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The prophet Ezekiel (10:1-19) gives an account that suggests a definite association of ideas after my imaginative attempt to reproduce an ancestor's story of a journey by plane: 2. And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hands with coals of fire... And he went in in my sight. 4. Then the glory of the LORD went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of die LORD'S glory. 6. And it came to pass, that when he had commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels. 9. And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone. wheel. 11. When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed it... 16. And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them. 19. And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also were beside them ...' 1. 'Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne. 3. Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court. 5. And the sound of the cherubims' wings was heard even to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when he speaketh. 10. And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a 12. And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had. 13. As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel. 17. When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up, these lifted up themselves also ... The International Academy for Sanskrit Research in Mysore (India) was the first body to make the