Path: typhoon.sonic.net!feed.news.sonic.net!newsfeed4.cidera.com!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newsfeed.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!news2.telusplanet.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3ED765B3.741AB062@yahoo-dot.ca> From: Odysseus X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.magick Subject: Re: A Clavicula Salomonis Question References: <5944dd93.0305292357.7694c7a4@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 18 Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 14:04:46 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 142.59.180.6 X-Trace: news2.telusplanet.net 1054303486 142.59.180.6 (Fri, 30 May 2003 08:04:46 MDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 08:04:46 MDT Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick:347265 rb1_622 wrote: > > I am curious if anyone has ever read any commentary or Christian > thought - I know that's a bit of an oxymoron - about The Key of > Solomon the King. I did an Internet search in Christian bookstores > and didn't turn up anything. > > If these writings are attributed to him it not only paints a different > slant on him than the Bible suggests, but it again proves that the > Church is more interest in suppressing facts then revealing the truth. > Many works have been spuriously attributed to historical or mythological figures from Thoth to Taliesin. OTOH Idries Shah (and probably others) have identified the Lemegeton's "Solomon" as a mediaeval Sufi (Suleiman bin-Daoud), IIRC son of the architect who designed the Dome of the Rock, rather than the biblical king. --Odysseus