Nostradamus C5 Q37: Company directors foreclose on Greek and Middle-East loans.
Copyright: Allan Webber, December 2015

The following two verses contain a highly defining reference point, that of Robert Thomas Malthus the eighteenth to nineteenth century finance expert who foresaw the inevitable demise of the growth model on a finite planet.

The name and terminology are references that only a prophet could have incorporated into any work, since the population theories of Malthus would not be formed for several centures. Yet there are powerful indicators that Nostradamus was responsible for placing this connection to Malthus into his own work.

In the fourth line at three separate locations there are anagrams for Malthusian (ahi ſimulant), finance (ine fainc), lecturer (cte Leur R) which form a perfect reference set since they are all rare, complex and highly interrelated concepts.

But there are other anagrams in the same verse that are equally as relevant to Malthus' work. Finance industry anagrams for creditors / directors coact (t a cco- rd Trois ce), co-directors (cord Trois ce) and quittance (taincte Qu) are found in different lines.

They in turn are further defined by anagrams for doctrines (d Trois cen), discover (ecords VI), sections (ois cents), rottenness (ents ſeront), revolution (n vouloir et), doubt (bout d) and intercrosses (Trois cents ſe).

There are also anagrams that may identify the likely victims and these include Persias (is apres), Islum(ſimul), Shia (ahi ſ), Maoists (ts mois a), and Athenian (ant haine).

All of this resonates with implications for the message in the text particularly the two-edged reference ' Three hundred will be in accord with one will'. From it one can suggest that by 2098CE the Malthusian expectations will be fully realised.

[Robert Thomas] Malthus became widely known for his theories about change in population. His An Essay on the Principle of Population [1798CE] observed that sooner or later population will be checked by famine anddisease, leading to what is known as a Malthusian catastrophe.

He wrote in opposition to the popular view in 18th-century Europe that saw society as improving and in principle as perfectible. He thought that the dangers of population growth precluded progress towards a utopian society: "The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man". Wikipedia extract