In this episode, searching the depths of Sheol for the Prophet to dispel Shlomo’s doubts.

The Eternal Jew’s Tale Messiah Tractates, a Montage Shlomo Molkho’s Traum, 3

But comes the night, comes the fears. What is this? The anointed is in fear? Tyrants? Can’t he change their thoughts? Futures? Doesn’t he know them all? Yet the anointed seeks a sorcerer. The Witch of Iskender comes in a dream with a bright halo around her head and many oracles affirming her:

‘The wisest of us, but costly, you know.’

The next night with incantations and prayer, after fasting and other mortifications, Shlomo drones a psalm, reading it backwards, til he’s weary and sleep drops its veil and thru its fabric she ascends and in an eerie and ancient voice:

“You, who woke me in sheol, awful thing you should not do, confess to me your secret wish, what demon would you couple with?”

“Grizzled sister, no such sin stains my drear concerns. Rather, we would speak with him who hacked apart that evil king, Agag, who Saul refused to........

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