Nostradamus and the Antichrist: The Epistle to Henry II

There many translations and interpretations of Nostradamus' Centuries, but there are few popular editions or "Nostradamus predicted the End of the World in 2012"-articles including two extremely important textes written by him, and this for very obvious reasons.

The first text is the Preface to the Centuries, dedicated to his son César, with this quote: "I have composed books of prophecies, containing each one hundred astronomic quatrains of forecasts, which I have tried to polish through obscurely, and which are perpetual vaticinations, from now to the year 3797."

Nostradamus did not predict the End of the World in 2012. And he did not predict Obama being the Antichrist either, as is stated on numerous racist and "Christian" fundamentalist websites. This becomes very clear when you read the second extremely important prophetic text written by Nostradamus and published together with his Centuries in 1558: The Epistle to Henry II of France.

This Epistle is also excluded by the Apocalypse 2012 Believers. That's why you may want to read it here in the translation (and interpretation) of the 19th century Nostradamian Charles A. Ward. Historical Mysteries however, serves you the most astonishing excerpts.

Of course, Charles A. Ward interpreted the Epistle in his 19th century context, centered around the "revolutionary" date 1792 (literally in the text!). He couldn't know yet that the Epistle mentioned also another "revolutionary" date (the October Revolution) and seems to say something about our lives and times too.

Yes, the Epistle to Henry II of France is a fascinating text, for Nostradamus "believers" as well as for the "non-believers". I still am somewhere in between, I guess...





There Will be in the Month of October a Grand Revolution...

As is the case in the Centuries, Nostradamus deliberately seems to have messed up chronology, facts and figures... But nevertheless, there are some fascinating observations to be made.

Quoting from the Epistle, in the translation of Charles A. Ward:

The Germans will succumb wholly and the Barbaric sect will be disquieted and driven back by the whole of the Latin race. Then shall begin the grand Empire of Antichrist in the Atila and Xerxes, [who is] to descend with innumerable multitudes, so that the coming of the Holy Spirit, issuing from the 48th degree, shall make a transmigration, chasing away the abomination of Antichrist, that made war upon the royal person of the great vicar of Jesus Christ, and against His Church, and reign per tempus, et in occasione temporis [for a time, and to the end of time].

This could be interpreted as the end of World War II, with the Germans and "the Barbaric sect" succumbed and driven back, and the rise of an Antichrist (there will be more!). But what about the "eclipse of the sun" preceding these events? Or the Grand Revolution in the month of October (Russia, 1917) which seems to happen after these events have taken place?

This will be preceded by an eclipse of the sun, more obscure and tenebrose than has ever been since the creation of the world, up to the death and passion of Jesus Christ, and from thence till now. There will be in the month of October a grand revolution made, such that one would think that the librating body of the earth had lost its natural movement in the abyss of perpetual darkness. There will be seen precursive signs in the spring-time, and after extreme changes ensuing, reversal of kingdoms, and great earthquakes [i.e. wars]. All this accompanied with the procreations of the New Babylon [Paris], a miserable prostitute big with the abomination of the first holocaust [death of Louis XVI.]. It will only continue for seventy-three years seven months.

The Renovation of 1792, Year I of the Republic

Prophecies that could easily been interpreted as saying something about our times are followed by the year 1792 (a "renovation") when France also became officialy a republic. It was, in fact, Year I of the Republic:

Of the three sects [Lutheran, Catholic, and Mahometan], that which is in the middle, by the action of its own worshippers, will be thrown a little into decadence. The first totally throughout Europe, and the chief part of Africa exterminated by the third, by means of the poor in spirit, who by the madness engendered of libidinous luxury, will commit adultery [i.e. apostatize].

A new incursion shall be made from the maritime shores, eager to give the leap of liberty since the first taking by the Mahometans. Their assaults shall not be at all in vain, and in the place where the habitation of Abraham was, it shall be assailed by those who hold the Jovialists [followers of Jupiter (Napoleon I.?)] in reverence. The city of Achem [in the Island of Sumatra] shall be encompassed and assaulted on all sides by a great force of armed men. Their maritime forces shall be weakened by the Westerns. Upon this kingdom a great desolation shall come, and the great cities shall be depopulated, and such as enter in shall come under the vengeance of the wrath of God. The Holy Sepulchre, for so long a period an object of great veneration, shall remain exposed to the blighting dew of evening under the stars of heaven, and of the sun and moon.

What great oppression shall then fall upon the princes and rulers of kingdoms, even on those who are maritime and Oriental, their tongues intermingled from all nations of the earth! Tongues of the Latin nations, mingled with Arabic and North-African communication. All the Eastern kings will be driven away, overthrown, and exterminated, not at all by means of the kings of the North and the drawing near of our age, but by means of the three secretly united who seek out death and snares by ambush sprung upon one another.

Then will be the commencement [of a period] that will comprehend in itself what will long endure [i.e. the vulgar advent of the French Revolution], and in its first year there shall be a great persecution of the Christian Church, fiercer than that in Africa [by the Vandals from 1439 to 1534, and this will burst out [durera] the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two; they will think it to be a renovation of time.

The Coming of the 19th Century Antichrist & the Age of Gold

According to Charles A. Ward, the Antichrist - as predicted by Nostradamus - was already among us in the early 19th century:

In the Adriatic there will be such permutations, that what was united will be separated, and that will be reduced to a house which before was a great city, including the Pampotan and Mesopotamia of Europe, to 45, and others to 41, 42, and 47. And in that time and those countries the infernal power will set the power of the adversaries of its law against the Church of Jesus Christ. This will constitute the second Antichrist, which will persecute that Church and its true vicar, by means of the power of the temporal kings, who in their ignorance will be reduced by tongues that will cut more than any sword in the hands of a madman.

The said reign of Antichrist will only last to the death of him who was born near the [commencement] of the century, and of the other in the city of Plancus [Lyons], accompanied by him the elect of Modena, Fulcy by Ferara, upheld by the Adriatic Piedmontese, and the proximity of the great Trinacria [Sicily]. Afterwards the Gallic Ogmion shall pass the Mount Jovis [Barcelona], accompanied by so great a number that from afar the Empire shall be presented with its grand law, and then and for some time after shall be profusely shed the blood of the innocent by the guilty recently elevated to power.

Then the third King of the North [Russia?], hearing the complaint of the people from [whom he derives] his principal title, will raise up a mighty army, and pass through the limits [destroits] of his last progenitors and great-grandfathers, to him who will [qui for lui qui] replace almost everything in its old condition. The great Vicar of the Cope shall be put back to his pristine state; but, desolated and abandoned by all, will return to the sanctuary [that was]destroyed by paganism, when the Old and New Testament will be thrust out and burnt. After that Antichrist will be the infernal prince. Then at this last epoch, all the kingdoms of Christianity, as well as of the infidel world, will be shaken during the space of twenty-five years, and the wars and battles will be more grievous, and the towns, cities, castles, and all other edifices will be burnt, desolated, and destroyed with much effusion of vestal blood, married women and widows violated, sucking children dashed and broken against the walls of town; and so many evils will be committed by means of Satan, the prince infernal, that nearly all the world will become undone and desolated. Before the events occur certain strange birds [imperial eagles] will cry in the air, "To-day! to-day!" and after a given time will disappear [June, 1815]. After this has endured for a certain length of time [twenty-five years he has said before, 1790 to 1815], there will be almost renewed another reign of Saturn, the age of gold [this might be the discovery of California, but for what follows].

Tombstone Tales - 004: John Condon, Age 14

Private John Condon, killed in action, 14 years old.

Tyne Cot Cemetery, Flanders (Belgium).

Photo by Bryan A, on Flickr.

JOHN CONDON, AGE 14

He fell in a field

of honour and under a leaden sky

the earth coloured

red.



May nineteen fifteen and more

he has never seen.


There was a leaf

torn from the calender

and a girl

of grief.


And on his lips was the name

of his mother, his brother
 

who fell in another


Flanders' Field.

The grave of "John Condon, age 14", the youngest soldier to be killed in the Great War, is reputedly the most visited grave of the entire Western Front. According to recent investigations however, John Condon was not age 14, but age 18 when he was killed in May 1915, after only two months on the Western Front,  in a German gas attack at a place called "Mouse Trap", near Ypres. The  two unknown British soldiers exhumed in 1923, were misidentified as the privates Condon and Carthy. The true identity of the man buried in  the grave marked "John Condon" is probably rifleman Patrick Fitzsimmons of the 2nd Royal Irish Rifles.

Copyright by Patrick Bernauw / Tombstone Tales.

Merlin’s Doomsday Prophecies | Socyberty

In the medieval Prophecies of Merlin, written by Geoffrey of Monmouth who was in the higher orders of the Catholic Church, we find an apocalyptic vision which doesn’t draw substantially upon the Book of Revelation - as could be expected - but on an ancient Celtic tradition. Probably Geoffrey has rewritten the traditional verses declaimed by a Welsh or Breton bard and ascribed to Merlin, and mixed them with Greek astrology. But this type of astrology is quite different of the modern calculations and rigid patterns that are used today. In this vision, the seer has seen the breakdown of the solar system, with special emphasis upon the role of Orion and the Pleiades - but the End of the World has not to be expected in 2012...

Merlin reads his Prophecies to King Vortigern: Image via Wikipedia

Root & Branch shall change place

and the Newness of the Thing shall pas as a Miracle

and the Brightness of the Sun shall fade at the Amber of Mercury

and Horror shall seize the Beholders

and Stilbon of Arcadia shall change his Shield

and the Helmet of Mars shall call Venus & make Shadow

and the Rage of Mercury shall exceed his Orbit

and Iron Orion shall unsheathe his Sword

and the Marine Phoebus shall torment the Clouds

and Jupiter shall go out of his Lawful Paths

and Venus forsake her Appointed Circuits

and the Malignity of the Star Saturn shall slay Mankind with a Crooked Sickle

and the Twelve Houses of the Stars shall lament the Irregular Excursions of Their Inmates

and the Gemini shall omit Their Usual Embrace
and the Gemini shall call Aquarius to the Fountains
and the Scales of Libra shall hang awry till Aries puts his Crooked Horns under them
and the Tail of Scorpio shall produce Lightning
and Cancer quarrel with the Sun
and Virgo shall mount upon the Back of Sagittarius and darken her Virgin Flowers
and the Chariot of the Moon shall disorder the Zodiac
and the Pleiades shall break forth into Weeping.

No offices of Janus shall return hereafter,
but His Gate shall be shut and lie hidden in the Depths of Ariadne
and the Seas shall rise up in the Twinkling of an Eye,
and the Dusts of the Ancients be restored
and the Four Winds shall fight together with a Dreadful Blast
and their Sound shall reach the Stars.

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The Eilean Mor Mystery

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The Lighthouse of Eilean Mor
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One of my favorite historical mysteries is the disappearance of the lighthouse keepers of Eilean Mor (or Eilan More) - meaning "Big Island" in Gaelic. With its 39 acres, Eilean Mor is the largest of the Flannan Isles, rising 288 feet above the Atlantic Ocean, on the west coast of Scotland. It was here that in 1895 a 75 foot high lighthouse was constructed, since 1899 sending out a warning beam to sailors 25 miles out at sea. In 1971 the light was automated, replacing the three-man crew stationed there to tend the 140,000 candlepower lamp. Seventy years earlier, this crew of the Eilean Mor lighthouse, had been at the centre of the perfect mystery...

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The Eilean Mor Mystery

Life and Works of Nostradamus - Part One

Michel de Nostredame was born in the French town of St. Remy, in the year 1503, the 14th of December, about noon. His father, a notary, was James Nostradamus, a name which is equivalent to de Nôtre Dame (of Our Lady) - some say he was of a noble, others of a Jewish descent. His family, however, had been converted to Christianity, and claimed to be of the tribe of Issachar, which had the gift of prophecy. His mother's was Renée de Saint Remy and her ancestors were skilled in mathematics and medicine. 
It was his great-grandfather who gave Michel a first taste for the celestial sciences. He was put to school in Avignon and later he went to the university at Montpellier, to study philosophy and the theory of medicine.Montpellier had the most famous school of medicine in all France; it was an ancient school, said to have been founded by Arabian physicians when forced to fly from Spain. 

Learned and medical as it was in the days of Nostradamus, the city of Montpellier could not escape visitation by a great plague, and Nostradamus had to retreat to Narbonne, Toulouse, and Bordeaux. In these towns he commenced practice; four years later he returned to Montpellier to take his Doctor's degree. On his way back to Toulouse he passed through Agen, a town on the Garonne, where he met with the learned Jules César Scaliger, who became his intimate friend. Scaliger even induced him to take up his permanent residence in the town, but some time later their cordiality grew less and rivalry sprang up between them.

In Agen, Nostradamus married a "very honorable" lady, though history has not divulged her name. By her he had two children, who died young; she also died. Finding himself alone again, he returned to Provence. 

When Nostradamus reached Marseilles, he was invited by the Parliament of Provence to come to Aix, where he stayed three years, receiving a salary from the city from the time the plague broke out. His services must  have been recognized as valuable. 

Nostradamus now went to Salon de Craux, where he married for the second time, with Anna Ponce Genelle. He had three boys and three girls with this lady. It was here that he foresaw great mutations throughout the whole of Europe, and civil wars and troubles that were coming to the kingdom of France. Feeling an unaccountable and new enthusiasm springing up in his mind, amounting at last in a maddening fever, he sat down and wrote his "Centuries" and other "Presages" - the first is dated 1555. Nostradamus kept them by him, afraid to publish them because they would bring him in danger. At last, overcome by a desire to be useful to the public, Nostradamus produced them and no sooner had he done this, than the rumour ran from mouth to mouth, at home and abroad, that something marvellous and admirable had appeared. 

"One cannot see of what use they could be to the public," Nostradamian Chas A. Ward says in his book Oracles of Nostradamus, "as they could not possibly be understood till they were interpreted after the event and by it. In some of the quatrains he says as much himself. He no doubt published them because he felt an intense longing so to do; and, when the mind of a man reaches this stage of desire, it will not take him long to find some excellent reason for carrying out the impulsion."

The prophecies of Nostradamus divided the public. Some called him a visionary, others a fool. He was accused of magic and being in too close treaty with the Devil to be honest. A lot of the really important people of his time thought that he was endowed with a supernatural gift. Amongst these were Henri II and Catherine de Medici. One this is certain, Nostradamus felt much hesitation to publish his prophecies, and when he at last took the step, in 1555, he addressed the book to his infant son and not to any public character. 

Nostradamus was summoned to the Court at Paris, loaded with honours and consulted on high matters, and he displayed nothing but moderation and good sense. Contentedly he returned to his modest home at Salon de Provence. The repute of Nostradamus grew, and it came to the ears of Queen Catherine de Medici and Henri II that he had published the first seven Centuries of his "Prophecies" (the remaining Centuries, the Sixains, and Presages, were not published till long after). In 1556, they sent for him to attend the Court in Paris. The Lord Constable Montmorency attended him at his inn, and presented him to the king in person. And the king showed him high favour, and ordered him to be lodged at the palace of the Cardinal de Bourbon, during his stay in the capital.

His majesty and the queen dispatched him to Blois, to visit their children, give his astrological opinion and cast their horoscopes. It is quite certain that he did not tell them precisely what he thought, for the princes were Francis II, Charles IX, and Henry III, whose tragical fates he had already correctly set out, with unmistakable clearness, by the forecasts in his strange book.

Nostradamus returned to Salon and was so much encouraged that he set to work and completed his"Centuries", consisting now of three hundred more quatrains. He seems to have printed these new quatrains in 1558. 

 

Nostradamus had now become a court favourite. And then Henry II was killed, in 1559, at the tournament of St. Quentin, was Nostradamus had foreseen in Quatrain 35 in Century I - and we will tell here in a next episode of Life and Works of Nostradamus. 

So... Stay Tuned!

Nostradamus Links:

http://hubpages.com/hub/About-Nostradamus--Obama-and-the-AntiChrist (Nostradamus did not predict the election of Obama, or Obama being the AntiChrist.)

http://purpleslinky.com/offbeat/nostradamus-the-black-president-and-the-end-of-the-world-in-2012

http://hubpages.com/hub/Nostradamus-and-the-End-of-the-World-in-2012 (Nostradamus did not predict the End of the World in 2012 either.)

http://socyberty.com/folklore/nostradamus-the-mayan-calendar-and-the-end-of-the-world-in-2012

http://hubpages.com/hub/Nostradamus-and-the-Prophecy-of-Orval

http://hubpages.com/hub/Nostradamus-and-the-Lost-Templar-Treasure

http://hubpages.com/hub/treasurehunter (= Nostradamus and the Lost Treasure of the Bourbons)

 

 

The Lovers of The Isle of Demons | Trifter

Located at the savage northern extremity of Newfoundland, Isle of Demons was reputedly inhabited by wild beasts, mythological creatures and evil spirits. The first to give a detailed description of it was a French Franciscan friar, André Thevet. Sailors had told him tales of how they had heard there "a great clamor of men’s voices, confused and inarticulate"…


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In 1555, Thevet sailed the entire coast of North and South America far north as Bacalaos or Codfish Land, as Newfoundland then was called. Upon his return, in 1558, he published in Antwerp an account of his travels, stating that he had set foot on “Isola des Demonias”, and that he had seen how malicious the demons were. He warded them off by repeating the Gospel of Saint John.

This “Isle of Demons” could well be Quirpon Island, located in the icy strait between Labrador and Newfoundland, where French sailors would not go ashore without crucifixes in their hands, because the island was inhabited by devils.


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A Singer-Songwriter of Historical Mysteries

Photo copyright by Corjan, see also:
http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Holy-Sepulchre-of-Bruges-la-Morte

In September 2009 the Dutch singer-songwriter Corjan de Raaf started a new project: The Book of Love was a pop song inspired by Kathleen McGowan's bestselling novel of the same name. With his song, Corjan de Raaf established a crossover between his career as a recording artist and his work as a Rennes-le-Château and Grail researcher and publicist.

Until now, Corjan was probably best known for his research into the enigma surrounding the French priest Bérenger Saunière who became rich and powerful almost overnight after he had made a mysterious discovery. His RLC Research is one of the most authoritative sites in the field.

Corjan writes pop songs with a head, a tail and a story in between. This story now became a "historical mystery"... In October 2009 he wrote a new song, inspired by Hollywood icon Patrice Chaplin  and her book City of Secrets, which is the captivating tale her early years spent in the mysterious Spanish town of Girona. Her story follows the intriguing villagers, many of whom belong to a secret society formed to protect the legacy of Abbe Saunière of Rennes-le-Château.

Here is the video clip of City of Secrets (the Grail in you), containing scenes from Chaplin's 1987 movie Siesta with Ellen Barkin:




And here is a fan based music video (not for profit) of Corjan's song, The Bond Code, inspired by the book of the same name by Philip Gardiner. The music is as always written, performed and produced by Corjan. The video was made  by Philip Gardiner. And James Bond, 007 is copyright to MGM and EON Productions.



Are you ready to discover the secrets of Ian Fleming and James Bond? For decades there has been a code hidden beneath the layers of this popular spy. Best selling author Philip Gardiner reveals the truth...

Click on the title to read more about the Mystery Singer-Songwriter and his new projects!

Links:
 

• The Book of Love, a Song Inspired by Kathleen McGowan's Bestselling Novel
   
• The Magdalene Line of Kathleen McGowan
   
• The Treasures of an Abbey in Ruins: Orval
   
• The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine | Authspot