Nostradamus: The Man Behind the Prophecies (Part 1)
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Early Life
Nostradamus, the man credited with predicting events such as the rise of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, 9/11, and the French Revolution, was born on December 21, 1503 in Provence, France. He was an astrologer and physician renowned throughout Europe, recognized for his ability to predict the future as well as being successful in curing his patients of the plague.
Nostradamus was one of nine children, and although little is known about his childhood, he was recorded as being very intelligent. He progressed quickly through his schooling, and his tutor ( his grandfather), saw a great amount of potential in the young Nostradamus. From his grandfather, he learned the basics of Jewish traditions and astrological concepts, which laid out a foundation for his view of how the skies played a vital role in human destiny.
At the age of 14, Nostradamus attended the University of Avignon to pursue a medical career. After a year there, the bubonic plague broke out, forcing him to leave. In his time away from higher education, Nostradamus traveled around the countryside of France. His travels led him to studying the properties of herbal medicine, and this in turn led to him working as an apothecary. In 1522, Nostradamus decided to finish his schooling at the University of Montpelier and completed his doctorate. He didn’t agree with the teachings of the Catholic Priests at the time, and unsurprisingly, they in turn didn’t agree with his affinity towards astrology. Despite his conflicts with the priests, he still received his medical certification in 1525, and as per academic tradition, changed his name from Nostredame to Nostradamus.
With the outbreak of the plague still affecting Europe, Nostradamus packed his bags and travelled throughout France and Italy, trying his best to aid the lives of any inflicted individuals he came across. Although there were no known remedies at the time, with the best options being bloodletting, mercury-infused potions, and garlic garments, Nostradamus paved the way for future medical practices and developed basic procedures for dealing with the outbreak. He promoted better hygiene and the removal of dead bodies from the street to prevent spreading. In treating his patients, he helped provide them relief by administering herbal lozenges enriched with vitamin C. Nostradamus’ cure rate was astoundingly successful for his historical period, and much of this is due to how he kept his patients clean, put them on healthy diets low in fat, and made sure they got plenty of fresh air.
For his success, he became somewhat of a local celebrity and even received financial support from Provence’s citizens. In 1531, he started working with Jules-Cesar Scaliger in Agen, France, as well as marrying and having two children. Three years later, his wife and children succumbed to the plague, and due to his failure to cure them, he fell out of favor with the public and Scaliger.
Transition into the Occult
Occult Anatomy of Man
Disliked by the people around him, and after being charged with heresy because of an ill-advised comment about a religious statue, Nostradamus chose to leave his hometown of Provence and embarked on a spiritual journey. He traveled throughout Italy, Greece, and Turkey, stopping at various ancient schools. It was in these schools that Nostradamus experienced a psychic awakening, becoming the man who is famous today.
Some legends tell about how Nostradamus met a group of Franciscan monks, and from his visions, he identified one of the monks as being the future Pope. This monk, called Felice Peretti, later became Pope Sixtus V in 1585. It is not known just how Nostradamus was able to make this prediction, but he seemingly did so with little information as he had barely met the monk.
After his awakening, Nostradamus returned to his hometown of Provence in France in 1547. He married for a second time, to Anne Ponsarde, and they had six children together, three boys and three girls. Nostradamus also began writing and published two books: a translation of Galen, the Roman physician; and The Traite des Fardemens, a medical cookbook on how to treat the plague.
It was at this time that Nostradamus began to move away from medicine and started delving into the occult. Reports state that he was seen spending his nights meditating over a bowl containing a mixture of herbs and water. From these meditations, he went into a trance and had visions. These visions, according to Nostradamus, were the source of his predictions about the future. He then compiled all these visions into an almanac and published it to great public acclaim.
In response to popular demand, Nostradamus decided to create Centuries, a collection of all his visions.
When I was growing up in the 1970s and 80s, there was a lot of talk about the prophecies of Nostradamus. People used to say that he forecasted the end of the world in the 1980s, and that he'd also said the current Pope would be the last. It used to scare the crap out of me! But then, more popes came, and the world didn't end. I still find him kind of interesting though, so I'm looking forward to your next posts.
I had the same fascination back then.
One thing I came to realize is that prophecies are prophetic AFTER they have come true. Until then they are still just unfulfilled words open to interpretation.
Now, considering how many of the quatrains Nostradamus made and how many of them have come true, I do believe he had some kind of foresight or knowledge, but there have been some ones that "experts" were sure meant one thing or another that were not fulfilled.
So was Nostradamus wrong? Or more likely those who interpreted them?
Time will tell
Totally. I've actually forgotten many of the things he said, so I'm looking forward to being reminded of it.
Sample quatrains coming in part 2 in a few days
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Here are the two quatrains supposedly foretelling Hitler:
From the depths of the West of Europe,
A young child will be born of poor people,
He who by his tongue will seduce a great troop;
His fame will increase towards the realm of the East.
Also ...
Beasts ferocious with hunger will cross the rivers,
The greater part of the battlefield will be against Hister.
Into a cage of iron will the great one be drawn,
When the child of Germany observes nothing.
Do they? (Open-ended question)
Generally its the first quatrain that is ascribed to the rise of Hitler
Hitler was born in Austria, a country in Western Europe, and although he wasn’t directly poor himself, Germany was struggling with paying off debt because of World War I. Hitler won over an entire country through his persuasion and speeches, and throughout the war, his character was talked about in countries to the east such as Russia, China, and Japan.
Pretty much every line of that quatrain describes Hitler and his rise.
How he did it, I would dearly love to know
Thanks for responding. I finally looked at your website (interesting stuff, some familiar, some not), and read the other Nostradamus article. We probably won't agree on how accurate the "Hitler" quatrain is, so I won't discuss it further. I will, however, mention something brought to mind by your wondering-how-he-does-it question.
This will be weird. It's from an author whose four books I own, have read, and generally value greatly. This particular part, maybe 1% of the whole, I find very, very hard to wrap my wits around. The author is Dr. Michael Newton, a clinical hypnotherapist, whose books derive from the commonalities found in his over 7,000 cases investigating Life Between Lives (his terminology). So he doesn't recount his own personal experiences or imaginings, but common reports from his subjects in deep hypnosis who had not been briefed in advance on what to expect (this is pre-Internet).
I'll quote a paragraph from page 262 of his book Destiny of Souls, in a section entitled "The screening room of future lives". I'd like to quote much more, but ...
The whole chapter is about souls being shown snippets from a few possible future lives, so that they can pick which one they think will be most valuable to their spiritual development.
This is (maybe!) some empirical evidence to add to the dry philosophical debate of destiny versus free will. If one in the spirit world between lives can be shown life 50 years in the future, why not 500? The principle would seem to be similar.
Hmm interesting, I don't think I have read anything by Newton, will definitely have to check him out.
As for the "accuracy" of the quatrain, or any of the quatrains, as I said in the 2nd article (soon to be posted here), this type of activity was a death sentence back in Nostradamus' time. Which is why he wrote in such an ambigious form so that he could hide it from the Church powers., That leaves a lot of room for interpretation and only in hindsight are most of his prophecies attached to actual events.
Even then there is much debate about what means what and if only a single quatrain refers to a single event or if as you pointed out, multiple quatrains can refer to the same event.
During my first reply, I used the term generally, I didn't interject any personal opinion in as I am of the personal belief that he wrote about the same event multiple times, depending on its "importance"
After all, he went into a trance and was unable to control his visions, its perfectly logical for him to have had "repeat" visions of very important events or turning points isn't it.
Anyways glad you enjoyed the 2nd article, one last one to come soon as I finish giving it a 3rd over lol.
Thanks. I'm more interested in some of your other stuff. I was captivated by all of Sitchin's books about Sumeria for several years, until I read the sitchiniswrong.com website. That ruined for me Sitchin's explanations, and now I have no "evidence" for the simple "aliens did it" answer to questions like how a sophisticated civilization seemingly just appeared out of thin air with no obvious progenitors.
I also like Lloyd Pye's stuff, although he died a few years back and seemingly invested (to my mind) far too much time trying to prove the off-world origin of what he called the Starchild skull.
Anyway, thanks again.
yeah sitchin is an interesting one, he was held high up for quite a few years, considering he was the first to "decipher" the ancient Sumerian language he was able to interject quite a few things that support his claims, not the other way around.
Just like everyone else in the world I doubt believe he is 100% wrong (pretty hard to be THAT wrong) but a lot of his theories have been debunked pretty heavily over the decades
I did the one intro on that subject and do plan on doing more since that is a very fascinating culture indeed
Yes, fascinating is an apt word for it. I look back on some of these ancient artifacts and cultures and it's very hard not to think aliens had some part in it.
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