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COMET HALE-BOPP Prophecy and Controversy Prophecy and Controversy The flypast of Comet Hale-Bopp in early 1997 is an event exciting the prophecy-watchers and creating controversy among astronomers. Is this the return of the legendary Great Comet, and has it brought a ‘companion’ along for the ride as it rockets through our solar system? by Tom Kay Age" that will be inaugurated by great Earth changes and unusual heavenly activity. One very special event, the arrival of a "Great Comet" or "Star" to our solar system, is said to herald these New Age birth pains, the Second Coming, and a marvellous, peace- ful era. In July 1995, amateur astronomers Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp discovered a new comet, located near the Sagittarius constellation. It was the most distant comet ever reported by amateurs to the International Astronomical Union. Their namesake, Hale- Bopp, will be closest to Earth in the northern Spring (southern Autumn) of 1997. Scientific evidence suggests that this huge and uncommonly bright heavenly object may be the Comet that's been predicted for so long by so many. In the 1930s and '40s, the famous "Sleeping Prophet" Edgar Cayce, of the United States, prophesied that massive Earth changes will create new maps of the world. Gordon-Michael Scallion's "Future Map" illustrations and prophecies are strikingly simi- lar. But is there a causative event? In the early 1980s, British intuitive, David Jevons, said: "I believe that the major Earth changes will be initiated by what I will call 'the Fiery Messenger’. There is even now a star of great power proceeding towards our solar body. The star, at this moment, is invisi- ble to the human or even telescopic eye, but it is set on a path which will bring it into con- junction with our planetary system. As it passes by, it will affect the motions of all the planets of our system, and therefore will bring about changes on the surface of the planets themselves. The effect of the passage will be to set in motion the Earth Changes that are prophesied. Various lands will sink; others will rise..." After his narration, Jevons was asked: "The star that was spoken of—has it passed through this solar system before?" "Yes." "Is it Halley's comet?" "No. It is far bigger than that." Researcher David Solomon has estimated that the comet returns every 4,000 years: "It was known to ancient peoples as a vast, fiery body that, when it entered the solar system, caused planetary catastrophes. It was known to the Greeks as Typhon, to the Mayans as celestial Quetzalcoatl, to the Sumerians as Nibiru, to the Phoenicians as the Great Phoenix, to the Egyptians as Apep or Seth, and to the ancient Chinese as the Great Red Dragon." Sixteenth-century English prophet, Mother Shipton, poeticised: The gods will send the Dragon back/ to light the sky his tail will crack upon the Earth and rend the Earth/ and man shall flee, King, Lord and serf. Saint Hildegard, a seer who lived in Germany in the 12th century, said: "The Comet, by its tremendous pressure, will force much out of the ocean and flood many countries... The Great Nation across the ocean, inhabited by people of different ancestry, will be dev- astated by earthquakes, storms and great waves of water, causing much want and plagues. It will be divided and in great part be submerged." Other heavenly events may add to the mix. The year 1999 is unusual because there will be two solar eclipses and a lunar eclipse. Furthermore, the Leonids meteor storm is due to return in 1999. The storm, from the Comet Temple-Tuttle, is very dense and has been awesome and chaotic in the past. EF: thousands of years prophets have spoken of the coming of an enlightened "New by Tom Kay ©1996 1641 Princess Anne Road Virginia Beach, VA 23456, USA Phone/Fax: +1 (757) 721 0667 1641 Princess Anne Road Virginia Beach, VA 23456, USA Phone/Fax: +1 (757) 721 0667 NEXUS - 53 RETURN OF THE DRAGON by Tom Kay ©1996 FEBRUARY - MARCH 1997