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Chapter 4  
     
1.
 So Ornias took the finger-ring, and went off to Beelzeboul, who has kingship over the demons.  
2.
 He said to him: "Hither! Solomon calls thee."  
3.
 But Beelzeboul, having heard, said to him: "Tell me, who is this Solomon of whom thou speakest to me?"  
4.
 Then Ornias threw the ring at the chest of Beelzeboul, saying: "Solomon the king calls thee."  
5.
 But Beelzeboul cried aloud with a mighty voice, and shot out a great burning flame of fire; and he arose, and followed Ornias, and came to Solomon.  
6.
 And when I saw the prince of demons, I glorified the Lord God, Maker of heaven and earth, and I said: "Blessed art thou, Lord God Almighty, who hast given to Solomon thy servant wisdom, the assessor of the wise, and hast subjected unto me all the power of the devil."  
7.
 And I questioned him, and said: "Who art thou?"  
8.
 The demon replied: "I am Beelzebub, the exarch of the demons.  
9.
 And all the demons have their chief seats close to me.  
10.
 And I it is who make manifest the apparition of each demon."  
11.
 And he promised to bring to me in bonds all the unclean spirits.  
12.
 And I again glorified the God of heaven and earth, as I do always give thanks to him.  
13.
 I then asked of the demon if there were females among them.  
14.
 And when he told me that there were, I said that I desired to see them.  
15.
 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 head.  
16.
 And when she was come, I said to her: "Tell me who art thou?"  
17.
 But she said to me: "I am called Onoskelis, a spirit wrought shabtai, lurking upon the earth  
18.
 There is a golden cave where I lie.  
19.
 But I have a place that ever shifts.  
20.
 At one time I strangle men with a noose;  
21.
 at another, I creep up from the nature to the arms as worms.  
22.
 But my most frequent dwelling-places are the precipices, caves, ravines  
23.
 Oftentimes, however, do I consort with men in the semblance of a woman, and above all with those of a dark skin.  
24.
 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.  
25.
 For they wish to provide money by means of memory commemoration, but I supply a little to those who worship me fairly.  
26.
 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 ordure dropped in a wood.  
27.
 And I said to her: "Under what star dost thou pass?"  
28.
 And she answered me: "Under the star of the full moon, for the reason that the moon travels over most things."  
29.
 Then I said to her: "And what angel is it that frustrates thee?"  
30.
 And she said to me: "He that in thee who is is reigning."  
31.
 And I thought that she mocked me, and bade a soldier strike her.  
32.
 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."  
33.
 So I commanded her to spin the hemp for the ropes used in the building of the house of God;  
34.
 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.  

 
 
 

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