00:15After he had dealt with the succubus Onoskelis, Solomon at once bade another demon to be led
00:22unto him, and instantly there approached him a spirit, intimidating and menacing, but he was bound.
00:30This was the demon Asmodeus. And the king asked him, Who are you? But Asmodeus shot him a glance
00:39of anger and rage, saying, And who are you? And Solomon said to him, You are subject to me,
00:47and to be punished by me. You must answer me. But the demon, with rage, said to him,
00:54How shall I answer to you? You, who are born of a man, whereas I was born of an angel's
01:02seed,
01:02by a daughter of man. No word of our heavenly kind, addressed to you, earthborn, can be too
01:10offensive and arrogant. Behold, my star shines bright in heaven. Men call it the great bear,
01:18others call it the dragon's child, and I keep near unto this star. So, do not ask me many things,
01:27for your kingdom will fall after a little time, and your glory is but for a season, and short will
01:34be
01:34your tyranny over us. And then, we shall again have free range over mankind, so that they shall revere
01:41us as if we were gods. And being mortal men that they are, they shall not know the names of
01:47the
01:47angels set higher above our kind. And Solomon, on hearing this, found Asmodeus more carefully,
01:56and ordered him to be flogged with the whip of ox-hide, and to tell him humbly, what was his
02:02name,
02:02and what was his business. And the demon answered him thus, I am called Asmodeus among mortals,
02:09and my business is to plot against the newly wedded, so that they may not know one another,
02:15and I sever them utterly, by many calamities. I waste away the beauty of virgin women,
02:22and estrange their hearts. And Solomon said to him, Is this your only business? And the demon answered him,
02:31I tempt men into fits of desire and madness over other women, when they already have wives of their
02:38own, so that they leave their wives, and go off by night and day, to women who belong to other
02:44men,
02:45so that they fall into sin, and commit murderous deeds. Solomon listened in awe to this demon,
02:53for this was the same act for which his father, David, committed murder. He appealed to the demon by
03:01the name of the Lord Sabaoth, saying, Fear God, Asmodeus, and tell me by what angel you are frustrated.
03:09And Asmodeus said, I am frustrated by Raphael, the archangel, who stands before the throne of God.
03:18But the liver and gall of one fish also put me to flight, when smoked over ashes of the Tamarisk.
03:26Solomon again asked him, Hide nothing from me, for I am Solomon, son of David, king of Israel. Tell me
03:35the
03:35name of the fish which you fear. And the demon answered, It is the Glanos, by name, and is found
03:42in the rivers of Assyria. It is why I merely roam about in those parts. And Solomon said to him,
03:51Have you nothing else about you, Asmodeus? And the demon answered, The power of God,
03:57which has bound me with the indissoluble bonds of your seal, knows that whatever I have told you
04:03is true. I pray you, King Solomon, condemn me not to go into water.
04:11Solomon smiled and said to him, As the Lord God of my fathers liveth, I will lay iron on you
04:18to wear.
04:19But you shall also make the clay for the entire construction of the temple, treading it down with
04:26your mighty feet. And the king ordered his men to give him ten water jars to carry water in,
04:33and the demon groaned terribly, and did the work he was ordered to do.
04:39As an act of caution, Solomon had the liver and gall of the glanos fish,
04:44hung on the spike of a reed, and burned it over Asmodeus, because this demon was so strong,
04:51because this demon knew even the future. And this he did, to frustrate this demon's unbearable malice.
05:06so
05:13that
