By , Nostradamus' visions had become an integral part of his works in the almanacs, and he decided to channel all his energies into a massive opus he entitled Centuries.
He planned to write 10 volumes, which would contain predictions forecasting the next 2, years. In he published Les Prophesies , a collection of his major, long-term predictions. Possibly feeling vulnerable to religious persecution, he devised a method of obscuring the prophecies' meanings by using quatrains—rhymed four-line verses — and a mixture of other languages such as Greek, Italian, Latin, and Provencal, a dialect of Southern France. Oddly enough, Nostradamus enjoyed a good relationship with the Roman Catholic Church.
It is believed he never faced prosecution for heresy by the Inquisition because he didn't extend his writings to the practice of magic. Nostradamus ran into some controversy with his predictions, as some thought he was a servant of the devil, and others said he was fake or insane.
However, many more believed the prophecies were spiritually inspired. He became famous and in demand by many of Europe's elite.
After reading his almanacs of , where he hinted at unnamed threats to her family, she summoned him to Paris to explain and draw up horoscopes for her children. In , while serving in this capacity Nostradamus also explained another prophecy from Centuries I , which was assumed to refer to King Henri. The prophecy told of a "young lion" who would overcome an older one on the field of battle.
The young lion would pierce the eye of the older one and he would die a cruel death. Nostradamus warned the king he should avoid ceremonial jousting. Three years later, when King Henri was 41 years old, he died in a jousting match when a lance from this opponent pierced the king's visor and entered his head behind the eye deep into his brain. He held on to life for 10 agonizing days before finally dying of infection.
Nostradamus claimed to base his published predictions on judicial astrology—the art of forecasting future events by calculation of the planets and stellar bodies in relationship to the earth. His sources include passages from classical historians like Plutarch as well as medieval chroniclers from whom he seems to have borrowed liberally. In fact, many scholars believe he paraphrased ancient end-of-the-world prophecies mainly from the Bible and then through astrological readings of the past, projected these events into the future.
There's also evidence not everyone was enamored with Nostradamus' predictions. He was criticized by professional astrologers of the day for incompetence and assuming that comparative horoscopy the comparison of future planetary configurations with those accompanying known past events could predict the future.
Nostradamus suffered from gout and arthritis for much of his adult life. In the last years of his life, the condition turned into edema or dropsy, where abnormal amounts of fluid accumulate beneath the skin or within cavities of the body. Without treatment, the condition resulted in congestive heart failure.
In late June of , Nostradamus asked to see his lawyer to draw up an extensive will, leaving much of his estate to his wife and children. On the evening of July 1, he is alleged to have told his secretary Jean de Chavigny, "You will not fine me alive at sunrise. Most of the quatrains Nostradamus composed during his life dealt with disasters such as plagues, earthquakes, wars, floods, invasions murders, droughts, and battles.
Nostradamus enthusiasts have credited him with predicting numerous events in world history including the French Revolution , the rise of Napoleon and Hitler , the development of the atomic bomb and the September 11, , terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
Nostradamus's popularity seems to be due in part to the fact that the vagueness of his writings and their lack of specific dates make it easy to selectively quote them after any major dramatic events and retrospectively claim them as true. English translation from Sacred-texts. Some have interpreted the writings of Nostradamus as predicting a series of three antichrists. However, skeptics dismiss the name "Mabus" as a synonym to an incarnate antichrist.
The verse in question II. Recent attempts have linked the name "Mabus" to "Obama" looking at it as an anagram, as was previously done with "Saddam", "Osama" and "Bush".
The tendency to try to adapt the quatrains to recent events can be traced back to the time of Nostradamus himself. Mabus could be the a shortening for "Mancubus"?
The old roads will all be improved, One will procedd on them to the modern Memphis: The great Mercury of Hercules fleur-de-lys, Causing to tremble lands, sea and country.
In the realm the great one of the great realm reigning, Through force of arms the great gates of brass He will cause to open, the King and Duke joining, Fort demolished, ship to the bottom, day serene. Cries, weeping, tears will come with knives, Seeming to flee, they will deleiver a final attack, Parks around to set up high platforms, The living pushed back and murdered instantly.
For the merry maid the bright splendor Will shine no more long time will be without salt: With merchants, bullies, wolves odious, All confusion universal monster. The signal to give battle will not be given, They will be obliged to go out of the park: The banner around Ghent will be recognized, Of him who will cause all his followers to be put to death. The illegitimate girl so high, high, not low, The late return will make the grieved ones contended: The Reconciled One will not be without debates, In employing and losing all his time.
The old tribune on the point of trembling, He will be pressed not to deliver the captive: The will, non-will, speaking the timid evil, To deliver to his friends lawfully. A Great King will come to take port near Nice, Thus the death of the great empire will be completed: In Antibes will he place his heifer, The plunder by sea all will vanish. Foot and Horse at the second watch, They will make an entry devastating all by sea: Within the port of Marseilles he will enter, Tears, cries, and blood, never times so bitter.
A hundred times will the inhuman tyrant die, In his place put one learned and mild, The entire Senate will be under his hand, He will be vexed by a rash scoundrel.
In the year , Roman clergy, At the beginning of the year you will hold an election: Of one gray and black issued from Campania, Never was there one so wicked as he.
Before his father the child will be killed, The father afterwards between ropes of rushes: The people of Geneva will have exerted themselves, The chief lying in the middle like a log. The new bark will take trips, There and near by they will transfer the Empire: Beaucaire, Arles will retain the hostages, Near by, two columns of Porphyry found.
To the Spains will come a very powerful King, By land and sea subjugating the South: This evil will cause, lowering again the crescent, Clipping the wings of those of Friday. Triremes full of captives of every age, Good time for bad, the sweet for the bitter: Prey to the Barbarians hasty they will be too soon, Anxious to see the feather wail in the wind.
The great empire will be for England, The pempotam for more than three hundred years: Great forces pass by sea and land, The Lusitains will not be content. Save ourselves, Help each other, Rebuild our homeland!
Century X Quatrain 1 To the ennemy, the enemy faith promised Will not be kept, the captives retained: One near death captured, and the remainder in their shirts, The remainder damned for being supporters.
Century X Quatrain 4 At midnight the leader of the army Will save himself, suddenly vanished: Seven years later his reputation unblemished, To his return not once they will say yes. Century X Quatrain 9 In the Castle of Figueras on a misty day A sovereign prince will be born of an infamous woman: Surname of breeches on the ground will make him posthumous, Never was there a King so very bad in his province.
Century X Quatrain 11 At the dangerous passage below lonchere, The posthumous one will have his band cross, To pass the Pyrenean mountains without his baggage, From Perpignan the duke will hasten to Tende. Century X Quatrain 12 Elected as Pope, when elected he will be mocked, Suddenly unexpectedly moved prompt and timid, Through too much goodness and kindness provoked to die, Fear extinguished the night of his death guided. Century X Quatrain 13 Beneath the food of ruminating animals, led by them to the belly of the fodder city: Soldiers hidden, their arms making a noise, Tried not far from the city of Antibes.
Century X Quatrain 14 Urnel Vaucile without a purpose on his own, Bold, timid, through fear overcome and captured: Accompanied by several pale whores, Convinced in the Carthusian convent at Barcelona. Century X Quatrain 15 Father duke old in years and choked by thirst, On his last day his don denying him the jug: Into the well plunged alive he will come up dead, Senate to the thread death long and light.
Century X Quatrain 16 Happy in the realm of France, happy in life, Ignorant of blood, death, fury and plunder: For a flattering name he will be envied, A concealed King, too much faith in the kitchen. Century X Quatrain 19 The day that she will be hailed as Queen, The day after the benediction the prayer: The reckoning is right and valid, Once humble never was one so proud.
Century X Quatrain 20 All the friend who will have belonged to the party, For the rude in letters put to death and plundered: Property up for sale at fixed price the great one annihilated. Century X Quatrain 21 Through the spite of the King supporting the lesser one, He will be murdered presenting the jewels to him: The father wishing to impress nobility on the son Does as the Magi did of yore in Persia.
Century X Quatrain 22 For not wishing to consent to the divorce, Which then afterwards will be recognised as unworthy: The King of the Isles will be driven out by force, In his place put one who will have no mark of a king. Century X Quatrain 26 The successor will avenge his brother-in-law, To occupy the realm under the shadow of vengeance: Obstacle slain his blood for the death blame, For a long time will Brittany hold with France. Century X Quatrain 27 Through the fifth one and a great Hercules They will come to open the temple by hand of war: One Clement, Julius and Ascanius set back, The sword, key, eagle, never was there such a great animosity.
Century X Quatrain 28 Second and third which make prime music By the King to be sublimated in honor: Through the fat and the thin almost emaciated, By the false report of Venus to be debased. Century X Quatrain 30 Nephew and blood of the new saint come, Through the surname he will sustain arches and roof: They will be driven out put to death chased nude, Into red and black will they convert their green. Century X Quatrain 32 The great empire, everyone would be of it, One will come to obtain it over the others: But his realm and state will be of short duration, Two years will he be able to maintain himself on the sea.
Century X Quatrain 33 The cruel faction in the long robe Will come to hide under the sharp daggers: The Duke to seize Florence and the diphthong place, Its discovery by immature ones and sycophants. Century X Quatrain 34 The Gaul who will hold the empire through war, He will be betrayed by his minor brother-in-law: He will be drawn by a fierce, prancing horce, The brother will be hated for the deed for a long time. Century X Quatrain 35 The younger son of the king flagrant in burning lust To enjoy his first cousin: Female attire in the Temple of Artemis, Going to be murdered by the unknown one of Maine.
Century X Quatrain 36 Upon the King of the stump speaking of wars, The United Isle will hold him in contempt: For several good years one gnawing and pillaging, Through tyranny in the isle esteem changing. Century X Quatrain 39 The walls will be converted from brick to marble, Seven and fifty pacific years: Joy to mortals, the aquaduct renewed, Health, abundance of fruits, joy and mellifluous times.
Century X Quatrain 40 First son, widow, unfortunate marriage, Without any children two Isles in discord: Before eighteen, incompetent age, For the other one the betrothal will take place while younger.
Century X Quatrain 41 On the boundary of Caussade and Caylus, Not at all far from the bottom of the valley: Music from Villefranche to the sound of lutes, Encompassed by cymbals and great stringing. Century X Quatrain 42 The humane realm of Anglican offspring, It will cause its realm to hold to peace and union: War half-captive in its enclosure, For long will it cause them to maintain peace.
Century X Quatrain 43 Too much good times, too much of royal goodness, Ones made and unmade, quick, sudden, neglectful: Lightly will he believe falsely of his loyal wife, He put to death through his benevolence. Century X Quatrain 46 In life, fate and death a sordid, unworthy man of gold, He will not be a new Elector of Saxony: From Brunswick he will send for a sign of love, The false seducer delivering it to the people.
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