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Message:: [QUOTE="Ancientnoob, post: 2043761, member: 44140"]Now that I have a grip, these are all wonderful coins and you have already built a unique, historical and superb collection of interesting and rare coins. excerpt from...Apocrypha, Testament of Soloman c.300 AD 1.And I commanded another demon to come before me.  2.And there came before my face thirty-six spirits, their heads shapeless like dogs, but in themselves they were human in form; with faces of asses, faces of oxen, and faces of birds.  3.And I Solomon, on hearing and seeing them, wondered, and I asked them and said: "Who are you?"  4.But they, of one accord with one voice, said: "We are the thirty-six elements, the world-rulers of this darkness.  5.But, O King Solomon, thou wilt not wrong us nor imprison us, nor lay command on us;  6.but since the Lord God has given thee authority over every spirit, in the air, and on the earth, and under the earth, therefore do we also present ourselves before thee like the other spirits, from ram and bull, from both twin and crab, lion and virgin, scales and scorpion, archer, goat-horned, water-pourer, and fish.  7.Then I Solomon invoked the name of the Lord Sabaoth, and questioned each in turn as to what was its character.[/QUOTE]