Many would agree that Nostardamus is considered the most famous and great fortune teller in the world. But, despite his popularity, all of his predictions are very vague, they do not contain exact dates, they are scattered in an incomprehensible order and have a lot of allegory. For many centuries people have not been able to unravel all of his predictions. All of them are written very vaguely, so they are adjusted to events that have already happened. His predictions include the unusual death of King Henry II, the death of King Francis II, he wrote about the change of the Romanov dynasty, the French Revolution, the period of the Stalinist regime, and even wrote about his own death. And this is only a small part of the predictions that have come true. Since the great predictor was repeatedly accused of fraud, he was forced to encrypt his predictions, which have not yet been solved.
Vanga is without a doubt the most popular seer of the 20th century. She was born in 1911 in Macedonia. She began to predict at the age of 16, but by the age of 30 her predictions began to be called professional. Vanga was very good at identifying diseases in people, and then directing them to the right doctors and healers. The seer was blind and said that she saw a certain window in her head, in which, like in a film, a picture of the life of a person who came to her was shown, and from above there was a voice that said what needed to be conveyed to him. Vanga's predictions came true somewhere around 80%, including: the beginning of the Second World War, the date of Stalin's death, the collapse of the USSR, the sinking of the well-known submarine "Kursk", as well as many other less significant events. This seer left predictions until 3797.
The legendary Cassandra, the daughter of the majestic King Priam, repeatedly tried to warn her people about the terrible death, but no one believed her. The Trojans found it hard to believe that their houses could be burned and their families destroyed, so they turned a blind eye. She even tried to kill Paris, as she predicted that the Trojan War would begin in his vein, after an unsuccessful assassination attempt, she began to persuade him to leave Helen, but to no avail. People considered her a laughing stock and did not believe a single word she said. Due to the fact that she had only bad predictions, her father ordered her to be locked in the towers, where the poor girl could only watch everything that happened. Only when the inevitable began did people remember her, but it was too late. After the fall of Troy, Cassandra became the slave of King Agamemnon. Her beauty captivated him and he made her his concubine. In Greece, she gave birth to two sons, one of whom she predicted would die at the hands of his wife. She also predicted her own death. But, during one celebration in Mycenae, Cassandra, Agamemnon and her sons were brutally killed.
Sheikh Sharif is a unique boy who was first heard of in 1999. He preached for Muslims and also visited many African countries, where he always had faithful followers. The boy was born into a very poor family; they say that at birth, instead of the usual cry, he uttered “Lailahaillallaha!”, which in Arabic means “There is no god but Allah!” After hearing what she heard, the boy’s mother fainted and died without regaining consciousness. Sharif never attended school, but despite this, he knew many languages well, including French, Arabic and English. At the age of five, Sharif lost his father, and he decided to travel with his uncle. Surprised by the great wisdom of the little boy, people always helped him with money and food. Later he was called sheikh, which means “honorable.” You can talk about his travels for a long time; he visited many presidents of African countries. Even in America they heard about the miracle boy. His last sermon was on May 20 in Libya before a crowd of 15 thousand believers. Trying to get closer to the boy, some people began to fall and were seriously injured. Then, putting his hand to the wound, Sharifu healed these people. The next day, 60,000 people gathered at the same place in the hope of seeing him again, but the boy did not come. This was the last day he was seen, after which Sharifu disappeared without a trace. Some say he ascended into the sky, even claiming to have seen it. The police put Sharif on the wanted list, his uncle was arrested, but he did not say anything specific.
This predictor of Jewish-Polish origin was born on September 10, 1899 and died on November 8, 1974. In fact, he was a pop artist, but he was remembered more as a predictor. Wolf Messing predicted the fall of the Third Reich, the death of Stalin and much more, including the date of his death.
The well-known predictor Rasputin was the doctor of Alexei Romanov, who was the heir to the Russian throne. Rasputin predicted the tragic death of the entire Romanov family, as well as the rise to power of the “Reds”.
Just by the name alone you can guess that Vasily Nemchin is a Russian clairvoyant. Vasily lived in the 14th century and it was he who predicted that a great ruler would come to power who would make Russia a very powerful power. The great soothsayer was believed by many important historical figures of that time, including Prince Vladimir.
Predictions of the future are always interesting - they tell us about what will happen in the future, and do not always turn out to be lies. Moreover: some of the most incredible predictions of the future, made decades, if not centuries ago, ended up being true!
Back in the 17th century, a certain Robert Boyle predicted that in the future diseases would be treated by transplantation - and indeed, hundreds of years later this prediction came true, and organ transplantation became a common surgical operation.
Dmitri Mendeleev predicted the properties and mass of more than 40 elements in his periodic table back in 1863 - elements that were not yet known to mankind at that time!
More than a hundred years before Apollo 11 landed on the lunar surface, famous writer Jules Verne wrote in his book From the Earth to the Moon that a rocket would be sent from Florida to the moon. He predicted the name of the spacecraft (Apollo), the number of astronauts on board, and even accurately described the feeling of weightlessness on the surface of a celestial body.
In 1898, a certain Morgan Robertson wrote a short story in which he described how the largest ship in the history of mankind collides with an iceberg and sinks. Just 14 years later, the Titanic set sail - and sank under exactly the same circumstances.
Back in 1909, Nikola Tesla, in an interview with The New York Times, predicted the emergence of certain “personal devices” with which people of the future would exchange messages. Today it is impossible to imagine a person without a mobile phone.
In his novel A World Unchained, legendary science fiction writer H.G. Wells predicted the advent of atomic bombs that would destroy entire cities. 18 years after Wells published his book, the first atomic bombs were tested as part of the Manhattan Project.
At one time, Nostradamus predicted that “fire will burn the blood of all things in London in the year 66.” The prophet's prediction came true on September 5, 1966, when a fire broke out in the British capital, killing thousands of people.
In addition, Nostradamus predicted that in France people would rebel and protest against princes and lords. And so it happened - in 1799, when the French Revolution began, changing the entire face of France.
One of the most incredible predictions made by Nostradamus concerned a certain “pastor” who would be “praised like a demigod.” Centuries after Nostradamus made his prediction, French microbiologist and chemist Louis Pastor made several revolutionary scientific discoveries that earned him fame as one of the greatest scientists of all time.
In the short story "Bad Solution," Robert Heinlein describes how the United States was the first to create nuclear weapons and became a "superpower" by preventing other nations from developing the same weapons. This is exactly what happened several decades later with the beginning of the Cold War and the arms race. And the famous science fiction writer wrote his story back in the forties - before the very idea of developing nuclear weapons appeared.
Heinlein is not only a wonderful writer, but also an excellent predictor of the future: for example, he predicted not only the Cold War, but also the appearance of water mattresses. In his 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land, he described the waterbed in such detail that its inventor then had to work hard to obtain a patent.
Writer Edward Bellamy predicted the advent of credit cards back in 1887 - exactly 63 years before they were invented.
In Gulliver's Travels, published in 1726, Jonathan Swift claimed that Mars had two moons - exactly 142 years before scientists discovered that this was indeed the case.
Also known as the “sleeping prophet,” Edgar Cayce made surprisingly accurate, frighteningly realistic predictions of the future - for example, he predicted the start and end dates of World War I and World War II, as well as the end of the Great Depression in the United States.
The writer Mark Twain was not a predictor, but he managed to accurately predict the date of his own death. In one of his books, Twain wrote that he was born in 1835, when Halley's Comet flew near the Earth - and predicted that he would die when this comet appeared again. And so it happened: Mark Twain died in 1910, when Halley's Comet reappeared in the night sky.
The art of divination is associated with the capabilities of the human mind, which are called clairvoyance in science, and people who can penetrate into the past and predict the future are clairvoyants, or, in the terminology used recently, psychics. They see through barriers, read thoughts at a distance, heal with words and glances. They bring divine revelations to us. These are the people J.M. Keynes said:
Each seer makes his own predictions differently. The Delphic Pythia inhaled the vapors of the intoxicating spring, after which they fell into a trance. The Great Merlin, according to legend, knew how to turn time in the direction he needed, predicting the past and future. Michel Nostradamus said that he sees pictures of the future if he looks at the fire for a long time or even simply into the darkness. The machine that showed these pictures is attributed to him. He showed this invention to the Queen of France, Catherine de Medici, and she saw the future death of her sons on the machine’s screen. After such an event, he destroyed his invention.
An angel appeared to Saint Odile, telling her about the future. Willim Bruce drew up horoscopes and read his famous secret Black Book. Elisha Bomelius looked at the sky and into his huge magic crystal. Alexander Pushkin’s sister Olga simply looked at the open palm and read the person’s fate from it. And the most famous doctor of the 19th century, Muscovite Alexander Over, saw his and his patients’ future in a dream. Some seers wrote down prophecies in a trance (this is how Nostradamus began), others used maps, runes, magic boards, balls, stones, etc. Well, the profession of an astrologer, who uses horoscopes compiled according to the movements of stars and other celestial bodies for predictions, In general, right up to modern times, history was one of the most widespread in the world.
Seers are strong in one way of predicting
As a rule, seers are strong in any one method of prediction. But the great one could do almost anything. She told fortunes using her famous cards, saw fate in a crystal ball, could predict by numbers (that is, she studied numerology), read fortunes by hand (mastered palmistry), she learned to make horoscopes - she became an astrologer. Her talents were innumerable - Lenormand predicted the future, even looking at the grass, tree leaves, flying clouds, or simply looking into the darkness. This multiplicity of abilities only emphasized the inexhaustibility of her gift.
However, most often, soothsayers turn out to be clairvoyants: that is, certain visions arise in their consciousness. This was the case with the great disgraced Russian prophet monk Abel, who accurately predicted the fates of not only the sovereigns during whose times he lived - Catherine II, Paul I, Alexander I and Nicholas I, but future sovereigns - Alexander II, Alexander III and Nicholas II . This was the case with the cult Moscow prophet Ivan Yakovlevich Koreysha, who was sent to a dungeon by the authorities, and then to an insane asylum at the Preobrazhenskaya outpost. But Muscovites of the mid-19th century went there too, unquestioningly believing the strange, but “prophetic old man.”
20th century predictors
The twentieth century gave new impetus to the development of the art of prediction. Firstly, the world was swept by a passion for spiritualism, and it became fashionable to find out fate through mediums who communicate with spirits. Even the most seemingly sober heads could not resist such a hobby: King Edward VI of Great Britain and the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle. Even some of the most prudent merchants of Russia found themselves captive of mediumistic sessions. Secondly, wars and revolutions, rampant crimes and large-scale disasters, such as the sinking of the Titanic, aroused fear of life and hence the desire to know the future in order to gain at least some hope.
Almost all public people of the twentieth century at least once turned to the services of fortunetellers. American presidents - Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower - listened to prophecies. The Reagan couple used the horoscopes of Joan Quigley, and Hilary Clinton used the advice of her personal parapsychologist Jean Houston.
However, fortune tellers, clairvoyants and astrologers played a special role during the Second World War. And their contribution was recognized by materialist historians. The fact is that everyone knew how Adolf Hitler treated mysticism. The Fuhrer used the services of many predictors. However, after their prophecies ceased to satisfy him or simply did not please him, Hitler, with enviable methodicality, mercilessly sent the “failed” or “at fault” would-be prophets to concentration camps, or even simply ordered their elimination. However, for a long time, Hitler trusted his personal astrologer Karl Kraft. He compiled detailed horoscopes for Hitler, which the Fuhrer, proud of his special mission, gave to Himmler and Goering to read, so that they too could compare their lives with the fate of Hitler. In a word, any significant event at the Fuhrer’s headquarters and in the upper echelons of Nazi Germany was first “reviewed” by German predictors and astrologers, and then carried out according to the recommendations they gave.
Having learned about this, British intelligence assembled its own group of clairvoyants. By personal order of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, it was headed by astrologer Louis de Volle. He was personally acquainted with Karl Kraft. Before the war, he studied at one of the German institutes, where they practiced the study of astrology and other ancient magical sciences. So Woll was well acquainted with the rules and techniques that were used by the esotericists of the German school. The wise Woll decided to use them in his own calculations in order to be able to look at events from the German point of view. And the “duel of the prophets” began, as military historians later called this operation.
The cunning Englishmen, under the leadership of Woll, predicted events, drawing up horoscopes as their German colleague Karl Kraft would have made them. From such horoscopes, the British could well guess the essence of the recommendations that Kraft gave to Hitler. And then the British recommended their military command to do exactly the opposite. So when the German bombers rushed towards the city, where, judging by the prediction of the “Fuhrer’s astrologers,” there was no cover, the full power of the British anti-aircraft installations fell on them. The same thing happened with the maneuvers of fascist submarines, which, completely unexpectedly for them, encountered carefully placed mines.
By the way, it was precisely a group of English “prophets” who proposed opening a second front in Normandy, and not in the Balkans, as was initially assumed. The fact is that the British predicted: German clairvoyants would predict to the Fuhrer the opening of a second front precisely in the Balkans. This means we need to do things differently. So Normandy was chosen. Of course, the landing there turned out to be much more difficult and dangerous, but in this place the fascist troops did not expect the enemy to land. And Prime Minister Churchill approved the plan to open a second front in Normandy. So representatives of such a non-scientific field as prophecies and predictions also contributed to the victory over fascism.
The most famous predictors of the 20th century
But two became the most legendary predictors of the 20th century: in the first half of the century, an American fortuneteller, and in the second, a Bulgarian clairvoyant. Over their long lives, hundreds of thousands of predictions were made. Casey predicted in a dream, into which he introduced himself, he was asked questions, he answered, often after and did not remember what. No wonder Cayce was called the sleeping prophet. He himself believed that during sleep his mind could connect to the brain of any person who knew the answer, or to the universal mind. Blind Vanga took a piece of sugar in her hand, which the person who came to see her had to bring with him first. Sugar crystals conveyed to Vanga all the information about a person, his environment and the future. The capabilities of Casey and Vanga were enormous: they could heal, look for losses, talk about the secrets of the past, and the events of the future.
Prudent Americans created an entire scientific institute to work with Cayce’s legacy. The prophecies themselves are recorded in a huge number of volumes and numbered. With Vanga’s prophecies, the situation is much more mysterious. She told fortunes to ordinary people who came to her from all over the world. Although scientists also worked with Vanga, they did not write down private predictions, and Vanga did not like to give global prophecies. So the currently published prophecies about the third world war or global catastrophes are legends, the so-called apocrypha of Vanga.
Real clairvoyants always emphasize that they are no exception. The prediction gene exists in all people. Of course, it is more developed among clairvoyants. But an ordinary person can also predict, even if he does not recognize any extrasensory abilities. After all, the simple girl Merna was able to find her beloved, looking for him on the basis of her prophetic dream. And writers, poets, actors, who did not have any clairvoyant abilities, could also often predict future events.
Over the centuries-old history of Russia, many things were predicted for it: from complete collapse to endless prosperity. Predictions were given by professional soothsayers, politicians, and monks.
Nostradamus
Nostradamus had never been to Russia, but he began to make predictions about Russia almost in synchronicity. Thus, he managed to predict some events from the reign of Ivan the Terrible.
Primarily related to reforms and changes, which were promoted by Archpriest Sylvester (79th quatrain of the 5th century):
Russian faith will be ordered
With the advent of the great legislator.
The meek priest will exalt himself and disturb the mighty.
However, the monarch will not use his advice for long.
In 1560, Queen Anastasia died, which caused a deep psychological change in the king’s soul. The Livonian War was lost, Ivan IV married again. Nostradamus writes:
Seven wives and a son died or were killed by the cruel monarch,
There is bloodshed all around, there is no limit to great atrocities.
The fifth wife will be thrown into the lake,
But the eighth will give birth to a son and miraculously survive.
Nostradamus also predicted the events of the church schism of the 17th century. In the 96th quatrain of the 1st century he wrote:
The one who will be entrusted with remaking
Temples and rituals, changed due to whim,
It will harm both priests and laity.
Then he himself will be in disgrace.
Peter I not only reformed the entire system of public administration, Peter’s reforms became a kind of apocalypse for “Russian antiquity.” Michel Nostradamus predicted in the 59th quatrain of the 1st century:
Exiles driven from the island
With the arrival of a more merciless sovereign
They will be killed and burned in flames.
The rebel city by the sea is destroyed.
The youngest daughter of Peter I, Elizabeth, arrested the infant Ivan VI and his mother Anna Leopoldovna. For the royal family, a journey of torment began, which ended in death. Nostradamus foresaw the fall of the power of the infant Ivan Antonovich and dedicated the 52nd quatrain of the 6th century to this event:
Instead of the great one who was doomed,
His daughter will appear, having escaped from prison,
The baby will reign for twelve months.
Then he will end up in the fortress, where he will be stabbed to death.
According to researchers, Nostradamus also predicted the events of the mid-20th century. Quatrain 80, century 4 speaks about the beginning of World War II:
There is a big ditch near the big river, the earth has been thrown out,
Divided into fifteen parts by water,
The city is taken, fire, blood, screams, battle,
Most of the population is in conflict.
Only in 1940 did the war started by Hitler become a world war. This year, German troops broke through the Maginot Line in 15 places - “divided into fifteen parts by water” - and captured not only Paris (“the city was taken”), but the entire country.
Paracelsus
The doctor, alchemist and astrologer Philip Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, known to the whole world as Paracelsus, in one of his books “Oracles”, containing 300 pages and many prophecies for the whole world until the end of the 3rd millennium, made several sensational predictions regarding Russia.
Paracelsus traveled a lot in the East, visited Tibet (biographers think so - there is a ten-year period in his life, information about which is missing).
Returning from Tibet, he uttered the first prophecy about Muscovy, as we were then called in the world: “A new huge state will appear on the big continent. It will occupy almost half of the Earth. This state will exist for a whole century and this will happen in 400 years.”
Supposedly he wrote this in 1522. If you add 400 to 1522, you get 1922 - the year the USSR was created.
At the beginning of the 16th century, Paracelsus traveled through Russia to Constantinople. He walked across the Don, since at that time this route was considered the shortest. There are no facts preserved about what he saw and heard, but after his stay in our country, the fortuneteller entrusted Russia with a great mission - the salvation of all humanity. “Muscovy will rise above all states. Not with her hand, but with her soul, she will save the world.”
True, this salvation will happen at the end of the 22nd century. It was then, if you believe Paracelsus, that terrible events will happen on earth: “The East will rise up against the West, and hundreds of fiery arrows will be released in the East. They will fall and a column of fire will rise. He will burn everything in his path."
Researchers of ancient texts are confident that Paracelsus foreshadowed the Third World War between the countries of the West and the East, during which missiles with nuclear warheads would be used: “People will be covered with deep ulcers and scabs. Their souls will rise up. The third part will die."
Paracelsus seemed to know what the consequences of atomic explosions were: he colorfully and scaryly wrote that food and water on Earth would be poisoned.
But Russia will save itself and help the whole world to be reborn: “However, some people will be able to save themselves. And the ancient people who live in Muscovy will help them in this. In Muscovy, which no one had ever thought of as a country in which something great could happen, great prosperity would shine upon the humiliated and outcast. They will conquer the Sun."
Paracelsus wrote: “There is one people that Herodotus calls Hyperboreans. The current name of this people is Muscovy. Their terrible decline, which will last for many centuries, cannot be trusted. The Hyperboreans will experience both strong decline and enormous prosperity (...) The Banner of the Cross will be hoisted on one of the mountain peaks of this country.”
In addition to the fact that Paracelsus here speaks of difficult times for Russia associated with territorial disputes, there is another version of this prediction of Paracelsus: perhaps the second coming of the Savior will happen in the Urals.
“In that very country of the Hyperboreans, which no one ever thought of as a country in which something great could happen, the Great Cross, the Divine Light from the mountain of the country of the Hyperboreans, will shine over the humiliated and rejected, and all the inhabitants of the earth will see it.”
Paracelsus believed that this should happen 500 years after his death. Why? After all, Christianity came to Rus' much earlier. The Golden Age, which will bring happiness to all living things, according to the ancient predictor, will last from 2041 to 2091. Many of us have a chance to see with our own eyes what it will be like.
Abel
During the reign of Catherine II, a monk-seer lived in the Solovetsky Monastery, his name was Abel. Abel began to prophesy about the death of the empress. For his predictions, Abel was imprisoned in the Shlisselburg fortress “under the strongest guard.”
After the death of Catherine, who died in exact accordance with Abel's prophecy, the monk was amnestied by Paul I himself.
The emperor wished to meet with the elder and listen to new forecasts from him. Abel described in detail the death of the emperor, and at the same time the unenviable future of the Romanov dynasty.
“Your reign will be short, and I see, sinner, your cruel end. You will suffer martyrdom at the hands of Sophronius of Jerusalem from unfaithful servants; you will be strangled in your bedchamber by the villains whom you warm in your royal bosom. On Holy Saturday they will bury you... They, these villains, trying to justify their great sin of regicide, will declare you insane, will revile your good memory... But the Russian people with their truthful soul will understand and appreciate you and will carry their sorrows to your tomb, asking for your intercession and softening the hearts of the unrighteous and cruel. The number of your years is like counting letters.”
The prediction that the Russian people will appreciate Paul I has not yet come true. If a survey were conducted today about the attitude of Russians towards past autocrats, Pavel would certainly be one of the outsiders.
Abel was released in peace to the Nevsky Monastery for a new monastic vow. It was there, at his second tonsure, that he received the name Abel. But the prophet could not sit in the capital’s monastery. A year after his conversation with Pavel, he appears in Moscow, where he gives predictions to local aristocrats and wealthy merchants for money.
Having earned some money, the monk goes to the Valaam Monastery. But even there Abel does not live in peace: he again takes up the pen and writes books of predictions, where he reveals the imminent death of the emperor.
Abel is brought in shackles to St. Petersburg and locked up in the Peter and Paul Fortress - “for disturbing the peace of mind of His Majesty.”
Immediately after the death of Paul I, Abel was again released from prison. This time Alexander I becomes the liberator. The new emperor warns that he sends the monk to the Solovetsky Monastery, without the right to leave the walls of the monastery. There Abel writes another book in which he predicts the capture of Moscow by Napoleon in 1812 and the burning of the city.
The prediction reaches the king and he orders to calm Abel’s imagination in the Solovetsky prison. “The Frenchman will burn Moscow down under Him, and He will take Paris from him and call him Blessed. But secret sorrow will become unbearable to Him, and the Royal crown will seem heavy to Him. He will replace the feat of Royal service with the feat of fasting and prayer. He will be righteous in the eyes of God: he will be a white monk in the world. I saw over the Russian land the star of the great saint of God. It burns, it flares up. This ascetic will bring about Alexandrov’s entire destiny...”
According to legend, Alexander I did not die in Taganrog, but turned into elder Fyodor Kuzmich and went to wander around Rus'.
When in 1812 the Russian army surrenders Moscow to the French, and Belokamennaya, as the monk predicted, almost burns to the ground, the impressed Alexander I orders: “Release Abel from the Solovetsky Monastery, give him a passport to all Russian cities and monasteries, provide him with money and clothes.” "
Once free, Abel decided not to irritate the royal family any longer, but went on a trip to the Holy Places: he visited Mount Athos, Jerusalem, and Constantinople. Then he settles in the Trinity-Sergeyeva Lavra. For some time he behaves quietly, until, after the accession of Nicholas I, he breaks through again.
The new emperor did not like to stand on ceremony, so “for the sake of humility” he sent the monk into captivity in the Suzdal Spaso-Efimovsky Monastery, where in 1841 Abel reposed before the Lord. “The beginning of the reign of Your son Nicholas will begin with a fight, a Voltairean rebellion. This will be a malicious seed, a destructive seed for Russia. If it weren’t for the grace of God covering Russia, then... About a hundred years after that, the House of the Most Holy Theotokos will become impoverished, and the Russian Power will turn into an abomination of desolation.”
Grigory Rasputin
Grigory Rasputin was one of the most mysterious personalities in Russian history, and his insight became the talk of the town even during the life of the “elder”. He foresaw the death of the royal family long before it happened. This is what he wrote: “Every time I hug the Tsar and Mother, and the girls, and the Tsarevich, I shudder with horror, as if I were hugging the dead... And then I pray for these people, because in Rus' they are in need more than anyone else. And I pray for the Romanov family, because the shadow of a long eclipse falls on them.”
Rasputin predicted the coming of a new government in Russia: “Darkness will fall on St. Petersburg. When his name is changed, then the empire will end."
The “elder” foresaw his own death. He said that if he was killed not by “simple robbers”, but by nobles - “relatives of the Tsar,” then the future of Russia and the royal family would be terrible. “The nobles will flee the country, and the king’s relatives will not be alive in two years, and brothers will rebel against brothers and kill each other.”
Rasputin also had predictions of a man-made nature. For example this. Researchers believe that Rasputin is talking about nuclear power plants here.
“Towers will be built all over the world... they will be castles of death. Some of these castles will collapse, and from these wounds will flow rotten blood that will infect the earth and the sky. Because clots of infected blood, like predators, will fall on our heads. And many clots will fall to the ground, and the land where they fall will become desolate for seven generations.”
Death of an Empire
It must be said that the fall of the monarchy in Russia and the death of the Romanov dynasty were predicted more than once. When Alexandra Feodorovna (wife of Nicholas II) visited the Tithe Monastery in Novgorod in 1916, Elder Maria, holding out her hands to her, said: “Here comes the Martyr - Queen Alexandra.”
The already mentioned Rasputin also spoke about the tragic end of the last royal family, but even earlier such predictions were made by the Monk Seraphim of Sarov.
It is known that the wife of Alexander II, Maria Alexandrovna, on March 2, 1855, retold the prophecy of Seraphim of Sarov about the death of the last emperor and his family to her maid of honor Anna Tyutcheva.
The Empress herself learned about the prediction from Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, to whom the elder told his revelations.
Nicholas II apparently knew Abel’s prophecy, since, according to those close to him, he repeatedly said: “Until 1918, I was not afraid of anything.”
"Incessantly crazy girl
She shouted: “I clearly see the fallen ashes of Troy!”
But clairvoyants, however, like eyewitnesses
Throughout the ages people have been burned at the stake."
V.S. Vysotsky, “Song of Things to Cassandra”
Thank God, these are not the times of Troy, and no one is burning witches at the stake. In our present time, there are plenty of people who see the future. But do we want to hear them? Here's a question...Isn’t it easier to take the “ostrich” position and not know anything in advance? After all, it seems like you can’t run away from fate...
Or is it still better to know, at least approximately, what is ahead, and take your own path in life, finally turning away from someone else’s? At least we have the opportunity to try to do this. As they say, forewarned is forearmed.
Great Forecasters
Nostradamus
The quatrains of Michel Nostradamus can, of course, be interpreted as you please. During the medieval Inquisition, a poor French doctor, in order to avoid the bonfire, had to veil his predictions. Therefore, we will not find any references to the exact events from him.And yet, smart people have deciphered what can please us.
For example, Genetic Engineering until the middle of the 21st century will develop by leaps and bounds. What will this give us? Hope. In my opinion, this is the most precious thing that can be given to humanity.
By 2035, doctors will treat malignant oncological diseases at any stage.
HIV-infected people can calm down a little - they will finally find cure for AIDS.
A tablet will be invented that can recognize viruses from a distance. That is, we will say goodbye to all colds.
Sick people can only wish them patience and wait for this wonderful moment.
Vanga
When the question concerns predictions, how can we do without the great Vanga?! In 2046, she promised us that any organs would be grown, like cucumbers in garden beds. So, there will be no problems with transplantation. And what? Very convenient: if something hurts, quickly exchange the old organ for a new one and move on with your life!China will become a world power in the very near future. Well, it’s enough to just be a seer to predict it.
Polar ice is melting. The level of the world's oceans is rising. We are already seeing this trend.
Our parents witnessed the first manned flight into space. And you and I can become not just eyewitnesses of flights to Venus, but also direct participants in trips to the planet of beauty! By the way, according to scientists, Venus is the most suitable planet for human habitation. So, let's get ready!
Her more interesting predictions concern subsequent centuries and end with the year 5079, in which Vanga promises us the end of the world. Well, let's hope that you and I won't live to see that.
Edgar Cayce
Let’s read what the most famous “sleeping” predictor of the 20th century, Edgar Cayce, tells us. His predictions, alas, are not as rosy as those of the Bulgarian clairvoyant. According to Casey, our Earth will face endless earthquakes and cataclysms. They will be of such a scale that they will destroy continents and radically change the globe. Somehow everything is sad for the American soothsayer. It would be better if he slept, by God!But if you dig around, you can find good news here too. For example, in his book “Memoirs,” Casey writes: “The mission of the Slavic peoples is to change the essence of human relationships, to free them from selfishness and gross material passions, to restore them on a new basis - on love, trust and wisdom...” So, Slavs, keep your heads up!
Great science fiction writers
What A. Belyaev, I. Efremov, E. Wells, J. Verne and many others wrote about in their magnificent novels is already becoming a reality. Before we know it, Belyaev’s “The Head of Professor Dowell” or Wells’ “The Island of Doctor Moreau” will enter our lives and become something commonplace. I’m generally silent about Julievern’s submarines; they have been in our lives for a long time. And K. Tsiolkovsky, with three classes of education? The then secular society chuckled at his ideas about creating space rockets. We've had enough of it. So don't be surprised if home nanofactories become a necessity. They will be able to provide us with everything we need, producing food, clothing and medicine, literally, from industrial waste.Biorobots can join the usual pets. These new family members will be able to do all the housework for us, 24 hours a day. By the way, these same robots are able to replace us at work. So, gentlemen scientists, be careful, please! Besides, the world is already saturated with all sorts of technical bells and whistles. So it won’t be surprising if one day machines turn against their creators. Well, never mind, by that time we will already be on Venus!
As Ivan Vasilyevich said from the famous film: “I am tormented by vague doubts.” So I ask myself the question: I wonder if these writers were so cool that they accurately predicted the future in their books? Or are these scientists using the ideas of science fiction writers?
Wait and see. But let's not forget that the future, regardless of any predictions, will be a direct consequence of our thoughts, words and actions today.