M. NOSTRADAMUS:
HOLY MAN AND PROPHET OF GOD
Daniel A Melendez
Discover in this new
book (“M. Nostradamus: Holy man and Prophet of God”) more than
ninety questions some Christian leaders and Christians asked about the prophet
Nostradamus and his prophecies. See the author’s answers to their
questions that confirm Nostradamus was a holy man and prophet of God. After
reading this eye-opening book, Christians will forget what pagan writers
wrongly said about him! Nostradamus accepted Christ as his savior. The clergy
has not realized that Nostradamus the prophet had received his prophecies from
the Lord Jesus Christ, an angel, the Holy Spirit, and visions of divine
inspiration. M. Nostradamus wrote his predictions God gave him for Christians
to interpret them. However, most of the interpreters of those prophecies are
pagan authors. Some Christians believe in the pagans’ misinterpretations
of the first two quatrains (q I 1 and I 2). They wrongly say the prophet
Nostradamus used a pot full of water sat on a “tripod” to see in it
the prophecies. They do not know that the word “tripod” does not
appear in those two quatrains. Pagan people took the word “tripod”
from chapter 5 of the letter to HENRY that says that Nostradamus received his
prophecies through “the one part of the tri whose feet are like
bronze.” They did not realize that this last expression represents the
Lord Jesus Christ. He calls Himself, the One whose feet are like burnished
bronze (Rev. 2: 18). After mentioning those words, Nostradamus to confirm he
was addressing the LORD, said that many people attributed to him the prophecies
that only belong to the eternal God alone. Because of it, they should ask
pardon to M. Nostradamus and God, who gave him the predictions. Some people
wrongly condemned Nostradamus the prophet as being an astrologer because he
worked with the Judaic Astrology or Hebrew Astrology. The man of God, M.
Nostradamus, died in the year 1566 AD, and the science of Astronomy officially
appeared after the year 1642 AD. The Jews in the past used the Judaic Astrology
to fix the dates of their traditional festivals. They needed to know the
position of the sun and the phases of the moon so that they could keep the
month of Abib (Deut. 16: 1) and the commandment of the LORD (Exod. 12: 1-2).
Nostradamus (Cesar 15) taught that the prophets of the past used the Judaic
Astrology to date their predictions. He (in Cesar 28) taught that God excluded
the Judaic Astrology from the disapproval of the Bible and the divine canons.
It was so because, through this Judaic Astrology, he and other prophets of the
Bible have written their predictions (Cesar 28). Many Christians, who still do
not understand the Bible prophecies completely, do not know that the Messiah
gave to M. Nostradamus hundreds of prophecies connected to those Bible
prophecies. However, how are Christians going to read those predictions, if
they wrongly think the holy man M. Nostradamus, was a vulgar seer, clairvoyant,
magician, soothsayer, medium, sorcerer, or astrologer? Christian leaders do not
know who the beast (antichrist) is and where he will be born. And how that evil
man will resurrect from the abys, the countries he will invade, how many years
he will reign, and much more. However, Nostradamus wrote many predictions about
that. Religious leaders do not know how the antichrist will create Babylon and
details about the resurrection of the dead, and the Lord’s return. They
ignore that Nostradamus wrote many prophecies about it. They do not know either
many Nostradamus’ details about the invasion of Israel, the rapture, the
millennium, and the New Jerusalem. The Christian author (Daniel A Melendez)
wishes to open Christian’s eyes to the truth of God hidden for centuries
about M. Nostradamus. Because of it, he wrote this book. The title of that
volume is M. Nostradamus: Holy man and prophet of God.
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Here is an English
translation of the preface to the Centuries of Nostradamus. I give you the
complete version as it was donated to the Net by Ray Lampman, with the note
that I have added alinea-breaks to enhance readabilty.This is an accurate
translation of the Preface by M. Nostradamus to his Prophecies. He wrote it as
a letter to his son Cesar. Editorial [comments] were added by Jean-Charles De
Fontbrune. The lineage and other notes specific to this reproduction are
provided at the end of the text.
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Preface by
M. Nostradamus to his Prophecies
Greetings and happiness to César Nostradamus
my son
Your late arrival, César Nostredame, my son, has made me spend much time
in constant nightly reflection so that I could communicate with you by letter
and leave you this reminder, after my death, for the benefit of all men, of
which the divine spirit has vouchsafed me to know by means of astronomy.
And since it was the Almighty's will that you were not born here in this region
[Provence] and I do not want to talk of years to come but of the months during
which you will struggle to grasp and understand the work I shall be compelled
to leave you after my death: assuming that it will not be possible for me to
leave you such [clearer] writing as may be destroyed through the injustice of
the age . The key to the hidden prediction which you will inherit will be
locked inside my heart.
Also bear in mind that the events here described have not yet come to pass, and
that all is ruled and governed by the power of Almighty God, inspiring us not
by bacchic frenzy nor by enchantments but by astronomical assurances:
predictions have been made through the inspiration of divine will alone and the
spirit of prophecy in particular.
On numerous occasions and over a long period of time I have predicted specific
events far in advance, attributing all to the workings of divine power and
inspiration, together with other fortunate or unfortunate happenings, foreseen
in their full unexpectedness, which have already come to pass in various
regions of the earth. Yet I have wished to remain silent and abandon my work
because of the injustice not only of the present time [the Inquisition] but
also for most of the future. I will not commit to writing.
Since governments, sects and countries will undergo such sweeping changes,
diametrically opposed to what now obtains, that were I to relate events to
come, those in power now - monarchs, leaders of sects and religions - would
find these so different from their own imaginings that they would be led to
condemn what later centuries will learn how to see and understand. Bear in mind
also Our Saviour's words: Do not give anything holy to the dogs, nor throw
pearls in front of the pigs lest they trample them with their feet and turn on
you and tear you apart. For this reason I withdrew my pen from the paper,
because I wished to amplify my statement touching the Vulgar Advent (1),
by means of ambiguous and enigmatic comments about future causes, even those
closest to us and those I have perceived, so that some human change which may
come to pass shall not unduly scandalize delicate sensibilities. The whole work
is thus written in a nebulous rather than plainly prophetic form. So much so
that,
You have hidden these things from the wise and the circumspect, that is from
the mighty and the rulers, and you have purified those things for the small and
the poor, and through Almighty God's will, revealed unto those prophets with
the power to perceive what is distant and thereby to foretell things to come.
For nothing can be accomplished without this faculty, whose power and goodness
work so strongly in those to whom it is given that, while they contemplate
within themselves, these powers are subject to other influences arising from
the force of good. This warmth and strength of prophecy invests us with its
influence as the sun's rays affect both animate and inanimate entities.
We human beings cannot through our natural consciousness and intelligence know
anything of God the Creator's hidden secrets, For it is not for us to know the
times or the instants, etc.
So much so that persons of future times may be seen in present ones, because
God Almighty has wished to reveal them by means of images, together with
various secrets of the future vouchsafed to orthodox astrology, as was the case
in the past, so that a measure of power and divination passed through them, the
flame of the spirit inspiring them to pronounce upon inspiration both human and
divine. God may bring into being divine works, which are absolute; there is
another level, that of angelic works; and a third way, that of the evildoers.
But my son, I address you here a little too obscurely. As regards the occult
prophecies one is vouchsafed through the subtle spirit of fire, which the
understanding sometimes stirs through contemplation of the distant stars as if
in vigil, likewise by means of pronouncements, one finds oneself surprised at
producing writings without fear of being stricken for such impudent loquacity.
The reason is that all this proceeds from the divine power of Almighty God from
whom all bounty proceeds.
And so once again, my son, if I have eschewed the word prophet, I do not wish
to attribute to myself such lofty title at the present time, for whoever is
calles a prophet now was once called a seer; since a prophet, my son, is
properly speaking one who sees distant things through a natural knowledge of
all creatures. And it can happen that the prophet bringing about the perfect
light of prophecy may make manifest things both human and divine, because this
cannot be done otherwise, given that the effects of predicting the future
extend far off into time.
God's mysteries are incomprehensible and the power to influence events is bound
up with the great expanse of natural knowledge, having its nearest most
immediate origin in free will and describing future events which cannot be
understood simply through being revealed. Neither can they be grasped through
men's interpretations nor through another mode of cognizance or occult power
under the firmament, neither in the present nor in the total eternity to come.
But bringing about such an indivisible eternity through Herculean efforts (2),
things are revealed by the planetary movements.
I am not saying, my son - mark me well, here - that knowledge of such things
cannot be implanted in your deficient mind, or that events in the distant
future may not be within the understanding of any reasoning being.
Nevertheless, if these things current or distant are brought to the awareness
of this reasoning and intelligent being they will be neither too obscure nor
too clearly revealed.
Perfect knowledge of such things cannot be acquired without divine inspiration,
given that all prophetic inspiration derives its initial origin from God
Almighty, then from chance and nature. Since all these portents are produced
impartially, prophecy comes to pass partly as predicted. For understanding
created by the intellect cannot be acquired by means of the occult, only by the
aid of the zodiac, bringing forth that small flame by whose light part of the
future may be discerned.
Also, my son, I beseech you not to exercise your mind upon such reveries and
vanities as drain the body and incur the soul's perdition, and which trouble
our feeble frames. Above all avoid the vanity of that most execrable magic
formerly reproved by the Holy Scriptures - only excepting the use of official
astrology.
For by the latter, with the help of inspiration and divine revelation, and
continual calculations, I have set down my prophecies in writing. Fearing lest
this occult philosophy be condemned, I did not therefore wish to make known its
dire import; also fearful that several books which had lain hidden for long centuries
might be discovered, and of what might become of them, after reading them I presented
them to Vulcan. [i.e. burned them]. And while he devoured them, the flame
licking the air gave out such an unexpected light, clearer than that of an
ordinary flame and resembling fire from some flashing cataclysm, and suddenly illumined
the house as if it were caught in a furnace. Which is why I reduced them to
ashes then, so that none might be tempted to use occult labours in searching
for the perfect transmutation, whether lunar or solar, of incorruptible metals
(3).
But as to that discernment which can be achieved by the aid of planetary
scrutiny, I should like to tell you this. Eschewing any fantastic imaginings,
you may through good judgement have insight into the future if you keep to the
specific names of places that accord with planetary configurations, and with
inspiration places and aspects yield up hidden properties, namely that power in
whose presence the three times [past, present, and future] are understood as
Eternity whose unfolding contains them all: for all whings nare naked and open.
That is why, my son, you can easily, despite your young brain, understand that
events can be foretold naturally by the heavenly bodies and by the spirit of
prophecy: I do not wish to ascribe to myself the title and role of prophet, but
emphasize inspiration revealed to a mortal man whose perception is no further
from heaven than the feet are from the earth. I cannot fail, err or be
deceived, although I may be as great a sinner as anyone else upon this earth
and subject to all human afflictions.
But after being surprised sometimes by day while in a trance, and having long
fallen into the habit of agreeable nocturnal studies, I have composed books of
prophecies, each containing one hundred astronomical quatrains, which I want to
condense somewhat obscurely. The work comprises prophecies from today to the
year 3797.
This may perturb some, when they see such a long timespan, and this will occur
and be understood in all the fullness of the Republic (4); these things will be
universally understood upon earth, my son. If you live the normal lifetime of
man you will know upon your own soil, under your native sky, how future events
are to turn out.
For only Eternal God knows the eternity of His light which proceeds from Him,
and I speak frankly to those to whom His immeasurable, immense and
incomprehensible greatness has been disposed to grant revelations through long,
melancholy inspiration, that with the aid of this hidden element manifested by
God, there are two principal factors which make up the prophet's intelligence.
The first is when the supernatural light fills and illuminates the person who
predicts by astral science, while the second allows him to prophesy through inspired
revelation, which is only a part of the divine eternity, whereby the prophet comes
to assess what his divinatory power has given him through the grace of God and
by a natural gift, namely, that what is foretold is true and ethereal in origin
(5).
And such a light and small flame is of great efficacy and scope, and nothing
less than the clarity of nature itself. The light of human nature makes the
philosophers so sure of themselves that with the principles of the first cause
they reach the loftiest doctrines and the deepest abysses. But my son, lest I
venture too far for your future perception,
be aware that men of letters shall make grand and usually boastful claims about
the way I interpreted the world, before the worldwide conflagration which is to
bring so many catastrophes and such revolutions that scarcely any lands will
not be covered by water (6), and this will last until all has perished save
history and geography themselves. This is why, before and after these
revolutions in various countries, the rains will be so diminished and such
abundance of fire and fiery missiles shall fall from the heavens that nothing
shall escape the holocaust. And this will occur before the last conflagration
For before war ends the [twentieth] century and in its final stages it will
hold the century under its sway. Some countries will be in the grip of
revolution (7) for several years, and others ruined for a still longer period.
And now that we are in a republican era, with Almighty God's aid, and before
completing its full cycle, the monarchy will return, then the Golden Age (8).
For according to the celestial signs, the Golden Age shall return, and after
all calculations, with the world near to an all-encompassing revolution
- from the time of writing 177 years 3 months 11 days (9) - plague, long famine
and wars, and still more floods from now until the stated time. Before and
after these, humanity shall several times be so severely diminished that
scarcely anyone shall be found who wishes to take over the fields, which shall
become free where they had previously been tied.
This will be after the visible judgement of heaven, before we reach the
millennium which shall complete all. In the firmament of the eighth sphere, a
dimension whereon Almighty God will complete the revolution, and where the
constellations will resume their motion which will render the earth stable and
firm, but only if He will remain unchanged for ever until His will be done.
This is in spite of all the ambiguous opinions surpassing all natural reason,
expressed by Mahomet; which is why God the Creator, through the ministry of his
fiery agents with their flames, will come to propose to our perceptions as well
as our eyes the reasons for future predictions.
Signs of events to come must be manifested to whomever prophesies. For prophecy
which stems from exterior illumination is part of that light and seeks to ally
with it and bring it into being so that the part which seems to possess the
faculty of understanding is not subject to a sickness of the mind.
Reason is only too evident. Everything is predicted by divine afflatus (10) and
thanks to an angelic spirit inspiring the one prophesying, consecrating his
predictions through divine unction. It also divests him of all fantasies by
means of various nocturnal apparitions, while with daily certainty he
prophesies through the science of astronomy, with the aid of sacred prophecy,
his only consideration being his courage in freedom.
So come, my son, strive to understand what I have found out through my
calculations which accord with revealed inspiration, because now the sword of
death approaches us, with pestilence and war more horrible than there has ever
been - because of three men's work - and famine. And this sword shall smite the
earth and return to it often, for the stars confirm this upheaval and it is
also written: I shall punish their injustices with iron rods, and shall strike
them with blows.
For God's mercy will be poured forth only for a certain time, my son, until the
majority of my prophecies are fulfilled and this fulfilment (sic) is complete.
Then several times in the course of the doleful tempests the Lord shall say:
Therefore I shall crush and destroy and show no mercy;
and many other circumstances shall result from floods and continual rain (11)
of which I have written more fully in my other prophecies, composed at some
length, not in a chronological sequence, in prose, limiting the places and
times and exact dates so that future generations will see, while experiencing
these inevitable events, how I have listed others in clearer language, so that
despite their obscurities these things shall be understood: When the time comes
for the removal of ignorance, the matter will be clearer still.
So in conclusion, my son, take this gift from your father M. Nostradamus, who
hopes you will understand each prophecy in every quatrain herein. May Immortal
God grant you a long life of good and prosperous happiness.
Salon, 1 March 1555
Notes:
Le commun advènement, the Vulgar Advent, or the accession of the people
to power, is generally taken by commentators to refer first to republicanism
(via the French Revolution), then to its development towards and change into
communism. (Tr.)
Nostradamus here compares his work, the twelve Centuries, to the Twelve Labours
of Hercules, in order to stress their difficulty and importance.
Moon and Sun are constant symbols in Nostradamus of the republic and the
monarchy respectively, hence the alchemic imagery also has a political aspect
here.
Reference to toute la concavité de la lune. Cf. note 3 above.
Ether: originally personified as a deity of the upper atmosphere, and later
confused with Zeus. (DL7V).
Water and flooding are often as a symbol of revolution in Nostradamus.
The French text refers to Aquarius, i.e. the water-bearer. Cf. note 6 above.
Golden Age: rule of Saturn, the happy, peaceful time, to commemorate which the
Romans celebrated with Saturnalia.
1555 + 177 = 1732, the exact date when Rousseau arrived in Paris, Nostradamus
considered Rousseau the father of revolutionary and atheistic ideas.
Breath or inspiration, oracular possession.
Upheavals and revolution. Cf. notes 6 and 7 above.
Abbreviations
Cf. "confer", Latin, compare.
DL7V "Dictionnaire Larousse", 7 vol.
etc. et cetera, French, and others.
i.e. "id est", Latin, that is.
M. Michel or Monsieur.
Tr. translator.
vol. volumes.
Notes Specific to This
Reproduction
This text is reproduced from Nostradamus, Countdown to Apocalypse written by
Jean-Charles de Fontbrune, translated by Alexis Lykiard, prefaced by Liz
Greene, and published by Henry Holt and Company, Inc., New York, 1983. This
largely literal translation is reproduced, here, as accurately as possible.
The "original" source is Les Prophéties de M. Michel
Nostradamus, the edition of 1568 by Benoist Rigaud at Lyon; stored in 8. B.U.
"Montepellier", no. 48340.
De Fontbrune uses the second edition of 1605 by Benoist Rigaud at Lyon. This is
a complete copy of the 1568 edition which is considered the most reliable. If
we accept the 1568 edition as an accurate reproduction, which is reasonable,
then this reproduction, here, has been copied once from the 1568 edition to the
1605, copied again by De Fontbrune, translated once from 16th- century French
with a Proven&cced;al accent to modern English by Alexis Lykiard, and
finally copied to the form you see here.
The Latin (sic), meaning thus, has been inserted after words to indicate an
exact reproduction of the original, including spelling mistakes and grammatical
errors due to translation. Ray.Lampman@FullFeed.Com
Thanks to
M.Nijweide@et.TUDelft.nl
Here is an English translation of the Epistle to Henry II that was published
as a preface to the last three centuries in 1568.
TO THE MOST INVINCIBLE
MOST POWERFUL AND MOST CHRISTIAN
HENRY, KING OF FRANCE THE SECOND:
MICHEL NOSTRADAMUS,
HIS VERY HUMBLE AND VERY OBEDIENT SERVANT AND SUBJECT,
WISHES VICTORY AND HAPPINESS
Ever since my long-beclouded face first presented
itself before the immeasurable deity of your Majesty, O Most Christian and Most
Victorious King, I have remained perpetually dazzled by that sovereign sight. I
have never ceased to honor and venerate properly that date when I presented my-
self before a Majesty so singular and so humane. I have searched for some
occasion on which to manifest high heart and stout courage, and thereby obtain
even greater recognition of Your Most Serene Majesty. But I saw how obviously
impossible it was for me to declare myself.
While I was seized with this singular desire to be transported sudden- ly from
my long-beclouded obscurity to the illuminating presence of the first monarch
of the universe, I was also long in doubt as to whom I would dedicate these
last three Centuries of my prophecies, making up the thou- sand. After having
meditated for a long time on an act of such rash audacity, I have ventured to
address Your Majesty. I have not been daunted like those mentioned by that most
grave author Plutarch, in his Life of Lycurgus, who were so astounded at the
expense of the offerings and gifts brought as sacrifices to the temples of the
immortal gods of that age, that they did not dare to present anything at all.
Seeing your royal splendor to be accompanied by such an incomparable humanity,
I have paid my address to it and not as those Kings of Persia whom one could
neither stand before nor ap- proach.
It is to a most prudent and most wise Prince that I
have dedicated my nocturnal and prophetic calculations, which are composed
rather out of a natural instinct, accompanied by a poetic furor, than according
to the strict rules of poetry. Most of them have been integrated with
astronomical calcu- lations corresponding to the years, months and weeks of the
regions, coun- tries and most of the towns and cities of all Europe, including
Africa and part of Asia, where most of all these coming events are to
transpire. They are composed in a natural manner.
Indeed, someone, who would do well to blow his nose,
may reply that the rhythm is as easy as the sense is difficult. That, O Most
Humane king, is because most of the prophetic quatrains are so ticklish that
there is no making way through them, nor is there any interpreting of them.
Nevertheless, I wanted to leave a record in writing of
the years, towns, cities and regions in which most of the events will come to
pass, even those of the year 1585 and of the year 1606, reckoning from the
present time, which is March 14, 1557, and going far beyond to the events which
will take place at the beginning of the seventh millenary, when, so far as my
pro- found astronomical calculations and other knowledge have been able to make
out, the adversaries of Jesus Christ and his Church will begin to multi- ply
greatly.
I have calculated and composed all during choice hours
of well-dis- posed days, and as accurately as I could, all when Minerva was
free and not unfavorable. I have made computations for events over almost as
long a period to come as that which has already passed, and by these they will
know in all regions what is to happen in the course of time, just as it is
writ- ten, with nothing superfluous added, although some may say, There can be
no truth entirely determined concerning the future.
It is quite true, Sire, that my natural instinct has
been inherited from my forebears, who did not believe in predicting, and that
this is natural in- stinct has been adjusted and integrated with long
calculations. At the same time, I freed my soul, mind and heart of all care,
solicitude and vexation. All of these prerequisites for presaging I achieved in
part by means of the brazen tripod.
There are some who would attribute to me that which is
not mine at all. The eternal God alone, who is the thorough searcher of humane
hearts, pious, just and merciful, is the true judge, and it is to him I pray to
defend me from the calumny of evil men. These evil ones, in their slanderous
way, would likewise want to inquire how all your most ancient progenitors, the Kings
of France, have cured the scrofula, how those of other nations have cured the
bite of snakes, how those of yet other nations have had a certain instinct for
the art of divination and still others which would be too long to recite here.
Notwithstanding those who cannot contain the malignity
of the evil spirit, as time elapses after my death, my writings will have more
weight than during my lifetime. Should I, however, have made any errors in my
calculation of dates, or prove unable to please everybody, I beg that your more
than Imperial Majesty will forgive me. I protest before God and his Saints that
I do not propose to insert any writings in this present Epistle that will be
contrary to the true Catholic faith, whilst consulting the as- tronomical calculations
to the best of my abilty.
Such is the extent of time past, subject to correction
by the most learned judgment, that the first man, Adam, came 1,242 years before
Noah ( not reckoning by such Gentile calculations as Varro used, but simply by
the Holy Scriptures, as best my weak understanding and astronomical calcu-
lations can interpret them.) About 1,080 years after Noah and the universal
flood came Abraham, who, according to some, was a first-rate astrologer and
invented the Chaldean alphabet. About 515 or 516 years later came Moses, and
from his time to that of David about 570 years elapsed. From the time of David
to that of out Savior and Redeemer, Jesus Christ, born of the unique Virgin,
1,350 year elapsed, according to some chronographs. Some may object that this
calculation cannot be true, because it differs from that of Eusebius. From the
timeof the human redemption to the detestable heresy of the Saracens about 621
years elapsed. From this one can easily add up the amount of time gone by.
Although my calculations may not hold good for all
nations, they have, however, been determined by the celestial movements,
combined with the emotion, handed down to me by my forebears, which comes over
me at certain hours. Byt the danger of the times, O Most Serene King, requires
that such secrets should not be bared except in enigmatic sentences having,
however, only one sense and meaning, and nothing ambiguous or amphibolog- ical
inserted. Rather they are under a cloudy obscurity, with a natural infusion not
unloke the creation of the world, according to the calculation and Punic
Chronicle of Joel: I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh and your sons and
daughters will prophesy. But such Prophecy proceeded from the mouth of the Holy
Ghost who was the sovereign and eternal power, together with the heavens, and
caused some of them to predict great and marvelous events.
As for myself, I would never claim such a title,
never, please God. I readily admit that all proceeds from God and render to Him
thanks, honor and immortal praise. I have mixed therewith no divination coming
from fate. All from God and nature, and for the most part integrated with
celestial movements. It is much like seeing in a burning mirror, with clouded
vision, the great events, sad, prodigious and calamitous events that in due
time will fall upon the principal worshippers. First, upon the temples of God;
second- ly, upon those who, sustained by the earth, approach such a decadence.
Also a thousand other calamitous events which will be known to happen in due
time.
For God will take notice of the long barrenness of the
great dame, who thereupon will conceive two principal children. But she will be
in danger, and the female to whom she will have given birth will also, because
of the temerity of the age, be in danger of death in her eighteenth year, and
will be unable to live beyond her thirty-sixth year. She will leave three
males, and one female, and of these two will not have had the same father.
There will be great differences between the three brothers,
and then there will be such great co-operation and agreement between them that
the three and four parts of Europe will tremble. The youngest of them will sus-
tain and augment the Christian monarchy, and under him sects will be elevated, and
suddenly cast down, Arabs will be driven back, kingdoms united and new laws
promulgated.
The oldest one will rule the land whose escutcheon is
that of the furious crowned lions with their paws resting upon intrepid arms.
The one second in age, accompanied by the Latins, will
penetrate far, until a second furious and trembling path has been beaten to the
Great St. Bernard Pass. From there he will descend to mount the Pyrenees, which
will not, however, be transferred to the French crown. And this third one will
cause a great inundation of human blood, and for a long time Lent will not
include March.
The daughter will be given for the preservation of the
Christian Church. Her lord will fall into the pagan sect of the new infidels.
Of her two children, one will be faithful to the Catholic Church, the other an
infidel.
The unfaithful son, who, to his great confusion and
later repentance, will want to ruin her, will have three widely scattered
regions, namely, the Roman, Germany and Spain, which will set up diverse sects
by armed force. The 50th to the 52th degree of latitude will be left behind.
And all will render the homage of ancient religions to
the region of Europe north of the 48th parallel. The latter will have trembled
first in vain timidity but afterwards the regions to its west, south and east
will tremble. But the nature of their power will be such that what has been
brought about by concord and union will prove insuperable by warlike conquests.
In nature they will be equal, but very different in
faith.
After this the barren Dame, of greater power than the
second, will be received by two of the nations. First, by them made obstinate
by the onetime masters of the universe. Second, by the latter themselves.
The third people will extend their forces towards the
circuit of the East of Europe where, in the Pannonias, they will be overwhelmed
and slaughtered. By sea they will extend their Myrmidons and Germans to
Adriatic Sicily. But they will succumb wholly and the Barbarian sect will be
greatly afflicted and driven out by all the Latins.
Then the great Empire of the Antichrist will begin
where once was Attila's empire and the new Xerxes will descend with great and
countless numbers, so that the coming of the Holy Ghost, proceeding from the
48th degree, will make a transmigration, chasing out the abomination of the
Christian Church, and whose reign will be for a time and to the end of time.
This will be preceded by a solar eclipse more dark and
gloomy than any since the creation of the world, except that after the death
and passion of Jesus Christ. And it will be in the month of October than the
great translation will be made and it will be such that one will think the
gravity of the earth has lost its natural movement and that it is to be plunged
into the abyss of perpetual darkness.
In the spring there will be omens, and thereafter
extreme changes, reversals of realms and mighty earthquakes. These will be
accompanied by the procreation of the new Babylon, miserable daughter enlarged
by the abomination of the first holocaust. It will last for only seventy-three
years and seven months.
Then there will issue from the stock which had
remained barren for so long, proceeding from the 50th degree, one who will
renew the whole Christian Church. A great place will be established, with union
and concord between some of the children of opposite ideas, who have been
seperated by diverse realms. And such will be the peace that the instigator and
promoter of military factions, born of the diversity of religions, will remain
chained to the deepest pit. And the kingdom of the Furious One, who
counterfeits the sage, will be united.
The countries, towns, cities, realms and provinces
which will have abandoned their old customs to gain liberty, but which will in
fact have enthralled themselves even more, will secretly have wearied of their
liberty. Faith lost in their perfect religion, they will begin to strike to the
left, only to return to the right. Holiness, for a long time overcome, will be
replaced in accordance with the earliest writings.
Thereafter the great dog, the biggest of curs, will go
forth and destroy all, the same old crimes being perpetrated again. Temples
will be set up again as in ancient times, and the priest will be restored to
his original position and he will begin his whoring and luxury, and will commit
a thousand crimes.
At the eve of another desolation, when she is atop her
most high and sublime dignity, some potentates and warlords will confront her,
and take away her two swords, and leave her only the insignia, whose curvature
attracts them. The people will make him go to the right and will not wish to
submit themselves to those of the opposite extreme with the hand in acute
position, who touch the ground, and want to drive spurs into them.
And hereupon it is that there is born of a branch long
sterila one who will deliver the people of the world from this benevolent
slavery to which they had voluntary submitted. He will put himself under the
protection of Mars, stripping Jupiter of all his honors and dignities, and
establish himself in the free city in another scant Mesopotamia. The chief and
governor will be cast out from the middle and hung up, ignorant of the
conspiracy of one of the conspirators with the second Thrasibulus, who for a
long time will have directed all this.
Then the impurities and abominations, with a great
shame, will be brought out and manifested in the shadows of the veiled light,
and will cease towards the end of the change in reign. The chiefs of the Church
will be backward in the love of God, and several of them will apostatize from
the true faith. Of the three sects, that which is in the middle, because of its
own partisans, will be thrown a bit into decadence. The first one will be
exterminated throughout all Europe and most of Africa by the third one, making
use of the poor in spirit who, led by madmen to libidinous luxury, will
adulterate
The supporting common people will rise up and chase
out the adherents of the legislators. From the way realms will have been weakened
by the Easterners, it will seem that God the Creator has loosed Satan from the prisons
of hell to give birth to the great Dog and Doham, who will make such an abominable
breach in the Churches that neither the reds nor the whites without eyes or hands
will know what to make of it, and their power will be taken from them.
Then will commence a persecution of the Churches the
like of which was never seen. Meanwhile, such a plague will arise that more
than two thirds of the world will be removed. One will be unable to ascertain
the true owners of fields and houses, and weeds growing in the streets of
cities will rise higher than the knees. For the clergy there will be but utter
desolation. The warlords will usurp what is returned from the City of the Sun,
from Malta and the Isles of Hyères. The great chain of the port which
wakes its name from the marine ox will be opened.
And a new incursion will be made by the maritime
shores, wishing to deliver the Sierra More¤a from the first Mahometan
recapture. Their assaults will not all be in vain, and the place which was once
the abode of Abraham will be assaulted by persons who hold the Jovialists in
veneration. And this city of "Achem" will be surrounded and assailed
on all sides by a most powerful force of warriors. Their maritime forces will
be weakened by the Westerners, and great desolation will fall upon this realm.
Its greatest cities will be depopulated and those who enter will fall under the
vengeance of the wrath of God.
The sepulchre, for long an object of such great
veneration, will remain in the open, exposed to the sight of the heavens, the
Sun and the Moon. The holy place will be converted into a stable for a herd
large and small, and used for profane purposes. Oh, what a calamitous
affliction will pregnant women bear at this time.
For hereupon the principal Eastern chief will be
vanquished by the Northerners and Westerners, and most of his people, stirred
up, will be put to death, overwhelmed or scattered. His children, offspring of
many women, will be imprisoned. Then will be accomplished the prophecy of the
Royal Prophet, Let him hear the groaning of the captives, that he might deliver
the children of those doomed to die.
What great oppression will then fall upon the Princes
and Governors of Kingdoms, especially those which will be maritime and Eastern,
whose tongues will be intermingled with all others: the tongue of the Latins,
and of the Arabs, via the Phoenicians. And all these Eastern Kings will be
chased, overthrown and exterminated, but not altogether, by means of the forces
of the Kings of the North, and because of the drawing near of our age through
the three secretly united in the search for death, treacherously laying traps
for one another. This renewed Triumvirate will last for seven years, and the
renown of this sect will extend arount the world. The sacrifice of the hole and
immaculate Wafer will be sustained.
Then the Lords of "Aquilon" [the North], two
in number, will be victorious over the Easterners, and so great a noise and
bellicose tumult will they make amongst them that all the East will tremble in
terror of these brothers, yet not brothers, of "Aquilon" [the North].
By this discourse, Sire, I present these predictions
almost with confusion, especially as to when they will take place. Furthermore,
the chronology of time which follows conforms very little, if at all, with that
which has already been set forth. Yet it was determined by astronomy and other
sources, including Holy Scriptures, and thus could not err. If I had wanted to
date each quatrain, I could have done so. But this would not have been
agreeable to all, least of all to those interpreting them, and was not to be
done until Your Majesty granted me full power to do so, lest calumniators be
furnished with an opportunity to injure me.
Anyhow, I count the years from the creation of the
world to the birth of Noah as 1,506, and from the birth of Noah to the
completion of the Ark, at the time of the universal deluge, as 600 ( let the
years be solar, or lunar, or a mixture of the ten ) I hold that the Sacred
Scriptures use solar years. And at the end of these 600 years, Noah enetered
the Ark to be saved from the deluge. This deluge was universal, and lasted one
year and two months. And 295 years elapsed from the end of the flood to the
birth of Abraham, and 100 from then till the birth of Isaac. And 60 years later
Jacob was born. 130 years elapsed between the time he entered Egypt and the
time he came out. Between the entry of Jacob into Egypt and the exodus, 430
years passed. From the exodus to the building of the Temple by Solomon in the
fourth year of his reign, 480 yearss. According ot the calculations of the
Sacred Writings, it was 490 years from the building of the Temple to the time
of Jesus Christ. Thus, this calculation of mine, collected from the holy writ,
comes to about 4,173 years and 8 months, more or less. Because there is such a
diversity of sects, I will not go beyond Jesus Christ.
I have calculated the present prophecies according to
the order of the chain which contains its revolution, all by astronomical
doctrine modified by my natural instinct. After a while, I found the time when
Saturn turns to enter on April 7 till August 25, Jupiter on June 14 till
October 7, Mars from April 17 to June 22, Venus from April 9 to May 22, Mercury
from February 3 to February 24. After that, from June 1 to June 24, and from
September 25 to October 16, Saturn in Capricorn, Jupiter in Aquarius, Mars in
Scorpio, Venus in Pisces, Mercury for a month in Capricorn, Aquarius and
Pisces, the Moon in Aquarius, the Dragon's head in Libra: its tail in
opposition following a conjunction of Jupiter and Mercury with a quadrature of
Mars and Mercury, and the Dragon's head coinciding with a conjunction of the
Sun and Jupiter. And the year without an eclipse peaceful.
But not everywhere. It will mark the commencement of what
will long endure. For beginning with this year the Christian Church will be
persecuted more fiercely than it ever was in Africa, and this will last up to the
year 1792, which they will believe to mark a renewal of time.
After this the Roman people will begin to re-establish
themselves, chasing away some obscure shadows and recovering a bit of their
ancient glory. But this will not be without great division and continual
changes. Thereafter Venice will raise its wings very high in great force and
power, not far short of the might of ancient Rome.
At that time the great sails of Byzantium, allied with
the Ligurians and through the support and power of "Aquilon" [the
Northern Realm], will impede them so greatly that the two Cretans will be
unable to maintain their faith. The arks built by the Warriors of ancient times
will accompany them to the waves of Neptune. In the Adriatic great discord will
arise, and that which will have been united will be seperated. To a house will
be reduced that which was, and is, a great city, including "Pampotamia"
and "Mesopotamia" of Europe at 45, and others of 41, 42 and 37
degrees.
It will be at this time and in these countries that
the infernal power will set the power of its adversaries against the Church of
Jesus Christ. This will constitute of the second Antichrist, who will persecute
that Church and its true Vicar, by means of the power of three temporal kings
who in their ignorance will be seduced by tongues which, in the hands of the
madmen, will cut more than any sword.
The said reign of the Antichrist will last only to the
death of him who was born at the beginning of the age and of the other one of
Lyon, associated with the elected one of the House of Modena and of Ferrara,
maintained by the Adriatic Ligurians and the proximity of great Sicily. Then
the Great St. Bernard will be passed.
The Gallic Ogmios will be accompanied by so great a
number that the Empire of his great law will extend very far. For some time
thereafter the blood of the Innocent will be shed profusely by the recently
elevated guilty ones. Then, because of great floods, the memory of things
contained in these instruments will suffer incalculable loss, even letters.
This will happen to the "Aquiloners" [the Northern People] by the
will of God.
Once again Satan will be bound, universal peace will
be established among men, and the Church of Jesus Christ will be delivered from
all tribulations, although the Philistines would like to mix in the honey of
malice and their pestilent seduction. This will be near the seventh millenary,
when the sanctuary of Jesus Christ will no longer be throdden down by the
infidels who come from "Aquilon" [the North]. The world will be
approaching a great conflagration, although, according to my calculations in my
prophecies, the course of time runs much further.
In the Epistle that some years ago I dedicated to my
son, César Nostradamus, I declared some points openly enough, without
presage. But here, Sire, are included several great and marvelous events which
those to come after will see.
During this astrological supputation, harmonized with
the Holy Scriptures, the persecution of the Ecclesiastical folk will have its
origin in the power of the Kings of "Aquilon" [the North], united
with the Easterners. This persecution will last for eleven years, or somewhat
less, for then the chief King of "Aquilon" will fall.
Thereupon the same thing will occur in the South,
where for the space of three years the Church people will be persecuted even
more fiercely through the Apostatic seduction of one who will hold all the
absolute power in the Church militant. The hole people of God, the observer of
his law, will be persecuted fiercely and such will be their affliction that the
blood of the true Ecclesiastics will flow everywhere.
One of the horrible temporal Kings will be told by his
adherents, as the ultimate in praise, that he has shed more of human blood of
Innocent Ecclesiastics than anyone else could have spilled of wine. This King
will commit incredible crimes against the Church. Human blood will flow in the
public streets and temples, like water after an impetuous rain, coloring the
nearby rivers red with blood. The ocean itself will be reddened by another
naval battle, such that one king will say to another, Naval battles have caused
the sea to blush.
Then, in this same year, and in those following, there
will ensue the most horrible pestilence, made more stupendous by the famine
which will have preceded it. Such great tribulations will never have occurred
since the first foundation of the Christian Church. It will cover all Latin
regions, and will leave traces in some countries of the Spanish.
Thereupon the third King of "Aquilon" [the
North], hearing the lament of the people of his principal title, will raise a
very mighty army and, defying the tradition of his predecessors, will put
almost everything back in its proper place, and the great Vicar of the hood
will be put back in his former state. But desolated, and then abandoned by all,
he will turn to find the Holy of Holies destroyed by paganism, and the old and
new Testaments thrown out and burned.
After that Antichrist will be the infernal prince
again, for the last time. All the Kingdoms of Christianity will tremble, even
those of the infidels, for the space of twenty-five years. Wars and battles
will be more grievous and towns, cities, castles and all other edifices will be
burned, desolated and destroyed, with great effusion of vestal blood,
violations of married woman and widows, and sucking children dashed and broken
against the walls of towns. By means of Satan, Prince Infernal, so may evils
will be commited that nearly all the world will find itself undone and desolated.
Before these events, some rare birds will cry in the air: Hui, Hui [Today, today]
and some time later will vanish.
After this has endured for a long time, there will be
almost renewed another reign of Saturn, and golden age. Hearing the affliction
of his people, God the Creator will command that Satan be cast into the depths
of the bottomless pit, and bound there. Then a universal peace will commence
between God and man, and Satan will remain bound for around a thousand years,
and then all unbound.
All these figures represent the just integration of
Holy Scriptures with visible celestial bodies, namely, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars
and others conjoined, as can be seen at more length in some of the quatrains. I
would have calculated more profoundly and integrated them even further, Most
Serene King, but for the fact that some given to censure would raise
difficulties. Therefore I withdraw my pen and seek nocturnal repose.
Many events, most powerful of all Kings, of the most
astounding sort are to transpire soon, but I neither could nor would fit them
all into this epistle; but in order to comprehend certain horrible facts, a few
must be set forth. So great is your grandeur and humanity before men, and your
piety before the gods, that you alone seem worthy of the great title of the
Most Christian King, and to whom the highest authority in all religion should
be deferred.
But I shall only beseech you, Most Clement King, by
this singular and prudent humanity of yours, to understand rather the desire of
my heart, and the sovereign wish I have to obey Your Most Serene Majesty, ever
since my eyes approached your solar splendour, than the grandeur of my labor
can attain to or acquire. From Salon, this 27th of June, 1558.
Done by Michel Nostradamus at Salon-de-Crau in
Provence.
One must be
aware that Nostradamus is a man of his time, the scientific advances made in
his time were easily incorporated with the faith of God, and it was well acknowledged by the
scholars of his time that calculate the various events mathematically, and
astronomically The celestial clockwork in Astronomy?. Nostradamus was very
highly educated in his time. Nostradamus was a deeply believing Christian. He
gained his knowledge from both Judaism and Christianity, he was one of the few
who, because of his Hebrew background, could read the Bible in the basic
language and was trained in both Jewish teachings (Judaism) and mysticism
(Kabbalism). And because of the powerful Catholic Church, with the terror of
the Inquisition, and for that reason, he encrypted his prophecies so that he
might not have trouble with the Church's contemporaries. Nostradamus had to
write his prophecies with both hands tied and obscure the prophecies of his
time. One can clearly see from the verses how Nostradamus avoids using the
language of the Bible as far as possible (Canan's language), but uses different
words and phrases in his prophecies. But there is no doubt that the Bible
interpretations and prophecies he received are inspired by the power of the
Holy Spirit. There is a high probability that Nostradamus did not understand a
good deal of his prophecies even though he tried to time them with astronomy.
As some Nostradamus scholars have come to know, he was not a good astronomer,
but it was an attempt to time and understand his prophecies in his time.
As for the
prophecies, one can catalog it in different groups ( contemporary prophecies of
Nostra D's time (French revulsion etc ) (Biblical interpretations,
eschatology)(Direct images he calls himself one that sees, to see)(Nature,
disasters, floods, droughts, etc)(and technical prophecies, medicine,
communications, cars, trains, planes, IT, Artificial Intelligence)( , weapons,
technology, weapons of mass destruction, , NBC= (WMD) weapons. This could not
be understood in Nostra D's time when muskets and bayonets and cannons were the
ultimate weapons systems. Horses were the fastest means of transportation.
The same can be said of prophecies and the Prophets of
the Bible
And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my
Lord, what shall be the end of these things?
12:9 And he said, Go
thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the
end.12:10
Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do
wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall
understand.
Stein A
Johannessen