posted June 02, 2010 07:38 PM
Nostradamus, the author of the famous Centuries, was an unusual man for his time. He was a practicing physician, astronomer and astrologer who lived in the mid 16th century (1503 – 1566) who turned his hand to prophecy later in life. As a physician he treated those suffering from the Bubonic plague and then in a twisted irony lost the members of his family to the disease. He was a devout student of pagan methods of divination at night who wore the mask of a devout Catholic during the day to avoid persecution from the Spanish Inquisition. In the end he predicted his own death, and some say also cursed the marauders from the French Revolution that he foresaw would desecrate his own burial tomb. Nostradamus wrote messages from the past to the future in the form of short poems consisting of four lines each called Quatrains. In his lifetime Nostradamus completed a total of 942 quatrains, which he organized into groups of 100 quatrains called Centuries. However one century only has 46 quatrains.
His followers say he predicted the French Revolution, the birth and rise to power of Hitler, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He also predicted other events, such as the Great Fire of London (1666) and the exile of Napoleon to Alba. You can find out more information about these predictions in the Fulfilled Prophecies section of this book.
His cryptic missives about the future seem almost exponential in their ability to reveal about current event. Recently the writings of Nostradamus have been shown to reveal the destruction of the space shuttle Challenger to the destruction, the death of Lady Diana and the destruction of the Twin Towers on 9/11/01. The fact that so many of his grimmest predictions in the past have indeed come true has given him the nickname “The Prophet of Doom.â€
After he resigned from treating the victims of the bubonic plague and settled down in a psychic studio in Salon, France, this self-styled soothsayer was in the habit of writing long letters to world leaders warning them of future events, that is until the Vatican decided that magicians were evil. The fact is that Nostradamus did indeed qualify as a magician according to the definitions of those days, which was anyone who produced visions and predictions through scrying. Scrying was considered to be a form of conjuring spirits and Nostradamus taught himself this skill by reading ancient texts about Egyptian and Alexandrian magic.
Unfortunately this great prophet also lived during the time of the Spanish inquisition. Conjuring spirits (or channeling as we call it today) was a crime punishable by death, which meant that he was force to scramble up the meaning and the order of his quatrains so that he could not be tried and executed for being a soothsayer. Even though his quatrains are divided up into books called Centuries they do not chronologically represent the timeline of any centuries. Scrambling the quatrains so that they did not follow a time line was one of the tricks that Nostradamus used to disguise his work as the ramblings of a mad poet. This explains why when you read the quatrains, he seems to be referring to incidents from all of the centuries at the same time.
The rhymed quatrains of Nostradamus were written mainly in French with a bit of Italian, Greek, and Latin thrown in to throw the Spanish Inquisition off if they should ever discover his manuscripts. This is because the Spanish Inquisition had been dealing with metaphysical literature by holding public burnings in the public squares.
To disguise his own metaphysical manuscripts also used words from the Languedoc or Provencal dialect of southern France and swaps words around so that the quatrains don’t make sense. That is why so many of his prophecies are left wide open to interpretation and also great debate, particularly among English speaking scholars who have a habit of interpreting the quatrains with the French phrases that suit them best. In this book we are using the public domain verses of Charles Ward, an English scholar who was one of the first to translate the quatrains from the original Latin, French and other dialects and leave them as naked as possible.
The result of all of Nostradamus secret magical studies, pagan rituals, coding and conjuring is the Ten Centuries. Each Century is one of the most cryptic longest and most poetic letters ever written to citizens of the future. The quatrains consist of a mystic vision that was capable of scanning events that would take place over thousands of years. The quatrains are in essence missives from a prophet who was directly warning both you and me of the apocalypse to come Nostradamus was essentially a trance channeller. Trance channellers, which have been around from before the days of John The Baptist and are still around today, communicate with supernatural entities and spirits in order to predict the future. Usually the method is to first conjure a spirit (or spirit guide as they are called today) and then host the entity inside your body and ask them to provide you with a vision.
Examples of modern day trance channellers include Elizabeth Clare Prophet (who channels the angels) and Derek Acorah (an English channeller who communicates with dead spirits.) Another very famous trance channeller is the healer Edgar Cayce, who went into a trance in order to communicate with his spirits who gave him divine remedies for certain physical disorders.
Two of the methods that Nostradamus used for inducing his prophetic visions are from ancient pagan traditions. He used scrying – staring into a flame or staring into a bowl of water to send him into a trance. He also followed the ritualistic practice associated with the Delphic priestess Branchus who was a famous soothsayer who attended at the Oracle of Delphi. He would sit, feet flat on the floor with a straight spine on a brass stool (called a tripod in his own writings) whose legs were angled at the exact same degrees as the Egyptian pyramids. The dimensions of the stool were thought to create an electromagnetic energy that weakened the veil between this world and the supernatural world.
He explains his divinatory process exactly in the very first two quatrains of Century 1
Sitting alone at night in secret study;
it is placed on the brass tripod.
A slight flame comes out of the emptiness and
makes successful that which should not be believed in vain.
The wand in the hand is placed in the middle of the tripods legs.
With water he sprinkles both the hem of his garment and his foot.
A voice, fear: he trembles in his robes.
Divine splendor; the God sits nearby
Nostradamus would also sometimes place a bowl of steaming water and pungent oils and spices on a tripod also made with the same dimensions. He may have also ingested nutmeg, which is slightly hallucinogenic in order to put him in a trance.
As tripods were mainly used in the temples of Athena and Apollo he was likely working with the deceased spirits of human attendees at these alters (such as Branchus or Pythia) or summoning the energies of a God like Apollo. The reason I say this is that this simply isn’t a Christian ritual and it is not monotheistic in nature. In no way was Nostradamus contacting the God that he so devoutly appeared to worship during the day.
Here again, in a very famous letter he wrote to Henry II, the King of France he describes in detail his divination process.
I emptied my soul, brain and heart of all care and attained a state of tranquility and stillness of mind which are prerequisites for predicting by means of the brass tripod. Although the everlasting God alone knows the eternity of light proceeding from himself, I say frankly to all to whom he wishes to reveal his immense magnitudeinfinite and unknowable as it isafter long and meditative inspiration, that it is a hidden thing divinely manifested to the prophet by two means: One comes by infusion which clarifies the supernatural light in the one who predicts by the stars, making possible divine revelation; the other comes by means of participation with the divine eternity, by which means the prophet can judge what is given from his (her) own divine spirit through God the Creator and natural intuition.
As he was writing to the King, Nostradamus would naturally imply that he was channeling God the creator when it was more likely he we would be channeling Apollo. This pretense towards connecting toward God The Creator through a manner other than prayer, was in fact a form of heresy in his day that seemed to be overlooked in his case as he so often would prove to be accurate.
FROM: http://www.nostradamus101.com/prophecies/part1/
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