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Michel de Nostredame

Nostradamus: original portrait by his son Cesar

Born 14 December or 21 December 1503Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France

Died 2 July 1566 (aged 62)Salon-de-Provence, France

Occupation Apothecary, author, translator, astrological consultant

Known for Prophecy, treating Plague

Michel de Nostredame[1] (14 or 21 December 1503[2] – 2 July 1566), usually Latinised to Nostradamus, was a French apothecary and reputed seer who published collections of prophecies that have since become famous worldwide. He is best known for his book Les Propheties (The Prophecies), the first edition of which appeared in 1555. Since the publication of this book, which has rarely been out of print since his death, Nostradamus has attracted a following that, along with the popular press, credits him with predicting many major world events.

Most academic sources maintain that the associations made between world events and Nostradamus's quatrains are largely the result of misinterpretations or mistranslations (sometimes deliberate) or else are so tenuous as to render them useless as evidence of any genuine predictive power.[3] Nevertheless, occasional commentators have successfully used a process of free interpretation and determined 'twisting' of their words to predict an apparently imminent event. In 1867, three years before it happened, for example, Le Pelletier did so to

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anticipate either the triumph or the defeat of Napoleon III in a war that, in the event, begged to be identified as the Franco-Prussian war, while admitting that he could not specify either which or when.[4]

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Biography

Nostredame's claimed birthplace before its recent renovation, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence

Childhood

Born on 14, or 21 December 1503[2] in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in the south of France, where his claimed birthplace still exists, Michel de Nostredame was one of at least nine children of Reynière (or Renée) de Saint-Rémy and grain dealer and notary Jaume (or Jacques) de Nostredame. The latter's family had originally been Jewish, but Jaume's father, Guy Gassonet, had converted to Catholicism around 1455, taking the Christian name "Pierre" and the surname "Nostredame" (the latter apparently from the saint's day on which his conversion was solemnized).[5] Michel's known siblings included Delphine, Jean I (c. 1507–77), Pierre, Hector, Louis, Bertrand, Jean II (born 1522) and Antoine (born 1523).[3][5][6] Little else is known about his childhood, although there is a persistent tradition that he was educated by his maternal great-grandfather Jean de St. Rémy[7]—a tradition which is somewhat undermined by the fact that the latter disappears from the historical record after 1504, when the child was only one year old.[8]

Student years

At the age of 15[9] Nostredame entered the University of Avignon to study for his baccalaureate. After little more than a year (when he would have studied the regular trivium of grammar, rhetoric and logic, rather than the later quadrivium of geometry, arithmetic, music and astronomy/astrology), he was forced to leave Avignon when the university closed its doors in the

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face of an outbreak of the plague. After leaving Avignon, Nostredame (according to his own account) travelled the countryside for eight years from 1521 researching herbal remedies. In 1529, after some years as an apothecary, he entered the University of Montpellier to study for a doctorate in medicine. He was expelled shortly afterwards by the university's procurator, Guillaume Rondelet, when it was discovered that he had been an apothecary, a "manual trade" expressly banned by the university statutes,[10] and had been slandering doctors.[11] The expulsion document (BIU Montpellier, Register S 2 folio 87) still exists in the faculty library.[3] However, some of his publishers and correspondents would later call him "Doctor". After his expulsion, Nostredame continued working, presumably still as an apothecary, and became famous for creating a "rose pill" that supposedly protected against the plague.[12]

Marriage and healing work

In 1531 Nostredame was invited by Jules-César Scaliger, a leading Renaissance scholar, to come to Agen.[5] There he married a woman of uncertain name (possibly Henriette d'Encausse), who bore him two children.[13] In 1534 his wife and children died, presumably from the plague. After their deaths, he continued to travel, passing through France and possibly Italy.[5]

Nostradamus's house at Salon-de-Provence, as reconstructed after the 1909 Lambesc earthquake

On his return in 1545, he assisted the prominent physician Louis Serre in his fight against a major plague outbreak in Marseille, and then tackled further outbreaks of disease on his own in Salon-de-Provence and in the regional capital, Aix-en-Provence. Finally, in 1547, he settled in Salon-de-Provence in the house which exists today, where he married a rich widow named Anne Ponsarde, with whom he had six children—three daughters and three sons.[5] Between 1556 and 1567 he and his wife acquired a one-thirteenth share in a huge canal project organized by Adam de Craponne to irrigate largely waterless Salon-de-Provence and the nearby Désert de la Crau from the river Durance.[8]

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After another visit to Italy, Nostredame began to move away from medicine and toward the occult. Following popular trends, he wrote an almanac for 1550, for the first time Latinizing his name from Nostredame to Nostradamus. He was so encouraged by the almanac's success that he decided to write one or more annually. Taken together, they are known to have contained at least 6,338 prophecies,[3][14] as well as at least eleven annual calendars, all of them starting on 1 January and not, as is sometimes supposed, in March. It was mainly in response to the almanacs that the nobility and other prominent persons from far away soon started asking for horoscopes and "psychic" advice from him, though he generally expected his clients to supply the birth charts on which these would be based, rather than calculating them himself as a professional astrologer would have done. When obliged to attempt this himself on the basis of the published tables of the day, he always made numerous errors, and never adjusted the figures for his clients' place or time of birth.[6][8] (Refer to the analysis of these charts by Brind'Amour, 1993, and compare Gruber's comprehensive critique of Nostradamus’ horoscope for Crown Prince Rudolph Maximilian.)[15]

He then began his project of writing a book of one thousand mainly French quatrains,[16] which constitute the largely undated prophecies for which he is most famous today. Feeling vulnerable to opposition on religious grounds,[3] however, he devised a method of obscuring his meaning by using "Virgilianized" syntax, word games and a mixture of other languages such as Greek, Italian, Latin, and Provençal.[3] For technical reasons connected with their publication in three installments (the publisher of the third and last installment seems to have been unwilling to start it in the middle of a "Century," or book of 100 verses), the last fifty-eight quatrains of the seventh "Century" have not survived into any extant edition.

The quatrains, published in a book titled Les Propheties (The Prophecies), received a mixed reaction when they were published. Some people thought Nostradamus was a servant of evil, a fake, or insane, while many of the elite thought his quatrains were spiritually-inspired prophecies. In the light of their post-Biblical sources (see under Nostradamus' sources below), Nostradamus himself encouraged this belief. Catherine de Médicis, the queen consort of King Henri II of France, was one of Nostradamus' greatest admirers. After reading his almanacs for 1555, which hinted at unnamed threats to the royal family, she summoned him to Paris to explain them and to draw up horoscopes for her children. At the time, he feared that he would be beheaded,[17] but by the time of his death in 1566, Catherine had made him Counselor and Physician-in-Ordinary to her son, the young King Charles IX of France.

Some accounts of Nostradamus's life state that he was afraid of being persecuted for heresy by the Inquisition, but neither prophecy nor astrology fell in this bracket, and he would have been in danger only if he had practiced magic to support them. In fact, his relationship with the Church was always excellent.[18] His brief imprisonment at Marignane in late 1561 came about purely because he had published his 1562 almanac without the prior permission of a bishop, contrary to a recent royal decree.[18]

Final years and death

Nostradamus' current tomb in the Collégiale Saint-Laurent, Salon, into which his scattered remains were transferred after 1789.

By 1566, Nostradamus's gout, which had plagued him painfully for many years and made movement very difficult, turned into oedema, or dropsy. In late June he summoned his lawyer to draw up an extensive will bequeathing his property plus 3,444 crowns (around $300,000 US today), minus a few debts, to his wife pending her remarriage, in trust for her sons pending their twenty-fifth birthdays and her daughters pending their marriages. This was followed by a much shorter codicil.[5] On the evening of 2 July, he is alleged to have told his secretary Jean de Chavigny, "You will not find me alive at sunrise." The next morning he was reportedly found dead, lying on the floor next to his bed and a bench (Presage 141 [originally 152] for November 1567, as posthumously edited by Chavigny to fit what happened).[3][14] He was buried in the local Franciscan chapel in Salon (part of it now incorporated into the restaurant La Brocherie) but re-interred during the French Revolution in the Collégiale Saint-Laurent, where his tomb remains to this day.[5]

Works

Copy of Garencières' 1672 English translation of the Propheties, located in The P.I. Nixon Medical History Library of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

In The Prophecies he compiled his collection of major, long-term predictions. The first installment was published in 1555. The second, with 289 further prophetic verses, was printed in 1557. The third edition, with three hundred new quatrains, was reportedly printed in 1558, but now only survives as part of the omnibus edition that was published after his death in 1568. This

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version contains one unrhymed and 941 rhymed quatrains, grouped into nine sets of 100 and one of 42, called "Centuries".

Given printing practices at the time (which included type-setting from dictation), no two editions turned out to be identical, and it is relatively rare to find even two copies that are exactly the same. Certainly there is no warrant for assuming—as would-be "code-breakers" are prone to do—that either the spellings or the punctuation of any edition are Nostradamus' originals.[8]

The Almanacs: by far the most popular of his works, these were published annually from 1550 until his death. He often published two or three in a year, entitled either Almanachs (detailed predictions), Prognostications or Presages (more generalized predictions).

Nostradamus was not only a diviner, but a professional healer. It is known that he wrote at least two books on medical science. One was an extremely free translation (i.e. a "paraphrase") of The Protreptic of Galen (Paraphrase de C. GALIEN, sus l'Exhortation de Menodote aux estudes des bonnes Artz, mesmement Medicine), and in his so-called Traité des fardemens (basically a medical cookbook containing, once again, materials borrowed mainly from others) he included a description of the methods he used to treat the plague – none of which, not even the bloodletting, apparently worked. The same book also describes the preparation of cosmetics.

A manuscript normally known as the Orus Apollo also exists in the Lyon municipal library, where upwards of 2,000 original documents relating to Nostradamus are stored under the aegis of Michel Chomarat. It is a purported translation of an ancient Greek work on Egyptian hieroglyphs based on later Latin versions, all of them unfortunately ignorant of the true meanings of the ancient Egyptian script, which was not correctly deciphered until Champollion in the 19th century.

Since his death only the Prophecies have continued to be popular, but in this case they have been quite extraordinarily so. Over two hundred editions of them have appeared in that time, together with over 2,000 commentaries. Their popularity seems to be partly due to the fact that their vagueness and lack of dating make it easy to quote them selectively after every major dramatic event and retrospectively claim them as "hits" (see Nostradamus in popular culture).

Origins of The Prophecies

Nostradamus claimed to base his published predictions on judicial astrology—the astrological 'judgement', or assessment, of the 'quality' (and thus potential) of events such as births, weddings, coronations etc.—but was heavily criticized by professional astrologers of the day such as Laurens Videl[3] for incompetence and for assuming that "comparative horoscopy" (the comparison of future planetary configurations with those accompanying known past events) could actually predict what would happen in the future.[8]

Recent research suggests that much of his prophetic work paraphrases collections of ancient end-of-the-world prophecies (mainly Bible-based), supplemented with references to historical events and anthologies of omen reports, and then projects those into the future in part with the aid of comparative horoscopy. Hence the many predictions involving ancient figures such as Sulla,

Gaius Marius, Nero, and others, as well as his descriptions of "battles in the clouds" and "frogs falling from the sky." Astrology itself is mentioned only twice in Nostradamus's Preface and 41 times in the Centuries themselves, but more frequently in his dedicatory Letter to King Henri II. In the last quatrain of his sixth century he specifically attacks astrologers.

His historical sources include easily identifiable passages from Livy, Suetonius, Plutarch and other classical historians, as well as from medieval chroniclers such as Geoffrey of Villehardouin and Jean Froissart. Many of his astrological references are taken almost word for word from Richard Roussat's Livre de l'estat et mutations des temps of 1549–50.

One of his major prophetic sources was evidently the Mirabilis Liber of 1522, which contained a range of prophecies by Pseudo-Methodius, the Tiburtine Sibyl, Joachim of Fiore, Savonarola and others (his Preface contains 24 biblical quotations, all but two in the order used by Savonarola).[19] This book had enjoyed considerable success in the 1520s, when it went through half a dozen editions (see External links below for facsimiles and translations) but did not sustain its influence, perhaps owing to its mostly Latin text, Gothic script and many difficult abbreviations. Nostradamus was one of the first to re-paraphrase these prophecies in French, which may explain why they are credited to him. It should be noted that modern views of plagiarism did not apply in the 16th century. Authors frequently copied and paraphrased passages without acknowledgement, especially from the classics.The latest research suggests that he may in fact have used bibliomancy for this—randomly selecting a book of history or prophecy and taking his cue from whatever page it happened to fall open at.[9]

Further material was gleaned from the De honesta disciplina of 1504 by Petrus Crinitus,[8] which included extracts from Michael Psellos's De daemonibus, and the De Mysteriis Aegyptiorum (Concerning the mysteries of Egypt...), a book on Chaldean and Assyrian magic by Iamblichus, a 4th century Neo-Platonist. Latin versions of both had recently been published in Lyon, and extracts from both are paraphrased (in the second case almost literally) in his first two verses, the first of which is appended to this article. While it is true that Nostradamus claimed in 1555 to have burned all of the occult works in his library, no one can say exactly what books were destroyed in this fire. The fact that they reportedly burned with an unnaturally brilliant flame suggests, however, that some of them were manuscripts on vellum, which was routinely treated with saltpeter.

Only in the 17th century did people start to notice his reliance on earlier, mainly classical sources.[20] This may help explain the fact that, during the same period, The Prophecies reportedly came into use in France as a classroom reader.[21]

Nostradamus's reliance on historical precedent is reflected in the fact that he explicitly rejected the label prophet (i.e. a person having prophetic powers of his own) on several occasions:[3][8]

Although, my son, I have used the word prophet, I would not attribute to myself a title of such lofty sublimity – Preface to César, 1555 (see caption to illustration above)[22]

Not that I would attribute to myself either the name or the role of a prophet – Preface to César, 1555[22]

[S]ome of [the prophets] predicted great and marvelous things to come: [though] for me, I in no way attribute to myself such a title here. – Letter to King Henri II, 1558[23]

I do but make bold to predict (not that I guarantee the slightest thing at all), thanks to my researches and the consideration of what judicial Astrology promises me and sometimes gives me to know, principally in the form of warnings, so that folk may know that with which the celestial stars do threaten them. Not that I am foolish enough to pretend to be a prophet. Open letter to Privy Councillor (later Chancellor) Birague, 15 June 1566[3]

His rejection of the title prophet is consistent with the fact[3] that he entitled his book

Detail from title-page of the original 1555 (Albi) edition of Nostradamus's Les Propheties

(a title that, in French, as easily means "The Prophecies, by M. Michel Nostradamus"—which is what they were—as "The Prophecies of M. Michel Nostradamus", which, except in a few cases, they were not, other than in the manner of their editing, expression and reapplication to the future).

Given this reliance on literary sources, it is doubtful[3] whether Nostradamus used any particular methods for entering a trance state, other than contemplation, meditation and incubation. His sole description of this process is contained in letter 41[24] of his collected Latin correspondence.[3] The popular legend that he attempted the ancient methods of flame gazing, water gazing or both simultaneously is based on a naive reading of his first two verses, which merely liken his efforts to those of the Delphic and Branchidic oracles. The first of these is reproduced at the bottom of this article and the second can be seen by visiting the relevant facsimile site (see External Links). In his dedication to King Henri II, Nostradamus describes "emptying my soul, mind and heart of all care, worry and unease through mental calm and tranquility", but his frequent references to the "bronze tripod" of the Delphic rite are usually preceded by the words "as though" (compare, once again, External References to the original texts).

InterpretationsMost of the quatrains deal with disasters, such as plagues, earthquakes, wars, floods, invasions, murders, droughts, and battles—all undated and based on foreshadowings by the Mirabilis Liber. Some quatrains cover these disasters in overall terms; others concern a single person or small group of people. Some cover a single town, others several towns in several countries. A major, underlying theme is an impending invasion of Europe by Muslim forces from further east and south headed by the expected Antichrist, directly reflecting the then-current Ottoman invasions and the earlier Saracen (that is, Arab) equivalents, as well as the prior expectations of the Mirabilis Liber.[3] All of this is presented in the context of the supposedly imminent end of the

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world—even though this is not in fact mentioned[25] – a conviction that sparked numerous collections of end-time prophecies at the time, not least an unpublished collection by Christopher Columbus.[26]

Nostradamus has been credited, for the most part in hindsight (see under 'Alternative views' below), with predicting numerous events in world history, from the Great Fire of London, and the rise of Napoleon and Adolf Hitler, to the 11 September attacks on the World Trade Center.[15]

In 1992 one commentator who claimed to be able to contact Nostradamus under hypnosis even had him 'interpreting' his own verse X.6 (a prediction specifically about floods in southern France around the city of Nîmes and people taking refuge in its collosse, or Colosseum, a Roman amphitheatre now known as the Arènes) as a prediction of an undated attack on the Pentagon, despite the historical seer's clear statement in his dedicatory letter to King Henri II[27] that his prophecies were about Europe, North Africa and part of Asia Minor.[28] Skeptics such as James Randi suggest that his reputation as a prophet is largely manufactured by modern-day supporters who fit his words to events that have either already occurred or are so imminent as to be inevitable, a process sometimes known as "retroactive clairvoyance" (postdiction). Thus, no Nostradamus quatrain is known to have been interpreted as predicting a specific event before it occurred, other than in vague, general terms that could equally apply to any number of other events.[29] This even applies to quatrains that contain specific dates, such as III.77, which predicts 'in 1727, in October, the king of Persia [shall be] captured by those of Egypt' — a prophecy that has, as ever, been interpreted retrospectively in the light of later events, in this case as though it presaged the known peace treaty between the Ottoman Empire and Persia of that year.[30] Moreover no quatrain suggests, as is often claimed by books and films on the alleged Mayan Prophecy, that the world will end in December 2012.[31] In his preface to the Prophecies, Nostradamus himself stated that his prophecies extend 'from now to the year 3797'[32]—an extraordinary date which, given that the preface was written in 1555, may have more than a little to do with the fact that 2242 (3797-1555) had recently been proposed by his major astrological source Richard Roussat as a possible date for the end of the world.[33]

Alternative viewsA range of quite different views are expressed in printed literature and on the Internet. At one end of the spectrum, there are extreme academic views such as those of Jacques Halbronn, suggesting at great length and with great complexity that Nostradamus's Prophecies are antedated forgeries written by later hands with a political axe to grind. Most other specialists in the field reject this view.

At the other end of the spectrum, there are numerous fairly recent popular books, and thousands of private websites, suggesting not only that the Prophecies are genuine but that Nostradamus was a true prophet. Due to the subjective nature of these interpretations, however, no two of them agree on exactly what he predicted, whether for the past or for the future.[6] Many of these do agree, though, that particular predictions refer, for example, to the French Revolution, Napoleon, Adolf Hitler,[3][34] both world wars, and the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There is also an evident consensus among popular authors that he predicted whatever major event had just happened at the time of each book's publication, from the Apollo moon landings, through the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997, and the Space Shuttle

Challenger disaster in 1986,[35] to the events of 9/11: this 'movable feast' aspect appears to be characteristic of the genre.[6]

Possibly the first of these books to become popular in English was Henry C. Roberts' The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus of 1947, reprinted at least seven times during the next forty years, which contained both transcriptions and translations, with brief commentaries. This was followed in 1961 (reprinted in 1982) by Edgar Leoni's Nostradamus and His Prophecies. After that came Erika Cheetham's The Prophecies of Nostradamus, incorporating a reprint of the posthumous 1568 edition, which was reprinted, revised and republished several times from 1973 onwards, latterly as The Final Prophecies of Nostradamus. This served as the basis for the documentary The Man Who Saw Tomorrow. and both did indeed mention possible generalised future attacks on New York, though not specifically on the World Trade Center or on any particular date. A two-part translation of Jean-Charles de Fontbrune's Nostradamus: historien et prophète was published in 1980, and John Hogue has published a number of books on Nostradamus from about 1994 onwards, including Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies (1999) and Nostradamus: A Life and Myth (2003).

With the exception of Roberts, these books and their many popular imitators were almost unanimous not merely about Nostradamus's powers of prophecy, but also about various aspects of his biography. He had been a descendant of the Israelite tribe of Issachar; he had been educated by his grandfathers, who had both been physicians to the court of Good King René of Provence; he had attended Montpellier University in 1525 to gain his first degree: after returning there in 1529 he had successfully taken his medical doctorate; he had gone on to lecture in the Medical Faculty there until his views became too unpopular; he had supported the heliocentric view of the universe; he had travelled to the north-east of France, where he had composed prophecies at the abbey of Orval; in the course of his travels he had performed a variety of prodigies, including identifying a future Pope; he had successfully cured the Plague at Aix-en-Provence and elsewhere; he had engaged in scrying using either a magic mirror or a bowl of water; he had been joined by his secretary Chavigny at Easter 1554; having published the first installment of his Propheties, he had been summoned by Queen Catherine de' Medici to Paris in 1556 to discuss with her his prophecy at quatrain I.35 that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel; he had examined the royal children at Blois; he had bequeathed to his son a 'lost book' of his own prophetic paintings;[36] he had been buried standing up; and he had been found, when dug up at the French Revolution, to be wearing a medallion bearing the exact date of his disinterment.

Curiously, this particular story seems to have been first recorded by Samuel Pepys as early as 1667, long before the French Revolution. Pepys records in his celebrated diary a legend that, before his death, Nostradamus made the townsfolk swear that his grave would never be disturbed; but that 60 years later his body was exhumed, whereupon a brass plaque was found on his chest correctly stating the date and time when his grave would be opened and cursing the exhumers.[37]

From the 1980s onwards, however, an academic reaction set in, especially in France. The publication in 1983 of Nostradamus's private correspondence[38] and, during succeeding years, of the original editions of 1555 and 1557 discovered by Chomarat and Benazra, together with the

unearthing of much original archival material[5][8] revealed that much that was claimed about Nostradamus did not fit the documented facts. The academics[5][6][8][39] revealed that not one of the claims just listed was backed up by any known contemporary documentary evidence. Most of them had evidently been based on unsourced rumours relayed as fact by much later commentators, such as Jaubert (1656), Guynaud (1693) and Bareste (1840), on modern misunderstandings of the 16th century French texts, or on pure invention. Even the often-advanced suggestion that quatrain I.35 had successfully prophesied King Henri II's death did not actually appear in print for the first time until 1614, 55 years after the event.[3][8]

Additionally, the academics,[6][39][40] who themselves tend to eschew any attempt at interpretation, complained that the English translations were usually of poor quality, seemed to display little or no knowledge of 16th-century French, were tendentious and, at worst, were sometimes twisted to fit the events to which they were supposed to refer (or vice versa). None of them were based on the original editions: Roberts had based his writings on that of 1672, Cheetham and Hogue on the posthumous edition of 1568. Even Leoni accepted on page 115 that he had never seen an original edition, and on earlier pages he indicated that much of his biographical material was unsourced.

However, none of this research and criticism was originally known to most of the English-language commentators, by function of the dates when they were writing and, to some extent, of the language in which it was written. Hogue was in a position to take advantage of it, but it was only in 2003 that he accepted that some of his earlier biographical material had in fact been apocryphal. Meanwhile some of the more recent sources listed (Lemesurier, Gruber, Wilson) have been particularly scathing about later attempts by some lesser-known authors and Internet enthusiasts to extract alleged hidden meanings from the texts, whether with the aid of anagrams, numerical codes, graphs or otherwise.

Popular cultureMain article: Nostradamus in popular culture

The prophecies retold and expanded by Nostradamus have figured largely in popular culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. As well as being the subject of hundreds of books (both fiction and nonfiction), Nostradamus's life has been depicted in several films and videos, and his life and writings continue to be a subject of media interest.

There have also been several well-known Internet hoaxes, where quatrains in the style of Nostradamus have been circulated by e-mail as the real thing. The best-known examples concern the collapse of the World Trade Center in the September 11 attacks, which led both to hoaxes and to reinterpretations by enthusiasts of several quatrains as supposed prophecies.[41]

With the arrival of the year 2012, Nostradamus's prophecies started to be co-opted (especially by the History Channel) as evidence suggesting that the end of the world is imminent, notwithstanding the fact that his book never mentions the end of the world, let alone the year 2012.[42]

NOSTRADAMUS CODEMarch 2002I have spent some time trying to deepen my knowledge of Nostradamus' interest in calendars and astronomy.

It is easy to establish that he had such an interest.

In a letter written to Henry, Second King of France he outlines two tables in order to establish a historical basis for calendars.

His one time friend, Jules Scaliger was a keen contributor to the intellectual debates of that time. Many of these involved astronomy and calendar issues. It was Jules Scaliger's son Joseph who established the basis for the astronomical calendar (after Nostradamus' death).

Nostradamus was a mathematician, physician and astronomer and therefore would have carried the common interests of his day but I would argue that his concern and interest was far greater than normal.

The calendar is a far more complex device than most people appreciate. We accept what is there without realising that no calendar can ever achieve the full range of human needs and desires that are linked to it. The calendar tries to make humanised patterns out of numbers generated by nature. This is not easy and it is impossible to devise a calendar that fits the needs of commerce with those of agriculture let alone those of religion. In today's world

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there are still a vast number of calendars trying to meet the human needs of different communities. The differences between these calendars is not trivial for many start on different days of the year and vary as to the start date from one year to the next. Some lose track of the seasons in order to keep pace with the phases of the moon. Even the lengths of the year differ between calendars and therefore the number of years from one point in time to another can differ quite markedly.

Nostradamus claimed to be writing about the future and therefore the basis of calendars was crucial. However no matter how great his understanding his dating methods would be inadequate for there is no universal calendar he could have adopted.

An interesting example of this difficulty is that presented in Verse X.72. This is is the verse which gives the date of the seventh month of 1999. Now, when this date came and went those sceptics whose fanaticism belies their trumpeted rationality claimed that Nostradamus was proven a false prophet. It is probably true that they would have been mildly critical of a scientist who specified a timing of an event that proved wrong. Generally however there is a preparedness to recognise a range of time and this is termed an error tolerance. Any experiment that falls within a 0.5 tolerance usually will not be ignored. It is almost impossible to write off Verse X.72 as a failure for all the conditions of a scientific test were there. Since September 11, 2001 the sceptics that rushed to deride have been notable for their silence.

Verse X.72 was widely known. It was written in the 1550's and therefore predicted an event 450 years in advance. It was out by only two years which is 1 year in 225 or less than 0.5% error. And of course the calendar that Nostradamus used as his base may not have been exactly ours.

The power of Verse X.72 is the same power that has been part of many of the the verses of Nostradamus. It is hos uncanny knack to have words whose aptness is only fully apparent after the event. They have often been able to be placed in time and to have been anticipated but it is only after they have occurred that their awesome import is fully understood. In the case of Verse X.72 time has given it a quite compelling strength. This verse was not dragged

up after the events of September 11th but was advanced for decades before the date specified in it. Nobody claimed that this verse belonged anywhere else but the beginning of the twenty-first century. Nobody claimed that an event in the preceding 5 ,10 or 450 years could lay claim to being the event described as "From the sky came the Great King of Terror".

And the power of the verse is in these words. Nobody in modern times predicted an act or terror from the world's chief terrorist that would bring such havoc from the sky, certainly not the American military or government. And in papers since that time there have been many headlines that include the term "Terror from the sky".

The aptness of the words is startling for its sums up in so brief a statement the fullness of an event that can not be applied easily to any other event of the last five centuries. The King of Terror, not a war between governments or an act of nature, brings terror from the sky. And from the sky by a device that is not a bomb but a device of the sky, flying within it and turned into an instrument of terror, not warfare.

Apply the test of the sceptic to this event but do not fall for the error of thinking it could not happen therefore it did not happen. This verse exists, was publicised, was not applied to any other event, nor could it be claimed that the verse itself motivated Bin Ladin or else it would have been 1999 that this event took place.

And Nostradamus date was wrong by two years, a small error but one which he seemed to acknowledge was unavoidable.

"I was hoping to leave behind in written form events which will pertain to years, towns, cities and regions, even for the years 1585 to 1606, starting from today, 14 March 1557. And going well beyond these dates until the coming of the beginning of the seventh millennium, through careful consideration, as far as my astronomical computation and other knowledge has allowed me to range.

...the whole has thus been composed and calculated by selected and well arranged hours and days as correctly as possible.

...after my death my writing will be better known than in my lifetime; and even were I to be mistaken in my calculation of epochs, none could do anything about that.

Nostradamus , writing on the 14th March 1557 in his letter to King Henry dated 27th June 1558.

I have in the past presented evidence which shows that Nostradmus Prophecies contain a code relating to Astronomy. This was partly based on an analysis of word frequencies. I intend to extend this approach in the following presentation as well as develop themes that have arisen in my investigation of the calendar material.

The spur for my recent approach was based on a book called Mapping time: The Calendar and its History by E.G. Richards, Oxford University Press 1998. The material confirmed many of my earlier ideas but added some new dimensions. In consequence of this reading I was interested to see the frequency of the term 'Lunisolar' and this was followed by an interest in the names of various astronomers. Now whether Nostradamus could see the future or not he is likely to have had an interest in astronomy, astronomers and calendars. This is likely to have been encoded in the text by Nostradamus and so a modern analytical technique has a chance of revealing any such coding without in any way implying Nostradamus was an accurate prophet. Calendars and astronomers are also the subject material of the following presentation and I restrict the analysis to French words and personal names of people able to be known by Nostradamus the ordinary man.

My earlier analyses involved the words based on 'Astronomy' and compared to those similar words based on 'Astrology'. These two words have significantly different meaning and yet only two letters are different. The two letters 'n' and 'm' in astronomy are replaced by 'l' and 'g' in astrology. These letters occur with about the same frequency in Nostradamus' text so there is no reason to expect significant difference between the frequency of the two sets.

I use a single split anagram analysis to identify where coding may exist. I use this approach because in any coding method that uses letter re-arrangement (rather than substitution) there is a good

chance that the original text words will lump together after the code formula is applied and a single split anagram maximises the chance of finding them.

The frequency of these single split anagrams for astronomy related words in French are as follows:

Astronomy Base word Count for Astronomy set member

Count for Astrology set member

astronome 72 8astronomie 22 2

astronomique 8 0Total 102 10

It is easily seen that there is a disproportionate difference between the frequency of the two sets. Astronomy based words occur in about 1 in 9 verses whilst astrology occurs only in 1 in 90 verses. This is a significant difference.

The results of this type of analysis are sufficiently interesting to have maintained my interest for many years and to encourage me to seek out other patterns. Below are some of the results of my recent analysis

Word Notes Frequency

Ptolemy The most significant astronomer for 1,000years before 1520 10

Almagest The major work of Ptolemy 15Al Sufi Arabic astronomer who set out star

pattern charts 72

Regiomontanus A pre-eminent calendar developer of mid 15th Century 7

Quadrante Quadrante do Astrolabio e do Regimento (late 15th, 16th C) 40

Regimento Regiment of the North Star (as part of above) 28

Quadrante Regimento extension of the two above 1d'Astrolabe part of title 7

Copernicus In early 16th century his revolutionary theory published. 12

Hipparchus Ancient astronomer on whose work Ptolemy drew 0

Sacrobosco Pseudonym for minor astronomer in 'Regimento' 0

Hollyuuood Real name of minor astronomer in 'Regimento' 0

Zacuto Jewish astronomer on whose work 'Regimento' based 4

almanach almanac 6calendrier calendar 47lunisolaire lunisolar 18quadrature astronomical and mathematical term 9

BeHaRD The Jewish mnemonic for the 1st day of the calendar (Creation) 21

Hillel Jewish Rabbi who revealed the calendar secrets to the populace (5th C) 7

Maimonides Rabbi responsible for major aspect of Jewish calendar of 14th C 2

AbrahamZacuto first name and also of 'Bible' fame (Nostradamus Letter to Henry

states Abraham given credit for Jewish letters and astrology )

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The first trend to be noted is that the minor astronomers names do not occur or occur infrequently, whereas the prominent astronomical references and their authors occur quite often. The results produce a 'prima facie' case but do not prove that Nostradamus' writings have names of astronomers and calendary terms embedded in them.

There are however some interesting patterns that emerge when you look at verses that contain key names and words.

For instance All of the anagrams for Regiomontanus occur in the space of 1/6th of Nostradamus text in the 3rd and 4th sets of 100 verses.

It is not surprising that these verses contain the anagram of astronomie for it is part of the name of Regiomontanus but in verse

III.59 there are astronome in a line not containing Regiomontanus and both astronimique and astronomie in the same line as that of Regiomontanus.

In the early 1530's when Regiomontanus books on mathematical astronomy were published Nostradamus was involved with Jules Scaliger at Agen. These men were deeply interested in the topics covered in the books and would have taken strong interest in each of them In 1533, many years after Regiomontanus death, his book son triangles and quadrature of the circle were published. The first verse in Nostradamus Prophecies containing Regiomontanus name (III.38) has a line which includes the anagram for triangles. And although it is in a different line to that of Regiomontanus there are 140 anagrams of 'triangles' in the text so this is not particularly exceptional. However it also occurs in the verse mentioned previously. (III.59) and in verse IV.98 which increases its significance.

In verses IV.22 and IV.45 the anagrams of Al Sufi and Regiomontanus appear on separate lines. In verse II.70 the words Nostredame , encryption and Regiomontanus appear in the same line.( The word Nostredame occurs 95 times and encryption occurs 11 times throughout the whole text). In verse IV.98 Nostredame occurs on a different line from the anagrams of Regiomontanus and Al Sufi. In III.59 the word Nostredame also appears on a separate line. The remaining verse containing Regiomontanus (III.56) also has an anagram for Nostredame on a different line.

In this set of six Regiomontanus verses Nostredame occurs 5 out of its total 95 appearances, Al Sufi occurs three out of 72 times, triangles three out of 140 times and encryption one out of 11 times.

Of the seven anagrams for Hillel, two occur in verse IX.91 . This verse not only contains Hillel twice, it contains calendrier, Al Sufi and encryption.

The first of the 15 verses containing Almagest (I.47) also contains lunisolaire, Nostredame and Al Sufi.

The verses containing Almagest are also skewed in favour of the early parts of the Prophecies. Nine of the fifteen occur in the first four sets of 100 verse. There are again many key words linked to the verses.

I.81 contains astronomie, II.41 contains lunisolaire, quadrante , astrologe and 'La grand ourse' (The Great Bear). It may also have astrolabe within it but it certainly has an anagram of algebra in its first line. VerseIII.10 has Al Sufi and Copernicus, each on different lines to that containing Almagest. Verse IV.14 has astronome on the same line as Almagest and quadrature on another. Verse IV.79 contains Al Sufi on the same line as that containing Almagest.. Verse IX.59 contains Quadrante on the same line as Almagest. The next verse IX.60 contains both Regimento and astronomie on the same line but this line is not the one containing Almagest. Verse X.17 contains d'astrolabe. Verse X.21 has Al Sufi and astronomy each on different lines.

The verses containing Copernicus also show the same skew as Regiomontanus and Almagest. , nine of the 12 incidences are in the first four sets of 100. The same pattern occurs but not as strongly , Al Sufi appears in two of the verses, calendrier in two, 'La Grand ourse' , Nostredame , astronome/astronomie appear in others.

This should be enough to establish that Regiomontanus is central to the calendar Nostradamus has encrypted into his text. It is also apparent that much of the material he relies on comes from the work of Al Sufi , The Regimento (Quadrante dAstrolabe'), the Jewish Calendar and Ptolemy's Almagest. Not one bit of this is unexpected for these are the important astronomical reference points of the sixteenth century. But why would Nostradamus encode this material into his text?

It is convenient for me that he put it there for it allows this analysis to perform within a historical context but it seems to relate to that which we in the modern times already know. This could not have been the purpose of Nostradamus. And we also have no reason to believe he was writing on behalf of a secret society that transmitted knowledge through code. Nostradamus acted alone and therefore there is a huge mystery as to the nature of the message in the code. Nostradamus was not trying to tell us the rules of calendars or to set

them out for future generations for this a mundane, unnecessary task unworthy of a secret code.. The nature of his letters to his son Cesar and to King Henry suggest that he acted as a master towards an apprentice. It is as though he foresaw some person in the future that would break his code and that this person would benefit from Nostradamus thoughts on the dangers and the ethics of prediction. The calendar would then have been set out in order to understand Nostradamus methods and to demonstrate them by clearly dated examples.

There can be no doubt that Nostradamus believed he could see into the future.

"For a long time I have been making many predictions, far in advance of events since come to pass, naming the particular locality. I acknowledge all to have been accomplished through divine power and inspiration. Predicted events, both happy and sad, have come to pass throughout the world with great promptness".

Nostradamus: Letter to his son Cesar dated March 1, 1555.

This believe would have given him the motive to encode his work for a future person to read but in putting it in such an intricate code it implies that his belief was stronger than that based on chance. It is as though he knew the destiny of his work. If he could see the future it has significant import for it suggests a clarity of vision rather than dreamlike fantasies.

And here of course is the difficulty: Reading the future is not possible according to our knowledge of the world. The contradictions in the understanding of time that are implied by such an ability make it very difficult to accept that anyone could read the future. The hard evidence of the world does not really support that there is an ability in man to read the future. One would expect that any such ability or capacity would exist in significant numbers of people around the world even today and that we would be able to test these people to establish the physiology and conditions that ggives them the power. There is no such credible evidence.

Some might argue that it is an ancient knowledge, passed in secret down a line of chosen ones. This seems absurd. Why and how

would the past have greater powers than modern man? Within the diversity of the modern world why isn't their supportable evidence of similar powers able to be discovered? There are for more people, a greater number of people of all sorts of skills and temperament exploring both the world and their inner natures. Yet there is no hint of a power that the ancients may have better understood. No amount of rationalisation accounts for this lack of solid evidence.

And yet there does seem to be evidence in the case of Nostradamus. One example of it is quite elegant for its involves Nostradamus and his commentary on his own work. Part of this commentary was given earlier and is repeated below

"...after my death my writing will be better known than in my lifetime;..."

Nostradamus , writing on the 14th March 1557 in his letter to King Henry dated 27th June 1558.

And in his letter to Cesar, 1555 he states:

"and thousands of events will come to pass, because of floods and continual rains, of which I have written more fully in my other prophecies, composed at some length, not in a chronological sequence, but in prosaic terms, limiting the places and times and exact dates so that future generations will see, while experiencing these inevitable events. And how I have listed others in clearer language so that despite their obscurities these things shall be understood. When the time comes for the removal of ignorance the event will be cleared up still more."

End of letter to Nostradamus son

Place the prosaic message "From the sky will come the Great King of Terror" against the happenings of September 11, 2001 and we have a clear example of what Nostradamus was predicting for his Prophecies in the above passage written in 1555. This verse does not stand alone in this for the survival of the Nostradamus' Prophecies as a source of mystery has been based on a vast number of similar examples throughout the last 450 years.

If in no other predictions he was certainly accurate in those that related to the future of his work It is as though he could see how the future reacted to his works and the impact that his words would have. This was not inevitable, very few prophets are held in the same regard as Nostradamus. If indeed he saw these things then the supporting claim for his other words is enhanced.

For 450 years Verse X.72 was understood to apply to the current era and yet an understanding of the full and dreadful import of "From the sky comes the Great King of Terror" needed September 11 to pass. Such perfect prose to capture so much in so few words.

If there is a possibility that Nostradamus did see the future then any attempt to understand his code needs to allow that this might be the case. In understanding the code Nostradamus motivation and rationale need to be understood but these will not be enough if his ability is underestimated.

I have long argued that Nostradamus work cannot be motivated by either Doomsday prediction or an attempt to change future events. These objectives are too self contradictory to be worthy of consideration. Nostradamus' major goal had to be something that is worthwhile and possible; a test which both the forgoing, fail. An instruction manual for his successor meets the test on both counts and would explain why it is placed in code.

Of course there may be no successor and any visions Nostradamus had of such a person may be wrong but the code could still be there. The evidence I have presented in this paper suggests there is a code and if it is decoded then once more, Nostradamus is not wrong for he would not have written a hidden code if he did not foresee its uncoding.

It is at this point that my research takes another step beyond credibility because my analyses using the foregoing approach have a serious limitation. The limitation is that when using French it works for names but does not seem to be able to be extended beyond that.

This is resolved if I assume that Nostradamus' code is written not in French but in modern English. There is no reason why if

Nostradamus could see the future he would write the code in French, particularly if the person he foresaw was not French. Nostradamus was a gifted linguist so such a task was well within his provable abilities. And in addition the evidence that I have presented above stands out more starkly when the analysis uses astronomer, not astronome, astronomy not astronomy etc. Indeed I could not escape using an English version of encryptien in my presentation. 'Encryptien' only occurs 4 times in the text whilst the more difficult combination 'encryption' occurs 11 times and it is 'encryption' that links strongly to 'Nostredame'. A case can even be made that Nostradamus would choose such an approach even if he could not see the future but the English then used would not be modern. The nature of anagrams gives a huge advantage to those who encode in another language for the words are not easily discerned until the trick is known.

Consider the following verse which can be shown to have such distinctive words as navigators, mariner, seamen, elevation, astronomical, tables, crystal etc. Together they form an accurate description of practises known to be used by navigators in the 16th century. It is almost a perfect astronomical text even though it is not the easiest example in which to see the English anagrams.

(Note1. The Almagest was used by relying on its angle of elevation of the Polestar at a particular latitude to set a course that was maintained by keeping this angle constant. Note2: the Norse seamen are reputed to have used an Iceland spar crystal to aid their navigation but the method of use is not known- they could not use the Polestar in summer and relied on solar measurement)

Verse X.17

SourceLine DecodeLine

La royne Ergaste voiant sa fille blesme Early navigators steer by Almagest elevations Al Sfi assemblePar vn regret dans l'estomach encloz Star map govern closest zones to match PolestarCrys lamentables seront lors d'Angolesme

Crystal enables Norse seamen to control some older table angles

Au germain mariage fort clos Regulate mariner astronomical format so it locates main image

I stated the above verse was not easy to see in its English anagrams but many are quite startlingly easy and the following are some examples:

1.16.4 "Le siecle approche de renouation" =Celestial Prophecies a routine = "Prophecies use a celestial ordinate routine"

I.18.4 "Le port Phocen de voilles et nefz couuert"= Prophet encode into levels true focuz = "True focus helps prophet encode into levels"

I.56.4 "Le ciel s'approche des inclinations" = Celestial prophecies declinations ="Prophecies chosen codes in celestial declinations"

I.21.1 "Profonde argille blanche nourrit rochier"= Proof reading label each routine= "Proof in reliable routine reading each cipher label"

I.22.2"Viendra leser a mort son artifice"= Diviner relies astronomic artifices= "Nostredame's diviner relies on astronomic artifices"

II.14.2"Des couuiront de loing la grand Sereine"= Code routines longitude align readings= "Code routines align older longitude readings"

There are many, many more that are easy and many that hold words equally as meaningful even if not so easily read. Many of these examples can be seen in material I have presented previously some of which is included below.

Work from 2001This page presents verses with highly significant coding messages based on anagrams such as 'encryption', 'ciphers' and other coding terms. A high number of these include anagrams such as 'Nostredame', 'Nostradamus', 'prophecies', 'prophets', 'quatrains' as well as astronomical terminology.

The method treats each of Nostradamus lines as a source for English anagrams. Reasons, rationale and more detailed analysis are given in other parts of this site. This page merely lists the decoded verse with minimal commentary.

Index

Encryption verses (28th September 2001)Runic algebra verses (6th October 2001)Numbering system (8th October 2001)Hidden values (10th October 2001)

Celestial astronomy ciphers (12th October 2001)

Encryption

Verse IX.48- Nostredame's code starts using September 11th, 2001 as key to alchemical planet coding

Le grand cite d'occean maritimeRealigned calendar indicated codename at American time

Enuironee de maretz en cristalNostredame needs American codename to centralise routine

Dans le solstice hyemal et la prime And selection is alchemy/alchemist planet Sol.

Sera temptee de vent espouuental Seer attempted to setup poets eventual powers.

Verse IV.23- New calendar hidden in Nostredame work given by numerals in the poem.

La legion dans la marine classe All regional classes realigned as American almanacs

Calcine, Magnes, Soulphre et poix bruslera

Mechanical engines poet use to exploit Arab rules

L e long repos de l'asseuree place Longer prose assured all code replaced

Port Selyn Hercle feu les consumera Rely on French poets useful numeral clues

Verse III. 90 -New calendar from realigning dates based on 11th September 2001

Le grand Satyre et Tigre d'Hyrcanie Realigned reset yesterday/yesteryear tighter year chained

Don presente a ceux de l'Occean Presented on date concealed code executed

Vn chef de classe istra de Carmanie French-diviner stars reclassified

after American disaster

Qui prendra terre au Tyrren Phocean Require entered part endure to carry truer Prophetic entry

Verse II.53 Anagrams are important in resolving the calendar. This resolution is due in our time.


La grande peste de cite maritime Metrical anagram depends limited time materialNe cessera que mort ne soit vengee Sequences are more equations given so its governments seenDu juste sang par pris damne sans crime

Jews adjust: pagans despair: crimes Americans damned

De la grand dame par feincte n'outraigee

Enlarged anagram Edda poem named define an ancient degree routine

Nostradamus Code Source

Verse I.16 - Nostredame acknowledges his Norse sources and expresses regret about his inability to give the prophecies as much time as he would like.


Faulx a l'estang ioinct vers le Sagitaire Faults in verses align axles converting it into its several agesEn son hault auge de l'exaltation No one else has usage legends exalted notationPeste famine, mort de main militaire Steeped in fame Nostredame limited to minimal materialLe siecle approche de renouation Prophecies use a celestial ordinate routine

Verse I.17 - Quatrains use Snorri Stuluson's diacritic method for coding star science

SourceLine DecodeLinePar quarante ans l'iris n'apparoistra Quatrains star patterns appear as in Snorri linesPar quarante ans tous les iours sera veu Quatrain patterns are setout as in Sturluson valueLa terre aride en siccite croistra Later diacritic idea is aristocratic Icelanders star scienceEt grans deluges quand sera aperceu Great legends use equals creatures parades

Verse I.36 - Nostredame quatrains mirror Eddas planetarium method by using a binary program.


Tard le monarque se viendra repentir Related to normal square Diviners interpret are Nostredame quatrains

De n'auoir mis a mort son aduersaire And Nostradamus mirrors astronomies Edda usedMais viendra bien a plus hault consentir

Diviners aim binaries plus usual planetarium he has to consult

Que tout son sang par mort fera deffaire

Quote setout so pagan astronomers programs format affirmed

Verse I.42- Nostredame's Centuries use ancient programs in Edda to set planet ciphers


Le dix Kalende d'Auril de faict Gotique Alkeid index Edda line ruled quoting Iceland runic field detailResuscite encor par gens malins Centuries process procures ancient programs main linesLe feu estainct affemblee diabolique Left use intact in fable staff main tables oblique ideaCherchant les os du d'Amant et Pselin Each chart Nostredame used to tell planets cipher names

Verse I.45 - Nostredame's Centuries use Jewish numeral equations


Secteur de sectes grand peine au delateur

Secret used respected rules predating Centuries dual date

Bette en theatre dresse le jeu scenique Beneath entered letters seer use Jeuus techniquesDu faict antique ennobly l'inuenteur Ancient equation indicate future only by rune linePar sectes monde confus et schismatique

Secret parts Nostredame encodements confused mathematics equations

Verse I.47-Almagest & astronomy

SourceLine DecodeLineDu lac Leman les sermons fascheront Recall normal names used from chosen star manualLes jours seront reduicts par les sepmaines

Lesser journies introduce map pictures read on lines

Puis moys,puis an, puis tous deffailliront Often my outputs failed if inputs of Al Sufi usedLes magistrats damneront leurs loix vaines

Almagest star in Nostredames old rules named at six line intervals

Verse I.48 -Prose Edda & Nostredames' planetarium ciphers


Vingt ans du regne de la lune passez Understanding given legend stanza lunar passesSept mil ans autre tiendra sa monarchie Planetariums map ordinates Nostredames cipher names

retainedQuand le Soleil prendra ses jours lassez And Sol equals ProseEdda-line journals sizesLors accomplit et mine ma prophetie Oral maps compliment prophets prophetic map title

Verse I.80 Nostredames main stars use a Boolean (yes-no) method to set ordinates as region entered.


De la sixiesme claire splendeur celefte Ideal is six special times left under fixed-celestialViendra tonner si fort en la Bourgongne Diviners ordinate often began first given Boolean runePuis naistra monstre de tres hideuse beste Nostredames best use hides planetariums main starsMars, Auril, May, Juin grand charpin et rongne

During January March April May June July cipher on entering region

Nostradumus methods

Verse II.19 -'ux' used as a rune for Polestar and its Boolean algebra (yes-no) value changes with angle.


Nouueaux venus lieu basty sans defence Now announce ux suitably definesOccuper la place parlors inhabitable Occurs in upper place Polaris inhabit in tablePrez, maisons, chaps, villes predre a plaisance

Mizar chosen on map delivers prepared appliances

Faim Peste guerre arpen long labourable If map gets steep rune appears longer in our Boolean algebra

Verse II.21- Alchemy encoding machine lies unrecognised in poem

SourceLine DecodeLineL'ambassadeur enuoye par biremes Albam assured rune obey pair you measuredA my chemin d'incogneus repoulsez Alchemy encoding machine lies unrecognised in poem size

rulesDe sel renfort viendront quatre triremes Elders often invented equation on equator quarter timesCordes et chaines au Negre pont troussez

Encoders teaching rune usage setout zones upon route

Verse II.27-Nostredames unique procedure uses same letters poets use to create a tune.


Le diuin verbe sera du ciel frappe Diviner verse include bars used if failure appearQui ne pourra proceder plus auant Unique procedure produces quatrain plus usual codeDu reserant le secret estoupe Unrelated seers setout secret letters poets useQu'on marchera par dessus et deuant Chapter Nostredame used quotes unstated tune

Verse II.36-Nostredame uses Norse prophets letters (runes) to represent Septentrion (U Major)


Du grand prophete les lettres seront prinses Guardian used prophet letters Norse seer interpretsEntre les mains du tyran deuiendront Enter main letters and study Nostredame routineFrauder son roy seront ses entreprinses Safer sound Norse story enters to represent SeptentrionMais ses rapines bien tost le troubleront Map is in seers binaries as letters no trouble to astronomers

Verse II.48 Nostradamus identifies his use of angular code placed so dates are in columns representing the time and place the moon crosses the equator


La grand copie qui passera les monts Angular code equip as seer copied astral poems

Saturne en l'Arq tournant du poisson,mars Nostradamus runes equal lunar points on equator

Venins caches soubz testes de saulmons Conventions to access each but set so dates in columns

Leur cheif pendu a fil de polemars Chief rule depend on real poems dual fields

Verse II.54-Letter patterns form Romanised astronomical names but difficulties with solar cipher.


Par gent estrange et Romains loingtaine Patterns generate isolating astronomies Roman nameLeur grand cite apres eaue fort troublee Rules for practise reading used double letter featuresFille sans trop different domaine Final lines portains to stars different domainsPrins chef ferreure n'auoir este riblee Sun ciphers refer to a terrible rune routine.

Verse II.86-Michel Nostredame's secret story he committed to heart


Naufrage a classe pres d'onde Hadriatique Quatrain figure recalls ProseEddas harder equationLa terre tremble esmeue sus l'air en terre mis

Later meter emblems resemble use usual entries time reliant

Egypte tremble augment Mahometique Egypt type letter emblem augment Mahommet equitable meterL'Herault soy rendre a crier est commis The result carries secret story Michel-Nostredame commits to

heart

Methods of Encryption

Verse III.26-Poetic encryption removed by recognising the place runic zee placed in Norse auguries.


Des Roys et princes dresseront simulacres

Destroys poetry encryptions Norse predecessors secret emulations

Augures creuz esleuez aruspices Auguries recur as zee special auspices use zee rulesCorne victime doree et d'azur d'acre Voice uncover time date order zed rune recreatedInterpretez seront les extipices Reinterpret Norse letter Zees explicit selection

Verse III.77-Decrypting Centuries based on music & meter comparison to deduce planet alignments


Le tiers climat sous Aries comprins Secret is setout metrical/ musical comparisonL'an mil sept cens vingt et sept en Octobre Planets given setting poets content alignment in OctoberLe Roy de Perse par ceux d'Egypte prins Orderly papers exclude decrypting Centuries pointersConflit mort perte a la croix grand opprobre October final paper important create proper box reading

Verse III.77-Astronomy runic cipher encoder teaches Centuries date scheme based on Polestar coordinates.


L'arbre qu'estoit par long temps mort seche

Polar Bear it equates Polestar to poems longest maps scheme

Dans vne nuict viendra a reuerdir And even Centuries diviners are rune derivedCron Roy malade Prince pied estache Normal astronomy encoder teaches date cipher principleCriant d'ennemis fera voile bondir Coordinate is in frame above olden line

Verse III.91


L'arbre qu'estoit par long temps mort seche

Polar Bear it equates Polestar to poems longest maps scheme

Dans vne nuict viendra a reuerdir And even Centuries diviners are rune derivedCron Roy malade Prince pied estache

Normal astronomy encoder teaches alchemy date cipher principle Prince Pryoni

Criant d'ennemis fera voile bondir Coordinate is in frame above olden line

Verse IV.46- Tells how ancient poets destroyed dating by hiding it in recallable rune ciphers.

SourceLine DecodeLineBien defendu le faict par excellence Fable defined excellent practice

Garde toy Tours de ta proche ruine Agreed to destroy dates routines stored as poetry rune-cipher

Londres et Nantes par Reims fera defense Olden seer patterns defines frames

Ne passe outre au temps de la bruine Pass on poems true routine as rebuild rune maps

Verse IV.70- Begin decoding Nostrdame's encryptions by use of Prose Edda and Jew meter ideas.

SourceLine DecodeLineBien contigue des grans monts Pyrenees Begin by counting guides to Nostredames encryptionsVn contre l'aigle grand copie addresser Converting all code readings copied in Icelanders ProseEddaOu vertes vienes forces exterminees Our verse extensive for its secret text seen in meterQue jusque a Pau le chef viendra chasser Jews pause equals chief place a diviner searches

Verse IV.88- Centuries introduce poets secret letter rules and Nostredame gives full detail.


Trente de Londres secret coniureront Entered olden secret routines Centuries introduceContre leur Roy sur le pont L'entreprinse Encounter poetry rules letter print in linesLuy fatalites la mort degousteront Fully state all titles Nostredames-letter generous to setoutVn Roy esfleu blonde natif de Frize Even by yourself see olden fate differs if a different zed

Verse IV.93- Nostredames Centuries encryption prevents true reading until metric tune is understood.


Vn serpent veu proche du lict royal Prevents value encryption proper scheduleSera par dame nuict chiens n'abayeront Nostredame Centuries parade entry by names not by yearLors naistre en France vn Prince tant royal Oral variances seen in referent list for ancient poetryDu ciel venu tous les Princes verront Even include tunes to setout precise verse routines

Verse IV.93-The rune ciphers present certain difficulties due to variations in lettering.


Deux grans freres seront chassez d'Espaigne

UX dangers refers to Norse chants zeds passing size

L'aisne vaincu sous les monts Pyrenees A lines values so useless unless in poems encryptionsRougir mer rosne sang lemam d'Alemaigne

Mirror image seen in Englands naming Aderolaminon as Alderamin

Narbon Blyterre d'Agath contaminees In Arab time code only gathered by the name seen in chant

Verse V.31-Centuries uncoded by summing Prose Edda runic letter pairs


Par terre Attique chef de la sapience Part it equated fetched runic pairs applianceQui de present est la rose du monde Equip present modern Polestar sum Prose Edda lettersPont ruine et sa grand preeminence Ancient poems arranged Centuries preeminent runic pointersSera subdite et naufrage des vndes Bears used unedited feature degrees

Verse VI.11-'ux' code introduced to resolve a difficulty with Norse treatment of Ursa Minor as 'z'


Des sept rameaux a trois seront reduicts

Desperate measures introduces ux to stories as astronomers axis Les plus aisnez seront surprins par mort

Spell use as a star-zone is surprise part in astronomers maps Fratricider les deux seront seduicts After diacritic rule introduces ux Norse use extends Les coniurez en dormans seront morts

Selection introduces runic zed to Nostredames astronomic Ursae Minor

Verse VI.99-Centuries' quatrains use futhorc's staff (stave) runes as code technique for calendars


L'ennemy docte se tournera confus German calendars use rune to confuse my real encodement

Grad camp malade et defaict par embusches German Calendars detailed map if practise scheme abusedMots Pyrenees et Poenus luy serot faicts refus

Most useful poetry entry for Centuries are staffrunes fractions

Proche du fleuue descouurat antiques oruches

Produce useful code technique quatrain use futhorc

Verse I.61 The stave is used in the manner of a gematria for determining the importance of anagrams .


La republi que miserable infelice Equip reliable rule real public see fable line reclaimsSera vastee du nouueau magistrat Staves are now used as true gematriasLeur grand amas de l'exil malefice Regular anagram field I claim fix same calendar


Fera Sueue rauir leur grand contract Safer use counteracted irregular runa

Verse I.67


La grand famine que je sens approcher Anagram field equip prophecjes main senseSouuent tourner puis estre vniuerselle So now return to rune surprise in verse letter rulesSi grand et longue quon viendra arracher Longest reading quote longitudes diviner arranged each areaDu bois racine et l'enfant de mammelle Ancient boundaries are left named in double emblem

Verse VI.100-The key to the code in this unusual verse.


Quos legent hosce versus mature censunto

Consequent length chosen verse assume true encounter

Profanum vulgus et inscium ne attrectato Proof of amount using value inset in music to attract

Omnesq Astrologi Blenni Barbari procul sunto

Equals moon to sun astrology in columns prior barbarians consult

Qui aliter facit is rite sacer esto Artificial qualities are to restrict access to secret

Verse VII.9 Algebra built into Centuries in the manner of the temurah (jewish code technique)


Dame a l'absence de son grand capitaine Made algebra so song encodes and indicated mapSera priee d'amours du Viceroy Seer made paired map as your discovery sourceFaincte promesse et mal heureuse estraine

In fact poem emulates temurah where seer trains in Centuries use

Entre les mains du grand prince Barroys Enter lines main guardians by sorcery encryptions

Verse VII.23 Encrypted poetry has a preceding sequence to indicate where planetarium formula applies.


Le Royal sceptre sera contrainct de prendre

All poetry secret code encrypted pretended seer contradicted

Ce que ses predecesseurs auoient engaige

Sequences precedes codes assures routine generating ancient degrees

Puis que l'aneau on fera mal entendre Equips equal formulae entered on planetariumLors qu'on viendra le palays saccager Norse oral version equal access analysed place

Verse VIII.21 Encrypted poetry uses inflection as a pointer to letter use as planet emblem.


Au port de Agde trois fustes entreront At date agreed for its first group uses tunes to enter codePortant l'infect non foy et pestilence Encryption of poetry line often types of inflectionsPassant le pont mil milles embleront Poems pass planets limit to Norse emblemsEt le pont rompre a tierce resistance Letter pointer to poem create secret

Verse VIII.23 Letters with subscripts are used to indicate Polestar

SourceLine DecodeLineLettres trouuees de la royne les coffres Letters setout true codes only orally offersPoint de subscrit sans aucun nom d'hauteur Point used as subscript announces true methodPar la police Seront cachez les offres Polestar special celestial zone Norse charts offerQu'on ne scaura qui sera l'amateur Consequent use acquires seers true materials

Verse VIII.66 The prophecies only apply up to the date of 21st Sep2001 then Centuries decoded.

SourceLine DecodeLineQuand l'escriture D.M. trouuee Equal Icelanders stricture use tower to redeem Et caue antique a lampe descouuerte Accurate equation equals codes towers map outLoy Roy et Prince Vlpian esprouuee Only poetry encryption proves airoplanes purpose

Pauillon Royne et Duc sous la couuerte Encryptor allusion only counted till callous act on tower

Verse VIII.96 Centuries teach how to use poetry encryptions to read astral coordinates.

SourceLine DecodeLineLe seducteur sera mis en la fosse Selected clues are true aim of Centuries linesEt estache jusques a quelque temps Teaches queues jews/Jules use equates equal mapsLe clerc vny le chef auec sacrosse Cleverly recycle each face evenly across sourcePycante droite attraira les contens Poetry calendar encryptions contain its astral coordinates

Verse IX.21 Decoding dependent on accurate sounding of the verse but there is a duplicate of each.

SourceLine DecodeLineAu temple hault de Bloys sacre Solonne

What the map held troubled only by careless announcers

Nuict pont de Loyre prelat roy pernicant

Upon orderly introduction ancient poetry encryption rely

Curseur victoire aux marestz de la lone

Curse or virtue is a voice to master ux-zed alone

Dou prelature de blancs a bormeant Nostredame produces double calendars to balance name meant as orb

Verse IX.30 The Edda's use of VOLUSPA is highlighted as being important to the quatrain cipher technique. (The Voluspa is the primary source of the Norse legends)


Au port de POVLA et de saint Nicolas VOLUSPA supported ancients date locationsPerir Normande au goulfre phanaticque Prenamed Norman formula help acquaint quatrain cipherCap de Bisance raues crier helas Decipherable arcane use carries runaSecors de Gaddes et du grand Philipique

Decoders gauged source equips ciphers listed in Eddas

Verse VII.31 The Voluspa uses anagrams to give the numbers for marking out the angle when each planet passes the Polestar position.


De Languedoc et Guienne plus de dix Angled guide get genuine code plus Edda indexMille voudront les Alpes repasser Illumed around Voluspa as planets pass PolestarGrans Allobroges marcher contre Brundis Consider all anagrams to chart orb or globes numbersAquin et Bresse les viendront recasser Bears equation in sequential verse Norse diviner creates

Verse I.46 Prosedda does not directly use numbers but uses an 'abc' (abecedarian) letter code as a binary numbering system for the stars.


Tout au pres d'aux de Lestore et Mirande As setout Prosedda excludes most ordinatesGrand feu du ciel entrois nuicts tumbera Reducing field I include real letter-number instructionsCause aduiendra bien stupende et mirande Because abecedarian used binaries inputs are determinedBien peu apres la terre tremblera Unreliable upper star tables alters preset metre

Verse IX.91 Encryption of the Polestar is a method of reducing errors.

SourceLine DecodeLineL'horrible peste Perynte et Nicopolle Hillel best entry prior to poet encryption Le Chersonnez tiendra et Marceloyne In Nostredame calendar only zenith match time ordinateLa Thessalie vastera l'Amphipolle All these Hillel Polestar map alleviatesMal incogneu et le refus d'Anthoine Al Sufi left another encoding name used

Verse X.8 Index of Nostredames rules are found at front, allowing dates and names to be set.


Index et poulse parfondra le front Index of poet real rules are found at frontDe Senegalia le conte a son filz propre Ends aligned once locate so zed is proper final propLa Myrnarmee par plusieurs de prinfront All my papers renamed: surplus reissued as printed in frontTrois dans sept jours blesses mors And poets stories adjoins Nostredames troubles more or less

Verse X.9 Runes encoded in a manner that others can use them after his death.


De Castillon figuires jour de brune Still classed on figures of journies round borderDe feme infame naistra souuerain prince Define main stars famous names as power inspires princesSurnon de chausses perhume luy posthume Encode runes so each spheres prophets use posthumouslyOnc Roy ne feut si pire en sa prouince Once your encryptions fits tune it inspires a runic power

Verse X.10 A verse of Nostredames story describing how he saw his death.


Tasche de murdre enormes adulteres Teaches same adulterer murdered NostredameGrand ennemy de tout le genre humain Danger and my gentler enemy, the inhumane goutQue sera pire qu'ayeulx oncles ne peres

Sequence requires repairs so years lexicon equals uncles presence

En fer feu eau sanguin et inhumain Genuine fears are feuu as is the human anguish

Verse X.32 Nostredames use of 'ux' and 'aux' as runic ciphers setting out star ordinates.


Le grand empire chacun an deuoir estre Legend named cipher announced each ordinatesVn sur les autres le viendra obtenir Rune values as truest rules obtained diviner ordinatesMais peu de temps sera son regne et estre Map is used Nostredames poems meter generatesDeux ans aux naues se pourra soustenir ux and aux runas used to setout poets star routines

Runic Algebra

Verse I.26 Agebra based on the rune for Dubhe sets a number for Polestar. Dubhe is a star in the Great Bear that is one of the pointers to the Polestar. In my page on the runic sky I identify its rune as Tiwaz or Tyr (the arrow).


La grand du fouldre tumbe d'heure diurne Angular algebra number followed reading older Dubhe runeMal et predict par porteur postulaire Map predict particular support to Polestar popular routeSuiuant presage tumbe d'heure nocturne Units presents ages number Dubhe rune encounteredConflit Reims, Londres, Etrusque pestifere Reflection on olden times limits poets first requests

Verse III.53 Nostradamus used 'Quadrante di Regimento' and poem rules to set degree ciphers for the polar stars.


Quand le plus grand emportera le pris Quadrante plus poem rules arranged Nostredame Polestar and Polaris

De Nuremberg d'Auspourg et ceux de Basle

Degree numbers executed groups tables algebra runes

Par Agrippine chef Frankfort repris Appearing in chief part is rank for star ciphersTrauerseront par flamant jusqu'en Gale Treasure Norse part for mantra just equals angle

Verse IV.37 There is a runic algebra based on sound qualities that sets the placement of the Polestar.


Gaulois par saults monts viendra penetrer Lists regular Polaris amounts to penetrate diviners poemOccupera le grand lieu de l'Insubre Occur as algebra reading rune lines replaceAu plus profond son ost fera entrer Popular props proof of features referent to soundGennes Monech pousseront classe rubre Upon one scheme Norse begun to ensure true rune classes

Verse VI.34 Snorri's Edda used props for its alliteration and although this has certain problems it gives a value to the almanac.


De feu volant la machination Value nominated in almanac a mechanical evaluation Viendra troubler au grand chef assiegez

Regular readings troubled diviners as algebra rune assigned chief sizes


Dedans sera telle sedition And Eddas tale relates to its alliteration additionQu'en desespoir seront les profligez Requires ends so Snorri prop profiles get poetries zone

Verse IV.33


Jupiter joinct plus Venus qu'a la Lune Jules picture join plus all unequal valuesApparoissant de plenitude blanche Ordinates appear in plentitude to balance eachVenus cachee souz la blancheur Neptune Uneven tunes cause AlanUeber to balance each rune he putsDe Mars frappee par la grauee branche Frames prepared as AllanUebber algebra changes rune

Verse X.58 Nostradamus identifies the prophets method involves withholding from falling asleep. Also the Norse correction method seen to use the Jera rune.


Au temps du deuil que le felin monarque Maps disputed lines will feel equal in normal squareGuerroyera le jeune Aemathien Your regular journey then the aim- Jera rune relyGaule bransler perecliter la barque Allan-Uuebbers regular sleep recalibrates algebra rune squareTenter Phossens au Ponant entretien To enter the prophets senses pause upon attention penetration

Note: Jera is the name of a rune.

Verse IV.25 The process used requires the mind to be relaxed so that the senses do not intrude


Corps sublimes sans final oeil visibles Process subliminal as lines final names invisibleObnubiler viendront par ces raisons Unbeliever observations carries on diviners practisesCorps front comprins sens chief et inuisibles

Sensible instruction for chief process is front senses compression

Diminuant les sacrees oraisons Mind in a tuneless unison so it carries no reason

Verse VII.32 Nostradamus' calendar is copied after nine years of computer analysis.


Du mont Royal naistra dvne casane Australian advances Nostradamus astronomyQui caue et compte viendra tyranniser Compute nine years acquire quatrains diviner entryDresser copie de la marche Millane Allan recopied Michel's cipher scheme process ideal calendarFauene Florence d'or et gens espuiser Encoder left Norse figures puts safer order seeing

Verse VII.30 The calendar produced by the computer is little changed from that used in the 12th Century.


Le sac s'approche feu grand sang espandu Few places change as props access calendars pagans usedPo grand fleuues aux bouuiers l'entreprinse AW relies on a useful box and own enterprise to group linesDe Gennes Nice apres long attendu Unattended engines replaces tune in songFoussan Turin a Sauillan la prinse Stafrunes to inspire Allan's Australian lines

useful box= computer; unattended engines=computer program

Verse X.25


Par Nebro ouurir de Brisanne passage Runa probe began in word order as brains passengerBien eslongez el tago fara muestra Begin in longest zone to let star-formulae use letters of-anagramDans Pelligouxe sera commis l'outrage And spelling out relaxes code commits great loads to memoriesDe la grand dame assise sur l'orchestra Reading Edda enlarged anagram is same as our star chart rules

Verse IX.100 The correction of errors once more linked to the Jera rune.


Naualle pugne nuit sera superee As AllanW seer unite upper-stars genuine inputs seenLe feu aux naues a l'Occident ruine Feel as waxes and wanes coincidental runic codeRubrich eneufue la grand nef coloree Rubric colour enriched fewer and French in need of algebraic rune


Jre a vaincu et victoire en bruine Jera runic variance a virtue to orient orbit

Note: Jera is the name of a rune

Futhoarc : The Norse runic alphabet

Verse I.76 'Proof of the Normans (Norsemen) as the futhoarc is a means of reading the future by the stars.


D'vn nom farouche tel profere sera Omen the Norman futhoarc framed revealed the proofQue les trois seur sauront fato le nom Norse stories runes equal fortune, fate or omenPuis grand peuple par langue et faict dira Pfurisa readings supplied angular feature dictate fatePlus que nul autre aura bruit et renom Plus an unequal letter as omens lunar attribute

Note: Pfurisa is the name of a rune.

Verse II.24 The futhoarc is a device for reading the location of the Great and Little Bears


Bestes farouches de faim fleuues tranner

Futhoarcs best use affirmed as useful inner star schedule

Plus part du champ encontre Hister sera

Plus parts match up name this encounter reiterates

En caige de fer le grand fera treisner

Ancient degree enlarged after reading facing entries

Quand rien enfant de Germain obseruera

Inner quadrant(e regime) reading obtains boundaries framing Ursae Minor/Major Bears

Verse II.61 Michel (Nostredame) applied the bear location scheme at the time of their rising.


Euge Tamins Gironde et la Rochele Regulate main ordinate Michel encoder locate at risingO sang Troy en mort au port de la flesche Sang to poetry numerator amount left for later schemeDerrier le fleuue au fort mise l'eschele Rule relied useful for Michels futhoarc schemePointes feu grand meurtre sus la bresche Pointers and figures truer scheme uses usual bears

Verse III.2-Prophecies use ancient poets method for setting size- uncoded they become a calendar


Le diuin verbe donrra a la substance Allan UUebbers calendar rebuilds diviner astral encoderCaprins ciel terre or occult au laict mystique

Pair science celestial letter actually require my occult qualities

Corps ame esprit ayant toute puissance Prophecies same process as ancients poets issueTant soubz ses pieds comme au siege Celique

Equations about same size despite codes image selection

Verse III.4 Defualt value is lunar but this can be inaccurate due to coincidental patterns.

SourceLine DecodeLineQand seront proches le defaut des lunaires

And it equals Norse eldest futhoarc defaults to lunar rise

De l'vn a l'autre ne distant grandement And true value is entered stating reading element meantFroid siccite danger vers les frontieres For it is danger if coincidental code left in verse for its seer

entriesMesme ou l'oracle a prins commencement

Poems map out place in lines oracle or omens meant to commence

Verse III.55 There should be only one equivalence and this needs algebra to resolve the true astronomical value whenever there is any doubt.


En l'an qu'vn oeil en France regnera One equivalence for arcane line in general referenceLa court sera a vn bien facheux trouble Allan-Vuebber locates invaluable ux futhoarcLe grand de Bloys son amy tuera And only by algebra my true astronomy readLe regne mis en mal et doubte double Lines emerge in oldest names in doubt troubled engineers

Verse III.55 UX is used as a marker for the location of the true rune. One of the rules involves arcs of five degrees.

SourceLine DecodeLineDeux royals freres si fort guerroyerent Delays or ux refer to your first entry figuresQu'entre eux sera la guerre si mortelle Requirements to enter ux as regular times foretellQu'vn chacun places fortes occuperont Uncover places quotes occur as chance to put futhoarc runeDe regne et vie fera leur grand querelle

Entered Degree five a regular rule arranged in referent quadrangle

Verse VI.82 Reviewing the Icelanders Edda shows how they coded their system marking out the safe rune place by capital letters.

SourceLine DecodeLinePar grans dangiers le captif eschape Parading Icelanders readings fits each shape in placesPeu de temps grand a fortune changee Reputed maps granted futhoarc rune to change fortuneDans le palais le peuple est attrape And applies a spell as upper letters separate partsPar bon augure la cite assiegee Upon bear it regulates auguries it is seeing

Verse VI.82 The use of UX influences the nature of the poem.

SourceLine DecodeLineEntre deux cymbes piedz et mains estaches Entered ux pieces beside my zed as it teaches main testsDe miel face oingt et de laict substante Famed coding of line dictated substantial detailGuespes et mouches fitine amour faches Guess poems set so as to fit much into famous futhoarcPoccilateur faucer Cyphe tempte Poet claim true attempt to circulate a future prophecy

Verse VI.82 UX is again identified as crucial pointer to accurate prophecy.

SourceLine DecodeLinePar les desers de lieu libre et farouche Pleasured seer to rebuild rule futhoarc usedViendra errer nepueu du grand Pontife Diviner arranged referent rune put into guard pointer figureAssome a sept auecques lourde souche As some aspects cause words equal to code source chosePar ceux qua pres occuperont le cyphe UX square appears :occurs to control occult prophecy

Verse VIII.3 Because Nostradamus' work suffers from errors over the years it is important to study the simpler examples in the Edda.


Au fort chasteau de Viglanne et Resuiers Futhoarc chart of stars used revealing seers entire runesSera serre le puisnay de Nancy As seers lines decay years delay can deny surpriseDedans Turin seront ards les premiers Understand Edda routines as address is simplerLors que de dueil Lyon sera transy Older square used will only train on early years

Verse VIII.53 Nostradamus implanted a chant, Edda used a song as the second of a dual method of ensuring accuracy.


Dedans Bolongne voudra lauer ses fautes

Based on Edda longer song govern dual rule seer uses as defaults

Il ne pourra au temp le du soleil Our poem lines used old planetariumIl volera faisant choses si haultes I resolve a far safer chant so the result is not at issueEn hierarchie n'en fut oncq vn pareil Encipher hierarchical futhoarc function pair equivalence

Verse II.68 The number system in Norse efforts involved integers (as numerators for designated fraction types)


De l'aquilon les effors seront grands Equalled olden lines of Norse seers grandest effortsSus l'Occean sera la porte ouuerte Occult use conceals Polestar true routeLe regne en l'isle sera reintegrand Legend general lines are integers in seers readingTremblera Londres par voille descouuerte Olden Letter number prevails deliver true source codes

II.69 Snorri's hierarchical code cipher system forms a chant used in plotting Polaris.


Le Roy Gaulois par la Celtique dextre Orderly usage Polaris recalled as quiet periods exertedVoiant discorde de la grand Monarchie Discordant voices arranged decoders harmonic readingSus les trois pars fera florir son sceptre Rules for poetries safer letters in Snorri's secret processionContre la cappe de la grand Hierarchie Conceal place hidden in hierarchical code cipher relation

Verse IV.16 But this rule is ignored where a verse has been planted as a deliberate failure. These verses have another purpose.


La cite franche de liberte fait serue Cancel it if set after French deliberate failureDes profliges et resueurs faict asyle Used greatest profiles to classify a style for futures figuresLe Roy change a eux non si proterue Rely on change in ux as truer rune pointersDe cent seront deuenus plus de mille Descendent use Norse rune plus illumed centuries

Nostradamus numbering system

Verse IX.8 Nostradamus restricts his mathematical fractions to those of three denominators to improve the astronomic reading (Note : a system using 3,4,5 & 6 as the denominators covers 360 degrees 3x4x5x6=360)

SourceLine DecodeLinePuisnay Roy fait son pere mettre a mort Inputs astronomy if a person treats meter as pointersApres conflit de mort tres inhoneste Final process limited Nostredame letters to three

denominators.Escrit trouue soubson donra remort Restricts our routes so bonus sound more rare to astronomerQuand loup chasse pose sus la couchette And upon equal shape each possesses the usual poets touch

If numbers in lines are considered as numerators then four lines allows an accurate degree to be set. Line1 = quadrant x (x/4), Line 2=group y (y/3); lines 1 & 2 then zodiac signs.) Line 3=5 degree zone (a/6) and line4=degree (b/5)

The number 3,2,1,4 then equals (3-1)x90 + (2-1)x30+ (1-1)x5 +4 degrees or 214 degrees.

This system requires that each line represents a particular fraction.

If Nostradamus used three denominators they are likely to be 9,8 and 5.

The numbers 9,8 and 5 have some special properties that could well have appealed to Nostradamus. They multiply to 360 and they add

up to 22. There are 22 letters in the Jewish alphabet so each numerator for these three fraction systems can be represented by a unique letter One of the Jewish Temurah/Gematria systems reduces all names to a single number between 1 and 9 which can be exploited in three fraction systems..

In addition the number five represents the five pointed star that has historically been a significant figure. Pythagoreans associated the symbol with the healing arts, the profession in which Nostradamus was famous. It is also related to magic, mathematics and astronomy. In astronomy there are stars that were termed 'decans' for they were rising star every 10 days. Duodecans represent half this time or arc and there are 72 of them occurring every 5 days or every 5 degrees.

Verse I.2 Michel de Nostredames mechanism involved use of runes to give number values for degrees.


La verge en main mise au milieu de BRANCHES

Value degree numbered as Michels mechanism illumed

De l'onde il moulle & le limbe & le pied Olden model illumed middle emblem odd line impliedVn peur & voix fremissent par les manches Rune fixture to prevent misuse of planetarium

mechanismsSplendeur diuine. Le diuin pres s'assied Splendid rune druid use inspires seers line ideas

Verse II.26 The poetry rule involves using the quadrature (90 degree separation of two celestial bodies). In the pagan verse this can be seen by the rune pfurisa.


Pour la faueur que la cite fera A powerful rule equal poetical featureAu grand qui tost perdra camp de bataille Angular quadrating protects table detail poet map carriedFuis le rang Pau Thesin versera Pfurisa angles are in the pagan verseDe sang feux mors noyes de coup detaille Eddas angles from ux or morse yes/no produced detail

Verse VI.81 The Futhoarc encrypts numerical degrees and these when applied to the seers french writing change their significance.


Pleurs crys et plaincts hurlement effraieur Plainest rule encrypts futharcs numerical elementCoeur inhumain cruel noir et transy In source main numerical relation is transitory temurahLeman les isles de Gennes les maieurs Numerals main degrees lies in lines nameless runesSang espancher frofaim a nul mercy Pagans pages changes French main numerical formula

Verse I.29 End letters equate quatrain verse - the unusual meter system seems quite strange but gives number for Polestars orbits.


Quand le poisson terestre et aquatique Equal end letter positions equate quatrainPar forte vague au grauier sera mis Part for vaguer auguries is seers aimSa forme estrange suaue et horrifique Safer meter forms seem quite strange at first to other authorsPar mer aux murs bien tost les ennemis Ux-parameter mentions numbers to settle Polestars orbits

Verse I.43 Michel (de Nostredame) used new values set out in the 'Quadrante' to build ciphers and used ux to signal the change.


Auant qu'aduienne le changement d'empire

Quadrante unique element determined quatrain planetarium changed

Il aduiendra vn cas bien merueilleux A line druid advances is a number rune ux illumeLe champ mue le pillier de porphire Michel illume each cipher proper map reliedMis translate sus le rocher noilleux Mistranslates rules Norse chose so Michel illumes ux

Verse II.37 The older poets use missing (discordant) meter to indicate size - their calendar starts in December (mid winter).


De ce grand nombre que l'on enuoyera Arranged on December olden number equal yearPour secourir dans le fort assiegez Procures courier and left readings for stars sizePeste et famine tous les deuorera Poets feet in famous lines set out older order usedHors mis septante qui seront profligez Short patterns poets miss get Norse equations profile size

Verse III.24 Snorri used three tables for his numbers but Nostradamus revises this.


De l'entreprinse grande confusion Legends printed readings confused functionsPerte de gens thresor innumerable Snorri presented degree in three number tablesTu n'y dois faire encore tension Untidy so I refine safer section for entriesFrance a mon dire fais que fois recordable From arcane name in fable is formed record decoder acquires

Verse V.95 Nostradamus corrected the values in the Edda and placed them in his quatrains left of the letter ZED.


Nautique rame inuitera les vmbres Quatrain requires minute relates several numbersDu grand Empire lors viendra conciter Prime guard named is diviners codemap correctionLa mer Aegee des lignes lesencombres Degrees align seer combines becomes Smaller Bears signEmpeschant l'onde Tirreme defflotez Poems map scheme is olden chant determined left of ZED.

Verse VI.95 Sections of the quatrains using ux are critical to setting value to the fractions.


Par detracteur calumnie a puis nay Accurate planetarium detracts any true numerical inputQuant istront faicts enormes et martiaux Quatrains section matters more to master ux fractionsLa moindre part dubieuse a l'aisnay Nominal part build ordinate usable in many linesEt tost au regne seront faicts partiaux Set to generate Norse rune as practise ux fractions

Verse VIII.31 Centuries use numerical binaries for its astral map


Premier grand fruit le prince de Pesquire Premier reading left prerequisite principles in preceding lineMais puis viendra bien et cruel malin Map is under diviners Centuries numerical binaries in line


Dedans Venise perdra sa gloire fiere And in Eddas verse are glorified regional paradesEt mys a mal par plus joyue Celin Set my astral-map to same lines Joyce use

Hidden values

Verse I.89 Nostradamus Centuries quatrains excludes two equation that give the numeric values hidden in ancient verses. These are revealed using the Jewish Temurah technique.


Tous ceux de Ilerde seront dans la Moselle

Two rules Nostredame excluded Allans models translated

Mettant a mort tous ceux de Loire et Seine

Treatment excludes older older source amount Centuries relied

Le cours marin viendra pres d'haute velle Numerals in diviner source parades temurahs hidden valueQuant Hespagnols ouurirat oute veine The pagans unique equation setout equivalent to quatrain

Verse III.58 Nostradamus uses point UrsaMajor/Minor meet as starting point of a hidden runic calendar.


Au pres du Rhin des montaignes Noriques

Nostredame persuades AW genuine astronomies hidden amongst Norse equations

Naistra vn grand de gens trop tard venu

Navigators understanding proven runa patterns in Edda

Qui defendra saurome et Pannoniques

Nostradamus defined unique rune equations to mention point UrsaMaior/Minor meets

Qu'on ne scaura qu'il sera deuenu Once unique runa acquired new calendars are realised

Verse II.73 A crucial clue is found to release the runic information in old manuals and portray the coordinates Nostredame sets out for star positions.


Au lac Fucin de Benac le riuaige AW find crucial clue enabled a runic guide


Prins du Leman au port de l'Orguion Inspired manual reported on older dual guideNay de trois bras predict belli que image Any orbits ordinates predicted it equips image labelsPar trois couronnes au grand Endymion Portray runes coordinates usage in reading my star position

Verse V.88 Nostradamus use the meter in his Centuries as his runa guide to set the names astronomers use.


Sur le sablon par vn hideux deluge Labels rules upon hidden ux rvna guideDes autres mers trouue monstre marin Nostredame truest meter routines use astronomers starnamesProche du lieu sera faict vn refuge Proven schedule relies on active rune safer figureTenant sauone esclaue de Turin Annotate so Centuries dual routine seen

Celestial / astronomy letter/number ciphers

Verse III.11 The Little Bear letter is subtracted to align the yes-no pattern to its correct meaning. Meraq and Dubhe are the two stars (in the Great Bear) used by navigators for this alignment. The rune is indicated as Tiwaz (as in my page called The Runic Sky)..


Les armes battre au ciel longue saison

Assembler is to subtract letters usage along Little-Bears

L'arbre au milieu de la cite tombe Litte-Bear illumed to become delicate detailVerbine rong ne glaiue en face tyson

Governing bear region align on genuine Tys(Tiwaz) facets

Lors le monarque d'Hadrie succombe

Normal roles a square occurs becomes Meraq-Dubhe emblem Edda hides

Verse IV.43 The Little Bears Cynosurae (Polestar) letter is to be subtracted. Nostredame says he used the same method.


Seront ouys au ciel les armes battre Your are to subtract Little-Bears celestial letters Norse astronomers measure


Celuy au mesme les diuins ennemis Easy clue assume same line is used inside mineVoudront loix sainctes iniustement debatre

Uncovered ancients lexicons intuites means Bears instrumented

Par foudre et guerre bien croyans a mort mis

Four parts Nostredame repeated begin Cyanosurae astronomy

Verse VI.50 Norse use letter Tyr to mark out movement of planets using Little Bear as a time marker. This letter is to be subtracted.


Dedans le puys seront trouues les oz

Edda planets routes use Norse Tyr letters to set out zones

Sera l'incest commis par la maratre Star lines concepts scientist memorise alter astral mapL'estat change on querra bruict et loz Latest changes require one to subtract Little-Bears-zone celestial

letterEt aura Mars attendant pour son astre

Mature star-map annotated upon astronomers routes

Verse IX.93 Nostradaumus used four lines instead of eight but still used tables to point out star locations. 'Hattarthal' in the last name refers to the last chapter of the Prose Edda. Alioth is a star in the Grat Bear.


Les ennemis du fort bien eslongnez Mine used four less lines begin on longest zonePar chariots conduict le bastion Points to chart star locations consulted tables suitable stationsPar sur les murs de Bourges esgrongnez Bear group rules assured map uses longer zoneQuand Hercules battra l'Haemathion Quadrant schedule subtract LittleBears Alioth name in

Hattarthal

Verse V.23 It is implied that the starmap is listed in the Voluspa in the section listing DVRINN's dwarf names. These are listed in three verses (11-13 and another set are listed for DVALIN in 15-60. The PrimStav is a Nordic calendary method of using markings on a square to set out the dates.


Les deux contens seront vnis ensemble

Excludes contents sensible Norse inventor mentions

Quant la pluspart a Mars seront conioinct

Acquaint usual star-maps apparatus Norse astronomic section contains

Le grand d'Affrique en effraieur et tremble

Legend affirmed rune a requirement if featuring a letter number

DVVMVIRAT par la classe desioinct DVRIM dvvarves variations classed PRIMSTAV into separated sections

Verse I.22 Anagrams are a central key to understanding Icelander astronomic coding


Ce que viura et n'ayant aucun sens Sequences treat as uncut view Aryan wants unseenViendra leser a mort son artifice Diviner realises first astronomic device in Icelander verseAustun, Chalon, Langres et les deux Sens Wants uncut along each angle and needs ux letters usedLa gresse et glace fera grand malefice Largest celestial-degrees are framed in Iceland anagram field

Verse V.58 Nostradamus states that his techniques are meant to teach the star signs for more reliable reading of his quatrains.


De l'aqueduct d'Vticense Gardoing Decoding equal to a deductive science redoing older readingsPar la forest et mont inaccessible Important labels set for time to nominate accessionEn my du pont sera tasche au poing Upon my end pattern a sign is put to teach seers starsLe chef nemans qui tant sera terrible Frenchmans techniques translate reliable quatrains

Verse I.62 The parts of ancient Norse legends frequently repeated as quotes are celestial coding which assign fractions to letters


Le grande perte las que feront les lettres Legend repeated frequent tales often equals Norse lettersAuant le cicle de Latona parfaict Inculcated date located on a fractional partFeu grand deluge plus par ignares Figure adding rule plus pagan sign appearing as secret


sceptres presencesQue de long siecle ne se verra refaict Quotes in olden verses are in fact revered celestial coding

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