Nostradamus (d. '1566)

a

After Germany is prostrate "then a leader ("fuehrer" in

German) shall arise from the barren state." (Austria was left barren of the fruit of conquest after World War I.) "e is quite different from former rulers and will come to guide the great empire. Far from joy and goodness will he be and base

"his parentage. Kingdoms will fall. Great unhappiness."

"Although nations talk peace, trouble brews everywhere. Militaristic parties rise in Germany and pagan cults revive. Opinions are not free and the people not enriched. The heir to the London government is over thrown for having made too many peace protests."

123b "The German fuehrer will deliver the people from meek and voluntary slavery (of the Versailles Treaty?). They will deprive Jupiter (literally God, the Father) of his dignity and honor and place themselves under Mars (i.e., stake all on war). This for the sake of the free city (of Danzig?) in

I The second and fourth lines of this verse are missing. The order of the prophecies appJrently have been tampered with.

another little Mesopotamia (corridor between two rivers)." "Germany shall initiate the war by unjustified alarms (war of nerves?). Near the city which the Wolf (Poland) shall have entered (Poland occupied Danzig after World War I), the hostilities shall begin. A foreign army will despoil a great country. Its citizens will not be forgiven for their determination (to resist), which will not be let long last, and thereby shall many be confounded." "Many aids from people afar off desiring to oppose. Suddenly all will be hurried but for the time being they cannot resist." (Poland was prostrate in four weeks and her allies could not help her).

c

"A deep gate made by the queen will make the place strong and inaccessable (cutting the dykes) but the army of the three lions (shield of Holland) will be defeated because of a terrible thing done inside (German spies beyond the flood frustrated Holland's resistance) ." "On the night when all feel secure because of a feigned oath, it (Belgium) shall be betrayed to the enemy. The people of Leige shall rush upon Brabant" (those fleeing from the east before the Gern1ans blocked the roads to allied troops) .

d

"}{orrible war develops in the west. The next year (1940) a plague of fire and blood will visit old and young, even animals shall not escape. l"he gods (pagan ideals) w ill make man see that they are the authors of the conflict."

e

"In the year when figures turned, shall be the same, then bloody France look to't, beware thy fan1e, for all thy cruelties done, then shall pay, and nevI approaches fast the reckoning day." (e.g., 1881; 1961; MCM; llCM. plus

XXXX).

f

"Peace is coming on one side and war on the other; there was never so great a pursuing man; Nomen shall bewail the innocent blood that shall be spilt--it shall be in France and on all sides. Foot and horse upon the second watch shall come in, destroying all by sea; they shall come into the barbor of Marseilles: tears, cries and blood-never was so bitter a time. Brooks and rivers shall be a stopping to evil. The old flame of anger being not yet ceased, shall run through France. Take this as an oracle: houses, manors, palaces, sects shall be razed. He that the principality shall keep by cruelty, at last shall see a great army, by fire, blow most dangerously."

uA captain of Great Germany shall come to yield himself through pretended aid to the king of kings so that his revolt will cause great shedding of bloodtt (not necessarily Hess).

"The Purveyor shall put all in disorder. When Mars (war) shall be in the sign of Aries joined with Saturn and Saturnith, the moon then shall be the greatest misfortune, the sun being then in its exaltation. a great Rome, thy ruin draweth nearnot of thy walls; of thy blood and substance."

"France will be divided into two parts: one ruled by an old man for a while, but later the conqueror will deprive him of power."

g

"A year after the Italian war, the Germans and French and the Spanish will fight for power-the 'schoolhouse of the Republics' will collapse in ruin-on the spot where it stood most people will die suffocated.

"King of Italy, flee. Flee Roman leader who is nearest to you. In the Appenines near Fiesule, a battle will take place; aftr it will follow a massacre, in which the leaders of the government will be seized--people of the Church, of both sexes will not be spared.

"Before the attack a speech will be made in Milan and will be a deceptives move; by the Eagle's trap the oldest outpost of civilization will be beaten down by cannons-very few people will escape the fire and carnage.

"There will be tears, cries, and complaints and terrorsthe government will be marked by bestial cruelty. This will take place in Svitzerland, England, and Italy. Blood will flow and no one will be spared.

h

"Because of the power of three realms the Holy See will be moved elsewhere. The blood of priests will flow in the streets and temples, as flows water after a furious rain. The Holy of Holies will be destroyed by Paganism and the Old and New Testament will be banished and burned.

"Armies shall fight in the air a great while, the Tree shall fall in the middle of the city; vermin, scabs, swords, firebrands in the face when the Monarch of Adria (Italy and Greece are on the Adriatic) shall fall."

i

"Naples, Palermo and all of Sicily will be depopulated by order of a foreigner. In Corsica, Sardinia and Salerno the end of evils will follow famine, pest and war.

"The people of the isles (British?) long under siege will eventually gather a force sufficient to oppose and overcome their enemies. Those outside The Isles will be more famished afterwards than before the battle.

"Weep Milan, Lucca and Florence when your great leader

( "Duce" in Italian) enters the war.

"The tyrant (of Italy?) will be slain at Port Selin, but the new ruler, being warlike in his vengeance, will not bring freedom to the people."

j

"From Aquilo a great effort on the part of Hommasse (bad man) will cause Europe and the world to be fearful, but two eclipses (severe defeats?) will bring about his sudden overthrow, resulting in life and death to his people.

"The 'law of More' (Christian Utopia) will decay into another and more seductive teaching (Communism?)."

k

"When St. George's day falls on Good Friday; when St. Mark's falls on Easter; when St. John's falls on Corpus Christi; then the end of the war will arrive." ( 1943 is one such year, the next will be 2038.) (See 106b.)

"Arabian power will be installed in Europe-destruction by fire and sword will come with it. Meanwhile the great Asiatic Empire will spread across the sea and continents to destroy the Christian world. It will pass through Italy into

France over the eternal snows (Alps?) and will strike all with its stick."

m

"A German heart with Trojan blood shall be born. He will rise to great power. He will wipe out the foreign Arabic race and return the Church to her old supremacy.

"In a cycle of the lily (Bourbon) a great prince is born. He comes late (into the fray?) t yet early (in age?) into his dominion. Saturn will be in Libra, its exaltation. (1951 is the next year for this occurrance. This dates the zenith of his power. If true the Anti-Christ can be expected shortly thereafter. )

"The Great Pastor shall enter Rome at the head of a large band of exiles, while the great celt shall execute all those who united in the Alps for the Cock (France?).

"In a year when Saturn is in Aquarius together with the sun (e.g., June, 19") t the strong King will be crowned at Rheims and anointed at Aix."

n

"Many shall come and talk of peace between Monarch and Lords very powerful: but it shall not be agreed to so soon if they do not show themselves more humble than their predecessors.

ItWhile the Great Monarch is fighting victoriously over the Germans, the Italians and Arabs from Northern Africa will att'ack the South of France, but the Great Monarch will repulse them----Lmany land and sea battles will occur on the south coast of France in the Mediterranean."

"The New Pope will be elected at this time-related to the Great Monarch. He will begin his rule at Avignon, the new capitol of France, and later be restored to Rome by the Great Monarch."

p

"e will crusade against the Arabs-and capture Constantinople and Jerusalem. He will be especially aided by Spain, then ruled by a King Charles.

"Orders issued at Avignon will be obeyed as far as the Gulf of Persia.

"At the end of King Henry's reign the Orient will attack the

Occident. With the death of Henry, peace will cease in Europe

-a great cataclysm will follow (reign of Anti-Christ?).

"The force of arms will be united with the sceptre-at a

time of misery and calamitous war-shortly thereafter a new

king will be anointed, who will reestablish peace."

q

"After the seat is held seventeen years (Pius XI., Feb. 1922-Feb. 1939), five shall change in the same length of

years. (That would be five popes between 1939 and 1956.)