Was Solomon a witch?
Saturday, January 17, 2009 The ”Key of Solomon” (”Clavis Salomonis”) is a medieval book on black magic and witchcraft, i.e., a grimoire, often attributed to King Solomon. However, Solomon lived in the 10th century B.C., so he could not have written a 16th centiury document, obviously. One wonders why, then, the Key of Solomon, a definite reference to the third king of the united monarchy, is called what it’s called.
Why has it been important or necessary to someone to link Solomon with black magic and witchcraft? To discredit Solomon or to link “the wisest man who ever lived” with so-called secret mysteries as Freemasonry has persisted in doing?
It’s possible that the Key of Solomon inspired the later work the ”Clavicula Salomonis” (“The Lesser Key of Solomon”) also called ”Lemegeton,” which is also a textbook or grimoire devoted to wtichcraft and black magic rituals, though there are many differences between the two books.
The Key of Solomon (or Clavis Salomonis) was supposed to have been (but is not) the focus of the sequel to The Da Vinci Code. Why was this topic dropped and the novel apparently rewritten, which accounted for the three-year delay in publishing The Lost Symbol? Cold feet? As it is The Lost Symbol heavily involves Freemasonry in its plot, which has been linked by some to witchcraft — so there is some general link. But the only reference in the new novel to Solomon is that Solomon is the last name of several characters. Hmm.
A link for the Clavis Salomonis (Key of Solomon) is here.
And here is yet another link for the Key of Solomon, which provides a more detailed table of contents … provided here.
And then we come to a guy named Wayne Herschel whose definitions of The Solomon Key or the Key of Solomon differs greatly but interestingly from the one already offered here. Here is a link to keyofsolomon.net which features Herschel’s interesting research, which promotes an “alien” form of creationism and gives some explanation for the constellation of Orion’s replication on earth found in so many ancient sites of “worship.”
Also, here is an interesting link of the alleged Masonic foundations of the United States.
At the end of the day, though Freemasons would disagree, there is very arguably a dangerous link between Freemasonry and the “gods” of ancient Babylon, whom we say are not “sons of God,” but fallen angels, i.e., demonic forces. All this crazy UFO stuff has got to make some sense one day … Freemasonry may be the key.