- there will be a short period of chaos followed by some reconstruction; the total period of upheavals will be roughly three years.
- the chief centers of disturbance will be the Eastern Mediterranean basin, where not less than five countries will entirely disappear.
- in the Atlantic there will be a rise of land which will be a cause of those waves which will bring about great disasters upon the Americas, the Irish and Western European shores, involving all of the low-lying British coasts.
- further great upheavals would occur in the southern Pacific and in the Japanese region.
- mankind can be saved by returning to its spiritual values.
Nostradamus
Michel de Nostredame, aka Nostradamus, was born in St. Remy de Provence, France, in 1503. More than five hundred years later his prophecies are still being exhaustively studied, debated, praised, and decried, and the man himself is the subject of both great admiration as a prophet and equally great disdain as a fraud.
I will never claim to be an expert on the subject of Nostradamus, but I do know that in his early years he was a brilliant physician and alchemist. He worked tirelessly to heal countless victims of a plague that swept through France not long after he received his degree in medicine from the University of Montpellier, and the herbal medications he created were so effective in curing the incurable that he was accused of being a heretic—a deadly charge at the time. No less than the Pope himself declared the charges unfounded after hearing of Nostradamus’s undeniable success against the plague. Nostradamus was known for his lifelong generosity toward the poor.
Nostradamus spent four years writing his first book of prophecies, called the Centuries, but was reluctant to publish it for fear of the cruel religious persecution prevalent against “seers and soothsayers” of that era. Finally,
though, he felt too strongly that his book might be of use to society to keep it hidden, and he published it in 1555 at his own very real peril. Last but not least, Nostradamus took no personal credit for his prophecies but instead acknowledged God as their author and as the One from whom he received his gift. As he wrote in the preface of his first book of prophecies, which he dedicated to his son:
Thy late arrival, my son, has made me bestow much time, through nightly vigils, to leave you in writing a memorial to refer to … that might serve for the common profit of mankind, out of what the Divine Being has permitted me to learn from the revolution of the stars.
So whether or not his prophecies were or are considered accurate, it’s hard to imagine that a man of his kindness, faith, humility, and selflessness would deliberately perpetrate a fraud.
Tragically, the same plague Nostradamus fought against so successfully killed his wife and two children, and he spent the next several years as a traveling physician. It was during these long, lonely years that he began actively studying and experimenting with the occult, for which he held a lifelong fascination. It was also on one of his routine journeys between France and Italy that he had what is considered to be his first prophetic experience.
He was on a narrow footpath in Italy when he came upon a small group of Franciscan monks. Nostradamus was of Jewish lineage, but his family had converted to Christianity, and he was raised in the Catholic faith. So, like any respectful Catholic, he began stepping aside to let the monks pass. But suddenly he focused on one of them and, overcome with awe, he fell to his knees and genuflected at the feet of Father Felice Peretti, a swineherd before he entered the monastery.
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