Nostradamus C02 Q35: N's commentary on the personal menace of his astronomic views.
Copyright: Allan Webber, December 2015
This verse is one of those that contributed most to my earliest views on
how Nostradamus incorporated astronomic data into his poetry (See my paper
on
Astronomy for more). My attention was drawn to it by the
anagrams of the fourth line where
astronomers(ſeront a mort)
and
astronomist(ront a mortis S)
stand out as having especially powerful links to the text of that line.
The tone of the anagrams is consistent with the views of a person of the
sixteenth century who understood the difference between the ill powers(pour ſeu - l il) of astrology
and the pure logic of astronomy. Using the anagrams of this verse in the
manner of a powerful keyword filter we can build a focussed picture which
correctly foretells the split of 16th century astronomy into two distinct
branches, astronomy and astrology but it has an even greater story of the
martyrdom of an astronomist, Giordano de Bruno.
Anagrams that help in giving meaning to this verse include:
1. Logix design pruned fleet used induce cleft 2. UUiser Edessan notes datedness
Jews usuries foresets foetus split
3. Unpraised deeds ill prouuess exuded useful powers 4. Its all
astronomers loss treasonous Astronomist
carpet eq'atorials routes .
C2 Q35
The fire by night will take hold in two lodgings,
Several within suffocated and roasted. It will happen
near two rivers as one: Sun, Sagittarius and Capricorn
all will be reduced.
Dans deux logis de nuict le feu prendra Pluſieurs dedans
eſtouffez et roſtis Pres de deux fleuues pour ſeul il auiendra
Sol l'Arq et Caper tou
sſeront a
mortis.
Anagrams research that first alerted me to the possibility of there
being code was done by me twenty years and it showed that although there
is no substantial difference between the frequency of the letter pairs n-m
and l-g (which distinguish the two words) there is a significant
difference between the occurrences of variants for astronomy and astrology
in Nostradamus' Prophecies.There are a total of eleven for astronomy (see
astronomers) but
only one for the identical variants of astrology (astrologer
C.8 Q.56). Enough of a difference
exists to infer that Nostradamus saw himself as an astronomer not an
astrologer. And this view then gives the prophetic rationale to the text
as shown in this precis of one event in history.
Four centuries ago on February 16, 1600, many years after Nostradamus'
own death,
the Roman Catholic Church executed Giordano Bruno,
Italian philosopher and scientist, for the crime of heresy. He was taken
from his cell in the early hours of the morning and burnt alive at the
stake. In a peculiar twist to the gruesome affair, the executioners were
ordered to tie his tongue so that he would be unable to address those
gathered. This happened in Rome at a place alongside the Tiber. Throughout
his life Bruno championed the Copernican system of astronomy which placed
the sun, not the Earth, at the centre of the solar system and he was one
of the first to realize that stars are actually suns.
There is also a second theme in the anagrams which implies there is
still to come an astronomer whose views will offend people of Jewish faith
and this accounts for the twinning found in the text.
C2 Q35
The fire by night will take hold in two lodgings,
Several within suffocated and roasted. It will happen
near two rivers as one: Sun, Sagittarius and Capricorn
all will be reduced.
Dans deux logis de nuict le feu prendra Pluſieurs dedans
eſtouffez et roſtis Pres de deux fleuues pour ſeul il auiendra
Sol l'Arq et Caper tous ſeront a mortis.
Anagram Sequences in
French Text. (~ means full line
coverage)
<feel pure logixs used uncited><raDdan induce
logix fleet used><design enxlouds><lux saDden> pretenceful