IN THE BEGINNING

by Immanuel Velikovsky

Come, weigh me the weight of the fire
or measure me the measure of the wind
or recall me the day that is past.

IV Ezra

'In the Beginning'

The story of the catastrophes that preceded those described in 'Worlds In Collision'

PART I: THE EARLY AGES

PART III: MERCURY AND MEMORY
The Confusion of Languages	Mercury

PART IV: JUPITER OF THE THUNDERBOLT
The Overthrow of the Cities of the Plain The Age of the Dead Sea The Great Rift and the Jordan The End of the Early Bronze Age Zedek The Change in Jupiter’s Motion	The Worship of Jupiter Jupiter of the Thunderbolt Where a Planetary Bolt Struck the Ground The Origin of Nitrate Deposits The Transmutation of Oxygen into Sulphur Jupiter, Gold and the Birth of Athene