Library/Old Testament pseudepigrapha
Testament of Solomon
A catalog of demons interviewed: names, thwarting angels, the star-decan they inhabit, the diseases they cause. Ornias, Asmodeus, thirty-six heavenly bodies. The Watchers’ leaked spirit-science turned into a manual, then into a cautionary tale about Solomon’s fall.
- Status
- Pseudepigrapha
- Date
- 1st–3rd century CE
- Languages
- Greek
- Setting
- Solomon building the Temple with a ring that commands demons
What it contains
- The ring
- Interviews with demons
- The thirty-six decans
- Solomon’s decline
Why it sits outside most canons
Too much like a grimoire to be scripture; too moralizing to be only a grimoire.
Themes
- Demons
- Solomon
- Temple
- Astrology
- Exorcism
Passages
T. Sol. 5
Asmodeus says: ‘I was born of an angel’s seed by a daughter of man. I destroy desire; I ruin maidens.’