Having heard this, Solomon believed Beelzeboul was mocking him, and rebuked him, saying:
"Be Silent this very moment, and continue to saw the marbles as I commanded you".
And by the divine power vested in him, the demon obeyed.
And Solomon commanded another demon to present himself. And a spirit appeared before him,
with his face high up in the air, but the rest of him curled away like a snail.
The spirit broke through Solomon's soldiers, and raised a terrible wind of dust on the ground,
and carried it upwards, and threw it back on the people and their king, to frighten them.
But Solomon stood up from his throne, and came forth, he spat in that spot on the ground
from where the dust was raised, and sealed that spot with the ring of God,
and instantly, the wind of dust stopped.
This is similar to the magic, some would prefer to call it miracle, that Jesus did in the book of
John 9 verse 6, where Jesus spat on the ground, and made a clay of the sputum, and anointed the
eyes of a blind man with the clay, and the man began to see. And mark 7 verse 33, where he
spat and touched the tongue of a man whose speech was impaired, and the man began to speak clearly.
And so Solomon asked the wind demon, saying: "Who are you, O wind?" Then the demon once
more shook up the dust, and answered: "What do you want, King Solomon?" Solomon said to him:
"Tell me what you are called, and I would gladly ask you a question." And the demon answered:
"I am Tephras, the spirit of the ashes." And Solomon said to him: "What is your purpose?"
And the demon answered: "I bring darkness upon men, I set fire to the fields;
and I bring about broken homes and make them useless. I am most busy in the summer,
but whenever I get an opportunity, I creep into the corners of the wall,
night and day, from where I wreck mischief. I am the offspring of the great one, and nothing less."
And Solomon said to him: "Under what star do you reside?" And the spirit answered: "In the
very tip of the moon's horn, when it is found in the south. There is my star. I have the power
to stop the convulsions of the terrible hemi tertian fever; and this is why many men pray
to me when one is struck with this fever, and I heal them." And Solomon said to him:
"By whose aid do you cure this illness, and do you cause further harm?" And the demmon answered:
"No harm is done, for it comes from the angel, by whose power the fever fades on its third day.
So Solomon questioned him saying: "By the power of which angel?"
And he answered: "That of the archangel - Azael."
Calling upon the archangel Azael, some call him Azrael, Solomon set a seal on the demon,
commanding him to carry the great stones, and toss them up to the workmen on the higher parts
of the Temple. And by the archangel, the demon was compelled, and began to do as he was bade.