Phoenix Journal 197 - Four Winds 10

CHAPTER 1
WORLDLINE
by Calvin Burgin 1/12/97
THE HAMMERS OF THE GODS
“COMETS ON COLLISION COURSE WITH EARTH!”
Calvin Burgin, 404 Gate Tree Lane, Austin, TX 78745-3137
What would you do, if the government made that announcement? Can you even conceive the mass chaos
and fear that would ensue?
Lucifer’s Hammer is a book about what might happen if a comet struck the Earth. The fictional comet
was called the “H-B” or Hamner-Brown Comet, named after the discoverers. The book was written in
1977 and was dedicated to Neil Armstrong, Buz Aldrin, Michael Collins, and to the men who died in the
Moon exploration program, Roger Chaffee, Gus Grissom, Ed White, Georgi Dobrovolsky, Viktor Patsayev,
Nikolai Volkov, and “all the others”.
Back in the 1970s, I was coordinator for a special interest group, called a SIG, known as the Doomsday
SIG. We had a newsletter called the Doomsday Club News and Intelligence Report. We discussed
what such a scenario might portend. Would the government warn us? What is the likelihood of such an
encounter? Has it ever happened before?
Now, some people are very curious about or disturbed by a giant “H-B” comet that has appeared, called,
not Hamner-Brown, but Hale-Bopp. There are rumors and speculation that it is on a collision course with
Earth, or that it may come close enough to influence Earth’s orbit, or it may make Earth tilt or do a
magnetic shift. This material has been written about elsewhere and I will not repeat it here.
Some wonder if Hale-Bopp might be the “Wormwood” of Rev. 8:11, or might be the Nibiru (also called
Marduk) written about by Zecharia Sitchin in his 12th Planet and Earth Chronicles books (also especially
Genesis Revisited). Sitchin got his information by reading clay tablets discovered in and recovered
from Iraq, anciently known as Mesopotamia or Babylon or Sumer. Others say this is all superstitious
nonsense, and that it has been millions of years since a really big comet hit Earth.
CAN IT HAPPEN AGAIN?
There is no evidence, [only] if you ignore the evidence. Those who say that it has been millions of years
since a big comet or meteor hit the Earth are simply ignoring the mass of written, eye-witness accounts that
say otherwise.
Let’s examine some of that evidence. Christians say they believe strange things took place in Egypt at the
time they call the Exodus, but few try to understand what really happened. There is in fact much evidence
that something happened sometime or other, at the time and event that Christians call the “Exodus” but
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