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Chapter 13  
     
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 And I worshipped the Lord God of Israel, and bade another demon come forward. And there came before me a dragon, three-headed, of fearful hue.  
2.
 And I questioned him: "Who art thou?"  
3.
 And he answered me: "I am a caltrop-like spirit, whose activity in three lines.  
4.
 But I blind children in women's wombs, and twirl their ears round.  
5.
 And I make them deaf2 and mute. And I have again in my third head means of slipping in.  
6.
 And I strike men in the limbless part of the body, and cause them to fall down, and foam, and grind their teeth.  
7.
 But I have my own way of being frustrated, Jerusalem being signified in writing, unto the place called 'of the head."  
8.
 For there is fore-appointed the angel of the great counsel, and now he will openly dwell amongst the righteous. He doth frustrate me, and to him am I subject."  
9.
 But in the place where thou sittest, O King Solomon, standeth a column in the air, of purple...  
10.
 The demon called Ephippas hath brought it up from the Red Sea, from inner Arabia.  
11.
 He it is that shall be shut up in a skin-bottle and brought before thee.  
12.
 But at the entrance of the Temple, which thou hast begun to build, O King Solomon, lies stored much gold, which dig thou up and carry off."  
13.
 And I Solomon sent my servant, and found it to be as the demon told me.
 
14.
 And I sealed him with my ring, and praised the Lord God.  
15.
 So I said to him: "What art thou called?"  
16.
 And the demon said: "I am the crest of dragons."  
17.
 And I bade him make bricks in the Temple. He had human hands.  

 
 
 

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