Solomon, King

Circa 1000 One of the greatest magicians of all time, King Solomon, rules Israel and according to legend summons demons to do his bidding and build the Temple of Jerusalem. 

In 1934 Rabbi Glueck excavated a site a few miles south of the Dead Sea and discovered King Solomon s copper mines. Four years later he excavated a site near the Gulf of Aqabah (the Ezion-Geber of the Bible) and discovered an ancient copper mine that is now being worked by Israeli miners (267, 279). Copper mining and smelting sites have also been found in Sinai (89). 

In the time of Zechariah (a century later), lead weights were in use. And behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead. .. (Zech. 5, 7). Ecclesiasticus said of King Solomon, thou didst gather gold as tin, and didst multiply silver as lead (Ecclus. 47, 18). 

According to the legend, a certain Stone, more valuable than all the rest, was thrown out by the workmen amid the rubbish of the Temple. King Solomon, knowing its value, ordered diligent search to be made for the... 

One who is able to read this plainest of all mythic utterances, to read it literally and with discerning mind, will be led straight to OUR Promised Land, and discover the Thing most desirable the Key to the treasure-house of King Solomon. 

Ezekiel is the great alchemical transcendentalist of the Bible. In the Book of Ezekiel is to be found a cryptogram revealing the place of the hidden treasure taken out of King Solomon s Temple at the time of the Jewish captivity in Babylon. Every line of the Book has some word in it showing, especially to those who read Hebrew, that Ezekiel belonged to the most... 

Example 2.10 is a Markov chain representation of king Solomon s famous trial [1 Kings 3] discussed in Chapter 0. The child was selected here as system. The two states are Si = Living child and S2 = Divided child. These states are presented by the following 2x2 matrix where the probability of the system to remain in state Si is, unfortunately, pn = 0. This is because king Solomon said Divide the living child in two. The transition probability from Si to S2 is, therefore, 100%, i.e., pi2 = 1. Similarly, p2i = 0, which is the transition probability from S2 to S]. Finally, the probability of remaining in state S2, P22 = 1 and the matrix reads ... 

Although there were many older temples on Mount Zion, Jewish and Biblical scholars consider King Solomon s Temple the First Temple of Jemsalem. 

If the era of King Solomon was relatively impoverished and culturally desolate, we must ask if the Biblical accounts are fictional... 

The Bible dates the sack of the First Temple by an Eg5 tian king named Shishak or Sheshech to the fifth year of Rehoboam, the son of King Solomon." Yet, this Pharaoh Shishak (ShShK) is absent from Egyptian records. 

In stark contrast, Psuseimes IPs disastrous loss of all Egypt to the Libyan Shoshenq I after the foolish division of the kingdom by the twenty-first dynasty was fatal to Levant Asiatic ambitions for Egypt. King Solomon s son, Rehoboam, is therefore the luckless biblical archetype for the two Pharaohs called Psusennes. 

From the paucity of evidence for King Solomon and his Temple, we can only conclude that large parts of the King Solomon myth involve the projection of an Israelite archetype. This has a mishnaic precedent or midrashic scriptural interpretation.Of what is King Solomon an archetype His own name tells us but we need to understand the ancient code of subsumed names. 

We need to look at one more mystery before moving on. This is the real meaning of the name Solomon, given the heritage of King Solomon s city of Jerusalem. 

King Solomon is also reputed to have written a book about the Philosophers Stone called HaMa en or The Compass He writes of obtaining the Philosophers Stone from the Queen of Sheba, who had previously received it from her husband Seman." Seman was a great sage amongst the Copt or Nabateans. In Chapter 8, we shall have more to say about the Nabateans as an integral link between the Sabians of Yemen and the Sabians of Harran. 

While King Solomon and his Temple are likely to be compound archetypes, we can speculate as to what physical buildings might have provided the model for the concept of the Temple. 

An impressive fortified ashlar gateway protected the town of Megiddo. Such squared masonry, the work of a stonemason, is usually a sign of royalty. The Bible claims King Solomon built it. ... 

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