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Chapter 8  
     
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 And I Solomon praised God, and commanded another demon to present himself to me.  
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 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.  
3.
 And it broke through the few soldiers, and raised also a terrible dust on the ground, and carried it upwards;  
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 and then again hurled it back to frighten us, and asked what questions I could ask as a rule.  
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 And I stood up, and spat on the ground in that spot, and sealed with the ring of God.  
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 And forthwith the dust-wind stopped.  
7.
 Then I asked him, saying: "Who art thou, O wind?"  
8.
 Then he once more shook up a dust, and answered me: "What wouldst thou have, King Solomon?"  
9.
 I answered him: "Tell me what thou art called, and I would fain ask thee a question.  
10.
 But so far I give thanks to God who has made me wise to answer their evil plots."  
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 But the demon answered me: "I am the spirit of the ashes (Tephras)."  
12.
 And I said to him: "What is thy pursuit?"  
13.
 And he said: "I bring darkness on men, and set fire to fields; and I bring homesteads to naught.  
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 But most busy am I in summer.  
15.
 However, when I get an opportunity, I creep into corners of the wall, by night and day.  
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 For I am offspring of the great one, and nothing less."  
17.
 Accordingly I said to him: "Under what star dost thou lie?"  
18.
 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;  
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 and this is why many men pray to the hemitertian fever, using these three names: Bultala, Thallal, Melchal.  
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 And I heal them."  
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 And I said to him: "I am Solomon; when therefore thou wouldst do harm, by whose aid dost thou do it?"  
22.
 But he said to me: "By the angel's, by whom also the third day's fever is lulled to rest."  
23.
 So I questioned him, and said: "And by what name?"  
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 And he answered: "That of the archangel Azael."  
25.
 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.  
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 And, being compelled, the demon began to do what he was bidden to do.  

 
 
 

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