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Chapter 16  
     
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 and I praised God, and commanded another demon to come before me.  
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 And there came before my face another spirit, as it were a woman in the form she had.  
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 But on her shoulders she had two other heads with hands.  
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 And I asked her, and said: "Tell me, who art thou?"  
5.
 And she said to me: "I am Enêpsigos, who also have a myriad names."  
6.
 And I said her: "By what angel art thou frustrated?"  
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 But she said to me: "What seekest, what askest thou? I undergo changes, like the goddess I am called.  
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 And I change again, and pass into possession of another shape. And be not desirous therefore to know all that concerns me.  
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 But since thou art before me for this much, hearken. I have my abode in the moon, and for that reason I possess three forms.  
10.
 At times I am magically invoked by the wise as Kronos. At other times, in connexion with those who bring me down, I come down and appear in another shape.  
11.
 The measure of the element is inexplicable and indefinable, and not to be frustrated.  
12.
 I then, changing into these three forms, come down and become such as thou seest me; but I am frustrated by the angel Rathanael, who sits in the third heaven.  
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 This then is why I speak to thee. Yonder temple cannot contain me."  
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 I therefore Solomon prayed to my God, and I invoked the angel of whom Enépsigos spoke to me, and used my seal.  
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 And I sealed her with a triple chain, and (placed) beneath her the fastening of the chain.  
16.
 I used the seal of God, and the spirit prophesied to me, saying: "This is what thou, King Solomon, doest to us.  
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 But after a time thy kingdom shall be broken, and again in season this Temple shall be riven asunder; and all Jerusalem shall be undone by the King of the Persians and Medes and Chaldaeans.  
18.
 And the vessels of this Temple, which thou makest, shall be put to servile uses of the gods; and along with them all the jars, in which thou dost shut us up, shall be broken by the hands of men.  
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 And then we shall go forth in great power hither and thither, and be disseminated all over the world.  
20.
 And we shall lead astray the inhabited world for a long season, until the messiah does come.  
21.
 For never before doth arise a king like unto him, one frustrating us all, whose mother shall not have contact with man. Who else can receive such authority over spirits, except he, whom the first devil will seek to tempt, but will not prevail over?  
22.
 The number of his name is 666, which is Emmanuel.  
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 Wherefore, O King Solomon, thy time is evil, and thy years short and evil, and to thy servant shall thy kingdom be given."  
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 And I Solomon, having heard this, glorified God.  
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 And though I marvelled at the apology of the demons, I did not credit it until it came true.  
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 And I did not believe their words; but when they were realized, then I understood, near my death I wrote this Testament to the children of Israel, and gave it to them, so that they might know the powers of the demons and their shapes, and the names of their angels, by which these angels are frustrated.  
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 And I glorified the Lord God of Israel, and commanded the spirits to be bound with bonds indissoluble.  

 
 
 

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