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NOSTRADAMUS ON THE COMING TRIALS

AND THE GOLDEN AGE THAT FOLLOWS

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       The prophet Nostradamus wrote in Century Two, Quatrain 46 that a comet would appear, and that after a great trouble for humanity, a greater one was prepared.  Since the Hale-Bopp comet of 1997, the previously-unknown NEOWISE comet of 2020 was the first to be visible to the naked eye.  This came during the same year as the COVID–19 pandemic, the worst to hit humanity since the Spanish Flu of 1918.  Could this pandemic have been the “great trouble” foreseen by Nostradamus, after which an even greater trouble (including rain, blood, famine, steel, and plague) awaits us?  In January through March of 2023, another previously unknown comet was visible with the naked eye: Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF), nicknamed the Green Comet.  The third in the set is Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, which makes its nearest approach in April of 2024.  The fourth comet in this series, comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (named after 紫金山, "Purple-Gold Mountain," in China, where an observatory working as part of the Asteroid Terrestrical impact Last Alert System discovered it in 2023), is set to make its closest approach in September of 2024.  In Century Two, Quatrain 62, Nostradamus said that when the comet runs, there will be thirst, famine, and a horrible laying waste of both humans and animals.  In both Century Three, Quatrain 34 and Epistle to Henry II (EP 87), he mentions a solar eclipse in conjunction with cataclysmic occurrences.  Could this be a reference to the April 8, 2024 total eclipse seen across North America from Mexico to Maine?  Nostradamus describes a coming apocalypse, saying we will suffer war, terrible droughts, famine, flooding of much of the world – and a terrible plague that will kill two-thirds of the world’s population, while weeds grow tall in city streets and it becomes hard to determine the true owners of property (EP 118-119).  In Century Five, Quatrain Eight, Nostradamus says an entire city will be turned to dust by horrible fire released from globes.  

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       In The Preface, Nostradamus details all the terrible things that will happen during the upcoming time of trouble.  He hints that it will begin 177 years, three months, and 11 days after he penned those words.  The Preface is dated March 1, 1555, so he would seem to be indicating June 12, 1732.  Since no such catastrophic events took place at that time, he must have been writing in code.  If three months stands for “three centuries,” and 11 days stands for “minus 11 years,” then we arrive at the year 2021. 

As mentioned in the "Metaphysics" section, under the entry, "Nostradamus Predicts the War in Ukraine," December 14th, 2021 was the start of the year of the “great seventh number” (Century 10, Quatrain 74), which was both the 518th anniversary year of Nostradamus’s birth and the year the war in Ukraine started.  The present moment in time appears to be that which is predicted in Century One, Quatrain 51, where he says the "bad times" will return, as well as Century One, Quatrain 63, which describes the end of the peaceful postwar era, saying that "wars will begin again."  He says that a war with Iran is imminent, involving an invasion force of nearly a million men (Century Five, Quatrain 25).  In Century Nine, Quatrains 55, Nostradamus writes of a “horrible war being prepared in the West.”  Could this be a reference to Putin's war in Ukraine, begun in February of 2023?  He says a most horrible pestilence will arrive the year after the war starts, and that it will kill old and young as well as animals.  Could this be referring to the Israel-Hamas War that began in October of 2023, and a warning for what is coming in 2024?  In Epistle to Henry II (EP 202), Nostradamus writes that the pestilence will last for years, and will be made much worse by the famine which will have preceded it.  In Century Six, Quatrain Five, he says there will be a famine extending from pole to pole.  In Century One, Quatrain 67, Nostradamus describes a worldwide famine so severe and long-lasting that people will devour not only roots, but children as well.

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       Nostradamus writes that “memories of things” contained in their “instruments” will suffer incalculable loss (EP 184).  This is an apt description, from a 16th century point of view, of a massive computer failure, including a collapse of cloud-based storage.  He adds that there will be a terrible loss to letters and learning (EP 184 and C1, Q62).

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       Nostradamus writes that after these dark times will come a Golden Age.  He says that there will be union between those who had previously been separated by nation and religion.  He foresees a universal peace for at least a thousand years.  Nostradamus writes that the golden lamp of Trajan will be relit (C5, Q66).  Trajan was the emperor who invaded both Dacia (Romania) and Mesopotamia.  When he died in 117 AD, Roman power (representing the height of Western classical civilization) was at its zenith.  He promises that the aqueduct will be renewed and brick walls will be replaced with marble.  He predicts joy to humanity, health, abundance of fruit, joy, and mellifluous times (C10, Q89).  Nostradamus even makes a prophecy about this prophecy of a Golden Age.  He writes that for five hundred years they will take notice of him, when he will give a great prediction, making the people of that century very content (C3, Q94).  The 500th anniversary of Nostradamus’s passing will be in the year 2066.

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