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To: alt.magick From: OdysseusSubject: Re: A Clavicula Salomonis Question Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 14:04:46 GMT rb1_622 wrote: > > I am curious if anyone has ever read any commentary or Christian > thought - I know that's a bit of an oxymoron - about The Key of > Solomon the King. I did an Internet search in Christian bookstores > and didn't turn up anything. > > If these writings are attributed to him it not only paints a different > slant on him than the Bible suggests, but it again proves that the > Church is more interest in suppressing facts then revealing the truth. > Many works have been spuriously attributed to historical or mythological figures from Thoth to Taliesin. OTOH Idries Shah (and probably others) have identified the Lemegeton's "Solomon" as a mediaeval Sufi (Suleiman bin-Daoud), IIRC son of the architect who designed the Dome of the Rock, rather than the biblical king. --Odysseus
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