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 II: SATURN AND THE FLOOD
Deluge William Whiston and the Deluge Deluge and Comet Khima Saturnian Comets Saturn and the Deluge The Light of the Seven Days Nova “Star of the Sun” Arrival of the Waters The Deluge in Rabbinical Sources	Hydrogen and Oxygen The Origin of the Oceans Saturn the God of Seeds The Worship of Saturn Seventeen Festivals of Light Saturn and Jupiter The Rings of Saturn Saturn’s Golden Age Rainbow

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