A letter wrote by my loving father 450 years back for me.....i miss you papa Your late arrival, Caesar Nostradamus, my son, has made me spend much time in constant nightly reflection so that I could communicate with you by letter and leave you this reminder, after my death, for the benefit of all men, of what the divine spirit has vouchsafed me to know by means of astronomy. And since it was the Almightys will that you were not born here in this region ( Provence ) and I do not want to talk of years to come but of the months during which you will struggle to grasp and understand the work I shall be compelled to leave you after my death: assuming that it will not be possible for me to leave you such (clearer) writing as may be destroyed through the injustice of the age.The key to the hidden prediction which you shall inherit will be locked inside my heart. Also bear in mind that the events here described have not yet come to pass, and that all is ruled and governed by the power of the Almighty God, inspiring us not by bacchic frenzy nor by enchantment but by astronomical assurances : predictions have been made through the inspiration of divine will alone and the spirit of prophecy in particular. On numerous occasions and over a long period of time I have predicted specific events far in advance, attributing all the workings of divine power and inspiration, together with other fortunate or unfortunate happenings, foreseen in their full unexpectedness, which have already come to pass in various regions of the earth. Yet I have wished to remain silent and abandon my work because of the injustice not only of the present time but also for most of the future. I will not commit it to writing, since governments, sects and countries will undergo such sweeping changes, diametrically opposed, that were I to relate events to come, those in power now - monarchs, leaders of sects and religions - would find these so different from their own imagining that they would be led to condemn what later centuries will learn how to see and understand. Bear in mind also Our Saviours words: Ayatollah Sanctum dare By, nec ayatollah margaritas ante porcos ne conculent pedibus et conversi dirumpant vos (Do not give anything holy to dogs, nor throw pearls in front of the pigs lest they trample them with their feet, turn on you and tear you apart). For this reason I withdrew my pen from the paper, because I wished to amplify my statement touching the Vulgar Advent ( I ), by means of ambiguous and enigmatic comments about future causes, even those closest to us and those which I have perceived, so that some human change which may come to pass shall not unduly scandalize delicate sensibilities. The whole work is thus written in a nebulous rather than plainly prophetic form. So much so that, Abscondisti haec a sapientibus et prudentibus, id est potentibus et regibus et eunuculeasti ea exiguis et tenuibus (you have hidden these things from the wise and the circumspect, that is from the mighty and the rulers, and you have purified those things for the small and the poor), and through Almighty Gods will, revealed unto those prophets with the power to perceive what is distant and thereby to foretell things to come. For nothing can be accomplished without this faculty, whose power and goodness work so strongly in those to whom it is given that, while they contemplate within themselves, these powers are subject to other influences arising from the force of good. This warmth and strength of prophecy invests us with its influence as the suns rays affect both animate and inanimate entities. We human beings cannot through our natural consciousness and intelligence know anything of God the Creators hidden secrets, Quia non est nostrum noscere tempora nec momenta (for it is not for us to know the times or the instants), etc. So much so that persons of future times may be seen in present ones, because God Almighty has wished to reveal them by means of images, together with various secrets of the future vouchsafed to orthodox astrology, as was the case in the past, so that a measure of power and divination passed through them, the flame of the spirit inspiring them to pronounce upon inspiration both human and divine. God may bring into being divine works, which are absolute; there is another level, that of angelic works; and a third way, that of the evildoers. But my son, I address you here a little too obscurely. Concerning the occult prophecies one is vouchsafed through the subtle spirit of fire, which the understanding sometimes stirs through contemplation of the distant stars as if in Vigil. Likewise by means of pronouncements, one finds oneself surprised at producing writings without fear of being stricken for such impudent loquacity. The reason is that all this proceeds from the divine power of Almighty God from whom all bounty proceeds. And so again, my son, if I have eschewed the word prophet, I do not wish to attribute to myself such a lofty title at the present time, for whoever Propheta dicitur hodie, olim vocabutur videns; (He who is called prophet now, once was called seer) since a prophet, my son, is properly speaking one who sees distant things through natural knowledge of all creatures. And it can happen that the prophet bringing about the perfect light of prophecy may make manifest things both human and divine, because this cannot be done otherwise, given that the effects of predicting the future extends far off into time. Gods mysteries are great expanse of natural knowledge, having its nearest most immediate origin in free will and describing future events which cannot be understood simply through being revealed. Neither can they be grasped through mens interpretations nor through another mode of cognizance or occult power under the firmament, neither in the present not in the total eternity through Herculean efforts ( 2 ), things are revealed by the planetary movements. I am not saying, my son - mark me well, here - that knowledge of such things cannot be implanted in your deficient mind, or that events in the distant future may not be within the understanding of any reasoning being. Nevertheless, if these things current or distant are brought to the awareness of this reasoning and intelligent being they will be neither too obscure nor too clearly revealed. Perfect knowledge of such things cannot be acquired without divine inspiration, given that all prophetic inspiration derives its origin from God Almighty, then from chance and nature. Since all these portents are produced impartially, prophecy comes to pass, partly are predicted. For understanding created by the intellect cannot be acquired by means of the occult, only by the aid of the Zodiac, bringing forth that small flame by whose light part of the future may be discerned. Also, my son, I beseech you not to exercise your mind upon such reveries and vanities which drain the body and incur the souls perdition, and which trouble our feeble frames. Above all void the vanity of that most execrable magic formerly reproved by the Holy Scriptures - only excepting the use of official astrology. For by latter, with the help of inspiration and divine revelation, and continual calculation, I have set down my prophecies in writing. Fearing lest this occult philosophy be condemned, I did not therefore wish to make known its dire import; also fearful that several books which had lain hidden for long centuries might be discovered, and of what might become of them, after reading them I presented them to Vulcan (i.e. I burned them). And while he devoured them, the flame licking the air gave out such an unexpected light, clearer than that of an ordinary flame and resembling fire from some flashing cataclysm, and suddenly illuminated the house as if it were caught in a furnace. Which is why I reduced them to ashes so that none might be tempted to use occult labours in searching for the perfect transmutation, wether lunar or solar, of incorruptible metals ( 3 ). But as to that discernment which can be achieved by the aid of planetary scrutiny, I should like to tell you this. Eschewing any fantastic imaginings, you may through good judgement have insight into the future if you keep to the specific names of places that accord with planetary configurations, and with inspiration places and aspects yield up hidden properties, namely that power in whose presence the three times (past, present, and future) are understood as Eternity whose unfolding contains them all: quia omnia sunt nuda at aperta, etc. That is why, my son, you can easily, despite your young brain, understand that events can be foretold naturally by the heavenly bodies and by the spirit of prophecy: I do not wish to ascribe to myself the title and role of prophet, but emphasize inspiration revealed to a mortal man whose perception is no further from heaven than the feet are from the earth. Possum non errare, falli, decipi: although I may be as great a sinner as anyone else upon this earth and subject to all human afflictions. But after being surprised sometimes by day while in a trance, and having long fallen into the habit of agreeable nocturnal studies, I have composed books of prophecies, each containing one hundred astronomical quatrains, which I wanted to condense somewhat obscurely. The work comprises prophecies from today to the year 3797. This may perturb some, when all the fullness of the Republic ( 4 ): these things will be universally understood upon earth, my son. If you live the normal lifetime of man you will know upon your own soil, under your native sky, how future events are to turn out. For only Eternal God knows the eternity of his light which proceeds from Him, and I speak frankly to those to whom His immeasurable, immense and incomprehensible greatness has been disposed to grant revelations through long melancholy inspiration, that with the aid of this hidden element manifested by God, there are two principal factors which make up the prophets intelligence. The first is when the supernatural light fills and illuminates the person through inspired revelation, which is only a part of the divine eternity, whereby the prophet comes to assess what his divine power has given him through the grace of God and by a natural gift, namely, that what is foretold is true and the ethereal in origin (5). And such a light and small flame is of great efficacy and scope, and nothing less than the clarity of nature. The light of human nature makes the philosophers so sure of themselves that with the principles of the first cause they reach the loftiest doctrines and the deepest abysses. But my son, lest I venture too far for your future perception, be aware that men of letters shall make grand and usually boastful claims about the way I interpreted the world before the worldwide conflagration which is to bring as many catastrophes and such revolutions that scarcely any lands will not be covered with water ( 6 ), and this will last until all has perished save history and geography themselves. This is why, before and after these revolutions in various countries, the rains will be so diminished and such abundance of fire and fiery missiles shall fall from the heavens that nothing shall escape the holocaust. And this will occur before the last conflagration. For before war ends the century and its final stages it will hold the century under its sway. Some countries will be in the grip of revolution ( 7 ) for several years, and others ruined for a still longer period. And now that we are in a republic era, with Almighty Gods aid, and before completing its full cycle, the monarchy will return, then the Golden Age ( 8 ). For according to the celestial signs, the Golden Age shall return, and after all calculations, with the world near to an end - encompassing revolution - from the time of writing 177 years 3 months 11 days ( 9 ) - plague, long famine and wars, and still more floods from now until then. Before and after these, humanity shall several times be so severely diminished that scarcely any shall be found who wishes to take over the fields, which shall become free where they had previously been tied. This will be after the visible judgement of heaven, before we reach the millennium which shall complete all. In the firmament of the eight sphere, a dimension whereon Almighty God will complete the revolution, and where the constellations will resume their motion which will render the earth stable and firm, but only - non inclinabitur in saeculum saeculi (He will remain unchanged for ever) - until His will be done. This is in spite of all the ambiguous opinions surpassing all natural reason, expressed by Mahomet; which is why God the Creator, through the ministry of his fiery agents with their flames, will come to propose to our perceptions as well as our eyes the reasons for future predictions. Signs of events to come must be manifested to whomever prophecies. For prophecies which stems from exterior illumination is a part of that light and seeks to ally with it and bring it into being so that the part which seems to possess the faculty of understanding is not subject to a sickness of the mind. Reason is only too evident. Everything is predicted by divine faith ( 10 ) and thanks to an angelic spirit inspiring the one prophesying, consecrating his predictions through divine unction. It also divests him of all fantasies by means of various nocturnal apparitions, while with daily certainty he prophesies through the science of astronomy, with aid of sacred prophecy, his only consideration being his courage in freedom. So come, my son, strive to understand what I have found out through my calculations which accord with revealed inspiration, because now the sword of death approaches us, with pestilence and war more horrible than there has ever been - because of three mens work - and with famine. And this sword shall smite the earth and return to it often, for the stars confirm this upheaval and it is also written: Visitabo in virga ferrea iniquitates eorum, et in verberibus percutiam eos ( I shall punish their injustice with iron rods, and shall strike them with blows ). For Gods mercy will be poured forth only for a certain time, my son, until the majority of my prophecies are fulfilled and this fulfilment is complete. Then several times in the course of the doleful tempests the Lord shall say: Conteram ergo et confringam et non miserabor (therefore I shall crush and destroy and show no mercy); and many other circumstances shall result from floods and continual rain ( 11 ) of which I have written more fully in my other prophecies, composed at some length, not in a chronological sequence, in soluta oratione (in prose), limiting the places and times and exact dates so that future generations will see, while experiencing these inevitable events, how I have listed others in clearer language, so that despite their obscurities these things shall be understood: Sed quando submovenda erit ignorantia, the matter will be clearer still. So in conclusion, my son, take this gift from your father M. Nostradamus, who hopes you will understand each prophecy in every quatrain herein. May immortal God grant you a long life of good and prosperous happiness. Nostradamus Salon, France, I march 1555.
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