Queen of Sheba

And when the Queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, concerning the name of the Lord, she came to prove him with hard questions. And she cam to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold., and precious stones". 

In Revelation we read "He that overcometh will I give the morning star." This "star" is SOL, perfected by LUNA, -Solomon by the Queen of Sheba. This bright morning star is the same as that which announced the birth of Christ to the shepherds. It is Venus, or Love, the "fulfillment of all," as Christ himself declared. This star is fundamentally the Sulphur (Sol) of the Sages, and it reaches the state (plane, or planet) of Venus (Copper) just AFTER the White Work, and from this one goes on to Gold. 

In Exodus, God gives Moses instructions for a holy perfume for himself, and a different one for his priests, whilst the Queen of Sheba s visit to Solomon was motivated by her wish to keep open the trade routes of the Arabian peninsula, her source of frankincense and myrrh, through Palestine to Egypt and Mesopotamia. 

They were, however, used by the English forces in the war agaiQjit The< ore, king of Abyssinia,— a lineal descendant, according to the tradition of his country, of the Queen of Sheba. 

Much has been made of this song because of seven references to Solomon in the Hebrew text. These references skew the interpretation of the Song to a love between Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Yet, the Solomonic verses are coarse in comparison with the sensitive poetry of the Song and an ill fit with the tenor of the main verse. The new lines talk not of pure philosophical and carnal love between man and woman but... 

King Solomon is also reputed to have written a book about the Philosophers Stone called HaMa en or The Compass He writes of obtaining the Philosophers Stone from the Queen of Sheba, who had previously received it from her husband Seman." Seman was a great sage amongst the Copt or Nabateans. In Chapter 8, we shall have more to say about the Nabateans as an integral link between the Sabians of Yemen and the Sabians of Harran. 

Charles Gounod s La Reine de Saba The Queen of Sheba) a creation in the Opera, on 28 February 1862 builds on an alternative history that directly connects Tubal-Cain with the legend of Hiram Abiff. It is based on a Rosicrucian legend reported by Gerard de Nerval Three jealous workers disrupt Hiram casting his masterpiece, the monumental bowl called the Molten or Brazen Sea. Tubal-Cain visits... 

Cassandra, Ronsard found in Lyon. Queens of Sheba, Meath and Connaught, Coifed with crown, or gaudy bonnet. Queens whose fingers once did stir men. Queens were eaten of fleas and vermin. Queens men drew like Mona Lisa,... 

Cold from the Mysterious Country of Ophir and from the Queen of Sheba... 

A. Lemaire, The Queen of Sheba and the Trade Between South Arabia and Judah, in Ben Ever La Arav Contacts between Arabic Literature andjewish Literature in the Middle Ages and Modem Times, Volume 6 A Collection of Studies Dedicated to Prof. Yosef Tobi on the Occasion of his Retirement, ed. Ali A. Hussein and Aylet Oettinger (Haifa University of Haifa Press, 2013), xi-xxxiv. 

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