(2017 Note: In 2009
this paper was my guide to future papers and since then many of the
themes in this paper have formed the basis for my publications over the
last eight years. I have now added links to these)
With this series my aim will be to
provide a discipline for examining
the anagrams in Nostradamus' Prophecies
that refer to events that weren't
known in the 16th Century.
As I attempt
to do so it is
essential to keep in mind that humans find it easy to
create reality from illusion as pattern-making is the basis behind man's
evolution. It is only through discipline and reason that I can diminish
illusions thus making it possible to ascertain whether Nostradamus saw the
future or not.
Along the way events of the future will of course unfold but that
is not my principal aim. It is better that I let an example show what lies
ahead. The following line of verse appears quite unexceptional at first glance
and it is only when the reader is made aware of the anagrams within it that its
evidential powers become apparent. The anagrams are adjacent, complete and they
use every letter of the line with only one of the three words occurring anywhere
else in Nostradamus' text (factions occurs in two other places).
C.07 Q.19
L.3
Son faict Sera vn long temps de
batu.........This deed will be debated for a long time, C.07 Q.19 L.3
S onfaictS eravnlongtem psdebatu. C.07 Q.19 L.3
Factions governmental
Budapest's.............Budapest's governmental factions
This single line illustrates beautifully
many of the rules that
are the backbone of my analyses. The words are hard to discount as a product
of chance particularly because of the elegance of their structure, their
internal consistency and their relevance to Nostradamus' original words.
It is
also very hard to above findings them as trivial since the original line doesn't
consist of similar words and the discovered words are not simple anagrams but
they are long and use infrequent letter patterns. And lastly these uncovered
words give us a richness lacking in the original text since it names place and
players.
It is these same rules that will underpin the
new
discipline.
In earlier papers I
discussed the origin of my rules
and showed that they arise from instructions given openly by Nostradamus in his
two prefaces to his printed verses. But now I want to go beyond these since the
future offers two difficulties that the past and present usually escape.
Firstly any future event has no proof only potential. Secondly once an event joins the
past there is still no proof that it was foreseen, only debate on the likelihood
of chance. These are the pitfalls whose stranglehold
my analysis wants to
diminish.
Accordingly
I want to discuss the
lexicon of futuristic words that is to be found in the anagrams.
I have prepared
a list and tried to show all the major words that occur and some which don't.
The list can provide a source of interest for many years of research but at this
point the aim is not for the reader to look at it in detail. The reader can use
this chance to judge the groupings for themselves.
Scan them, absorb their
breadth or scantiness, determine which , if any, you think seem to be
Nostradamus' focus.
By presenting such a list it becomes possible to make
objective assessments that would otherwise be lacking and that is my invitation
since objectivity based around fuller knowledge is the first enhancement to the
disciplines I propose. Click here for
Nostradamus'
Lexicon of the Future.
Real patterns of the future.
I ended the previous section with an
invitation to the reader to examine the word lists I have compiled from the
anagrams that are to be found in Nostradamus' verses (see Nostradamus'
Lexicon of the Future).
I believe that it can be validly claimed that this
list reveals the evidence of the topics being structured rather than random. There are
distinct topics that appear to be Nostradamus' interest while others receive no
attention at all.
So it appears Nostradamus is trying to say that the great
mutations of our time are based on the environment, terrorism, energy and
nuclear events. The terminology is futuristic with a deep knowledge of atomic
detail. In particular there is a pattern that identifies the radioactive
elements in the Actinium series as Nostradamus' focal point.
It is possible to
compare the listings and reach the conclusion that many expected topics such as
Napoleon, the French Revolution and World War II are only brief sketches and
that global warming is hardly there at all.
There is also little evidence for
floods and deluges but the emphases found make it quite possible that any deluge
from the sky will be of ions not rain. (2017 addendum: Anagrams for ancient
flood words and Gods and Nostradamus' prefaces have since made me alter
my view. See my papers on
Great Floods and
Nuclear floods)
We can also conclude that one thing
which causes irrational fear is not about to happen, the World is not about
to end. Such an idea has always been irrational
whether taken on a historical recount of past predictions or on an assessment of
the benefit possible if
our end could be foreseen.
A point of great interest to me is the
very visible broad-brush approach in the covered topics because it supports the
reality of the five hundred year time-gap since Nostradamus saw his visions.
The
term actinides illustrates the point since it is a broad spectrum of radioactive
elements that are not individually named except for the starting element
actinium and the final element Lawrencium. Radium, thorium, plutonium etc do not
occur as simple anagrams but have been embraced by this more general term.
It
has always seemed
unlikely to me that we would find Nostradamus' work
held the minutiae of daily life. Unsurprisingly these patterns I have shown
imply it is only on rare occasions that we will find a name, exact location
or a precise time.
Nostradamus, like us, had to deal with the logic of looking too far from the
moment and place. In reality we all are aware of this logic
since we
experience it as an everyday constraint. You cannot see the intricacy of a star
as you marvel at the scope of the heavens. You cannot
see or hear all the
people in a room. You cannot see beyond the rim of your vision as you scan the
page.
Nostradamus is unlikely to have recorded the efforts of many individuals,
groups or events that are not part of the bigger theme he set out to portray
and his theme was, as he stated, the great mutations that he saw impacting on
mankind.
One other important aspect arises from
even the most cursory examination of the lists and that is that
words
which appear in the same verse more often than not have a relevance to each
other. This provides the groundwork for testable hypotheses using my
rules of
analysis.
An example of this is found in the verse I
quoted from in the previous section since in addition to the complete statement Budapest's
governmental factionsthere also exists anagrams for actinides
and fluorate
both of
which are chemical terms.
This
verse is surely worth
more intense examination at some point given that it says:
So far I have given
access to the topics only but this offers a less complete picture than is possible.
Accordingly I
have prepared an extended list of words that include locations based on
countries and some cities and towns. Once again I would advise the reader to try
and gain an impressionistic view of the depth of those that are included and
take particular note of the relevance or otherwise of those that are excluded.
This
shows the topics that are connected to each reference and this makes it possible
to define hypotheses worthy of testing and as I proceed with this presentation I
will be using the most interrelated ones as my focal points.
Location and themes
intertwined.
On my website I have placed a comprehensive
List
of Locations
that holds the names of places found as anagrams in Nostradamus' text. I have
also included a representative selection of
names of countries and places
that have no anagrams. This site also links the places that have anagrams to any
references in topics that are ahead of Nostradamus' period.
An examination
of this list shows patterns in each of these three entry types (exist, nulls
and topic-linked).
One of the major
conclusions I believe can be drawn is that the places are Franco-centric which
is to be expected since Nostradamus was based in Southern France.
As places
become more distant their occurrence is less frequent and they become more
generalised but there a
few exceptions. However we can conclude from the
data that his major focus was not America, Canada, Britain, Australia, India , South
America or South-East Asia.
We can also validly conclude that there is a high
proportion of European names, particularly Northern European and the USSR. The
Mediterranean countries, the Middle East and Northern Africa are also focal
points. None of this is really unexpected but it does add weight to the idea
that they are a result of Nostradamus and not a fabrication by me through the
use of carefully selected names.
It is easy for any analyst to believe that
Nostradamus' Prophecies applies to their own efforts, time and place but the
data is as it is not what we might want it to be. But of even greater import is
that Nostradamus specified the countries in which he was interested and it is
exactly the profile uncovered through the anagrams.
Most of [my prophetical
calculations]
have been integrated with astronomical calculations
corresponding to
years months and weeks, regions, countries and most
of the towns and cities of all Europe, including Africa and part of Asia,
where most of these coming events are to transpire.... Nostradamus
in first part of his Epistle to Henry, 1558
I believe that this evidence I am
producing through these lists does more to validate Nostradamus was a prophet
than any other writings I can produce.
I make this claim because the material
shows that Nostradamus' instructions in his two prefaces to his prophecies are
valid even though the medium through which they are exposed is based on a
knowledge of discoveries and language not known in Nostradamus' time.
In earlier
papers I
have shown that other instructions
in the
prefaces are also valid and together they dictate a constraint on the reading of
Nostradamus' Prophecies. That constraint is this: Nostradamus' statements
on his own work are not throw-away lines but form the core for any serious
analysis.
The exploration of my data moves me closer to that serious
analysis for there are patterns formed in various locations that are worthy of
further examination. Amongst the many hypotheses regarding Nostradamus' focal
points that I will list in the next section are the genocides of World War II,
the radiation legacy of the Chernobyl Disaster and fuel-related terrorism. Those
just given emerge via the following linked words (see List
of Locations)
African V.44.3(fanatic party)
Africa
I.62.2(deluged) II.40.2(Europeans) IV.32.3(pharmaceutist) II.57.3(capital)
What was Nostradamus' goal?
Before I present the themes that are to be found in
my
list of anagrams about future eventsI
need to place Nostradamus' prophecies in a proper context. It always
concerns me when people think these prophecies were written as a dire warning to
avert their happening for this cannot be since to produce a warning that counteracts the prophecy is an
impossible contradiction. It is equally as implausible that they should be
written as an "I told you so" ego-trip of someone who has seen the
end-of the-world.
The major hypothesis that I propose at
this time is that Nostradamus' writings are indeed prophetic but that his
motivation was a diagnosis of mankind's emerging illness. Nostradamus
was a physician and he would on many occasions have given a diagnosis that
didn't have a remedy or a suitable prescription. This particular diagnosis, as
given in his Prophecies, seems to me to be like a medical check-up with
attendant risks spelled out and a drawing of the attention to things needing
some cautionary action or a modification of lifestyle. (See my 2016 series on
the Jesus Clone
for Nostradamus' major motivator)
Accordingly I put forward another hypothesis, although we will find specific events recorded in
Nostradamus writings at both the visible and the hidden level, this is not the
motivation for Nostradamus' writings.
I further hypothesise that whenever
Nostradamus presents an event it was meant to help us to define his focus.
His entries are not a grab-bag of loose ends without a narrative but to the
contrary Nostradamus wrote a consistent organised body of knowledge
serving a specific intent.
As this work of mine unfolds I believe we
will see this many times. For instance I already feel confident enough to say
that Nostradamus' interest in World War II was the way in which it redefined
death of the masses. The aftermath of that war has not seen a better morality
emerge, despite outrage and short-term desires, but just a readjustment of
thought to allow mass destruction at a conscience-easing distance.
Although the
evidence of Nostradamus' interest war wasn't presented until a
later stage I raise it here to show what I thought would become my future works.
In 2009 I wrote:
I believe I can establish that the focal point of Nostradamus examination
of the world is the imperceptible momentum of irreversible value changes.
And further, the reason such a glacial change in thinking cannot be
wound-back
is that our destiny is driven between the wedge of
technology and the baggage of man's past.
There was a watershed in the 16th
century and over the intervening five hundred years mankind has evolved to be a different
animal. Who we are today cannot be undone; we can't go back to the people we
were. It's not our hands, our feet or even our brain that has evolved to any
great extent but the change is a permanent part of us nonetheless.
Although it isn't
something physical that has happened to our species the potential for the change
has been increasing for thousands of years. We are a different animal because
the universe is now partly under our control.
Our intellect has given us our
technology and untied the knots to many of nature's secrets. This is what makes
us different to our ancestors for now our actions take us where no other plant
or creature could ever go.
I believe that Nostradamus also held these
views and tried to detail those that would prove most permanent. When he chose
to place his message as a composite of past, present and future he was telling
us of his concern for the wedge of technology grating against the baggage of
man's past. When he wrote that his themes were the great mutations of mankind it
is the immutable changes in human behaviour brought on by technology that he is
addressing, especially those that need to change but cannot because of how we
evolved. And
again he addresses the wedge when he says he will present "the
great events, sad, prodigious and calamitous events that in due time will fall
upon the principal worshippers.First upon the temples of God".
It is with this
perspective in place that I can now proceed to set out the ideas that should be
tested further.
Hypotheses for a Chaotic World.
One of the major reasons I have gone to
the trouble of collating my data for my
list of anagrams about future eventsis that it allows me to
present a method of analysis that would normally take too much space. Through
the device of these lists I can show the links between verses and ideas without
having masses of text to obscure the view and it is certainly proving useful to
me as I prepare to move ahead with the analysis of the future. It is the
clusters around consistent themes that are most striking and yet despite their often apparent
meaningfulness they can still be totally imaginary. They are however a powerful
guide as to what is needed next since by identifying unusual themes I can then
present a collection of those verses and find whether their
connectivity has any further support.
One of the prominent themes that emerges is that there is
a terrorist
action arising out of Africa involving bacteria.
The plot seems to be located
in Northern Europe and its mechanism for delivery is the wind systems, the
storms and the tempests.
It is my intent to explore this as my first
hypothesis.
A second theme centres around
eugenics, the science of planned
breeding, and it has threads that imply it may well be the story of the
experiments in the Nazi death camps.
A third theme involves the power / energy industry. It too
seems to be linked to terrorism but it has another focus of power-plays leading
to wars.
There is one overriding hypothesis I will be testing as I believe
that each of these themes is there to show the dilemma arising out of the
super-fast evolution of technological-man.
Terrorism illustrates the
mechanisms at work since its is a by-product of
other changes especially ones that enhance and entrench inequality of any kind.
Terrorism is an example of adaptation and we tend to know its evil and use this
to justify a disregard of its origin. We seek the terrorist's destruction when
destruction is not possible, for they are like hydra, with each death proving
the spring for another acolyte. Their persistent existence is typical of the
forms found during any rapid evolutionary stage since predatory and
destructive-agencies freely multiply.
Terrorism is as much a part of technological evolution
as is the satellite system it so frustratingly evades. This is the uncomfortable
truth of our times
that our success has yet to be absorbed by the
systemand the greatest shocks are yet to evolve.
We could make the
adjustments that would lessen the harshness that accompanies rapid
evolution
but mankind has form that suggests this won't happen; our history
is against the
achievement of such an outcome. We are increasingly made aware
that our knowledge
of
how to release and use the energy of the universe makes us a different
species from men and women of the past where the pace of technology was tied to
the society's ability to keep up.
But over the last five centuries there has
been unprecedented growth in technology and its pace has constantly escalated.
As a result and despite continuing efforts by societies, cultures,
politicians and churches
we perceive our institutions fragment or ossify
as we proceed. Unfortunately it is in these institutions that the barriers
to an easy future lie.
We do know that all institutions and individuals, being, at
root, self-interested,
react badly to change when there is no direct
benefit to themselves. Generations are required before acceptance of the
inevitable takes place and in-between there is a constant shoring-up of small
castle walls.
All the changes in technology that have taken place mean
that the conditions affecting the running of man's affairs are out of
step with our physical powers.
The dire impact of change is immutable
since resistance is locked within independent cells whose combined inertia and
self-interests ensure the institutions cannot and will not address the social
issues that technologic evolution requires.
It is here that our history offers
us the worst of futures since war has always been the inevitable resolver of
any dilemma's man has faced. Wars and attendant horrors rage, new despots and
institutions come and go, revolutions and counter-revolutions burn the people
and the land until finally the future is unlocked and
the past is
cleansed away.
But terrorism is not the only face of unwanted adaptation.
The
advent of nuclear knowledge has also created a wedge between the tool and the
supposed master.
Foremost amongst the risks is the possibility of
horrendous physical change by misadventure and dastardly use of atomic
materials and devices.
Our national institutions with all their
interlocking cells make planned progress difficult and make it possible for
rogue states and groups to have the type of access that we may all learn to
fear.
It is easy to point out that Government by nation-states doesn't
fit with the technologies we now have at our disposal. Yet the change in the
way nationhood works faces the
greatest reactionary forces and
this inevitably come sfrom all points of society, politics and business.
Mankind has proven reluctant to make such big changes and yet we are out of
step with who we now are, petty tyrants of a minor universe.
The issue of
climate change shows us, via the open-wound of television,
how divided
and reactionary we really are, how impotent are national leaders in dealing
with any planetary crisis.
Technology has breached the walls of
nationhood, it is a global force that needs global responses.
And all this about the climate, nuclear science and
terrorism is of course equally true for eugenics and the even bigger challenge
presented by eternal population growth.
The pace of technological change
far outmatches the pace of social and institutional change yet the pace of
each is set at its natural rate.
In nature it is the disparity between the
rates of change that leads to dramatic evolutions and we can know with
certainty that this tumultuous interface lies ahead of us, immutably so.
However,
the outcome of wars, terror and unwanted horrors will be that
one day mankind will have a society that is planetary based not island, state
or continent centric.
I can know all this without an ability to see visions of
the future for it is written firmly into the history of the universe and is as
natural as the birth and death of stars.
We aren't looking at the
End-of-Days but just another ongoing realignment with nature
My interest
is not so much in what is obvious but that which still remains concealed. For
me that is the mystery of what my research really means.
I want to know the
extent to which Nostradamus had access to the future. The technological terms
enfolded into the anagrams implies he could access more than we would consider
credible.
So are these patterns
part of my own knowledge or are they
solely based in Nostradamus' visions?