In retrospect, it all seems bleakly inevitable: that enigmatologists would move on from the lardy Bacon-stuffed margins of Shakespeariana to find new hunting grounds. Personally, I thought Nostradamus scrabbled pretty hard to find rhymes for his verses, but a new book claims these were all just a cover story, and that it was no more than an enciphered journal.
“Rise to Consciousness” (2008) by Michal Deschausses claims to decipher the truth hidden in Nostradamus’ work, allegedly revealing a story about “one strong woman” in the far future who seems to resemble… Michal Deschausses?
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Some publishers will assist with offering the knowledge in this Century. In pure reason they will rush her through it. The bout the year of her death secures vast knowledge through the age and the verses will release facts which people will hardly believe.
Could it really be that Nostradamus’ quatrains (strictly speaking, “vers commun”) enciphered a “multi-lingual” secret message? Or is it simply the case that you can, just as Leo Levitov famously did for the Voynich Manuscript, “decipher” just about any given text-like thing into an entirely parallel “polyglot oral tongue”, a stream of Romance language fragments from which you can read basically any message you like?
For reference, Nostradamus’ Century 1 Quatrain 1 is probably an “evocation of the Delphic Oracle, after Iamblichus’s De Mysteriis Aegyptiorum“: and goes like this:-
Estant assis de nuict secret estude,
Seul reposé sus la selle d’aerain:
Flambe exigue sortant de solitude,
Faict prosperer qui n’est à croire vain.
The two are connected, errrm, how? Anyhoo, because Michal Deschausses has been good enough to include her deciphering methodology as an appendix, I’ll probably end up buying a copy and having a look. But having seen Levitov’s book, I won’t be holding my breath.
Now… we’ve had hundreds of years of people claiming that Nostradamus’ verses predict every d&mn thing in the news, from the end of the world, to war(s) in Iraq, and even (most recently) to Barack Obama and his running mate:-
Born of obscure and dark family,
Of white and black of the two intermixed.
The dark one biding his time,
Before the Empire changes.
But… hold on a minute: “Born of obscure and dark family” is a line from Century V Quatrain 84, “Of white and black of the two intermixed” is a line from Century VI Quatrain 10, “The dark one biding his time” appears just to have been made up, while “Before the Empire changes” is a line from Century I Quatrain 43.
So, Nostradamus bloggers have supposedly got themselves excited about three lines moved waaaaay out of context with a filler line added in to form a supposed verse about Obama. Oh, really?
OK… let me try for myself, restricting the search to a high-speed sleective scan through Century I:-
Lost, found, hidden for so long an age,
In the future by headless idiots
That which shall live without having any sense
submerged, killed, dead through brainless idiocy
Profoundly predictive, don’t you think? 😮
Did Nostradamus really write a journal in code?
The term “journal” is coincidentally first used in an anachronistic manner in Nostradamus’ most famous work, so maybe he did. 🙂
There are a couple of interesting things to look at.
The first 353 quatrain (therefore 1412 lines) strong edition was supposedly finished on the 1st of March (3.1 or in “European” 1.3) 1555, released 64 days later (on the 4th of May, 1555) but the prophecies supposedly start on the 14th of March, 1557. Which is coincidentally the number of days between said dates (1.3.1555-14.3.1557) ………and the number of quatrains in days, (including the second part, 353 + 289) 642.
So maybe yeah, it was a journal.:)
The end date of the prophecies, or expiration date, is also provided: the year 3797. Which is coincidentally the highest number until 10,000, which is made of prime numbers (3,7,9,37,79,97).
From the year 1555, till the year 3797, 2242 years pass, which is coincidentally the number of “bissextile” years during the span of……10,000 years.
Coincidentally, Nostradamus dedicates the Propheties to his son Caesar, which is not far away from a “Caesura”, a musical stop sign, which he, coincidentally again, uses exactly once during the whole “Propheties”.
There’s also the famous sentence in the “Preface” to Caesar, in which Nostradamus says in French “Car la parole hereditaire estant……..”, meaning, the key to his prophecies lays in…..and here the plot thickens.
It’d have been correct to use “Que la parole…..” in french, instead, he uses CAR, which is the key to the prophecies. And it appears only once as an anagram in the “Propheties”, even though in a specific verse, verse 7/1 (meaning, the 643rd verse), one verse after the coincidentally strange LATIN verse, 6/100, warning all alchemists, soothsayers and other idiots to stay away from this part of the book. LOL
Said key…….and anagram, is ARC:
L’ARC du thresor par Achilles deceu,
Aux procrées sceu la quadrangulaire:
Au faict Royal le comment sera sceu,
Cors veu pendu au veu du populaire.
As you can probably see by now, the verse coincidentally
is arranged in such a way, that “ARCs” and triangles can
be built with the letters A,R,C. 🙂
L'(ARC), A(chilles), R(oyal), C(ors)
A(ux), R(oyal), C(ors)
A(u), R(oyal), C(ors)
all of these built triangles, which, when connected, coincidentally, reveal a symbol looking like……..a key.
Old Nostradamus 🙂 So many coincidences, pretty strange. 😉
Not to mention the “Pre-Face(s)”, the faces in the illuminated first letters of the first edition Preface and the 4 “chapters” up until the 353rd, verse 4/53.
As coincidence wants it, the letters spell out TEVAC, or CAVET backwords.
(CAVE) is of course, coincidentally found in verse 4/1.
But enough of these coincidences (not to mention that in said illuminated pictures, Nostradamus is shown with different bear-lengths, which make it easier to sort the “centuries”).
Did the guy, who NEVER constructed ONE CORRECT HOROSCOPE (coincidence and I don’t mean, the horoscopes didn’t fit what happened, no, there were WRONGLY CONSTRUCTED) ever make a real prediction?
Yes, coincidentally, only once. And said prediction is not supernatural at all, even though it is prophetic.
The only time a clear year is mentioned in the propheties, the verses, is in a verse, where Nostradamus talks about a “Dark Lord in the skies of August, 1999”. A prediction of war? The Anti-Christ arriving?
No, the guy who couldn’t make one horoscope, because he was too stupid to correctly set up the planets, coincidentally describes the full solar eclipse of August, 1999, which was then seen in Northern Europe. 🙂
Alllll these coincidences. 😉
There’s also an interesting fact about the year of the publication of the propheties. While it happened a couple of times before, 1555 was the last time a single year has seen TRES popes. 🙂 The next time it happened was 1978, when two popes had to die, so that the first non-Italian pope in cenuries could come to the throne. A “king” from Poland.
Coincidentally, the Henry III, the second letter in the propheties was actually dedicated to (because by the time the second edition WITH the letter to “Henry Second” was released, the same one was already dead for years), was the first king of Poland AND France. 🙂
Coincidences, shmoincidences.
Even if you don’t believe in Nostradamus’ predictive powers (and you shouldn’t, when said believe includes some supernatural explanations of events), you should by now be curious enough to look into a possibility of a code contained within the “Propheties”, a hidden message……….just not prophecies.
Greets,
L’Arc