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The Downfall of Solomon: Testament of Solomon (Part 20): Christian Mythology & Demonology



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The Testament of Solomon (Testament Key of Solomon)
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00:15The demons had all been silenced, the temple of the Lord was complete, and his kingdom was
00:21prosperous and at peace. He was wealthier than any king before his time, blessed with
00:28unfathomable wisdom and given power beyond mundane comprehension. The spirit of God was
00:35with him, and he had dominion over all the spirits of the air, on the earth and under
00:41the earth. What more could King Solomon ask for? All lands, both far and near, were subject
00:50to him, and Solomon began taking wives and concubines of his own from every land. He
00:57took so many, that his consorts were countless, and yet he would not stop. One day, he marched
01:06against the Jebusians, and there he saw a fair dame called Jebusian, the daughter of a man,
01:14and fell violently in love with her, desiring to take her as his wife in addition to his
01:21many others. He came to the Jebusian priests, who were priests of Moloch, and said to them,
01:28Give me the Shulamite as a wife. But the priests of Moloch said to him, If you love this maiden,
01:35go in then, and worship our gods, the great god Rappan, and the god called Moloch.
01:43In fear of the glory of God, Solomon would not do as they bade him, and said to them,
01:49I will not worship a strange god. What is this proposal that you compel me to do so much?
01:56And they answered, It is our custom, laid by our fathers. And when Solomon answered that he would
02:04on no account, worship strange gods, the priests instructed the maiden not to sleep with him,
02:11until he complied, and sacrificed to the gods. Deeply conflicted, the king slowly began to succumb
02:19to his lustful desires. And on a fateful day, that fair maiden, that crafty Eros, brought him five
02:28locusts, and laid them beside her, saying, Take these locusts, and crush them together in the name
02:35of the god Moloch, and then, I will sleep with you. And Solomon did it. The worst thing he and
02:43his
02:43fathers could ever do. By sacrificing locusts to the god Moloch, he had fulfilled the prophecy of the
02:51worst of the seven sisters. And at once, the spirit of God departed from him, and he became weak, as
03:00well
03:00as foolish, in his words. At the wish of the fair maiden, he built a temple of idols, to Baal,
03:09and to
03:09Rafa, and to Moloch, and to many other spirits, worshipping and making sacrifices to them. He had fallen into
03:19error, just like the spirit of error, told him he would. Thus, the Lord God turned his back on Solomon,
03:28and his glory departed from him, and his spirit was darkened. The power vested in him was brought to
03:35nothing, and he lost his dominion and control over all the spirits of the air, of the earth, and under
03:43the earth. They were finally free from his tyranny, and the once greatest king of Jerusalem became an
03:51object of ridicule, not only among these spirits, but also among all men who once held him in high
03:58esteem and reverence. What madness could make a man fall so low as to give up everything of great
04:06importance, for something so inconsequential, for pleasure that is fleeting? And so it came to pass,
04:14that the words of the great Asmodeus, and of the seven star sisters, and of the powerful triple
04:20goddess Enepsigos, had all been fulfilled. Therefore, in his last days, Solomon wrote out this testament,
04:30so that whoever saw it, may avoid the very mistakes he made, and attend to the last things,
04:37and not to the first, so that they may find grace, for ever and ever.
05:14when the last time was in his last breath, he needed to move out, he could not remember
05:14He was the one who painted the Mamre, and the other who was interested in him in the
05:14In fact, he didn't have an amazing kiss, but he could not have an amazing kiss, but he could not
05:17have an amazing kiss, but he could have an amazing kiss.
05:18He was the one who poems in the funny edited world, and he could not have a nice kiss.

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