On November 17, 1558, Queen Elizabeth I Tudor ascended the English throne, dramatically changing the political orientation of the country. Protestantism was restored in England.

Nostradamus predicted the coronation of Elizabeth I in quatrain X, 19:

The day she'll be welcomed like a queen
The day when after the blessing there is prayer.
A considerable count is correct.
She was modest before, but she will never be so proud.

The same theme can be seen in quatrain VI, 74:

The rejected (or expelled) will return to the kingdom.
Her enemies will be exposed as conspirators.
Her time will be a time of triumph more than ever.
Three and seventy to death for sure.

True, Elizabeth I lived not 73, but only 70 years, but this difficulty can be avoided when interpreting the prediction if we assume that the separate number three indicates the date of death - 1603.

Quatrain X, 84 can also be attributed to the same cycle of prophecies of Nostradamus:

An illegitimate daughter so tall
high, not low.
A late return will comfort the offended,
Reconciled not without controversy,
Having used and spent all my time.

Here, as it were, the motive of Elizabeth’s illegitimacy arises. Although her father Henry VIII rejected this version before his death, appointing Elizabeth as his third heir (in the event of the death of the childless Edward IV and then Mary, as actually happened), the popes to the end continued to consider the heretic Elizabeth illegitimate, who had stolen the English throne from the legal heir (Mary Stuart, a distant relative of Henry VIII). The rest of the quatrain can be seen as an expression of the author's hope for civil peace at the end of Elizabeth's reign.

In the predictions of Nostradamus, one quatrain, apparently, is dedicated to Elizabeth I’s contemporary and rival, the Scottish Queen Mary Stuart, apparently, but very effective - VIII, 23:

Letters will be found in the queen's chests
No signature, no author's name.
These promises will be hidden using cunning.
So no one will know who the lover was.

THIS immediately reminds us of the “letters in a casket” case. Mary Stuart had a silver casket, something like a safe, with especially complex locks, which was given to her by her first husband, french king Francis P. And she gave it to her third husband - Earl Bothwell. Bothwell kept Mary's letters in it. After the couple’s unsuccessful battle with their subjects at Carberry Hill, the casket ended up in the possession of the Scottish Parliament. Letters from the chest were read at its meeting on December 15, 1567. It seemed to follow from them that Mary Stuart was Bothwell’s accomplice in the murder of her second husband Henry Darnley. These letters, however, have reached us only in translation into other languages. The originals disappeared at the end of the 16th century. Therefore, a number of researchers consider these letters to be forged. The reader who wants to know this story in detail can turn to Stefan Zweig's book “Mary Stuart”.

The further history of England, i.e., the reign of Mary Stuart’s son, King James I Stuart, refers to quatrain X, 36:

The stump king, when he starts talking about wars,
The united island will be despised.
A few good years of squabbling and looting.
Due to tyranny, prices on the island will change.

James Stuart was the sixth king of this name in Scotland, but he went down in history primarily as James I, the founder of the Stuart dynasty in England, which replaced the Tudor dynasty, the last direct descendant of which was Elizabeth 1. Therefore, the nickname “stump king” is appropriate for him. , i.e. the ancestor, the founder of the dynasty, whose descendants are the ascending branches of the family tree. James I was a coward, did not have any special talents and was not respected. His ineffective reign gradually set the stage for the crisis that erupted under his son Charles I.

Now let us turn to those predictions that are usually attributed to the son of James I, Charles I (1625 - 1649), who laid down his head on the scaffold. Quatrain V, 93 reads:

Under the earth of the round lunar ball,
When Mercury dominates,
The Scottish island will produce a luminary,
Which will bring the British to chaos.

The first two lines, apparently, should give the astrological date. And the second two really fit Charles I, who was born in 1600 in Dunfermline Castle (Scotland) and with his incompetent rule brought the matter to civil war 1642 - 1649 Quatrain VIII, 37 says:

Fortress near the Thames
Will fall when the king is locked inside her.
He will be seen near the bridge in a shirt
Facing death. Then they will lock you in the fortress.

This description most likely echoes the following events. On December 23, 1648, Charles, captured by the troops of Parliament, was placed in Windsor Castle, facing the Thames. On January 25, 1649, a special tribunal of parliament sentenced Charles I to death for crimes against the nation. death penalty. On January 30, 1649, Charles I, wearing a white shirt, ascended the eschat and his head was cut off. He was then buried in the chapel of Windsor Castle. This funeral, according to many interpreters, is predicted in the last phrase - “then they will be locked up in the fortress.”

In quatrain IX, 49, the predictor no longer leaves any doubt about the fate of the English king.

Ghent and Brussels will march on Antwerp.
The London Senate will put its king to death.
Salt and wine will rise against him.
Because of them, there is turmoil in the kingdom.

The first line talks about some kind of military action in the Netherlands. Most commentators see here an allusion to the Spanish-Dutch War, which ended with the signing of a peace treaty on January 30, 1649, i.e. exactly a year later. The combination of two events close in date in different countries is generally quite typical for Nostradamus. As for wine and salt, since these two products were the main objects of taxation at that time, they symbolized taxes. Obviously, Nostradamus saw the main reason for the Great English Revolution in unaffordable taxes. Everything else is pretty clear.

The prediction about the execution of the king, according to one of the commentators, is the most scandalous publication missed by the censors of the 16th century. Indeed, for 1577 this situation is unprecedented.

Researchers also include quatrain III, 80 in the history of the Great English Revolution:

The worthy one will be expelled from the English kingdom.
The advisor will be put to death because of anger.
His supporters will be so insignificant
That the bastard will be half accepted.

Here we are talking about Charles I. According to this version, the second line refers to the life of Lord Stafford, the chief adviser to Charles I, whom he handed over to Parliament for execution. His head was cut off. The third line alludes to the betrayal of the Scottish army, which in January 1647 sold Charles I to Parliament for 400 thousand pounds sterling. In the bastard, interpreters of the quatrain saw Cromwell, who would be only half accepted by the English people: he would not become king, but would only bear the title of Protector of England.

Another quatrain is also attributed to Cromwell - VIII, 76:

More a butcher than the king of England,
Born in an insignificant place, he will take over the empire by force.
Born without faith, without law, he will stain the earth with blood.
His time is so near that I sigh.

From the point of view of the Catholic and monarchist Nostradamus, such an assessment of Cromwell was quite natural. The last line of the quatrain is very interesting. Apparently, Nostradamus did not consider the period of 100 years of history that separated his time from the era of Cromwell to be too significant in comparison with the seven thousand years of human history that he described in his Centuries.

With the turbulent history of England in the 17th century. researchers also connect quatrain VIII, 56:

A weak unit will occupy the land.
Residents of high places will make terrible screams.
The large horde of the outer corner will become agitated.
They will fall near Dikebro. Messages are open.

In this prediction, the key word is the mysterious toponym Dinebro. Such locality unknown But already at the beginning of the 18th century. one commentator on Nostradamus suggested that it was an anagram of Dunbar. In this case, the quatrain takes on some meaning. In 1650, King Charles II, son of the executed Charles I, landed in Scotland and quickly assembled a large army. However, at the Battle of Dunbar it was utterly defeated by Cromwell's smaller army (the "weak detachment"). The convoy of the royal army and many documents incriminating various persons then fell into the hands of Cromwell.

Charles II, the first king of the restored English monarchy (1660 - 1685), also has several very specific predictions. The prediction of X, 40 is very interesting:

The young heir to the British kingdom,
Which his dying father recommends.
Lonol will argue with him
And he will demand the kingdom from his son.

If we accept the version that the dying father is Charles I, then his young heir is Charles II. And the one who will argue with father and son for the kingdom is Cromwell, hiding under the pseudonym Lonol. And the name "LONOLE" is an anagram of the colloquial pronunciation of Cromwell's name "Old Noll".

Quatrain X, 4:

At midnight the leader of the army
He will save himself by suddenly disappearing.
Seven years later, his glory is untarnished.
They will never say yes to his return.

This text is interpreted with a typo in the fourth line, which, according to commentators, should read: “...they will say nothing but yes.” In this case, the first two lines can be attributed to the Battle of Worcester (September 3, 1651). Charles II was completely defeated by Cromwell in this battle and, disguised as a commoner, fled. Only after many adventures, in which he was constantly in danger of being captured, did he reach France. On September 3, 1658, exactly seven years after the defeat at Worcester, Cromwell died. A real opportunity opened up for Charles II to challenge power in England, but he was invited to the English throne only in 1660.

Two quatrains, thematically related, also date back to the reign of Charles II.

11, 51:
The blood of the righteous will become the sin of London.
Twenty, three, six will be burned by lightning.
The old lady will fall from her high place.
Many from the same sect will die.

I, 53: 3
Great Plague in a Seaside Town
It will not stop until death is avenged.
The righteous blood of the doomed for a price without guilt.
And (offense) to the Great Lady, who was falsely harmed.

The Old Lady (II, 51) and the Great Lady (II, 53) are, without a doubt, the same person. From the point of view of the devout Catholic Nostradamus, this lady, deposed in England from her throne (“high place”), was undoubtedly identified with the Catholic Church. The blood of the righteous, which is mentioned in both quatrains, is also most likely the blood of Catholics who suffered from religious persecution in the 16th - 17th centuries, but perhaps this concept also includes all the victims of the English revolution (Catholics in the civil war, as a rule, acted on the side of the monarchy).

Retribution for the blood of the righteous and the insults of the Old Lady, according to the predictor, will be the Great Plague (II, 53) and the Great Fire of London (II, 51). Indeed, in April 1665, an epidemic began in London, which was called the Great Plague, and in 1666, the so-called Great Fire broke out in London, destroying most of the city, including the famous St. Pavel. (Some commentators believe that the term "Old Lady" refers to this cathedral.)

Quatrain IV, 89 tells about the misadventures of James II, who succeeded his brother Charles II on the throne.

Thirty in London will form a secret conspiracy
Against your king. Enterprise at sea.
He and his followers will be afraid of death.
A blond king, a native of Frisia, will be elected.

Commentators believe that the events of the so-called “Glorious Revolution” of 1688 - 1689 are quite accurately predicted here, as a result of which the last king of the Stuart dynasty, James II (1685 - 1688), was overthrown. Attempts by Jacob II to put an end to the gains of the Great English bourgeois revolution of 1643 - 1649. and returning to an absolutist form of government ended badly for him. The two leading parties of the state - the Whigs and Tories - united against him. They decided to overthrow James II and invite in his place the husband of his daughter Mary, Prince William III of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic.

Frisia - part of Holland - could mean the whole country.) Wilhelm III, judging by the portraits, wore blond wigs. In June 1688, the leaders of the Tories and Whigs sent William III a letter inviting him to come to England with an army and take the local throne. This letter, according to one commentator, had 29 signatures (almost 30). In November 1688, William III with an army of twelve thousand landed in South-West England (“an enterprise at sea”) and took possession of all of England in 40 days without a fight. Abandoned by almost all of his followers, James II fled to France. In January 1689, the English parliament elected William III, along with his wife Mary II, to the vacant throne.

Then will come from outside countries
German prince on the golden throne.
Slavery and waters will meet. The lady is serving.
Her time is no longer admired.

The history of England during the Second World War includes quatrain II, 100:

There is such a terrible noise on the islands,
But only one conspiracy will be heard well.
So great will be the insult of the robbers,
That everyone will unite into a big league.

Nostradamus also has one long-term prediction about England (X, 100):

England will create a great empire,
Almighty (or all-sea) for more than 300 years.
Great forces on sea and land.
The Lusitanians will not be happy about this.

It can be argued that it has completely come true. The mention of the Lusitanians (Portuguese) is especially apt. We are talking about the struggle that the British and their Dutch allies waged at the turn of the 16th - 17th centuries. against the Portuguese, who seized control of the seas washing Asia and Africa. But here it should be noted that the foundations of England’s maritime power were laid already in the era of Nostradamus (although the first maritime power in the world at that time, undoubtedly, was Portugal). That's why last prediction in the book of Nostradamus (100th in the X “Century”) gives the impression of a very successful and quite realistic forecast.

Adjacent to this quatrain is an undated, but also flattering for Britain, quatrain X, 42:

The worldly (or humane) kingdom of English origin
He will maintain peace and union in his kingdom.
Will keep the war half within its borders.
It will force them to keep peace for a long time.

However, this prediction can be applied to the USA and the entire Anglo-Saxon world as a whole.

Despite the great popularity of Nostradamus in America, the number of predictions that enthusiastic researchers have been able to link to this country is very small.

So quatrain I, 50 is interpreted as a brief description of the history of the United States.

From the watery triplicity will be born
The one (or that) who makes Thursday his holiday.
His fame, power and might will increase
There is a storm on land and sea against the easterners.

The creature described in the first line, according to the grammatical meaning, can be either animate or inanimate. The main identifying sign here is the holiday on Thursday. It is on Thursday that Americans celebrate Thanksgiving Day. The water trinity refers to the three seas surrounding the United States (more precisely, two oceans and one gulf). The Easterners are the Japanese in World War II.

After 1963, one more was added to the meager set of predictions about America.

VI, 37:
The ancient work will be finished,
Misfortune will fall on the great one from the rooftop.
An innocent person will be accused of this and killed.
The culprit will take refuge in a grove during a light rain.

The character in the second line, according to many commentators, is John Kennedy. The third line character is Lee Oswald, accused without definitive evidence of murdering the president. He was killed by Jack Ruby in front of all of America, who watched it on television.

The word “America” in the time of Nostradamus is still quite new and appears in the “Centuries” only once, in a quatrain, very difficult to understand, which will be discussed in more detail in the chapter “On the Three Antichrists”.

Some researchers attribute prediction VIII, 74 to America:

The king will enter the new land, very far away,
while his subjects will salute him.
His treachery will have such an effect
What will replace holidays and receptions for citizens?

New land, or New World, is indeed a fairly common designation for America. But in explaining the remaining three lines, interpreters do not have a common opinion and a more or less logical version. The new land is also mentioned in quatrain II, 89:

One day the two great leaders will become friends.
Their great power will increase.
The new earth will reach its peak.
The bloody one will be told the number.

According to E. Leoni, this prediction best corresponds to the Anglo-German alliance in 1941. And the Bloody (i.e., Hitler) will be reported on statistics on the growth of the American military industry. M. Morin believes that the days of “Bloody” will simply be numbered from now on.

History of Germany XVI - XIX centuries. in “Centuries” Nostradamus is not touched upon in too much detail. Of all the historical events, without exaggeration, only one can be identified - the annexation of Alsace and Lorraine from France in 1871. Quatrain X, 51 is dedicated to this:

Some of the lowest places in Lorraine
Will be united with the lower Germans.
Through people from the center (residence)

Picardians, Normans, inhabitants of Maine.
And they will join the cantons.

By “lower”, that is, northern Germans, one can understand the kingdom of Prussia, which in 1871 united the scattered German states into the German Empire.

Of the predictions about Germany, the greatest interest of commentators of the 20th century. Naturally, they were evoked by those quatrains that could be tied to Hitler, the Second World War, and the “Third Reich.” In three quatrains there is a character named Hyster. As a matter of fact, this name most likely comes from the ancient name of the Danube - Istr and means “inhabitant of the Danube” or “Danubian”. But since the Danube crosses Austria, Hitler’s homeland, such a nickname is quite appropriate for him. The main thing, according to most commentators, is the consonance of the names “Hister” and “Hitler” and the fact that this character is clearly a big scoundrel striving for world domination. Quatrain II, 24 says:

Beasts, ferocious with hunger, will swim across the rivers.
Most of the land will be against Gister.
The great ones order him to be dragged in an iron cage.
When a child of Germany will not obey any laws.

The crossing of numerous water lines really played a big role in the Second World War. The second line is suitable for describing the anti-Hitler coalition. The fourth line can be attributed to the arbitrariness perpetrated by the “third Reich”. As for the third line, what was predicted in it did not come true. As we mentioned above, in fascist Germany knew and studied the prophecies of Nostradamus, and Hitler took them quite seriously. At the end of the war, the Fuhrer was constantly worried about the thought that if he fell into the hands of the Allies, they would put him in a cage and take him around fairs to show him to the people.

In quatrain IV, 68, the word “Hister” is paired with the Rhine River, and the only intelligible explanation for this fact is that we are not talking about a person, but about the river - Istr (Danube).

In a very close place, not far from Venus (Venus),
Two of the greatest of Asia and Africa,
About whom they will say that they are from Reika and Istra.
Screams, tears on Malta and the Ligurian coast.

However, this does not stop the most ardent fans of Nostradamus. Thus, Erica Cheatham writes:

“The word “Venus” is the key to this quatrain. It probably refers to Venice, thus linking Italy to Hitler. The two dictators met near this city at the Brenner Pass to conclude the Tripartite Pact with Asia, i.e. with the Japanese. The last line refers to the blockade of Malta by the Italians, and the "screams and tears" on the Ligurian coast refer to the Allied bombing of Genoa and the shelling of British warships based in Gibraltar."

In addition to the quatrains dedicated to Gister, researchers attribute several more predictions to Hitler and Nazism. Thus, quatrain III, 76 says:

Different sects will be born in Germany,
Which will come very close to happy paganism.
A captive heart and little profit (or result).
They will return to paying true tithes.

The interest of Nazi ideologists in the restoration of ancient German pagan cults is well known. The expression “captive heart” is quite suitable for describing a totalitarian society, and “small profit” or “little result” also fits well with the “profit” that the German people received from the “thousand-year Reich” that fell 12 years after its founding. In the fourth line, "true tithe" refers to the tribute that Catholics paid to their church. In other words, Nostradamus wants to say that after the dominance of pagan ideology in Germany, the Catholic Church will triumph again. This generally coincides with the important role that Christian democratic parties play in modern Germany. Sects in Germany are also spoken of in quatrain III, 67:

A new sect of philosophers
Despising death, gold, honors and riches,
It will not be limited to the German mountains.
Those who follow them (these philosophers) will have the support of the crowds.

To Hitler in the 20th century. Quatrain V, 5 began to be attributed:

Under the pretext of abolishing slavery
He himself usurps the people and the city.
He will make things worse by deceiving a young prostitute.
He will go into the field, reading a false poem.

The first line of this interpretation talks about the Treaty of Versailles, which Hitler campaigned against in the 1920s. The “young prostitute” from the third line was somehow linked to the Weimar Republic in Germany (1918 - 1933). The “false poem” is identified with Hitler’s book “Mein Kampf”. Attracted to Hitler and quatrain I, 9:

For nine years the thin one will hold the kingdom in the world.
Then he will fall into terrible bloodthirstiness.
Because of him, a great people will die without faith and law,
Killed by someone who is much kinder.

The reasoning of the interpreters here went this way: “skinny” means a vegetarian, and a vegetarian means Hitler. True, only six years passed from Hitler’s rise to power (1933) to the outbreak of the Second World War (1939). But the matter can be improved if we start counting the years from the elections of 1930, when the Nazi Party received a significant number of votes and became the second largest party in Germany. The “good-natured” one who would kill him meant Roosevelt.

After Hitler came to power, Nazi propaganda tried to extract from the “Centuries” all the quatrains that could be interpreted in any flattering light for the Fuhrer. So, for example, in quatrain III, 35 it says:

In the very depths of Western Europe
A boy will be born from poor parents,
Who will seduce a great army (or multitude) with his tongue.
His glory will increase even more in the kingdom of the East.

True, in the 19th century. this quatrain was attributed to Napoleon. Another quatrain III, 58 seems to cover the entire biography of Hitler:

Near the Rhine in the Norik mountains
A great one will be born from among the people,
came too late
The one who will defend Sarmatia and Pannonia.
No one will know what happened to him.

Since the Roman province coincides with Austria, Hitler's homeland, the first line cannot be controversial. The fourth line was popular after the war in Nazi circles, where the legend spread that Hitler was alive and hiding in South America. During the Renaissance, Poland and Hungary were called Sarmatia and Pannonia. Thus, from the Nazi point of view, the military actions in Hungary in 1944 - 1945 could be ranked third.

In quatrain VI, 49, Hitler, according to some commentators, appears as a priest of the god of war:

Pontifex Maximus of the Party of Mars
Subdue the borders of the Danube.
The cross will be persecuted and twisted with iron.
Captives (prisoners), gold, diamonds, over one hundred thousand rubies.

With this interpretation, in the third line, which was very difficult to translate, they saw a swastika (a crooked cross), and the fourth line referred to concentration camp prisoners and the property taken from them.

Certain events in the history of the “Third Reich” are associated with quatrain VIII, add. 6:

Alas, how greedy foreign monarchs are. Be careful that they don't come
to your country. There will be terrible dangers for many countries and even for Vienna.
This very clear quatrain may well apply to the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938.

IX, 90:
Captain of Greater Germany
Shows up to supposedly help
To the King of Kings, (promising) the support of Panponia,
So his rebellion will cause great shedding of blood.

In this quatrain, the term “Greater Germany” is interesting, atypical for the 16th century. For the role of “Captain of Greater Germany”, who arrived to the King of Kings

with a deception mission, Rudolf Hess is usually predicted. His arrival in England in May 1941 was of precisely this nature. King George VI, who was then at the head of the British Empire, fully deserves the title “King of Kings.” And Pannonia (Hungary) was an ally of Germany in 1941.

Erica Cheatham, mentioned above, gives this quatrain a different interpretation: “Hitler invaded Poland under the pretext of providing assistance... Hitler was for some time the king of kings, the lord of everything over which he oversaw. He also captured Hungary and started a war in which about 14 million soldiers on both sides were killed and, by some estimates, as many civilians, if not more."

Let's look at another quatrain, V, 94, which in our opinion is quite interesting:

He will include in Greater Germany
Barbant and Flanders, Gate, Bruges and Boulogne.
Fraudulent truce.
The Grand Duke of Armenia attacks Vienna and Cologne.

Here again we encounter something unusual for the 16th century. the term "Greater Germany". In addition, the “Holy Roman Empire of the German People,” as Germany was then called, included Barbant, Flanders, Ghent, and Bruges (i.e., modern Belgium), and there was no need to annex them.

If we assume that the events of the Second World War are indicated here, then the second line can be considered a prediction of the occupation of Belgium and Northern France(Boulogne) in 1940. The third line then, therefore, refers to the Soviet-German pact in August 1939 (“fraudulent truce”). A certain difficulty is presented here by the “Grand Duke of Armenia,” but this can also be somehow circumvented if we assume that Nostradamus confused Stalin’s nationality and made him an Armenian from a Georgian. Armenia is mentioned five times in "Centuries", but Georgia - not once. Then the latter’s attack on Vienna becomes clear

Prophecies related topics or otherwise with Italy, are second in volume only to predictions on the history of France and constitute 18% of all Nostradamus quatrains. They mention all the main regions, mountains, rivers and cities of Italy, designated by ancient or modern names by the author. But the number of predictions that came true is not so many. Quatrain V, 3 says:

In this quatrain, Nostradamus predicts that the Medici dynasty, relatives of Catherine de Medici, who ruled in Florence, will be suppressed and will be replaced, by right of kinship, by a French prince, obviously the son or grandson of Catherine. This gallant prediction should obviously have pleased Catherine. But the most important thing is that it came true - and not even once, but twice, but only much later than Nostradamus and his patroness probably expected.

In 1737, the Medici dynasty, which ruled in Tuscany, the center of which was Florence, with short interruptions since 1434, finally came to an end, and the French prince, Duke Francis of Lorraine, became the Grand Duke of Tuscany. His descendants ruled in Tuscany until 1801. In 1801, Napoleon I turned Tuscany into the kingdom of Etruria and handed it over to the Spanish Bourbons, that is, also to French princes. After the fall of Napoleon I, the descendants of Francis of Lorraine returned to the throne of Tuscany and ruled here until 1859.

Quatrain IV, 37 dates back to the era of the Napoleonic wars in Italy:

Gaul will rush through the mountains in leaps and bounds.
He will take over the great land of Insurbia.
His army will penetrate into the wilderness.
Genoa and Monaco will repel the red fleet.

In May 1800, Napoleon with an army of 40,000 quickly crossed the Saint Bernard Pass and broke into Italy. At this time, the Austrians were besieging Genoa, and the fleet of their British allies attacked Monaco on May 23. This attack was repelled with the help of the French. Meanwhile, Napoleon developed his success and on June 2 occupied Milan, the center of Lombardy, which in ancient times was called Insurbia. The British in the XVIII - XIX centuries. wore red uniforms, and therefore calling their fleet “red” is acceptable for this time. Quatrain II, 99 is curious:

Roman land, according to the interpretation of the augur,
Will suffer greatly from the Gallic people.
But the Celtic nation will be seized with fear at that hour,
When the North Wind drives her army too far.

BY augur Nostradamus apparently means himself. Their descendants, the French, were called Gauls, or Celts. The Roman land meant either all of Italy or the Papal States, which actually suffered from the Napoleonic wars. It was liquidated, and two popes - Pius VI and Pius VII - were successively arrested by Napoleon and kept in prison - the first until his death in 1799, the second until the fall of Napoleon in 1814. But the French people will suffer retribution for this sacrilege , when their army in 1812 gets too far into the country of the North Wind, that is, into Russia.

Some commentators who lived in the 19th century attribute a number of quatrains to a key event in the history of Italy - its unification into mid-19th V.

II, 16:
Naples, Palermo, Sicily, Syracuse,
New tyrants, lightning, heavenly lights.
Strength from London, Ghent, Brussels and Susa.
Great carnage. After the triumph - celebrations.

According to THIS version, the first line mentions the kingdom of the Two Sicilies, which until 1859 was ruled by one of the branches of the Bourbon family. And the “new tyrants” are Garibaldi and other revolutionaries who overthrew all the Bourbons, and for this crime, they say, Nostradamus calls “heavenly fire” on their heads. In the third line, London stands for England, Ghent and Brussels for Belgium. With the moral support of these two states, the Kingdom of Savoy (designated by the city of Susa) would unite Italy in 1860 - 1870. Then, naturally, this event will be celebrated with festivities.

From the middle of the 20th century. This quatrain began to be attributed to the events of the Second World War. By “new tyrants” one should now understand the fascists, “heavenly fire” should be interpreted as air bombing, England and its ally Belgium - as military opponents of the “new tyrants”. And the final triumph was Victory Day in May 1945.

In the 20th century a number of quatrains began to be associated with Mussolini and fascist rule in Italy.

III, 63:
The Roman Empire will humiliate itself,
Following in the footsteps of its great neighbor.
Hidden civil hatred and debate
They will prolong the madness of the jesters.

I, 59:
Exiles will be sent to the islands
At the coming of a more cruel monarch
Two will be killed and burned,
Because they were not moderate in their conversations.

III, 48:
700 prisoners, roughly bound.
Half of them were destined to die.
Near hope may soon come to them,
But not before the fifteenth death.

In quatrain III, 63, researchers saw a hint that fascist Italy would trail behind Nazi Germany. I, 59 and III, 48 speak of terror. The quatrains can be applied to both Italy and Germany, but the Italian connection is more plausible, because under Mussolini political prisoners were exiled to the islands (I, 59), where they were liberated by the Allies in 1943.

In the middle of the 16th century. the capital of Switzerland, Geneva, was the center of extreme Protestantism in Europe under the leadership of fellow countryman Nostradamus John Calvin (1509-1564). Both Calvin himself and his students had a negative attitude towards astrology. It was from the circle of people close to Calvin that the first pamphlets directed against the famous astrologer came out. It is unclear whether Nostradamus met Calvin before he emigrated from France in 1535, but they most likely met during Nostradamus's travels abroad in 1538 - 1544.

Nostradamus's hatred of Calvin perhaps goes beyond what any orthodox but generally indifferent Catholic can feel. It is clearly personal. Therefore, it is not surprising that Nostradamus devoted a fair amount of predictions to Switzerland and Geneva, in particular.

Many of the quatrains reflect Nostradamus' hope that the Genevans would come to their senses and put an end to Calvin. Thus, in quatrain I, 47 it says:

Sermons from Lake Geneva irritate people.
They will drag on for days, then weeks,
Then for months, then for years. Then everything will collapse.
The magistrates will condemn their absurd laws.

And in quatrain I, 61 Nostradamus continues this thought:

Pathetic, unfortunate republic
The new magistrate will ruin.
There are a great number of them (citizens) in bitter exile.
This will force the Swiss to break their great treaty.

As you know, Calvin was invited to Geneva to instruct its citizens in the faith in 1536. But the rules that he introduced there, strict police supervision over any step of citizens not only in public, but also in personal life, soon caused such an outburst of indignation that in the spring of 1538 he was asked to leave.

However, Calvin's supporters in the fall of 1541 achieved a new invitation to Geneva, after which he, until his death in 1546, remained the absolute dictator of this city-state. Many of his opponents had to go into exile, as mentioned in the third line. But Nostradamus did not lose hope that the patience of the Genevans would finally be exhausted, they would break the agreement with Calvin, concluded in 1541, and again expel him from the city.

This way Calvin will not be expelled. He will be buried in Geneva, but by mistake he will be buried alive. Soon after this, the Genevans would come to their senses, renounce Calvinism, condemn the founder of the heresy and dig up his coffin, apparently to burn him posthumously (such things happened in the Middle Ages and later). But then it turns out that the villain has already been punished. Waking up in a coffin, he lived for a long time, eating with his own hands.

At the same time, Nostradamus warned the Genevans that if they hesitate to deal with Calvin, then the entire city will answer for his crimes.

IX, 44:
Run, run away from Geneva, every single one of you.
Saturn will turn from golden to iron.
Rypoz will destroy everyone who is against him.
Before that comes, there will be signs in the sky.

The prediction warns the Genevans, firstly, that the new Golden Age promised by Calvin (the age of Saturn) will turn out to be not Golden at all, but Iron. And, secondly, that a certain mysterious Rypoz will put an end to little Geneva in a treacherous and treacherous manner. Raypoz is an anagram of the name Zopyr. Zopyrus is the faithful servant of Darius. According to the story of Herodotus, he helped this Persian king take possession of impregnable Babylon. He cut off his nose and ears and came to Babylon as a defector. Having gained the confidence of the Babylonians, he found a way to undermine their defenses and surrender the city to the Persians. Thus, the name Zopyrus became a household name during the time of Nostradamus and meant betrayal and treachery. It was used in one of his emblems by King Philip II of Spain, who brutally dealt with the Calvinists.

In the 16th century Spain played one of the leading roles in European political life. Therefore, in terms of frequency of mentions in the “Prophecies” of Nostradamus, it ranks third. The words “Spain” and “Spaniards” appear 28 times in his quatrains and twice in his “Message to Henry II.”

However, real historical events before the 20th century. in quatrains they are almost not visible. As for the 20th century, almost all predictions attributed by commentators relate to the period between the two world wars. For example, quatrain IX, 78 says:

Greek lady of ugly beauty,
Happy from countless fans,
Transferred to the Kingdom of Spain,
She will be captured, imprisoned and die a miserable death.

Some believe that the “Greek lady” with such a unique appearance is democracy that will perish in Spain after the victory of the Nazis.

The fascist dictatorships in Spain and Italy also include quatrain III, 68:

People without a leader in Spain, Italy.
Dead vanquished inside the peninsula.
Their dict. betrayed by irresponsible rage.
Swimming in blood. Blood is everywhere.

"Dictation." in the third line - this is, of course, a dictator. He is opposed to the good leader who will be missed by the people of Italy and Spain.

Some interpreters of Nostradamus’ predictions believe that quatrain VI, 64 fits the history of the Spanish Civil War:

The established peace will not be respected
All signatories will act fraudulently.
In peace and truce. Land and sea are protesting.
Barcelona captured the fleet cunningly.

The history of fascism and the Spanish Civil War also includes quatrains IX, 15 and IX, 16.

IX, 15:
Near Perpignan the Reds
The people of the center are completely ruined, driven far away.
Three were cut into pieces, five received little help.
For the lord and prelate of Burgundy.

There is the following interpretation of this quatrain. At the beginning of 1939, the retreating troops of the Spanish Republic and refugees from Franco crossed the French border just in the Perpignan area. There they were detained by the French authorities and placed in special camps. This version is confirmed by the following quatrain (IX, 16), where you can read the names of General Francisco Franco (1892 - 1975) and General Miguel Primo de Rivera (1870 - 1930) - two Spanish fascist dictators.

An assembly will emerge from the Franco fortress (or from Castelfranco).
A dissatisfied envoy will cause a split.
Ribera's (or Riviera's) men will fight,
And they will prohibit entry into the big bay.

Portugal is mentioned in the Prophecies in only six quatrains. Only one of them relates directly to the history of this country; in the rest it is mentioned in connection with stories about other countries.

In a year when Mercury, Mars, Venus are in clear motion.
The line of the great monarch will not be interrupted.
Chosen by the Portuguese people near Cadiz,
He will reign until he is very old.

The first line here gives the astrological dating. Everything else is quite clear. A situation close to the one described actually took place in Portugal in the 16th century. In 1578, the Portuguese king Sebastian I went to crusade against the Moors. This campaign ended in disaster. At the Battle of Alcazar (in Morocco), the Portuguese army was completely defeated, and the king himself went missing. His uncle, the elderly Cardinal Henry, who ascended the throne after Sebastian I, died two years later.

After this, there were no direct heirs to the Portuguese throne. A dynastic dispute ensued between distant relatives (the Dukes of Parma, the Dukes of Braganza, etc.). The winner was the Spanish King Philip II. His rights were even more dubious than those of other applicants, but he had big army. In 1580, Philip sent troops to Portugal led by the Duke of Alba. Having occupied the country, Alba declared Philip II the legitimate monarch of Portugal. This is what the whole election came down to. Portugal's independence was restored only 60 years later, in 1640.

“East” and “North” - this is what Russia was called during the time of Nostradamus.

And here is another prediction that commentators of the 20th century. attributed to A.V. Suvorov.

II, 29:
The Eastern (man) will leave his abode,
He will cross the Apennine Mountains to see Gaul.
Pierces the sky, waters and snow,
And he will strike everyone with his rod.

Quatrains that can be associated with Patriotic War 1812, we have already discussed above, in the section dedicated to Napoleon I. In one of them (IV, 82) Slavonia was mentioned (or “ Slavic land"), this is how the fortuneteller designated the name of Russia. This toponym is found in Nostradamus in quatrain I, 14 and confirms the correctness of this assumption:

The Slavic people have hymns and complaints instead of songs.
Captured by princes and lords - in dungeons. (Or - captive princes and lords - in dungeons
Headless idiots in the future
They will accept (this) as a divine revelation.

If we assume that the princes and lords in the second line are not the punishing, but the suffering side (the text allows for both interpretations), then, from the point of view of a convinced monarchist, we get a picture of the October Revolution and the Red Terror. In the last two lines, in this case, the author evaluates the theory of scientific communism in energetic terms.

But such an interpretation became possible only in the 20th century. And in the 17th century. Etienne Jaubert, adhering to a more natural interpretation of the second line (it is not the princes who will be imprisoned, but they themselves who will imprison someone), explained quatrain X, 62 by the events of the 16th century. The Huguenots, with their absurd teaching about the reformation of the church, will suffer deserved punishment from the authorities. In the 19th century A. Lepeletye attributed the same quatrain to the events of the Great French Revolution. His villains imprisoned are no longer Huguenots, but Jacobins.

Some dubious teaching is mentioned in quatrain VI, 72, which some commentators attribute to the Tsarina and Rasputin:

Thanks to the feigned fury of divine revelation,
The great man's wife will be raped.
Judges are willing to condemn such a doctrine.
She will become a victim of an ignorant people.

The revolution of 1917 and its consequences include a whole group of predictions by Nostradamus, which describe all kinds of social upheavals. One of these predictions (I, 3) sounds like this:

When the whirlwind overturns the stretcher
And their faces will be hidden by cloaks,
New people will begin to pester the republic.
Reds and whites will judge differently.

There are several other quatrains that contain the term “red” (“reds”). In this group, the most interesting is quatrain VIII, 19:

To support the shaken great chasuble (or mantle, or cloak),
To purify this, the Reds march.
The family will be almost destroyed by death.
The Red-Reds will destroy the Reds.

After the events of 1937, this quatrain began to be attributed to the history of Russia, to Stalin’s repressions (“the super-reds” simply exterminated the “reds”).

VIII, 80:
The blood of innocent widows and maidens
So much evil has been done by Great Red.
The holy images are immersed in burning wax.
Everyone is stricken with horror, no one moves.

In this quatrain, Nostradamus paints a terrible picture of terror, in particular, the persecution of the church. The best candidate for the role of “Great Red,” of course, is J.V. Stalin.

Let us finally consider the only prediction of Nostradamus that contains a Russian toponym.

III, 95:
(People) will see More's law decline
In front of (the face of) another, more seductive.
Boris Fen will be the first to give in.
Through gifts and more engaging language.

Borysthenes is the ancient name of the Dnieper. Strictly speaking, it is difficult to say which state Nostradamus had in mind, since in the 16th century. The Dnieper flowed through the territory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Nostradamus usually calls religion the law, but here it can be interpreted in a more in a broad sense as a teaching. For the time of Nostradamus, who did not know the word “communism,” “More’s teaching” was a good synonym for it.

Sovietologists, inclined to believe the prophecies of Nostradamus, have long chosen this quatrain as a prediction of the inevitable fall of communism and its replacement by a more attractive (market) system.

The quatrains of Nostradamus are a mysterious part of the legacy of the great soothsayer, alchemist and esotericist. It is believed that the future of all humanity is encrypted in them, but for a long time the quatrains could not be deciphered.

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Centuries and quatrains of Nostradamus - what are they?

Quatrains Nostradamus are poems in which, as is commonly believed, the future is encrypted, seen by a soothsayer who lived several centuries ago. The Seer believed that such information should not be available to every inhabitant of our planet. That is why the poems of Nostradamus are encrypted.

Quatrains are quatrains; the fortuneteller wrote almost a thousand prophetic verses, it is believed. Overall, it is rich and clearly contains a lot of knowledge. However, most of the knowledge accumulated by this esotericist and astrologer has not been deciphered to this day. Most of Nostradamus's notes are incoherent sentences and calculations that are incomprehensible to the uninitiated.

Centuries Nostradamus is books with quatrains. In total he wrote twelve books. Each of them contains approximately one hundred verses. As is known from, he preferred the French language, therefore his legacy was written in the same language. This makes it even more difficult for Russian translators to decipher them. An example of a century that is not interpreted:

The Young Prince is falsely accused (option: he will accuse in vain),
Will bring confusion and discord into the camp, -
The leader will be killed because of support,
The scepter is pacified: then it will heal the sick.

The books of predictions of Nostradamus are a mystery to this day. Interestingly, they are also encrypted, but a considerable part of them became known to a wide circle of people.

The Nostradamus Code - the keys to deciphering prophecies

It is believed that in quatrain 93 of the third century, the prophet himself described how and when his prophecies would be deciphered. The quatrain is translated as follows:

When will they count down another five hundred years?
The one who was the beauty of his generation,
New light will be shed on their revolution,
Which will lead everyone to admiration for the century.

Now it is customary to interpret it as follows - the quatrain was written in 1550. If you count five hundred years from the time of its writing, you get the date - 2050. It is believed that this year a person will appear who will study the so-called Nostradamus code and will be able to reveal its secrets.

To date, there is no single correct version of Nostradamus’ decoding. What the great soothsayer tried to tell future generations remained a mystery. However, perhaps the decipherers of his quatrains are right, and there are only thirty-four years left to wait for someone who can shed light on the secrets of past centuries.

Until then, you can familiarize yourself with popular versions of the French soothsayer code. Thus, Daniel Ruzo in 1962 put forward a version that the will of Nostradamus is actually a code for deciphering his quatrains. The will is recognized by scientists as too strange to fulfill its direct functions - to convey the will of the deceased to the relatives.

The magician's will consists of two parts, and the second part was written exactly 13 days later than the first. It consists of 13 pages. The will contains a requirement to divide all property into 13 unequal parts and give it to 13 heirs. The property consists of 22 cloth, 22 pewter and 22 other objects. The money is received by 22 heirs - nine relatives and 13 beggars. The total amount of ducats is equal to the total number of quatrains in the first century.

Another version calls typos in Nostradamus’s texts in direct letters, which the author himself said in one of his works:

The sacred order will show you in straight letters the treasures of the East and the West.

If we look at the typos of Nostradamus, we can see strange coincidences. Thus, straight letters are given in the amount of 11 pieces. Such typos occur on 11 pages. Page 47 will have special significance, since 4+7=11. There are exactly 11 typos on this page. On other pages there are either 22 or 13 typos.

Nostradamus - message to Henry II and son Caesar

As mentioned above, it is not only the centuries and quatrains of the fortuneteller that are of interest. It is believed that there are some clues that can shed light on the secrets of the future of humanity, and they are found in the will, the message to Henry from Nostradamus, as well as the preface to the quatrains addressed to the son of the fortuneteller Caesar.

Thus, in a letter to Henry, Nostradamus wrote that he was able to calculate and calculate the dates and meaning of prophecies about the future, starting from a certain moment. Based on this phrase from the letter, scientists concluded that the quatrains and centuries of Nostradamus are precisely prophecies, and not just poetry.

The prophecies of Nostradamus indicate the dates from the creation of the world according to the Bible and until those times that have not yet come. The soothsayer himself, in a message to Henry II, indicated that they were used to hide the real dating of future events.

Regarding the written address to his son Caesar, scientists were interested in only one phrase. It translates like this:

The world is approaching an anaragonistic revolution. In 177 years, 3 months and 11 days, the population will be so reduced from pestilence, long famine, wars and floods, between this moment and the specified limit.

It is believed that Nostradamus believed in some kind of collapse of the world or the end of the world, which would happen in 2065-2066. It is from here that the general decline of human civilization will begin, which will continue until 2242.

In general, the predictions of Nostradamus, encrypted in quatrains, may seem interesting to almost everyone. However, as the prophet himself believed, the person who was able to decipher his secrets had not yet been born.

Interpreters of creative heritage Michel Nostradamus today they are looking for indications in his works for 2012, because they are sure that a real predictor would not leave such a date unattended. These expectations are not without meaning, since, judging by the numerous coincidences between the interpretations of Nostradamus’s quatrains and historical events, the 16th-century doctor managed to grasp certain patterns in the development of civilization.

Michel de Notredame was born on December 14, 1503 in the small town of Saint-Rémy in Provence into the family of the notary Jaume de Notredame, who shortly before was forced to choose Catholicism over the Jewish faith (according to the decree of Louis XII that determined the fate of French Jews). The family of the future master of Nostradamus was very wealthy: according to the “Chronicle of Provence” by Cesar de Notredame (one of the sons of Nostradamus), Michel’s great-grandfathers were doctors at the courts of the rulers of Provence - Count Rene the Good and the Duke of Calabria. Relatives of Nostradamus continued to secretly observe the rituals of Judaism. Thus, Michel’s worldview was based on two faiths: first of all, the Jewish one, which was certainly accompanied by an atmosphere of dangerous secrecy, and, of course, the officially introduced Catholicism.

In 1521, Michel de Notredame received his Master of Arts degree in Avignon. The next eight years of the young master’s life fell out of the attention of biographers - according to Nostradamus himself, they were spent in wanderings and research, the purpose of which was to accumulate medical and pharmaceutical knowledge. In 1529 he entered the medical faculty of the University of Montpellier and, despite several conflict situations with teachers, came out with a doctorate and the right to write his last name in the Latin manner: Nostradamus. During the new stage of his wanderings that followed, Nostradamus became close friends with the famous scientist, poet and humanist figure Jules Cesar Scaliger, and then settled in the town of Agen. However, in 1537, a plague came to this city, from which the wife and children of Nostradamus died. A year later, the doctor was imprisoned by the Holy Inquisition on charges of blasphemy - according to an anonymous denunciation, he spoke unflatteringly about one of the sculptures of the Virgin Mary. However, the accusation was found to be false. Once free, Nostradamus soon left Agen - apparently, this happened after a quarrel with Cesar Scaliger, from whom the doctor subsequently received a number of caustic epigrams - including accusations of hidden Judaism.

Michel de Notredame, who gained fame as the greatest seer of all times

For the next few years, Michel de Notredame practiced medicine in Italy and Germany. In 1546, he again found himself in France, where he took an active part in the fight against the plague in the city of Aix in Provence - so active that the city’s parliament awarded the doctor a lifelong pension. A year later, Nostradamus remarried (his second marriage subsequently brought him 6 children).

Soon Nostradamus managed to break through the veil of church censorship and begin publishing an annual astrological almanac. The first issue was published in 1555 in Lyon. At the same time, the first edition of “The Prophecies of Master Michel Nostradamus” was published, which consisted of 353 predictions, made in the form of quatrains (quatrains) and an epistolary preface in the spirit of the times - “Letters to his son Cesar.” But, despite the fact that the Catholic Church had previously given the go-ahead for the publication of the fortuneteller’s works, Nostradamus still had to justify his quatrains again and again in the face of “God’s representatives on Earth.” Then secular power joined the church, which made the astrologer’s life unbearable - he moved from place to place, until in 1558, in the preface to the last part of the “Centuries” (collections of 100 quatrains), he addressed King Henry II. The soothsayer called the monarch the ruler of the world and in an allegorical form revealed to him the future of humanity for many centuries to come. A year later, Henry II died at a tournament, perhaps without having time to familiarize himself with Nostradamus’ extensive message. It is assumed that the predictor wrote about the future death of the king back in the first “Century” (its 35th quatrain), and it is possible that it was thanks to this prediction that turned out to be correct that Nostradamus received an audience with Catherine de Medici.

In 1561, the astrologer was taken into custody in his own house in Provence, in the city of Salon - the authorities demanded that he detailed description life and future achievements of the young king Charles IX. It is known that Nostradamus composed his response letter in such a way that, on the one hand, he gave in to the persistent wishes of those in power, but on the other hand, he did not say anything specific. The text of the letter, unfortunately, has not been preserved.

In 1564, Michel Nostradamus received the post of court physician and so, being at the peak of his career, died from complications of gout on July 2, 1566. Over his grave in the Salon there was a slab with the inscription: “Here lie the bones of the famous Michel Nostradamus, the only mortal who was worthy to capture with his almost divine pen, thanks to the influence of the stars, the future events of the whole world.”

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The first complete edition of “The Prophecies of Master Michel Nostradamus” appeared in 1568 - 2 years after the death of the predictor. It contained all ten "Centuries", which included 942 quatrains - it is known that the seventh "Centuria" remained incomplete. The publication also included the entire prose address to Henry II, consisting of prophecies, and a “Letter to his son Cesar,” explaining the occult views of Nostradamus. It was the quatrains that brought Michel de Notredame the posthumous fame of the greatest, apart from biblical characters, seer in the world.

Nostradamus owes his lifetime popularity to his annual astrological almanacs, which were regularly published from 1555 to 1567. Most of this almanac was occupied by predictions in prose. In addition, one quatrain was dedicated to the next year as a whole and each of its months separately.

Page of the first edition of “The Prophecies of Master Michel Nostradamus”

The prophetic verses of Nostradamus set out the history of the future in an allegorical form, so they can have a lot of different interpretations. This is both their disadvantage and advantage, since it is unknown what the proportion of coincidences would be if the predictor spoke about specific dates and events. It often turns out that one or another quatrain is indeed suitable for describing events that have already happened, but these quatrains can hardly be used for confident forecasts for the future.

This does not prevent followers of Nostradamus from attributing to their idol descriptions of all significant events human history for thousands of years to come. For example, according to interpreters, the 32nd quatrain of the fifth “Century” warns about the American disaster of September 11, 2001:

Where everything is good and beautiful - the Sun and the Moon, abundance -

Ruin is coming,

It will come from the sky to cast your fate

To the state of the seventh stone...

Despite the fact that this prediction is one of those that do not have a chronological reference, thousands of people around the world are confident that Nostradamus still managed to foresee the destruction of the skyscrapers of the World War II that occurred as a result of the terrorist attack. shopping center. In alchemy, the Sun and Moon symbolize gold and silver, and the “seventh stone” (“seventh metal”) is mercury, which in this context signifies destruction. Thus, the quatrain really speaks of a catastrophe coming from heaven to the center of wealth - according to interpreters, this is enough to give specific meaning general prophecy.

However, the legacy of Nostradamus includes many predictions that came true with dates embedded in them. Below are just a few examples of such prophecies.

Thousands of people around the world are confident that Nostradamus managed to foresee the destruction of the World Trade Center skyscrapers that occurred as a result of the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001

Galileo Galilei demonstrates the telescope and sketches of the observations made with its help to the “scientific” cardinals. As is known, church leaders were not imbued with the scientist’s achievements. Or they were imbued with it, but misunderstood them...

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An adapted translation of the 71st quatrain of the eighth “Centuria” into Russian looks like this:

The number of astronomers will increase so much

Persecuted, banished and banned books

In the year 1607 thanks to the holy cups,

That no one can be saved from the holy gifts.

In 1607, Johannes Kepler's work “New Astronomy” was published, laying the foundation for modern astronomy. A year later, the telescope (spotting scope) was invented. The operating principle of this simple device at that time became generally known, which led to a wave of enthusiasm for officially prohibited astronomy. The discoveries of Galileo Galilei and many astronomers who disappeared into obscurity in the basements of the Holy Inquisition and the “Towers of Jesters” (a prison and an insane asylum at the same time) date back to the same time. Few people were truly saved from the “sacred gifts.”

49th quatrain of the first "Century":

Eastern people, led by lunar power,

In 1700 they will make great campaigns,

Almost conquering the corner of Aquilon.

The traditional poetic meaning of Aquilon is “the land of the north wind.” In 1700 began North War Russia and its allies against Sweden, as a result of which the “Aquilon corner” - the Baltic states - went to Russia. Speaking about “people led by lunar power,” the soothsayer, according to interpreters, means that the Northern War (1700-1721) coincides in time with the peak of the astrological epoch of the Moon - therefore, the cause of wars lies in its destructive influence.

25th quatrain of the same “Centuria”:

The lost is found, hidden for a long century,

This pastor will be revered as a demigod

Thus the Moon, having completed its cycle,

Will be defiled by other desires.

According to the concept of planetary ages, formulated by the Jewish philosopher Abraham ibn Ezra in the 12th century, the age of the Moon begins in 1535 and ends in 1889. This year the future “pastor” Adolf Hitler was born. “Demi-god” (superman) is the main figure of the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, whose works inspired Hitler to create his own ideology.

In his message to Henry II - the same one that never reached its immediate addressee, but became the property of mankind - Nostradamus mentions the French Revolution of 1792.

In addition, the same message contains a prediction of the rise and fall of the USSR: “And in the month of October it will happen that some great movement will happen - such that they will think that the colossus of the Earth has lost its natural direction and plunged into eternal darkness. Before this, in the springtime, and after this, there will be exceptional changes and shifts of power, great earthquakes, with the growth of New Babylonia, a despicable daughter, increased by the abomination of the first Holocaust, and it will last only 73 years and 7 months.” Surprisingly, the lifespan Soviet Union indicated here almost without error.

Probably, in the quatrains of Nostradamus one can really find a warning about cataclysms that could befall humanity in 2012 or in the foreseeable future. But even today, when there is not much left until this, apparently, turning point date, it is almost impossible to guess which of the probabilities will prevail first - too many threats to the existence of humanity have converged at one point in time. Therefore, now it is difficult to say what exactly you need to look for in quatrains. Perhaps the quatrain about the catastrophe will be found after the fact - if, of course, there are those willing to look for it in the ruins of human civilization.

For five centuries now, the image of the seer Nostradamus has been an integral part of the cultural space of human civilization. In the picture: fragment from computer game"The Mysteries of Nostradamus. In search of the ring of fate"

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-You don’t know much...
– So little that the meaning of the speeches is
and that one is dark to me.

Lope de Vega

About Nostradamus, the misunderstood prophet

He knew exactly the time and hour of his death and where and how he would die. “Near the bench and bed they will find me dead.” No one was particularly surprised by this prediction. During his lifetime, the great prophet and clairvoyant predicted something else. He was able, amazing his contemporaries, to look into the abyss of the future and predict the events of several centuries of future history.

The night before, Nostradamus announced to his loved ones that he would not survive this night. Relatives, wife and children, began to object, but he stopped them with a movement of his hand and demanded a priest. Father Vidal confessed the dying man and administered holy communion.

In the morning, when we entered the office, we saw Nostradamus dead on the floor between the bench and the bed. This happened on July 2, 1566.

A few days earlier, clearly sensing the imminent end, he ordered how to bury his body. It had to be walled up in the wall of the crypt, built and paid for during his lifetime. Moreover, according to the will, the coffin should have been placed in an upright position. This quirk was explained by the fact that the prophet did not die, but was walled up alive in a crypt, where there were candles, books, paper and ink, so that, sitting at the table, he could continue to describe the future events of the entire Earth according to the influence of the stars.

However, there was another explanation for such strange desire deceased. He himself wrote about this in his will. I didn’t want fools and cowards of all stripes, vulgarities and villains to dance on his grave after his death. Then, apparently, a legend was born that secret papers were walled up with the clairvoyant, which contained the key to all his prophecies.

These legends lived until 1791, when rampaging atheist revolutionaries destroyed the church and desecrated the grave, breaking the marble tombstone. But nothing but a skeleton was found in the grave. Then the blasphemers began to distribute the bones of the great oracle to everyone as souvenirs.

Having heard about the sacrilege, the mayor rushed over. He found the following picture: heavily drunk soldiers national guard And local residents danced around the coffin, in which, to their chagrin, there was nothing valuable. And one guardsman drank wine from the skull of Nostradamus. He was assured that if you drink blood from the skull, you will gain the gift of prophecy. Red wine was apparently considered a suitable substitute for blood.

In horror, the mayor began to admonish the hooligans, reminding them that Nostradamus is the man who foresaw the revolution and therefore deserves all respect.

And the mayor also recalled that Nostradamus foreshadowed a quick violent death for anyone who dared to desecrate his remains. Ashamed and frightened, the soldiers collected the bones and placed them back in the coffin. Later, the remains of the prophet were reburied in the chapel of the Church of St. Lawrence in the city of Salona, ​​where they remain to this day.

As for the seer’s words about retribution for those who dare to disturb his ashes, it soon came true. The soldiers who took part in the atrocities at the grave of Nostradamus, the next day, on the way to Marseille, ran into a royalist ambush and all of them died under their bullets. But if Nostradamus was the author of only this one or a couple of other similar predictions, it is unlikely that he would be remembered today.

Nostradamus owes his posthumous fame primarily to his book “Centuries” (lat. centuria- a hundred, a detachment of one hundred people): prophetic cycles, united by one hundred quatrains in each. The ten-volume work, containing more than a thousand prophecies, is one of those few books that have been in print for more than four hundred years. In essence, this is a unique calendar, as if brought to the present from the distant future with the help of a time machine. To test it, we, living at the turn of the third millennium, are provided with a historical testing ground of more than four centuries. The predictions cover a huge period - from 1555 to 3797. In them the prophet considered many future events. The prophetic gaze of Nostradamus, his “magic mirror,” seemed to penetrate centuries. Unfortunately, we will note this right away, the language in which his quatrains-predictions are written is very difficult to decipher. Latin words and French phrases, Old Provençal phrases and abbreviations, anagrams, etc. make it difficult to read. Many people have been deciphering Nostradamus’s predictions over the past four hundred years. It was possible to decipher mysterious and often incomprehensible verses. They were systematized and given a readable form. And today Nostradamus is read all over the world. Interest in the forecasts of this soothsayer is growing everywhere.

Who is he, this lonely genius, whose all-seeing eyes were scorched by the fire of future wars and disasters?

Centuria I


Sitting alone at night in a secret office,
I lean on a copper stand.
A faint flame escapes from the void,
Making something successful that may have seemed futile.


The magic wand (vine) is placed in the center,
I wet the feet and the edge of the stand.
Fear, thunderous voice, trembling sleeves,
Divine greatness. Divine grace descends.

Apparently, Nostradamus describes in the first verses of Centuria I his way of seeing the future (probably we are talking about the so-called lecanomancy - fortune telling on water in a vessel). Before the prophet’s gaze there appear pictures of the future destinies of mankind, which, being supported by astrological calculations, “make successful what might have seemed in vain” to a mere mortal uninitiated in the secrets of clairvoyance.

Nostradamus can be called a visionary, perceiving “video sequences” of information, seeing pictures of the development of events that affect more than one century. Bulgarian clairvoyant Vanga accurately noted that “people have eyes and do not see, they have ears and do not hear, and that is why they will not soon read the Truth.” The main work of Nostradamus is five thousand lines of poetry, in which the destinies of states and peoples are encoded.

If you ask yourself what has come true, you can get different answers. Perhaps what “did not come true” was deciphered incorrectly? In the centuries there are texts that seem to be written without any encryption, but mostly the lines of foresight are encoded in a special way.

The death of Henry II, the crown and the imminent death of his three sons were predicted exactly; crown for Henry IV, the tragic death of Queen Mary Stuart of Scots is predicted. He saw the execution of Louis XVI, the bloody terror of the revolution. He predicted Marx and the new society - "The Commune is coming." In an incomprehensible way, Napoleon and Hitler were “brought out of darkness”, in Nostradamus - Napoloron And Hister.

In the 16th century, Nostradamus predicted two world wars, military operations in the air and under water, Hitler's aggressions, and the assassination of the Kennedy brothers. He foresaw the creation atomic bomb, space flights, religious fanatics coming to power in Iran. He predicted a war in the Middle East, in which the world's major powers would participate, as well as the coming of the Antichrist. He spoke about uniting the forces of Russia and the United States, albeit for a short time, and warned of a religious war, during which the Vatican would be forced to move the tomb of St. Peter to a safe place.

Quite recently, a most curious manuscript, not previously published, was found. Probably, shortly before his death, Michel wrote a series of predictions, so sensational that he introduced them only to European monarchs. The manuscript was considered lost, but was discovered in a hiding place in the house where the master rested. These predictions are called "Black". How did the author of divine predictions appear in the world? Many of his predictions concern the second coming of the Messiah and the appearance of the Antichrist. Most experts consider him a messenger of God, others - a messenger of the future or an alien. Indeed, on the night before the birth of the prophet, astronomers observed extraordinary cosmic activity. Evidence confirming the appearance of round sparkling objects in the sky over Saint-Rémy (France) is documented and stored in the archives of the city of Salon in the south of France.

The prophecies of Nostradamus are unique even if you don’t wonder what came true. This is a phenomenon that has no equal. Many theories have been put forward and are being put forward about him, even this one - “life in reverse.”

At that time, Europe was at the mercy of astrologers, magicians, and secret organizations; occultism flourished in full bloom. Poisoners were becoming fashionable. Charles IX, who once visited Nostradamus, was slipped a book soaked in poison, and John of Austria fell lifeless, wearing poisoned shoes. Women's lipsticks also contained poison. It is believed that Henry of Navarre was poisoned with a kiss by Madame de Sauve. Hunters for the lives of kings and peers made wax dolls by inserting needles into them. At such a time Michel was born.

He was born on December 14, 1503 in the small French town of Saint-Rémy. His father is Jacques le Notredame, his mother is Rene de Saint-Rémy. He came, contrary to popular belief, not from a family of doctors, but from a family of grain traders. Only his paternal great-grandfather, Abram Solomon, was a court physician. He served under the general of Calabria. Since the boy came from the middle class, he was characterized by such character traits as frugality, practicality, and the ability to save money. Despite this, his family did not skimp on the education of their eldest son. There were many talented people in their family; Michel's father was also a remarkably gifted man, and his son received his first lessons from him. Afterwards he was sent to Avignon, where he studied philosophy and received the title of Master of Arts. He then went to Montpellier to study medicine. In this establishment, the Duke of Anjou allowed the dissection of corpses.

In 1534, Michel received his doctorate in medicine and began formal medical practice. The inheritance that Michel receives from his father was equal to... five florins. He spent the rest of the money on his studies. Medicine at that time was at an extremely low level. People still knew nothing about bacteria, microorganisms; The microscope was invented only in the 17th century. None of the doctors could have imagined that many diseases are spread by airborne droplets. Ignorance of microbiology made even dissection of corpses a pointless exercise. The most popular action was bloodletting. Then among doctors there was a distinction between doctors and healers; It was the healers who performed the operations: they opened abscesses and set dislocations. Surgical operations were carried out without anesthesia, without observing the rules of sanitation and hygiene. Doctors did not operate - it was considered a dirty business; they prescribed powders and mixtures. In addition, they read the “smart” books of Aristotle. The doctors, however, were not to blame for the fact that medicine was at such a level.

The children of King Francis I died of unknown diseases and could not be saved. The king himself died of tuberculosis; When he was opened, many other diseases were discovered. And this is in the family of kings! What can we say about ordinary people. However, already in those days there were many talented progressive minds, including Paracelsus, Girolamo Fracastoro, Miguel Servet and others.

In 1536, Michel settled in Agen, or rather in its outskirts. There he married for the first time Henrietta d'Encausse, with whom, according to legend, he had two children. There he meets the scientist Scaliger, who becomes his friend and teacher. Jules Cesar Scaliger - scientist, doctor, humanist, philologist, literary critic, critic - studied ancient ancient texts. He was called the French Erasmus. Communication with this man had a huge impact on the formation of Michel's worldview. In 1552 he wrote about him: "A learned and learned man, a personage whom I know not with whom can be compared except Plutarch or Marcus Varro."

Michel's family idyll did not last long - two years after the wedding, Henrietta and the children die from an unknown illness. Michel leaves Agen and wanders for nine years. Little is known about these years. He was seen in different cities - Venice, Bordeaux, Turin, Alsace, Lyon.

There is a legend that Nostradamus was a brilliant doctor and allegedly cured entire cities from the plague, but this is not so: he was a doctor of his time, fought the plague using tablets independently prepared from rose petals, green cypress sawdust, and aromatic reed. During an epidemic, balls of these ingredients were supposed to be kept in the mouth. Volatile flavorings warded off infection, and many who used them did not become infected with the plague, which Michel took part in the fight against in 1544. It was in Marseille.

The infection began in port cities, spread by ship rats. From Marseilles the plague migrates to the city of Aix in Provence, where it lasts for nine months. Nostradamus is going there. His success in preventing the plague was so great that in 1546 he received an award from the Parliament of Aix in the form of a “lifelong pension” for his success in the medical field.

The plague was raging. Since 1347, it has devastated areas from China to Europe, claiming millions of lives. For 300 years, plague was the scourge of Europe. But even after that she returned periodically; no one knew how to deal with it. In the 17th century, 35 thousand people died from the plague in London, later - about 20 thousand.

Michel roams the Provençal soil. Where it appears, the plague recedes. Success is due to the observance of hygiene rules and the use of his extraordinary pills. His wanderings end in 1547 in Lyon. In the same year he settled in the city of Salone, where he lived until his death. He marries the widow Anne Ponsard Gemellier. Six children are born from this marriage.

Michel's career began to take off in 1551. Then he begins publishing his almanacs, signing them with the pseudonym Nostradamus (the phrase “Nostra Damus” can be translated from Latin as “we give”, “we give ours”). These almanacs were extremely popular, because they were written in a lively, original and interesting way. Readers found in them many forecasts - everyday, agricultural, political. And most of them came true. Year by year, the books became more voluminous, and Michel's fame grew more and more. And finally, his book falls into the hands of the august couple - King Henry II and his wife Catherine de Medici.

In the summer of 1555, he was invited to an audience at the palace. Catherine de Medici was keenly interested in astrology and various kinds of predictions. She was attracted by everything mystical, she surrounded herself talented people, and she herself was a well-educated person who knew several languages. The visit went smoothly and successfully. For his visit, however, the visionary astrologer received only 120 ecus, which was not even enough to pay for travel.

At the same time, his famous book “The Prophecies of Master Michel Nostradamus” was published - the work of his whole life. It was a collection of 942 quatrains, which later became known as quatrains, combined into chapters of one hundred quatrains - centuries. The book included two prophecies in the form of letters to his son Cesar and King Henry II. The Prophecies were published three times, each time with additions and corrections. Almanacs were more popular at that time; they were published in all major cities of Europe at that time, with the exception of Spain, where the power of the Inquisition was strong.

Michel and Catherine de' Medici continued to communicate in letters, and in 1564 the queen and her son Charles and their retinue visited the town of Salon in person. The result was Michel’s appointment as the king’s personal physician, which was a great success. With a minimum of work, this position brought a good income. However, by this time Nostradamus was already seriously ill - arthritis and gout tormented him more and more. It is believed that he passed away from gout.

He died on the day predicted in advance - July 2, 1566. Dr. Chavigny de Benoit was present and described everything. When they said goodbye for the night, Michel said that they would not see each other again. Shortly before this, he wrote on the star calendar of Jean Stadium in Latin: “Death approaches here.” Above his grave there is an epitaph: “Here lie the bones of Michel Nostradamus, whose almost divine pen, by all accounts, was worthy to inform and inscribe to people the influence of the stars on the future. He died at Salona, ​​in the year of grace 1566, on July 2, being 62 years, 6 months and 17 days old. O descendant, do not touch this dust and do not envy the peace of the one lying here.”

“I compiled prophetic books containing one hundred quatrains of astronomical prophecies, the meaning of which I deliberately riveted and which were brought up to 3797. For, according to the heavenly signs, the world is approaching the anaragonistic revolution, and according to the manifest Judgment of Heaven, when we are yet in the seventh number of the thousand, which will complete all, approaching the eighth, when the Great and Eternal God will complete the revolution.”

Currently, hundreds of books and articles have been published on the predictions of Nostradamus. Commentators on the centuries of the soothsayer interpret them in completely different ways and interpret quatrains predicting the future as they please. Numerous attempts have been made to decipher the quatrains using various ways decryption, but they were not particularly successful. Nostradamus randomly scattered the quatrains across different centuries in order to make it difficult to understand their subtext. It is believed that until the true sequence of alternation of quatrains is established, we will not be able to establish true meaning one or another prediction. However, it would be reasonable to assume that the Nostradamus cipher for determining the order of quatrain numbers should be quite simple. Next, we will outline an attempt to decipher the “Nostradamus code” undertaken by V. Simonov, the author of many books, to one degree or another related to predictions of the future.

When carefully studying the text of the centuries, attention is immediately drawn to the first two quatrains of Century I (they were given above), which are connected by a single meaning - 1–1 and 1–2, which describe the methods used by the prophet to predict the future. The next quatrain, undoubtedly dedicated to the same topic, is 3–2. Please note that this century serial number is equal to the sum of the previous two numbers (1 + 2 = 3). If you follow this method and use the sum of the values ​​of the previous numbers, then the next quatrain will be numbered 3–5 (3 + 2 = 5). Moreover, the resulting value will already be the number of the quatrain. The next quatrain, dedicated to the same event, is 3–4. In these two paired quatrains, Nostradamus indicates the beginning of the dating of his centuries with the help of quite rare phenomenon- eclipses of the Sun and Moon, which will occur with a short interval in time: “close and far from the eclipses of the two great luminaries, which will occur between April and March.” With the help of modern electronic astronomical encyclopedias, it is quite simple to establish when these events occurred: April 9, 1400, and the off-central solar year is March 26, 1400.

It was no coincidence that Nostradamus included in his centuries a description of the events of the past in order to complicate the decipherment of quatrains relating to the future. However, he did not hide this: “I have calculated almost as many events of the future as the events of past years, including the present,” he writes in “Letter to Henry II.” According to the discovered pattern, the next quatrains in the sequence chain will be numbers 4–7 and 4–11. But already in quatrain 4-15, Nostradamus uses another encryption method, widely used in his era - writing text and numbers from right to left. This is exactly the technique that Leonardo da Vinci used to record his works on mechanics and anatomy. If we read the quatrain number 4-15 from right to left, we get a completely different number - 4-51. Next, the prophet further complicates the encoding of the sequence of quatrains, using all four arithmetic operations, as well as n + 1 and n – 1, where n is the number of the previous quatrain or century. A favorite technique of Nostradamus, used to encode the sequence of quatrain numbers and dates, was his habit of inverting 6 and 9. For example, the number 6-66 can be written in several versions - 9-66, 6-96, 6-99, etc. These the reversals made it very difficult to decipher the numbering sequence of the quatrains. Make sense of such gobbledygook to an ordinary person, without the use of modern computer technology, is completely impossible, since there are too many options for reading the numbers.

Based on the above deciphering technique and using as reference points the numbers of quatrains, the dates of which are most likely established, as well as astronomical data given by the seer (years of conjunction of the planets), it is possible to determine the true order of alternation of quatrains. For modern computer technology, which performs millions of operations per second, decrypting even a very complex password is a fairly simple task. It is the matter of time. In our case, the task is simplified even more, since only numbers are used.

As a result of deciphering the centuries, a curious sequence of quatrains was obtained, which begins with the number 1–1 and ends with the number 10–99. But this chain of quatrains included only half of the 942 quatrains.

Preface to the Collection

This project was conceived in 2003 - on the eve of the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the most famous soothsayer of our era. The collection of translations of his prophetic texts is the main and most valuable part of the new project. It took approximately two years to prepare and implement it. At the end of autumn 2005, Russian-speaking admirers of Nostradamus’s work received what they had been missing for so long - grouped into blocks best options Russian translations of Centuries. Researchers of all stripes can now rely on a single textual basis in search of the “key” that allows them to crack the main cipher of Nostradamus’ “superpuzzle”.

The Collection mainly includes the so-called “classical” translations. At one time, they were carried out by professional translators using photocopies of the “source” texts. Here the text in modern language is presented as the “source” French.

The prophetic legacy of Nostradamus presented in this project includes:

968 verses (quatrains), collected in twelve books (Centuries),
- two prose messages - to the Son of Caesar and Henry the Second,
- one letter addressed to the canons of the city of Orange.
- a will with an addition to it.

In addition, the first part of Nostradamus’s previously unknown book “Interpretation of the Hieroglyphs of Horapollo” is presented here.

It is necessary to separately mention one additional non-systemic quatrain with the conditional number “1001”. It is included in the total number of quatrains (968). Some researchers are inclined to attribute it to the 10th Century. However, in the Collection, for certain reasons, this quatrain is deliberately separated into an independent part. This is discussed in more detail in the “Deciphering Prophecies” section.

About translations

A collection of Russian translations of Nostradamus' prophecies is included in a separate part of the information project. There are four translation options. Of these, the first two are presented in full. The remaining options are partial.

First option translation, standing in the block immediately after the “source” text (in modern French), was made by professional Kyiv translators V.B. Burbelo and E.A. Solomarskaya. This translation was first published in 1991 by the Kiev publishing house “Lybid under the general title - “The Prophecies of Michel Nostradamus, revised and corrected from a copy printed in Lyon by Benoit Rigaud in 1568.” Subsequently, the above-mentioned texts of Kyiv translators received wide and uncontrolled distribution throughout the worldwide information network, settling on various sites of Nostradamus admirers.

Second option translation was published in the famous book “Nostradamus: a look through the centuries. Centuries", published in 1999 by the Moscow publishing house Bookman. At the very beginning of the main section of “Centuria” (p. 186) it is noted that the translation from Old French was carried out by Leonid Zdanovich. However, upon closer examination, it turned out that the texts presented in this book as translations are in fact a simplified version (unauthorized interpolation) of the translation of the above-mentioned Kyiv professionals. However, regarding the translation, the brief annotation to this book says that this is “a complete (interlinear, and, therefore, not distorted by a zealous translator) collected works of Michel Nostradamus.” A thorough check of the texts of the writer Zdanovich showed that they contain a lot of technical typos. In this Collection they have been eliminated and included in a special list.

Third option translation (separate selective quatrains) was performed by an astrologer, candidate historical sciences, famous specialist in predictions Alexei Penzensky.
http://nostradamiana.astrologer.ru/orig_art/nostrad05.html

Fourth option translation (individual selective quatrains) was carried out by an author who wished to remain anonymous. They are published on the worldwide information network in the book “The Newest Decipherment of Nostradamus.” http://waplib.com.ua/book/88314/

Book translation“Interpretation of the hieroglyphs of Grapollo” (1st part) was performed by Denis Morozov. In 2004, his translation was published by the AST publishing house under other names: “The Message of Nostradamus. Interpretation of the hieroglyphs of Horapollo." Moscow, AST, Astrel, 2004. The author of the translation in his open letter suggests that this became possible due to the fact that he communicated with the editors not directly, but through an intermediary who turned out to be dishonest.

Appeal to readers

The author of the project hopes that the appearance of this Collection on the global information network will activate the emergence in the Russian-speaking environment of a community (association) of independent researchers inspired by a common goal - to present to the world a compelling justification for the special significance of the works of Michel Nostradamus. The organizing core of the new community can be an advanced group of independent researchers who show a special tendency to penetrate into the depths of phenomena. Popularization of information arising from the deciphering of the prophetic legacy of Nostradamus will contribute to the reconstruction of a holistic, unified Knowledge of the World.

Please report any inaccuracies and technical typos found in the translation texts to the author of the project. You can also send other acceptable translations of Nostradamus texts with a brief justification for the changes made, or any additions. Options for the most successful translations will be included in subsequent issues of the Collection.