Editors pick

March 5, 2009

Editors pick

Michel de Nostredame 

Having watched a documentary on Nostradamus, I was prompted to go and find out more about him and his fascinating prophecies, and this is what I found. Quite interesting i would say.

Michel de Nostredame (14 December or 21 December 1503– 2 July 1566), usually Latinized 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 an enthusiastic following who, along with the popular press, credits him with predicting many major world events.

 He was one of at least nine children of Reynière de St-Rémy and grain dealer and notary Jaume de Nostredame.

At the age of fifteen the young Nostredame entered the University of Avignonto study for his baccalaureate(an educational qualification). After little more than a year (when he would have studied the regular education of grammar, rhetoric and logic, rather than the later study  of geometry, arithmetic, music and astronomy/astrology), he was forced to leave Avignon when the university closed its doors in the face of an outbreak of the plague. After leaving Avignon, Nostredame (according to his own account) traveled the countryside for eight years from 1521 researching herbal remedies.

By 1566, Nostradamus’s gout, which had plagued him painfully for many years and made movement very difficult, turned into oedema, or dropsy.

On the evening of 1 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.

Some of his fulfilled prophecies include:The Death of Henry II from a jousting accident ,The fire of London, World War II and Hitler, The exile of Franco,The Kennedy assasinations, the September 11th attack on the U.S World Trade Center, the French Revolution,.

Future predictions include World War III,end of the world,the amargeddon and the third anti-christ.

Nostradamus claimed to base his published predictions on judicial astrology — the astrological assessment of the quality of expected future developments —- but was heavily criticized by professional astrologers of the day such as Laurens Videl for incompetence and for assuming that “comparative horoscopy” (the comparison of future planetary configurations with those accompanying known past events) could predict what would happen in the future.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.

I usually do not believe in prophecy and i did not want to believe this either, but a friend of mine convinced me until i had to think twice about these predictions.But still, until George Bush is assasinated, and there’s an outbreak of the World War III, and until i witness the anti-christ and maybe the end of the world,am just going to sit down and wait to believe Nostradamuses prophecies.

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