King Solomon knew how to harness universal energies to build his temple, tap into wisdom, and enjoy all of life's riches. The only thing he was missing was true love. Makeda, the Queen of Sheba, was young and filled with exuberant curiosity about the world. On her journey to meet King Solomon, Makeda learned about the Jinn elemental realm and how to work with the sun and moon's magical light, but she still wasn't sure how to take charge of her own life.
In Solomon's Angels, Doreen Virtue's first novel, which is based on thoroughly researched historical, biblical, archaeological, and culturally accurate information, you'll see how Solomon and Makeda's meeting changed both of their lives forever. You'll peek over the Queen of Sheba's shoulder and discover the ancient secrets behind how Solomon's temple was built without hammers and saws, and the role that the archangels and sacred geometry played in manifestation and divine magic. Solomon and Makeda's magically romantic story will inspire you in many ways ... long after you've finished reading it!
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According to the Old Testament, King Solomon was charged to build the Temple of Solomon and was known as the wisest of all men. In the Islamic tradition, Solomon is regarded as a prophet and representative of Allah. But there is a hidden side of King Solomon, a side that has been repressed from the western esoteric mysticism and religion.
Solomon then took control over Ornias who then infiltrated the demonic Prince Beelzebub granting Solomon power over the legion of demons. According to the lesser Key of Solomon of the Ars Goetia, there are 72 demons that are paralleled to the fallen angels described in the Book of Enoch who rebelled against God because they lusted after the daughters of man: The Nephilim. It is important to note that these fallen angels also first brought sorcery and the magickal arts to the material realm. Beelzebul reveals how he was once a high-ranking angel before the fall. It was the four archangels Michael, Raphael, Gabriel and Uriel that descended down with their 72 angels of the Almadel and banished the rebellious demons unto the four watchtowers of the universe.
King Solomon (10th century B.C.E.) was the legendary king of the Israelites, son of David, builder of the Temple of Jerusalem, and commander of an army of Demons or Djinn. The actual existence of Solomon and his father, David, remains unproved, but they are among the most important figures of the Old Testament. Solomon is granted great wisdom and understanding by God, far surpassing the wisdom of any other man. He knows the lore of plants, animals, and everything in the natural world. Men from far away seek him out for his counsel. In legend, his wisdom expands to include formidable magical knowledge, and his name (including Son of David) is used to control both good and bad spirits.
In the fourth year of his reign, Solomon builds his famed Temple of Jerusalem, and his palace and administrative complex. In the temple, he places two gilded olivewood Cherubim in the innermost part of the sanctuary. He positions them so that a wing of one touches one wall and the wing of the other touches the other wall, and their other wings touch each other in the middle of the house. When the temple is dedicated, priests place the ark of the covenant, containing the two stone tablets of Moses upon which are written the Ten Commandments, underneath the wings of the Cherubim.
Solomon has another vision, in which the Lord promises that his house will prosper as long as the commandments are kept and no other gods are worshipped. If there are any transgressions, God will cause the ruination to the kingdom.
By his later years, he has acquired 700 wives and 300 concubines. Some of his wives convince him to turn away from God and worship pagan deities, especially the goddess Ashtoreth. Angry, God sends adversaries against him. In the end, God decides not to wrest his kingdom away from Solomon but instead to take it away from all but one of his sons.
The Testament of Solomon, a text in the pseudepigrapha probably written between the first and third centuries C.E., is a legendary tale about how Solomon built the Temple of Jerusalem by commanding Demons. The text is rich in Demonology, angelology, and lore about medicine, astrology, and Magic. The author is unknown and may have been a Greek-speaking Christian who was familiar with the Babylonian Talmud. The magical lore related to Demons, which dominates the text, shows Babylonian influences.
The Demons are described as Fallen Angels or the offspring of fallen angels and human women, and they live in stars and constellations. They can shape shift into beasts and forces of nature. They lurk in deserts and haunt tombs, and they dedicate themselves to leading people astray. They are ruled by Beelzeboul (Beelzebub), the Prince of Demons.
The Testament of Solomon also describes the Demons of the decans of the zodiac, the 36 degrees dividing the 12 zodiacal signs. The decans are ruled by Angels, but in the Testament, they are reduced to lower-level Demons who cause disease and strife.
Solomon summons them to appear before him for interrogation to learn what they do and the names of the angels who thwart them. They appear with heads of formless dogs and as humans, bulls, dragons with bird faces, beasts, and sphinxes.
Perhaps it seduces more than it warns. But the tale also hints at some of the dilemmas that arise with the ability to remake and reconfigure the natural world: governing science, so that it might flourish freely without destroying or dehumanizing us, and understanding the effect of technology on human life, human aspiration, and the human good. To a great extent, we live in the world Bacon imagined, and now we must find a way to live well with both its burdens and its blessings. This very challenge, which now confronts our own society most forcefully, is the focus of this journal.
Human beings have always lusted after knowledge, specifically that knowledge which promises to open our eyes so that we might become like gods. Bacon did not invent or ignite this desire, but he did understand it better than most.
We are but between death and life; for we are beyond both the old world and the new; and whether ever we shall see Europe, God only knoweth. It is a kind of a miracle that hath brought us hither: and it must be little less that shall bring us hence.
Taken literally, this is an unhelpful innovation on an already dubious utopian practice, a recipe for intrigue. Recall that when King David saw Bathsheba bathing naked, he was overcome with lust and committed a great sin (with the help of Joab). But Joabin has just told us that the citizens of Bensalem are more like angels than human beings, free from all lust, pollution, and foulness. They are interested in knowledge, not in sex. And he is not relating this practice to the narrator as a matter of curiosity, or suggesting he go home and institute it in Europe; he is explaining to him the process the two of them are about to carry out, albeit metaphorically.
the strewing and decoration of the bridal chamber of the Mind and the Universe, the Divine Goodness assisting; out of which marriage let us hope (and be this the prayer of the bridal song) there may spring helps to man, and a line and race of inventions that may in some degree subdue and overcome the necessities and miseries of humanity.
Admittedly, the marriage Bacon proposes to make between the human mind, with all its shortsightedness and unruly desires, and the material nature of things, with all its potential power, will destroy the proud virginity of ancient knowledge. But marriage is preferable, at least, to rape. And it is an appropriate concession to the material needs and the spiritual faults of human beings in their fallen state.
This is the third book in the Solomon saga, and its the heart-rending story of the two black kittens who were abandoned in the hedge. I think you will fall in love with TIMBA who is such a courageous cat, big, jet black, and fluffy, and almost human. His brother, Vati, is quite different, a charismatic little cat, elegant and mystical. The two kittens are named after the White Lions of Timbavati (Google it !) It's a harrowing but inspiring story, earthy. funny, sad, and spiritual. I loved writing it and hope you will enjoy it.
A cross-over book, appealing to both children and adults, SOLOMON'S TALE is my best book yet.Written from the heart, it is a readable story with strong emotion, humour, gritty relationship stuff,and, for the first time, I have woven an irresistible golden thread of spirituality into a fiction book.Reincarnation, angels, and how the soul survives death. Big issues, yes, but this story is simply told,by a beautiful cat who can see angels and who has chosen to reincarnate to help a family go through the traumas of separation and poverty.
Solomon's Tale began life as an indie, published by Matador. We sold most of those first editions at the book launch in my home town. I intended it to be a cross-over book, appealing to both adults and children; for me, the highlight of the launch was seeing a nine year old take her copy of Solomon's Tale and curl up in a corner, reading it, completely absorbed and oblivious to the party atmosphere around her.
I was delighted with the positive feedback and reviews in the local press, and on Amazon and Twitter. The moving story of this little black cat who came to heal had touched people's hearts. 'I couldn't put it down,' and 'I cried and cried, in fact I sobbed,' and 'A deep book with a light touch.' were some of the comments.
Thinking it deserved a wider market, I took a copy of Solomon's Tale to the Annual Writers Conference at Winchester where it was spotted by a top agent, Judith Murdoch. She asked me where I wanted the book to be on sale. 'In the supermarkets,' I said, 'where it will reach ordinary people who might never go into a bookshop.'
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