Amnesia 9/Amnesia - Issue 09 (1993-02-01)(Eclipse)(Disk 2 of 2).adf/ARTICLES/Prophet

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Europe's greatest prophet:The uncanny
       words of Nostradamus.
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Article written by Sandman. (With the
help of some books).


In  the  autumn  of  1939, when Adolf
Hitler was in the  act  of unleashing
world war,the wife of his Minister of
Propaganda, Josef  Goebbels, drew his
attention  to  a  remarkable  set  of
prophecies  which  had  been made 400
years earlier.

These  prophecies were written  by  a
Frenchman called Nostradamus and they
seemed to predict the rise of Hitler,
they were so  accurate that they came
close to  mentioning him by name,they
referred  to  the  German  leader  as
"HISTER".
Unfortunately  for  Hitler, even  the      collapse, then it would (and it did).
most  skilled  interpretation  of the      Nostradamus   made  many  predictions
prophecies  could not predict success      about  many  things and they all have
for the Third Reich-so the Propaganda      came true........
Minister  (Goebbels)   composed  fake
verses. In 1940 the Luftwaffe dropped      Michel de Nostredame-he later changed
thousands  of  "Nostradamus leaflets"      his name  to  Nostradamus-was born in
over  France  and  Belgium,announcing      1503  in  St  Remy  de  Provence. His
that Germany would be victorious, and      family were Jewish,but were converted
prophesying that south-eastern France      to  Christianity and the young Michel
would be spared in  the conflict. The      was brought up as a Catholic.He was a
aim was to ensure that refugees would      brilliant  student, who  first became
not choke the roads leading  to Paris      famous as a skilled physician dealing
and the Channel ports.                     with   plague  victims. Many  of  his
                                           successes in this field were undoubt-
In retaliation, British  Intelligence      edly  due  to  his refusal to "bleed"
also  made  up "Nostradamus writings"      his patients-a  revolutionary concept
but  these, of  course, predictied an      in the early 16th century.
outright   Allied  victory  over  the      Nostradmus was  ahead of  his time in
Axis.There was,of course, no need for      other ways too.He proclaimed that the
the   British   to  make up fake pre-      earth  circles   the  sun, 100  years
dictions because Nostradamus has pre-      before Galileo's  findings.His proph-
dicted that the Third Reich would not      etic gifts came to light in 1955 when
survive  and  if  he  said  it  would      he  published the first of ten books,
all  simply  entitled  CENTURIES.Each      The boy was  Henry of Navarre who be-
volume contained 100 predictions, all      came Henry IV.
of which were written in verse form.       On another occasion a French nobleman
                                           tried   to   confound    Nostradamus'
Nostradmus  never  made any secret of      prophetic powers.He asked him to pre-
his  technique  for  looking into the      dict the  fate  of  two suckling pigs
future.He placed a bowl of water on a      that he  had  in his yard. The answer
brass  tripod  and  gazed  into it,in      was  that  the nobleman would eat the
much  the  same  way a fortune-teller      black one, and  a  wolf would eat the
intently  studies a crystal ball. But      white  one.  The  nobleman  instantly
occasionally his predictions  came to      ordered  the  white  one to be killed
him  in  spontanious  flashes  of in-      for dinner  that  night. When  dining
tuition. One day, when he was a young      later with  Nostradamus, the nobleman
man and travelling  in Italy, he fell      was amazed when he  discovered that a
onto  his knees before a passing monk      tame wolf had  carried of the meat of
named Felice Peretti.To the astonish-      the white one and that  he was, after
ment of the monk and onlookers alike,      all,eating the black one.
Nostradamus declared: "I kneel before
His Holiness."  In   1585   the  monk      The prophet  predicted  his own death
became Pope Sixtus V.                      in 1566,and  before  he died he had a
Once  when  visited  by  Catherine de      date engraved  on a small metal plate
Medici he was  intrigued  by a boy in      instructing   that  this   should  be
her  entourage, proclaiming  that one      placed with him in his coffin.In 1700
day the  boy would be King of France.      the coffin  was taken from the grave,
where it had lain for  134  years,and      (I'm  sure  that  the   thousands  of
was  moved  to a more prominent site.      people  killed  in  the  Inquisition
The   plate   was   resting   on  the      wished  the same thing m8! Polaris).
prophet's  skeleton. It bore the date
1700.                                      Here are  some  of  his  verses which
                                           have  been  translated in modern Eng-
To avoid being  accused of witchcraft      lish,  but   the  names  are  in  the
by   the   Inquisition,  Nostradmamus      original spelling.
confused   the  dating  of  his  pre-
dictions, and  wrote in a bewildering      PREDICTION CONCERNING HENRY II OF
mixture   of   anagrams, symbols, Old                   FRANCE.
French,Latin and other languages.This
deliberate  confusion has led to some      Before it came tragically true,no one
curious   and   widely  varied inter-      at  the  French  court  dared mention
pretations of his prophecies,but,many      Nostradamus's most notorious predict-
of   his  predictions  are  uncannily      ion,of how King Henry would die:
close  to  the  facts but can only be
recognised after the events has happ-      "THE YOUNG  LION  WILL OVERCOME THE
ened. Even so,this is enough to just-       ELDER
ify his reputation as  a  great  pro-       IN A FIELD  OF  COMBAT IN A SINGLE
phet, I  only  wish there had been no       FIGHT.
Inquisition  so  we  could  read  ac-       HE WILL PIERCE  HIS  EYES IN THEIR
curate, precise  predictions  for the       GOLDEN CAGE.
future.                                     TWO  WOUNDS  IN  ONE, THEN  DIES A
   CRUEL DEATH."                            BURNT BY FIRE IN THREE TIMES TWENTY
                                            PLUS SIX"
This prediction  was  fulfilled  four
years later in  1559  when Henry, one      The disaster  occurred  in  1666, and
of whose heraldic emblems was a lion,      Nostradamus adopted the Italian habit
had a  friendly  joust  with  a young      of  leaving out  the first two digits
officer called Montgomery, captain of      in the date.
the  French  king's  Scottish  Guard.
Montgomery's    lance    accidentally      This  is how he  prophesied the Great
pierced  the  visor  of  Henry's gilt      Plague that ravaged  London  in 1665:
helmet, wounding  him  in the eye and
throat. The king  died after ten days       "THE GREAT   PLAGUE  OF THE MARITIME
of agony.                                    CITY
                                             SHALL  NOT  CEASE  TILL  DEATH   IS
PREDICTION  CONCERNING THE GREAT FIRE        AVENGED;
           AND THE PLAGUE.                   FOR THE BLOOD OF THE JUST TAKEN AND
                                             CONDEMNED     THROUGH     INNOCENCE
Nostradamus   rarely   gave   precise        AND  THE  GREAT  DAME  OUTRAGED  BY
dates, but  the  Great Fire of London        FEIGNING SAINTS"
was an exception. He was very precise
when he wrote:                             Nostradamus often referred  to London
                                           as "THE MARITIME CITY" and he sugges-
 "THE  BLOOD  OF  THE  JUST  WILL  BE      ted that  the  plague was retribution
  DEMANDED OF LONDON                       for  the  murder  of  Charles I.  The
"feigning saints"  in  the  last line      Laud, was  beheaded  (not burned)  in
appear to be Puritains,and the "great      1645.The followers who stooped so low
dame"  is  thought  to  be  St Paul's      were the Scots who sold the king back
Cathedral, which was destroyed in the      to  Parliament in  1646, and the Pre-
fire.                                      tender is presumably Oliver Cromwell,
                                           the  Lord  Protector, who  was almost
PREDICTIONS CONCERNING CHARLES I.          accepted as king.
                                           Nostradamus most accurate predicition
Nostradamus made  several predictions      regarding Charles was:
about  Charles I, of  which  the most
comprehensive  covers  Charles, Arch-       "THE  PARLIAMENT OF  LONDON WILL PUT
bishop Laud and Cromwell:                    THEIR KING TO DEATH.....HE WILL DIE
                                             BECAUSE  OF  THE  SHAVEN  HEADS  IN
 "THE UNWORTHY MAN IS CHASED FROM THE        COUNCIL"
  ENGLISH KINGDOM
  THE  COUNSELLOR THROUGH  ANGER WILL      Clearly the  prophet was referring to
  BE BURNT.                                the roundheads.Cromwell was described
  HIS FOLLOWERS WILL  STOOP  TO  SUCH      as  "more like a butcher than an Eng-
  DEPTHS                                   lish king".
  THAT THE PRETENDER  WILL  ALMOST BE      Nostradamus also mentioned "The brok-
  RECIEVED"                                en bridge, the city faint from fear".
                                           The broken bridge is thought to refer
Charles'  irresponsibility  lost  him      to Pontefract,whose name derives from
his kingdom.His counsellor,Archbishop      the Latin PONS  (bridge)  and FRACTUS
(broken).   The  town  held  out  for      years of the  Second  World  War when
Charles  during  two  seiges by Crom-      German armies swept across the  Rhine
well's Parliamentary forces.               into France.Though most of Europe was
                                           allied against him ("the greater part
                                           of the battle field") Hitler,or "His-
PREDICTIONS CONCERNING  ADOLF HITLER.      ter",was for a time only too success-
                                           ful:
Nostradamus  produced  several extra-
ordinarily accurate predictions about
the Nazi leader. One  verse  sums  up       "BEAST WILD WITH  HUNGER  WILL CROSS
Hitler's life  and even predicts that        THE RIVERS,
his  death in  Berlin  in  1945  will        THE GREATER PART OF THE BATTLEFIELD
never be satisfactorily confirmed:           WILL BE AGAINST HISTER"

 "IN THE  MOUNTAINS OF  AUSTRIA  NEAR      The prophet also  warned  of "weapons
  THE RHINE                                heard in the skies"  and "machines of
  THERE  WILL  BE BORN OF SIMPLE PAR-      flying fire" -references to aircraft,
  ENTS                                     bombing and the early V-weapons.
  A MAN WHO WILL CLAIM TO DEFEND POL-      Nostradamus also drew a vivid picture
  AND AND HUNGARY                          of what a  wartime  pilot  would look
  AND WHOSE  FATE WILL NEVER BE CERT-      like  in  an  oxygen mask, helmet and
  AIN"                                     goggles, describing him as "half man,
                                           half pig when  battles  are fought in
Another  verse  describes  the  early      the skies"
PREDICTION CONCERNING HIROSHIMA.           Pasteur made vital  contributions  to
                                           medical science  when  he founded the
The  nuclear  bombs dropped  on Hiro-      Pasteur Institute in 1889.
shima and Nagasaki were forcast:
                                           PREDICTIONS CONCERNING NAPOLEON.
 "NEAR THE  HARBOUR AND IN TWO CITIES
  WILL BE  TWO  SCOURGES  THE LIKE OF      Nostradamus forsaw the rise of Napol-
  WHICH HAVE NEVER BEEN SEEN"              eon, whom he  described  as the first
                                           anti-Christ  (Hitler  was  the second
The two  cities  are on  the sea  and      and a third is yet to come!).
both the explosions and the radiation      OF Napoleon's rise to power and years
that followed were  horrors the world      as emperor,he wrote:
had never seen before.
                                           "AN EMPEROR WILL  BE BORN NEAR ITALY
PREDICTION CONCERNING LOUIS PASTEUR.        WHO WILL COST THE EMPIRE VERY DEAR-
                                            LY"
This is an incident were  Nostradamus
predicts a name and a date:                Napoleon certainly cost France dearly
                                           in both manpower and political stren-
 "PASTEUR  WILL  BE  CELEBRATED  AS A      gth until his eventual downfall.
  GODLIKE FIGURE.
  THIS IS WHEN THE MOON COMPLETES HER      Nostradamus also made this prediction
  GREAT CYCLE."                            of Napoleon's fate:   UNITED TOGETHER
                                            IN THE EAST WILL  BE GREAT FEAR AND
 DREAD...
 "THE GREAT  EMPIRE  WILL SOON BE EX-       ONE  DAY THE TWO GREAT LEADERS WILL
  CHANGED FOR A SMALL PLACE,                BE FRIENDS,
  WHICH WILL SOON BEGIN TO GROW.            THE NEW LAND WILL  BE AT THE HEIGHT
  A SMALL PLACE OF  TINY  AREA IN THE       OF ITS POWERS:
  MIDDLE OF WHICH HE WILL COME TO LAY       TO THE MAN OF  BLOOD  THE NUMBER IS
  DOWN HIS SCEPTRE."                        REPEATED..."

Napoleon was  exiled  to  a the small      The man of blood is  identified else-
island of  Elba  but  escaped for 100      where  as  being  the  world's  third
days, in which his empire grew again.      anti-christ who will emerge in China.
He relinquished all power on the tiny      The new land is a common term used in
island  of St. Helana  in  the  South      all   Nostradamus's   predictions  to
Atlantic.                                  refer to America.
                                           Thus, Nostradamus  seems  to be sugg-
PREDICTIONS CONCERNING THE FUTURE.         esting war between China and a Russia
                                           - American alliance.
Nostradamus  refers  to  a  third war      The prophet gives a  precise date for
this century which will take place in      when the conflict will come "when the
the Northern Hemisphere after the two      cycle of the centuries is renewed".He
great  powers join in an alliance ag-      says..
ainst the East.The prophet wrote:           "IN THE YEAR  1999  AND SEVEN MONTHS
                                            FROM THE SKY  WILL  COME  THE GREAT
 "WHEN THOSE OF THE NORTHERN POLE ARE       KING OF TERROR...
  BEFORE AND  AFTERWARDS  WAR  REIGNS      4.The  abdication  of  Edward VIII to
  HAPPILY."                                  marry the divorced Mrs Simpson.
                                           5.The invention of the plane.
The  Northern  Hemisphere will suffer      6.The invention of the submarine.
most. "A very great famine casused by      7.The invention of the car.
a pestilent wave will extend its long      8.The assassination of President Ken-
rain  the length  of the Artic pole".        nedy. (The 3 Kennedys to be exact)
Oh dear......
                                           Thats it from me,think about this and
To draw things to a close I will tell      draw your own conclusions. I'm  going
you a couple of his other predictions      to sit in a proper  seat now  because
which have came true.I can't remember      my  back is fucking  killing  me from
the exact  verses  so  you'll have to      sitting on this  shite wooden bastard
take my word for it.                       at my computer desk.......

He predicted......                         ))Yeah! Excellent  article  Sandman!!
                                             How about a few  more cool articles
1.The  unsuccessful  flight  of Louis        like this one  guys? Any  supernat-
  XVI  and  Marie  Antoinette to Var-        ural artiles (in fact ANY articles)
  ennes in 1791.                             would be appreciated! - Polaris  ((
2.The Spanish civil war (1936-39) and
  the main protagonists.                   Article by : Sandman/Asylum
3.The great World Wars (both of them)      Clipart by : Moz/Eclipse