Remembering Velikovsky | 2020

Immanuel Velikovsky
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(2020: 125th anniversary of his birth; 70th anniversary of Worlds in Collision)

If one has never encountered Immanuel Velikovsky¹ — that great iconoclast² of “settled science and history” — NOW might be the time to read his Worlds in Collision, especially in light of the coming conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn, tomorrow, on this very winter solstice, December 21.

We are so used to a stable cosmos, we have trouble believing that in other times, humans endured terrifying chaos in the heavens for many years. (Remember the Exodus!) But with the 2020 roll-out of surveillance- and tech-based global tyranny, the level of interest in the heavens should spike, because:

• if something Powerful does not soon happen to counter the Utopian (Dystopian) plans³ of the world powers to “save” man and earth with “the arm of flesh”⁴; and
• if the indescribable evils, deceptions, and hypocrisy that has prevailed for decades are not brought to Judgment and Justice,

there may not be much left to save!

Perhaps this quote from the Documentary History of the Church will give us incentive to look more deeply into the prophets, their prophecies, and into the heavens. And to remind ourselves what the Prophet Joseph said (1843) about “the one grand sign of the Son of Man in heaven” — “the sign of the coming of the Son of Man.”

   There will be wars and rumors of wars, signs in the heavens above and on the earth beneath, the sun turned into darkness and the moon to blood, earthquakes in divers places, the seas heaving beyond their bounds; then will appear one grand sign of the Son of Man in heaven. But what will the world do? They will say it is a planet, a comet, etc. But the Son of Man will come as the sign of the coming of the Son of Man, which will be as the light of the morning cometh out of the east [see Joseph Smith—Matthew 1:26].”^[5]

   As the lighting up of the morning or the dawning of the morning cometh from the east and Shineth unto the west— So also is the comeing of the Son of Man. The dawning of the morning makes its appearance in the east and moves along gradualy s[o] also will the comeing of the Son of Man be. [p. [3]] it will be small at its first appearance and gradually becomes large ​r​> untill every eye shall see it. Shall the Saints understand it Oh yes, Paul says so. Shall the wicked understand Oh no they attribute it to a natural cause. They will probably suppose it is too great Comets comeing in contact with each other
   It will be small at first and will grow larger and larger untill it will be all in a blaze so that every eye shall see it. [p. [4]]^[6]

SO let us inform ourselves about past celestial events and their possible future parallels. And let us BEWARE: the world will discount the sign as just a planet, a comet — a natural thing — thus, if at some point, we are presented with an (holographic? culture-based?) image in the sky, seen differently in different parts of the world, we are not seeing the SIGN of

Him whom we have covenanted to always remember.⁷

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1. I encountered my first Immanuel Velikovsy book, Worlds in Collision, circa 1971. In the intervening years, I have read many other books by and about him and his fascinating, cogent arguments. He was an iconoclast of “settled science and history” to the end of his life. Last year, November 17, 2019 marked the 40th anniversary of his death and in a memorial blog,^* I concluded with these words:

 Once again we witness how power plays play-on to the detriment of knowledge and truth, even in lauded science. So perhaps the coming year 2020 will be a good year to read or re-read Velikovsky; perhaps too, to take up serious study of the Electric Universe,^[**] and to make our own judgments instead of just reading minority (disparaging) opinions and reports that claim to be majority ones (without offering a smidgen of scientific proof!). [How unbelievably applicable these 2019 words have become in our COVID 19-84 world.]

• https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2019/11/remembering-velikovsky.html
** https://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/  |   https://www.youtube.com/user/ThunderboltsProject
In the 1980s, I became aware of Anthony E. Larson and his prophesy trilogy based on the Velikovsky research. But just like Velikovsky and advocates of the Electric Universe, Larson's work has sometimes struggled to get a hearing. https://mormonprophecy.com/

2. Iconoclast: a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions (Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/iconoclast
3. https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2020/11/ready-or-not.html
4. https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2020/12/01-isaiah-today-covenant-with-death.html
5. • History of the Church, 5:337; from a discourse given by Joseph Smith on Apr. 6, 1843, in Nauvoo, Illinois; reported by Willard Richards. Quoted from https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/teachings-joseph-smith/chapter-21?lang=eng
• https://latterdaysaintmag.com/what-will-the-grand-sign-of-second-coming-be/ (Bold emphasis added.)
6. • Joseph Smith Papers: Discourse, 6 April 1843–B, as Reported by James Burgess. Document Transcript. https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/discourse-6-april-1843-b-as-reported-by-james-burgess/3#full-transcript (spelling left as it was; bold emphasis added.).
• What Every Mormon Should Know About Astronomy by John P. Pratt at https://www.johnpratt.com/items/docs/lds/meridian/2000/mormastr2.html
7. https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2019/02/that-we-do-always-remember-what.html

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