The quatrains of Nostradamus are a mysterious part of the legacy of the great soothsayer, alchemist and esotericist. It is believed that the future of all humanity is encrypted in them, but for a long time the quatrains could not be deciphered.
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Centuries and quatrains of Nostradamus - what are they?
Quatrains Nostradamus are poems in which, as is commonly believed, the future is encrypted, seen by a soothsayer who lived several centuries ago. The Seer believed that such information should not be available to every inhabitant of our planet. That is why the poems of Nostradamus are encrypted.
Quatrains are quatrains; the fortuneteller wrote almost a thousand prophetic verses, it is believed. Overall, it is rich and clearly contains a lot of knowledge. However, most of the knowledge accumulated by this esotericist and astrologer has not been deciphered to this day. Most of Nostradamus's notes are incoherent sentences and calculations that are incomprehensible to the uninitiated.
Centuries Nostradamus is books with quatrains. In total he wrote twelve books. Each of them contains approximately one hundred verses. As is known from, he preferred the French language, therefore his legacy was written in the same language. This makes it even more difficult for Russian translators to decipher them. An example of a century that is not interpreted:
The Young Prince is falsely accused (option: he will accuse in vain),
Will bring confusion and discord into the camp, -
The leader will be killed because of support,
The scepter is pacified: then it will heal the sick.
The books of predictions of Nostradamus are a mystery to this day. Interestingly, they are also encrypted, but a considerable part of them became known to a wide circle of people.
The Nostradamus Code - the keys to deciphering prophecies
It is believed that in quatrain 93 of the third century, the prophet himself described how and when his prophecies would be deciphered. The quatrain is translated as follows:
When will they count down another five hundred years?
The one who was the beauty of his generation,
New light will be shed on their revolution,
Which will lead everyone to admiration for the century.
Now it is customary to interpret it as follows - the quatrain was written in 1550. If you count five hundred years from the time of its writing, you get the date - 2050. It is believed that this year a person will appear who will study the so-called Nostradamus code and will be able to reveal its secrets.
To date, there is no single correct version of Nostradamus’ decoding. What the great soothsayer tried to tell future generations remained a mystery. However, perhaps the decipherers of his quatrains are right, and there are only thirty-four years left to wait for someone who can shed light on the secrets of past centuries.
Until then, you can familiarize yourself with popular versions of the French soothsayer code. Thus, Daniel Ruzo in 1962 put forward a version that the will of Nostradamus is actually a code for deciphering his quatrains. The will is recognized by scientists as too strange to fulfill its direct functions - to convey the will of the deceased to the relatives.
The magician's will consists of two parts, and the second part was written exactly 13 days later than the first. It consists of 13 pages. The will contains a requirement to divide all property into 13 unequal parts and give it to 13 heirs. The property consists of 22 cloth, 22 pewter and 22 other objects. The money is received by 22 heirs - nine relatives and 13 beggars. The total amount of ducats is equal to the total number of quatrains in the first century.
Another version calls typos in Nostradamus’s texts in direct letters, which the author himself said in one of his works:
The sacred order will show you in straight letters the treasures of the East and the West.
If you look at Nostradamus’s typos, you will notice strange coincidences. Thus, straight letters are given in the amount of 11 pieces. Such typos occur on 11 pages. Page 47 will have special significance, since 4+7=11. There are exactly 11 typos on this page. On other pages there are either 22 or 13 typos.
Nostradamus - message to Henry II and son Caesar
As mentioned above, it is not only the centuries and quatrains of the fortuneteller that are of interest. It is believed that there are some clues that can shed light on the secrets of the future of humanity, and they are found in the will, the message to Henry from Nostradamus, as well as the preface to the quatrains addressed to the son of the fortuneteller Caesar.
Thus, in a letter to Henry, Nostradamus wrote that he was able to calculate and calculate the dates and meaning of prophecies about the future, starting from a certain moment. Based on this phrase from the letter, scientists concluded that the quatrains and centuries of Nostradamus are precisely prophecies, and not just poetry.
The prophecies of Nostradamus indicate the dates from the creation of the world according to the Bible and until those times that have not yet come. The soothsayer himself, in a message to Henry II, indicated that they were used to hide the real dating of future events.
Regarding the written address to his son Caesar, scientists were interested in only one phrase. It translates like this:
The world is approaching an anaragonistic revolution. In 177 years, 3 months and 11 days, the population will be so reduced from pestilence, long famine, wars and floods, between this moment and the specified limit.
It is believed that Nostradamus believed in some kind of collapse of the world or the end of the world, which would happen in 2065-2066. It is from here that the general decline of human civilization will begin, which will continue until 2242.
In general, the predictions of Nostradamus, encrypted in quatrains, may seem interesting to almost everyone. However, as the prophet himself believed, the person who was able to decipher his secrets had not yet been born.
Interpreters of the creative heritage of Michel Nostradamus today are looking for indications of 2012 in his works, because they are confident that a real predictor would not leave such a date unattended. These expectations are not without meaning, since, judging by the numerous coincidences between the interpretations of Nostradamus’s quatrains and historical events, the 16th-century doctor managed to grasp certain patterns in the development of civilization.
Michel de Notredame was born on December 14, 1503 in the small town of Saint-Rémy in Provence into the family of the notary Jaume de Notredame, who shortly before was forced to choose Catholicism over the Jewish faith (according to the decree of Louis XII that determined the fate of French Jews). The family of the future master of Nostradamus was very wealthy: according to the “Chronicle of Provence” by Cesar de Notredame (one of the sons of Nostradamus), Michel’s great-grandfathers were doctors at the courts of the rulers of Provence - Count Rene the Good and the Duke of Calabria. Relatives of Nostradamus continued to secretly observe the rituals of Judaism. Thus, Michel’s worldview was based on two faiths: first of all, the Jewish one, which was certainly accompanied by an atmosphere of dangerous secrecy, and, of course, the officially introduced Catholicism.
In 1521, Michel de Notredame received his Master of Arts degree in Avignon. The next eight years of the young master’s life fell out of the attention of biographers - according to Nostradamus himself, they were spent in wanderings and research, the purpose of which was the accumulation of medical and pharmaceutical knowledge. In 1529, he entered the medical faculty of the University of Montpellier and, despite several conflict situations with teachers, came out with a doctorate and the right to write his last name in the Latin manner: Nostradamus. During the new stage of his wanderings that followed, Nostradamus became close friends with the famous scientist, poet and humanist figure Jules Cesar Scaliger, and then settled in the town of Agen. However, in 1537, a plague came to this city, from which the wife and children of Nostradamus died. A year later, the doctor was imprisoned by the Holy Inquisition on charges of blasphemy - according to an anonymous denunciation, he spoke unflatteringly about one of the sculptures of the Virgin Mary. However, the accusation was found to be false. Once free, Nostradamus soon left Agen - apparently, this happened after a quarrel with Cesar Scaliger, from whom the doctor subsequently received a number of caustic epigrams - including accusations of hidden Judaism.
Michel de Notredame, who gained fame as the greatest seer of all times
For the next few years, Michel de Notredame practiced medicine in Italy and Germany. In 1546, he again found himself in France, where he took an active part in the fight against the plague in the city of Aix in Provence - so active that the city’s parliament awarded the doctor a lifelong pension. A year later, Nostradamus remarried (his second marriage subsequently brought him 6 children).
Soon Nostradamus managed to break through the veil of church censorship and begin publishing an annual astrological almanac. The first issue was published in 1555 in Lyon. At the same time, the first edition of “The Prophecies of Master Michel Nostradamus” was published, which consisted of 353 predictions, made in the form of quatrains (quatrains) and an epistolary preface in the spirit of the times - “Letters to his son Cesar.” But, despite the fact that the Catholic Church had previously given the go-ahead for the publication of the fortuneteller’s works, Nostradamus still had to justify his quatrains again and again in the face of “God’s representatives on Earth.” Then secular power joined the church, which made the astrologer’s life unbearable - he moved from place to place, until in 1558, in the preface to the last part of the “Centuries” (collections of 100 quatrains), he addressed King Henry II. The soothsayer called the monarch the ruler of the world and in an allegorical form revealed to him the future of humanity for many centuries to come. A year later, Henry II died at a tournament, perhaps without having time to familiarize himself with Nostradamus’ extensive message. It is assumed that the predictor wrote about the future death of the king back in the first “Century” (its 35th quatrain), and it is possible that it was thanks to this prediction that turned out to be correct that Nostradamus received an audience with Catherine de Medici.
In 1561, the astrologer was taken into custody in his own house in Provence, in the city of Salon, - the authorities demanded from him a detailed description of the life and future achievements of the young king Charles IX. It is known that Nostradamus composed his response letter in such a way that, on the one hand, he gave in to the persistent wishes of those in power, but on the other hand, he did not say anything specific. The text of the letter, unfortunately, has not been preserved.
In 1564, Michel Nostradamus received the post of court physician and so, being at the peak of his career, died from complications of gout on July 2, 1566. Over his grave in the Salon there was a slab with the inscription: “Here lie the bones of the famous Michel Nostradamus, the only mortal who was worthy to capture with his almost divine pen, thanks to the influence of the stars, the future events of the whole world.”
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The first complete edition of “The Prophecies of Master Michel Nostradamus” appeared in 1568 - 2 years after the death of the predictor. It contained all ten "Centuries", which included 942 quatrains - it is known that the seventh "Centuria" remained incomplete. The publication also included the entire prose address to Henry II, consisting of prophecies, and a “Letter to his son Cesar,” explaining the occult views of Nostradamus. It was the quatrains that brought Michel de Notredame the posthumous fame of the greatest, apart from biblical characters, seer in the world.
Nostradamus owes his lifetime popularity to his annual astrological almanacs, which were regularly published from 1555 to 1567. Most of this almanac was occupied by predictions in prose. In addition, one quatrain was dedicated to the next year as a whole and each of its months separately.
Page of the first edition of “The Prophecies of Master Michel Nostradamus”
The prophetic verses of Nostradamus set out the history of the future in an allegorical form, so they can have a lot of different interpretations. This is both their disadvantage and advantage, since it is unknown what the proportion of coincidences would be if the predictor spoke about specific dates and events. It often turns out that one or another quatrain is indeed suitable for describing events that have already happened, but these quatrains can hardly be used for confident forecasts for the future.
This does not prevent followers of Nostradamus from attributing to their idol descriptions of all significant events in human history for thousands of years to come. For example, according to interpreters, the 32nd quatrain of the fifth “Century” warns about the American disaster of September 11, 2001:
Where everything is good and beautiful - the Sun and the Moon, abundance -
Ruin is coming,
It will come from the sky to cast your fate
To the state of the seventh stone...
Despite the fact that this prediction is one of those that do not have a chronological reference, thousands of people around the world are confident that Nostradamus still managed to foresee the destruction of the World Trade Center skyscrapers that occurred as a result of the terrorist attack. In alchemy, the Sun and Moon symbolize gold and silver, and the “seventh stone” (“seventh metal”) is mercury, which in this context signifies destruction. Thus, the quatrain really speaks of a catastrophe coming from heaven to the center of wealth - according to interpreters, this is enough to give specific meaning to the general prophecy.
However, the legacy of Nostradamus includes many predictions that came true with dates embedded in them. Below are just a few examples of such prophecies.
Thousands of people around the world are confident that Nostradamus managed to foresee the destruction of the World Trade Center skyscrapers that occurred as a result of the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001
Galileo Galilei demonstrates the telescope and sketches of the observations made with its help to the “scientific” cardinals. As you know, church leaders were not impressed by the scientist’s achievements. Or they were imbued with it, but misunderstood them...
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An adapted translation of the 71st quatrain of the eighth “Centuria” into Russian looks like this:
The number of astronomers will increase so much
Persecuted, banished and banned books
In the year 1607 thanks to the holy cups,
That no one can be saved from the holy gifts.
In 1607, Johannes Kepler's work “New Astronomy” was published, laying the foundation for modern astronomy. A year later, the telescope (spotting scope) was invented. The operating principle of this device, which was simple at that time, became generally known, which led to a wave of enthusiasm for officially prohibited astronomy. The discoveries of Galileo Galilei and many astronomers who disappeared into obscurity in the basements of the Holy Inquisition and the “Towers of Jesters” (a prison and a madhouse at the same time) date back to the same time. Few people were truly saved from the “sacred gifts.”
49th quatrain of the first "Century":
Eastern people, led by lunar power,
In 1700 they will make great campaigns,
Almost conquering the corner of Aquilon.
The traditional poetic meaning of Aquilon is “the land of the north wind.” In 1700, the Northern War of Russia and its allies against Sweden began, as a result of which the “corner of Aquilon” - the Baltic states - went to Russia. Speaking about “people led by lunar power,” the soothsayer, according to interpreters, means that the Northern War (1700-1721) coincides in time with the peak of the astrological epoch of the Moon - therefore, the cause of wars lies in its destructive influence.
25th quatrain of the same “Centuria”:
The lost is found, hidden for a long century,
This pastor will be revered as a demigod
Thus the Moon, having completed its cycle,
Will be defiled by other desires.
According to the concept of planetary ages, formulated by the Jewish philosopher Abraham ibn Ezra in the 12th century, the age of the Moon begins in 1535 and ends in 1889. This year the future “pastor” Adolf Hitler was born. “Demi-god” (superman) is the main figure of the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, whose works inspired Hitler to create his own ideology.
In his message to Henry II - the same one that never reached its immediate addressee, but became the property of mankind - Nostradamus mentions the French Revolution of 1792.
In addition, the same message contains a prediction of the rise and fall of the USSR: “And in the month of October it will happen that some great movement will occur - such that they will think that the colossus of the Earth has lost its natural direction and plunged into eternal darkness. Before this, in the springtime, and after this, there will be exceptional changes and shifts of power, great earthquakes, with the growth of New Babylonia, a despicable daughter, increased by the abomination of the first Holocaust, and it will last only 73 years and 7 months.” Surprisingly, the period of existence of the Soviet Union is indicated here almost without error.
Probably, in the quatrains of Nostradamus one can really find a warning about cataclysms that could befall humanity in 2012 or in the foreseeable future. But even today, when there is not much left until this, apparently, turning point date, it is almost impossible to guess which of the probabilities will prevail first - too many threats to the existence of humanity have converged at one point in time. Therefore, now it is difficult to say what exactly you need to look for in quatrains. Perhaps the quatrain about the catastrophe will be found after the fact - if, of course, there are those willing to look for it in the ruins of human civilization.
For five centuries now, the image of the seer Nostradamus has been an integral part of the cultural space of human civilization. In the picture: a fragment from the computer game “The Mysteries of Nostradamus. In search of the ring of fate"
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Michel de Notredame, better known as Nostradamus, is a fortuneteller, doctor, alchemist, who described future events in a rather vague form... The books of Nostradamus' predictions are written in the form of so-called centuries (one century has 100 lines) and quatrains. It is widely believed that the predictions cover a period of 2240 years - from 1557 to 3797. He is also the author of two letters: one was intended for King Henry II of France, the second for his son Caesar.
Michel de Notredame born December 14, 1503 in the town of Saint-Rémy in Provence in a family of Jews who converted to Catholicism in the 15th century. According to family legend, his ancestors served as doctors at the courts of Rene the Good and the Duke of Calabria. The father of the future fortuneteller, Jaume de Notredame, was a notary, his grandfather, Pierre de Notredame, and his great-grandfather, Davin de Carcassonne, were engaged in trade in Avignon in the south of France.
Michel studied in Avignon and in 1521 received a Master of Arts degree. In the next eight years of his life, he was engaged in self-education: he constantly traveled with the goal of “learning and learning the sources and origin of plants and other simple substances relating to the pinnacle of medical science,” as he himself wrote in his book. During one of his wanderings, he meets the famous astrologer and scientist Jules Cesar Scaliger. He then continued to study medicine at the medical faculty of the University of Montpellier, from where he was almost expelled for his harsh statements about teachers and his passion for prohibited pharmaceuticals (from then on he began to write his surname in the Latin manner: “Nostradamus”). In 1534, he finally received his doctorate.
A tragedy occurred in the life of Nostradamus in those years: his wife and children died from the plague. In addition, the Inquisition began to take an interest in him.
After new travels in Italy and Germany, Nostradamus 1544 resumes medical practice in Marseille, and two years later he fights the plague in the southeast of France and even, according to legend, invents a remedy for the plague, the recipe of which, however, was subsequently lost. For his dedicated work, doctor Michel Nostradamus was awarded a lifetime pension by the Aix-en-Provence Parliament. There were legends about the miraculous power of the medicines he created, but the recipes preserved from the time of his medical practice do not go beyond the scope of traditional medicine of the 16th century.
In 1547 he married again - to Anna Ponsard, from whose marriage he subsequently had six children.
The famous doctor unexpectedly became interested in astrology and prophecies.
This turn of events interested the authorities in Paris, who intended to interrogate Nostradamus about what sciences he practices and how he makes predictions. Deciding not to tempt fate, he left for Italy, where he continued his activity as a fortuneteller.
In 1558 he turned to the French king Henry II, calling him the ruler of the world and revealing to him the history of mankind in a vague form for many centuries to come. The following year, the king died at a tournament, and in 1561, Nostradamus himself barely managed to avoid death from Catholic peasants, who accused him of sympathy for the French Protestants - the Huguenots. A few years later, the fortuneteller became the royal physician and adviser to Catherine de Medici, regent of the French throne.
In 1566 Nostradamus died from complications of gout. On the marble slab above his grave is carved the inscription “Here lie the bones of the famous Michel Nostradamus, the only mortal who was worthy to capture with his almost divine pen, thanks to the influence of the stars, the future events of the whole world.” According to his will, he was buried standing. What caused such a strange wish is unknown. As a physician, Nostradamus knew for sure that over time the bones would fall and pile up.
In 1791, during the French Revolution, the church in which his burial was located was destroyed.
The creative heritage of Nostradamus includes 10 centuries (942 quatrains), prefaces to them (letters to his son Cesar and King Henry), a number of quatrains without numbering, annual almanacs since 1555, as well as a number of non-prophetic works, in particular a free translation of the “Interpretation of the Hieroglyphs of Horapollo.” The archives preserved the will and personal correspondence of Nostradamus. There are also a number of manuscripts, the authorship of which is not precisely established, but which are attributed to Nostradamus.
The main theme of his predictions is the political future of Europe, up to the beginning of the astrological era of Saturn, which Nostradamus defines as the “Golden Age”. The prediction ends with an almost quotation from the Bible: “The end; the wolf, the lion, the bull and the donkey, the timid doe will be with the dogs.” Nostradamus describes in detail the three Antichrists: the first of them will appear in the “lands of Attila” and create a new Babylonia, which will exist for 73 years and 7 months; the second will unleash a war in the center of Europe, and the third should lead the union of the countries of the North and the East at the end of time. “The third is worse than the first, more terrible than Nero. Run, brave men, so as not to shed blood. He orders the stove to be put on. The golden age is dead, great sin."
Many works devoted to this topic tried to explain the predictions of Nostradamus. One of the books, written by Jean Charles de Fontbren, volume of 600 pages, was published in Paris in 1980. This book gained particular popularity in 1981, as the assassination attempt on the Pope recalled the coincidence with one of the prophecies of Nostradamus. Fontbren's words that Nostradamus predicted the third world war in 1998 fueled interest in this work.
According to this interpretation, Nostradamus foresaw the following events that occurred during his lifetime from 1529 to 1969:
1529 - the Turks besieged Vienna;
1536 - Canada discovered;
1546 - The Portuguese reach Japan.
After the death of Nostradamus, the following predictions were fulfilled:
1582 - the Gregorian calendar was introduced;
1597 - flintlock guns began to be used;
1618 - The thermometer was invented;
1642 - Australia discovered;
1769 - the steam engine appeared in England;
1776 - The United States declared independence;
1778 - the hot air balloon is invented;
1789 - revolution in France;
1795 - electricity discovered;
1812 - Napoleon is defeated in Russia;
1825 - the first railway in England;
1844 - the telegraph is invented;
1866 - dynamite invented;
1869 - the Suez Canal was dug;
1873 - the electric light bulb appeared;
1876 - the telephone is invented;
1895 - X-ray machine invented
1903 - the first aircraft was built;
1912 - war in the Balkans;
1914 - the Panama Canal was dug;
1914 - the beginning of the First World War;
1917 - October Revolution in Russia;
1925 - the birth of television;
1927 - Lindbergh's flight across the Atlantic Ocean;
1927 - the first sound film was made;
1929 - the beginning of the great economic crisis;
1939 - the beginning of World War II;
1961 - first man in space;
1969 - first man on the moon.
In addition, Nostradamus predicted many other events: disasters, diseases, earthquakes, famines... In the future, he foresaw the settlement of Europe by the yellow race. He predicts the appearance of an invisible celestial body, which he calls the White Star, eclipses of the Sun and Moon, weather anomalies caused by “trips into space,” floods and new diseases.
He predicted St. Bartholomew's Night of 1572, the Thirty Years' War of 1618-1648, the reign of Louis XIV, the rise and fall of Napoleon, the Austro-Italian War, the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo, and the appearance of intelligent beings from outer space.
Nostradamus wrote that in a barbarian state, a significant part of the court nobility would be sent to death. Was this a prediction of the October Revolution? It is quite possible, especially if you consider that only Tatarstan - Muscovy - was called a “barbarian state” in Europe at that time.
The lines “grand myths will deceive people, and they will commit many misfortunes” fully reflect the vicissitudes of the 20th century. Nostradamus calls Geneva the “garden of the world” and predicts that it will be destroyed and poisoned. However, the events that await Europe in the 22nd century can be avoided if the continent is united, and the center of power is located in Switzerland. Nostradamus predicts a time in Europe when peace and freedom will reign there.
In Palestine there will be a long war between the Arabs and the Jews until the Jews are defeated. After this, the Arabs will have a desire to conquer Europe.
Nostradamus predicts the invasion of the yellow race after a “strange fish with a human head” is found in the Adriatic Sea. He predicts endless rains, hot winds, devastated fields.
But then, under the influence of the Moon, peace and prosperity will be established.
He also foresaw great changes in the solar system: the Moon and many stars would approach the Earth, which would cause cataclysms and climate change on the entire planet. People and animals will move from one hemisphere to the other.
This is all, of course, one of the many interpretations of famous predictions, written unclearly and allegorically.
The prophecies of Nostradamus were criticized both during his life and after his death. The main argument of critics is that his predictions are too vague and unspecific and each phrase of his quatrains can be interpreted in dozens of different ways, adjusting the interpretation to events that have already happened. Indeed, so far no one has been able to predict a single future event based on the texts of the quatrains. But this does not stop the interpreters of Nostradamus’s texts, of which there has been no shortage for almost half a millennium - ever since a doctor from France suddenly began writing down obscure lines about future events.
Prophecies of Nostradamus
Michel de Notredame, better known as Nostradamus, was born on December 14, 1503 in Saint-Rémy (Provence, France) into a family of baptized Jews. He received his initial education at home, and this education covered classical literature, history, astrology, medicine and traditional medicine. He graduated from the University of Avignon, where he studied philosophy, grammar and rhetoric.
His fame as a doctor came to him when he discovered a cure for the Black Death, a plague that devastated Europe in the sixteenth century. This medicine “consisted” of fresh air, clean water and vitamin C; Thanks to Nostradamus's medicine, dozens of people were saved - but Nostradamus was unable to save his wife and two children. They died in 1537, and Nostradamus left Aachen, where he then lived, and embarked on a journey that lasted six years.
The beginning of the prophecies
Around this time, he felt the “awakening” of his prophetic abilities. In 1547, Nostradamus settled in the city of Salon, where he remarried and where he had six children - three daughters and three sons. He turned the top floor of his house in Salona into a laboratory - with magic mirrors, astrolabes, a brazier and a tripod, made in the image and likeness of the sacred tripod in the temple of Apollo at Delphi.
In 1550, after much deliberation, Nostradamus published an almanac containing twenty-four prophetic quatrains (quatrains). The popularity of the almanac among the public exceeded all the author's expectations, and until the end of his life Nostradamus was simply forced to release similar almanacs every year.
He began the famous “Centuries” in 1554; a year later, the first four parts were published, each containing one hundred quatrains. The last, tenth part of “Centuries” was published in 1558. It is believed that in one of the quatrains of this part, Nostradamus predicted his own death. Legend has it that on the evening of July 1, 1566, he told his assistant, who wished him good night: “In the morning I will no longer be alive.” And the next morning he was found lifeless on the office floor.
In accordance with his will, Nostradamus was buried in the cemetery of the Franciscan monastery; on the tombstone it is written: “Here lies the ashes of Michel Nostradamus, the only mortal who, by the will of heaven, was granted the grace to write down with his almost divine pen the events of the coming years.”
Manuscripts of Nostradamus
The creative heritage of Nostradamus is quite large. There are also medical treatises in which various drug recipes are combined with cosmetic recommendations and memoirs. There are also works of art (“Interpretation of the hieroglyphs of Horapollo”, “Paraphrase of Galen”). There are numerous astrological almanac calendars, as well as extensive correspondence (however, little studied and not even fully published). However, the main work of Nostradamus was and remains the famous prophetic book - “The Prophecies of Master Michel Nostradamus.”
What is this creation? This is about a thousand quatrains, combined into chapters (centuries) of 100 quatrains each. In addition, the book includes two prose prophecies, written in the form of a letter to his son Cesar and a message to King Henry II. By the way, the message was published only after the death of Nostradamus, in 1568.
The quatrains are vague in content, they contain very few specific dates, and the chronology is not followed. True, quite often they contain dates of an astronomical nature, for example: “When Mars, Venus and Mercury are in retrograde motion...”, “When Mars and Saturn are equally combusted” (i.e., the conjunction of these two planets will be in a certain aspect to the point of solar eclipse). But even if it is possible to at least approximately establish the year, the nature of the event still remains unclear before it occurs.
Most modern scientists who have studied the prophecies of Nostradamus believe that there is “something” in these quatrains. They estimate the accuracy of predictions to be approximately 70-85%. Nostradamus was especially successful in his predictions about the future of Great Britain - here their accuracy is close to 100%. The reasons, as they say, are unknown.
Nostradamus himself wrote in a letter to Cesar that the predictions covered Europe, Asia and part of Africa and extended to the period up to 3797. Studies of the text of the prophecies made it possible to establish that the date of 3797 is a crude camouflage covering 2242 - the first year of the 7th millennium “from creation of the world” according to the Old Testament chronology, the year of the onset, according to Nostradamus, of the end of the world. The Last Judgment will occur even later - in 3242.
In addition, modern researchers believe that in his prophecies Nostradamus predicted the future of the USA, Japan, Australia and almost Antarctica. However, of these countries, only America is mentioned by the soothsayer (“America”; “West, free of the British Isles”; “New Earth”).
Prediction for 2010
2010 is just around the corner. According to Chinese astrology, this will be the year of the White Tiger.
And of course, I want to know what famous soothsayers and astrologers predict for us this year.
Nostradamus encrypted his prediction for 2010 in the text of the X century, X quatrain. The original reads like this:
Attempted murder, terrible adultery,
Great enemy of the entire human race,
Which will be worse than his ancestors, uncles and parents.
The bloodthirsty and inhuman [will rule] with sword, fire, water.
The essence of the prediction according to the method of adding 3 letters of each line, known in a narrow circle of interpreters of the great prophet, will sound like this: “Satanic arc of rage.” "Satanic Arc" - the flight path of a ballistic missile.
There are many versions of what is discussed in the quatrain: about the destroyer of skyscrapers Osama Bin Laden, or about the presidents of Iran - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Venezuela - Hugo Chavez, America - Barack Obama, Russia - Dmitry Medvedev. Or about the Leader of the DPRK Kim Jong Il. Choose who likes what.
There are also such versions (M. Dimde, S. V. Korsun, S. A. Khvorostukhina, A. P. Krasnyashchikh, A. I. Denikin):
- Japan creates the first underwater settlements and aquafarms;
- Poland joins the union of Slavic peoples;
- November 2010 - October 2014 the possibility of unleashing a Third World War using chemical and bacteriological weapons (an acute confrontation between Muslim and Euro-Atlantic values);
- weakening of the Vatican's influence on believers and world politics;
- conflict between France and Great Britain.
- hydrogen sulfide disaster in the Black Sea.
- the threat of armed conflict on the Crimean Peninsula;
- economic downturn in Europe;
- confrontation between the USA and Western European countries;
- an attempt at revenge by Islamic fundamentalists.
The future is just around the corner: 2009-2029
The following calendar of future events in human history has been prepared on the basis of interpretations of Nostradamus’s quatrains, made at one time by S.V. Korsun (1990), Manfred Dimde (1996), S.A. Khvorostukhina (2002), A.P. Krasnyashchikh (2005) and A.I. Denikina (2006). This “calendar” is a reprint of 2006, which makes the forecast interesting from the point of view of being open-minded to the facts, since at the time of publication no one could have predicted them.
2009-2012 - crisis of the system of organization of state power and government structure in Ukraine and the USA.
2010 - Japan creates the first underwater settlements and aquafarms; Poland joins the union of Slavic peoples; November 2010 - October 2014 the possibility of unleashing a Third World War using chemical and bacteriological weapons (an acute confrontation between Muslim and Euro-Atlantic values); weakening of the Vatican's influence on believers and world politics; conflict between France and Great Britain.
2010-2011 - hydrogen sulfide disaster in the Black Sea.
2011-2012 - threat of armed conflict on the Crimean peninsula; economic downturn in Europe; confrontation between the USA and Western European countries; an attempt at revenge by Islamic fundamentalists.
2011-2014 - creation by Japan of an invulnerable missile defense system; the beginning of the political careers of four global political leaders.
2011 - the beginning of the strongest economic and political crisis in Europe; a radioactive disaster in the Northern Hemisphere, from which England would suffer the most; the possibility of Islamic fundamentalists using nuclear and chemical weapons as a result of the seizure of a nuclear submarine; declassification of data on an attempt by one of the space powers to make a solo manned flight to Mars; a secret Islamic fundamentalist could provoke a world war.
2012 - peak of the global economic crisis; creation by Ukraine of a new generation of rocket engines; receiving an artificial signal from Space containing scientific information that is fundamentally important for humanity.
2013 - damage to cereal crops by an unknown disease; the possibility of a bacteriological attack on London.
2013-2019 - increasing influence of African states on world politics.
2014 - growing cloned organs of the human body in laboratories; a surge in skin diseases among the population of European countries.
2015 - (in another version, 2029) - a revolution in the energy sector, the discovery of a method for obtaining cheap solar energy and its wireless transportation; ending the war in the Middle East with the active participation of Ukraine, which will come up with a number of peace initiatives.
2015-2017 - negotiation process on the annexation of part of the territory of Moldova to Ukraine.
2015-2025 - another escalation of the confrontation between Islam and Christian culture, but in Europe, with the active participation of Muslim emigrants, a new world war was prevented thanks to the peacekeeping efforts of China.
2016 - a sharp decline in the birth rate in Europe as a result of environmental pollution; a possible release of radioactive substances into the atmosphere in one of the European countries (most likely in England).
2017 - political split of the European Union and its reconstruction on new principles; the abolition of marriage in Germany and the creation of new principles for building a family with full support from the state; the possibility of Britain abandoning the monarchy.
2018 - revolution in construction - invention of ultra-strong and ultra-light material - metal foam; construction of bridges across all major straits; invention of the “second skin” - an ultra-light suit that protects a person from the effects of adverse thermal factors.
2018-2024 - China's leadership in world politics; turning developing countries into economic blackmailers of the United States and Europe.
2020 - creation of tectonic weapons of colossal power; the beginning of the active activity of the Antichrist in the information space; the unification of Catholic and Orthodox Christianity into a single church begins from the lands of Ukraine; complete robotization of everyday life and industrial production; transfer of the UN headquarters to Geneva.
2022-2041 is the last period in world history when a global armed conflict could be unleashed.
2023 - threat of changes in the Earth's orbit under the influence of cosmic factors.
2024 - major man-made and environmental disasters in the USA and Italy.
2025 - demographic crisis in Europe; creation of a new world economic order, transformation of the territories of Ukraine and Belarus into leading centers of European trade.
2027 - a new dictator appears on the stage of world history, to whom 1/5 of the world's population will obey (probable place of birth: India or China).
2028 - manned flight to Venus; discovery of a method for producing powerful sound waves that perform useful physical work; controlled thermonuclear fusion; overcoming hunger on Earth.
2028-2034 - construction on Earth of a super-powerful pyramidal-type energy plant.
2029 - a new breakthrough in the technology of wireless transportation of converted solar energy.
Nostradamus life and predictions
- Birth name: Michel de Nostredame, Michel de Notredame
- Occupation: French astrologer, seer, physician and alchemist
- Date of Birth: December 14, 1503(1503-12-14)
- Place of Birth: Saint-Rémy (Provence,France)
- Date of death: 2 July 1566(1566-07-02) (age 62)
- A place of death: Salon de Provence (Provence, France)
- Father: Jaume de Notredame, notary
- Mother: Rainier de Saint-Rémy
- Spouse: Anna Ponsard
- Children: Cesar de Notredame and others
- Awards and prizes: Royal physician, advisor. Awarded a lifelong pension for the fight against the plague epidemic in Aix-en-Provence.
Michel de Notredame (French Michel de Nostredame), also known as Nostradamus (December 14, 1503 - July 2, 1566) was a French astrologer, seer, physician and alchemist, famous for his prophecies.
1 Biography
Origin
Coat of arms of Nostradamus (reconstruction based on descriptions) Michel de Notredame was born on December 14, 1503 in the town of Saint-Rémy (Provence) into a family of Jews who converted to Catholicism in the 15th century. A family legend, retold by César de Notredame in his Chronicle of Provence, states that the prophet's ancestors served as physicians at the courts of René the Good and the Duke of Calabria. However, based on the available facts, one can only say that they were fairly educated and wealthy people. The father of the future predictor, Jaume de Notredame (1470-1547) was a notary, grandfather Pierre de Notredame (1430-1484) and great-grandfather Davin de Carcassonne (1410-1473) were engaged in trade in Avignon, and great-grandfathers Pierre de Sainte-Marie (? -1485 ) and Jean de Saint-Rémy (?-1504) were doctors in Arles and Saint-Rémy.
Although the secular authorities of France were kind to baptized Jews, the common people always suspected them of secret unbelief in Christ. Spiritual power over the minds and hearts of the French belonged to the Roman Catholic Church, with whose blessing at that time the persecution of Jews was carried out in many countries. This encouraged the latter to live in relatively isolated communities, preserving their culture, traditions and customs.
Doctor's career
In 1518, Michel de Notredame went to study in Avignon, where in 1521 he received a Master of Arts degree. We know about the next eight years of his life only from his own phrase in a culinary and cosmetic book, according to which these years were spent in continuous travel in order to “learn and learn the sources and origin of plants and other simple substances relating to the pinnacle of medical science.”
In 1529, the official biography of the future predictor continues: he enters the medical faculty of the University of Montpellier. Due to harsh statements about teachers and a passion for prohibited pharmaceuticals, he was immediately almost expelled from the university. However, the conflict was resolved, and in 1534 Michel received his doctorate. From this moment on, his surname is written in the Latin manner: “Nostradamus”.
In the same 1534, he again went on a journey, during which he met the famous astrologer and scientist Jules Cesar Scaliger. Probably at the suggestion of Scaliger, Nostradamus settled in Agen in 1536. Soon a dark streak begins in his life.
In 1537, his wife and children died from the plague in Agen, in 1538 he was interrogated by the Inquisition because of alleged unflattering statements about a certain statue of the Virgin Mary, and in the same year, for unclear reasons, a deadly quarrel between Nostradamus and Scaliger arose. Nostradamus leaves Agen. From Scaliger he will subsequently receive several poisonous anti-Semitic epigrams, in which he hints at the hidden Judaism of Nostradamus. But the youngest son of Nostradamus will be named Cesar - possibly in honor of Scaliger. Nostradamus spends the next few years traveling around Italy and Germany.
In 1544 he resumed medical practice in Marseille, and in 1546 he fought the plague in southeastern France in Aix-en-Provence. For his dedicated work as a doctor, he was awarded a lifetime pension by the Aix-en-Provence Parliament. There are legends about the miraculous power of the medicines he created, but the recipes that have survived to this day do not go beyond the scope of traditional medicine of the 16th century.
In 1547, Nostradamus married Anne Ponsard, and from this marriage six children were subsequently born, including Cesar de Notredame.
Astrologer and soothsayer
The famous doctor’s appeal to astrology and prophecies seemed unexpected. In 1555, Nostradamus published his first astrological almanac, and in the same year the first edition of Centuries was published in Lyon, containing 353 quatrains with a preface to his son Cesar. It is known that these prophecies brought him trouble. Upon arrival in Paris, Nostradamus was warned that the authorities were preparing to interrogate him about what sciences he practiced and how he made predictions. He urgently returns to Salon de Provence, and then in 1556 he goes to Italy. At the same time, prophetic activity continues.
In 1558, in the final part of Centurius, Nostradamus addresses King Henry II, calling him the ruler of the world and revealing to him the history of mankind in a vague form for centuries to come. It is unknown whether the king, who died at the tournament already in 1559, had time to familiarize himself with the fortuneteller’s letter. After the death of Henry II, at the invitation of the deceased’s sister, Nostradamus meets Queen Catherine de’ Medici at court.
In 1561, the predictor barely managed to escape from Catholic peasants who accused him of sympathy for the Huguenots. In the same year, the authorities put Nostradamus under house arrest for a couple of days, demanding to describe the fate of King Charles IX. Nostradamus' answer has not been preserved.
In 1564, Catherine de Medici and Charles IX visited the soothsayer in the Salon and then invited him to a meeting in Arles, where they appointed him royal physician and adviser.
However, already on July 2, 1566, Nostradamus died in Salon from complications of gout. On the marble slab above his grave is carved the inscription “Here lie the bones of the famous Michel Nostradamus, the only mortal who was worthy to capture with his almost divine pen, thanks to the influence of the stars, the future events of the whole world.”
Legends of Nostradamus
Family tradition, reflected in the Chronicle of Provence, written by Cesar de Notredame, states that the royal physician Abram Salomon was the great-grandfather of Nostradamus. This legend is not supported by facts, but family ties with Abram Salomon could be more complex. It is often claimed that the fortuneteller's grandfathers introduced him to astrology and Kabbalah. In fact, they died early, and Michel came to everything with his own head. They say that already at school he was nicknamed “the little astrologer.” There is a well-known legend about how Nostradamus once predicted the fate of two piglets: the white piglet, he said, would be eaten by a wolf, and the black one would be served for dinner. To shame the seer, the owner ordered the white pig to be slaughtered, but it had already been eaten by the wolf, and the cook slaughtered the black one, which he then admitted to. The legend of the prediction of the papal throne to the young monk Felice Peretti (future Pope Sixtus V) dates back to the period of Italian travels.
In 1820 and 1839 The "Prophecy of Philip Olivarius" and the "Prophecy of Orval, recorded by Philip Olivarius" were published, supposedly dated 1542 and 1544. respectively. Rumors arose that they were actually made by Nostradamus during his stopover during his wanderings at Orval Abbey. An old legend, retold by Chavigny, the first scholar of Nostradamus, claims that the seer once helped a royal servant find a lost purebred dog. The loudest legend is associated with the prediction of the death of King Henry II of France at the tournament (Ts.1.K.35). It probably has some basis, since after these events Nostradamus received recognition at the royal court. However, these reasons are not known to us; the idea of quatrain Ts.1.K.35 is in the nature of interpretation and first appears many years later in Cesar. Previously, Chavigny used more complex reasoning to substantiate this legend. The same Chavigny writes that he witnessed how Nostradamus predicted in advance the day and hour of his death.
The mystery of the family coat of arms
On the family coat of arms of Nostradamus there are two black eagle heads and two golden wheels with eight spokes each, on a red field. Wheel rims are broken between adjacent spokes. The motto on the coat of arms reads: "Soli Deo" (Latin: "To God the Only"). It is unclear whether this coat of arms was inherited by Nostradamus, or whether it was created specifically after receiving his doctorate in 1534. Interpreters believe that the heads of birds of prey indicate the doctor's calling - to fight disease. However, the interpretation of the wheel symbol remains ambiguous. The popular version that a yellow wheel with a broken rim signifies a break in connection with Judaism does not stand up to criticism. Indeed, according to the edict of Saint Louis IX, after 1269 Jews were required to wear a yellow mark on their clothing. However, the shape of this mark changed frequently, and the eight-spoke wheel never became one.
Most likely, Nostradamus uses the wheel as a common solar symbol, often found in Christian iconography, which in this context may indicate the values of enlightenment. The motto "Soli Deo" represents the beginning of the Catholic motto "Soli Deo Honor et Gloria" ("To God alone is honor and glory"), under which the Reformation movement took place, which may indicate the sympathies of the predictor towards the Huguenots.
2 Legacy of Nostradamus
The creative heritage of Nostradamus includes 10 centuries (942 quatrains), prefaces to them (letters to his son Cesar and King Henry), a number of quatrains without numbering, annual almanacs since 1555, as well as a number of works that are generally considered non-prophetic, such as, for example, the free translation of “Interpretation of the Hieroglyphs of Horapollo” (1545). The archives contain the will and personal correspondence of Nostradamus. There are also a number of manuscripts whose authorship is not reliably established, but is sometimes attributed to Nostradamus.
Prophetic works
Nostradamus penned the annual almanacs published from 1550 until his death. Each of the almanacs contained one general quatrain for the year, 12 quatrains for the months of the year, and an extensive prose section with predictions. It was the almanacs that brought Nostradamus fame during his lifetime. However, not all of their texts have survived to this day; Currently, a selection of 141 quatrains from almanacs (1555-1567) is often published as an independent prophetic work.
The first edition of “The Prophecies of Master Michel Nostradamus,” now called “Centuries,” was published in Lyon in 1555. It contained a “Letter to his son Cesar” and 353 prophetic quatrains. The letter to Cesar sets out the occult philosophy of prophecy and gives several predictions of a global nature (... the world is approaching an anaragorical revolution... the deadly sword of pestilence and wars more terrible than have happened in three human lives is approaching us...)
The number 353 is close to the so-called “planetary era” of 354 years and 4 months, which was known in medieval astrology. The second edition (Lyon, 1557) also contained 288 new quatrains and a warning to ignorant critics (unnumbered quatrain). The earliest surviving complete edition of the Prophecies dates back to 1568, that is, after the death of the prophet. It contains a letter to Cesar, 942 quatrains (the 7th century remained unfinished) and a letter to King Henry, entirely prophetic in content. ([I] calculated almost as many events of the future time as of the past years... until the [Second] Coming at the beginning of the seventh millennium). It is unclear whether the nominal addressee, King Henry, who died at the tournament in 1559, saw this letter. It is only known that quatrains from the last centuries were quoted during the life of the prophet; there may have been an unknown edition that predates 1568.
“Additional quatrains” given by Chavigny in “The First Face of the French Janus” (Lyon, 1594) under the name of fragments of the 11th and 12th centuries, most likely belong to one of the lost almanacs of Nostradamus. The origin of the six new quatrains of the 8th century in the edition of Roffe (1588) is doubtful, and the sixens of Vincent Seve (1606) are considered falsifications.
The prophecies of Nostradamus led to the publication of almost 10 thousand books, the authors of which try to answer the question of what Nostradamus wanted to say. Created in the semantic space of medieval France, in the Central French language, with elements of Latin and Greek, the prophecies of Nostradamus look even more vague and mysterious to the modern reader than in the 16th century. Since only some quatrains have a clear chronological reference, interpreters are often convinced that Nostradamus wrote specifically about their time. Meanwhile, according to authoritative researchers, the end date of the prophecies is clearly visible and coincides with the end of the Jewish Calendar (2240). At the same time, borrowings of individual text fragments are found, almost verbatim from Titus Livius, Savanarola, Crinitis, Russ.
3 Nostradamus calendar
In the Letter to Cesar (LS), the date of the end of the prophecies is indicated contradictorily, as the beginning of the era of Saturn and the year 3797, and in the Letter to Henry, the Second Coming falls on the “beginning of the seventh millennium.” The idea that the world has 6,000 years first appears in the Talmud, and is subsequently borrowed by Christian mystics. The theory of planetary epochs was consistently presented in the works of Ibn Ezra, Abraham (XII century) and Abu Mashar (IX century) and gained popularity in the astrology of the Middle Ages. According to this theory, the age of the Moon ends in 1889, the age of the Sun in 2242, and then the age of Saturn begins.
Speaking about the return of Saturn, Nostradamus could be directly guided by the astrological treatise of R. Russ (1550), in which these dates were named. It is noteworthy that the beginning of the era of Saturn (2242) is really close to the end of 6000 years from the Creation of the World according to the Jewish calendar (2240) . However, the seer does not blindly follow the Jewish tradition, defining the same date as “the end of the seventh thousandth” (PS, Ts10.K74).
Thus, at the same time he refers to the Hebrew calendar and proposes his own system of calculating time, in which the Creation of the World (CM) is shifted back by 1000 years, so that 2242 RH corresponds to 7000 CM. This assumption is consistent with Ts.1.K.48 (“20 years of the reign of the Moon have passed, in 7000 another will reign. When the Sun completes its weary days, then my prophecy will be fulfilled and end”). Indeed, by the year of publication of the first part of the prophecies (1555), exactly 20 years of the Moon era had passed. In addition, the first chronology from the Letter to Henry dates the birth of Jesus to 4758 years SM, from which 4758+2242=7000. Therefore, in the time system used, in addition to the cycle of planetary eras, there is also a 1000-year cycle. The “Nostradamus Calendar” covers, as it were, one planetary “week”, in which each day is equal to 1000 years. This calendar begins with "Great Saturday" and ends with the beginning of the second "Great Saturday" in the years 2240-2242.
The “Era of Saturn” begins simultaneously in both the 1000-year cycle and the cycle of planetary eras. The predictor characterizes such a great intersection of cycles with the words “anaragonic revolution” (PS). From this point of view, the number 3797 from the Letter to Cesar is of a mystifying nature: 3797−1555=2242. However, it should be noted that leaning towards 2242, the predictor also spoke about other dates for the end of 6000 years of SM: 1826 (in the Letter to Henry), 1945 (in the almanac for 1566), 2033 (in the almanacs for 1557, 1559 , 1562, 1563, 1566). In addition, perhaps at the initiative of the publisher, the almanac for 1565 is dated in such a way that the 7000 years of SM expire in 2000 AD. It is likely that some of these dates are used in the cipher system created by the predictor.
Summary of prophecies
The main theme of the prophecies is the political future of Europe, up to the beginning of the astrological era of Saturn, which Nostradamus defines as the “Golden Age”. As a result, his prediction ends with notes of peace: “The end; the wolf, the lion, the bull and the donkey, the timid doe will be with the dogs” (Ts.10.K.99). On the one hand, this is a clear Old Testament motif, but on the other, the Second Coming is mentioned only once, in the Letter to Henry, marking the end of 6000 years. The three Antichrists are described in more detail: the first of them appears in the “lands of Attila” and creates a new Babylonia, which will exist for 73 years and 7 months; the second starts a war in the center of Europe; the third should lead at the end of time the union of the countries of the North and the East. “The third is worse than the first, more terrible than Nero. Run, brave men, so as not to shed blood. He orders the stove to be put on.
The golden age is dead, a great sin” (Ts.9.K.17). The prophecies also describe new religions and prophets, which are assessed ambiguously by interpreters. For example, “The Great Jupiterian” in Ts.10.K.73 will “judge the present by means of the past,” that is, he denies the evolution of morality and calls for a return to primitive values; Moreover, the mention of Jupiter hints at the pagan religion of Ancient Rome. Most of the quatrains, when examined individually, are of dubious usefulness because they are not dated in any way. However, in the Letter to Henry, after the second chronology, Nostradamus explicitly states that the quatrains are dated by means of the formula: “I have calculated the prophecies entirely according to the order of this chain, which contains its circuit.” The movements of the planets described under the chronology point to 1606 as the starting point.
Criticism of predictions
Both during his life and after his death, Nostradamus' prophecies were criticized. The main argument of critics is that quatrains are too vague and unspecific to be considered real predictions - each phrase can be interpreted in dozens of different ways and, in the end, the interpretation can be “tailored” to the events that actually occurred. This, according to critics, is what fans of Nostradamus do. Indeed, so far no one has been able to publicly predict a single event in the future using so-called “prophecies.” All interpretations of Nostradamus’ texts are the imposition of “predictions” on past events in order to prove their truth. In the modern period, the camp of skeptics was led by the representative of the James Randi Educational Foundation and the parapsychology debunker James Randi. Employees of the Educational Foundation (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) regularly refuted newspaper publications about the apparent connection of the poetry of Nostradamus with modern events. In turn, defenders of Nostradamus point out that the value of the prophecy is not lost because the understanding of the text occurs after the predicted event. The very fact of correct prediction says a lot about the nature of time and is an important argument in favor of the existence of God. It is this, and not the ability to know political upheavals in advance, that gives significance to predictions of this kind.
Nostradamus himself warned against free interpretation of his texts:
Let the uninitiated and ignorant crowd not touch them.
And let all astrologers, brats, and barbarians stay away from them.
Anyone who does otherwise will be cursed according to the ritual.
(Postscript after the 6th century)
They will be looking at it for more than 500 years,
The one who was the ornament of his time,
Then in an instant greater clarity will be granted,
Which will make them very happy with this century.
(Quatrain 3:94)
Translations, little-known manuscripts, personal correspondence
Around 1545, Nostradamus, in a free poetic manner, translated from the Greek “Interpretation of the Hieroglyphs of Horapollo.” The manuscript was kept by one of the ministers of Louis XIV, and then ended up in the National Library of France, where it was discovered in the 20th century. According to the author, the text of the manuscript describes ancient Egyptian drawings and gives their interpretation. This text is of great interest to researchers because many of the images from it are also present in the “Prophecies”. So at the end of the translation an interpretation of the mysterious signs “D. M.”, which denote the underground gods. The same letters are mentioned in quatrain 66 of the 8th century, but they cannot be found in the original texts of Horapollo.
Almost simultaneously with the “Prophecies,” Nostradamus published two works in the field of medical sciences: a free translation of “Paraphrase of Galen, his exhortations to Menodotus in the study of the fine arts and medicine” (1557) and “Treatise on the preparation of jams” (1555). In the first of them, researchers found signs of a cipher.
In 1888, a manuscript containing 72 watercolor drawings was found in a library in Rome, the authorship of which is attributed to Nostradamus, although without evidence. It is now known under the code name “The Lost Book of Nostradamus”.
Coincidences with history
When discussing coincidences with history, interpreters often rely on free poetic translations that are far from the original. Unfortunately, when checked, it turns out that Nostradamus did not write this. The optimal translation of the prose part of the prophecies can be found in the books of A. Penzensky, candidate of historical sciences. Translations of quatrains must be compared from several sources. Planetary configurations can be calculated using astrological programs.
St. Bartholomew's Night
Two evil [planets] will conjoin in Scorpio,
The Grand Seigneur is killed in the hall,
Plague in the church, thanks to the new king,
Lower and Northern Europe. Les deux malins de Scorpion conioncts,
Le grand seigneur meurtry dedans sa salle:
Peste a l'eglise par le nouueau roy ioinct,
L'Europe basse & Septentrionale.
(Quatrain 1:52)
Two evil planets - Mars and Saturn - for the first time since the promulgation of the prophecy united in Scorpio in August 1572, which corresponds to the events of St. Bartholomew's Night (August 24, 1572); the apogee of the schism of the church in France. A plot organized by the mother of King Charles IX, Catherine de' Medici, to eliminate the leader of the French Protestants, Admiral Coligny, got out of control. The admiral was killed at the Hotel de Betisy, but the massacre began to spread like a plague throughout Paris, the surrounding area, and spread to neighboring cities. King Charles IX could only join the Catholics and take responsibility for what happened. After this, the southern Protestant provinces with their capital in the city of La Rochelle declared their political independence.
Scientific revolution
The number of astronomers will increase so much
Persecuted, banished and banned books,
In the year 1607 thanks to the holy cups,
That no one can be saved from the holy gifts. Croistra le nombre si grand des astronomes
Chassez, bannis & liures censurez,
L'an mil six cents & sept par sacre globes
Que nul aux sacres ne seront asseurez.
(Quatrain 8:71)
In 1607, Johannes Kepler laid the foundations of modern astronomy in his work “New Astronomy”, which formulated the laws of planetary revolution around the Sun. In 1608, the Dutchman Hans Lippershey invented a telescope based on the combined use of convex and concave lenses, and in 1609 Galileo Galilei first used it for astronomical observations, which led to a revolution in astronomy, since Galileo's observations confirmed Copernicus' theory of the heliocentric system of the world. The Church greeted these discoveries with caution, Copernicus's books were banned, Galileo had to renounce his beliefs and spend the last years of his life under house arrest. However, almost everyone could now make a telescope with two lenses and independently observe the movement of celestial bodies.
Execution of Charles I Stuart
Ghent and Brussels will go against Antwerp,
The Senate of London will put its king to death,
Salt and wine will do him no good:
Because of them, there is turmoil in the kingdom. Gang & Bruceles marcheront contre Enuers
Senat de Londres mettront a mort leur roy
Le sel & vin luy seront a l'enuers,
Pour eux auoir le regne an desarroy.
(Quatrain 9:49)
The first line talks about the confrontation between the Northern Netherlands (Antwerp) and Belgium (Brussels), which actually took place in 1579-1648 after the bourgeois revolution in the Netherlands (the struggle of the Utrecht and Aras unions) and ended with the recognition of the Dutch Republic. In January of the following 1649, King Charles I Stuart was executed in England by decision of the people's court. Interpreters pay attention to the “speaking” number of the quatrain: 49.
Great Northern War
Eastern people led by lunar power,
In 1700 they [will make] great campaigns,
Almost conquering the corner of Aquilon. Beaucoup beaucoup auant telles menees,
Ceulx d'orient par la vertu lunaire:
L'an mil sept cens seront grands emmenees,
Subiugant presque le coing Aquilonaire.
(Quatrain 1:49)
The year 1700 is known in history as the beginning of the Northern War, launched on the initiative of Russia and its allies against Sweden, as a result of which Russia will return the Baltic states (the “northern corner” of the empire) and capture part of Finland, providing itself with reliable access to the Baltic Sea. "Aquilon" is a poetic term denoting the land of the north wind; this can be called both Russia and Sweden. The term “lunar power” is understood in the context of quatrain 1:48: the chronological framework of the Northern War (1700-1721) falls in the middle of the astrological era of the Moon (1535-1888).
Spanish inheritance
Head of Aries, Jupiter and Saturn,
God Almighty, what changes!
Then after a long century his evil time will return,
Gaul and Italy, what excitement! Chef d'Aries, Iupiter & Saturne,
Dieu eternel quelles mutations!
Puis par long sciecle son maling temps retourne,
Gaule & Italie quelles esmoutions!
(Quatrain 1:51)
The conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in the first degrees of Aries was observed only in May 1702. This is the date of the beginning of the largest war of the 18th century (for the Spanish Succession), in which Gaul (France) and Italy acted as opposing sides. The third line takes us to the end of the 18th - beginning of the 19th century, the conquests of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Fall of Persia
In the third climate, under the sign of Aries,
The king of Persia is taken by the Egyptians,
Death, loss, shame on the cross. Le tiers climate soubz Aries comprins,
L'an mil sept cens vingt & sept en Octobre:
Le roy de Perse par ceulx d'Egipte prins:
Coflit, mort, perte: a la croix grand oprobre.
(Quatrain 3:77)
On October 3, 1727, the protege of the Afghan nobility Ashraf, the Shah of Persia, whose country was split by internal conflicts, recognized vassal dependence on Turkey, and also transferred about half of the territory of Persia to the Turks, including Tehran (the capital of modern Iran). Egypt in 1727 was part of the Ottoman Empire. Russia suffered shame, refusing the opportunity to remove the usurper Ashraf for fear of ruining relations with the Turks. After the death of Peter I, Russia switched to a cautious foreign policy. The head of foreign affairs of Russia, Vice-Chancellor Osterman, wrote in 1727: “Our system should be to run away from everything that could lead us into problems.” The quatrain was only partially fulfilled: the Shah was not captured, and Persia itself, according to Agapius of Manbij, is under the sign of Taurus.
French Revolution of 1792
“The year 1792 will be considered the year of renewal of the century” (Letter to Henry)
On August 10, 1792, the monarchy was overthrown in France. The revolutionaries proclaimed this year to be the beginning of a new era, the first year of the French Republican calendar. Critics say that Nostradamus here is merely pointing to the theory of planetary cycles. From the treatise of R. Russ (1548): “... let's talk about the great and wonderful conjunction, which, as gentlemen astrologers say, will occur around the year 1789 of our Lord, after 10 revolutions of Saturn... We are approaching the coming renewal of the world... approximately 243 years from the present treatise."
Napoleon's invasion of Russia
Mars and the Scepter will conjoin,
Under Cancer there is a disastrous war:
A little later a new king will be anointed,
Which will calm the earth for a long time. Mars & le sceptre se trouuera conioint,
Dessous Cancer calamiteuse guerre:
Vn peu apres sera nouueau Roy oingt,
Qui par long temps pacifier la terre.
(Quatrain 6:24)
In astrology, the scepter represents Jupiter. Mars and Jupiter conjunct every other year, and in Cancer every 12 years. However, since the event itself takes place under the sign of Cancer, we can assume that we are talking about the July conjunction, that is, the Sun is also in this sign. In this case, we come to the triple conjunction of the Sun, Mars and Jupiter in July 1812, which corresponds to Napoleon's invasion of Russia. This disastrous war ended with the defeat of the French, the abdication of Napoleon I and the restoration of the Bourbons in 1814.
European revolutions of 1848
They will see the British change seven times,
Painted with blood after 290 years:
France will not become a German fulcrum,
Aries fears his border in Bastarnia. Sept fois changer verres gent Britannique,
Taintz en sang en deux cens nonante ans:
Franc[h]e non point par appuy Germanique,
Aries doubte pole son Bastarnan.
(Quatrain 3:57)
The quatrain allows for serious discrepancies, but the date and general meaning (unrest in Europe) are beyond doubt. The indicated 290 years from the date of publication expired in 1845, and in 1848 a wave of revolutions swept across Europe. K. Marx and F. Engels made a revolutionary appeal to the proletarians of all countries in the “Manifesto of the Communist Party.” The rebels managed to seize power in Paris, after which K. Marx hoped to import the revolution into Germany: “With the victory of the Red Republic in Paris, armies will move from within the country across its borders, and then we will exclaim: “Woe to the vanquished.”” However, these hopes are not true. justified; The uprising in Germany did not receive outside support and was suppressed. The attempt at world revolution was put to an end by the 150,000-strong Russian corps sent by Nicholas I through Eastern Europe (Bastarnia) to suppress the uprising in Austria-Hungary. The first line talks about the transformations of power in England over 290 years: the beginning of the Stuart dynasty, the dictatorship of Cromwell, the restoration of the Stuarts, the glorious revolution of William III, the union with Scotland, the beginning of the Hanoverian dynasty, the union with Ireland. Under the sign of Aries (according to Ptolemy) are Germany, France and Bastarnia.
Hitler's birth
The lost is found, hidden for a long century,
[This] pastor will be revered as a demigod,
Thus the Moon, having completed its cycle,
Will be defiled by other desires. Perdu, trouue, cache de si long siècle
Sera pasteur demi dieu honore,
Ains que la lune acheue son grand cycle
Par autres veux sera deshonore.
(Quatrain 1:25)
The works of A. Penza show that Nostradamus adheres (with minor changes) to the concept of planetary eras, which was formulated by the Jewish philosopher Abraham ibn Ezra (XII century), and which was used in the popular astrological treatise of R. Rouss (Lyon, 1550). In this theory, the epoch of the Moon begins in 1535 and ends in 1888-1889. It is known that in 1889, at the end of the Moon era, A. Hitler was born. The second line can be understood in the context of the mythology of the Third Reich. Hitler dreamed of bringing out of the “true Aryans” a new breed of people, a “superman” (demigod). Honors to the Fuhrer himself, as the savior of the German nation, were similar to the veneration of a deity, and the book “Mein Kampf” replaced the Bible for the Germans. The Fuhrer was called an ascetic and a puritan, a brilliant architect and commander, the new Great Frederick. The image of the Prussian king Frederick II (1712-1786), who was Hitler’s personal hero, became a symbol of the German Renaissance, “the ideal of Nordic beauty” (A. Rosenberg). The actor who played Frederick in the film, Otto Gebuer, was deprived of the right to play other roles, since this, according to Goebbels, could “denigrate the already created image of the Great King.” The mention in the quatrain of the “long century” should be associated with expectations of the coming of the Antichrist a hundred years earlier. So back in 1418, Cardinal Pierre d'Ailly published the treatise “De persecutionibus Ecclesiae”, where he substantiated the date of the appearance of the Antichrist in 1789 from astrological considerations. This idea was then taken up by other astrologers, including Russ.
Formation and fall of the USSR
“And in the month of October it will happen that some great movement will occur - such that they will think that the colossus of the Earth has lost its natural direction and plunged into eternal darkness. Before this, in the springtime, and after this, there will be exceptional changes and changes of power, great earthquakes, with the growth of a new Babylonia, a despicable daughter, grown by the abomination of the first Holocaust, and [it] will last only 73 years and 7 months.” (Letter to Henry)
In 1974, the poet V.K. Zavalishin published in the USA a translation of the prophecies of Nostradamus with comments, where he interpreted this phrase as a prediction about the fall of Soviet power in 1991. Then the astrologer P. Globa ended up in Lefortovo prison for quoting these thoughts. Note that the prediction came true with amazing accuracy. Legally, the power of the Bolsheviks was established on January 19, 1918 with the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly - the highest representative and legislative body. Therefore, 73 years and 7 months expire on August 19, 1991 - this day is known in history as the August Putsch. The failure of the putsch led to the banning of the Communist Party of the USSR. The quote from Nostradamus also traces the February Revolution (which began on March 8 according to the Gregorian calendar): “Before that, in the springtime, and after that there will be exceptional changes and shifts of power.” In addition, a “burnt offering” (“holocaust”) is mentioned, after which “Babylonia” increases in size.
The Second World War
The almanac for 1566 provides a chronology according to which 6,000 years from the Creation of the World expire in 1945, which coincides with the end of World War II.
In addition, the events of this period may include a quatrain:
Greater Germany will include
Brabant, Flanders, Ghent, Bruges and Boulogne
As a result of a false truce.
The Grand Duke of Armenia storms Vienna and Cologne. Translatera en la grand Germanie,
Brabant & Flandres, Gand, Bruges & Bologne:
La tresue fainte le grand duc d'Armenie
Assaillira Vienne & la Coloigne.
(Quatrain 5:94)
The occupation of the Netherlands and Luxembourg (Brabant), Belgium (Flanders, Ghent, Bruges) and the north of France (Boulogne) by the German army as a result of the surrender of the French is predicted here. Then the occupation of Austria (Vienna) and Germany (Cologne) by troops from the East. Unfortunately, the date is not specified, but the events described had a literal fulfillment in 1940-1945. During the war between Germany and France and the Benelux countries (Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg), the quatrain was noticed and actively used by Goebbels’ propaganda ministry; however, the last line was deliberately distorted. Later interpreters noticed that the “Duke of Armenia” can be called Stalin, born in Georgia (Transcaucasia), and Cologne can also be Berlin (the old name of the city of Cologne an der Spree).
Holocaust
After burning the shirts
The donkey drivers will change into different clothes.
The people of Saturn are burned by the millers,
Except for those who won't be dressed. Apres les limes bruslez les asiniers,
Constrainctz seront changer habits diuers:
Les Saturnins bruslez parles meusniers,
Hors la plupart qui ne sera couuers.
(Quatrain 6:17)
It is believed that the ancestors of the Jews were nomadic pastoral tribes. In addition, the first Jewish armed formation, created in 1915 in England with the goal of liberating Israel from the Turks, was called “Zion Mule Corps” - “a detachment of muleteers.” Saturn in astrology is associated with Saturday, which is considered a holy day among Jews. The text of K. Marx allows us to identify the “people of millers”: “Mills on trestles, the so-called German mills, were the only known ones until the middle of the 16th century.” Since 1942, most of the Jews of Europe were dressed in the clothes of concentration camp prisoners, about 6 million of them. died as a result of the Holocaust.
4 Finding the secret code
Since the interpretation of quatrains is difficult, and the dates to which they refer are in most cases not indicated, there is a widespread opinion among interpreters that the prophecies are encrypted, and the key to them is hidden - in the prefaces, will, or in little-known books of the prophet.
"Lucky Numbers" from the Will
In 1962, Daniel Ruzo suggested that the key was contained in the will of Nostradamus, which he left shortly before his death. The will consists of two parts, with the second part dating 13 days after the first. Ruzo's hypothesis relies on the oddities of the will, in particular the repeating numbers that appear when counting items and amounts of money. So on 13 pages of the Will it is stated that all property should be divided into 13 unequal parts between 13 heirs. Among the items there are: 22 made of cloth, 22 of tin and 22 items of another type. According to the will, 22 people receive money, including 9 heirs and 13 beggars. The total number of ducats (101 simple and 126 double) is 353, that is, the number of quatrains in the first edition of the Prophecies. These oddities suggest that the will contains a secret meaning.
Straight letters from Galen's treatise
In 1557, the publishing house of Antoine du Rhone, in addition to the second part of the Prophecies, published “Paraphrase of Galen, his exhortations to Menodotus in the study of the fine arts and medicine” translated by Nostradamus. François Buguet was the first to suggest that Nostradamus translated Galen for the purpose of showing the reader the key to the cipher in comparison with the original. A fragment of the epigraph to this text in Latin reads: “Volventur saxa litteris & ordine rectis, Cùm videas Occidens & Orientis opes” (“The sacred order will show you in straight letters the treasures of the East and West”).
Ph.D. Patrice Guinard assumes the literal meaning of the phrase: paragraphs typed in italics contain in places, as typos, straight letters.
These typos occur for 11 letters of the alphabet (abfghlntvyz) on 11 pages (2,36,38,45,46,47,48,49,54,61,62), and page 47 (4+7=11) contains 11 typos, on page 48 there are 22 typos (22=2×11), and on other pages there are 13 typos. Full list of straight letters with page numbers: 2(T), 36(F T), 38(V), 45(T y y y), 46(l), 47(h f g l N l g g f f l), 48(h A T h g f z h A v g v b g y f y v y T h v ), 49(f), 54(L), 61(T), 62(z). From here, in particular, it follows that the keys to understanding texts can be lost during translations and reprints.
Lenin, Hitler and Stalin
The prophecies provide three chronologies with the life spans of the biblical ancestors from the Creation of the world to Jesus Christ. The two chronologies are located in the Letter to Henry and have lengths of 4758 (4757) and 4173.666 years respectively. The third chronology, which is 4056 years long, is contained in the almanac for 1566. The discrepancy in the lengths of the chronologies suggests that they are used to predict future events. A. Penzensky finds the origins of this idea in Joachim Florsky’s concept of the repeatability of history, D. and N. Zima turn to the allegorical instructions of Nostradamus along the text, other interpreters refer to the Jewish traditions of interpreting the Torah. In the “Dialogue with Nostradamus...” it was hypothesized that chronologies need to be applied to some reference point (for example, 1557.487 - the date of writing the Letter to Henry, or 1242 - the end of 6000 years from the Creation of the World according to the I chronology) and then compressed so that the end of 6000 years in each of them coincided with the date 2033.02 A.D. (see explanations below).
Then mysterious coincidences arise:
1557.487 + (2033.02 − 1557.487) × 4056.000 ÷ 6000 = 1878.947 (December 21, 1879) Stalin was born
The accuracy is equal to one day, taking into account the +10 day difference between the Julian and Gregorian calendars in the 16th century. The mysterious date 2033.02 has several meanings (justifications):
most almanacs were dated in such a way that 6000 years from the Creation of the World ended in 2033;
this is exactly the midpoint between Yom Kippur (Judgment Day) 6001 AD according to the Jewish calendar (2239.712 AD) and the end of 6000 years in the II chronology of Nostradamus (1826.334 AD):
This is the "first image" of Christ when compressing 6000 years of I chronology to Yom Kippur 6001 of the Hebrew calendar:
1242,000 + (2239,712 − 1242,000) × 4757,000 ÷ 6000 = 2033.02
Yom Kippur in the Jewish tradition occurs on the 10th day of the new year Rosh Hashanah, the period of time between the holidays is called the “ten days of repentance”; 6000 years from the Creation of the World according to the Jewish calendar expire on Thursday, September 17, 2240.
"Winter Ciphers"
In 1998-2001 spouses D. and N. Zima from the pages of the newspapers “Trud”, “Komsomolskaya Pravd”
© DepositPhotos.com/bomg11, cover, 2015
© Book Club “Family Leisure Club”, edition in Russian, 2015
© Book Club “Family Leisure Club”, artistic design, 2015
© Book Club “Family Leisure Club” LLC, Belgorod, 2015
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-You don’t know much...
– So little that the meaning of the speeches is
and that one is dark to me.Lope de Vega
About Nostradamus, the misunderstood prophet
He knew exactly the time and hour of his death and where and how he would die. “Near the bench and bed they will find me dead.” No one was particularly surprised by this prediction. During his lifetime, the great prophet and clairvoyant predicted something else. He was able, amazing his contemporaries, to look into the abyss of the future and predict the events of several centuries of future history.
The night before, Nostradamus announced to his loved ones that he would not survive this night. Relatives, wife and children, began to object, but he stopped them with a movement of his hand and demanded a priest. Father Vidal confessed the dying man and administered holy communion.
In the morning, when we entered the office, we saw Nostradamus dead on the floor between the bench and the bed. This happened on July 2, 1566.
A few days earlier, clearly sensing the imminent end, he ordered how to bury his body. It had to be walled up in the wall of the crypt, built and paid for during his lifetime. Moreover, according to the will, the coffin should have been placed in an upright position. This quirk was explained by the fact that the prophet did not die, but was walled up alive in a crypt, where there were candles, books, paper and ink, so that, sitting at the table, he could continue to describe the future events of the entire Earth according to the influence of the stars.
However, there was another explanation for such a strange desire of the deceased. He himself wrote about this in his will. I didn’t want fools and cowards of all stripes, vulgarities and villains to dance on his grave after his death. Then, apparently, a legend was born that secret papers were walled up with the clairvoyant, which contained the key to all his prophecies.
These legends lived until 1791, when rampaging atheist revolutionaries destroyed the church and desecrated the grave, breaking the marble tombstone. But nothing but a skeleton was found in the grave. Then the blasphemers began to distribute the bones of the great oracle to everyone as souvenirs.
Having heard about the sacrilege, the mayor rushed over. He found the following picture: heavily drunk National Guard soldiers and local residents were dancing around the coffin, which, to their chagrin, contained nothing valuable. And one guardsman drank wine from the skull of Nostradamus. He was assured that if you drink blood from the skull, you will gain the gift of prophecy. Red wine was apparently considered a suitable substitute for blood.
In horror, the mayor began to admonish the hooligans, reminding them that Nostradamus is the man who foresaw the revolution and therefore deserves all respect.
And the mayor also recalled that Nostradamus foreshadowed a quick violent death for anyone who dared to desecrate his remains. Ashamed and frightened, the soldiers collected the bones and placed them back in the coffin. Later, the remains of the prophet were reburied in the chapel of the Church of St. Lawrence in the city of Salona, where they remain to this day.
As for the seer’s words about retribution for those who dare to disturb his ashes, it soon came true. The soldiers who took part in the atrocities at the grave of Nostradamus, the next day, on the way to Marseille, ran into a royalist ambush and all of them died under their bullets. But if Nostradamus was the author of only this one or a couple of other similar predictions, it is unlikely that he would be remembered today.
Nostradamus owes his posthumous fame primarily to his book “Centuries” (lat. centuria- a hundred, a detachment of one hundred people): prophetic cycles, united by one hundred quatrains in each. The ten-volume work, containing more than a thousand prophecies, is one of those few books that have been in print for more than four hundred years. In essence, this is a unique calendar, as if brought to the present from the distant future with the help of a time machine. To test it, we, living at the turn of the third millennium, are provided with a historical testing ground of more than four centuries. The predictions cover a huge period - from 1555 to 3797. In them the prophet considered many future events. The prophetic gaze of Nostradamus, his “magic mirror,” seemed to penetrate centuries. Unfortunately, we will note this right away, the language in which his quatrains-predictions are written is very difficult to decipher. Latin words and French phrases, Old Provençal phrases and abbreviations, anagrams, etc. make it difficult to read. Many people have been deciphering Nostradamus’s predictions over the past four hundred years. It was possible to decipher mysterious and often incomprehensible verses. They were systematized and given a readable form. And today Nostradamus is read all over the world. Interest in the forecasts of this soothsayer is growing everywhere.
Who is he, this lonely genius, whose all-seeing eyes were scorched by the fire of future wars and disasters?
Centuria I
Sitting alone at night in a secret office,
I lean on a copper stand.
A faint flame escapes from the void,
Making something successful that may have seemed futile.
The magic wand (vine) is placed in the center,
I wet the feet and the edge of the stand.
Fear, thunderous voice, trembling sleeves,
Divine greatness. Divine grace descends.
Apparently, Nostradamus describes in the first verses of Centuria I his way of seeing the future (probably we are talking about the so-called lecanomancy - fortune telling on water in a vessel). Before the prophet’s gaze there appear pictures of the future destinies of mankind, which, being supported by astrological calculations, “make successful what might have seemed in vain” to a mere mortal uninitiated in the secrets of clairvoyance.
Nostradamus can be called a visionary, perceiving “video sequences” of information, seeing pictures of the development of events that affect more than one century. The Bulgarian clairvoyant Vanga accurately noted that “people have eyes and do not see, they have ears and do not hear, and that is why they will not soon read the Truth.” The main work of Nostradamus is five thousand lines of poetry, in which the destinies of states and peoples are encoded.
If you ask yourself what has come true, you can get different answers. Perhaps what “did not come true” was deciphered incorrectly? In the centuries there are texts that seem to be written without any encryption, but mostly the lines of foresight are encoded in a special way.
The death of Henry II, the crown and the imminent death of his three sons were predicted exactly; crown for Henry IV, the tragic death of Queen Mary Stuart of Scots is predicted. He saw the execution of Louis XVI, the bloody terror of the revolution. He predicted Marx and the new society - "The Commune is coming." In an incomprehensible way, Napoleon and Hitler were “brought out of darkness”, in Nostradamus - Napoloron And Hister.
In the 16th century, Nostradamus predicted two world wars, military operations in the air and under water, Hitler's aggressions, and the assassination of the Kennedy brothers. He foresaw the creation of the atomic bomb, space flights, and the coming to power of religious fanatics in Iran. He predicted a war in the Middle East, in which the world's major powers would participate, as well as the coming of the Antichrist. He spoke about uniting the forces of Russia and the United States, albeit for a short time, and warned of a religious war, during which the Vatican would be forced to move the tomb of St. Peter to a safe place.
Quite recently, a most curious manuscript, not previously published, was found. Probably, shortly before his death, Michel wrote a series of predictions, so sensational that he introduced them only to European monarchs. The manuscript was considered lost, but was discovered in a hiding place in the house where the master rested. These predictions are called "Black". How did the author of divine predictions appear in the world? Many of his predictions concern the second coming of the Messiah and the appearance of the Antichrist. Most experts consider him a messenger of God, others - a messenger of the future or an alien. Indeed, on the night before the birth of the prophet, astronomers observed extraordinary cosmic activity. Evidence confirming the appearance of round sparkling objects in the sky over Saint-Rémy (France) is documented and stored in the archives of the city of Salon in the south of France.
The prophecies of Nostradamus are unique even if you don’t wonder what came true. This is a phenomenon that has no equal. Many theories have been put forward and are being put forward about him, even this one - “life in reverse.”
At that time, Europe was at the mercy of astrologers, magicians, and secret organizations; occultism flourished in full bloom. Poisoners were becoming fashionable. Charles IX, who once visited Nostradamus, was slipped a book soaked in poison, and John of Austria fell lifeless, wearing poisoned shoes. Women's lipsticks also contained poison. It is believed that Henry of Navarre was poisoned with a kiss by Madame de Sauve. Hunters for the lives of kings and peers made wax dolls by inserting needles into them. At such a time Michel was born.
He was born on December 14, 1503 in the small French town of Saint-Rémy. His father is Jacques le Notredame, his mother is Rene de Saint-Rémy. He came, contrary to popular belief, not from a family of doctors, but from a family of grain traders. Only his paternal great-grandfather, Abram Solomon, was a court physician. He served under the general of Calabria. Since the boy came from the middle class, he was characterized by such character traits as frugality, practicality, and the ability to save money. Despite this, his family did not skimp on the education of their eldest son. There were many talented people in their family; Michel's father was also a remarkably gifted man, and his son received his first lessons from him. Afterwards he was sent to Avignon, where he studied philosophy and received the title of Master of Arts. He then went to Montpellier to study medicine. In this establishment, the Duke of Anjou allowed the dissection of corpses.
In 1534, Michel received his doctorate in medicine and began formal medical practice. The inheritance that Michel receives from his father was equal to... five florins. He spent the rest of the money on his studies. Medicine at that time was at an extremely low level. People still knew nothing about bacteria, microorganisms; The microscope was invented only in the 17th century. None of the doctors could have imagined that many diseases are spread by airborne droplets. Ignorance of microbiology made even dissection of corpses a pointless exercise. The most popular action was bloodletting. Then among doctors there was a distinction between doctors and healers; It was the healers who performed the operations: they opened abscesses and set dislocations. Surgical operations were carried out without anesthesia, without observing the rules of sanitation and hygiene. Doctors did not operate - it was considered a dirty business; they prescribed powders and mixtures. In addition, they read the “smart” books of Aristotle. The doctors, however, were not to blame for the fact that medicine was at such a level.
The children of King Francis I died of unknown diseases and could not be saved. The king himself died of tuberculosis; When he was opened, many other diseases were discovered. And this is in the family of kings! What can we say about ordinary people? However, already in those days there were many talented progressive minds, including Paracelsus, Girolamo Fracastoro, Miguel Servet and others.
In 1536, Michel settled in Agen, or rather in its outskirts. There he married for the first time Henrietta d'Encausse, with whom, according to legend, he had two children. There he meets the scientist Scaliger, who becomes his friend and teacher. Jules Cesar Scaliger - scientist, doctor, humanist, philologist, literary critic, critic - studied ancient ancient texts. He was called the French Erasmus. Communication with this man had a huge impact on the formation of Michel's worldview. In 1552 he wrote about him: "A learned and learned man, a personage whom I know not with whom can be compared except Plutarch or Marcus Varro."
Michel's family idyll did not last long - two years after the wedding, Henrietta and the children die from an unknown illness. Michel leaves Agen and wanders for nine years. Little is known about these years. He was seen in different cities - Venice, Bordeaux, Turin, Alsace, Lyon.
There is a legend that Nostradamus was a brilliant doctor and allegedly cured entire cities from the plague, but this is not so: he was a doctor of his time, fought the plague using tablets independently prepared from rose petals, green cypress sawdust, and aromatic reed. During an epidemic, balls of these ingredients were supposed to be kept in the mouth. Volatile flavorings warded off infection, and many who used them did not become infected with the plague, which Michel took part in the fight against in 1544. It was in Marseille.
The infection began in port cities, spread by ship rats. From Marseilles the plague migrates to the city of Aix in Provence, where it lasts for nine months. Nostradamus is going there. His success in preventing the plague was so great that in 1546 he received an award from the Parliament of Aix in the form of a “lifelong pension” for his success in the medical field.
The plague was raging. Since 1347, it has devastated areas from China to Europe, claiming millions of lives. For 300 years, plague was the scourge of Europe. But even after that she returned periodically; no one knew how to deal with it. In the 17th century, 35 thousand people died from the plague in London, later - about 20 thousand.
Michel roams the Provençal soil. Where it appears, the plague recedes. Success is due to the observance of hygiene rules and the use of his extraordinary pills. His wanderings end in 1547 in Lyon. In the same year he settled in the city of Salone, where he lived until his death. He marries the widow Anne Ponsard Gemellier. Six children are born from this marriage.
Michel's career began to take off in 1551. Then he begins publishing his almanacs, signing them with the pseudonym Nostradamus (the phrase “Nostra Damus” can be translated from Latin as “we give”, “we give ours”). These almanacs were extremely popular, because they were written in a lively, original and interesting way. Readers found in them many forecasts - everyday, agricultural, political. And most of them came true. Year by year, the books became more voluminous, and Michel's fame grew more and more. And finally, his book falls into the hands of the august couple - King Henry II and his wife Catherine de Medici.
In the summer of 1555, he was invited to an audience at the palace. Catherine de Medici was keenly interested in astrology and various kinds of predictions. She was attracted to everything mystical, she surrounded herself with talented people, and she herself was a well-educated person who knew several languages. The visit went smoothly and successfully. For his visit, however, the visionary astrologer received only 120 ecus, which was not even enough to pay for travel.
At the same time, his famous book “The Prophecies of Master Michel Nostradamus” was published - the work of his whole life. It was a collection of 942 quatrains, which later became known as quatrains, combined into chapters of one hundred quatrains - centuries. The book included two prophecies in the form of letters to his son Cesar and King Henry II. The Prophecies were published three times, each time with additions and corrections. Almanacs were more popular at that time; they were published in all major cities of Europe at that time, with the exception of Spain, where the power of the Inquisition was strong.
Michel and Catherine de' Medici continued to communicate in letters, and in 1564 the queen and her son Charles and their retinue visited the town of Salon in person. The result was Michel’s appointment as the king’s personal physician, which was a great success. With a minimum of work, this position brought a good income. However, by this time Nostradamus was already seriously ill - arthritis and gout tormented him more and more. It is believed that he passed away from gout.
He died on the day predicted in advance - July 2, 1566. Dr. Chavigny de Benoit was present and described everything. When they said goodbye for the night, Michel said that they would not see each other again. Shortly before this, he wrote on the star calendar of Jean Stadium in Latin: “Death approaches here.” Above his grave there is an epitaph: “Here lie the bones of Michel Nostradamus, whose almost divine pen, by all accounts, was worthy to inform and inscribe to people the influence of the stars on the future. He died at Salona, in the year of grace 1566, on July 2, being 62 years, 6 months and 17 days old. O descendant, do not touch this dust and do not envy the peace of the one lying here.”
“I compiled prophetic books containing one hundred quatrains of astronomical prophecies, the meaning of which I deliberately riveted and which were brought up to 3797. For, according to the heavenly signs, the world is approaching the anaragonistic revolution, and according to the manifest Judgment of Heaven, when we are yet in the seventh number of the thousand, which will complete all, approaching the eighth, when the Great and Eternal God will complete the revolution.”
Currently, hundreds of books and articles have been published on the predictions of Nostradamus. Commentators on the centuries of the soothsayer interpret them in completely different ways and interpret quatrains predicting the future as they please. Numerous attempts have been made to decipher the quatrains using various decipherment methods, but they have not been particularly successful. Nostradamus randomly scattered the quatrains across different centuries in order to make it difficult to understand their subtext. It is believed that until the true sequence of alternation of quatrains is established, we will not be able to establish the true meaning of a particular prediction. However, it would be reasonable to assume that the Nostradamus cipher for determining the order of quatrain numbers should be quite simple. Next, we will outline an attempt to decipher the “Nostradamus code” undertaken by V. Simonov, the author of many books, to one degree or another related to predictions of the future.
When carefully studying the text of the centuries, attention is immediately drawn to the first two quatrains of Century I (they were given above), which are connected by a single meaning - 1–1 and 1–2, which describe the methods used by the prophet to predict the future. The next quatrain, undoubtedly dedicated to the same topic, is 3–2. Please note that this century serial number is equal to the sum of the previous two numbers (1 + 2 = 3). If you follow this method and use the sum of the values of the previous numbers, then the next quatrain will be numbered 3–5 (3 + 2 = 5). Moreover, the resulting value will already be the number of the quatrain. The next quatrain, dedicated to the same event, is 3–4. In these two paired quatrains, Nostradamus indicates the beginning of the dating of his centuries with the help of a rather rare phenomenon - an eclipse of the Sun and Moon, which will occur with a short interval in time: “close and far from the eclipses of the two great luminaries, which will occur between April and March.” With the help of modern electronic astronomical encyclopedias, it is quite simple to establish when these events occurred: April 9, 1400, and the non-central solar year is March 26, 1400.
It was no coincidence that Nostradamus included in his centuries a description of the events of the past in order to complicate the decipherment of quatrains relating to the future. However, he did not hide this: “I have calculated almost as many events of the future as the events of past years, including the present,” he writes in “Letter to Henry II.” According to the discovered pattern, the next quatrains in the sequence chain will be numbers 4–7 and 4–11. But already in quatrain 4-15, Nostradamus uses another encryption method, widely used in his era - writing text and numbers from right to left. This is exactly the technique that Leonardo da Vinci used to record his works on mechanics and anatomy. If we read the quatrain number 4-15 from right to left, we get a completely different number - 4-51. Next, the prophet further complicates the encoding of the sequence of quatrains, using all four arithmetic operations, as well as n + 1 and n – 1, where n is the number of the previous quatrain or century. A favorite technique of Nostradamus, used to encode the sequence of quatrain numbers and dates, was his habit of inverting 6 and 9. For example, the number 6-66 can be written in several versions - 9-66, 6-96, 6-99, etc. These the reversals made it very difficult to decipher the numbering sequence of the quatrains. It is absolutely impossible for an ordinary person to understand such gobbledygook without the use of modern computer technology, since there are too many options for reading numbers.
Based on the above deciphering technique and using as reference points the numbers of quatrains, the dates of which are most likely established, as well as astronomical data given by the seer (years of conjunction of the planets), it is possible to determine the true order of alternation of quatrains. For modern computer technology, which performs millions of operations per second, decrypting even a very complex password is a fairly simple task. It is the matter of time. In our case, the task is simplified even more, since only numbers are used.
As a result of deciphering the centuries, a curious sequence of quatrains was obtained, which begins with the number 1–1 and ends with the number 10–99. But this chain of quatrains included only half of the 942 quatrains.
10 years have passed since the publication of this article. But the topic raised in it is still relevant and interesting to our readers.
Retrospective. The year is 1999 and seven months...
When the dead rise from their graves.
Michelle Nostradamus.
Centuria 10, quatrain 74.
Michel Nostradamus knew the future. He not only imagined various options for events, but also saw these events in detail. Even the time when the internal logic of his prophecies would be revealed was well known to him 440 years before it happened.
It is no coincidence that M. Nostradamus singled out Russia in his prophecies. Numerous facts convincingly show that today global changes will begin in Russia. A “new branch” will appear here, carrying the update.
In the center of the huge world is a rose,
Because of new facts, human blood has been shed;
Those who speak the truth will have their mouths closed,
Then, if necessary, he will come later.
Centuria 5, quatrain 96.
Rosa – Russia. It was about the future mission of our country that Nostradamus wrote.
The sky from Plenkus city gives us an omen,
With clear directions and fixed stars,
That the era is approaching its sudden change,
Neither for good nor for evil.
Centuria 3, quatrain 46.
“Neither for good nor for evil...” It’s just time to start realizing and thinking about what’s happening in the world.
In his “Message to Henry” Nostradamus wrote about events in Russia:
“And the changed cities, towns, kingdoms and provinces, which abandoned the original paths for liberation, enslaved even deeper, will secretly be burdened by their freedom, and having completely lost religion, will begin to beat the left party in order to return to the right. Temples will be restored, as in the first times, and the clergy will be restored to their legal status, but will be mired in fraud and sensuality, and will commit a thousand atrocities. And from this new devastation will come closer...”
Here we see a clear reference to Russia from 1980 to 2000. There was a “movement to the right” and a multi-party system. Temples are being restored, and priests are replacing political officers in the army; Confessional booths are installed in police departments. And the symptoms of “being mired in luxury” are obvious.
Today the church has everything - “absolution of sins” and retail outlets selling all kinds of ritual services: “godly” candles, calendars, icons... The only thing that is missing there is God himself.
Let's think about what specific fruits have churches, mosques, and synagogues brought today? Maybe the people for the most part have warmed up in their souls? Or maybe there are fewer wars on Earth? Or did religion give the world outstanding scientists, writers, philosophers? After all, once upon a time it was like this: the church was the Temple of Science and brought people basic literacy.
In Russia, where the prophecies have been deciphered and where freedom is understood as revelry and lawlessness, despite warnings, a riot may occur. A certain Antibes will take over the army.
Warnings have been given to the ungrateful people.
Then Antibes will take possession of the army...”
Centuria 10, quatrain 23.
By “Antibes, Antibor” a certain opponent of Boris Nikolaevich is assumed.
Blamed, Antibor, cities near Victory,
They will be greatly entertained across the sea and over the land:
This locust of land and sea is a timely plague,
Dead containers were taken, robbed without
war (without military law).
Centuria 3, quatrain 82.
There is a clear analogy here with the modern economic and political state of Russia, when financial support that looks more like bribes comes to us from across the sea and over land, and at the same time the country is being stolen literally before our eyes. Well, tell me, not locusts?
The fact is that in the "Epistle to Henry" there is a fairly clear warning that if, “Forcing the people to go to the right, he will not want to come down to them, at the end of the counteraction hand of military unrest on earth”.
Moreover, this will happen precisely when “the restored Christian Church will be at its peak, and all this will wallow in luxury and commit a thousand crimes”.
Here again is an indication of our time period. The salvation of the government does not lie in self-government, but in condescension to the people and an end to the plunder of the country. But, as we see, the processes of political and economic life in the country are not developing for the better.
Because of the spirit of the state, money has become worthless,
And the people will rebel against their king...
Centuria 6, quatrain 23.
The beginning of the 21st century, according to the predictions of Nostradamus, should be marked by the arrival and deeds of the Great Monarch. The Prophet also calls him the Great Henry. His arrival is expected by 1999. This monarch is destined to unite Europe and free it from all hostile forces. He will become the Ruler of the world and the United Nations of Europe.
The leader of the world will be the great Hiren,
He will be desired more than all others,
but further they will fear and fear him,
His honor will rise to heaven,
And he will be awarded the title of conqueror.
Centuria 6, quatrain 70.
This Great Monarch will be born at 48-50 degrees latitude. It is likely that Michel Nostradamus had in mind the city of Rostov-on-Don! And the author already has some evidence for this...
The state will be given to two, but they are few
will hold out. (The reign of the kingdom is short-lived
will hold),
In three years and seven months they will start a war,
Two vestals will rise up against (them),
Lesser Victor /Winner/ (will be born) in
Armenian (Armonica?) land.
Centuria 4, quatrain 95.
Addressing the Great Monarch, Nostradamus says: “Only you have the highest priority in resolving religious issues.” There is a connection between this Ruler and the renewal of spirituality and ideology.
Further, the Prophet clearly indicates that this “renewer of the true Church” will appear not from already existing religions, but “from that branch that was in vain considered withered,” and this will happen in the country where “in the month of October a great revolution will break out ", whose conquests "will not last longer than 73 years and 7 months."
In other words, we are talking specifically about Russia.
The great King has been abandoned by physicists,
By fate, and not by the ability to stay alive from Drunk,
He and his family are raised high in the state,
Pardon is given to people who envy Christ.
Centuria 6, quatrain 18.
There is a connection between science and spirituality here. The time of the arrival of the Great Monarch is discussed in the following quatrain:
Year one thousand nine hundred ninety nine and seven months,
The great King of Terror will appear from heaven;
Restore the great king from Angumua,
Before and after Mars (War) reign happily.
Centuria 10, quatrain 72.
So, the time of the event is predetermined - June 1999 or July 2000. As we know, on August 11, 1999, a solar eclipse occurred. In 2000, as many as three such eclipses are expected! "The Great King of Terror will come from the sky..."
Perhaps it is in this year 2000 that something unprecedented and unheard of will happen - an emergency contact situation with Extraterrestrial Intelligence!!! So that people finally think that we are not alone in the Universe.
During Christmas week alone, more than 400 UFO sightings were reported around the world. On January 1, at 1 a.m. local time, a “plate” posed over the Great Wall of China for media representatives and allowed itself to be filmed on video cameras! And at the end of February, a massive UFO invasion led to official circles in China recognizing the reality of Extraterrestrial Intelligence activity on our planet.
It's time for other governments to follow this example! Indeed, at present, only narrow-minded people can assume that man descended from a monkey, and life on Earth arose by chance in a puddle.
Moreover, those who still claim that UFOs are some kind of fluctuations in atmospheric air look stupid!
Apparently, in July 2000, we will all witness one of the most ambitious “fluctuations” - real contact with representatives of Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
Therefore, the time has come to turn to awareness and repentance. Otherwise, we are on the verge of a third world war, which the ruling clans of the planet will try to unleash. After all, otherwise, the people will finally understand: who is the real master on Earth!
It was in July 2000 in the natal chart of V.V. Putin, who came to power at the time of the July lunar eclipse-99, shows the most intense aspect! (See article by G. Maslov, “PK” No. 2, 2000.)
When the year turns to the great seventh,
Then the deadly games of the hecatomb will appear,
Shortly before the new thousandth century,
When the dead rise from their graves.
Centuria 10, quatrain 74.
(Hecate is the lunar goddess. Gakatomba is the expiatory and bloodiest sacrifice of the ancient Greeks, when a hundred bulls were slaughtered in honor of the formidable goddess.)
During this period, a new ideological movement will appear on the world stage, which will be greatly persecuted.
“The persecution of the people of Preaching will begin with the Kings of Aquilon,” and then, when the ruler of Aquilon weakens, then a certain “holy man of his law, an observer of God, the whole order of religion will be very much upset, so much so that the blood of the true Preachers will float everywhere. »
"Message to Henry".
It clearly says that the new ideology will be persecuted first by the Russian authorities, and then, when the entire “religious order is limited,” then blood will be shed like a river.
Simply put, the church fathers will not want to agree to a voluntary reformation and will go against the “true preachers” and the “law of God” itself.
"One new sect of philosophers,
Despising death, gold, honors and riches,
They will not be limited to their native cities,
In them, followers will have support and
cohesion."
Centuria 3, quatrain 67.
Nostradamus describes the development of further events as follows:
“The people rise up in defense, drive out these clingy legislators, and it will seem that the states are weakened because of the Eastern ones, that God the Creator has decided to release Satan from the prison of the underworld in order to give birth to the Great Dog and Dokhan, who will make such a disgusting faction in the Churches, whatever these red and white without eyes and without hands will no longer judge, and their power will be taken away from them.”
"Message to Henry".
Here we are talking about a violent change of power somewhere in the East, only as a result of this both the “reds” and the “whites” will become blind, helpless and lose their power! “The Great Dog and Dokhan are a disgusting faction in the churches” will lead to big church “showdowns”, and “such a mess will brew” that it will seem as if Satan has broken free.
A body without a soul will not be sacrificed,
The day of death will become the day of birth:
The divine spirit will make the soul happy,
Contemplating the (Divine) Verb in its infinity.
Centuria 2, quatrain 13.
Yes, there is a force in our country that can lead the whole world to a new life. But everything depends on people’s awareness and repentance. If people don't start to think about what is happening, we could all be drawn into a third world war. It was the date - mid-2002 - that Nostradamus encrypted as the possible beginning of this terrible event.
The terrible war that is being prepared in the West,
A year later the plague will come
So terrible that neither young nor
Neither old nor beast.
Blood, fire, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter in France.
Centuria 9, quatrain 55.
And the collapse in the country will continue for another 27 years.
From this heavenly fire to the Royal building,
When the light of War fades,
Seven months of great war, dead people
from damage.
Centuria 4, quatrain 100.
In other words, we have to learn to fight evil bloodlessly, and if this does not happen, then the promised Golden Age will never come.
We will only have to console ourselves with the fact that distant descendants who survived this deadly war of 2002 will tell legends about our failed civilization.
But Nostradamus did not write about the fatality of the third world war. He simply warned future generations about these events, about how all this could be avoided.
Everything depends on ourselves, on the mind and awareness of everyone. It is possible that in mid-2002 a peaceful normalization of life in all spheres of society will begin.
Mars and the scepter (Jupiter) will open in conjunction (July 2000),
Under Cancer there is a disastrous war:
A little later a new King will be anointed,
Which will pacify the earth for a long time.
Centuria 6, quatrain 24.
“Then he will come from that branch that was considered barren for such a long time, and will come from that 50th degree who will renew the entire Christian Church. And the greatest peace, union and harmony will be established between several children warring, lost and divided due to different governments, such peace will be concluded that the instigators and instigators of hostilities, using religious differences, will remain bound in the underworld, and the kingdom of these Slaves will be united; which will remake wisdom."
"Message to Henry".
In a word, the victory of the new teaching is predetermined. And it already exists!
But the final victory of the age of Saturn is attributed by Nostradamus to 2035, and until then we all have a lot of work ahead of us!
“Satan will be captured and in chains for about a thousand years, and peace will be made between God and people.” .
E. KADATOVA. Research Center "ENIO"
(When working on the article, materials from the book by D. and N. Zim “Nostradamus Deciphered” were used)
Based on materials from the newspaper of the Scientific Research Center "ENIO" "Centaur's Crossroads" (subscription index in the Rospechat catalog 53745)