Solomons magick... Options

Why does Solomon get referenced in so many evil texts, is it because he had knowledge of all things good AND evil?
His powers were given to him by god, and then he was destroyed because of them, so how valid now are his spells, talismans, working etc. are they the TRUTH and so cannot be altered by God, or has he 'blacklisted' them making them useless?

Many of the Solomonic texts in use today can be traced as far back as the Medieval period, when 'authors' rights' and 'information property' were hardly at the forefront of anybody's mind. The prevailing intellectual climate was 'scholastic', which is to say, it was considered more important to thoroughly examine existing authorites than to generate original ideas. For these reasons - and because the medieval authors obviously had an interest in keeping their own identities secret - many books were mis-attributed, and Solomon was one of the most popular pseudauthors of the time, because of his Biblical reputation for great wisdom and, (the cynic in me says, more to the point) his great wealth. Whether any or all or none of these 'Solomonic' books has an older heritage is impossible ever to find out. (Imagine a world wiped practically wiped out by a major disaster; and then imagine the contents of one set of shelves in one 'bargain basement' of one occult shop scattered at random all over the remaining earth; and then imagine trying to reconstruct the history of (say) the foundation of the O:T:O from the remains. That's what historical reconstructionists are up against.)
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