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What Hidden Sources
Did Nostradamus Consult?
The poetic quatrains of
Michel de Nostredame's
True Centuries
have been a
best-seller for more than
400 years
Oxford scholar Erika
Cheetham claims that
"Nostradamus IMichel de
Nostredame's popular name]
is probably the only author
who could claim that his
work has never been out of
print for over tour hundred
years, apart from the Bible.
The interest he generales is
extraordinary" (
The
Prophecies of Nostradamus,
page 12).
The chief reason for this
popularity is that
Nostradamus' quatrains
written in 1555 appear to
contain remarkably accurate
predictions.
In book IX, verses 20 and
34, Nostradamus wrote of
French king Louis XVI's flight
to Varennes, France. nearly
150 years befare the fact. In
book
11 ,
verse
51,
he
appears to predict the Great
Fire of London of 1666.
Also, in several verses. he
appears to predict the
careers of Napoleon (1, 23,
59-60;
111 ,
35; IV, 37, 54; VIII,
57) and Adolf Hitler
(111 ,
35,
58; V, 29; VI, 50-51 ; IX, 90).
How can this be
explained? lt is 95 percent
explained by the fact that
most students of
Nostradamus assign events
to the obscure writings
after
they occur!
Nostradamus chose to
intentionally obscure his
writings in a curious poetic
mixture of classical French,
Latín, Greek, ltalian and
other European languages.
He claimed it was for his
protection.
In his Epistle to French
King Henry
11,
Nostradamus
wrote: "Had
1
wished to give
every quatrain its detailed
date. it could easily have
been done , but it would not
have been agreeable to all,
and still less to interpret
them, Sire, until your majesty
should have fully sanctioned
me to do this, in order not
to furnish calumniators lfalse
accusers] with an
opportunity to injure me."
Despite these evasive
comments. Nostradamus,
scholars say. does appear
to have made sorne
accurate predictions. How
was he able to foretell
specitic fragments of the
future?
Visions of t he Future?
Nostradamus presents what
he asserts was his chief
method of divination in the
opening quatrains of book
1:
"Sitting alone at night in
secret study; it la bowl of
water] is placed on the
brass tripod. A slight llame
comes out of the
emptine.ss. ...
"The wand in the hand is
placed in the middle of the
tripod's legs. With water he
sprinkles both the hem of
his garment and his foot. A
voice, fear; he
INostradamus] trembles in
his robes. Divine splendour;
!he god sits nearby"
(book
1,
verses 1-2, Cheetham
trans., emphasis added).
Nostradamus also
employed other methods of
the occult. He had an
extensive occult library,
which he later burned. In the
preface of his book,
dedicated to his son
(Preface a mon fils).
he
wrote of this extensive
library: "Dreading what
might happen in the futuré,
after reading them lthe
occult books], 1presented
them to Vulcan la pagan
Roman god of tire], and as
the tire kindled them, the
flame ... shot forth an
unaccustomed brightness,
clearer than the light is of
natural llame, resembling
more the explosion of
powder, casting a subtle
illumination over the house."
What
was
the source of
Nostradamus' predictions?
Rene Noorbergen, the
author of a book explaining
True Centuries,
explains:
"Whether the majo_rity of his
visions carne ... from
psychic inspiration,
necromancy, tarot cards or
a retined form of witchcraft,
we will probably never learn.
We might conclude,
however, that
his hidden
source
knew much of the
course history would take,
and possibly had the power
to control or at least
influence sorne of the major
future historical
developments"
(Nostradamus Predicts !he
End of the Wor/d,
pages
3-4, emphasis added) .
What hidden source?
A Serious Warning
A lar more authoritative
ancient volume. which
book] to shudder in horror."
In almost a mirror image of the
198! panic from Nostradamus'
predictions, the late 1800s similarly
saw France frozen in fear of seem–
ingly prophesied upheaval. An
exciting interpretation of Nostrada–
mus insisted that the Bourbon line
of kings would be restored to the
French throne. The interpretation
was wrong and fai led to appear.
Notice how Nostradamus him–
self claimed to have received his
information.
In the first two quatrains of
True Centuries,
Nostradamus re–
veals that he would gaze into a
bowl of water supported on a tri–
pod. From there he would lapse
into a trance, later recovering to
write what he insists he saw. In
addition to the visions, Nostrada–
mus employed astrology and
attempted to contact the dead. In
the preface to
True Centuries,
which was dedicated to his son,
Nostradamus claimed all of his
visions carne from the Creator
God who is revealed in the ancient
writings today known as the Holy
Bible. While lamely admitting
that the Bible condemns all of the
means he used to obtain his
visions, he asserted "we have to
exempt from this [biblical] judg–
ment Judicial Astrology."
Is it possible to know the future?
Sorne turn to the writings of Nos–
tradamus. Others to I Ching coins
and various alternatives for clues to
what the future holds.
But what criteria should be
applied to determine whether such
sources are in fact reliable? Would
you put your faith in Nostradamus?
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Scholars also note that the bowl
of water method used by Nostrada–
mus was originated centuries ear–
lier by the 4th century A.D. neo–
P iatonist Iamblichus. His book
De
Mysteris Egyptorum (The Mys–
teries of Egypt),
detailing these
methods and published in A .D.
1547, almost certainly was read by
Nostradamus.
The simple fact that Nostrada–
mus used means .of foretelling for–
bidden in the Holy Bible
proves
the
Creator God has nothing to do with
these prophecies.
The
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