Nostradamus, Man of Prophecies or Politics?
Patrick Bernauw
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Copyright 2010 Patrick Bernauw
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CONTENT:
Nostradamus, the Black President and the End of the World in 2012
Nostradamus, the Mayan Calendar and the End of the World in 2012
Nostradamus and the Death of Henri II: A Conspiracy?
Nostradamus and the Treasures of Orval
The Prophecy of Orval
NOSTRADAMUS, THE BLACK PRESIDENT AND THE END OF THE WORLD IN 2012
I wrote this article in November 2008 for a website called PurpleSlinky, and it’s still very popular…
There are circulating on the worldwide web some really idiotic but also possibly dangerous rumours, featuring Nostradamus, Barack Obama, Antichrist III and the End of the World (2012). The theories are extremely silly, undoubtedly. But they get quite dangerous too when you think of the idiots who might be taking some action, just because of that sort of rumors. They create an "Osama Obama Shotgun Pool" in Maine, because they just KNOW Obama is the AntiChrist (his name rhymes with Osama)! They tell you to take the last two letters from "Obama" and the first three from "Bush" and you get "Mabus". And then some self-declared experts say that "Mabus" is the name of the guy who, according to the 16th century prophet Nostradamus, would be the third Antichrist (after Pau Nay Oloron who was Napoleon, and Hister who was Hitler).
Now, I don't understand why Obama has to be the Antichrist. Why it can't be George W. Bush? Or, for that matter, Osama bin Laden? You'll get also a "Mabus" if you combine the names "Osama" and "Bush"! Okay, Osama or George W. Bush are not living in Chicago and Barack Obama is! And what is the zip-code of Chicago? 60606! Eliminate the zero's and you get 666, the Number of the Beast! It's that simple, really. There is only one minor problem with the whole theory: Nostradamus has never said a Mr. Mabus will be the Antichrist. In Century 2, Quatrain 62 he states that "when Mabus will die", there will be "a horrible undoing of people and animals". That's all, folks.
Interesting footnote in the Mabus=Antichrist Hoax: the former Governor of Mississippi, Ray Mabus, served in the Clinton era as U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, and is working now as Obama's adviser on Middle Eastern issues. This leads other Nostradamiacs to speculate about the assassination of Mr. Mabus, working somewhere in the Middle East in the Obama administration, which could fuel a horrible counter-attack by Obama. Quatrain 62 mentions "a vengeance" and "a comet", and of course this comet has to be the nuclear missile that will start the Final Countdown to an apocalyptic World War III!
Still not convinced that Nostradamus tells you Bad Shit Will Happen when Obama goes to the White House? Okay, then listen to this argument... Barack Obama would be the first Black President in the White House, am I right or am I right? And who is described as "black in attribute"? The Man in Black, Johnny Cash? Yeah, but he is no longer among us... The Men in Black, coming from Outer Space? No, my dear friends, let the aliens out of it and let's talk about Satan, who will now take over the White Mansion, known as Heaven! He will be there until 2012, and who said the world would end in 2012? Nostradamus, indeed!
There is only one minor problem with this theory... During the nineties, you could read everywhere that, according to Nostradamus, the world would come to an end in 1999: "In the year 1999 and seven months, from the sky will come a great and frightening King." In his book The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus, published in 1999, Ned Halley stated that the Apocalypse didn't need to be a military one. It also could be "industrial competition from booming China, a new flu epidemic similar to the catastrophic pandemic of 1918 (...) or revolution against the Communist regime (of China)."
There was the usual bad shit happening, but did there some really Very Bad & Apocalyptic Shit happen? In China? In 1999? No, it did not. And why not? Well, Nostradamus simply didn't see Apocalyptic Bad Shit happen in 1999. He didn't see it in 2012 either. His prophecies go to 3797!
Did Nostradamus see the nearly Apocalyptic Bad Shit of 9/11 happen then? No, he did not. The famous quatrain attributed to him, about a "great thunder" that would be heard in the "City of God", with "two brothers torn apart by Chaos" and a "third big war" that would begin when "the big city was burning", was invented by a college student. Neil Marshall was his name and he wanted to demonstrate how a Nostradamus-like quatrain could be interpreted in so many ways as there were interpreters.
Did Nostradamus predict the election of Barack Obama, the first Black President in the White House? Professor Eugene Randell, Deputy Director of the Smithsonian Institution Archives, declared that the Institute was holding some very rare Nostradamus manuscripts. One previously unreleased quatrain spoke about a "great empire" that would be "torn from limb" and a "great power given to the dark one from slaves come". The lines were eagerly copied and pasted on numerous blogs and websites, but all these "believers" forgot to mention (or didn't know) that the original article was published by "The Daily Squib", the World's Finest (Satirical) News Source.
Professor Eugene Randell did not exist and the previously unreleased quatrain definitely was a hoax.
NOSTRADAMUS, THE MAYAN CALENDAR AND THE END OF THE WORLD IN 2012
Three good reasons why I don't buy the so-called Doomsday Predictions, featuring Nostradamus and the Mayan Calendar.
The first one: Nostradamus hasn't said anything about the End of the World in 2012. There is not one single quatrain in the prophetic Centuries, written by Nostradamus, that says something about a major event in the year 2012. In the letter to his son Caesar, which also serves as a Preface to his Prophecies, made public in 1555, the prophet says his prophecies, "containing each 100 astronomic quatrains of forecasts, polished through obscurely", are "perpetual" and "things that have been foreseen, from now to the year 3797".
The website Nostradamus 2012: End of the World Prophesy (sic) states that there have been found "new writings of Nostradamus", that previously have been hidden. The "Lost Book of Nostradamus", discovered in the National Library, seems to contain his Doomsday 2012 Prophecy, and a "History Channel" has made a show on this topic on January 4, 2009. Of course, this can only be a hoax. Why should Nostradamus have written and published all these predictions from the 16th century to 3797, if he knew the world would end in 2012?
Second good reason why I don’t buy the Doomsday Stuff: the Mayan Calendar is a Calendar, not a Prophecy. The 2012 Doomsday Fear Scam started with the Mayan Calendar, ending in 2012. But, as is said in this no-nonsense article on the Mayan Calendar, the fact that it ends in 2012 doesn't mean the world will end in 2012. The Calendar just stopped... and that's all. It is definitely a brilliant calendar system, developed as a means of measuring time.
I have a few questions for those who want to believe the Mayan Calendar is "prophetic": which are the facts of the past centuries, foreseen by the Calendar? And how come the Maya's did know the exact year when "the" world would meet its end, but did not know that "their" world and civilization would end very, very soon? If this Calendar was a prophetic one... it sure wasn't a great success!
And last but not least, dear friends… The World Has Already Ended X Times Before! In 234 A.D. one Hippolytus prophesied the Coming of the Antichrist, followed by the return of the Lord. The world would last 6,000 years and since Adam was born in 5,500 B.C., the world would end in 500 A.D. In 989 Halley's Comet would destroy the earth and at the end of the first millennium there was a mass hysteria regarding the Second Coming (bis). 1666 was the Year of the Beast - but the world wasn't destroyed (only London, by the Great Fire). The Jehovah's Witnesses predicted Doomsday in 1874, 1878, 1881, 1910, 1914, 1918, 1925, 1975 and 1984.
In 1982 there was - again - much talk about a Second Coming. Christ had already returned to earth in 1977 and was living among a group of Pakistani in London. We all remember 1999, featuring the famous Nostradamus quatrain 72 (Century 10): “In the year 1999, in the seventh month,/from the sky will come a great King of Terror.”
Eli Eshoh predicted that the world would end in 1998. Afterwards, he reassured us the Rapture took place on June 6, 1998. It wasn't noticed because only 603,729 people were taken up. (You may ask yourself why none of the relatives of these people has noticed they didn't return home.)
Divide 2000 by 3 an you get 666.666 - the Devil's Number. Millennium Countdown... All computers probably were going to crash and the Antichrist was coming, Armageddon was near. In 2003 a group of aliens warned us that the earth would be destroyed by a comet.
The Bible is believed to contain a code which can be used to predict the End of the World. The history of Mankind was charted from the birth of Adam (4027 B.C.) to Armageddon, which would be the result of a truly horrific Third World War, starting in 2008.
NOSTRADAMUS AND THE DEATH OF HENRI II: A CONSPIRACY?
Despite warnings from Nostradamus and the Queen, Catherine de Medici, the King of France, Henri II, insisted on taking part in a three-day tournament to celebrate the forthcoming double marriage of his sister and his daughter to, respectively, the Duke of Savoy and King Philip II of Spain.
One of the most celebrated quatrains of Nostradamus is found in the earliest edition of the Centuries, published at Lyons in 1555. Quatrain 35 of the First Centuries immediately lifted him into celebrity. Nostradamus announced the quatrain as a prediction to King Henri II himself, several years before the "accident" happened in the summer of 1559...
The younger lion will triumph over the older
by single combat, on the field of war
will his eyes be pierced in a golden cage -
two breaks made one and then a cruel death.
Henri had been victorious on the first two days, but he was disappointed that on the third day Gabriel de Lorge, Count Montgomery and captain of his Scottish Guard, remained in the saddle. Against Montgomery's wishes, the King insisted on a rematch.
The Count and the King rush towards each other again and collide frightfully. Both lances break; riders and steeds have difficulty recovering their balance. André Castelot and Alain Decaux describe it in their "History of France and the French" as follows: "Henri II takes a new lance, but Montgomery forgets to throw down the stump he holds. Contrary to convention - no one knows why - the trumpets are silent. Themailclad horsemen set off again at full gallop and there is a deafening noise of clanging, clattering steel and hooves pounding the raked sand of the track. The spectators gasp, seeing that the Captain of the Scottish Guard has not flung aside his broken weapon but is still levelling it. The two men clash yet again and Montgomery's fragment of lance slips off the King'scuirass , lifting the visor of the helmet and piercing the King's head. (....) His wound is appalling: the lance has entered the right eye and emerged through the ear."
The King died in agony ten days later, on July 10. It was the first of two blows that would destroy the dynastic tree of the house of Valois. Henri II, wounded mortally in his golden cage (he wore a gilt helmet), was the first to die a violent death. Henri III, who fell by the hand of a murderer, would be the second.