Nostradamus and His Prophecies

Anthony Russell

Period 2

Mrs. Ryan

10-7-05

NOSTRADAMUS AND HIS PROPHECIES

Cinq et quarante degrees ciel brulera feu approacher de la grande cite neuve: instant grande flame eparse sautera quanta on coudra des Normans gaire preuve. These are the words of Michel de Nostradamus. In English it means at forty-five degrees the sky will burn, Fire to approach the great new city: In an instant a great scattered flame will leap up, when one will want to demand proof of the Normans. Many people believe that this is the prediction for what happened on September 11, 2001. And many donÐ'ÐŽÐ'¦t. He has predicted many events. The rise and fall of empires, natural disasters and man made disasters, and even wars. In the next few paragraphs you will come to find out more about Nostradamus the man who saw the future.

He was born Michel De Nostredame, better known as Nostradamus, on December 14 1503 in Italy. In his early years he showed the signs of a very fine mind. His grandfather asked his parents to be brought up to his home so he started his education at a very early age by his Grandfather Jean Nostredame. His education included mathematics, Latin, Greek and Hebrew and his favorite astrology. When his grandfather died Michel went back to his home where his other grandfather took up the rest of his education. When he died, Michel was fifteen and was sent to Avignon, a university, where he studied astrology until he was twenty. He would wonder from place to place for the next couple years of his life. As he wondered he published many books of prophecies which made him famous.

The prophecies are written as four-lined rhymed verses (quatrains) in vague, often cryptic language. Nostradamus' fondness for anagrams and his penchant for sprinkling his verses with Hebrew, Latin, and Portuguese words further complicate interpretation of his predictions. Some interpreters say the verses can be applied to anything, or nothing, whereas others claim that various verses foretold the Great Fire of London in 1666, the invention of the guillotine, the deaths of several monarchs, details of the French Revolution, the rise of Napoleon and Hitler, World War II, submarine warfare, military incursions by helicopters and supersonic bombers, twentieth century earthquakes, nuclear holocausts, John F. Kennedy's assassination, man's landing on the moon, the advent of AIDS, and a host of other momentous events.

His predictions are broken up into 10 parts called Centurys and his actual predictions are called quatrains. There are 10 Centurys with 100 quatrains in each 1. Nostradamus pinpointed his predictions using specific dates, astrological configurations, climatic events and anagrams naming the villains hundreds of years before they appeared. Some of the most remarkable involve the Three Antichrists depicted in scores of his prophesies. Nostradamus researchers unanimously agree that he accurately described Napoleon and Hitler as the first two Antichrists, even giving us their names. The first was Napoleon, which

Quatrain 8:1

PAU, NAY OLORON will be more of fire than blood, To swim in praise, the great one to flee to the confluence; The magpies he will refuse entry Ð'ÐŽÐ'§Pampon,Ð'ÐŽÐ'Ё the Durance will keep them confined. .(Leoni 349)

"PAU, NAY, OLORON." This is an anagram for "Napoleon Roy" ("roy" meaning "king" in French.) The second was Hitler, which in Quatrain 2:24 spells "Hister."

Quatrain 2:24 Beasts ferocious from hunger will swim across rivers:

The greater part of the region will be against the Hister,

The great one will cause it to be dragged in an iron cage,

When the German child will observes nothing.(Leoni 169)

So does Hister actually refer to Hitler in the above quatrain? Philosophers agree that Nostradamus is talking about Hitler and his reign over Europe in the 1940'sThat is only off by 1 letter. Both of these Antichrists have been widely recognized and discussed in great length. However, the Third Antichrist, who Nostradamus scholars have long identified as "Mabus" in Quatrain 2:62, has remained a mystery until very recently.

If you take Mabus and put it in a mirror it spells sudaM which sounds a lot like the tyrant Saddam Hussein. (http://www.satansrapture.com/satanww3.htm) Saddam would make great candidate for the 3rd antichrist but there are otherÐ'ÐŽÐ'¦s that would make more since on account of we have removed Saddam form power. But, if you take the letters of the word Mabus and rearrange them you could come up a name Usam b. you get an anagram by rearranging letters of a word to form another word, and it is common to substitute one letter for another. Usam b is a common spelling for Osama Bin LadenÐ'ÐŽÐ'¦s first name. And if you think about it Osama would make since he has an army and he has declared a war on the US and all that support us. Who Is The Third Antichrist?

Quatrain 8:77

the antichrist very soon annihilates the three,

Twenty-seven years his war will last:

The unbelieverÐ'ÐŽÐ'¦s dead, captive, exiled,

with blood, human bodies, water and red hail covering the earth. (Leoni 371)

Could the three annihilated be the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon? Are "the unbelievers dead" the infidels targeted by bin Laden? The imagery of "blood, human bodies, water and red hail covering the earth" certainly describes the scene at the World Trade Center on 9-11.

"Twenty-seven years his war will last."

Osama bin Laden began his jihad in 1977 when Egypt signed a peace treaty with Israel. He moved to Afghanistan in 1979 to lead the battle against the Soviets. The September 13, 2001 Newsday reported: "In the Middle East, bin Laden is a complex figure that has had tremendous influence on the course of radical Islamic movements in the past two decades. These movements began to flourish in the 1970s, starting in Egypt and spreading to countries like Jordan, Syria