Show SOLOMON TOLD SHEBA SHE X ail BA 1 I 1 OF TRIP IN AIRSHIP AIREN ANUP AN UP described vessel wherein one could traverse the air Lo london ildon there has just been brought to light in an ancient manuscript tile the statement that solomon gaye gave to the queen of sheba a vessel wherein one ona could traverse the air or winds which solomon had made by the wisdom that god had given unto him this statement Is quoted by col lockwood marsh secretary of the royal Aeronaut aeronautical icat society in the open opening ing of hla his preface to bibliotheca tile the text is taken from the ancient abyssinian MSS the glory of th the kings eKIngs 11 translated basir by sir E wallas budge director of egyptian antiquities at the british museum tn la his book the queen bof of sheba nad her only son Men 1 published last year this ancient manuscript has of course been translated many times col lockwood marsh told the westminster gazette but the statement about solomons airship apparently escaped notice of the reviewers and it has as been left I 1 to io a enthusiast like dicov m myself ys elf ta W 4 discover r find proclaim it solomon lived in the tenth century B 0 so it Is quite the earliest reference to t hying flying extant and as such will be added to our records i many theosophists believe that there them were airships a million years ago in lost losk atlantis Atlant ls but as the book ins ing these airships was not bublis published aled till ISM and the theory was based on astral clairvoyance col lockwood marsh prefers to regard this reference to solomons airship in the dawn of civilization as an the earliest one there are other references to flight in the abyssinian sacred writings and there la Is a long description of the ml mi ra culous way in which the queen of son Men left solomon journeying to his mothers country no man hauled his wagon and whether it was men or horses or mules or loaded camels each was raised above the ground to the height of a cubit A cubit according to the ancient Egypt egyptians labs measured about twenty inches but elsewhere it Is recorded that over the red sea they were lifted up three cubits cubias it Is further stated and every one traveled irk in the wagons like an eagle when his bis body glaideth above the wind |