The Magic Of Solomon

There are two completely different and regularly conflated strands of folklore regarding the occasions of major 'unnatural' or supernatural and thus also 'occult' proceedings of power used by a well-known leader of people in the Western Judaeo-Christian tradition: 

Solomon, and

Nebuchadnezzar.

Babylon was adorned with a lot of lions

Even if you throw in there the British folklore of Merlin and King Arthur, this is really still a continuation -  at least in the handed-down literature - of the Judaeo-Christian series of legendary accounts.

Islam has a completely self-contradicting and upside-down version of it, in which Solomon alternately either has power over and uses the magic of thousands of genies, or he has power over them and suppresses any use of such magic, because 'doing magic is haram.' Islam says this is all to do with the 'angels' (or at least 'beings,' because Islam does not actually use the term angel in the way it is meant to be used in all other traditions) 'Harut' and 'Marut' who came down in Babylon at the time of the tower of Babel and Nebuchadnezzar and taught the people there magic. Now this would be impossible chronologically speaking in terms of any of these mythical narratives, because the life of Solomon (maybe around 1000 BC) occurred a lot earlier than the existence of Babylon and Nebuchadnezzar (maybe 560 BC)...!

Even so, all the way up until the invasion of Spain, Muslim occultists have been producing ideas about magic and the use of genies to work wonders and supernatural magic. In almost every single instance of such books and the ideas contained therein, the proposition is that magic has the primary role in medicinal healing - first some named genie causes an illness, and then some incantation and some herbs procures the cure. The most extensive book of this kind is an archetypal 'grimoire' first produced in Spain, called ' The Book of Deadly Names.' And this is not actually all that much different in the Jewish occult texts.

This is acknowledged as the basis of the so-called 'Law of Moses'
It is very old - maybe 1800 BC
This is from the FIRST Babylonian Dynasty  - this is where Islam gets its 'Harut,' which
is really, a contraction of  'Hammu' (father of) 'Raput' (healers). 

In Freemasonry, there is also a standard tradition that is somewhat similar to the Islamic versions of events, in which Solomon and the king of Tyre, Hiram II, are identities who work magic - and this would be historically sound enough but for the inclusion of the same Babylonian elements which are complete anachronisms. 

Yet this doesn't stop today's Illuminati from miss-labeling things like the Arch of Triumph of Palmyra as 'the Gates of Baal.'

Now in the first place 'Babylon' actually means 'the Gate of Baal.' And it is therefore eye-brow raising to wonder why it is that today's usual suspects when it comes to all things occult, are bent on employing the Babylonian connection all the time.

I suppose in this Blog it is not much point me saying 'in my view' since I do actually know, the full answer... And you know that I think I certainly know.

Part of the answer is that things that are really kept hidden by actual leaders, can actually truly remain hidden and therefore outsiders often make up what they speculate, is inside the mystery: hence the usual grimoire-style formula which finds its way into the public. In other words these grimoires are false. In that they do not record actual occult matters but speculated occult ideas and 'spells.'

One simple commonality of the narratives of Solomon and Babylon is that both kings there in the accounts looked upwards to 'high places' to consort with whatever was presumed to be 'up there.' So this part is not false.

And it applies also in any Egyptian narratives about the sources of magical power; they all 'come from above.'

Today we have an entire academic industry, as you know, about Egyptology (and counter-Egyptology!) and there are massive bodies of so-called academic work employing translations of hieroglyphics - and these are all perfect nonsense (including the counter viewpoints). It must be remembered that the Rosetta Stone was related to a much later period than when hieroglyphics were first invented and the Egyptian hieroglyphics recorded on the Stone are quite a different style of text than the ancient hieroglyphics albeit visually similar superficially. Some ideas of course are correct but these are few and far between.

In terms of the Babylonian connection, the Babylonian Empire succeeded in overturning the pre-existing order and it was a wealthy and successful militaristic Empire - which is reputed to have indeed based its success on magic; and that is also what today's occult believe.

But as I say, it is not what made Solomon wealthy. Solomon was wealthy because he was wise.

And he was wise because he knew things as fact and not because of the magical pronouncements of fantasy beings.

There are real magical things, certainly. That is, things that are far from the usual - but none of them are unnatural, albeit they will seem to be. The real chronology of such magic goes like this:

1. The god Theuth - brings writing and early 'higher' civilization to Man.
2. He engenders Solomon
3. He, 'Theuth,' is also the source of the Egyptian kings - also known by the incorrect terminology 'Pharaoh' which simply means 'big House/Dynasty.'
4. Solomon causes great cities to be built including ancient Tamar - which the Greeks called 'Palmyra.' The Greeks called the god that Solomon worshiped 'Hypsistos,' and the Temple at Palmyra is correctly called the Temple of Theos-Hypsistos. Or Dion-Hypsistos. The main thing about Solomon's 'temples' (plural) is that they were sanctified by some means - the Greeks used the description 'dion' which means 'holy.' And we need not go too much further about it because it will cause a lot of trouble if I went on much further.
5. Some of the ideas of Theuth are preserved in the writings of early Greek and Roman (standard, well-known) mathematicians and thinkers. 

Everything that I have said is featured as stone relief artwork on all of the major 'consoles' attached to the stone-work of the main temple structures at Palmyra.

In ancient times the surface artwork was adorned with lazurite and other very colorful stones and semi-precious gemstones.

Lazurite was one of the ingredients the god Theuth used to develop the 'ink' and the pigment used for writing and coloration of early types of 'paper.'

Lazurite - often contains pyrites, and sometimes, real gold

It is the key ingredient of the purple color used by the Venetian State in the Renaissance. And there it was mixed with the particular sea-urchin extract (Tyrian) to manufacture a unique type of blue or purple color. Once again, to outsiders, this legend about the so-called 'Tablets of Hermes' is a speculation, about what Hermes (Theuth) taught to his actual followers. When outsiders found out that a colored stone base was used by the followers of Theuth, they presumed it to have been emerald - which was often confused in early Greek writings with other bluey-green stones like lazurite - and they further presumed that whatever was written down over the stone tablets, was magical.

But let me leave you as to no doubt whatsoever - even the mathematics and literary ideas in the real writings of Theuth (David, in the Hebrew) are as magical of things as you will ever encounter... And they certainly do contain ideas about how to become incredibly wealthy and they are 'magical' in that they consort with 'higher powers' of which we have little idea from any of the common legends or narrative accounts.

And I may, give out one or two, quite directly, in the next missive.