Speaker 1: First centuries. No Stradamis's prophecies have been dismissed as vague poetry,
But what if that was intentional?
Speaker 2: Hitting codes?
Speaker 1: Suppressed interpretations and eerie accurate predictions suggests his writings may
have been meant for those who knew how to read
between the lines. Follow me down the rabbit Hole about Nostradamus. Hello, friends,
and welcome back to the rabbit Hole. I'm your host Stanny,
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let's dive in. Michele d Notre Dame was born in
December of fifteen oh three. His exact birthday is.
Speaker 2: Up for debate.
Speaker 1: Some people say it's like the twenty first, some people
say it's fifteenth. There's other dates throwing around. We're not
going to get into it. He was born in fifteen
oh three in December. His name is usually Latinized as
no Tre Damis, and that's what most people call him,
so I'll be referring to him by that name throughout
the episode, but he did not actually go by that
name until he started writing later in his life. He
was born in saw Rami de Provence in Provence, France.
He was one of at least nine children. There are
nine children that we have found. There may have been
more children than his parents had, and we just don't
know about them because it has been many centuries since
he was alive. His father's family was historically Jewish, but
the family was converted to Catholicism by his grandfather and
the family name then changed to Notre Dame Nostradamis lived
during the Renaissance. This was considered a rebirth for Europe.
The word literally translates to rebirth or revival. This was
a cultural movement, so this era was characterized by the
European rediscovery and revival of the literary, philosophical, and artistic
achievements of classical antiquity. This was a time when science, mysticism, astrology, religion,
and medicine frequently overlapped with each other. It's important to
note for further into his life that science and the
occult were deeply intertwined during this time and they didn't
really separate from each other for a while. There is
little known about his early childhood, but at the age
of fourteen, he entered the University of Avignon to study
for his baccalaureate. This is the French national academic qualification
that students can obtain at the end of their secondary education.
He was forced to lead the university a little over
a year after being there because.
Speaker 2: Of an outbreak of the plague.
Speaker 1: He then traveled the countryside for about eight years. He
was researching herbal remedies, and during his travels he became
an apothecary, which is basically a pharmacist. In fifteen twenty nine,
he injured the University of Montpellier to study for a
doctorate in medicine. This was one of Europe's leading medical schools.
He didn't finish that school either, because he was actually
expelled shortly after starting because it was discovered that he
had been an apothecary. So being an apothecary carried with
it this stigma because there was no standardized training or
regulation when it came to apothecaries, and they were often
seen as poison peddlers, especially because their shops often sold
dangerous substances like arsenic, mercury and other toxic compounds. Because
there wasn't as much information about the herbs they were using,
some of them were actually poisoning the people and nobody
really knew about it. Good apothe carey's studied plants for years,
and some had their own gardens where they grew these
plants and then they would sell it to other people.
Speaker 2: But that wasn't always the case.
Speaker 1: But during this time, most people used herbs and remedies
to fix their ailments, either going to an apothecary shop
to buy them or making them buy themselves at home.
Trained physicians were way too expensive and were typically only
used for like kings, nobles in the elite, so most peasants,
like regular folks, weren't getting a doctor to come look
at them. They were going to an apothecary for some
herbal remedy. At the university, no shra Damis was studying
at the profession had been expressly banned, so when they
found out that he had been doing this for years prior,
they kicked him out. Regardless of the fact that he
never received the title. Some of his publishers and correspondents
would later call him doctor, and people would come to
him with their ailments to include royalty, so it didn't
matter that he was never technically a physician. After being expelled,
he went back to work. He became famous for creating
a rose pill that was said to protect people against
the plague. Although the Black Plague pandemic occurred in the
thirteen hundreds, the plague was still a very big issue
in the fifteen hundreds. In fifteen thirty one, no Stra
Damis was invited to agent by a leading Renaissance scholar.
While there, he got married and the pair went on
to have two children, basically like back to back to back. Unfortunately,
three years later, his wife and children all died. It's
assumed that they died due to the plague. After their deaths,
he started traveling again throughout France and possibly to Italy
as well, and it's assumed that that's kind of where
he learned some of his occult things that he would
use for his prophecies in the future. In fifteen forty five,
he assisted physician Luis Sayer in his fight against a
major player outbreak in Marseille. He was very good at
fighting the plague because he promoted hygiene and fresh air
along with his herbal realities. So it wasn't just like
he shows up, he's dirty, he's disgusting, and he's like,
let me fix your ailment.
Speaker 2: He showed up and he's like, we should be clean people.
Speaker 1: Like we should go outside and actually get some fresh air,
go into the sun, and try to heal ourselves with
more things than just whatever herbs I've brought, which these
things were very radical at the time, especially because having
good hygiene wasn't even considered by most people.
Speaker 2: Most people would.
Speaker 1: Not have even considered to wash their hands or to
I don't know, like just be clean people. It just
wasn't a thing really, And I mean it's not like
they have indoor plumbing. It's not like they have got
indoor showers. They're not like bathing all the time. So
this was not an easy.
Speaker 2: Thing to do either.
Speaker 1: Blood Letting was a popular treatment of the plague during
this time, and Nostra Damas completely rejected this practice. So
blood letting the practice of removing blood from a person
to treat their illness. This has been proven ineffective and dangerous,
so it's rarely used in modern medicine.
Speaker 2: However, on few.
Speaker 1: Occasions they will do something similar if a person has
conditions like iron overload or excess red blood cells, they'll
like take some blood out, but typically this is not
a practice that is used any longer. When the doctor
no longer needed his help, no stra Damis then continued
the fight against the plague on his own in other
parts of province. In fifteen forty seven, at the age
of forty four, he finally settled in Salon de To Province,
in a house that is still there today if you
want to go and see where nost Dramas lived. He
finally remarried a rich widow and Ponsarde. They would go
on to have six children together. Being widowed and losing
children was pretty commonplace at the time because the plague
was still pretty rampant and medicine was just like, not
very advanced, so it wasn't like they were saving people
all that often, and it actually it wasn't even until
recently that people stopped dying from common colds and just
ailments that we easily healed today. Around fifteen fifty he
visited Italy once again and began to move away from
medicine and toward the occults. That's when he wrote an almanac.
It was also the first time he latinized his name
to Nostrodamis in print. This almanac did so well that
he decided to write one or more annually. These almanacs
are known to have contained at least six three hundred
and thirty eight prophecies as well as at least eleven
annual calendars over the life of all the almanacs. It
said that after his first wife died, he started to
dig deeper into astrology, prophecy, and esoteric study. He might
have been looking for a way to bring his wife back,
or maybe he just started to meditate trying to get
over the death of his wife. It's really unknown what
led him down this path. Because of his almanacs, nobility
and prominent people from all around started asking him for
horoscopes and psychic advice. At these sessions, he would expect
his clients to supply their own birth charts for predictions
to be made from, because he just like really wasn't
very good at creating birth charts. Typically, professional astrologers would
have calculated them themselves, and he is considered to be
a professional astrologer. Now if he was at the time,
it's not one hundred percent clear, But he just like
wasn't very good at creating the actual birth chart. However,
he was very good at making prophecies and predictions according
to the birth chart. He would make them on occasion
if he had to, but again he made like so
many mistakes when he did it.
Speaker 2: He just tried not to do that.
Speaker 1: After the success of the Almanac, he took on the
project of writing a book of one thousand quatry. This
is where most of his prophecies he is famous for
today were pulled from. Many of the prophecies and quatrains
are written in code because he was very nervous about
the opposition he might face on religious grounds, so there
were word games mixed in and a variety of languages
such as Greek, Italian, Latin, and provincial. This book, which
was called The Prophecies, received mixed reviews. Some people thought
he was just serving evil with this book, or that
it was fake and he was just like crazy, while
many elites believed what he had published. In fact, Catherine
de Medici, the wife of King Henry I of France
was a huge admirer of Nostra Damas. She had summoned
him to explain some of his prophecies from his almanacs
and had him drop horoscopes for her children. Nora Damas
was nervous about being summoned by Catherine because he didn't
want to be.
Speaker 2: Beheaded, but actually the opposite happened.
Speaker 1: She eventually would make him the counselor and physician in
ordinary for her son, King Charles the ninth of France.
King Charles was sent to the throne at age ten
after his brother died. Religious persecution was a huge concern
for Nostradamus. This was during the time of the Inquisition,
which was the Catholic judicial procedure in which they were
trying to combat heresy, apostasy, blasphemy, witchcraft and customs they
considered deviant. Luckily, for him, prophecy and astrology were not
considered heresy in the eyes of the Church, so extremely
if he had used magic to support his prophecies, then
it would have been a different story. He did have
a brush with the law, so to speak, in fifteen
sixty one, when they briefly imprisoned him for publishing his
fifteen sixty two almanac without the prior permission of the bishop.
Speaker 2: So they were like, you published, you should have got
our provision. They put them in jail, then they let
him go.
Speaker 1: No. Stradamis has struggled with gout for years. Gout is
this form of inflammatory arthritis typically found in the joint
of the big toe. It can be found other places,
but that's typically where it's found. It made it really
difficult for him to walk, and it was super painful.
In fifteen sixty six, his gout turned to edema, which
means that there was like fluid build up in his limbs. Today,
these things can be lived with, but then fifteen hundreds
this meant death was on the horizon. Knowing this, he
called his lawyer to drop his will. He would be
leaving his property and about three hundred thousand dollars in
today's currency to his wife, pending her remarriage. He also
left money to each of his children. The boys would
get their money on their twenty fifth birthdays, and the girls.
Because he had three girls and three boys, the girls
would get their money when they got married. Actually, the
girls wouldn't technically get anything at all, and his wife
actual wouldn't anything either. All the money would go to
the spouse of the girls when they got married. So
when the wife gets remarried, then they get the money
and the property. When the girls get married, then they
get the money, but it doesn't actually go to them,
It goes to their husband's The story of Nostradamis's death
is intriguing, to say the least, so on the evening
of July first, fifteen sixty six, he told his secretary quote,
you will not find me alive at sunrise, and as predicted,
the next morning, he was found dead, just like laying
on the floor next to his bed, and you can
actually still find his tomb in France if you're looking
for it. We are going to dive a little bit
deeper into his most famous work, The Prophecies. Although it
was said to be one thousand quad trains, it actually
turned out to only be nine hundred and forty two
poetic qua trains, each organized into ten centuries. Each century
contained one hundred quatrains, except the last, which only had
forty two. A quad train is a type of stanza,
or a complete poem, consisting of four lines. They often
have various rhyme schemes like ABAC or aa BA. So
like Robert Frost's poem Stopping by Woods on a snowy
Evening is an example of a poem that has four
quad trains that follow the AABA scheme. So this just
means like for this poem, that lines one, two, and
four all rhyme while line three doesn't, whereas like an ABAC,
lines one in three would rhyme and lines two and
four would not rhyme at all with each other or
with the A lines. Like I said, these quad trains
were written in a cryptic mix of French, Latin, Greek,
and Italian with anagrams and symbolic language, so it was
really hard to decipher what they were. And also even
now the translations are a little bit wonky, so you'll
see multiple translations of the same quatr. He did this
to avoid the Catholic Church's wrath. He also deliberately avoided
clear dates, names, and locations. This was because he didn't
want the knowledge to be misused. It also ensures that
only quote unquote, those worthy of the prophecy could interpret
the messages. You had to be able to read between
the lines in order to interpret the messages he was
trying to scent. This was also why so many of
the prophecies are figured out after the fact and not before,
and hindsight is twenty twenty. He claimed these visions came
to him through a mix of astrological calculations, meditative trances, scrying,
which is staring into water or a reflective surface, and
divine inspiration. He explicitly denied being a sorcerer, but admitted
to using ancient methods derived from her meticism, Neoplatonism, and
possibly cabalistic traditions. Hereticism is a philosophical and religious tradition
rooted in the teaching attributed to Arames Triskamiscus, a combination
of the Greek god Airmes, the Olympian deity, and the
Olympic god Thought, the god of the moon, knowledge, writing, wisdom, science,
and magic. Her Meticism combines a variety of esoteric knowledge
to include alchemy, astrology, and theology. Also known as divine magic,
It has influenced mystical and occult traditions throughout history. Neoplatonism
is a version of philosophy derived from Plato and Kabbalah.
Is the mystical tradition within Judaism rooted in ancient esoteric
teachings and focused on understanding the nature of God, the universe,
and the human soul. It's known as occult knowledge. But
why does all this matter? So like some guy wrote
some prophecies, So what these prophecies have come true?
Speaker 2: And not all of them. But there have been a
good amount of prophecies that have come true.
Speaker 1: In fact, the first prophecy to come true happened only
four years.
Speaker 2: After his book was published.
Speaker 1: In the summer of fifteen fifty nine, King Henry the
Second of France died from injuries he sustained while jousting.
No stra Damis had predicted this. His quatran actually wrote, quote,
the young lion will overcome the older one on the
field of combat in a single battle. He will pierce
his eye through a golden cage. Two wounds made one
then he dies a.
Speaker 2: Cruel death end quote.
Speaker 1: So turns out King Henry was jousting a younger opponent
and was pierced through his headgear. Then the wooden lance
shattered into fragments and penetrated his right orbit and his temple.
He was tended to for eleven days by the most
distinguished physicians of the Renaissance, but ultimately died a very slow,
painful death, the young lion being the person that King
Henry was jousting on the field of combat in a
single battle. Jousting can seem like a combat, like like
one on one fight between two people. He will pierce
his eyes through a golden cage. The golden cage could
be his head care that he was wearing. And then
two wounds made one. He was wounded in his eye
and in his temple, and he will die a cruel death.
Speaker 2: He did. He died a very slow, painful death.
Speaker 1: Just a few years after this prophecy came true, the
prophecy about King Philip the Second of Spain came true
as well. So Catholic King Philip took the throne in
fifteen fifty six and became extremely wealthy during his time.
The qua Train states quote, for seven years, Philip's fortunes
will prosper. He will reduce the Arab army. Then halfway
through things will perplexedly turn against him. A young onion
will destroy his fortune.
Speaker 2: End quote.
Speaker 1: Now, in the Bible, seven years is often used to
denote a long, unspecified period, so seven years doesn't actually
mean seven years literally, but also seven seems to signify
the completion of something in the Bible, like this is done,
and the Bible references make a lot of sense because
he was a Catholic king. Also, he had defeated a
large Ottoman naval force at the Battle of Leponteou in
fifteen seventy one, thus reducing the Arab army. In fifteen
eighty seven, however, Queen Mary of Scots was executed. This
is important because she was Catholic and her death effectively
ended his alliance with England, and the destruction of the
Spanish armada bound for England as an invasion force the
next year sealed his fate. The Young Onion is a
nod to Henry the fourth of France, France being a
nation renowned for its fine onions, and his success and
fortune was completely ruined. The next prophecy when it come
true for over a century. On September second, sixteen sixty six,
a small fire broke out in a bakery on Putting
Lane in London. Now, fires were very common and were
put out relatively quickly, but in this case, London had
been in the midst of a particularly hot, rainless summer,
meaning everything was primed for fire, especially wooden buildings. The
fire spread quickly, and in no time more than three
hundred houses were ablaze, and there was no end in sight.
Attempts to put out the fire proved useless, and for
almost four days this fire raged on. It was so
bad that King Charles the Second ordered for houses in
the fire's path to be pulled down to create a
fire break, but that didn't stop the fire. Everyone was
helping to try to stop this fire. Even the King
himself was out there trying to fight the fire. By
the end of the devastation, four fifths of London was
burned to the ground, including nearly all the civic buildings
and thirteen thousand private residences.
Speaker 2: The city had to be almost entirely rebuilt.
Speaker 1: No stra Damas had written of this, saying, quote, the
blood of the just will be lacking in London burnt
up in the fire of sixty six. The ancient lady
will topple from her place high. Many of the same sect.
Speaker 2: Will be killed in quote.
Speaker 1: So the number of casualties actually was relatively low, given
the circumstances and how many buildings had burned up. In fact,
it's noted that only about six people died in this fire,
so it speculated that the blood of the just is
actually referring to the millions of flea carrying rats that
contributed to the Great plague the year prior to this.
The benefit of this fire is that basically it put
an end to the plague in London by killing all
these strains of disease that these rats were carrying. So
it was nice that that happened, but also the entire
city burnt down again. It would be over a century
until the next prophecy came true. This one was the
French Revolution, which was a major turning point in the
country's history. Frustrations were rising against French royalty until it
finally boiled over.
Speaker 2: In seventeen eighty nine.
Speaker 1: The people executed their last king, King Louis the sixteenth,
and their last Queen, Marie Antoinette. The people had stormed
the best still prison to free political prisoners. They then
were angered by the price of bread, so they marched
from Paris to Versailles and stood outside the royals home
with the guard's heads on pikes, waiting for the king
and queen just so they could take them back to
Paris like it was wild, and it wouldn't be until
January of seventeen ninety three that King Louis would lose
his head, and then nine months after that the Queen
met the same fate, and the crowd just like cheered
and chanted. They were super excited about this. They were
cheering on the fact that they were like beheading their
king and queen. Nostra Dramas had a quatrain that seemed
to predict this exact thing. Quote Songs, chants, and demands
will come from the enslaved held captive by the nobility
in their prisons. At a later date, brainless idiots will
take these as divine utterances.
Speaker 2: End quote.
Speaker 1: There are several interpretations of this quatrain, as there are
with so many of them, but it seems easy to
connect it.
Speaker 2: To the French Revolution.
Speaker 1: So the people weren't technically enslaved, but there's no doubt
that they had suffered and that they blamed royalty for it.
And there were some that were held captive by nobility
in their prisons, which is why the people stormed the
Bastille prison and then freed these people. And then the
brainless idiots part actually seems to hit the nail right
on the head when it comes to the king and
Queen being beheaded, because they literally cut their heads off
and then they became brainless. The next quatrain that points
to a big event says paw nay Lauren more fire
than blood swimming in praise. The great man hurries to
the confluence. He will refuse entreat to the magpies, Pampon
and Durance will confine them.
Speaker 2: This one, it seems.
Speaker 1: To be a little more cryptic and not as straightforward
as some of the others. But what we will see
is we continue, is they're all a bit cryptic, and
you really have to dig in. So this prophecy points
to the rise and conquest of Napoleon Bonaparte, one of
history's most infamous figures. He sees power in France not
long after the French Revolution, with dreams of building an empire.
His forces tore across Europe and brought the Holy Roman
Empire to its knees. His story doesn't end with victory,
but rather exile, so he was actually exiled twice from
his country and eventually died in near isolation. However, his
rise to power came as a shock. No one saw
it coming except no Stra Damis. Of course, so pa
Ney and Lauren all refer to cities in France, although
the third city is actually oh Lauren.
Speaker 2: But also no Damas was.
Speaker 1: A huge fan of anagrams, so he left the oh
of oh Lauren off because if you re arranged the
letters of the three cities, they actually spell out Roy Napolouon,
which is similar to the French Roy Napoleon or King Napoleon.
The reference to more fire than blood isn't referring to bloodshed,
but rather taking the throne by force rather than having
like royal blood to take over the throne. In eighteen
twenty two, a man named Louis Pastor was born. He
is often referred to as the father of microbiology. We
talked about Louis in the Raw Milk episode because he
created the pastorization process. Granted, his process was for wine
and not milk, which makes sense because he's from France.
He was actually mentioned by name in Nosra Damis's prophecy
quote the lost thing is discovered. Hidden for many centuries,
Pasture will be celebrated almost as a godlike figure. This
is when the moon completes her great cycle, but by
other rumors, he shall be dishonored end quote. Outside of
discovering pastorization, he also discovered that it's actually the growth
of micro organisms that cause fermentation, which shifted how scientists
thought about bacteria because before this discovery, they kind of
thought that fermentation occurred spontaneously, and fermentation is also a
very key process in winemaking. His work paved the way
for vaccines, specifically for the treatment of rabies and anthrax,
and in fact, he gave the first rabies inoculation to
a nine year old boy who was bitten by a
rabbit dog and the boy made.
Speaker 2: A full recovery.
Speaker 1: Prior to that, the boy probably would have died. The
last line quote but by other rumors, he shall be dishonored,
is actually referring to a book written in nineteen ninety
five about Louis that revealed that he secretly included a
rivals finding in his version of the anthrax vaccine to
make it work, meaning he didn't discover it one hundred
sent alone. He also never credited the other scientists. After Pastor,
who was honestly just like a really well educated whino,
came the prophecies of the rise of Adolph Hitler and
the Nazi Party, no Stradamas had written quote from the
depths of the West of Europe. A young child will
be born of poor people, he who by his tongue
will seduce a great troop. His fame will increase towards
the realm of the east end quote. Hitler had been
born to poor parents in eighteen eighty nine in Western Europe.
He also had away with his words. He knew how
to sway people with them, which gained him immeasurable power
and helped him establish the Third Reich. This also allowed
him to not have to fight his way to the
top the way Napoleon had done. He actually lost the
election to be president in nineteen thirty two, but was
appointed Chancellor in nineteen thirty three after conservative elites pressured
President Paul Vaughan Hindenberg. The elites and industrialists believe needs
that they could actually control Hitler, which obviously wasn't true.
Speaker 2: Later on, he then.
Speaker 1: Dismantled democracy and sees dictatorial power. The last stands like quote.
His fame will increase towards the realm of the east
end quote refers to Hitler's alliance with Japan and yes,
no stra Damis wrote of Hitler's rise to power, but
he also wrote about the end of the war. He
actually wrote quite a few qua trains about World War two,
and we're going to get into a lot of them.
He had written, quote, beasts ferocious with hunger will cross
the rivers. The great part of the battlefield will be
against Hister into a cage of iron. Will the great
one be drawn when the child of Germany observes nothing?
Speaker 2: End quote here.
Speaker 1: It's believed by some that the word hisster actually refers
to Hitler, but it's just like misspelled. But Hister also
could be referring to the name of a river, because
it's actually the Latin name for the Danube River, which
is the second longest river in Europe. This river flows
through much of central and southeastern Europe from the Black
Forest in Germany to the Black Sea. It flows through
or borders parts of Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria,
Moldava and Ukraine, many of which were occupied by Germany
during World War Two. At the end of World War II,
the Iron Curtain, which was a political, military, and ideological
Barrier divided Europe into two opposing blocks. This barrier was
erected by the Soviet Union to seal itself and its
dependence off from non communist countries. But there's also the
Berlin Wall, which was constructed in nineteen sixty one, encircling
West Berlin and separating it from East Berlin and East Germany.
The idea of this was to prevent East Germans from
fleeing to the West and symbolize the ideological divide of
the Cold War. This could be what no Stradamis meant
when he wrote quote when the ch child of Germany
observes nothing end quote, because East Germans couldn't leave, so
they couldn't observe the world outside of their bubble, so
to speak. But wait, there's more. At least one more
prophecy was written.
Speaker 2: About World War Two.
Speaker 1: Quote the heavenly dart will stretch its course death in
the speaking a great achievement, the proud nation brought low
by the stone in the tree, rumors of a monstrous
human bring purge and expiation end quote. It's believed that
this prophecy was telling of the bombs being dropped on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombs were dart shaped and came
from the sky, so like a heavenly dart. Although these
bombs devastated Japan, they were hailed by many in the
scientific community as great achievements, which hits the second line.
Speaker 2: Japan was a proud.
Speaker 1: Nation that was brought low by these bombs, leading them
to surrender only a week.
Speaker 2: After the bombs were dropped.
Speaker 1: That was after the Soviets broke the Soviet Jabanese neutrality
packed and declared war on Japan. So maybe that's what
they meant in the last line by rumors of the
monstrous human bring purge, then expiation, because expiation actually means quote,
the actor process of making atonement for something. So after
the defeat of Japan, the Allies helped the nation to rebuild.
Not only that, but on Miriam Webster dot com, where
I got the definition of the word, they use the
example public expiation in the case of interment of Japanese
Americans from the West Coast would be good for the
court and for the country, And I just thought that
was like a really interesting example that that's what they used.
And in this prophecy, we're talking about the expiation of
the Japanese. Potentially, there is another quatrain that also seems
to point to the dropping of the bombs. He wrote,
quote near the gates and within two cities, there will
be scourges the like of which was never seen, famine
within plague, people put out by steel, crying to the
Grit immortal God for relief. This seems to fit a
little bit more about the dropping of the bombs and
less about the end of the war. They dropped the
bombs on two cities, and the devastation was something that
had never been seen before because bombs like this had
never been used. The radiation from the bombs was the
plague in the area, and most of the food grown
would not be safe to eat because of the radiation,
so there would be famine within the plague. He predicted
the rise of Charles de Gaul to presidency as well. So.
Charles de Gaul was a French general and statesman who
led the Free French forces against Nazi Germany. He chaired
the Provisional Government of the French Republic from nineteen forty
four to nineteen forty six to restore democracy to France
after the coup of thirteen May. He was asked to
come out of retirement by the president at the time
and was appointed Prime Minister. Then later he was elected
President of France and held that position until he resigned
in nineteen sixty nine. No Stra Damis had written, quote
Hercules become king of Rome and of ann Mark, a
man named gaul is a three time leader Italy, and
the waters of Venice will tremble. He will be renowned
above all monarchs.
Speaker 2: End quote.
Speaker 1: So he actually led forces in World War Two against
Italian forces loyal to Nazi Germany, and he was a
leader three different times. He also undertook the first presidency
of the French Fifth Republic, which is the republican system
that he helped to establish in France. The next prophecy
that came true was the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy on November twenty second, nineteen sixty three. The president
was shot and killed while in the backseat of an
open top limousine in Dallas, Texas. The official narrative is
that Lee Harvey Oswald did this on his own, but
no Stra Damis's prophecy tells a different story and backs
up the conspiracy. Theorists quote an ai ancient task will
be completed. From on high, evil will fall on the
great man. A dead innocent will be accused of the deed.
The guilty one will remain in the mist. From on
high meaning people above the president. So maybe like a
secret society, and evil will fall on a great man
JFK being the great man. This could also be a
nod to them shooting him from above him, like shooting
at a downward angle, although that seems less likely. The
dead innocent will be accused of the deed, implying that
it was always the plan to blame Lee Harvey Oswald
and for Jack Ruby to kill Oswald, or for somebody
to kill Oswald. The guilty one will remain in the mist,
meaning that they got away with killing JFK. The guilty
got away because they put it all on Oswald, who
is not around to defend himself, even though before he
was shot by Ruby he claimed to be a patsy
for the crime. No Sjamas had made predictions about the
lunar landings. Although interest in the sky, as it seems
every generation since the beginning, is they weren't going to
space in sixteenth century.
Speaker 2: At the time of no Sadamis and.
Speaker 1: Yet he wrote, quote, he will come to travel to
the corner of Luna, where he will be captured and
put in strange land in quote. Many people think this
is about Neil Armstrong stepping foot on the Moon, but
to me it also sounds like maybe finding something on
the Moon, or like an alien abduction. I don't know
for sure. But that wasn't the only prediction he made
about space. He also predicted the Challenger disaster. Nine will
be set apart from the human flock, separated from Judgment
and Council, their fate to be determined on departure line.
Unripe fruit will be the source of great scandal, great
blame to the other, great praise end quote. The Challenger
carried only seven astronauts, not nine, but it did explode
shortly after taking off, and there was a huge scandal
after this exploded with military contractors and the firms that
actually built the shuttle components. So this one seems pretty
dead on to me. On September eleventh, two thousand and one,
the deadliest terrorist attack the US has suffered occurred when
two planes struck the World Trade Center in New York City.
Nostra damis prophesied quote the sky will burn. At forty
five degrees, fire approaches the Great New City. By fire,
he will destroy their city, a cold and cruel heart,
blood will poor, Mercy to none.
Speaker 2: End Quote.
Speaker 1: New York City is very close to the forty fifth latitude,
and they were the highest skyscrapers in the world at
the time of their completion in nineteen seventy three, which
lends to the sky will burn. The Great New City
nods to this happening in New York City, which a
lot of people would consider as a great city, like
great being big. Also, its name is literally New York City,
the cold and cruel heart meaning whoever orchestrated the attack,
so mercy to none, and blood will poor. Talking about
the almost three thousand people that died that day because
of the terrorists or whoever you believe orchestrated these attacks.
But what I find interesting is it says quote by fire,
he will destroy their city. It just makes me wonder
who he is. Some of the predictions he wrote could
refer to several different historical events. Quote twice put up
and twice cast down. The East will also weaken the West.
It's adversary after several battles chased by sea will fail
at a time of need.
Speaker 2: End quote.
Speaker 1: The twice put up, twice cast down is talking about
the alliances that were put together in each war. Or
maybe like political ideology, the East will also weaken the
West leads us to believe that the West has weakened
the East because of the word also the East will
also weaken the West. But this isn't necessarily talking about
countries necessarily, like maybe it's more like Eastern powers undermining
Western dominance or ideological parties at play. It could be
so many different things, and the chase by the sea
will fail at time of need. Could be a reference
to trade or supply lines.
Speaker 2: Or naval defeat.
Speaker 1: So this quatrain could refer to a number of different things.
So could refer to the Roman Empire, like the Eastern
versus Western Rome, the Ottoman European power struggle, the British
empires decline, the Cold War, or most commonly assumed is
it's referring to both world wars. But I'm not sure
if it matters for a specific event, because it could
just be prophesying that history tends to repeat itself. Now,
there are a lot of prophecies people say no, Stradana's
got wrong, but maybe because of the cryptic wording, we
just don't know exactly what they point to. There are
so many quatrains that could be true for many different
events in history, but they're also very vaguely worded. Nostradamis
defended this tactic because he didn't want people to mess
with the future, but also he didn't want to be
persecuted through the church, so he was like.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna write this.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna write it really cryptically, really vague. It doesn't
mean anything. We don't tend to connect the dots until
after the events happen. But again, this is because of
the cryptic and vague verbiage. He wasn't trying to warn
humanity of these prophecies. He was just trying to document
the inevitable. He didn't want anybody to do anything about it.
He just wanted it to be documented that way. Hindsight,
we're like, oh, yeah, there it is.
Speaker 2: We were going to do this. We were going to
drop these.
Speaker 1: Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I do find it interesting
that many of the conspiracy theories that we've actually talked
about on this show, and that are just like out
there in the world also have a prophecy written about
them by no stra damas like that's very I don't
really know why that is, but I'd be interested to
know if the other prophecies that we talked about today
also have conspiracies surrounding them, like if I dug into
each of them, like King Philip from Spain, is there
a conspiracy surrounding his life? I don't know, but it
doesn't make you wonder why or how he got these
prophecies because he was obviously scared of the Church executing
him for this almanac and his prophecy book, because they
were executing other astrologers. Yet he survived and actually he thrived.
He became very popular, like Royalty was seeking him out
to be their doctors and to predict things for them,
which is also interesting because it wasn't like he was
a qualified doctor, like they could have gotten any doctor
that wasn't an apothecary, especially because he literally got kicked
out of the school when the university found out that
he had been an apothecary leading up to his schooling.
So those guys weren't thought highly of and Royalty could
have afforded the doctors. That's what they were for. Really,
so was royalty protecting him and that's why he didn't
get persecuted by the church.
Speaker 2: But what if he.
Speaker 1: Wasn't suppressed because they knew how he was getting his information.
It seems like he wasn't merely guessing the future, but
rather he had access to what the future held. So
time isn't a linear thing. A lot of people do
believe it is, but every time we get into something
like this, it's proven again that it isn't. It's simply
a construct. So that means that prophecy isn't magic, it's perception.
Like he may have entered an altered state using meditation,
and maybe he was like remote viewing the way he
wrote the predictions. Also like almost seems like when you
have dejevu, or at least like how I have dejevu.
So I see these events unfolding, but I don't really
have a full picture of what's going on, and I
see like a little boy potentially right, and then later on,
when this is actually happening, I come to realize, like
that little boy was my son, and I just didn't
recognize him in this deja vous dream that I'm having.
So if that's what he was doing, and maybe he
just got dejevu a whole lot, then this kind of
makes more sense that he would write it in such
a way that he didn't really know what was happening.
But also maybe the elites then were like the elites
now and we're also practicing occult magic in secret, so
like they knew exactly what he was doing, and they
were like, he's got it. We're just gonna listen to
him because whatever satanic weird things going on, this guy
seems to have it. But like we always point to
the Satanic here, but there are plenty of prophets in
the Bible. Could he have been prophesying something that God
had given him, Like.
Speaker 2: Why does it have to be the occult?
Speaker 1: And I think that people lean towards that more because
they're like, this is just too weird. People in that
time didn't have obviously they didn't have visions like this,
but the church didn't persecute him. The church let him
keep doing it. So that kind of makes me think
that maybe the church knew that it was God giving
him these words, these prophecies, these thoughts, these visions, it's
not completely unheard of.
Speaker 2: We have the entire Bible to show us that. So
could it have been the occult? Absolutely? Could it have
been God? Absolutely? Do we know? Absolutely not, We don't know.
Speaker 1: There are others that think his predictions were just really
good guesses. They say this because they seem to have
a pattern. A system rises, it centralizes power, it over extends,
it collapses through crisis, and then a new order replaces it, which, yes,
we do tend to see this in history. But he
did include a few names and dates that are more
than just guesses, Like in the London Fire, the quatrain
literally says, quote burnt up in the fire of sixty six. Now,
that could have been any century, but with hindsight we
know that the Great London Fire happened in sixteen sixty six,
So that's like way too spot on to be a coincidence.
And also he had mentioned a couple names, granted they
were last names, Like it wasn't like he was saying
King Philip the second of Spain is gonna lose all
of his fortune, right Like he would say things in
a cryptic way, but he would still give names every
now and then. That's just way too particular to be
a coincidence, And maybe you could argue that it all
was just a coincidence if he hadn't gotten so many rights.
I mean, we just talked about fifteen different predictions here
that seemed to be pretty spot on, and who knows
how many other predictions he got right, But we just
haven't figured it out yet because of the translations and
because of the weird verbiage. Like I said, he wasn't
trying to warn humanity these predictions. He was just documenting
what was gonna happen. So what do you think about
these predictions? Were they just good guesses? Did he see
the future? Was it the occult? Was it biblical? I'd
love to know. Leave your comments, guys until next week,
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