What were the demons under Solomon's rule?

They were the disordered, harmful elements of the mortal world which needed to be fixed and neutralized so as to make a Temple on the mundane sphere fit to receive the Presence of God. A demon translates to an intelligence of the natural world. read more

It is not the demons who are the product of evil, but rather man’s falling into their power. The Temple of Solomon is a ‘type’ of the world as it was in Eden; Solomon places the evils of the world in abeyance and re-subjugates them into a human-centric universal order. read more

Pseudepigrapha literally means ‘false subscriptions’. This means that the writings were falsely attributed to well-known writers in order to gain acceptance. Although the Testament of Solomon is attributed to Solomon, it is commonly accepted that it dates back to the 3 rd century, when Solomon actually lived around 1000 BC. read more