Nostradamus C6 Q40: Armageddon cipher signalling man's evolutionary demise

Copyright: Allan Webber, December 2015, Feb 2023

I have composed books of prophecies each containing a hundred quatrains of astronomic prophecies, which I have intentionally arranged a little obscurely. They contain perpetual predictions for (the period) from now until the year 3797...Nostradamus' 1555 Preface to Cesar [PCE6]

Armageddon (rand de Mago) which relates to a final ferocious war only occurs once as an anagram in Nostradamus' Prophecies despite a major human-ravishing, terrain-engulfing war being one of his major themes.

There are basicly no other apocalyptic Christian terms as anagrams  in his verses and their absence plus the Cesar Preface quote shown above imply that for all its severity the Earth and its life forms survive the cataclysm. 

Given the slightness of Armageddon appearances throughout Nostradamus' work, its singular occurrence in the current verse, suggests he has used the term to indicate the magnitude of mutation occurring in an incident of modern warfare rather than describe the scale  or outcome of a particular war.

In that case the settings in this verse imply the horrendous battle takes place from the middle of this century.  Other verses tell us its greatest impacts last for three hundred years. In verses presenting these figures it is apparent man's dominance of the earth ends due to this war. They also indicate humankind's demise comes about by the evolution of a super-ape that man tries unsuccessfuly to extinguish and repress. It is attempt to destroy the new species that result in out kinds self-destruction.

The scene for this verse is set by anagrams in the second line where  there are adjacent anagrams for DNA editing repairs (and dignite Sera pri).

The adjacency of DNA and editing repairs is important to the credibility of the DNA sequence' verses.

 Although he 'DNA' lettering is abundant in the prophecies it only occurs in two verses where it adjacent to another anagram that deals with methods of changing human genomes. The other occurrence in C3 Q59 involves  the  sthe highly tatus change to belief in Christ's mortality.

In addition, verse C3 Q59 holds the anagram for Tetragrammaton, a word relating to representing the name of  God in anagramatic ways.

Of immediate relevance is that term is adjacent to an anagram for transpose and in front of that there is the lettering of DNA. In these two instances the rare terms for 'editing' and 'transpose' are given a target which is the changing of genetic lettering according to a plan. Such a change inevitably alters the course of life.

In the current verse the aforementioned term Armageddon also serves to tie this verse to religion . It has an implication that gene editing to enhance presagient powers, have a religious as well as a military aspect. Soldiers capable of tapping into the stream of human consciousness would transform war.

In the preface quote given at the start of this page, Nostradamus makes it clear mankind outlives all changes .

But the new species superiority would mean mankind eventually ceases to exist.

 Notably the new beings are not only superior in their minds but in their military arts.

Another two anagrams in this current verse (C6 Q40) are adding and presagient  (and dig / gnite Sera P) and they overlay the anagrams for editing DNA repairs.

The goal of achieving a super soldier that can anticipate what the enemy is thinking has been tried before but failed. That effort utilized persons, thought to have psychic abilities, while this verse suggests the 'desired' outcome will eventually be achieved using modern genetic manipulation to create new beings.