The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus

Prophecies of Nostradamus

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Right away, I sensed that the author was already spinning excuses as to why some of the quatrains in the previous editions of this book were off. He also bragged about some of the others coming true, while even laying blame on himself for being off by a few years. I also took note that he has revised this book twice since its release in Not to the fault of the author, I have learned through research that Nostradamus's prophecies are usually and disapointingly calculated through a process known as retroactive clairvoyance.

This involves going back AFTER an event has occurred, and then matching it up with a quatrain or event. Here's an example of retroactive clairvoyance: She will annoy nearly all of Europe and the rest of the world. Two failures will put her in such an imbalance. That both life and death will strengthen eastern Europe.

As we know, this wasn't meant to be, but let's look at the quatrain again. That's a perfect example of retroactive clairvoyance. The author never makes clear his method on how he deciphered the years to the events in the quatrain. The method was briefly mentioned in the introduction, but it is vague and confusing.

Nostradamus never mentions exact dates, and upon my conclusion from the explanation, it appears they were "cherry picked" and can be deciphered to fit a number of years if they matched up according to the astronomical charts. A chart, or a list of references from the author with the years would've been appreciated. If his methods are complex as I'm certain they are, I'd like to see him release another revision or stand alone title with the years listed with the quatrains.

Perhaps Nostradamus was predicting events running in parable with the years to have history repeat itself. With all of that said, this book does have value for those looking for entertainment rather than research and facts. The author was honest explaining his revisions in the introduction. Nostradamus's dialect and wording is very fluid, which should be kept in mind when trying to decipher them.

In order to further understand the quatrains, it would be wise to read up on subjects such as the Kabbalah, and Book of Enoch. It's a handsome book, worthy of a slot in the bookshelf. It's fun to read, but no more than coffee table literature. Obviously; the world ends. But, it is supposedly how that got me excited. As the last two lines proclaim: Oct 19, Baglady rated it it was ok Shelves: Hopefully what he's saying will not happen!!

But the way things are going you never know!! Great read The author was able to shed light on many of Nostradamus's quatrains. I would highly recommend the book to anyone interested in Nostradamus. I always wondered what the fuss was about Nostradamus, and now I know. Or, rather, I know what the author thinks the fuss is about. I think this is pretty much like any other "scripture" that is a really old, b really vague, c translated from its original language, d supposedly prophetic in that someone good at arguing could twist and turn it to mean just about anything they want it to mean.

That people are so willing to believe anything anyone tells them along Well, ok, then. That people are so willing to believe anything anyone tells them along an eschatological vein is often more interesting than the eschatology itself. Looking around, I'm pretty sure the human race is doing its damnedest to assure self-destruction.

It's pretty obvious any of us who just want to get along are getting obliterated by those who just want to act on their IDs and be greedy, destructive brats, but I don't really believe Nostradamus or anyone else has any special insight into the exact how and when of The End of Us. May 22, Amy rated it it was amazing. A lesser book that lists all of Nostradamus' future predictions for the world could get lost in all the drama and mysticism of the very talented Nostradamus, however this book presents the prophecies in a four way manner. First, the original french, then the english translation.

Following this is an in-depth explanation of what this means in relation to the world with new, sharp and knowledgeable commentaries, and finally a simple succinct one to two sentences summarising the basic pr A lesser book that lists all of Nostradamus' future predictions for the world could get lost in all the drama and mysticism of the very talented Nostradamus, however this book presents the prophecies in a four way manner. Following this is an in-depth explanation of what this means in relation to the world with new, sharp and knowledgeable commentaries, and finally a simple succinct one to two sentences summarising the basic prophecy.

If you are interested in specific events, the table of contents at the beginning allows you to pinpoint exactly when and what you want. There is a explanation of who the author is, his background and why he is qualified to write such a book. It also explains such things such as "quatrains" All-in-all, this is a very interesting and knowledgeable book, designed in such an easy to read format that doesn't confuse in the slightest!

Oct 18, Donna rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: So far I am amazed at the writings of Nostradamus, by Mario Reading. The book has blown my mind so far, how accurate his readings were and still many more to read. I am confident that the rest of the book will be great to read. As I said the book blew my mind, when you read the visions you realize some has come to pass and yet other visions are yet to be. When Nostradamus received the visions it just kept on coming once he opened up to them.

The hour documentary you see on TV was just a small fraction of what he saw and wrote about. The end of the world is not for,well you will have to buy the book to find out for yourselves. May 22, Nurshafiqa rated it liked it. Dec 14, Jim Geovedi rated it really liked it. To begin with, Mario Reading provides a short biographical sketch of Nostradamus' life and times, which not only establishes Nostradamus' place in society but also firmly helps to dispel some of the myths about his person.

By providing a new, authoritative translation of Nostradamus' complete prophecies of the future, Mario Reading has cut through the thicket of much of the more speculative Nostradamus industry that is out there. Nostradamus foresaw the Twin Towers disas To begin with, Mario Reading provides a short biographical sketch of Nostradamus' life and times, which not only establishes Nostradamus' place in society but also firmly helps to dispel some of the myths about his person. Oct 03, Lauri rated it really liked it Recommends it for: Anyone who wants to be really freaked out about the future.

I'm not going to lie to you, this book really creeped me out. The quatrains, published in a book titled Les Propheties The Prophecies , received a mixed reaction when they were published. Some people thought Nostradamus was a servant of evil, a fake, or insane, while many of the elite evidently thought otherwise. After reading his almanacs for , which hinted at unnamed threats to the royal family, she summoned him to Paris to explain them and to draw up horoscopes for her children.

At the time, he feared that he would be beheaded, [33] but by the time of his death in , Queen Catherine had made him Counselor and Physician-in-Ordinary to her son, the young King Charles IX of France. Some accounts of Nostradamus's life state that he was afraid of being persecuted for heresy by the Inquisition , but neither prophecy nor astrology fell in this bracket, and he would have been in danger only if he had practised magic to support them. In he came into conflict with the Church in Agen after an Inquisitor visited the area looking for anti-Catholic views.

By , Nostradamus's gout , which had plagued him painfully for many years and made movement very difficult, turned into edema , or dropsy. This was followed by a much shorter codicil.

In The Prophecies Nostradamus compiled his collection of major, long-term predictions. The first installment was published in and contained quatrains.

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The third edition, with three hundred new quatrains, was reportedly printed in , but now survives as only part of the omnibus edition that was published after his death in This version contains one unrhymed and rhymed quatrains , grouped into nine sets of and one of 42, called "Centuries". Given printing practices at the time which included type-setting from dictation , no two editions turned out to be identical, and it is relatively rare to find even two copies that are exactly the same.

Certainly there is no warrant for assuming—as would-be "code-breakers" are prone to do—that either the spellings or the punctuation of any edition are Nostradamus's originals. The Almanacs , by far the most popular of his works, [39] were published annually from until his death. He often published two or three in a year, entitled either Almanachs detailed predictions , Prognostications or Presages more generalised predictions. Nostradamus was not only a diviner, but a professional healer.

It is known that he wrote at least two books on medical science. One was an extremely free translation or rather a paraphrase of The Protreptic of Galen Paraphrase de C. A manuscript normally known as the Orus Apollo also exists in the Lyon municipal library, where upwards of 2, original documents relating to Nostradamus are stored under the aegis of Michel Chomarat.

It is a purported translation of an ancient Greek work on Egyptian hieroglyphs based on later Latin versions, all of them unfortunately ignorant of the true meanings of the ancient Egyptian script, which was not correctly deciphered until Champollion in the 19th century. Since his death, only the Prophecies have continued to be popular, but in this case they have been quite extraordinarily so. Over two hundred editions of them have appeared in that time, together with over 2, commentaries.

Their persistence in popular culture seems to be partly because their vagueness and lack of dating make it easy to quote them selectively after every major dramatic event and retrospectively claim them as "hits". Nostradamus claimed to base his published predictions on judicial astrology —the astrological 'judgment', or assessment, of the 'quality' and thus potential of events such as births, weddings, coronations etc. Research suggests that much of his prophetic work paraphrases collections of ancient end-of-the-world prophecies mainly Bible-based , supplemented with references to historical events and anthologies of omen reports, and then projects those into the future in part with the aid of comparative horoscopy.

Hence the many predictions involving ancient figures such as Sulla , Gaius Marius , Nero , and others, as well as his descriptions of "battles in the clouds" and "frogs falling from the sky". In the last quatrain of his sixth century he specifically attacks astrologers.

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His historical sources include easily identifiable passages from Livy , Suetonius ' The Twelve Caesars , Plutarch and other classical historians, as well as from medieval chroniclers such as Geoffrey of Villehardouin and Jean Froissart. Many of his astrological references are taken almost word for word from Richard Roussat 's Livre de l'estat et mutations des temps of — One of his major prophetic sources was evidently the Mirabilis Liber of , which contained a range of prophecies by Pseudo-Methodius , the Tiburtine Sibyl , Joachim of Fiore , Savonarola and others his Preface contains 24 biblical quotations, all but two in the order used by Savonarola.

This book had enjoyed considerable success in the s, when it went through half a dozen editions, but did not sustain its influence, perhaps owing to its mostly Latin text, Gothic script and many difficult abbreviations. Nostradamus was one of the first to re-paraphrase these prophecies in French, which may explain why they are credited to him.

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Modern views of plagiarism did not apply in the 16th century; authors frequently copied and paraphrased passages without acknowledgement, especially from the classics. The latest research suggests that he may in fact have used bibliomancy for this—randomly selecting a book of history or prophecy and taking his cue from whatever page it happened to fall open at.

Further material was gleaned from the De honesta disciplina of by Petrus Crinitus , [47] which included extracts from Michael Psellos 's De daemonibus , and the De Mysteriis Aegyptiorum Concerning the mysteries of Egypt , a book on Chaldean and Assyrian magic by Iamblichus , a 4th-century Neo-Platonist. Latin versions of both had recently been published in Lyon , and extracts from both are paraphrased in the second case almost literally in his first two verses, the first of which is appended to this article. While it is true that Nostradamus claimed in to have burned all of the occult works in his library, no one can say exactly what books were destroyed in this fire.

Only in the 17th century did people start to notice his reliance on earlier, mainly classical sources. Nostradamus's reliance on historical precedent is reflected in the fact that he explicitly rejected the label "prophet" i. Although, my son, I have used the word prophet , I would not attribute to myself a title of such lofty sublimity. Given this reliance on literary sources, it is unlikely that Nostradamus used any particular methods for entering a trance state , other than contemplation , meditation and incubation. The first of these is reproduced at the bottom of this article and the second can be seen by visiting the relevant facsimile site see External Links.

In his dedication to King Henri II, Nostradamus describes "emptying my soul, mind and heart of all care, worry and unease through mental calm and tranquility", but his frequent references to the "bronze tripod" of the Delphic rite are usually preceded by the words "as though" compare, once again, External References to the original texts.

Most of the quatrains deal with disasters, such as plagues, earthquakes, wars, floods, invasions, murders, droughts, and battles—all undated and based on foreshadowings by the Mirabilis Liber. Some quatrains cover these disasters in overall terms; others concern a single person or small group of people. Some cover a single town, others several towns in several countries.

Many of Nostradamus's supporters believe his prophecies are genuine. Possibly the first of these books to become popular in English was Henry C. Roberts ' The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus of , reprinted at least seven times during the next forty years, which contained both transcriptions and translations, with brief commentaries. After that came Erika Cheetham 's The Prophecies of Nostradamus , incorporating a reprint of the posthumous edition, which was reprinted, revised and republished several times from onwards, latterly as The Final Prophecies of Nostradamus.

This served as the basis for the documentary The Man Who Saw Tomorrow and both did indeed mention possible generalised future attacks on New York via nuclear weapons , though not specifically on the World Trade Center or on any particular date. A two-part translation of Jean-Charles de Fontbrune's Nostradamus: Predictions of the Future , Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies and Nostradamus: A Life and Myth In one commentator who claimed to be able to contact Nostradamus under hypnosis even had him "interpreting" his own verse X.

With the exception of Roberts, these books and their many popular imitators were almost unanimous not merely about Nostradamus's powers of prophecy but also in inventing intriguing aspects of his purported biography: He is credited with having successfully cured the Plague at Aix-en-Provence and elsewhere; he had engaged in scrying , using either a magic mirror or a bowl of water; he had been joined by his secretary Chavigny at Easter ; having published the first installment of his Propheties , he had been summoned by Queen Catherine de' Medici to Paris in to discuss with her his prophecy at quatrain I.

Pepys records in his celebrated diary a legend that, before his death, Nostradamus made the townsfolk swear that his grave would never be disturbed; but that 60 years later his body was exhumed, whereupon a brass plaque was found on his chest correctly stating the date and time when his grave would be opened and cursing the exhumers. In , Li Hongzhi claimed that the prophecy at X. From the s onwards, however, an academic reaction set in, especially in France.

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The publication in of Nostradamus's private correspondence [66] and, during succeeding years, of the original editions of and discovered by Chomarat and Benazra, together with the unearthing of much original archival material [38] [67] revealed that much that was claimed about Nostradamus did not fit the documented facts. The academics [38] [63] [67] [68] revealed that not one of the claims just listed was backed up by any known contemporary documentary evidence. Most of them had evidently been based on unsourced rumours relayed as fact by much later commentators, such as Jaubert , Guynaud and Bareste , on modern misunderstandings of the 16th-century French texts, or on pure invention.

Even the often-advanced suggestion that quatrain I. Skeptics such as James Randi suggest that his reputation as a prophet is largely manufactured by modern-day supporters who fit his words to events that have either already occurred or are so imminent as to be inevitable, a process sometimes known as "retroactive clairvoyance" postdiction. No Nostradamus quatrain is known to have been interpreted as predicting a specific event before it occurred, other than in vague, general terms that could equally apply to any number of other events.

Additionally, scholars have pointed out that almost all English translations of Nostradamus's quatrains are of extremely poor quality, seem to display little or no knowledge of 16th-century French, are tendentious, and are sometimes intentionally altered in order to make them fit whatever events the translator believed they were supposed to refer or vice versa. Roberts had based his writings on that of , Cheetham and Hogue on the posthumous edition of Even Leoni accepted on page that he had never seen an original edition, and on earlier pages he indicated that much of his biographical material was unsourced.

None of this research and criticism was originally known to most of the English-language commentators, by dint of the dates when they were writing and, to some extent, the language in which it was written. Meanwhile, some of the more recent sources listed Lemesurier, Gruber, Wilson have been particularly scathing about later attempts by some lesser-known authors and Internet enthusiasts to extract alleged hidden meanings from the texts, whether with the aid of anagrams, numerical codes, graphs or otherwise.

The prophecies retold and expanded by Nostradamus figured largely in popular culture in the 20th and 21st centuries.

As well as being the subject of hundreds of books both fiction and nonfiction , Nostradamus's life has been depicted in several films and videos, and his life and writings continue to be a subject of media interest.

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