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May, 1791, the height of the French
Revolution.
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Three sceptics have set out to
challenge a legend.
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The legend: Whoever shall drink from
the skull of the man who is buried here
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will inherit his powers.
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The name of the dead man -
Michel de Nostradamus.
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His powers: the ability to predict the
events of the future.
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For 200 years, his grave has remained
undisturbed.
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Because the legend also said,
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that whoever disturbed his grave
would die.
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It was not the skeleton that
certainly startled the grave-diggers,
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but the plaque around its neck,
with the date
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May, 1791.
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Which could only have been placed there
at the time of burial, in 1566.
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Nostradamas had predicted
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200 years before, the exact date
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that his body would be dug up.
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The shot that killed that grave-digger
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was fired from the riot of the
surrounding revolutionists,
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a stray bullet that fulfilled the legend
of Nostradamas.
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Was it a coincidence?
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Or a prophecy?
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We're going to look at this man,
this,
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Michel de Nostradamas.
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He was a respected French physician,
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whose predictions of the future
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have mystified scholars for over 400
years.
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We're gonna look at his predictions of
the French Revolution, of the Kennedies,
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of Napoleon, of Hitler,
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and of another man, who Nostradamas
says is soon to plunge the world
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into a catastrophic war.
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Was he a quack,
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this Nostradamus?
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A charlatan? Or was he a true prophet,
a man with a gift
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to see what others cannot see?
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We're going to let you judge for
yourselves.
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If his predictions of the past are
accurate,
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then his predictions of the future
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could very well affect the lives of all
of us.
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Nostradamas made over a 1000 predictions.
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There are experts who say that over half
of them have already come true.
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The most startling of them deals with
the coming of three antichrists.
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Hitler is believed to have been
one of these.
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Another is thought to have been
Napoleon.
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The third antichrist is still to come.
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Nostradamus predicts he will be here
within the next 20 years.
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A villainous warlord will start the
Third World War.
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But can Nostradamus or any man see
the future?
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In Nostradamus' day, it was believed
that only witches and warlocks,
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or those who served the devil, could
see through time.
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To claim clairvoyancy was heresy.
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And countless people were convicted and
sentenced
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to horrible tortures and deaths.
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It's only in recent years that scholars
at universities around the world
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have begun to seriously study the
question:
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can man see into the future?
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We asked scientist, Dr Edgar Mitchell, one
of the first men to walk on the moon,
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if it's possible to see through time.
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Yes, it's possible to see into
the future.
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Every human being has virtually
unlimited awareness
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and creative capabilities.
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Some individuals just have it in greater
measure than others.
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There've been a number of studies
on this,
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and they're getting better and more
definitive each year.
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The future is nothing but a series
of probabilities,
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made up of the decisions that we make
right now,
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that lead to certain events into the
future.
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But every human being has this
capability, determines their own future,
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some just have greater awareness
than others.
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Nostradamus was conscious of his
greater awareness.
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Even as a boy growing up in the French
village of Saint-R�my-de-Provence,
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for he was born in 1503,
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coming from a family with roots in both
Jewish and Christian traditions,
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he believed his visions proceeded from the
divine power of God.
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His ancestors were Jewish, his family
had converted to Christianity.
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So with his grandfather, a doctor,
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he studied the Kabbalah, as well as the
Old and the New Testaments.
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He also studied the stars.
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Nostradamus's early education was an
extraordinary one
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for a French youth of his day.
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His father, who was the village notary,
saw to it that Nostradamus was
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schooled in the classics and
the sciences.
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From his mother,
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Nostradamus derived his love of God
and his passionate faith.
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He learned to respect the gift of
prophecy as the power of God.
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To make all time, past, present and
future, become one time.
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One of Nostradamus' earliest recorded
visions was of a religious nature.
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While still a youth, he saw a young
Franciscan friar approach the well.
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He was compelled to go to the friar and
pay him homage.
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He fell to his knees and kissed the
young man's robes.
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Asked why he was paying such duty to a
lowly friar,
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Nostradamus replied,
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Because I must kiss the robes
of His Holiness, the Pope.
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Nostradamus' behaviour was starting to
be eccentric.
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But many years later after Nostradamus
had died,
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the young man, Felice Peretti,
became Pope Sixtus V.
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But Nostradamus was not yet ready to
pursue a life as a prophet,
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instead he attended the university,
where he was trained to be a physician.
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While he was still a student, a plague,
the dreaded curse of the 16th century,
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spread across Europe.
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Medical science had no cure for the
disease and so thousands died.
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Nostradamus left school at the age of 22,
never having practiced medicine before,
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went out to try to heal the sick and
dying.
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Nostradamus' patients recovered.
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What cure he used is not recorded.
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What is recorded is that his fame as a
healer spread.
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From near and far, towns afflicted
with the plague sent for him.
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His achievements were legendary.
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Had he never made a single prediction,
Nostradamus would've endured in history
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as a remarkable physician.
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His success brought him to the town of
Agen,
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where he married and settled down.
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There rumours of his strange powers to
see into the future
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provoked much curiosity.
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On one occasion he was invited to
a banquet,
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where his host attempted to trick him.
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He told Nostradamus they would be eating
pig that evening.
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He said he had a black pig and a white
pig.
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And he invited Nostradamus to predict
which of the two they would be eating.
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Nostradamus said the black one.
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The host then instructed the cook to
prepare the white pig.
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Later that evening,
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as they were enjoying their meal,
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the host challenged Nostradamus to once
more state which pig they were eating.
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Nostradamus replied, as he had before,
the black one.
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Triumphantly, the host then called for
the cook
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to ask him to declare which of the two
they were eating.
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The cook said that while he was
preparing the white pig,
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it fell from the table.
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It was devoured by dogs.
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So he was forced to serve the black one.
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More and more, Nostradamus was becoming
aware of his power to
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predict the future.
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But it wasn't until a personal tragedy
struck,
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that he took account of that power,
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and changed his life accordingly.
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When the next wave of the devastating
plague took the lives of his
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wife and two children in 1533,
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he fell into a deep despair.
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He retired to a life of seclusion and
became a quiet, introverted man.
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He then wandered aimlessly throughout
Europe for the next 10 years.
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Nostradamus was looking continually
inward.
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He now discovered what it was he had to
do.
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He returned to Salon, the south of
France,
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where he began to record his visions.
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Seated at night in my secret study,
alone,
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reposing over the brass tripod.
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A slender flame leaps out of the
solitude,
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making me pronounce that which is not
in vain.
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He chose to write down his predictions
in a four line rhyming verse,
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known as the quatrain.
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He wrote in his native French, but to
protect himself from the superstitious
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witch hunters of the day, he confused
the verse with Latin and Greek,
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and even anagrams.
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He wrote 1000 quatrains,
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dividing them into 10 groups of a 100
each,
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called Centuries.
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The first edition of his quatrains was
published before his death in 1566.
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They continue to be published to this
day.
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His visions, Nostradamus wrote,
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were received by a subtle spirit of
fire.
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By a voice coming from limbo.
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These voices and visions were often
fragmented.
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And they were about things and events
that Nostradamus himself
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couldn't understand, but still, he set
them down in verse, in the quatrains.
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And obscure, as these quatrains are to
many of us,
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they were very clear to others. One
quatrain for example,
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the 35th of the first Century,
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was quickly seized upon as,
suggesting that
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the reigning King of France, Henry II,
would die in a jousting tournament.
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Nostradamus was quickly summoned before
the king to explain the quatrain.
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The king said it was ridiculous.
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He'd never participate in such a
tournament.
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Nostradamus could only reply that
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he wrote what he saw.
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Despite Nostradamus' warning,
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the king did joust in a tournament.
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His opponent was the count
Gabriel de Montgomery.
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The young lion will overcome the old
one.
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In a cage of gold his eyes will be put
out.
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Nostradamus wrote many quatrains about
the events in his homeland.
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He is said to have predicted the French
Revolution of 1789,
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234 years before it happened.
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The republic of the great city, with
great harshness,
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shall not permit exit to the king.
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Being called by trumpets, the ladder
shall be put to the wall
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and the city shall repent.
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It is estimated that Nostradamus wrote
about 30 quatrains
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dealing with this epical moment in
French history.
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Despite the king,
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the coin will be brought lower.
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The people shall rise against their
king.
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Peace being made, holy laws made worse,
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Paris was never in such great disorder.
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Nostradamus wrote about places he could
never have guessed at,
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places that in his time didn't even
exist.
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On the night of June 20, 1791, a mob
calling itself The Marseillaise 500
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attacked Louis XVIth palace.
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Built long after Nostradamus' death,
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the palace was called the Tuileries,
which in French means the tile works.
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Conflict will take place at the tile works by
500.
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Then there's the remarkable quatrain
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in which Nostradamus wrote about the
king's flight from Paris.
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Louis XVI with his wife, Queen
Marie Antoinette, fled Paris in 1791,
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taking the odd route via the forest of
Reims.
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Disguised as a monk, he was dressed in
grey,
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and he went to Varennes.
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Nostradamus also wrote about the fate
of the royal couple.
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The government taken over will convict
the king.
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The king was condemned to death.
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The queen sent to death by jurors,
chosen by lot.
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Marie Antoinette was condemned to death
by a jury of revolutionaries.
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The first time royalty was tried by a
jury, chosen by lot.
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And the prostitute shares the fate of
the consort.
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Madame du Barry, mistress of kings,
also met her fate on the guillotine.
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Nostradamus' visions of the future of
his homeland
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have been described as being uncanny.
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He is said to have heard the thundering
footsteps of Napoleon's troops
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and to have seen the cost in human
lives of Napoleon's adventures.
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In quatrain after quatrain he's described
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the coming of three powerful and
tyrannical leaders.
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Men he called antichrists.
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He wrote that these men would lead
their people through reigns of terror
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after first seducing them with promises
of greatness.
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Napoleon is said to have been the first of
the three.
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An emperor will be born near Italy,
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one who will cost his empire quite a
high price.
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They will say that even among his
supporters, he will be found
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less prince than butcher.
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"...take the best soldiers I can find,
who are not drunk..."
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Napoleon, who was an emperor, not a king
of France, was born near Italy,
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on the island of Corsica.
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It was an unheard of place for a French
ruler to be born.
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And, even in his own time, Napoleon was
seen as both
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prince and butcher.
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From a simple soldier he will attain to
empire.
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From a short road, he will attain the
long.
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Great swarms of bees will arise.
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Short roads to long roads, soldier to
emperor.
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Napoleon adopted the beehive as his
imperial crest.
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For 14 years he will hold the tyranny.
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Napoleon's reign of war and terror
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from the time he first seized power on
November 9, 1799
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to his exile in Elba on April 13, 1814,
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was 14 years and 5 months.
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Of a name never before held by a French
king.
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Napoleon Bonaparte is indeed a name
never before or since
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held by a French king.
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Napoleon, whose name in Greek means
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the new destroyer,
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invaded Russia in 1812.
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His troops sacked and burned Moscow.
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Here Nostradamus suggests that the
Russian people would at last
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rise up and turn back the French
invaders.
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He seems to have captured the image of
Napoleon's retreat
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across the icy steps of Russia
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250 years
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before it happened.
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Napoleon had overextended his forces,
his army was trapped
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over 3000 miles from their home base
in France.
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He was as much beaten by the Russian
winter as he was by the Russian army.
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The French will come to dread the time
of the north winds.
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Their forces having driven too far.
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Students of the quatrains find
Nostradamus' predictions about
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this first antichrist, the man they are
certain is Napoleon,
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to be his most extraordinary.
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They point to a verse they say tells of
Napoleon's defeat and exile
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to the small island of Elba.
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The great empire will soon be exchanged
for a small place,
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in which he will come to lay down his
scepter.
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A small place of tiny area, it will
soon begin to grow.
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Here, experts say, Nostradamus is
alluding to Napoleon's escape from Elba.
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It was a daring attempt to regain power.
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The captive escaping great dangers, his
fortunes greatly change.
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Successful, Napoleon began what was to
become known as the Hundred Days,
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which would reach a climax on June 18,
1815, on a battlefield in Belgium.
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Waterloo, in the third month, of
Napoleon's second reign.
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In the third month at sunrise, the boar
and the leopard meet on the battlefield.
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Napoleon's enemy was the Duke of
Wellington, a man he called
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the leopard of England.
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The boar and the leopard meet on the
battlefield.
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All day from sunrise to evening,
Napoleon's troops assaulted the English.
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But it was the French flank that broke
first.
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Wellington, the leopard, could now take
over.
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The fatigued leopard looks up to the
heavens, an eagle soars to the sun.
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The chief adversary will win the
victory.
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The chief adversary, Wellington,
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the loser, as Nostradamus may have
predicted 250 years before,
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Napoleon.
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Neither bugles nor shouts will stop
the soldiers.
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Liberty and peace achieved only through
time and death.
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Incredible, yes, but there's more,
much more.
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Visions of war, bloodshed and death.
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Visions of the future that are often
bleak and terrifying.
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Visions that tormented Nostradamus,
who was
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after all a man of peace, a man who
was a physician, a healer,
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for he was a prophet.
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Visions that he hoped would cause his
fellow countrymen
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to take a long look at the destiny of
France, to wonder about it,
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to think about changing it.
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And yet, not all of his visions were of
events
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to happen in his homeland.
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Nostradamus also wrote quatrains which
referred to British royalty,
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from Queen Elizabeth I to the reigning
queen.
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The most remarkable quatrains dealing
with the royal family
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are the two that are said to deal with
King Edward VIII.
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Later known as the Duke of Windsor.
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Edward was a popular figure wherever he
travelled.
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On those travels he met an American
divorc�e, Wally Simpson.
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For being unwilling to agree to
separation
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he will be recognised as unfitted to be
king.
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He will be driven out, and another
shall rule in his place.
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Believe me when I tell you
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that I have found it impossible
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to carry the heavy burden of
responsibility
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without the help and support of the
woman I love.
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Edward's brother was crowned king in
his place in 1936.
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The English people were divided in their
loyalties.
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The kingdom will be divided over the
brothers.
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One of them will take the arms and name
of Britain.
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The new king called himself George VI.
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The other, night overtaking him, will
flee for France.
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Immediately upon renouncing the throne
and taking Wally Simpson as his wife,
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Edward went into exile in France.
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An English title will be tardily
conferred on him.
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Edward was conferred the title
Duke of Windsor.
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Nostradamus also wrote about the
British adventures in the new world.
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Only just discovered in the years
before his birth.
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In several quatrains he is said to have
written about the British colonies
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striking out on their own, in a war for
independence.
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The West shall be free from the
British Isles.
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Nostradamus wrote that line in the
seclusion of an attic room
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in a small town in France, about a
country
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not yet born, 2000 miles away.
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Now listen to quatrain 96, Century 4,
written over 200 years
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before the American Revolution.
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The eldest sister of the Britannic
Island shall be born
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15 years before her brother.
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This prediction many experts say not
only suggest that America,
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the eldest sister, will achieve
independence
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before France, her brother.
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but actually stipulates the gap of 15
years
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between the beginnings of the republic
in each country.
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America, in 1776.
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France, in 1791.
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By what is promised her, and by help of
truth, she shall succeed
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in the Kingdom of balance.
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Here, the Nostradamus proponents say
the 16th century French prophet
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was predicting that the United States
would one day ensure
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the balance of power in the world.
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There are experts who say he wrote many
quatrains about future events
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in American history.
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In one he is said to have predicted
the coming of a great lawgiver.
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The Sacred Pomp shall bow down her wings
at the coming of the great lawgiver.
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He shall raise up the humble and
defeat the rebellious.
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No emulator of his shall be born.
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Abraham Lincoln did give to the new
nation its most important new laws.
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Those which freed the slaves.
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He raised up the humble and defeated
the rebellious Confederate States.
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In another quatrain, Nostradamus may be
alluding to Lincoln's assassination.
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A conspired death shall come to an
effect.
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Charge given and a journey to death.
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Elected, created, received by his own
defeated.
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Blood of innocents before him by
remorse.
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They've killed the president!
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A conspired death, Nostradamus wrote.
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Lincoln's murder was the result of a
vast conspiracy,
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the exact details of which are still
not fully understood.
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By his own defeated, Nostradamus added.
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Lincoln was killed by those he
vanquished in the civil war.
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The researchers and scholars who've
been analysing and interpreting the
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quatrains of Nostradamus over the last
four centuries,
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have reached some rather startling
conclusions.
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And none more startling than the
predictions
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of the assassination of not one,
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but two American presidents.
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Besides finding the quatrain alluding to
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the killing of Abraham Lincoln, experts
point to a quatrain which suggests
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the assassination of John Kennedy.
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The same quatrain also suggests that a
modern day prophet
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would predict the tragic event
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and would try to warn the president.
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The great man falls by lightning in the
day.
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An evil foretold by the postulant one.
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I, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, do solemnly
swear.
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That you will faithfully execute the
office of president
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of the United States.
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That I will faithfully execute the
office of president
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of the United States.
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January 20th, 1961,
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John Kennedy becomes the 35th president
of the United States.
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Ask not what your country can do for
you.
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00:34:10,823 --> 00:34:13,359
Ask what you can do for your country.
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00:34:18,346 --> 00:34:23,246
November 22nd, 1963, Dallas, Texas.
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The great man falls by lightning in the
day.
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An evil foretold by the postulant one.
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00:34:37,584 --> 00:34:42,475
The postulant one could be the modern
day psychic Jeanne Dixon,
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00:34:42,531 --> 00:34:46,282
who publicly foretold the assassination
of president Kennedy.
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I remember that day
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of August 1952, it was pouring down
rain just as it was when you came.
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And I felt this person so close to me,
very close to me,
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00:34:55,113 --> 00:34:56,920
as I went into Saint Matthews.
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00:34:56,952 --> 00:34:59,042
I was kneeling in prayer in front of
the Holy Mother.
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00:34:59,126 --> 00:35:02,410
There he showed me, it was a film,
everything that would happen.
404
00:35:02,894 --> 00:35:06,147
And he even showed me that the president
would be seated, he'd be Democrat
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00:35:06,222 --> 00:35:08,469
and assassinated in his first term.
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00:35:08,790 --> 00:35:12,378
Now that was a revelation, that was a
prophecy, that would not change.
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00:35:12,395 --> 00:35:16,502
And then when I got the name of the
assassin
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that it would be a plot, that was a
prediction.
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00:35:19,661 --> 00:35:23,861
That was picking the thoughts, like when
you turn on radio or television,
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00:35:23,896 --> 00:35:25,316
and pick up a certain channel.
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00:35:25,779 --> 00:35:28,295
So I picked up the channel and I got the
name of Oswald,
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and that's documented before it
happened.
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00:35:30,356 --> 00:35:35,454
And as I recall, I tried many ways to
get to the president.
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00:35:35,506 --> 00:35:39,099
And I thought well, the best way, the
easiest way, was to go to Kay Halle.
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00:35:39,512 --> 00:35:42,383
Key Halle was a very, very close friend
of the presidents'.
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In fact, knew the father long before
Jack was born.
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00:35:47,019 --> 00:35:50,527
And I asked her, would she go up to
the White House and intercede for me
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00:35:50,693 --> 00:35:53,444
and ask the president not to go
to the south-west.
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And his trip had not been announced
publicly.
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She said Jeanne, what trip?
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00:35:58,252 --> 00:36:01,086
I said he pays a trip to the south-west
of Texas.
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00:36:01,201 --> 00:36:04,827
And she promised go to the White House
and to intercede for me and she did go.
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Some say that Nostradamus also wrote
with incredible detail
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00:36:18,224 --> 00:36:21,056
about the controversy that would follow.
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00:36:34,340 --> 00:36:38,258
Much controversy still surrounds the
arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald
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as Kennedy's assassin.
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00:36:41,555 --> 00:36:44,568
This is the basement floor of the Dallas
City Hall.
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00:36:44,688 --> 00:36:46,757
And that's a scuffle on
the basement floor.
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00:36:46,877 --> 00:36:48,880
It's been... concerned photographers...
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00:36:48,939 --> 00:36:50,160
He has been shot.
431
00:36:50,209 --> 00:36:52,014
Oswald has been shot.
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00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:55,922
We think Oswald has been shot...
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00:36:56,024 --> 00:36:59,717
Being dead, they will accuse an innocent
of the deed.
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00:37:00,376 --> 00:37:03,743
Oswald was reported to have shot Kennedy
in the back from the 6th
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00:37:03,744 --> 00:37:05,344
storey of this building.
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00:37:05,378 --> 00:37:08,532
But two bullets hit the president, one
was clearly from behind.
437
00:37:10,318 --> 00:37:14,462
But some say that the second, the fatal
shot,
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came from the front.
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00:37:26,776 --> 00:37:30,266
The only possible position for an
assassin to be concealed in front of the
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00:37:30,312 --> 00:37:35,279
car at that moment was this clump of
bushes, known as the grassy knoll.
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00:37:35,959 --> 00:37:40,455
Some people believe that this film shows
the outline of a man and a rifle
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00:37:40,588 --> 00:37:42,588
concealed in the bushes.
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00:37:44,604 --> 00:37:47,604
The guilty one hidden in the misty
woods.
444
00:37:53,195 --> 00:37:56,160
President Kennedy was killed almost 20
years ago.
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00:37:56,312 --> 00:37:58,705
Still a controversy rages.
446
00:37:58,777 --> 00:38:01,319
The Warren report failed to clear the
air.
447
00:38:01,617 --> 00:38:05,211
A congressional commission and
subsequent FBI reports
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00:38:05,470 --> 00:38:08,165
have still left questions unanswered.
449
00:38:08,236 --> 00:38:11,272
Is it possible that Nostradamus, four
centuries ago,
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could've had an insight
into these strange events?
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00:38:23,109 --> 00:38:27,523
According to the forecast, another
falls in the hours of the night.
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00:38:28,175 --> 00:38:31,174
June 5th, 1968.
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00:38:33,139 --> 00:38:38,477
My thanks to all of you and now it's on
to Chicago and let's win there.
454
00:38:39,125 --> 00:38:43,336
Robert Kennedy has just won the
California primary.
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00:38:43,628 --> 00:38:47,987
Would Robert Kennedy win the election?
Will he be our next president?
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00:38:48,354 --> 00:38:52,369
My reply was no. That Senator Robert
Kennedy
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will never be president of the United
States
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unless he withdraws his candidacy.
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00:38:57,859 --> 00:39:00,931
And does not run again until 1976.
460
00:39:01,067 --> 00:39:04,940
Because 1976 is his timing, that he's
rushing it.
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00:39:05,112 --> 00:39:08,898
And that he would be assassinated. And I
said it would be right here,
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00:39:09,221 --> 00:39:12,950
in this room, as he would be carried away
in his own blood.
463
00:39:22,300 --> 00:39:23,300
Get that gun, get that gun...
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00:39:24,178 --> 00:39:25,178
Stay away from the gun.
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00:39:29,527 --> 00:39:32,981
Get a hold of his thumb, and break it
if you have to! Get his thumb!
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00:39:49,238 --> 00:39:52,306
Senator Kennedy has been shot, is that
possible?
467
00:39:53,266 --> 00:39:56,138
Is there a doctor in the house? Please,
it's very important.
468
00:39:56,238 --> 00:39:57,852
We need a doctor immediately!
469
00:39:58,287 --> 00:40:00,139
Is there a doctor in the house?
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00:40:00,687 --> 00:40:02,203
Quiet, please.
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Quiet please. The best thing everybody
can do here is, in an orderly way, leave.
472
00:40:08,603 --> 00:40:10,423
Would you please do that?
473
00:40:10,533 --> 00:40:12,969
Just in an orderly way clear the room.
474
00:40:13,270 --> 00:40:15,270
Can we do that, please?
475
00:40:32,451 --> 00:40:35,483
He saw a wrong and tried to right it.
476
00:40:35,933 --> 00:40:38,733
Saw a suffering and tried to heal it.
477
00:40:38,897 --> 00:40:43,397
Saw a war and tried to stop it.
478
00:40:43,410 --> 00:40:45,410
Those of us who loved him,
479
00:40:45,885 --> 00:40:48,563
and who take him to his rest today,
480
00:40:49,101 --> 00:40:54,256
pray that what he was to us, what he
wished for others,
481
00:40:54,333 --> 00:40:56,848
will someday come to pass for all the
world.
482
00:40:58,045 --> 00:41:00,776
There's still another Kennedy.
483
00:41:01,175 --> 00:41:03,175
Has Nostradamus written about him?
484
00:41:04,603 --> 00:41:06,759
About Senator Edward Kennedy?
485
00:41:07,302 --> 00:41:11,764
Some students of the quatrains believe
that he has by a series of predictions.
486
00:41:12,466 --> 00:41:15,766
About a family of distinguished
brothers.
487
00:41:18,989 --> 00:41:21,838
The youngest son shall be slandered by a
detractor.
488
00:41:22,518 --> 00:41:24,725
When enormous and martial deed shall be
done,
489
00:41:24,741 --> 00:41:27,498
the least part shall be doubtful to the
eldest.
490
00:41:27,807 --> 00:41:31,007
Soon after, they shall be equal in
government.
491
00:41:31,620 --> 00:41:35,498
Here, Nostradamus is said to be
referring to John Kennedy
492
00:41:35,499 --> 00:41:36,557
as the eldest son,
493
00:41:37,193 --> 00:41:38,557
and Edward as the youngest.
494
00:41:40,565 --> 00:41:43,873
The youngest son shall be slandered by
a detractor.
495
00:41:45,358 --> 00:41:51,181
Although cleared of all charges in the
death of Mary Joe Kopechne in July 1969,
496
00:41:51,613 --> 00:41:56,272
senator Ted Kennedy continues to be
slandered by his detractors.
497
00:41:57,388 --> 00:41:59,888
According to a statement given to the
police by Kennedy,
498
00:42:00,143 --> 00:42:02,886
he was heading for a ferry to the
mainland with Mary Joe Kopechne,
499
00:42:02,909 --> 00:42:06,111
a former secretary to the late Robert
Kennedy, and she was a passenger.
500
00:42:06,619 --> 00:42:09,733
Kennedy said he took the wrong turn and
his car went off a narrow bridge into
501
00:42:09,789 --> 00:42:10,915
8 feet of water.
502
00:42:11,315 --> 00:42:14,115
Kennedy managed to escape, but
Ms Kopechne drowned.
503
00:42:14,461 --> 00:42:17,778
According to police, 8 hours elapsed
before Kennedy showed up at the
504
00:42:17,784 --> 00:42:19,673
police station to report the accident.
505
00:42:29,081 --> 00:42:32,043
This last line of the quatrain could
suggest
506
00:42:32,195 --> 00:42:36,301
that 1984 may be Ted Kennedy's year.
507
00:42:40,253 --> 00:42:43,906
It's no longer considered prophetic to
say that
508
00:42:44,004 --> 00:42:47,885
Ted Kennedy may become president of the
United States, but
509
00:42:47,949 --> 00:42:52,489
consider, as many do, that Nostradamus
may have
510
00:42:52,979 --> 00:42:55,828
predicted it 400 years ago.
511
00:43:00,034 --> 00:43:04,845
Nostradamus wrote in considerable detail
about revolutions and civil wars.
512
00:43:05,466 --> 00:43:06,466
Consider this one.
513
00:43:07,392 --> 00:43:10,115
One of the greatest shall flee into
Spain,
514
00:43:10,184 --> 00:43:13,306
which afterwards shall cause a wound
to bleed long.
515
00:43:13,810 --> 00:43:16,910
Destroying all, he shall reign in
peace.
516
00:43:18,178 --> 00:43:22,478
Spiritual wounds inflicted in the
Spanish Civil War in the 1930's
517
00:43:22,730 --> 00:43:27,330
did bleed long. Festering even after
the end of the Second World War.
518
00:43:28,034 --> 00:43:31,268
The line, they shall reign in peace,
519
00:43:31,351 --> 00:43:34,301
could refer to the fact that the
victorious
520
00:43:34,435 --> 00:43:39,454
fascist regime remained neutral, even
during the Second World War.
521
00:43:39,588 --> 00:43:44,088
Nostradamus went further. He named the
leader of this fascist regime.
522
00:43:44,518 --> 00:43:47,997
From Spanish Franco shall come the
assembly.
523
00:43:48,085 --> 00:43:50,948
With those of the Riviera, there shall
be a struggle.
524
00:43:53,848 --> 00:43:59,407
From Spanish Franco...
525
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:03,997
Experts point to this quatrain as being
one of Nostradamus'
526
00:44:04,057 --> 00:44:05,807
most remarkable achievements.
527
00:44:05,875 --> 00:44:08,343
To actually record a real name
528
00:44:08,484 --> 00:44:11,303
of a participant in a future historical
event.
529
00:44:12,262 --> 00:44:16,062
This is not the only real name
Nostradamus wrote in his predictions.
530
00:44:16,388 --> 00:44:19,478
In Century 1, quatrain 25, he wrote,
531
00:44:19,511 --> 00:44:23,871
the lost thing is discovered hidden for
many centuries.
532
00:44:23,887 --> 00:44:30,168
Pasteur will be celebrated as a demigod
when the moon completes her great cycle.
533
00:44:30,596 --> 00:44:32,933
Now here he names Louis Pasteur.
534
00:44:33,263 --> 00:44:38,444
It actually gives the date of one of his
greatest scientific discoveries, 1889.
535
00:44:38,477 --> 00:44:42,079
The exact year the cycle of the moon was
completed.
536
00:44:42,457 --> 00:44:45,857
In another quatrain he names
Montgolfier.
537
00:44:46,166 --> 00:44:48,086
The inventor of the air balloon.
538
00:44:52,185 --> 00:44:55,688
The 16th century earth bound Nostradamus
539
00:44:56,691 --> 00:44:59,591
clearly foresaw that man would take to
the skies.
540
00:45:01,711 --> 00:45:04,311
Everyone shall go safely by air.
541
00:45:06,370 --> 00:45:08,620
He predicted the coming of the space
age.
542
00:45:14,051 --> 00:45:17,551
After a great human change, another is
at hand.
543
00:45:17,784 --> 00:45:20,558
The great engine reneweth with the ages.
544
00:45:20,704 --> 00:45:25,399
In the heaven shall be seen a running
fire with long sparks.
545
00:45:25,500 --> 00:45:30,864
They will be propelled in contraptions
of flying fire, he wrote.
546
00:45:31,646 --> 00:45:32,946
And they will go to the moon.
547
00:45:33,587 --> 00:45:37,117
He will come to take himself to the
corner of Luna,
548
00:45:37,291 --> 00:45:41,967
where he will be taken and placed on a
strange land.
549
00:45:42,014 --> 00:45:45,441
Eagle, we got you now, it's looking good.
Over. - Roger, copy.
550
00:45:45,565 --> 00:45:47,806
Contact light? - Okay, engine stop.
551
00:45:47,852 --> 00:45:49,578
We copy you down, Eagle.
552
00:45:49,698 --> 00:45:52,575
Tranquility base here. The Eagle has landed.
553
00:46:03,258 --> 00:46:07,352
He saw man exploring the universe above,
into the great space of the heavens.
554
00:46:08,241 --> 00:46:12,738
He also saw man exploring the world
below him, deep in the sea.
555
00:46:15,019 --> 00:46:18,003
He shall go out in an iron fish.
556
00:46:18,248 --> 00:46:24,772
By lightning on the arch, gold and silver
melted, the fleet can swim under water.
557
00:46:24,878 --> 00:46:28,732
It shall be as a barn under the sea.
558
00:46:29,963 --> 00:46:32,146
He foresaw the periscope.
559
00:46:32,563 --> 00:46:36,163
The eye of the sea watches like a greedy
dog.
560
00:46:36,663 --> 00:46:40,863
He foresaw that man would use this new
invention to make war.
561
00:46:41,077 --> 00:46:43,777
In an iron fish, he will make war.
562
00:46:48,019 --> 00:46:52,104
Nostradamus wrote that man would
escalate the way in which he waged war,
563
00:46:52,147 --> 00:46:54,784
as he improved his technology.
564
00:46:54,968 --> 00:46:59,719
He wrote about man's seemingly insatiable
desire to refine the art of destruction.
565
00:46:59,913 --> 00:47:02,057
He wrote specifically about three men,
566
00:47:02,202 --> 00:47:07,307
who would twist this technology to serve
their own megalomania.
567
00:47:08,512 --> 00:47:15,356
Three infamous and evil tyrants,
antichrists,
568
00:47:15,676 --> 00:47:17,502
as Nostradamus called them,
569
00:47:17,637 --> 00:47:20,409
would alter the course of the world's
history.
570
00:47:20,679 --> 00:47:24,847
The first of these antichrists was to
have been Napoleon.
571
00:47:25,314 --> 00:47:29,083
The second, Nostradamus wrote,
572
00:47:29,264 --> 00:47:33,291
is a man stained with murder.
573
00:47:33,423 --> 00:47:37,509
The great enemy of the human race, worse
than any who had gone before.
574
00:47:37,523 --> 00:47:39,923
Bloody and inhuman.
575
00:47:41,591 --> 00:47:44,742
Scholars are unanimous in agreement,
576
00:47:45,344 --> 00:47:50,710
the 16th century prophet here was
writing about Adolf Hitler.
577
00:47:54,414 --> 00:47:58,752
From the Aryan height, there shall
arise one who is both elevated
578
00:47:58,863 --> 00:48:00,347
and obscure.
579
00:48:00,438 --> 00:48:05,739
Of him who rules from the most horrible
throne ever known.
580
00:48:16,426 --> 00:48:19,442
Out of the deepest part of the west of
Europe,
581
00:48:19,471 --> 00:48:22,909
from poor people, a young child shall
be born,
582
00:48:23,059 --> 00:48:29,014
who with his tongue shall seduce many
people.
583
00:48:34,635 --> 00:48:35,765
Charlatanism,
584
00:48:36,244 --> 00:48:39,393
combat, anti-socialism,
585
00:48:39,442 --> 00:48:40,893
hate to the Jews...
586
00:48:41,013 --> 00:48:45,925
treachery... murder... race insanity.
587
00:48:46,084 --> 00:48:50,823
I am the leader of the German people.
588
00:48:51,948 --> 00:48:56,948
A great squawker, proud without shame, shall
be elected governor of the army.
589
00:48:59,333 --> 00:49:04,105
A captain of great Germany shall
come to yield himself by false hope,
590
00:49:04,223 --> 00:49:07,123
so that his revolt will cause great
bloodshed.
591
00:49:14,477 --> 00:49:17,072
They shall subjugate the borders of the
Danube,
592
00:49:17,116 --> 00:49:21,080
they shall pursue crosses of iron,
topsy-turvy.
593
00:49:26,353 --> 00:49:30,278
Under the feigned shadow of freeing
people from slavery,
594
00:49:30,306 --> 00:49:34,801
he shall usurp the people and city for
himself.
595
00:49:44,375 --> 00:49:46,738
He came to power in 1933.
596
00:49:47,377 --> 00:49:50,477
The German people surrendered to him
their hopes.
597
00:49:51,404 --> 00:49:55,934
European nations surrendered to him
their liberties.
598
00:49:56,063 --> 00:49:58,503
He shall come to tyrannise the land,
599
00:49:58,742 --> 00:50:01,556
he shall raise up a hatred that had
long been dormant.
600
00:50:02,121 --> 00:50:04,936
The child of Germany observes no law.
601
00:50:05,428 --> 00:50:11,946
Cries and tears, fire, blood, and
battle.
602
00:50:14,356 --> 00:50:18,171
It reads like a Grimms' fairytale,
603
00:50:18,782 --> 00:50:22,403
till you remember how hideously real it was.
604
00:50:23,770 --> 00:50:26,043
In all of these quatrains,
605
00:50:26,115 --> 00:50:30,971
Nostradamus is accurately describing the
horror that was Adolf Hitler.
606
00:50:31,863 --> 00:50:35,786
There are three other quatrains we
should mention here in which
607
00:50:35,980 --> 00:50:41,778
some experts believe Nostradamus
actually mentions Hitler by name,
608
00:50:42,248 --> 00:50:45,197
missing by just one letter.
609
00:50:45,710 --> 00:50:52,212
These quatrains contain the name of
the man called Hister - H i s t e r.
610
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:57,461
Now the expert asks, given the task
of seeing 400 years into the future,
611
00:50:57,535 --> 00:51:01,406
isn't it possible that Nostradamus could
make such a mistake?
612
00:51:01,448 --> 00:51:03,148
No matter, they say.
613
00:51:03,149 --> 00:51:08,949
There are enough quatrains that do
suggest Hitler without naming him.
614
00:51:12,404 --> 00:51:18,226
The Premier worse than ever did Nero
see the spilling of brave human blood.
615
00:51:24,384 --> 00:51:27,084
He shall cause the furnace to be
rebuilt.
616
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:31,744
Brothers and sisters shall be slaves in
various places.
617
00:51:31,833 --> 00:51:37,384
They shall go in heaviness, witness
their chin, forehead and nose.
618
00:51:41,630 --> 00:51:43,607
The bloody emperor by battle
619
00:51:43,611 --> 00:51:48,720
shall make a speech and roast
the tongue, the flesh and the bones.
620
00:51:59,903 --> 00:52:03,769
It's claimed that Nostradamus attributes
the rise of Hitler
621
00:52:03,850 --> 00:52:08,942
to the failure of the League of Nations,
which met at Geneva.
622
00:52:10,433 --> 00:52:14,383
The faults of Geneva will be laid bare.
623
00:52:14,642 --> 00:52:17,943
Once the League of Nations failed to
stop aggression
624
00:52:17,966 --> 00:52:23,534
in Ethiopia and Manchuria, Hitler
responded by launching his own war.
625
00:52:35,681 --> 00:52:39,615
The Nazi blitzkrieg rolled against its
European neighbours.
626
00:52:44,841 --> 00:52:48,691
The great leader of Germany will
incorporate into great Germany
627
00:52:48,950 --> 00:52:52,650
Brabant, Flanders, Ghent, Bruges,
628
00:52:52,701 --> 00:52:54,501
and Wallonia.
629
00:52:54,594 --> 00:52:56,885
He will assail Vienna and Cologne.
630
00:52:58,382 --> 00:53:06,097
Tours, Orleans, Blois, Angers, Reims,
cities vexed by sudden change.
631
00:53:06,349 --> 00:53:08,249
Land and sea shall tremble.
632
00:53:22,593 --> 00:53:25,793
Hitler took his war into the skies, in the
battle of Britain.
633
00:53:36,345 --> 00:53:40,446
What followed was one of the greatest
air battles the world has ever known.
634
00:53:53,932 --> 00:53:58,184
Hitler committed his entire arsenal to
breaking England's will.
635
00:53:58,675 --> 00:54:01,975
The British people fought back with
startling courage.
636
00:54:03,886 --> 00:54:06,717
In the island shall be such horrible
tumults
637
00:54:06,789 --> 00:54:10,130
that nothing shall be heard by a
war-like surprise.
638
00:54:10,238 --> 00:54:14,146
So great shall be the assault of the
robbers that everyone shall shelter
639
00:54:14,162 --> 00:54:16,287
himself under the great line.
640
00:54:24,106 --> 00:54:27,618
There's a remarkable verse in which he
implies
641
00:54:27,713 --> 00:54:33,235
that the whole population of London will
take refuge in the great line,
642
00:54:33,430 --> 00:54:35,430
under the city.
643
00:54:35,522 --> 00:54:40,122
Which of course is a very good
description of the London Underground.
644
00:54:49,870 --> 00:54:54,633
In all 10 of his books, Nostradamus
writes about
645
00:54:55,177 --> 00:54:58,177
what could be the Second World War.
646
00:54:58,489 --> 00:55:03,606
He suggests not only the rise of
Hitler but the rise of Mussolini.
647
00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:09,882
Born in a hovel, elevated to power is he
who is empty and vain,
648
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:12,300
a treacherous brute.
649
00:55:12,396 --> 00:55:14,903
He will tyrannise Italy.
650
00:55:15,966 --> 00:55:21,100
Other quatrains experts say predict the
Nazi invasion of
651
00:55:21,177 --> 00:55:23,950
Belgium and their occupation of Norway.
652
00:55:24,996 --> 00:55:29,721
So extensive in fact were the visions
of Nazi victories in the quatrain that
653
00:55:30,385 --> 00:55:34,985
they were actually used as propaganda
weapons by the Third Reich.
654
00:55:35,867 --> 00:55:40,181
Frau Joseph Goebbels, wife of Hitler's
propaganda minister,
655
00:55:40,510 --> 00:55:44,667
read the quatrains and, elated at their
predictions of victory,
656
00:55:44,710 --> 00:55:46,433
showed them to her husband.
657
00:55:47,690 --> 00:55:50,185
Goebbels agreed with his wife.
658
00:55:50,273 --> 00:55:54,142
Nostradamus' predictions could serve
as a propaganda weapon.
659
00:55:55,049 --> 00:55:58,432
With clever selection and manipulation,
660
00:55:58,641 --> 00:56:01,363
they could be used to help break the French
Resistance.
661
00:56:06,020 --> 00:56:09,474
He ordered Nazi planes to bombard France
with leaflets
662
00:56:09,547 --> 00:56:13,077
bearing Nostradamus' predictions of Nazi
victories.
663
00:56:17,152 --> 00:56:20,830
France did fold, the Nazis marched into
Paris
664
00:56:21,029 --> 00:56:23,663
on June 14th, 1940.
665
00:56:25,695 --> 00:56:29,721
The French nation, they will believe in
rash things.
666
00:56:29,801 --> 00:56:31,801
They will be in great grief.
667
00:56:36,921 --> 00:56:41,797
The Allies were quick to respond to
Hitler's exploitation of
668
00:56:42,022 --> 00:56:44,082
Nostradamus' prophecies.
669
00:56:44,115 --> 00:56:47,653
Winston Churchill, with the aid of an
astrologer,
670
00:56:48,031 --> 00:56:52,637
published those quatrains that he felt
forecast Hitler's defeat.
671
00:56:53,214 --> 00:56:55,853
The Roman power will be defeated,
672
00:56:55,862 --> 00:56:59,825
then a great neighbour also, then they
will turn about in confusion.
673
00:56:59,887 --> 00:57:03,207
A great country perverted will be
vanquished.
674
00:57:03,832 --> 00:57:08,084
And the Americans also used Nostradamus'
predictions
675
00:57:08,194 --> 00:57:11,742
in a homefront propaganda effort.
676
00:57:13,867 --> 00:57:18,226
MGM Studios, under producer Cary Wilson,
produced a series of shorts
677
00:57:18,501 --> 00:57:21,135
about Nostradamus for the movie
theatres.
678
00:57:21,355 --> 00:57:23,655
Beyond exploring the mysteries of
prophecies,
679
00:57:24,117 --> 00:57:26,717
the films served the national interest.
680
00:57:29,941 --> 00:57:32,841
But Nostradamus made some predictions about
us too.
681
00:57:46,774 --> 00:57:52,413
Yes, the people of the 13 colonies chose
freedom as the protector of this land.
682
00:57:52,813 --> 00:57:56,829
For endless years freedom has and will
hold up the famed torch.
683
00:57:57,704 --> 00:58:01,179
In freedom's name we have struggled,
we shall continue to struggle
684
00:58:01,209 --> 00:58:05,790
and shall finally triumph. Not without
the sacrifice and not without the pain
685
00:58:06,096 --> 00:58:09,397
that must forever make mankind free.
686
00:58:09,467 --> 00:58:13,726
Nostradamus wrote those words almost
400 years ago.
687
00:58:18,127 --> 00:58:22,365
Nostradamus scholars say the war ended
as the French prophet had predicted -
688
00:58:22,804 --> 00:58:24,635
with the defeat of Germany,
689
00:58:24,846 --> 00:58:26,846
and with the invention of a new weapon.
690
00:58:32,424 --> 00:58:34,820
Satin of gold will be changed
into iron.
691
00:58:35,582 --> 00:58:39,783
The contrary of the positive ray shall
exterminate all.
692
00:58:43,082 --> 00:58:45,794
The contrary of the positive ray...
693
00:58:46,930 --> 00:58:48,832
This is thought to be a reference
694
00:58:48,950 --> 00:58:52,609
to the chain reaction involved in
nuclear fission.
695
00:58:53,721 --> 00:58:57,769
Fire, the colour of gold, from heaven to
earth shall be seen.
696
00:59:00,052 --> 00:59:05,279
Great murder of mankind, great loss of
infants.
697
00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:17,549
All this has been about the past.
698
00:59:17,917 --> 00:59:24,612
A conjecture of how Nostradamus viewed
history from his time to ours.
699
00:59:25,797 --> 00:59:30,162
What about today, the present, the here
and now?
700
00:59:30,897 --> 00:59:33,876
Well, if you keep one eye on your daily
newspaper,
701
00:59:34,636 --> 00:59:36,636
and one eye on the quatrains,
702
00:59:36,649 --> 00:59:39,985
I think you can pretty quickly see why
so many of his partisans
703
00:59:40,212 --> 00:59:45,111
continue to insist on his relevancy in
modern times.
704
00:59:50,704 --> 00:59:56,228
Even more remarkable is how Nostradamus
may have foreseen the events in Iran.
705
00:59:56,720 --> 00:59:59,604
The ancient name of which was Persia.
706
01:00:20,267 --> 01:00:24,167
Nostradamus scholars insist that this is
a startling prediction
707
01:00:24,928 --> 01:00:27,028
about the fate of the Shah of Iran.
708
01:00:29,133 --> 01:00:31,861
Too great a faith shall betray the
monarch,
709
01:00:31,949 --> 01:00:34,453
a secret omen that he shall die.
710
01:00:35,199 --> 01:00:36,299
And what of the next line...
711
01:00:39,009 --> 01:00:42,709
Being ended there, it shall commence in
France.
712
01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:45,837
Until last year the majority of people
713
01:00:45,846 --> 01:00:48,449
did not know who the Ayatollah Khomeini
was.
714
01:00:48,601 --> 01:00:52,501
Let alone that he would launch his coup
against the Shah from Paris.
715
01:00:53,439 --> 01:00:59,614
Yet Nostradamus wrote this quatrain
over 400 years ago.
716
01:01:00,790 --> 01:01:02,670
All too much?
717
01:01:02,885 --> 01:01:04,885
Well, let's pause for a moment.
718
01:01:05,845 --> 01:01:09,544
That's the past and the present. What
about
719
01:01:09,672 --> 01:01:11,026
the future?
720
01:01:12,063 --> 01:01:14,588
This brings us now to the very essence
of the mystery.
721
01:01:15,876 --> 01:01:17,576
How accurate is he?
722
01:01:18,973 --> 01:01:23,754
Can we dismiss old Nostradamus,
and all we've just seen as
723
01:01:24,688 --> 01:01:28,597
coincidence? Or facile interpretation?
Or...
724
01:01:28,978 --> 01:01:30,829
Is there just possibly
725
01:01:30,902 --> 01:01:34,140
some real substance and credibility to
what he's written?
726
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:40,401
If we accept past evidence as proof of
his accuracy,
727
01:01:40,657 --> 01:01:44,157
then there's a fair chance that what he
said about our future
728
01:01:44,405 --> 01:01:46,670
might also be true.
729
01:01:47,072 --> 01:01:50,882
And if so, then we must listen very
carefully.
730
01:01:52,520 --> 01:01:55,375
Do we really want to know about the
future?
731
01:01:56,346 --> 01:01:57,999
Maybe so.
732
01:01:58,407 --> 01:02:03,076
If we can change it, if by heeding the
warnings,
733
01:02:03,786 --> 01:02:06,422
we can alter our destiny for the better.
734
01:02:08,346 --> 01:02:08,795
But,
735
01:02:10,852 --> 01:02:12,552
can we change the future?
736
01:02:14,165 --> 01:02:16,765
Of course it's possible to change the
events of the future.
737
01:02:17,336 --> 01:02:20,588
Since the future is nothing but the
summation of our decisions
738
01:02:20,996 --> 01:02:24,291
made now, that project the future.
739
01:02:24,779 --> 01:02:26,663
When we don't like what we're seeing,
740
01:02:26,681 --> 01:02:29,184
if we're aware of what those events are
going to lead to,
741
01:02:29,461 --> 01:02:31,546
we simply change our minds about what we
want.
742
01:02:32,130 --> 01:02:34,237
The future is determined by our
decisions.
743
01:02:34,368 --> 01:02:36,119
And if through great awareness,
744
01:02:36,243 --> 01:02:38,943
we do not like the trend that is taking
place,
745
01:02:39,348 --> 01:02:42,543
we change our mind and thus change the
course of history.
746
01:02:42,889 --> 01:02:47,553
Nostradamus also believed that the
future can be changed.
747
01:02:47,977 --> 01:02:50,374
In an epistle to his infant son, Cesar,
748
01:02:50,737 --> 01:02:52,999
in which he dedicated his life's work to
him,
749
01:02:53,362 --> 01:02:57,271
he wrote that the tragedies he predicted
could be averted.
750
01:02:58,022 --> 01:03:01,893
William Shakespeare, born two years
before Nostradamus died,
751
01:03:02,065 --> 01:03:06,665
also wrote that man, if he chose to, could
be the master of his fate.
752
01:03:08,523 --> 01:03:13,681
What of the idea then, that we do still
have it in our power
753
01:03:14,071 --> 01:03:16,191
to affect the future...
754
01:03:16,643 --> 01:03:22,954
Let's go ahead and look for the signs as
Nostradamus wrote about those signs. Let us
755
01:03:23,211 --> 01:03:26,970
now encounter the events still to come.
756
01:03:27,417 --> 01:03:29,517
But before continuing,
757
01:03:29,947 --> 01:03:34,347
let me warn you now that the
predictions of the future
758
01:03:34,495 --> 01:03:37,757
are not at all comforting.
759
01:03:38,012 --> 01:03:41,294
I might also add that these predictions
of the past,
760
01:03:41,353 --> 01:03:43,025
these warnings of the future,
761
01:03:43,169 --> 01:03:47,970
are not the opinions of the producers
of this film.
762
01:03:49,455 --> 01:03:51,055
They're certainly not my opinions.
763
01:03:53,650 --> 01:03:56,873
They are interpretations of the quatrains
as made by scores of
764
01:03:56,898 --> 01:03:59,652
independent scholars of Nostradamus'
work
765
01:04:00,167 --> 01:04:02,875
during the last several hundred years.
766
01:04:04,302 --> 01:04:07,167
These scholars tell us that Nostradamus
foresees
767
01:04:07,223 --> 01:04:10,012
a great worldwide drought and famine
768
01:04:10,156 --> 01:04:12,156
within the next decade.
769
01:04:30,017 --> 01:04:34,317
When the comet shall run...
770
01:04:35,062 --> 01:04:38,790
Halley's comet, that most spectacular of
comets,
771
01:04:38,954 --> 01:04:42,602
shall run again in 1986.
772
01:04:45,097 --> 01:04:49,791
Distress from fire in the sky, there is
a very great drought.
773
01:04:50,476 --> 01:04:54,076
Fish in the sea, river and lake boiled
hectic.
774
01:04:59,722 --> 01:05:02,724
A great famine do I see drawing near.
775
01:05:02,768 --> 01:05:06,609
Turning from one way to another, and
becoming universal.
776
01:05:07,990 --> 01:05:13,875
A famine so great and so long that man
shall become a man-eater.
777
01:05:16,003 --> 01:05:20,547
Nostradamus also predicts great natural
disasters like earthquakes.
778
01:05:21,256 --> 01:05:24,630
His proponents say that he actually
gives the months
779
01:05:24,698 --> 01:05:27,967
and year of a cataclysmic quake.
780
01:05:28,055 --> 01:05:31,755
He predicts it will begin after a series
of volcanic eruptions,
781
01:05:32,103 --> 01:05:36,503
not unlike those currently exploding in
the American north-west.
782
01:06:02,452 --> 01:06:08,423
So Nostradamus has given us the month,
May, of a great earthquake.
783
01:06:09,028 --> 01:06:13,728
And more he has given us the year.
784
01:06:14,686 --> 01:06:18,988
Astrologists tell us the conjunction of
Saturn, Capricorn, Jupiter and Mercury
785
01:06:19,037 --> 01:06:22,837
will occur again in 1988.
786
01:06:25,307 --> 01:06:28,690
May, 1988.
787
01:06:30,040 --> 01:06:35,440
But where does Nostradamus say this
great earthquake will strike?
788
01:06:44,024 --> 01:06:48,893
According to many scholars, whenever
Nostradamus wrote about new cities,
789
01:06:49,012 --> 01:06:51,612
he was referring to cities in the new
world of America.
790
01:06:52,721 --> 01:06:57,021
Here he could've been referring to the
new cities of San Francisco, Los Angeles,
791
01:06:57,478 --> 01:06:59,978
both of which sit on an earthquake
fault line.
792
01:07:03,163 --> 01:07:07,152
The San Andreas fault comes up from the
Mexican border
793
01:07:07,217 --> 01:07:11,509
and goes up past San Francisco, very
close to San Francisco.
794
01:07:11,738 --> 01:07:13,338
And on up to the north.
795
01:07:13,739 --> 01:07:16,956
The crust of the earth is broken up into
plates,
796
01:07:17,100 --> 01:07:19,376
which are moving with respect to each
other.
797
01:07:19,510 --> 01:07:23,289
Normally it doesn't occur smoothly.
798
01:07:24,178 --> 01:07:26,110
Strain builds up like
799
01:07:26,131 --> 01:07:28,316
the energy you store in a rubber band
when you stretch it.
800
01:07:28,647 --> 01:07:31,244
Until the rubber band breaks,
801
01:07:31,414 --> 01:07:37,397
and the plates, the rocks along the edge,
snap back into line.
802
01:07:39,023 --> 01:07:42,479
The vibrations that are caused by that
sudden motion
803
01:07:43,312 --> 01:07:46,542
radiate out and are felt and recorded
as an earthquake.
804
01:07:46,863 --> 01:07:49,961
There was one of about magnitude 8 in 1906
805
01:07:50,281 --> 01:07:52,281
that destroyed San Francisco.
806
01:07:53,299 --> 01:07:56,923
It's been determined that the recurrence
rate between
807
01:07:57,562 --> 01:08:00,429
great earthquakes is about 160 years.
808
01:08:00,916 --> 01:08:04,752
The last one was in 1857, that was 122
years ago.
809
01:08:04,974 --> 01:08:08,661
We're getting up into the time period
where we have to think about
810
01:08:08,699 --> 01:08:10,347
such an occurence.
811
01:08:11,945 --> 01:08:17,245
Fire from the centre of the earth shall
make an earthquake in the new city.
812
01:09:03,117 --> 01:09:07,190
Nostradamus foresees that these
disasters will be worldwide.
813
01:09:08,733 --> 01:09:14,670
I bewail Nice, Monaco, Pisa, Genoa,
Savona, Sienna,
814
01:09:14,793 --> 01:09:17,487
Capri, Modena, Malura.
815
01:09:17,624 --> 01:09:25,277
Fire and earthquake. There will be great
floods, unhappy endings.
816
01:09:58,661 --> 01:10:01,446
The deluge will be so great and sudden
817
01:10:01,522 --> 01:10:06,771
there will be no spot of earth for a
firm foothold.
818
01:10:10,900 --> 01:10:14,474
Nostradamus, like the Bible, predicted
that these natural disasters
819
01:10:15,180 --> 01:10:18,649
will precede a great war. A war far
worse
820
01:10:18,873 --> 01:10:20,873
than all the other wars put together.
821
01:10:23,900 --> 01:10:29,068
Nostradamus not only predicts the Third
World War, but he even predicts
822
01:10:29,497 --> 01:10:34,493
when and where it will begin, and who
will be fighting.
823
01:10:34,535 --> 01:10:36,178
He tells us too,
824
01:10:36,247 --> 01:10:39,362
how long the war will last and who will
survive.
825
01:10:40,563 --> 01:10:43,375
First we ask, when?
826
01:10:44,400 --> 01:10:46,295
In one quatrain he tells us
827
01:10:46,387 --> 01:10:49,215
that the war will begin when the sun,
Mars and Mercury
828
01:10:49,281 --> 01:10:50,919
conjunct in the sign of Aquarius.
829
01:10:51,099 --> 01:10:53,707
And this conjunction is an infrequent
one.
830
01:10:53,862 --> 01:10:57,532
It happens again in 1994.
831
01:10:58,671 --> 01:11:02,330
So this could be the year in which the
Third World War begins.
832
01:11:03,100 --> 01:11:05,526
In another quatrain, he gives us
833
01:11:05,560 --> 01:11:09,601
an actual date when the war will be
well under way.
834
01:11:25,150 --> 01:11:29,533
Out of the country of greater Arabia
shall be born a strong master of
835
01:11:29,586 --> 01:11:31,586
Mohammedan law.
836
01:11:32,325 --> 01:11:36,092
This king will enter Europe wearing a
blue turban.
837
01:11:36,118 --> 01:11:40,697
He is one that shall cause the infernal
gods of Hannibal to live again.
838
01:11:42,049 --> 01:11:47,073
He will be the terror of mankind, never
more horror.
839
01:11:47,917 --> 01:11:54,400
This king, this warlord, Nostradamus
says, will wage war against the West.
840
01:11:54,800 --> 01:11:58,262
A kingdom of the fez shall come to the
throne of Europe.
841
01:12:01,800 --> 01:12:03,429
When?
842
01:12:03,882 --> 01:12:09,526
Starting between 1994 and 1999.
843
01:12:10,742 --> 01:12:12,461
Where?
844
01:12:12,551 --> 01:12:15,207
From the Middle East, an invasion of
Europe
845
01:12:15,395 --> 01:12:20,553
spreading across the entire world, a war
lead by a great king of terror,
846
01:12:20,581 --> 01:12:24,153
third antichrist, after Napoleon, after
Hitler.
847
01:12:24,466 --> 01:12:29,542
A leader so terrible he will bring the
world, according to Nostradamus,
848
01:12:30,494 --> 01:12:33,836
face to face with final annihilation.
849
01:12:35,468 --> 01:12:41,174
The great one of the east by land, sea
and air with a great army will cross
850
01:12:41,217 --> 01:12:42,940
with death.
851
01:12:43,135 --> 01:12:46,682
The kingdom of the church will be
overcome by the sea.
852
01:12:46,751 --> 01:12:50,456
From Persia, very nearly a million.
853
01:12:50,593 --> 01:12:55,628
From Persia, from greater Arabia, from
the kingdom of Mohammed.
854
01:12:57,000 --> 01:12:59,390
Nostradamus clearly suggests
855
01:12:59,795 --> 01:13:03,519
that the Middle East will play a central
role in the trouble to come.
856
01:13:04,660 --> 01:13:07,195
There are few contemporary foreign
policy experts
857
01:13:07,258 --> 01:13:08,600
who could quarrel with him.
858
01:13:08,803 --> 01:13:12,305
World attention is now focussed on that
part of the world with its
859
01:13:12,808 --> 01:13:17,340
oil deposits and its growing population
of devout Muslims.
860
01:13:21,532 --> 01:13:24,932
There are over 750 million Muslims in
the world,
861
01:13:25,361 --> 01:13:26,861
most of them in the Middle East.
862
01:13:27,500 --> 01:13:30,632
Recently they have been rediscovering
their Islamic roots.
863
01:13:31,608 --> 01:13:33,794
Long suppressed by the superpowers,
864
01:13:33,827 --> 01:13:36,547
they are now beginning to reassert
themselves politically.
865
01:13:37,461 --> 01:13:40,161
They can do this because they have the
oil that the West needs.
866
01:13:40,597 --> 01:13:44,516
They can become, experts agree, a threat
to world peace.
867
01:13:45,100 --> 01:13:48,973
But are they capable of waging a nuclear
war against the West
868
01:13:49,330 --> 01:13:51,856
within the next 20 years?
869
01:13:52,500 --> 01:13:54,700
Nostradamus would seem to say yes.
870
01:13:56,058 --> 01:13:57,858
Through an alliance with Russia.
871
01:13:58,800 --> 01:14:01,489
The Moorish law will be seen to fall,
872
01:14:01,554 --> 01:14:03,895
followed by another that is more
pleasing.
873
01:14:04,300 --> 01:14:06,800
Boristanis will be first to give way.
874
01:14:08,314 --> 01:14:11,786
Nostradamus experts agree that here the
French seer
875
01:14:11,825 --> 01:14:15,306
is suggesting that Islam will spread
through Russia.
876
01:14:15,717 --> 01:14:19,809
Starting in the south, near the river
Boristanis.
877
01:14:20,172 --> 01:14:24,372
They foresee Soviet nuclear capacity
combining with Islamic manpower,
878
01:14:25,245 --> 01:14:28,167
to wage war by 1999.
879
01:14:34,575 --> 01:14:40,075
The sky will burn at 45 degrees, fire
approaches the great new city.
880
01:14:41,912 --> 01:14:45,550
Nostradamus names the first nuclear
target,
881
01:14:45,748 --> 01:14:49,148
a great new city near 45 degrees
latitude.
882
01:14:53,030 --> 01:14:57,948
Experts agree that that could only mean
New York.
883
01:15:23,000 --> 01:15:25,500
By fire he will destroy their city.
884
01:15:26,600 --> 01:15:35,503
An inhuman cruel heart, cold. Blood will
pour, mercy to none.
885
01:15:45,300 --> 01:15:48,800
Nostradamus is also said to have
written of the American response.
886
01:15:52,300 --> 01:15:56,915
The trumpet shakes with great discord.
887
01:15:57,218 --> 01:16:00,880
An agreement broken, lifting the face to
heaven,
888
01:16:00,955 --> 01:16:03,065
the bloody mouth will swim in the blood.
889
01:16:12,600 --> 01:16:15,500
Overcome, the great nation is uncertain.
890
01:16:17,342 --> 01:16:21,312
Shortly before the sun, a battle is
engaged.
891
01:17:10,399 --> 01:17:16,723
Then will come the great tumult, warfare
on a greater scale than ever before.
892
01:17:17,141 --> 01:17:21,367
Explosions. There will be a great
onslaught.
893
01:17:31,000 --> 01:17:33,600
There will be terror...
894
01:17:56,000 --> 01:18:00,226
Garden of the world, the new city in the
way of the man-made mountains
895
01:18:00,398 --> 01:18:04,188
shall be seized on, and plunged into
ferment.
896
01:18:05,051 --> 01:18:09,053
Again Nostradamus suggests New York with
its skyscrapers,
897
01:18:09,093 --> 01:18:10,955
its man-made mountains,
898
01:18:11,284 --> 01:18:13,284
will be a nuclear target.
899
01:18:26,988 --> 01:18:32,703
Nothing, the prophet says, will keep
the city from dying.
900
01:19:03,700 --> 01:19:07,095
From hidden fires, a great place burns
with heat.
901
01:19:07,836 --> 01:19:09,477
A hot wind.
902
01:19:09,858 --> 01:19:11,308
War.
903
01:19:17,500 --> 01:19:20,691
The great city will soon be quite
deserted.
904
01:19:20,999 --> 01:19:25,875
Not a single one of the inhabitants will
remain.
905
01:19:30,400 --> 01:19:33,600
Nostradamus tells us how long the war
will last.
906
01:19:37,131 --> 01:19:40,331
The war shall last 7 and 20 years.
907
01:19:42,304 --> 01:19:43,989
The earth trembles,
908
01:19:44,305 --> 01:19:46,795
pushed into the air and falls again.
909
01:19:47,600 --> 01:19:50,664
The herald is sent out to call for
surrender.
910
01:20:17,506 --> 01:20:20,245
The barbarian shall be driven back.
911
01:20:21,600 --> 01:20:24,192
And all the kingdoms of Christianity,
912
01:20:24,248 --> 01:20:30,298
and all the unbelievers shall quake
for the space of years.
913
01:21:14,007 --> 01:21:17,165
There shall be more grievous wars
and battles.
914
01:21:17,834 --> 01:21:21,049
Towns, cities, castles and other
buildings
915
01:21:21,069 --> 01:21:23,448
shall be burnt, desolated and destroyed.
916
01:21:23,800 --> 01:21:26,034
Married women and widows ravished,
917
01:21:26,141 --> 01:21:29,404
sucking children dashed against the
walls of towns.
918
01:21:30,172 --> 01:21:34,348
So many evils shall be committed, that
almost the entire world
919
01:21:34,426 --> 01:21:37,092
shall be undone and desolate.
920
01:21:42,215 --> 01:21:43,969
Antichrist...
921
01:21:44,785 --> 01:21:47,077
Three times will he be annihilated,
922
01:21:47,759 --> 01:21:51,559
7 and 20 years will blood be shed in
war.
923
01:21:51,968 --> 01:21:56,775
Century 8, quatrain 77, Nostradamus
tells us that the war
924
01:21:56,866 --> 01:21:59,995
will end 7 and 20 years after it begins
with the death
925
01:22:00,010 --> 01:22:02,100
and the defeat of the antichrist.
926
01:22:02,286 --> 01:22:06,166
And it shall end due to an unexpected
alliance.
927
01:22:07,100 --> 01:22:10,600
When those of the Arctic Pole shall be
united together,
928
01:22:11,475 --> 01:22:13,875
there shall be in the East great
fear and trembling.
929
01:22:14,300 --> 01:22:19,600
Those of the Arctic Pole could mean
the Soviet Union,
930
01:22:21,302 --> 01:22:23,302
the United States.
931
01:22:24,112 --> 01:22:26,625
As we see here.
932
01:22:26,861 --> 01:22:28,988
at the Bering Straits, the two
933
01:22:29,163 --> 01:22:32,294
countries are at their closest point in
the Arctic Circle.
934
01:22:33,600 --> 01:22:39,649
One day, Nostradamus wrote, the two
great masters will be friends.
935
01:22:40,100 --> 01:22:42,100
Their great powers will be increased.
936
01:22:43,000 --> 01:22:46,700
The Eastern ruler will be vanquished.
937
01:22:52,000 --> 01:22:54,800
The sun and the eagle will appear to be
victorious.
938
01:22:55,380 --> 01:23:00,870
Peace, prosecuted by death, it shall be
achieved.
939
01:23:02,500 --> 01:23:06,511
In one night, the tree that has been
long dead and withered,
940
01:23:06,697 --> 01:23:08,894
shall grow green again.
941
01:23:52,447 --> 01:23:55,376
After this war shall have lasted a good
while,
942
01:23:55,544 --> 01:23:58,029
there shall be a renewed reign of Saturn,
943
01:23:58,252 --> 01:24:00,252
and a golden age.
944
01:24:00,474 --> 01:24:06,274
Here shall begin an age of universal
peace, a peace of a thousand years.
945
01:24:11,005 --> 01:24:15,140
And after a peace for a thousand
years,
946
01:24:15,726 --> 01:24:18,320
Nostradamus tells us next to nothing.
947
01:24:19,220 --> 01:24:24,702
He does however tell us in what year
the world will finally come to an end.
948
01:24:25,606 --> 01:24:28,260
The year: 3797.
949
01:24:33,120 --> 01:24:38,571
He wrote about the end of the world in
a letter to his infant son.
950
01:24:38,907 --> 01:24:43,432
You know, it's at such times that each
of us looks at the long road ahead,
951
01:24:43,467 --> 01:24:46,967
contemplating not only our own future,
but the future of our children.
952
01:24:47,511 --> 01:24:51,094
Not many of us can see the future, but
none of us need be Nostradamus or
953
01:24:51,699 --> 01:24:54,599
have his gifts for seeing through time.
954
01:24:54,761 --> 01:25:00,745
To sense that we are at a crossroads,
that our immediate future could hold,
955
01:25:00,800 --> 01:25:04,900
the worst war man will ever know. So we
must each of us in our own way
956
01:25:05,532 --> 01:25:08,606
do something to make sure that that war
will never happen.
957
01:25:09,700 --> 01:25:15,726
Perhaps if we heed Nostradamus, if we
face up to the challenges of the future,
958
01:25:15,962 --> 01:25:17,962
it need not be too late.
959
01:25:18,600 --> 01:25:23,020
Not for us, not for our children...
960
01:25:23,509 --> 01:25:25,509
or our children's children.
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