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Chapter 15  
     
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 And I again ordered another demon to come before me.  
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 And the came, rolling itself along, one in appearance like to a dragon, but having the face and hands of a man.  
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 And all its limbs, except the feet, were those of a dragon; and it had wings on its back.  
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 And when I beheld it, I was astonied, and said: "Who art thou, demon, and what art thou called? And whence hast thou come? Tell me."  
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 And the spirit answered and said: "This is the first time I have stood before the, O King Solomon. I am a spirit made into a god among men, but now brought to naught by the ring and wisdom vouchsafed to thee by God.  
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 Now I am the so-called winged dragon, and I chamber2 not with many women, but only with a few that are of fair shape, which possess the name of xuli, of this star.  
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 And I pair with them in the guise of a spirit winged in form, coitum habens per nates.  
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 And she on whom I have leapt goes heavy with child, and that which is born of her becomes eros.  
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 But since such offspring cannot be carried by men, the woman in question breaks wind. Such is my role.  
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 Supposed then only that I am satisfied, and all the other demons molested and disturbed by thee will speak the whole truth.  
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 But those composed of fire will cause to be burned up by fire the material of the logs which is to be collected by them for the building in the Temple."  
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 And as the demon said this, I saw the spirit going forth from his mouth, and it consumed the wood of the frankincense-tree, and burned up all the logs which we had placed in the Temple of God.
 
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 And I Solomon saw what the spirit had done, and I marvelled.
  
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 And, having glorified God, I asked the dragon-shaped demon, and said: "Tell me, by what angel art thou frustrated?"  
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 And he answered: "By the great angel which has its seat in the second heaven, which is called in Hebrew Bazazeth.  
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 And I Solomon, having heard this, and having invoked his angel, condemned him to saw up marbles for the building of the Temple of God;  

 
 
 

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