan times.
BACCHUS WAS THE ROMAN GOD OF WINE, IS PRETTY CLOSE TO WHAT HE WAS, & HE IS THE PRINCIPALITY OF ADDICTION. Now I've seen many people who shouldn't be doing deliverance because they don't know what they're doing, calling demons of nicotine out, demons of alcoholism, & the demon's standing there laughing at them because there's no such creature!
BUT THERE IS A DEMON OF ADDICTION, & THE REASON I SPECIFY THIS IS THAT HE DOESN'T CARE WHAT YOU FEED HIM, just as long as you're addicted to it. That can be food & caffeine as well as alcohol, cigarettes & drugs. Now food & caffeine are not bad except when you've got to have it & you use it as a solution to your problems.
TAKE FOR EXAMPLE A WOMAN IN A LIBERAL CHURCH, SHE HAD PROBLEMS & SHE DOESN'T GO TO THE LORD, SHE'LL GO TO HER LIQUOR CABINET & her pack of Marlboros--as she's hooked on both--or taking her prescribed barbiturates from the doctor. Now over in the Fundamental church this isn't allowed, except maybe the prescribed prescription from the doctor. And she'll go where? Does anybody know?
IF SHE HAS A LOT OF PROBLEMS, WHERE DOES SHE RUN TO IF SHE DOESN'T RUN TO THE LORD? What does she do if she gets nervous?--She eats! How many people get up in the morning & have got to have ... now I'm talking about having a cup of coffee to pop the ol' peepers up, "I gotta have my cup of coffee!--I'm gonna die if I don't have my cup of coffee!" Come on, you've seen it!! An 8-pack of Pepsi in three hours, 16 cans of Dr. Pepper a day! Come on!
YOU TALK ABOUT ALCOHOLICS, WE'VE GOT SOME CAFFEINE ADDICTS AROUND HERE! There's a difference between drinking it because you like it, & don't kid me!! It's like the guy putting the cigarette down & saying, "Oh well, I could quit any time, I just like to do it." "Yeah, I could quit drinking 26 cups of coffee a day, but I just enjoy coffee!"--Then go to Sanka!--If you can stand the withdrawals! Come on, you know what I mean! It's the same demon! He does not care.
TO GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE, I MENTIONED TEEN CHALLENGE TODAY. Teen Challenge will not accept anybody from the occult because they don't cast out demons & they can't handle them.--That's why they don't get much success with drugs anymore because since Dave Wilkerson got rid of exorcism, Teen Challenge dropped out of it, they don't do deliverance. So therefore the people come in, they get them off of cigarettes, they get them off of drugs, but they come out weighing 200 or 300 pounds & 26 cups of coffee a day & they've got the same demons!
THEY'RE FEEDING THE SAME DEMONS BUT THEY'RE GIVING THEM A NEW DIET! Can somebody tell me, amen? You understand what I'm trying to say? Oh, you understand? OK! Next after that is Pan. If you know Shakespeare, Pan says, "What fools these mortals be"--it kind of gives him away.
PAN IS THE PRINCIPALITY OF THE MIND. THIS IS THE DEVIL'S FAVOURITE PLAYGROUND. When you say sanctify the spirit, soul & body, this is the soul, the mind. Now, to give you an example, we run into Pan more than any other demon. Now we don't use names, but I'm giving you the names anyway, we just use categories in deliverance.
WE RUN INTO HIM BECAUSE OF THE DEMON OF REJECTION THAT HE IS OVER. And this is the base for everybody that has sexual problems, & the base where everybody has drug problems, & the base for everybody that has occult problems. Because they pick this demon up when they're a child, sometimes before they're even born, & they carry this thing that opens them up to other demons, trying to feed & fulfil the demon that's driving them from within. If you've ever seen a person with the spirit of rejection you'll know what I mean.
AND HE'S ALSO OVER NEURALGIA, DEPRESSION, SUICIDE, SCHIZOPHRENIA, PARANOIA, ALL THE MENTAL ILLNESSES. This is why people with rejection problems have deep depression, they try & kill themselves, they're nervous all the time, they all tie together, people! The next one after it is Set, & this will answer the Pastor's question he had about sickness.
SET IS THE PRINCIPALITY OF DEATH. He was the Egyptian god of the underworld, the same thing. Set is over all sicknesses, in fact there're 39 major illnesses--that's what the physicians say today--& the occult credits him with 39 powers, 39 little sub-groups. And it's interesting that it's believed that Christ took 39 stripes for our healing. (Ed: Amen!)
HOW MANY HAVE I GOT NOW? FIVE? I KNOW WHAT THE 7TH IS BUT I WANT TO LEAVE IT TILL THE 7TH. Okay, I've got Lazers, Rege, Bacchus, Set, Pan. I can't think of what the other one is. I'm trying to think of the category that's missing. Sheila, help! We don't have our notes with us! I'm gonna skip it, I'll come back to it.
THE SEVENTH ONE DOES NOT HAVE A NAME BECAUSE WITCHES DON'T USE IT. You see, witches will call these others up & will send them out or have them command demons to go out. They don't use this one. They call it a Christian principality. Remember I said earlier this morning there's no such thing as an undedicated witch; I had to get saved before I found undedicated people in religion! Now this is the reason why:
IT'S CALLED THE PRINCIPALITY OF CONTENTMENT. You come to church, you might even come to Sunday nights, & if you're good you might even show up at prayer meeting on Wednesday, but that's if you have a few problems during the week & you need a religious fix. Come on, People, this is the reason. This is why churches don't grow, they don't have bus programs, they don't grow, they don't go out & canvas.
THAT'S WHY WHEN YOU COME TOGETHER FOR A WITNESSING NIGHT, YOU MIGHT GET 8 PEOPLE OUT OF 300 TO SHOW UP, because of this. I've walked into churches like that Calvary Chapel down in Costa Mesa with 3,000 young people.--You come back three months later & you've got 3,000 different young people! That's because they either backslid or went to a Bible-believing church so they could grow!..."
www.kt70.com/~jamesjpn/articles/john_todd_and_the_illuminati_3.htmDogon Tribe of Mali West Africa, dedicated to aphrodite
DAGON/APHRODTE HOLDING 2 FISH TAILS OF SIRIUS A & B (NO WINGS!)
NATION OF FAKE ISLAM SECT LEADER, ELIJAH MOHAMMAD, WITH SYMBOL OF GODDESS DIANA/ISHTAR (star and crescent moon)
WIZARD COSTUME WITH GODDESS DIANA SYMBOL ON HAT
TRIPLE GODDESS DIANA (ISHTAR) = Al-Uzza, Al-Lat and Menat
"...She was particularly worshipped as a black stone at Quidaid, near Mecca..."
www.thaliatook.com/AMGG/arabtriple.htmlMOHAMMAD SPEAKS OUT AGAINST DIANA WORSHIP IN QURAN "THE STAR"
[53.19] Have you then considered the Lat and the Uzza,
[53.20] And Manat, the third, the last?
[53.21] What! for you the males and for Him the females!
[53.22] This indeed is an unjust division!
[53.23] They are naught but names which you have named, you and your
fathers; Allah has not sent for them any authority. They follow naught
but conjecture and the low desires which (their) souls incline to; and
certainly the guidance has come to them from their Lord.
[53.24] Or shall man have what he wishes?
[53.25] Nay! for Allah is the hereafter and the former (life).
[53.26] And how many an angel is there in the heavens whose
intercession does not avail at all except after Allah has given
permission to whom He pleases and chooses.
[53.27] Most surely they who do not believe in the hereafter name the
angels with female names.
[53.28] And they have no knowledge of it; they do not follow anything
but conjecture, and surely conjecture does not avail against the truth
at all.
[53.29] Therefore turn aside from him who turns his back upon Our reminder and does not desire anything but this world's life.
{ALISTAIR CROWLEY THE SATANIST TEAMED UP WITH AND LEARNED EVERYTHING HE DID FROM FAKE MUSLIMS, KNOWN TODAY AS; THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD}
TESTAMENT OF SOLOMON
(KING SOLOMON BOUND DEVILS AND DEMONS.
ONOSKELIS = APHRODITE
TEPHRAS = ISHTAR
ASMODEUS = EROS)
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 fair-hued 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 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 22. [Instead of "and by the angel Joel." D reads "So I uttered the name of the Holy One of Israel and..."]
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?" 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 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" 27. [D: I spread (or, I *sting to ?) madness about women through 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 water-jars 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 first heaven being entitled Beelzeboul. And now I control all those who are bound in Tartarus. But I too have a child33, and he haunts the Red Sea. And on any suitable occasion he comes up to me again, being subject to me; and reveals to me what he has done, and I support him.34
[22] 31. [D omits "on a raised seat of honour"]
32. [i.e. fell]
33. [D: There also accompanied me another ungodly (angel)]
34. [D: when he is ready, he will come in triumph.]
27. I Solomon said unto him: "Beelzeboul, what is thy employment?" And he answered me: "I destroy kings.35 I ally myself with foreign tyrants. And my own demons I set on36 to men, in order that the latter may believe in them and be lost. And the chosen servants of God, priests and faithful men, I excite unto desires for wicked sins, and evil heresies, and lawless deeds; and they obey me, and I bear them on to destruction. And I inspire men with envy, and [desire for] murder, and for wars and sodomy, and other evil things. And I will destroy the world."37 35. [D: I bring destruction by means of tyrants]
36. [D: to be worshipped]
37. [So MS P. D reads simply "I bring about jealousies and murders in a country, and I instigate wars."]
28. So I said to him: "Bring to me thy child, who is, as thou sayest, in the Red Sea." But he said to me: "I will not bring him to thee. But there shall come to me another demon called Ephippas38. Him will I bind, and he will bring him up from the deep unto me." And I said to him: "How comes thy son to be in the depth of the sea, and what is his name? "And he answered me: "Ask me not, for thou canst not learn from me. However, he will come to thee by any command, and will tell thee openly."39 38. [According to D, Ephippas is an Arabian wind demon.]
39. [D adds: So I said to him, "Tell me in which star you reside." "The one called by men the Evening Star."]
29. I said to him: "Tell me by what angel thou art frustrated." And he answered: "By the holy and precious name of the Almighty God, called by the Hebrews by a row of numbers, of which the sum is 644, and among the Greeks it is Emmanuel1. And if one of the Romans adjure me by the great name of the power Eleéth, I disappear at once." 1. The text must be faulty, for the word Emmanuel is the Hebrew. The sum 644 is got by adding together the Greek numbers.
30. I Solomon was astounded when I heard this; and I ordered him to saw up Theban1 marbles. And when he began to saw the marbles, the other demons cried out with a loud voice, howling because of their king Beelzeboul. 1. We hear of Pentelic marble in Strabo, but the reference in the text may be to Thebes in Egypt.
31. But I Solomon questioned him, saying: "If thou wouldst gain a respite, discourse to me about the things in heaven." And Beelzeboul said: "Hear, O king, if thou burn gum, and incense, and bulb of the sea1, with nard and saffron, and light seven lamps in an earthquake2, thou wilt firmly fix thy house. And if, being pure3, [23] thou light them at dawn in the sun alight, then wilt thou see the heavenly dragons, how they wind themselves along and drag the chariot of the sun." 1. Perhaps the "sea-bulbs" were the balls of hair-like texture which the sea washes up on Mediterranean shores, e.g. in Tunisia.
2. Perhaps "in a row," should be read.
3. For the condition here insisted on cp. Dieterich, Abrasax, p. 141, where in an incantation ceremonial purity is similarly insisted on. The ritual of a magic papyrus given by Dieterich, p. 169, is very similar to that here prescribed in the Testament.
32. And I Solomon, having heard this, rebuked him, and said: "Silence for this present1, and continue to saw the marbles as I commanded thee." And I Solomon praised God, and commanded another demon to present himself to me. And one came before me who carried his face high up in the air, but the rest of the spirit curled away like a snail. And it broke through the few soldiers, and raised also a terrible dust on the ground, and carried it upwards; and then again hurled it back to frighten us, and asked what questions I could ask as a rule. And I stood up, and spat2 on the ground in that spot, and sealed with the ring of God. And forthwith the dust-wind stopped. Then I asked him, saying: "Who art thou, O wind?" Then he once more shook up a dust, and answered me: "What wouldst thou have, King Solomon?" I answered him: "Tell me what thou art called, and I would fain ask thee a question. But so far I give thanks to God who has made me wise to answer their evil plots." 1. So Luke xxii. 51.
2. For the use of spittle to produce a cure or other effect in a magical way, cp. Mark vii. 33 and viii. 23. In John ix. 6, Jesus, we read, "spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and anointed the eyes with the clay." Of this magic use of spittle Pliny, in his Natural History, gives numerous examples. It was common in antiquity.
33. But [the demon] answered me: "I am the spirit of the ashes (Tephras)." And I said to him: "What is thy pursuit?" And he said: "I bring darkness on men, and set fire to fields; and I bring homesteads to naught. But most busy am I in summer. However, when I get an opportunity, I creep into corners of the wall, by night and day. For I am offspring of the great one, and nothing less." Accordingly I said to him: "Under what star dost thou lie?" And he answered: "In the very tip of the moon's horn, when it is found in the south. There is my star. For I have been bidden to restrain the convulsions of the hemitertian fever; and this is why many men pray to the hemitertian fever, using these three names: Bultala, Thallal, [24] Melchal. And I heal them." And I said to him: "I am Solomon; when therefore thou wouldst do harm, by whose aid dost thou do it?" But he said to me: "By the angel's, by whom also the third day's fever is lulled to rest." So I questioned him, and said: "And by what name1?" And he answered: "That of the archangel Azael." And I summoned the archangel Azael, and set a seal on the demon, and commanded him to seize great stones, and toss them up to the workmen on the higher parts of the Temple. And, being compelled, the demon began to do what he was bidden to do.
www.esotericarchives.com/solomon/testamen.htm
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