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Nostradamus - Some of his greatest successes.
Hysteria.
In recent months since the September 11 th attacks in the USA the writings of Nostradamus have come under the closest scrutiny. In the ensuing hysteria much of the press and media were
quick to brand Nostradamus as a failed prophet.
Numerous hoaxes
The view of Nostradamus as a false prophet was also compounded by numerous hoaxes which deliberately strove to work on the average persons ignorance of what Nostradamus really said. The
result is that people don’t really know what to believe. They are told that Nostradamus predicted the End of the World for the year 1999, yet obviously the world is still alive and flourishing.
This confusion was based on a misconception of the relevant passages and the mundane truth is that Nostradamus never predicted the End of the World for this era. Trials and tribulations
are certainly foretold but disastrous though these would be Nostradamus did not envisage they would culminate in the destruction of all humanity.
September 11
Critics are also quick to leap on the idea that Nostradamus failed to make any satisfactory predictions of the September 11 attacks. This opinion was largely based on the proliferation
of so many hoaxes. Yet our separate feature on Nostradamus and the September 11 attacks show a different story.
High success rate
The fact is that over the centuries Nostradamus’s prophecies have established a very high success rate. Sceptics counter by saying that very often the quatrains are phrased in such
arcane language that virtually any interpretation is likely to be correct. In many cases this is completely untrue. Nostradamus enjoyed a considerable reputation in his own lifetime and this could only arise through
his uncanny ability of getting things right in a way that was obvious to all.
Below are just some of Nostradamus’ most notable successes.
The prediction of air travel: Quatrain 1:63 describes a time when “People will travel safely through the sky, over land and sea.”
Aerial warfare. On numerous occasions Nostradamus writes of dramatic sky battles conducted with weapons of great destruction. In many respects the similarity of these accounts
are a perfect match for contemporary accounts of aerial combat. Quatrain 4:43 is just one example and begins: “Weapons will be heard fighting in the skies.” In quatrain 2:81 there is a description of a city burnt
down by fire from the sky and in 3:11 the prophecy is of armies that “do battle in the sky for a long time.” In fact where aerial combat is concerned there are no shortage of prophecies which for a person writing in
the 16 th century is quite some insight.
The Fire of London: Quatrain 2:51 is widely imagined to predict the fire of London. “...London burnt by fire in three times twenty plus six.” As the prophecy hinted London was
indeed burnt in 66 - that is 1666!
General Franco of Spain. Quatrain 9 :16 mentions General Franco and the Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera. What is so incredible is that they are actually mentioned by name over
three hundred years before they were actually born. The Quatrain reads: “From Castille Franco will bring out the assembly, the ambassador will not agree and cause a schism. The people of Riviera will be in the
crowd...”
Louis Pasteur - Renowned for his discovery that germs polluted the atmosphere.
Nostradamus predicted “The lost thing (germs) is discovered, hidden for many centuries. Pasteur will be celebrated almost as a godlike figure.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
Undoubted reference to Napoleon or his feats can be found in at least a dozen of the quatrains. In fact quatrain 4:54 is a succinct mini biography in four short lines. It reads: “Of a
name which was never held by a French King, never was there so fearful a thunderbolt. Italy, Spain, and the English tremble; he will be greatly attentive to foreign women.”
New name
As the quatrain predicts the name Bonaparte was entirely new to French Kings, and the countries mentioned featured heavily in the Napoleonic wars. In her book The Prophecies of
Nostradamus
author Erika Cheetham comments thus on his proclivities for foreign women: “He was very enamoured of his two foreign wives Josephine the Creole, Marie Louise the Austrian, and (the prediction ) possibly also refers to his Polish Mistress Marie Walewska.
Adolf Hitler
Even those with just a casual interest in Nostradamus know that Hitler is referred to as Hister.This tantalisingly close similarity has of course given fodder to sceptics who insist the
name refers to a German river. However the quatrains - such as 5:29 - where Hister is mentioned leave little doubt that the intended appellant is indeed human. Other quatrains notably 2:24 where the “child of
Germany observes no law”, and 3:58 which amongst other things states quite accurately “they will never know what became of him,” all fit the Hitler story to the point of perfection.
The British Empire.
The power and chronological extent of the British Empire are unmistakably referred to in the very last quatrain of the Centuries. Nostradamus has this to say: “A great empire will
be for England, the all powerful for more than 300 years. Great forces cross by land and sea...”
Submarines
Quatrain 3:13 neatly predicts the coming of submarines. It says: “ The greatest one of the city is stretched when the fleet travels under the water.
The Ayatollah Khoumeini
One of Nostradamus most incredible successes is the overthrow of the Shah in Persia and the coming of the Ayatollah Khoumeini who was banished to exile in France. Quatrain 1:70 tells
us: “Rain, famine and war will not cease in Persia: too great a trust will betray the monarch. The end will in France commence.”
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Other striking prophecies include the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in quatrain 1:52, and what seems like the dropping of the first atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end
of the Second World War. This reference occurs in quatrain 2:6 and reads: “ Near the harbour and in two cities will be two scourges the like of which has never been seen. Hunger, plague, within, people thrown out by
fire, appealing for safety from the Great God immortal.
The death of Henry II of France in 1559
One of the most extraordinary quatrains is one that is widely believed to have been fulfilled within Nostradamus’ own lifetime. It concerns his prediction of the death of Henry II. The
quatrain reads: “ The young lion will overcome the older one, in a field of combat in single fight: He will pierce his eyes in their golden cage; two wounds made one, then he dies a cruel death.”
Fateful joust
The fulfilment of this prophecy is widely believed to have occurred at a fateful joust between King Henry II and Montgomery the Captain of the Scottish Guard. On the third joust a
splintered shaft from Montgomery’s lance pierced the King’s helmet (golden cage) and entered his head above the eye. There is also believed to have been another wound to his throat. Henry died after lingering in
great pain ten days later.
Uncanny powers
The reality - as the above examples illustrate - is that Nostradamus has an uncanny ability of being proved correct. Naturally this unnerving quality makes some people anxious to deny
his extraordinary gifts though this hasn’t stopped generations of opened minded people from feeling enthralled by the sheer depth of his vision. Much as the critics may choose to attack him the inescapable truth is
that Nostradamus was never more widely read or consulted than he is at present.
Other features on Nostradamus and other prophets.
Did Nostradamus predict the end of the world?
Nostradamus and the September 11 attacks.
The predictions of Mother Shipton.
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