Nostradamus C3 Q48: His poetry used to hide astronomic ciphers for man's inhumanity.
Copyright: Allan Webber, December 2015

This verse is one of those that contributed most to my earliest views on how Nostradamus incorporated astronomic data into his poetry (See my paper on Astronomy for more).

My attention was drawn to it by the singular anagrams for 'memorizes mansions  truer time in size '.

The mansions relate to an equatorial system of astronomy and by making this connection I was able to give meaning to the text of the fourth line.

The decay of a particular star beneath the horizon accounts for much of the content in the text while another theme found in the anagrams can be tied into events arising out of climatic disaster throughout this century.

The story within the text and anagrams has a wider scope than just a statement on astronomy. It is about ecolology of the atmosphere and a period in man's future where his pollution of the ecosphere will lead to a plan to reduce the population of mankind.