The Secrets Of Nostradamus by David Ovason

Author:David Ovason
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780062194015
Publisher: HarperCollins

Chapter 8

THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

Dès le Xe siecle, Albumasar avait calculé que l’année mil sept cent quatre-ving-neuf serait feconde en revolutions sociales, à cause de l’une des grandes conjonctions de Saturne. L’astrologie est vanité, erreur, mensonge, tout ce que vous voudrez; mais enfin voilà une prediction d’une authenticité irrecusable.

In the tenth century, Albumasar calculated that, because of one of the great conjunctions of Saturn, the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine would be fecund in social revolutions. Astrology is vanity, error, dream—anything you wish: yet, when all is said and done, here is a prediction of unimpeachable authenticity.

(Migne, Dictionaire des Prophéties, ii., 339, derived from Albumasar, De Magnis Conjunctionibus, Tract, ii., Diff. 8, quoted by Charles Ward, Oracles of Nostradamus, 1891)

When Nostradamus leafed through the visions of futurity recorded in the Akashic Chronicles, and looked into the Paris of the 1790s—perhaps at the courageous death of Marie Antoinette—he would have seen a statue of Liberty, wearing the Roman tunic. The huge statue would be looking down on to the terrible Place de la Revolution, renamed later, somewhat euphemistically, Place de la Concorde. The female Liberty was standing on the same pedestal as had once carried Louis XV, after whom this enormous square was originally named. She was seated, ironically wearing a Cap of Liberty, derived from the ancient Phrygian headgear, which had once been a symbol of high initiation in the ancient mystery centers. The statue has been described with poetic precision as “an alien among human beings”1 for her stoneless eyes could not see the carnage or the suffering or the petitions of those who suffered. We may be sure that Nostradamus had some such vision as this, for he mentions the statue in one of his arcane verses, wherein he described her as the Castulon monarque, because she wore the Roman castula, or tunic.

Now another sacred mystery stands in Concorde—the massive Obelisk of Luxor, with its hieroglyphics praising the honor and glory of Rameses II, the god-king. This huge stone was presented by Mahommed Ali Pasha to Louis Philippe in 1836 after an epic journey from Luxor. It is said that the obelisk marks the precise spot where Louis XVI was guillotined. Nostradamus had his finger on the pulse of French history, for his quatrains include mention of Louis Philippe, the guillotining of Louis, and the Egyptian influence which would pervade France as a result of Napoleon’s conquests in Egypt.

There is a general belief—derived from inexpert commentaries—that Nostradamus predicted the French Revolution for 1792. This is simply not true: he predicted it quite accurately for 1789, and dated several of the events which followed, among them the institution of the Revolutionary Calendar in 1792. The series of quatrains which describe the Revolution are quite incredible in their explicit detail. In reading them, the commentator cannot help feeling that he is seeing history being written, rather than futurity. The terrible events which we now call the French Revolution appear to have obsessed the Master, for over 40 quatrains seem to deal with the final two decades of the eighteenth century.

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