Let the truth be known: Solomon was not a magician, nor a conjurer of spirits. That is a lie perpetuated by those who seek power, not truth.
There is a widely circulated belief—particularly among occultists, esoteric writers, and ceremonial magicians—that King Solomon was a master conjurer of demons, spirits, and otherworldly forces. This belief forms the basis of many grimoires, such as the “Key of Solomon,” “Lemegeton,” or “The Lesser Key of Solomon,” which purport to document magical rites, incantations, and methods for summoning and controlling demons.
These grimoires—written in the Middle Ages, often between the 12th and 17th centuries—emerged from syncretic magical traditions blending distorted forms of Kabbalah, astrology, Greco-Roman mystery cults, and Babylonian mysticism. Their authors frequently employed pseudo-Hebrew and mangled biblical references to create the illusion of spiritual authority. The goal was clear: to lend credibility to occult rituals by invoking the name of Solomon, a revered biblical figure.
The magical systems described in these texts include ritual circles drawn on the ground, chants using corrupted angelic or divine names, and invocations designed to summon 'demons' or 'spirits' to do the magician’s bidding. Such practices are not only alien to the biblical worldview—they are explicitly condemned by it.
To attach Solomon’s name to these rites is a deliberate corruption. These forgeries claimed that Solomon wrote spells and incantations, built magical tools, and bound spirits to his will. In truth, these texts—produced hundreds of years after Solomon’s death—reflect the dark imaginations of men who sought spiritual power divorced from God. They turned the sacred into spectacle, the holy into heresy.
Therefore, the claims that Solomon was a practitioner of magic are not only extra-biblical—they are in direct contradiction to the biblical narrative. These legends are distortions and should be recognised as post-biblical mythmaking rooted in occult reinterpretation.
The grimoires continue to circulate today, rebranded and reinterpreted for use in modern witchcraft, ceremonial magic, and so-called Luciferian rites. From the drawing of ritual circles to the invocation of spirits using Hebrew-sounding names, modern occultists trace their practices directly to these forged texts. They rely on deception—spiritual theatre masked as ancient wisdom.
Yet Christ himself rebuked the “traditions of men” that twisted the Word of God into something unrecognisable. These grimoires are not divine, and they are not ancient—they are shadows cast by the misused names of holy men and prophets.
Solomon was not a magician. He was not a conjurer. He was a king anointed by God—granted wisdom, not witchcraft. Discernment is essential. Not every ancient text claiming spiritual authority is of God.
It is true, as Scripture makes clear, that Solomon turned away from the one true God in his old age. Influenced by his many foreign wives, he tolerated and even participated in idolatrous practices that provoked the anger of the Lord (1 Kings 11:1–8). He built high places for foreign gods and did not remain fully devoted to the LORD as his father David had been.
Yet even in judgment, God showed restraint. The kingdom would be torn from Solomon's lineage, but not in his lifetime—for the sake of his father David. As written in 1 Kings 11:12–13: “Nevertheless in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son. Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.”
This underscores a critical truth: Solomon’s failure was real, but it was not evidence of occultism—it was evidence of human weakness and divine mercy. His story is not one of a demon-conjurer, but of a wise man who strayed, and a God who honours covenant for the sake of His chosen servants.