Cryptic Spaces by Deen Ferrell

Author:Deen Ferrell [Ferrell, Deen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-31T00:00:00+00:00

15

Nostradamus

After a hot shower, Willoughby was finally able to stop shivering. He grabbed a quick breakfast and picked up a couple more books on Nostradamus from the chart room. Finding a small bank of lounge chairs on the starboard side of the ship, he settled in and began to read. Sails had been raised and the speed of the ship had increased to a steady clip. Willoughby breathed in the tangy air. The sunlight and fresh breeze raised his spirits a bit, but only a bit. He thought of Antonio’s description of the time door on the ship. He wasn’t sure how he felt about the odd revelation. On the one hand, he was glad they were going ahead with the adventure. On the other hand, they faced more intrigue and danger than he had ever imagined. He felt a tense knot at the pit of his stomach—like the feeling you get when you reach the top of a really high rollercoaster. He tried to ignore his stomach and turned back to his reading.

Nostradamus, he found, was a fascinating character. Some scholars called him a crackpot. They claimed that he wrote so obscurely that his writings could mean anything. Others launched into long defenses, trying to prove that the man had an amazing gift. Whatever your opinion, it was hard to escape the uncanny accuracy of some of his predictions.

In one quatrain, for example, he predicted the death of King Henry II of France:

The young lion overcomes the older one,

On the field of combat, they fight a single battle;

He will pierce his eyes through a golden cage,

Two wounds are made one; he dies a cruel death.

(Century 1, Quatrain 35)

The quatrain, published in 1555, certainly seemed accurate judging from history. King Henry II, of France, died in a jousting accident in June of 1559. He was competing in a tournament against the Comte de Montgomery, who was several years younger. Both men used shields embossed with lions. During the final bout, Montgomery failed to lower his lance in time, and it shattered against the king’s helmet, sending a large splinter through King Henry’s gilded visor. There were two major wounds, one to the eye, and the other to the temple. Both wounds pierced the brain, leaving Henry II to die a cruel death after ten days of agony.

Other quatrains also seemed to accurately reflect historic events:

The French Revolution:

From the enslaved people, songs, chants and demands.

The princes and lords are held captive in prisons.

In the future by such headless idiots,

These will be taken as divine utterances.

(Century 1, Quatrain 14)

President Kennedy’s assassination:

The ancient work will be accomplished,

And from the roof evil ruin will fall on the great man.

They will accuse an innocent, being dead, of the deed.

The guilty one is hidden in the misty copse.

(Century 6, Quatrain 37)

Willoughby remembered reading a book about the Kennedy assassination. Lee Harvey Oswald had been accused of the murder, but was killed in prison before he could come to trial. Some claim that modern forensics evidence pointed

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