Story of Nostradamus

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NOSTRADAMUS Timeline

1503 - Born - Michel de Nostredame in St. Remy, France

Dec 14.

1525 - Studied medicine in Montpellier and set up practice

at age 22.

1534 - Married and lost his first wife and two children to the

plague.

1550 - Moved to Salon-de-Provence and began writing a

series of prophecies in quatrains, four-line rhyming verses.

1554 - Married Anne Ponsart Gemelle in town of Salon,

France.


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1555 - Nostradamus published his first set of 100 quatrains.

1564 - Nostradamus was appointed Royal Physician to King

Charles IX.

On July 1, 1566 Nostradamus offered his final prediction to

his priest. In response to the priest's farewell of "Until

tomorrow," Nostradamus is said to have answered: "You will

not find me alive at sunrise."

1566 - Died - July 2.


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Biography: Baptised a Christian to conceal his Jewish

heritage during a period of violent anti-Semitism, Michel grew

up in a lively, prosperous (his father Jacques was a notary)

and warm household.

He was an enthusiastic and gifted student, with exceptional

mathematical ability and a great love and mastery of

astrology (known then as "celestial science").

His grandfathers Jean de Rmy and Pierre de Nostredame

(both of them doctors) noticed that Michel displayed a

remarkable talent for prophecy at a very young age and they

both taught him daily.


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Nostradamus acquired a great reputation as a doctor by

treating victims of the bubonic plague (Le Charbon) which

ravaged that part of Europe.

His methodology contravened established medical practice

of the period, since he opposed the traditional treatment of

"bleeding" patients to rid them of disease. He invented an

oral vitamin C supplement (rose pills) to enhance immune

response in his patients. He met with considerable

skepticism among his medical peers at the time.

By 1566, Nostradamus's gout, turned into edema, or dropsy

and he died on 2 July.


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o The prophecies are written as four-lined rhymed

verses (quatrains) in vague, often cryptic

language.

o Nostradamus' fondness for anagrams and his

penchant for sprinkling his verses with Hebrew,

Latin, and Portuguese words further complicates

interpretation of his predictions.

o Some interpreters say the verses can be applied

to anything, or nothing!


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Because Nostradamus

included very few dates in his

prophecies and because,

additionally, he did notorganize them into a

chronological order, the verses

have been constantly

reinterpreted since the time oftheir publication. Most

academic sources maintain

that the associations made

between world events and

Nostradamus's quatrains arethe result of misinterpretations,

understood retroactively,

or else are so tenuous asto render them useless as

evidence of any genuine

predictive power.

He wrote what divine spiritmade known to him

So U read similarly!

God help U!


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Books about Nostradamus:

1) Nostradamus the New Revelations, John Hogue,

1994, Element Inc., Rockport, MA.

2) The Further Prophecies of Nostradamus 1985 and

Beyond, Erika Cheetham, 1985, Perigee Books, division of

The Putnam Publishing Group, New York.

3) Conversations with Nostradamus: His Prophesies

Explained, 2 vols., rev. ed., Dolores Cannon, 1992, Ozark

Mountain Publishers.

4) Nostradamus and the Millennium, John Hogue, 1987

(reprinted May 1997 by HarperCollins).


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From Preface: Understand me well.

I do not say that the knowledge of this matter

cannot yet impress itself upon human mind, nor do

I say that very distant events are not within the

knowledge of reasoning man.

If future events are merely the creation of the

intellectual soul out of current events, they are not

by any means too greatly hidden from him, nor, on

the other hand, can they be said to be revealed at

all.


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But the perfect knowledge of events cannot be

acquired without divine inspiration since all prophetic

inspiration receives its prime motivating force from

God the Creator, then from

good fortune and nature.

For this reason, the presage occurs in part, where

it has been predicted, in proportion to the extent to

which similar events have manifested themselves

similarly or have failed to manifest themselves.


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Revealing in writing that which the Divine Spirit

has made known, through the revolutions of the

stars, to the common benefit of mankind

Events of human origin are uncertain, but all is

regulated and governed by the incalculable

power of God, inspiring us through the influences

of the stars. Only those divinely inspired can

predict particular things in a prophetic spirit.


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As the true Saviour said, "Give not that which is holy unto

dogs, nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample

them under their feet and turn and rend you." This has been

the cause of my withholding my tongue from the profane,

and my pen from paper.

Later, because of the vulgar advent, I decided to give way

and, by dark and cryptic sentences, tell of the causes of the

future mutation of mankind; especially the most urgent ones,

and the ones I perceived, and in a manner that would not

upset their fragile sentiments.


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By means of the Immortal God, and his good Angels,they received the spirit of prophecy, by which they see

distant things and foresee future events.

For nothing can be accomplished without Him whose

power and goodness to His creatures is so great that

as long as these dwell in them, much as they may be

exposed to other influences, on account of their good

genius this prophetic heat and power approaches us. It approaches us like the rays of the sun, which cast

their influence on bodies both elementary and non-

elementary.


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So that what is predicted, and is true, has an ethereal

origin. This light and the thin flame are altogether

efficacious, and are of heavenly origin no less than

natural light.

And it is the latter which renders philosophers so sure ofthemselves that by means of the principles of the first

cause they have penetrated to the innermost cores of the

loftiest of doctrines. But an end to this, for I must notstray too far from the future capacity of senses.


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With divine inspiration integrated with astrological

computations, one can name places and periods of time

accurately: an occult property obtained through divine virtue,

power and ability. By means of this, past, present and future

become but one eternity - for all things are naked and open.

Understand that things which are to happen can be

prophesied by the lights of the sky at night, which are natural,

coupled with the spirit of prophecy. I would not assume the

name or power of a prophet. It is as a mortal man, whose

senses revealed inspiration places no further from Heaven

than his feet are from the ground.


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The sword of death is approaching us, as pestilence, war,

and famine. This famine returns to earth, often, according

to the words, "I will visit their iniquities with a rod of iron,

and will strike them with blows."

For the mercy of the Lord, shall not be extended for a

long time, not until prophecies will have become

resolved, by accomplishment . Then, several times during

the sinister storms, the Lord will say, "I will trample them,

and break them, and not show pity."


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10q100 - A g reat emp ire

w i l l be for Eng land ,

The al l-powerful one

through the sea formore than 300 years:

Great forces w i l l pass

by land and sea,

The Portuguese w i l l no tbe satisf ied.

England became a

sea-based empire that

displaced other's,including Portugal, and

made England the

world's most dominant

sea-based power


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"The blood of the just will be demanded of London

Burnt by fire in the year '66

The ancient Lady will fall from her high place

And many of the same sect will be killed."

What happened: The small fire that started in the

bakery of Thomas Farriner on Pudding

Lane in London September 2, 1666 (in the year

'66) turned into a three day blaze that

consumed the city.


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[IV.32] In those times and places that meat gives way to fish the

law of commune will be opposed. The old order will hold strong,

then removed from the scene, then all things common among

friends put far behind. _ [Could U C this in1990?]

During the early 1990s in Soviet Union and Communist Europe

(in those times and places), when the economic condition in

these countries deteriorated (meat gave way to fish),

Communism (the law of commune) was opposed by the

people. The old leaders were removed from powers. Ultimately

Communism (all things common among friends - equality

among friends - comrades) collapsed.


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o In the 460 years since Nostradamus penned his

prophecies, he has become a widely heralded prophet in

history because of the accuracy of his prognostications.

o Despite the continuous worldwide acclaim of his

prophecies since the Middle Ages up through the modernera, there has also existed a vocal group of Nostradamus

detractors who adamantly refuse to concede that he

accurately predicted the future.o They believe that he was a fraud that was devoid of any

supernatural influence.


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Recent research has shown that most of his prophetic work

was based on paraphrasing collections of ancient end-of-

the world prophecies (mainly Bible-based) and

supplementing their insights by projecting known historical

events and identifiable anthologies of omen-reports into the

future. His major prophetic source was evidently the

Mirabilis Liber of 1522, which contained a range of

prophecies by Pseudo-Methodius, the Tiburtine Sibyl,

Joachim of Fiore, Savonarola and others (his Preface

contains no less than 24 biblical quotations, all but two of

them in exactly the same order as Savonarola).


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His methodology, was mainly literary, and it is doubtful

whether Nostradamus used any particular methods for

entering a trance state, other than contemplation, meditation

and incubation (i.e. ritually 'sleeping on it'). The legend that

he attempted the ancient methods of flame gazing, water

gazing or both simultaneously is based on an uninformed

reading of his first two verses, which merely liken his own

efforts to those of the Delphic and Branchidic oracles. He

described his method as: "emptying my soul, mind and heart

of all care, worry and unease through mental calm and

tranquility"


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End of the World time period of 1999 to 2012 is happilyover and WW III is not round the corner.

About more mundane predictions on natural disasters and

local war like terrorism, there are no predictions to verify

whether Nostradamus made any solutions to these.

Make interpretation in clearer language, so that despite

their obscurities these things shall be understood: Now the

time comes for the removal of ignorance, the matter be

clearer still.


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In general, many of Nostradamus' prophecies include 16th-

century French terms that aren't clear to most

modern interpreters. Particular words could be interpreted

in any number of ways, and they can be twisted easily to fit

an actual event. In Nostradamus' time, for example,

"Hister" referred to a geographical region near the Danube

river. Most likely, skeptics argue, Nostradamus was

referring to this area, not to a person. (Hitler was in fact

born near the Danube river, so many believers actually

embrace this interpretation).


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The compelling argument against Nostradamus' powers is

that his apparent "hits" are the result of random chance and

creative interpretation. There are about a thousand quatrains,

most containing more than one prediction and all but a few

described in vague, obscure terms. Over the course of

hundreds of years, it's certainly possible that some events

would line up with some predictions, simply by coincidence.

In fact, Nostradamus may have phrased his prophecies with

exactly this in mind. Most quatrains refer to deaths, wars or

natural disasters, events that are sure to occur again and

again throughout history.


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Nostradamus' esoteric style also increases the chances of a

perceived hit. His metaphorical writing highlights general

relationships and conflicts, not specific details. People, or

possibly nations, are described as animals; major figures

are referred to by their attributes. The quatrain for example,

refers to "beasts ferocious with hunger," "the great one,"

and "a cage of iron," all general terms with metaphorical

elements. This impreciselanguage does lend itself well to

subjective interpretation -- when the exact meaning is

unclear, it's easy to plug in one's own experiences to reach

some sort of understanding.


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For a man who hasn't written anything in well over

400 years, Nostradamus' works and biographies

show no signs of slowing down.

Researcher James Randi, author of "The Mask of

Nostradamus," points out that "Nostradamusmanaged to produce more than any other prophet

in history. His reputation, is due to the ardent horde

of his disciples who continue to hyperbolize,

bowdlerize, and invent in order to perpetuate his

fame "

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