Prophecies of Nostradamus E-Book

Nostradamus

• Herausgeber: Nostradamus
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

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.
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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 trembles in his robes.
Divine splendor; the God sits nearby.
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When the litters are overturned by the whirlwind
and faces are covered by cloaks,
the new republic will be troubled by its people.
At this time the reds and the whites will rule wrongly.

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Prophecies of Nostradamus

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Table of contents

Preface

Century I

Century II

Century III

Century IV

Century V

Century VI

Century VII

Epistle To Henry II

Century VIII

Century IX

Century X

Almanacs: 1555-1563

Almanacs: 1564-1567

Preface

Preface by M. Nostradamus to His PropheciesGreetings and happiness to Cesar Nostradamus my son. Your late arrival, Cesar Nostredame, my son, has made me spend much time in constant nightly reflection so that I could communicate with you by letter and leave you this reminder, after my death, for the benefit of all men, of which the divine spirit has vouchsafed me to know by means of astronomy. And since it was the Almighty's will that you were not born here in this region and I do not want to talk of years to come but of the months during which you will struggle to grasp and understand the work I shall be compelled to leave you after my death: assuming that it will not be possible for me to leave you such writing as may be destroyed through the injustice of the age. The key to the hidden prediction which you will inherit will be locked inside my heart.Also bear in mind that the events here described have not yet come to pass, and that all is ruled and governed by the power of Almighty God, inspiring us not by bacchic frenzy nor by enchantments but by astronomical assurances: predictions have been made through the inspiration of divine will alone and the spirit of prophecy in particular.On numerous occasions and over a long period of time I have predicted specific events far in advance, attributing all to the workings of divine power and inspiration, together with other fortunate or unfortunate happenings, foreseen in their full unexpectedness, which have already come to pass in various regions of the earth. Yet I have wished to remain silent and abandon my work because of the injustice not only of the present time but also for most of the future. I will not commit to writing.Since governments, sects and countries will undergo such sweeping changes, diametrically opposed to what now obtains, that were I to relate events to come, those in power now - monarchs, leaders of sects and religions - would find these so different from their own imaginings that they would be led to condemn what later centuries will learn how to see and understand. Bear in mind also Our Saviour's words: "Do not give anything holy to the dogs, nor throw pearls in front of swine lest they trample them with their feet and turn on you and tear you apart." For this reason I withdrew my pen from the paper, because I wished to amplify my statement touching the Vulgar Advent by means of ambiguous and enigmatic comments about future causes, even those closest to us and those I have perceived, so that some human change which may come to pass shall not unduly scandalize delicate sensibilities. The whole work is thus written in a nebulous rather than plainly prophetic form. So much so that, "You have hidden these things from the wise and the circumspect, that is from the mighty and the rulers, and you have purified those things for the small and the poor," and through Almighty God's will, revealed unto those prophets with the power to perceive what is distant and thereby to foretell things to come. For nothing can be accomplished without this faculty, whose power and goodness work so strongly in those to whom it is given that, while they contemplate within themselves, these powers are subject to other influences arising from the force of good. This warmth and strength of prophecy invests us with its influence as the sun's rays affect both animate and inanimate entities.We human beings cannot through our natural consciousness and intelligence know anything of God the Creator's hidden secrets, For it is not for us to know the times or the instants, etc.So much so that persons of future times may be seen in present ones, because God Almighty has wished to reveal them by means of images, together with various secrets of the future vouchsafed to orthodox astrology, as was the case in the past, so that a measure of power and divination passed through them, the flame of the spirit inspiring them to pronounce upon inspiration both human and divine. God may bring into being divine works, which are absolute; there is another level, that of angelic works; and a third way, that of the evildoers.But my son, I address you here a little too obscurely. As regards the occult prophecies one is vouchsafed through the subtle spirit of fire, which the understanding sometimes stirs through contemplation of the distant stars as if in vigil, likewise by means of pronouncements, one finds oneself surprised at producing writings without fear of being stricken for such impudent loquacity. The reason is that all this proceeds from the divine power of Almighty God from whom all bounty proceeds.And so once again, my son, if I have eschewed the word prophet, I do not wish to attribute to myself such lofty title at the present time, for whoever is called a prophet now was once called a seer; since a prophet, my son, is properly speaking one who sees distant things through a natural knowledge of all creatures. And it can happen that the prophet bringing about the perfect light of prophecy may make manifest things both human and divine, because this cannot be done otherwise, given that the effects of predicting the future extend far off into time.God's mysteries are incomprehensible and the power to influence events is bound up with the great expanse of natural knowledge, having its nearest most immediate origin in free will and describing future events which cannot be understood simply through being revealed. Neither can they be grasped through men's interpretations nor through another mode of cognizance or occult power under the firmament, neither in the present nor in the total eternity to come But bringing about such an indivisible eternity through Herculean efforts, things are revealed by the planetary movements.I am not saying, my son - mark me well, here - that knowledge of such things cannot be implanted in your deficient mind, or that events in the distant future may not be within the understanding of any reasoning being. Nevertheless, if these things current or distant are brought to the awareness of this reasoning and intelligent being they will be neither too obscure nor too clearly revealed.Perfect knowledge of such things cannot be acquired without divine inspiration, given that all prophetic inspiration derives its initial origin from God Almighty, then from chance and nature. Since all these portents are produced impartially, prophecy comes to pass partly as predicted. For understanding created by the intellect cannot be acquired by means of the occult, only by the aid of the zodiac, bringing forth that small flame by whose light part of the future may be discerned.Also, my son, I beseech you not to exercise your mind upon such reveries and vanities as drain the body and incur the soul's perdition, and which trouble our feeble frames. Above all avoid the vanity of that most execrable magic formerly reproved by the Holy Scriptures - only excepting the use of official astrology.For by the latter, with the help of inspiration and divine revelation, and continual calculations, I have set down my prophecies in writing. Fearing lest this occult philosophy be condemned, I did not therefore wish to make known its dire import; also fearful that several books which had lain hidden for long centuries might be discovered, and of what might become of them, after reading them I presented them to Vulcan. And while he devoured them, the flame licking the air gave out such an unexpected light, clearer than that of an ordinary flame and resembling fire from some flashing cataclysm, and suddenly illumined the house as if it were caught in a furnace. Which is why I reduced them to ashes then, so that none might be tempted to use occult labours in searching for the perfect transmutation, whether lunar or solar, of incorruptible metals.But as to that discernment which can be achieved by the aid of planetary scrutiny, I should like to tell you this. Eschewing any fantastic imaginings, you may through good judgement have insight into the future if you keep to the specific names of places that accord with planetary configurations, and with inspiration places and aspects yield up hidden properties, namely that power in whose presence the three times are understood as Eternity whose unfolding contains them all: for all things are naked and open.That is why, my son, you can easily, despite your young brain, understand that events can be foretold naturally by the heavenly bodies and by the spirit of prophecy: I do not wish to ascribe to myself the title and role of prophet, but emphasize inspiration revealed to a mortal man whose perception is no further from heaven than the feet are from the earth. I cannot fail, err or be deceived, although I may be as great a sinner as anyone else upon this earth and subject to all human afflictions.But after being surprised sometimes by day while in a trance, and having long fallen into the habit of agreeable nocturnal studies, I have composed books of prophecies, each containing one hundred astronomical quatrains, which I want to condense somewhat obscurely. The work comprises prophecies from today to the year 3797.This may perturb some, when they see such a long timespan, and this will occur and be understood in all the fullness of the Republic; these things will be universally understood upon earth, my son. If you live the normal lifetime of man you will know upon your own soil, under your native sky, how future events are to turn out.For only Eternal God knows the eternity of His light which proceeds from Him, and I speak frankly to those to whom His immeasurable, immense and incomprehensible greatness has been disposed to grant revelations through long, melancholy inspiration, that with the aid of this hidden element manifested by God, there are two principal factors which make up the prophet's intelligence.The first is when the supernatural light fills and illuminates the person who predicts by astral science, while the second allows him to prophesy through inspired revelation, which is only a part of the divine eternity, whereby the prophet comes to assess what his divinatory power has given him through the grace of God and by a natural gift, namely, that what is foretold is true and ethereal in origin.And such a light and small flame is of great efficacy and scope, and nothing less than the clarity of nature itself. The light of human nature makes the philosophers so sure of themselves that with the principles of the first cause they reach the loftiest doctrines and the deepest abysses.But my son, lest I venture too far for your future perception, be aware that men of letters shall make grand and usually boastful claims about the way I interpreted the world, before the worldwide conflagration which is to bring so many catastrophes and such revolutions that scarcely any lands will not be covered by water, and this will last until all has perished save history and geography themselves. This is why, before and after these revolutions in various countries, the rains will be so diminished and such abundance of fire and fiery missiles shall fall from the heavens that nothing shall escape the holocaust. And this will occur before the last conflagration.For before war ends the century and in its final stages it will hold the century under its sway. Some countries will be in the grip of revolution for several years, and others ruined for a still longer period. And now that we are in a republican era, with Almighty God's aid, and before completing its full cycle, the monarchy will return, then the Golden Age. For according to the celestial signs, the Golden Age shall return, and after all calculations, with the world near to an all-encompassing revolution - from the time of writing 177 years 3 months 11 days - plague, long famine and wars, and still more floods from now until the stated time. Before and after these, humanity shall several times be so severely diminished that scarcely anyone shall be found who wishes to take over the fields, which shall become free where they had previously been tied.This will be after the visible judgement of heaven, before we reach the millennium which shall complete all. In the firmament of the eighth sphere, a dimension whereon Almighty God will complete the revolution, and where the constellations will resume their motion which will render the earth stable and firm, but only if He will remain unchanged for ever until His will be done.This is in spite of all the ambiguous opinions surpassing all natural reason, expressed by Mahomet; which is why God the Creator, through the ministry of his fiery agents with their flames, will come to propose to our perceptions as well as our eyes the reasons for future predictions.Signs of events to come must be manifested to whomever prophesies. For prophecy which stems from exterior illumination is part of that light and seeks to ally with it and bring it into being so that the part which seems to possess the faculty of understanding is not subject to a sickness of the mind.Reason is only too evident. Everything is predicted by divine afflatus and thanks to an angelic spirit inspiring the one prophesying, consecrating his predictions through divine unction. It also divests him of all fantasies by means of various nocturnal apparitions, while with daily certainty he prophesies through the science of astronomy, with the aid of sacred prophecy, his only consideration being his courage in freedom.So come, my son, strive to understand what I have found out through my calculations which accord with revealed inspiration, because now the sword of death approaches us, with pestilence and war more horrible than there has ever been - because of three men's work - and famine. And this sword shall smite the earth and return to it often, for the stars confirm this upheaval and it is also written: "I shall punish their injustices with iron rods, and shall strike them with blows."For God's mercy will be poured forth only for a certain time, my son, until the majority of my prophecies are fulfilled and this fulfillment is complete. Then several times in the course of the doleful tempests the Lord shall say: Therefore I shall crush and destroy and show no mercy; and many other circumstances shall result from floods and continual rain of which I have written more fully in my other prophecies, composed at some length, not in a chronological sequence, in prose, limiting the places and times and exact dates so that future generations will see, while experiencing these inevitable events, how I have listed others in clearer language, so that despite their obscurities these things shall be understood: When the time comes for the removal of ignorance, the matter will be clearer still.So in conclusion, my son, take this gift from your father M. Nostradamus, who hopes you will understand each prophecy in every quatrain herein. May Immortal God grant you a long life of good and prosperous happiness.Salon, 1 March 1555

Century I

1Sitting alone at night in secret study;it is placed on the brass tripod.A slight flame comes out of the emptiness andmakes successful that which should not be believed in vain.2The 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 trembles in his robes.Divine splendor; the God sits nearby.3When the litters are overturned by the whirlwindand faces are covered by cloaks,the new republic will be troubled by its people.At this time the reds and the whites will rule wrongly.4In the world there will be made a kingwho will have little peace and a short life.At this time the ship of the Papacy will be lost,governed to its greatest detriment.5They will be driven away for a long drawn out fight.The countryside will be most grievously troubled.Town and country will have greater struggle.Carcassonne and Narbonne will have their hearts tried.6The eye of Ravenna will be forsaken,when his wings will fail at his feet.The two of Bresse will have made a constitutionfor Turin and Vercelli, which the French will trample underfoot7Arrived too late, the act has been done.The wind was against them, letters intercepted on their way.The conspirators were fourteen of a party.By Rousseau shall these enterprises be undertaken.8How often will you be captured, O city of the sun ?Changing laws that are barbaric and vain.Bad times approach you. No longer will you be enslaved.Great Hadrie will revive your veins.9From the Orient will come the African heartto trouble Hadrie and the heirs of Romulus.Accompanied by the Libyan fleetthe temples of Malta and nearby islands shall be deserted.10A coffin is put into the vault of iron,where seven children of the king are held.The ancestors and forebears will come forth from the depths of hell,lamenting to see thus dead the fruit of their line.11The motion of senses, heart, feet and handswill be in agreement between Naples, Lyon and Sicily.Swords fire, floods, then the noble Romans drowned,killed or dead because of a weak brain.12There will soon be talk of a treacherous man, who rules a short time,quickly raised from low to high estate.He will suddenly turn disloyal and volatile.This man will govern Verona.13Through anger and internal hatreds, the exileswill hatch a great plot against the king.Secretly they will place enemies as a threat,and his own old (adherents) will find sedition against them.14From the enslaved populace, songs, chants and demands,while Princes and Lords are held captive in prisons.These will in the future by headless idiotsbe received as divine prayers15.Mars threatens us with the force of warand will cause blood to be spilt seventy times.The clergy will be both exalted and reviled moreover,by those who wish to learn nothing of them.16A scythe joined with a pond in Sagittariusat its highest ascendant.Plague, famine, death from military hands;the century approaches its renewal.17For forty years the rainbow will not be seen.For forty years it will be seen every day.The dry earth will grow more parched,and there will be great floods when it is seen.18Because of French discord and negligencean opening shall be given to the Mohammedans.The land and sea of Siena will be soaked in blood,and the port of Marseilles covered with ships and sails.19When the snakes surround the altar,and the Trojan blood is troubled by the Spanish.Because of them, a great number will be lessened.The leader flees, hidden in the swampy marshes.20The cities of Tours, Orleans, Blois, Angers, Reims and Nantesare troubled by sudden change.Tents will be pitched by (people) of foreign tongues;rivers, darts at Rennes, shaking of land and sea.21The rock holds in its depths white claywhich will come out milk-white from a cleftNeedlessly troubled people will not dare touch it,unaware that the foundation of the earth is of clay.22A thing existing without any senseswill cause its own end to happen through artifice.At Autun, Chalan, Langres and the two Sensthere will be great damage from hail and ice.23In the third month, at sunrise,the Boar and the Leopard meet on the battlefield.The fatigued Leopard looks up to heavenand sees an eagle playing around the sun.24At the New City he is thoughtful to condemn;the bird of prey offers himself to the Gods.After victory he pardons his captives.At Cremona and Mantua great hardships will be suffered.25The lost thing is discovered, hidden for many centuries.Pasteur will be celebrated almost as a God-like figure.This is when the moon completes her great cycle,but by other rumors he shall be dishonored.26The great man will be struck down in the day by a thunderbolt.An evil deed, foretold by the bearer of a petition.According to the prediction another falls at night time.Conflict at Reims, London, and pestilence in Tuscany.27Beneath the oak tree of Gienne, struck by lightning,the treasure is hidden not far from there.That which for many centuries had been gathered,when found, a man will die, his eye pierced by a spring.28Tobruk will fear the barbarian fleet for a time,then much later the Western fleet.Cattle, people, possessions, all will be quite lost.What a deadly combat in Taurus and Libra.29When the fish that travels over both land and seais cast up on to the shore by a great wave,its shape foreign, smooth and frightful.From the sea the enemies soon reach the walls.30Because of the storm at sea the foreign shipwill approach an unknown port.Notwithstanding the signs of the palm branches,afterwards there is death and pillage. Good advice comes too late.31The wars in France will last for so many yearsbeyond the reign of the Castulon kings.An uncertain victory will crown three great ones,the Eagle, the Cock, the Moon, the Lion, the Sun in its house.32The great Empire will soon be exchangedfor a small place, which soon will begin to grow.A small place of tiny areain the middle of which he will come to lay down his scepter.33Near a great bridge near a spacious plainthe great lion with the Imperial forceswill cause a falling outside the austere city.Through fear the gates will be unlocked for him.34The bird of prey flying to the left,before battle is joined with the French, he makes preparations.Some will regard him as good, others bad or uncertain.The weaker party will regard him as a good omen.35The young lion will overcome the older one,in a field of combat in single fight:He will pierce his eyes in their golden cage;two wounds in one, then he dies a cruel death.36Too late the king will repentthat he did not put his adversary to death.But he will soon come to agree to far greater thingswhich will cause all his line to die.37Shortly before sun set, battle is engaged.A great nation is uncertain.Overcome, the sea port makes no answer,the bridge and the grave both in foreign places.38The Sun and the Eagle will appear to the victor.An empty answer assured to the defeated.Neither bugle nor shouts will stop the soldiers.Liberty and peace, if achieved in time through death.39At night the last one will be strangled in his bedbecause he became too involved with the blond heir elect.The Empire is enslaved and three men substituted.He is put to death with neither letter nor packet read.40The false trumpet concealing madnesswill cause Byzantium to change its laws.From Egypt there will go forth a man who wantsthe edict withdrawn, changing money and standards.41The city is besieged and assaulted by night;few have escaped; a battle not far from the sea.A woman faints with joy at the return of her son,poison in the folds of the hidden letters.42The tenth day of the April Calends, calculated in Gothic fashionis revived again by wicked people.The fire is put out and the diabolic gatheringseek the bones of the demon of Psellus.43Before the Empire changesa very wonderful event will take place.The field moved, the pillar of porphyryput in place, changed on the gnarled rock.44In a short time sacrifices will be resumed,those opposed will be put (to death) like martyrs.The will no longer be monks, abbots or novices.Honey shall be far more expensive than wax.45A founder of sects, much trouble for the accuser:A beast in the theater prepares the scene and plot.The author ennobled by acts of older times;the world is confused by schismatic sects.46Very near Auch, Lectoure and Mirandea great fire will fall from the sky for three nights.The cause will appear both stupefying and marvelous;shortly afterwards there will be an earthquake.47The speeches of Lake Leman will become angered,the days will drag out into weeks,then months, then years, then all will fail.The authorities will condemn their useless powers.48When twenty years of the Moon's reign have passedanother will take up his reign for seven thousand years.When the exhausted Sun takes up his cyclethen my prophecy and threats will be accomplished.49Long before these happeningsthe people of the East, influenced by the Moon,in the year 1700 will cause many to be carried away,and will almost subdue the Northern area.50From the three water signs will be born a manwho will celebrate Thursday as his holiday.His renown, praise, rule and power will growon land and sea, bringing trouble to the East.51The head of Aries, Jupiter and Saturn.Eternal God, what changes !Then the bad times will return again after a long century;what turmoil in France and Italy.52Two evil influences in conjunction in Scorpio.The great lord is murdered in his room.A newly appointed king persecutes the Church,the lower (parts of) Europe and in the North.53Alas, how we will see a great nation sorely troubledand the holy law in utter ruin.Christianity (governed) throughout by other laws,when a new source of gold and silver is discovered.54Two revolutions will be caused by the evil scythe bearermaking a change of reign and centuries.The mobile sign thus moves into its house:Equal in favor to both sides.55In the land with a climate opposite to Babylonthere will be great shedding of blood.Heaven will seem unjust both on land and sea and in the air.Sects, famine, kingdoms, plagues, confusion.56Sooner and later you will see great changes made,dreadful horrors and vengeances.For as the moon is thus led by its angelthe heavens draw near to the Balance.57The trumpet shakes with great discord.An agreement broken: lifting the face to heaven:the bloody mouth will swim with blood;the face anointed with milk and honey lies on the ground.58Through a slit in the belly a creature will be born with two headsand four arms: it will survive for some few years.The day that Alquiloie celebrates his festivalsFossana, Turin and the ruler of Ferrara will follow.59The exiles deported to the islandsat the advent of an even more cruel kingwill be murdered. Two will be burntwho were not sparing in their speech.60An Emperor will be born near Italy,who will cost the Empire very dearly.They will say, when they see his allies,that he is less a prince than a butcher.61The wretched, unfortunate republicwill again be ruined by a new authority.The great amount of ill will accumulated in exilewill make the Swiss break their important agreement.62Alas! what a great loss there will be to learningbefore the cycle of the Moon is completed.Fire, great floods, by more ignorant rulers;how long the centuries until it is seen to be restored.63Pestilences extinguished, the world becomes smaller,for a long time the lands will be inhabited peacefully.People will travel safely through the sky (over) land and seas:then wars will start up again.64At night they will think they have seen the sun,when the see the half pig man:Noise, screams, battles seen fought in the skies.The brute beasts will be heard to speak.65A child without hands, never so great a thunderbolt seen,the royal child wounded at a game of tennis.At the well lightning strikes, joining togetherthree trussed up in the middle under the oaks.66He who then carries the news,after a short while will (stop) to breathe:Viviers, Tournon, Montferrand and Praddelles;hail and storms will make them grieve.67The great famine which I sense approachingwill often turn (in various areas) then become worldwide.It will be so vast and long lasting that (they) will grabroots from the trees and children from the breast.68O to what a dreadful and wretched tormentare three innocent people going to be delivered.Poison suggested, badly guarded, betrayal.Delivered up to horror by drunken executioners.69The great mountain, seven stadia round,after peace, war, famine, flooding.It will spread far, drowning great countries,even antiquities and their mighty foundations.70Rain, famine and war will not cease in Persia;too great a faith will betray the monarch.Those (actions) started in France will end there,a secret sign for on to be sparing.71The marine tower will be captured and retaken three timesby Spaniards, Barbarians and Ligurians.Marseilles and Aix, Ales by men of Pisa,devastation, fire, sword, pillage at Avignon by the Turinese.72The inhabitants of Marseilles completely changed,fleeing and pursued as far as Lyons.Narbonne, Toulouse angered by Bordeaux;the killed and captive are almost one million.73France shall be accused of neglect by her five [...]