Nostradamus C1 Q77: Paracelsus as a catalyst for Nostradamus' science.
Copyright: Allan Webber, December 2015

This verse is the metaphor for a chemical process affecting the prosperity of an industrial nation. Its inclusion indicates that the anagrams within it are probably significant to understanding Nostradamus' own science.

There are anagrams within the lines that have an interrelated sense and which by their unity allow detail to be given to the story in the text.

Two of the key words are those for Paracelsus and Murex. The latter is the source of the purple dye the ancients used to provide purple-red-black colour to material.

Paracelsus was a 16thC contemporary of Nostradamus who is credited as being the first to see the importance of chemicals to explain the properties of living creatures and to use this process to explain such things as the origin of colour.

In this verse's fourth line several series of adjacent anagrams [often in reverse order] that are found in its lettering, affirm the story line in the cluster of verses preceding this one.

In this verse the clusters are He recodes Paracelsus tree  (re et _cla$$e au pr_es de Roc_he), He escalateS procedures (_et _cla$$e a_u pres de Roc_he_) and  clearest chore persuades (_re et cla$_$e _au pres d_ e Roc h_).