Phases of spiritual Development

 The Testament of Solomon describes him building the temple by God's instructions, and used demons to do it. Any holy book, movie, or comic can tell the story of mankind's journey.  If used as an allegory within the Judeo-Christian Stream (these concepts will look different in Thelema) I see how the new Christian, whether they are reading the more loving Aramaic or harsher English translation, either way they are receiving it in the state they're in, which is "the first man, earthy."  What spiritual beings "correspond" to such a person? Is it Michael and Gabriel? No, it would be the from The Book of Enoch the Nephilim, Semjaza, Azazel (when this was written, people weren't ready for the higher and lower nature to fuse to bring forth "men of renown," so the terrestrial involved spirits were perceived as evil).  This is simply the babe to juvenile state of being that is building God's inner temple by God's instructions as perceived in the New Testament.  As maturity continues, illumination corresponds with a more high vibrational beingness, and suddenly the more celestial angels correspond to such a beingness that we carry. This destroys the energy signature of our previous edification, and eventually is the rebuilding of the temple because we've seen our Babylon as it is.  We are not yet in Revelation 19 Babylon, but the Babylonian captivity pre-Jesus. 

In this phase we are seeing our human nature from a heaven-only, and therefore kind of demonizing way, and detaching from it. In the historical account this is now called Herod's Temple. 

All this time we are going through our maturity stages as depicted by the images and visions of the Book of Revelation.  The human nature or beast that knew who it was in the perfection of the old mindset, whose headship was perfected, or "seven heads," whose ordinances were made flesh, hence 10 horns, we see that that beingness as a religious perfection who "hates the Harlot" in Revelation 19. The Harlot is that part of us that is moving forward beyond religious perfection (such perfection is based on sincerity) into what is first perceived as "fornicating with all nations" but in reality simply has eyes to see the god nature in all people.  She sees it at the core of each religion, in the initiation stage of each movement. Look again at the Harlot who takes in seed from all, and we see a crystallized reality that it is in fact the bride that heals the nations through that unification of diversity, and this is another aspect of the Tree of Life. Judging everyone righteous as the image of God. Of course we grow from there, of course there are things to deal with and to have national family sit-down talks about, but the original point for all of the ironing out of matters, that original point is judging/discerning everyone through the eyes of indescribable adoration. The acorn is perfect though it has a long way to go before it becomes the predestined oak tree. It ought not have any tension over the becoming, rather enjoy the journey.  

I think Solomon had attained this concept and I think that's the real reason he was able to make covenants with other deities, he knew that Chemosh and Yahweh were no different. He knew that his great-grandmother Ruth was a virtuous woman when Boaz found her, and she was under the headship of Chemosh at that time before she likely converter to Yahweh with Boaz. Yet the rabbinical narrative in 1st Kings 11 is that Chemosh was a demonic abominable deity. Actually the Ugaritic and Canaanites societies were all on the same level and were essentially the same type of people. They committed genocide and had wars over what to call God. Just like today in many cases. So when the rabbinical narrative was written in 1st Kings 11 they knew that Solomon saw peace the rest of his days but they still needed to write it as though God was displeased with it. I just think that he, like many today, completely fulfilled his course in the single dimensional stream of his cultural religion, so that his eyes were able to open and see the selfsame christos in other places. The narrative was written that it was because of his love of women, but what if that's an allegory of our spirit falling in love with our soul instead of keeping her under submission? Hello reality, hello new era! It's good to see you!

The overarching theme there is from Romans 8 where it says the carnal mind is the enemy of God. I take this in context as someone like Caiaphas. He didn't hate God, God was his whole life, the scriptures were all that mattered to him morning noon and night. The carnal mind in him hated God in its next evolution because it was not familiar.  He thought he was destroying Beelzebub when they petitioned Rome concerning Jesus.  

So in that sense we are building God's Temple using demons, if we are to look at it mystically as simply the lower vibrations in comparison with the higher ones that will evolve later. None of this is evil, it's just like saying that me at Age 3 is fallen in comparison with me at age 51. But look again and it was not a fall at all, but an immature state compared to now. That's why I don't see us as having fallen as much as a realization of, and new perception of, atrocities committed or even just overarching attitudes that humans thought were Gods ways of doing things.  Growing out of those clothes does bring attention to it in the moment of transition, yet it's the new clothing that will be the point of it.

There was a memorable last interaction I had with the apostle of our church before leaving after 23 years.  She said God stirred her to ask me something that she did not know the answer to, but knew in her spirit thar the answer would somehow be important to my teachings. She said "how and why did Solomon have so many of thousands of animals killed at the temple dedication?"  It seemed humanly impossible to gather that many animals, also why would god require so much death for his glory to come? 

I did not have an answer to that when I looked into it, so I put it on the shelf. About 2-3 years later, I came across the Testament of Solomon and it all made sense per our spiritual growth. In the eyes of a spiritual babe, the glory enters your personal Temple as you sacrifice every human thing within you. That low vibrational idea also causes such people to disdain the authentically mature who live free without sacrifice in the recognition that all of the self was God's image in the first place. If this Evolution does not happen, the spiritual babe still grows in strength, yet within the same low vibrational paradigm. Hence Christian prophets and New Age channelers today prophesying nationalism, homophobia, and dominionism, whereas the 2% who actually grew, prophesied love and equality for all.

After the temple dedication in the KJV it says that Solomon said "God said he would dwell in the thick darkness," as if to say there's something even he was in the dark about. That there was something hidden that would soon be revealed. Lo and behold not long after that Solomon saw the light of the universality of God, and within that light a realization that ethnicity, god-form, and gender were equal.  Three chapters later in 1st Kings 11 he dedicates temples to three other deities. He marries foreign women that his nationalistic god Yahweh had forbidden him to.  This is what creates peace in Israel. 600 years later the rabbis who took from oral tradition and wrote down the narrative, did not understand this about Solomon and so wrote 1st Kings 11 in a negative light. Nevertheless, the truth bleeds through even such texts because in the same chapter it said he had peace in his days. Solomon means "peace."