Nostradamus C7 Q02: Cabalah for commenting on the human soul.
Copyright: Allan Webber, December 2015

Centuries seven has only forty-two verses and it acts as Nostradamus' Cabalistic Book of Names; a guide to the sounds he associated with actions and a list of people and places.

So the first line of text could be telling us 'par mars' with its double 'ar' sound represents war (opened by Mars) while Arles with only one instance of that 'ar' sound does  not.

Other chapters hold similar clues but in this cluster Nostradamus emphasises a single theme.

In this verse (C7 Q02) he compares the ancient arts for coding messages to his own and suggests they are of a similar ancestry and united by a common purpose. They are a commentary on the human soul.

In this verse's text one other sound he uses is that of the letter zee (3 times). The sounds oof uz and ez in the last ine may wellindicate where codes about traitors and fanatics are prominent.

That this group of verses has a special purpose is highlighted by there being only three verses where the vital anagrams for  centuries occurs. And here an adjacent sequence delivers Centuries not less old art entones zeds(_e nuict $er_ont_ les $_oldart_z e$tonnes). And that message validates the analysis of the text given above.