2Europe's greatest prophet:The uncanny1 2words of Nostradamus.1 3-------------------------------------1 Article written by Sandman. (With the help of some books). In the autumn of 1939, when Adolf Hitler was in the act of unleashing world war,the wife of his Minister of Propaganda, Josef Goebbels, drew his attention to a remarkable set of prophecies which had been made 400 years earlier. These prophecies were written by a Frenchman called Nostradamus and they seemed to predict the rise of Hitler, they were so accurate that they came close to mentioning him by name,they referred to the German leader as "2HISTER1". Unfortunately for Hitler, even the collapse, then it would (and it did). most skilled interpretation of the Nostradamus made many predictions prophecies could not predict success about many things and they all have for the Third Reich-so the Propaganda came true........ Minister (Goebbels) composed fake verses. In 1940 the Luftwaffe dropped 2Michel de Nostredame1-he later changed thousands of "Nostradamus leaflets" his name to Nostradamus-was born in over France and Belgium,announcing 1503 in St Remy de Provence. His that Germany would be victorious, and family were Jewish,but were converted prophesying that south-eastern France to Christianity and the young Michel would be spared in the conflict. The was brought up as a Catholic.He was a aim was to ensure that refugees would brilliant student, who first became not choke the roads leading to Paris famous as a skilled physician dealing and the Channel ports. with plague victims. Many of his successes in this field were undoubt- In retaliation, British Intelligence edly due to his refusal to "bleed" also made up "Nostradamus writings" his patients-a revolutionary concept but these, of course, predictied an in the early 16th century. outright Allied victory over the Nostradmus was ahead of his time in Axis.There was,of course, no need for other ways too.He proclaimed that the the British to make up fake pre- earth circles the sun, 100 years dictions because Nostradamus has pre- before Galileo's findings.His proph- dicted that the Third Reich would not etic gifts came to light in 1955 when survive and if he said it would he published the first of ten books, all simply entitled CENTURIES.Each The boy was 2Henry of Navarre1 who be- volume contained 100 predictions, all came 3Henry IV1. of which were written in verse form. On another occasion a French nobleman tried to confound Nostradamus' Nostradmus never made any secret of prophetic powers.He asked him to pre- his technique for looking into the dict the fate of two suckling pigs future.He placed a bowl of water on a that he had in his yard. The answer brass tripod and gazed into it,in was that the nobleman would eat the much the same way a fortune-teller black one, and a wolf would eat the intently studies a crystal ball. But white one. The nobleman instantly occasionally his predictions came to ordered the white one to be killed him in spontanious flashes of in- for dinner that night. When dining tuition. One day, when he was a young later with Nostradamus, the nobleman man and travelling in Italy, he fell was amazed when he discovered that a onto his knees before a passing monk tame wolf had carried of the meat of named Felice Peretti.To the astonish- the white one and that he was, after ment of the monk and onlookers alike, all,eating the black one. Nostradamus declared: "2I kneel before1 2His Holiness.1" In 1585 the monk The prophet predicted his own death became Pope Sixtus V. in 1566,and before he died he had a Once when visited by Catherine de date engraved on a small metal plate Medici he was intrigued by a boy in instructing that this should be her entourage, proclaiming that one placed with him in his coffin.In 1700 day the boy would be King of France. the coffin was taken from the grave, where it had lain for 134 years,and (I'm sure that the thousands of was moved to a more prominent site. people killed in the Inquisition The plate was resting on the wished the same thing m8! Polaris). prophet's skeleton. It bore the date 1700. Here are some of his verses which have been translated in modern Eng- To avoid being accused of witchcraft lish, but the names are in the by the Inquisition, Nostradmamus original spelling. confused the dating of his pre- dictions, and wrote in a bewildering 2PREDICTION CONCERNING HENRY II OF1 mixture of anagrams, symbols, Old 2FRANCE.1 French,Latin and other languages.This deliberate confusion has led to some Before it came tragically true,no one curious and widely varied inter- at the French court dared mention pretations of his prophecies,but,many Nostradamus's most notorious predict- of his predictions are uncannily ion,of how King Henry would die: close to the facts but can only be recognised after the events has happ- "THE YOUNG LION WILL OVERCOME THE ened. Even so,this is enough to just- ELDER ify his reputation as a great pro- IN A FIELD OF COMBAT IN A SINGLE phet, I only wish there had been no FIGHT. Inquisition so we could read ac- HE WILL PIERCE HIS EYES IN THEIR curate, precise predictions for the GOLDEN CAGE. future. TWO WOUNDS IN ONE, THEN DIES A CRUEL DEATH." BURNT BY FIRE IN THREE TIMES TWENTY PLUS SIX" This prediction was fulfilled four years later in 1559 when Henry, one The disaster occurred in 1666, and of whose heraldic emblems was a lion, Nostradamus adopted the Italian habit had a friendly joust with a young of leaving out the first two digits officer called Montgomery, captain of in the date. the French king's Scottish Guard. Montgomery's lance accidentally This is how he prophesied the Great pierced the visor of Henry's gilt Plague that ravaged London in 1665: helmet, wounding him in the eye and throat. The king died after ten days "THE GREAT PLAGUE OF THE MARITIME of agony. CITY SHALL NOT CEASE TILL DEATH IS 2PREDICTION CONCERNING THE GREAT FIRE1 AVENGED; 2AND THE PLAGUE1. FOR THE BLOOD OF THE JUST TAKEN AND CONDEMNED THROUGH INNOCENCE Nostradamus rarely gave precise AND THE GREAT DAME OUTRAGED BY dates, but the Great Fire of London FEIGNING SAINTS" was an exception. He was very precise when he wrote: Nostradamus often referred to London as "THE MARITIME CITY" and he sugges- "THE BLOOD OF THE JUST WILL BE1 ted that the plague was retribution DEMANDED OF LONDON1 for the murder of Charles I. The "feigning saints" in the last line Laud, was beheaded (not burned) in appear to be Puritains,and the "great 1645.The followers who stooped so low dame" is thought to be St Paul's were the Scots who sold the king back Cathedral, which was destroyed in the to Parliament in 1646, and the Pre- fire. tender is presumably Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector, who was almost 2PREDICTIONS CONCERNING CHARLES I1. accepted as king. Nostradamus most accurate predicition Nostradamus made several predictions regarding Charles was: about Charles I, of which the most comprehensive covers Charles, Arch- "THE PARLIAMENT OF LONDON WILL PUT bishop Laud and Cromwell: THEIR KING TO DEATH.....HE WILL DIE BECAUSE OF THE SHAVEN HEADS IN "THE UNWORTHY MAN IS CHASED FROM THE COUNCIL" ENGLISH KINGDOM THE COUNSELLOR THROUGH ANGER WILL Clearly the prophet was referring to BE BURNT. the roundheads.Cromwell was described HIS FOLLOWERS WILL STOOP TO SUCH as "more like a butcher than an Eng- DEPTHS lish king". THAT THE PRETENDER WILL ALMOST BE Nostradamus also mentioned "The brok- RECIEVED" en bridge, the city faint from fear". The broken bridge is thought to refer Charles' irresponsibility lost him to Pontefract,whose name derives from his kingdom.His counsellor,Archbishop the Latin PONS (bridge) and FRACTUS (broken). The town held out for years of the Second World War when Charles during two seiges by Crom- German armies swept across the Rhine well's Parliamentary forces. into France.Though most of Europe was allied against him ("the greater part of the battle field") Hitler,or "His- 2PREDICTIONS CONCERNING ADOLF HITLER.1 ter",was for a time only too success- ful: Nostradamus produced several extra- ordinarily accurate predictions about the Nazi leader. One verse sums up "BEAST WILD WITH HUNGER WILL CROSS Hitler's life and even predicts that THE RIVERS, his death in Berlin in 1945 will THE GREATER PART OF THE BATTLEFIELD never be satisfactorily confirmed: WILL BE AGAINST HISTER" "IN THE MOUNTAINS OF AUSTRIA NEAR The prophet also warned of "weapons THE RHINE heard in the skies" and "machines of THERE WILL BE BORN OF SIMPLE PAR- flying fire" -references to aircraft, ENTS bombing and the early V-weapons. A MAN WHO WILL CLAIM TO DEFEND POL- Nostradamus also drew a vivid picture AND AND HUNGARY of what a wartime pilot would look AND WHOSE FATE WILL NEVER BE CERT- like in an oxygen mask, helmet and AIN" goggles, describing him as "half man, half pig when battles are fought in Another verse describes the early the skies" 2PREDICTION CONCERNING HIROSHIMA.1 Pasteur made vital contributions to medical science when he founded the The nuclear bombs dropped on Hiro- Pasteur Institute in 1889. shima and Nagasaki were forcast: 2PREDICTIONS CONCERNING NAPOLEON.1 "NEAR THE HARBOUR AND IN TWO CITIES WILL BE TWO SCOURGES THE LIKE OF Nostradamus forsaw the rise of Napol- WHICH HAVE NEVER BEEN SEEN" eon, whom he described as the first anti-Christ (Hitler was the second The two cities are on the sea and and a third is yet to come!). both the explosions and the radiation OF Napoleon's rise to power and years that followed were horrors the world as emperor,he wrote: had never seen before. "AN EMPEROR WILL BE BORN NEAR ITALY 2PREDICTION CONCERNING LOUIS PASTEUR.1 WHO WILL COST THE EMPIRE VERY DEAR- LY" This is an incident were Nostradamus predicts a name and a date: Napoleon certainly cost France dearly in both manpower and political stren- "PASTEUR WILL BE CELEBRATED AS A gth until his eventual downfall. GODLIKE FIGURE. THIS IS WHEN THE MOON COMPLETES HER Nostradamus also made this prediction GREAT CYCLE." of Napoleon's fate: UNITED TOGETHER IN THE EAST WILL BE GREAT FEAR AND DREAD... "THE GREAT EMPIRE WILL SOON BE EX- ONE DAY THE TWO GREAT LEADERS WILL CHANGED FOR A SMALL PLACE, BE FRIENDS, WHICH WILL SOON BEGIN TO GROW. THE NEW LAND WILL BE AT THE HEIGHT A SMALL PLACE OF TINY AREA IN THE OF ITS POWERS: MIDDLE OF WHICH HE WILL COME TO LAY TO THE MAN OF BLOOD THE NUMBER IS DOWN HIS SCEPTRE." REPEATED..." Napoleon was exiled to a the small The man of blood is identified else- island of Elba but escaped for 100 where as being the world's third days, in which his empire grew again. anti-christ who will emerge in China. He relinquished all power on the tiny The new land is a common term used in island of St. Helana in the South all Nostradamus's predictions to Atlantic. refer to America. Thus, Nostradamus seems to be sugg- 2PREDICTIONS CONCERNING THE FUTURE.1 esting war between China and a Russia - American alliance. Nostradamus refers to a third war The prophet gives a precise date for this century which will take place in when the conflict will come "when the the Northern Hemisphere after the two cycle of the centuries is renewed".He great powers join in an alliance ag- says.. ainst the East.The prophet wrote: "IN THE YEAR 1999 AND SEVEN MONTHS FROM THE SKY WILL COME THE GREAT "WHEN THOSE OF THE NORTHERN POLE ARE KING OF TERROR... BEFORE AND AFTERWARDS WAR REIGNS 4.The abdication of Edward VIII to HAPPILY." marry the divorced Mrs Simpson. 5.The invention of the plane. The Northern Hemisphere will suffer 6.The invention of the submarine. most. "A very great famine casused by 7.The invention of the car. a pestilent wave will extend its long 8.The assassination of President Ken- rain the length of the Artic pole". nedy. (The 3 Kennedys to be exact) Oh dear...... Thats it from me,think about this and To draw things to a close I will tell draw your own conclusions. I'm going you a couple of his other predictions to sit in a proper seat now because which have came true.I can't remember my back is fucking killing me from the exact verses so you'll have to sitting on this shite wooden bastard take my word for it. at my computer desk....... He predicted...... ))Yeah! Excellent article Sandman!! How about a few more cool articles 1.The unsuccessful flight of Louis like this one guys? Any supernat- XVI and Marie Antoinette to Var- ural artiles (in fact ANY articles) ennes in 1791. would be appreciated! - Polaris (( 2.The Spanish civil war (1936-39) and the main protagonists. 2Article by1 : 3Sandman/Asylum1 3.The great World Wars (both of them) 2Clipart by1 : 3Moz/Eclipse1