Nostradamus’verses
that mirror the flood message of his Preface.
In fulfilling my intent
of
presenting
some
of
those verses in the Prophecies that are based on the
Flood theme I will also show how closely tied several verses are to the
words in the Preface of 1555.
C01 Q62
Alas!
what a great loss there will be to letters
before the
cycle of Latona is perfected.
Fire, great floods, by more ignorant rulers;
how long the centuries until it is seen to be restored
.
Le
grande perte las que feront les lettres
Auant le cicle de
Latona parfaict
Feu grand deluge plus par ignares Sceptres
Que de long Siecle ne Se verra refaict.
..and also I find that
letters shall undergo such a huge and
unparalleled loss and I find that the
world before the universal conflagration will experience many inundations so high that
there will be no soil that is not covered by water; and this will be for such a
long time that all would be lost except for the records of enographies and
topographies…Nostradamus’ Preface
1555
The
above verse
has
the
same emphatic
usage of a perfect cycle
which
characterises the passage in the Preface.
There
is
also
the
same
mention
of a
great
loss
and
the
mention
of a
long
period
where
the
effects
of
the
floods
will
dominate.
This correlation
implies
the
context of the Latona cycle
is to be that of the 854 year cycle
where the planets Sun, Moon, Mars,
Jupiter and Saturn return to the same position.
C8 Q16
At the place where
HIERON has his shibuilt, there will be such a great sudden flood, that one will
not have a place nor land to fall upon the waters mount to the Olympic
Fesulan.Au
lie que HIERON feit Sa nef fabriquer Si grand deluge sera et Si Sub
ite
Qu'on n'aura lieu ne terres s'atacquer
L'onde monter FeSulan Olympique.
This
verse
ties
in to
the
unusual
description
of
the
inundation
found
in
Nostradamus'
1555 Preface.
Another
notable feature uniting these verses is their use of obscure or
unknown classical references such as Latona,
Hieron and Fesulan. Nostradamus distortion of words representing names,
items and places is a consistent feature amongst verses representing floods.
This is also true of the section on floods in the Preface where Nostradamus uses
unknown words such as enographies and anaragonique.
The consistency with which this is done suggests it is purposeful and if so it
suggests they are code. The purpose of this code, as I shall show in later
sections, is to provide the links to connect verses
such
as
these
to passages of
importance
in
Nostradamus'
Preface
and
Epistle.
By
correctly
linking
the
different
works
it
can
be
anticipated
that
the
coding
methods
of
Nostradamus
will
be
unveiled.
And
the verses
already
presented
show clearly that the passage in the Preface is
not
only meant to
tie in to the Prophecies
but
to
yield
the dating scheme that can be
applied to the verses while adding
details as to the nature and location of the floods.
"And
thousands of other events will come to pass, because of floods and continual
rains, as I have set forth fully in writing my other Prophecies, which are drawn
out in
length, in prose, setting the places and times so that men coming
after may see them, knowing the events to have occurred infallibly."
Ending of
Nostradamus’ Preface, 1555
Nostradamus’
reference to ancient floods as a clue to the floods in
the 21st century.
The flood theme
is the Great Mutation in which Nostradamus makes the most use of past, present
and future settings to build his imagery. The way in which he uses the
allegories of the past hints at his heretical religious beliefs.
The background on which he draws is a mixture of both classical tales and the
legends of the Norse Gods. His classical references cover a broad array of flood
stories from Egypt and Babylon
as well as the account in the Bible.
In all the narratives he creates
there is little that can lead to the conclusion that it is the Biblical
Armageddon or that it involves the second coming of Christ.
His tale about the
future flood is about the height, the chaos-period of its arrival, its duration
and its ongoing aftermath. The references to the past provide Nostradamus with
the tools by which he describes the scale of the catastrophic water flows and
the attitudes of man in such trying times. In this section I present two verses
that contain the elements around which I will develop the evidence for my
conclusions.
C10 Q06
Sardon Nemans will overflow to great height, That they
will believe Deucalion reborn: Into the Collosse the greater part will
flee, Vesta tomb
fire to appear extinguished.
Sardon
Nemans Si hault desborderont Qu'on cuidera
Deucalion renaiStre
Dans le colloSSe la plus part fuyront VeSta Sepulchre
feu eStaint apparoiStre.
The above verse
is one of those providing the classical reference points. In
my
papers
on
code I have shown how the theme of the Great floods of ancient times is
hidden in the
anagrams
of
quatrains
such
as
CI
Q100. I have also shown that
Nostradamus'
scheme
is broad based
taking in flood legends from many classical traditions. I
believe the evidence is compelling but
having presented it earlier I will not do do so here. However
my earlier presentation can be revisited at my website in a page titled
Inundatory
Gods.
My earlier work doesn’t include the evidence for Nordic floods but the
following verse allows me to show in brief that my claim has merit.
C02 Q93
Very near the Tymbre
presses Goddess of Death,
Shortly before great inundation: Chief of the
shiis taken & placed under guard, Castle palace is in conflagration.
Bien
pres du Tymbre preSSe la Lybitine
Vn peu deuant grand inondation Le chef du nef prins mis a la Sentine
ChaSteau palais en conflagration.
The
fourth line talks of conflagration which is part of the flood message in the
Preface. The line contains two critical anagrams,
Eschaton (L.4
. onChaste) and
Naglfar
(L.4..nflagra)
. There
are only two other anagrams for Eschaton in the whole text and only one other
for Naglfar. The word eschaton is an End-of-Days term while Naglfar refers to
the ship that is involved in the Nordic End-of-Days mythology.
Naglfar
is described in the
Prose
Edda
as a shipmade entirely
from the fingernails and toenails of the dead. During
Ragnarök,
Naglfar will be freed from the land and sailed to
Vígríðr,
the battlefield, by
Hrym
along with an army of
jötunn.
The ship will lead hordes against the gods in the last war at the end of time,
before a new world will arise from the sea.
...based
on
Wikipedia
entry
These are the images Nostradamus has incorporated in the above verse
where we have the inundation
similar
to
that
of
the Nordic End-of-Time and we have
a shiwhich is linked to the
Goddess of Death.
All of which is enough to show that Nostradamus was drawing on a pagan
source for another dimension to his tale of future floods.
Naglfar is
discussed in stanza 49 and 50 of the Norse poem
Völuspá
of the
Poetic
Edda
and
from
this
source
we
can
get a
strong
image
of
Naglfar
as
one
of
many
creatures
and
horrors
let
loose
by
the
flood
and
the
proponents
of
war.
"Hrym steers from the
east, the waters rise, the mundane snake is coiled in jötun-rage. The worm
beats the water, and the eagle screams: the pale of beak tears carcasses; Naglfar
is loosed.
That shifares from the east:
come will
Muspell’s
people o’er the sea, and
Loki
steers. The monster’s kin goes all with the wolf; with them the brother is of
Byleist
on their course."
In using this
reference point Nostradamus is changing the flood from the
Biblical
beginning-of- time
story
to
the end of time and identifying that
like
the
Nordic
tale it isn’t the end of everything. At the
end of Ragnarok the land emerges once again from the sea to enter a thousand
year golden age.
A
similar
timetable
is
described
by
Nostradamus
in
his
preface
to
the
1558
publication
of
his
works
which
included,
for
the
first
time,
Centuries
eight
to
ten.
"By
means
of
Satan,
Prince
Infernal,
so
many
evils
will
be
committed
that
nearly
all
the
world
will
find
itself
undone
and
desolated.
....
After
this
has
endured
for
a
long
time,
there
will
be
almost
renewed
another
reign
of
Saturn,
and
a
golden
age.
Hearing
the
affliction
of
his
people,
God
the
Creator
will
command
that
Satan
will
remain
bound
for
a
thousand
years,
and
then
all
unbound." Ending of Nostradamus’ Epistle to Henry
1558.
The
role of ancient flood tales in dating the coming floods.
The
start
of
Nostradamus'
climate
mutations
is accompanied by
a catastrophe producing fire from the sky. I have tied this into the period 2060
to 2065 and located the event as originating in
Geneva.
Another of my aims for the coming sections is to present verses that show the
attributes of the different flood myths that Nostradamus uses to give details of
the coming flood. The first verse I present shows an example where, by applying
my
derived
dating scheme, new useful details
can
be
uncovered.
C1 Q17
For
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.
Par
quarante ans l'iriS n'apparoiStra
Par
quarante ans tous les iours Sera veu
La
terre aride en Siccite croiStra
Et grans deluges quand Sera aperceu.
The length of the rains given in this verse
clearly links it to the major floods that Nostradamus states are the major theme
of his writings and which I have dated from his words as starting in 2060 and
being completed by 2100. From the association of this verse with the dating
scheme we can now extend the scheme to closer to our own time. And
we can know that what we face in the immediate term is extreme drought for an
extended period leading up to 2060.
Earlier I
nominated
two verses
to develop my arguments. The first of these
CX
Q6 involves Deucalion which
is an
ancient
reference
to
massive
flooding but
the
verse
also talks of Vesta’s fire.
This is the first clue that the commencement of the flood
is at
a
time when fire falls from the sky.
The
anagrams
within
this
verse
contribute
an
ominous
attribute
about
this
fire
since
most
of
them
imply
the
fire involves nuclear
particles
C10 Q06:
Sardon Nemans will overflow to great height, That they
will believe Deucalion
reborn: Into the Colosse the greater part will
flee, Vesta tomb
fire to appear extinguished.
Sardon
Nemans Si hault desborderont
Qu'on cuidera
Deucalion renaiStre
Dans le colloSSe la plus part fuyront
VeSta Sepulchre
feu eStaint apparoiStre.
In the first line
there
is Radon
(ardon) the hazardous by-product of nuclear reactions. This
anagram is found quite frequently throughout Nostradamus’ verse
so it
could
easily
be
there
by
chance
but this is
not true for the others in this verse. In
the second line are a whole set of related terms on the same nuclear theme.
There is Radionuclear (ra
Deucalion
R), Denuclearisation (Deucalion renaiSt), Nuclear-ion
(ucalion
ren) and A-radio-Nucleide
(ideraDdeucalion).
Each
of
these
occurs
only
in
this
verse
except
nuclear-ion
which
can
be
found
in
one
other
and
that
verse
CVI
Q81
is
also
full
of
relationships
to
this
current
verse's
theme
at
both
the
text
and
anagram
levels.
If, as I belief,
these
radiation
related
words
are meant to
describe the nature of the catastrophe then there are powerful
allegorical
reasons why Nostradamus would select the Deucalion flood as the indicator for
the period around 2065 CE.
Deucalion’s
father
was
Prometheus,
who stole fire from Zeus to give it to humans and whose name was applied to the
radioactive element Promethium.
The
relevance of floods to nuclear events is developed much more in my paper
on Nuclear Events in the 21st C
Noah’s deluge and its relevance to 2100CE.
I
have shown in the previous section that the use of the ancient myth surrounding
Deucalion was very purposeful and the same can be said of the Noah deluge. There
are two verses that even on first inspection seem to relate to the period of the
great mutation lasting from 2000CE to 2100CE.
The first is one of the critical
verses I used to establish the
extent of the Great Mutations
which Nostradamus states are his prime
goal
and
which
I
showed
have
wording
that
closely
describes
the
astronomic
events
of
the
years
2000CE
and
2100CE.
C01 Q54
Two revolutions made from the evil scythe
making a
permutation of reign and centuries
The mobile sign
thus moves into its place:
At two
[times] of equal worth and inclination.
Deux reuolts faicts
du maling falcigere
De regne et Siecles faict permutation
Le mobil Signe a Son endroict Si ingere
Aux deux egaux et d'inclination.
The
second
verse
brings in the theme of death
via inundation accompanied by plague and famine that is consistent with the
earlier verses and which I showed are linked by their threads to the period at
the end of this century.
C1 Q16:
Scythe joined to the
pond in Sagittarius
at its highest increase/trough of its
exaltation.
Plague, famine, death from military hands;
the century approaches its renewal.
Faulx
a l'eStang ioinct vers le Sagitaire
En Son hault auge de l'exaltation
PeSte famine, mort de main militaire
Le Siecle approche de renouation.
In the
second line of the second of these verses anagrams can be found for Noah (on ha)
and Deluge (uge del). Both anagrams are fairly unique occurrences as each has only two
other occurrences
as true anagrams (deluge occurs several other times as a
visible word).
These two words form part of a longer sequence which states
Axle
enstation(s) Noah deluge (uge de l' - exal - tation
En S -on ha) which suggests that this Noah-like deluge is dated by
the heavenly axle. The line before it contains anagrams that say
verticalness (inct
vers le Sa), contrives Giant
Axles failure (aire
Faul -x
a l'eS - tang i - oinct vers).
The
axle references together with the visible content of the second line reinforce
the idea that this verse, like the first, also deals with the approach of the
Polestar to the Celestial North Pole. The last line
of
text also confirms the event as
the current Polestars highest ascent
since
it
will
be 2100CE
when the
century
approaches
its
renewal. The first line of the
same verse
tells us that deaths (scythe) occur from the inundation (pond) in April
(Sagittarius) and the third line states these deaths are carried out by
individuals
in
military
service
but its tone implies
it
isn't
as an
act
of war.
It
is by
these
poetic
means,
allegory
and
genealogy
that
I tie
the
above
two
verses
to
the
ancient
tale
of
Noah
and
the
great
flood
of
the
Bible.
I am
then
able
to
expand
the
detail
about the flood events
2060CE
to 2100CE. For example the first line contains
Flaming Dust Glacier Exude as well as Falling Mud,
Fluorates and Sulfur oxidase.
From these emerge images of a potent chemical mix affecting glaciers.
It is
from
such
a mix
that
there
might
arise
an unlikely massive inundation
of
the
type implied by
Nostradamus.
And
by
his reference to Noah’s
deluge
we
know
that
the
coming
inundations
will
wreak
havoc
on
the
population
levels
of
the
world.
Did
Nostradamus foresee what modern climatologists now predict?
There can be little doub
t that Nostradamus’
vision of our future included a deluge of historical proportions. So far I have taken
Nostradamus’ words and shown how they lead to dates based on astronomic facts.
I have then built a multi-layered picture from his verses and other writings.
And underpinning these layers has been the hidden content held through anagrams
in his verse. From all these we know that Nostradamus’ vision involves fire,
inundation, pestilence, war and government sanctioned murder of the surviving
populace. Knowing the scale of what Nostradamus is proposing it is worth
examining the plausibility of such vast inundations.
The first aspect we can judge is based on the
historical evidence of sea-levels. In an article by Robyn
Williams in the ABC’s science show he makes the following points:
"How are ancient sea levels
determined? It's with corals. They act as bathtub
rings. Ancient reefs now
exposed can be dated and placed in time. Sea level has been 100m higher than
present, when there were no ice sheets, and about 120m lower than present during
glacial periods. The whole mantle of the Earth adjusts as stresses change. The
last time sea level was higher, it was 4-6 metres higher, and at that time, the
arctic was 3-5 degrees hotter. 125,000 years ago, the reason was changes in the
Earth's orbit. So if the same degree of warming was to occur this century, as
predicted, a sea level rise of 4-6 metres would be expected. But this time,
there'll be contributions from Antarctic melting as well.
"
It is apparent from the above that the present ideas on climate change
would not generate the body of water described by Nostradamus and cities would
not be sub
merged
and obliterated from
memory by a rise of 4-6 meters or even 10 meters. If there
is accuracy in Nostradamus’ vision then it entails the complete melting of the
ice sheets.
It is in this context
that the anagrams I revealed in my previous section are relevant for they imply
such an event. The hidden words reveal glaciers sub
jected to flames releasing
noxious gases. We have to look no
further than the volcanic eruptions in Iceland
during April 2010 to see that the
chemical facts bear the ring of scientific truth. But
volcanic eruptions are not the only thread found in current news reports. The
following article is from the ScienceDaily
of Jan 12th 2010.
"The increase in
temperature in the Arctic
, which has already made an impact in the form of reduced sea-ice
cover during the summer, may also cause the permafrost to melt. "Large
amounts of organic carbon are currently stored within the permafrost and if this
is released and gets carried by the rivers out into the coastal waters, then it
will result in an increased release of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere,"
says
Sofia Hjalmarsson, native of Falkenberg and postgraduate student at the
Department of Chemistry.
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Nostradamus on setting
dates via the Perfect Cycle.
Nostradamus’ Preface to his
Prophecies
in
1555, like his Epistle to King Henry in
1558, is a disturbing piece of work because it uses words that have no meaning,
it presents astronomy that fits no known pattern and it contains numerations
that have no context.
In interpreting these writings analysts tend to ignore the
fundamentals that underpins Nostradamus’ words and to hypothesize that the
author made errors which they know how to fix. However reason tells us that this
is improbable.
The documents presented by Nostradamus are center-pieces, not
peripheral writings and they were constructed over periods of many months.
Although Nostradamus used classical allusion and had good reasons to conceal
much of his thoughts he didn’t need to make things so obscure that they
couldn’t be understood.
The amount of purposeful effort involved tells us that
these writings are meant to tell us something much more meaningful when we understand their enigmas. It is my aim to reveal how the
passage presented in the previous section does have clarity and it is based on
astronomy, not astrology.
Because
according to the Celestial signs the reign of Saturn is to return. By every
calculator the world approaches its
anaragonic revolution: and from the time
of my present writing before 177 years and 3 months and eleven days by
pestilence, long famine, wars and more by the inundations, the world shall
by and by enter the prefixed period. (from 3rd
paragraph in above table).
In the
2nd paragraph of the earlier table's second column
(in
French) the
word
paracheve is used twice and its literal meaning is
to
make perfect.
When each planet completes one revolution its
relationship to the planets and the other stars always changes. However it is
possible to find a time when two or more planets are very close to the same
positions in the sky, that recurrence can be referred to as completion of a
perfect cycle.
When this occurs at almost the same time in the year we
are able to use that period to our advantage since every position of those stars
in the next period will be approximated by that held after the same interval in
the previous period.
One such perfect cycle is the nineteen year cycle of the
Sun and Moon known as the Metonic cycle. This ancient knowledge allowed
astronomers to know the expected position of the Moon in the sky and predict the
eclipses quite
accurately
over
long
periods.
This idea of a repeated-cycle is held in the word
paracheve
and from its use in another part of the same passage
in the
Preface we can gain a clear indication that we are meant to notice the
perfect cycles Mars makes with different planets.
-
Repeatedly
the planet Mars perfects its cycle and at the end of its last period it
shall be taken uagain
(from
second
paragraph ).
But my claim is made more convincing by the period stated by another statement
found in
the
3rd
paragraph
from Nostradamus’ Preface
where
it says
before 177
years and 3 months and eleven days. Now this period is 177.28 years
long. If you divide it by the period of Mars (2.1352 yrs) you see that the
number of cycles of Mars during that time equals 83.027 which is quite close to
83 cycles. This means Mars is within nine degrees of where it was at the start
of the period.
If we do the same with the period of Jupiter (11.86179 yrs) we
find it has performed 14.945 cycles and that Saturn whose period is 29.45660 has
performed 6.018 cycles.
Here we have the three planets at the end being in much
the same positions as they were at the beginning. It is easy to see why such a
period can be referred to as a perfection point.
However, the meeting in this
instance is at a different point in the sky as the period involves a part of a
year
(3
months
and
11
days). It is not a totally perfect cycle but a clue from Nostradamus that we
should seek a period that is closer to perfection. This idea of a perfect cycle
also emerges where Nostradamus says :
And
now that we are led by the moon, since the total strength of God Eternal
comes from those which perfect the total circuit, the Sun comes and then
Saturn.
Here Nostradamus is stating that
the Metonic cycle is used to find the perfect cycle involving the
Moon, Jupiter (Jove = Eternal God) the Sun and Saturn. As Mars
has
just
been
established
as the focal
point it too is involved. The
period that best offers all these criteria is one that is 854 years long. The
number of cycles
each
unit
makes
in that time is shown
below
in
brackets
with
the
more
precise
figure
for
each
being
shown
in
the
column
to
their
right.:
•
Sun (854): 854.0 cycles
•
Mars (400): 399.96 cycles
•
Jupiter (72): 71.996 cycles
•
Saturn (29): 28.992
cycles
•
Metonic (Sun & Moon: 45 ): 44.947
Now precession of the poles takes about 25,765 years and this means the position
of the
background
stars has moved almost exactly 12 degrees in 854 years. This is about 40%
of one zodiac sign so these planets, the time of year and the nearby stars are
little changed over that 854 year period.
By
this
means
we
can
see
that
854
years
provides
a
near-perfect
time
unit
for
locating
the
Sun,
Moon,
Mars,
Jupiter
and
Saturn
from
the
records
of
astronomy.
The
wording
of
Nostradamus
justifies
each
of my
observations
and
makes
it
apparent
these
are
precise
astronomic
tools
and
not a
set
of
rambling
astrologic
incantations.
The
starting date for the cycles used to date Nostradamus' floods.
It is
easy to see the validity of the 854 year cycle I identified in the last section
by examining the pattern of close conjunctions of the three major planets Mars,
Jupiter and Saturn in the period 150BC to 2400CE. In each of the two tables below there are
two sets
(a
&
b) of three
columns
(T1,T2
&
T3). In each set the columns
(T1,T2,T3)
have a gaof 854 years.
Set b
involves
retrogression
of
one
of
the
planets
but
the
854
year
principle
still
applies.
The patterns become more obvious by using this
three
column
layout and it can be seen that
over a long period there is a very slow drift backwards in time
(e.g.
what
happened
in
Jan
drifts
back
to
Dec).
The
constellation
in
which
the
event
occurs
is
shown
in
brackets
and
again
there is
a very slow movement in the location with the longer term movement again being backward
(Taurus to Aries etc unless any of the planets are in a regression phase).
Mth
|
T1a
|
T2a
|
T3a
|
Sun
|
Jan
|
194(Sg)
|
1048(Sc)
|
1901(Sg
in Dec)
|
Pi
|
Feb
|
670
(Aq)
|
1524
(Aq)
|
2378
(Aq in Jan)
|
Aq
|
Mar
|
491
(Aq)
|
1345
(Cp)
|
2199
(Cin Feb)
|
C
|
Apr
|
-
|
|
|
Sg
|
May
|
292
(Ta)
|
1146
(Ar/Ta)
|
2000(Ar
in Apr)
|
Sc
|
Jun
|
531(Gm)
|
1385(Gm)
|
2239(Gm)
|
Lb
|
Jul
|
145BC(Lo)
|
710(Cn
)
|
1564 (Cn in
Jun)
|
Vg
|
Aug
|
-
|
|
|
Lo
|
Sep
|
332(Vg)
|
1186
(Vg)
|
2040(Vg
in Aug)
|
Cn
|
Oct
|
-
|
828(Lo)
|
1682(Lo
in Sep)
|
Gm
|
Nov
|
392(Lb)
|
1246(Vg)
|
2100
(Vg)
|
Ta
|
Dec
|
193
(Sg)
|
1047(Sg/Sc)
|
1901(Sg)
|
Ar
|
Columns T1a and T2a in the above table show the occasions
where the occurrence in the stated month are separated by 845
years
ColumnT3a shows the extra occurrences created by retrograde
motion of the planets.
The last column indicates the
location
of
the
Sun
in
the
sky
at
the
time
of
the
conjunction
of
the
three
planets.
But
Nostradamus focuses our interest when he claims:
"
but there are ones assembling in Aquarius for several years, and
others in Cancer for much longer and continuously
".
It becomes easy to see in the first of these table that the signs
Aquarius and Cancer, mentioned by Nostradamus have occurrences that took
place twice in his lifetime i.e. 1524 and 1564. Of these two the one
that took place in February 1524 was part of the most spectacular
sequence of conjunctions in the same sign ever to be witnessed. The
conjunction in February 1524 in Aquarius involved Mars, Venus, Saturn
and Jupiter with both the Sun and Mercury close by. From 1522 to the
start of 1525 there were also many other conjunctions that took place in
Aquarius.
Such a rare collection naturally excited peoples
interest and the nature of the 16th Century meant it was fully exploited
by the mystics of the time.
The history of man as well as that
of the stars is pertinent to the passage in Nostradamus’ Preface so it
is natural that Nostradamus would write his work in a way that others
were using.
In so doing he may well have just been like all the
other mystics but if he needed to disguise his work then this method of
presentation would have made the perfect cover. The tone of Nostradamus
passage given above is clearly apocalyptic with mentions of flood,
inundation and fire from heaven and it fits with the mysticism
surrounding 1524 and 1564.
The 20th of February, 1524 was feared
by many people for a long time before it arrived and their fears proved
groundless, a fact with which Nostradamus would have been well aware .
He would have known that the astrologer Johannes Stoeffler had written
that the world was to be destroyed by flood on that date and had been
totally wrong.
Stoeffler
used the fact that although the conjunction took place in Aquarius this
zone was overlapped by part of Pisces which is a water-sign in astrology
and this was the logic for the end bringing great floods but people
standing on mountain tops around Europe on 20th Feb awaiting the
end-of-days were able to testify on the 21st that the world was in a
period of heat and dryness not rain and floods.
Stoeffler’s folly
is one of the few predictions of the end-of-days that is based on
multiple conjunctions in a particular sign. Nostradamus was 21 at this
time and he would have been immersed in the myth, hysteria and failure
that accompanied that date.
His awareness of its falsehood is
enough by itself for us to be cautious that his talk of floods etc is
based on astrology or the stars. A more likely reason for his use of
conjunctions is his belief in his ability to identify dates seen in the
future in a manner that doesn't rely on fickle human calendars. It is
the heavenly calendar fixed by nature to which he turns for accuracy.
This process is a reversal of occult and astrological prediction for
the event doesn’t proceed from the stars and their attributes, it is the
date of the foreseen event that leads to the selection of astronomic
future and historical reference points.
Nostradamus’ use of the
apocalyptic theme allows us to concentrate on the date of 1524 as the
starting point of a calendar that identifies future floods, inundations
and fire from the sky.
This claim of mine is strengthened by the
observation (using the ‘Sun’ column of the previous table) that February
is the month when the position of the Sun is in the same zone and time-
slot as the three major planets when they are in conjunction.
Therefore February 1524 fulfills the other requirement I deduced in the
previous section whereby the Sun has to be part of the conjunction
alluded to by Nostradamus. And by the foregoing means we can
unambiguously conclude that of all the dates for conjunctions that are
listed in the above table, February 1524, is the one best matched to the
passage in Nostradamus’ Preface.
We can also see that this date
of February 1524 is arrived at by whichever calculator, historical or
astronomic, we use. By every calculator the world approaches its
anaragonic revolution (see paragraph 3 in the above table from
Nostradamus Preface, 1555) Perfect cycles : 79, 1355 , 1459 and 854
years.
The passage in Nostradamus’ 1555 Preface that I have been
analysing has yielded valuable calendar-type information based on the
idea of a perfect cycle. I believe Nostradamus is describing a
planetarium of the type he used to plot the position of the planets. The
passage quoted earlier continues on to say: .and this accords to the
visible judgment of the skies that continues so as we reach the seventh
thousand number that perfects everything we approach the eighth where
the firmament of the eighth sphere is in the latitudinal dimension,
where the great Eternal God perfects the revolution, where the celestial
images return to their motor & to the superior motion by which we can
render the earth stable and firm, not deviating (in the time it takes /
forever and ever) except where to accomplish the result there is no
other way, It is possible to see this passage as a way of describing
the perfect cycles that allow astronomers to predict the motion of the
stars.
Such a system would need to be manually reset only after
it moves away from its perfect alignment as it always will. Using the
earlier part of the passage I have shown why I believe a 854 year cycle
is the firmament of the motion.
I have also shown perfect cycles
of Jupiter, Mars and Saturn are also definable. In order to show that
Nostradamus words in the above passage makes sense I need to refer to
what would make it possible to predict planetary motion using the simple
tools available in the 16thC. In order that a perfect-cycle system be
used it is important to be able to counteract the distortions created by
regression.
This is readily achieved by finding the perfect
cycles of each planet in respect to the motion of the sun since this
removes the impact of regression (which is virtual movement brought
about by being in a different part of the orbit around the sun). And
there are very precise perfect cycles for the three major planets at
which time the sun and the planet return to almost the same alignment.
This is shown below :
Planet
alignment
|
No
of
cycles
of
planet |
Calculation
of
years |
No
of
cycles
of
Sun |
Mars
&
Sun |
37 |
37
x 2.1352= 79.0024 years
|
79 |
Jupiter
&
Sun |
123 |
123
x 11.86179= 1459.0002
years
|
1459 |
Saturn
&
Sun |
46 |
46 x 29.45660 =
1355.0036 years
|
1355 |
It is worth observing that Jupiter and the Sun are only 0.0002
years apart after 123 revolutions so it takes about 22,000 years for its
perfect cycle to get out of alignment with the Sun by one degree. This
is the same order of time as the precession of the Poles so it is very
apt to refer to Jupiter as the Eternal God, a term used in Nostradamus'
passage. And there are other points of reference tying these cycles to
the passage above. Each planetary perfect-cycle can be used to determine
exact locations into the distant future.
Mars can successfully be
used during the time of the 854 cycle since knowledge of its position
throughout a period of 79 years is very achievable and hence the setting
for Mars can be known throughout this 854 year period. As time goes on
it will be out of position by an acceptable 8 degrees. It can be
therefore used throughout this time without deviation from the 79 years
except when we get to the 854 years for Mars will not complete its
eleventh perfect cycle at this time and it is the prefect time for it to
be reset.
The essential adjustment is achieved by using the
perfect revolution of Jupiter (the Eternal God) as the new starting
point (the motor). By moving to 854 years and 18 days both Jupiter and
Saturn are closer to their respective perfect cycles and the position of
Mars can be recalibrated by going back to its position 869 years (11
cycles of 79 yrs.) earlier.
There is no other option to achieve the perfection of the greater cycle (854
years) but to deviate in this way.
Compare
this
to
Nostradamus'
words
in
the
Preface
of
1555
and
it
becomes
apparent
that
I can
use
modern
words
to
describe
an
astronomic
process
far
removed
from
astrology
and
that
the
words
I
chose
paraphrase
those
of
Nostradamus.
"where the great Eternal God perfects the
revolution, where the celestial images return to their motor & to the superior
motion by which we can render the earth stable and firm, not deviating
from the time it takes except where to accomplish the result there is no other
way."
I
have spent some time developing these ideas because this passage is critical to
the theme of great change by flood, fire from the sky and inundation. I needed
to show that the references in it were not part of some occult rant but a part
of a well-thought out scheme. Loose ramblings do not generate confidence but
enigmatic, explicable phrases grant us comfort that there is much yet to be
discovered. In pursuing these goals
I have also produced starting dates and a means of analysis for dating future
events. I
have also shown the import of history as a reference tool and
this will serve us well as we look at the verses relating to these themes.
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