What we can uncover from reading the Epistle is the topical references which are to be used in searching the quatrains. In doing this research I have found some unusual patterns and I want to present them here so that they can be tested as I go further into the analysis of the relationship between the quatrains and the Religious Wars of the Epistle. These patterns involve the use of capital letters as markers of key ciphers linking the quatrains to the themes in the Epistle. The words I chose to start my research involved the ideas of religion raised in the Epistle. These were pagan, heretic, religion, sects, cults and faith. They also included words such as countries, touuns(towns), cities, estates and states. Below are my findings for these and other key words. The columns show the lettering that forms the anagram in each verse (together with Centuries, Quatrain, line). I have used the symbol ſ in place of the long-ess found in Nostradamus' work because the long-ess may not show on all computers.
Note the strange distribution of each of the words in the above table; religion/s and faith/s are confined to the last three centuries while ancient ideas such as paganism, heresy and sects are restricted in the main to those Centuries published before the Epistle. Looking at the list involving cult we see that the only ones involving a marker based on a capital or a long-ess occur in the last three Centuries while all those before them have no marker. I have highlighted two verses where there is overlap between the words in this list; even with this limited data we can see potential signs of relevance with the idea of paganism being allotted to sects and cults. The other highlighted verse shown in red identifies one used later in this presentation.
It will be interesting to see whether the fact that all four anagrams of 'countries' occur in the second line carries any significant implications for the naming of countries within the quatrains. Also note that every one of the anagrams for touun/town is lacking a marker which may well imply my search for letter w as uu is wrong. Another key word I have checked is Europe/s/an/ans and they confirm the results in the table. There are 36 verses where these words occur either in the text or as anagrams. There are 29 that occur as anagrams and of these 27 involve a capital or long-ess marker. The same pattern holds true for the anagrams of related words such as regions and nations. There are 7 true anagrams of 'places' of which four contain markers. As interesting as the possibility of these sub jects being marked for special attention may be. there are other signs that we need to examine. We need to see if the content of the verses containing the anagrams discuss the same topics as appear in the Epistle namely war, religion, sects, three kings or allies, the barren lady, dissent, reformation, treatment of women and children, bloody massacres and other correlated themes. The analysis also needs to show that these threads run through all the examples of a single reference word in a consistent manner and to find whether other patterns worthy of examination appear within these groups. These will be the objectives of the next two sections. The real meaning of Nostradamus' Epistle to Henry. I am very satisfied with the progress of this most recent research for I have achieved what no one before has ever done; I have understood the significance of the Epistle to Henry. Why is this achievement so important? Because it answers many of the biggest puzzles surrounding Nostradamus' Prophecies. No-one can claim to have decoded Nostradamus' work if they have no means to make intelligible the difficulties raised by the Epistle to Henry. Any claim to have such a solution should surely be hidden in Nostradamus own words and if there is a meaningful code there must be an accessible set of data enabling its decipherment. Any source of data should be clearly pointed to by Nostradamus or alternatively be a visible part of his work found in or closely attached to the Prophecies. It is these foregoing aspects that give me the confidence to say this paper makes great advances in understanding the real meaning of Nostradamus' Prophecies. However as there is so much that is unveiled by my recent research it will take many months to show its full import and to display the elegance and strength of Nostradamus' techniques. I begin by affirming that the patterns mentioned in the first part of this series of analyses are found in many other key-words. Capitals and the long-ess are an important means by which Nostradamus identifies the words that unify quatrains with identical themes. The key-words occur either in the text or as an anagram and the means of reducing the possibility of misplacement and error always lies in the context in which each is found. Although we can make hasty, self-serving judgements of the import of a word it is only through the patterns that emerge from Nostradamus' instructions that we can build a holistic and consistent story. Nostradamus' patterns involve a range of attributes of which capitals together with the long-ess are the most important. So where an anagram is missing this aspect it is either a product of chance or of lesser importance. This may be varied where all occurrences of a proper name miss this aspect but it is enhanced where all occurrences employ a marker of some kind. Other aspects involve the consistent placement in the same line of every quatrain where it is found and the grouping of the quatrains particularly at the beginning, middle or end of the prophecies. Of course each pattern may be chance alone so their importance is secondary to context. The context is based on the repetitive themes of Henry's Epistle which is not intended to be a prophecy in itself but a code-book where the ciphers can be found. And it is logical that it be here in the Epistle for it accompanies the Prophecies throughout time. And it is Nostradamus' instructions that form our starting and end points. The cleverness of Nostradamus' writing is illustrated by a vast number of instances amongst which lie ones relating to his techniques. It is Nostradamus who tells us the guides I have stated above are meant to be used in the manner I have shown. You will find many places in the Epistle of 1558 and the Preface of 1555 where Nostradamus emphasizes we are to notice objects that have names (stars, cities, towns, people and dates) and as such they are capitalised. The following quotes are but two of many where he makes it clear these aspects provide the key to the code. In the latter part of the first there is also a hint we are to use patterns of similarity to aid the process while in the latter part of the second quote there is a quote in Latin implying these markers (capitals etc) are part of what we see.
One of the other claims by Nostradamus is that there is a connection between the content of the Epistle and the quatrains and because it would be overwhelming to establish the extent of this relationship I will only present a few to show the veracity of Nostradamus ' claim and the implications for my further presentations.
Below I present my first example using Quatrain 8 in Centuries 1 in two sections of a single table. The first shows the quatrain in English in the left column while the right holds the relevant passage from the Epistle of 1558. The most prominent theme that unites them is the reference to changing/new laws but there are others involving the nature of upheaval due to a single person. The second section shows the original French wording as given by Erika Cheetham (Perigree Press,1989) and in the right column I show the anagrams that comply with the rules I set out above. They are shown in their English form/s followed by their actual appearance in the text.
Note that the fourth line refers to reviving veins and the context of this reference validates the anagram for lineages while four of the other words monasterial, sepulchres, evangelistaries and evangelises fit to the themes found in both the Epistle and the second line of text. It is by this means that we can see the connection to the message of the Epistle and at the same there is evidence that even more detail of relevance is to be found. These rules are not vastly different to the ones I have used for years but now they have the authority of Nostradamus' instructions which via the marker system confine the choice even more than my own. The process I am using shows me that there is a remarkable story in the Prophecies and it is much the same story that is glanced upon in the Epistle to Henry and the Preface to Caesar. It is however very specific in its details. Nostradamus' tale involves the horrendous religious wars that affected his past and his present and which would manifest itself in a series of great wars in our century. There is of course a context involving Islam, Christianity and pagans but the feature that emerges strongly from the anagrams chosen by Nostradamus is the ideological division in Christian religions. The Roman Catholic Church is the major target for all these groups but this threat is from three other Christian sects. The prominent sects are ones derived from the splits around the mortal nature of Christ and it is this divide that produced the past present and future wars that Nostradamus includes in his Prophecies. Nostradamus is very consistent in this and in his description of his method he tells us he uses the past to illustrate the future on the basis that everything is cyclical and events follow the order of the chain. One of the reasons that I can be confident of the above is the very unusual nature of complex anagrams that reference Christian sects. The most prominent references are to Arianism, Pentecostalism, Nestorianism and Catharism and mostly there are no references to other groups inside or outside Christianity. I have chosen to use the verse below to illustrate my points even though there are countless others and I did so because it contains words that illustrate in a powerful manner Nostradamus reliance on highly relevant context. The verse I use is Centuries 1, Quatrain 54. This verse is at the heart of my papers on the great mutations of this century since it provides key astronomic clues and its relevance is discussed in detail in the fore-mentioned link. This quatrain is easily linked to a small passage in the Epistle (see below) because it shares the idea of astronomic revolutions that follow the order of the chain.
Besides the astronomical relevance there is another meaning to the word revolution since it can be a time of rebellion. It is this wording which unites anagrams found in the verse with the religious war theme implied in all of Nostradamus' works. In the accompanying anagram list there are two words that are adjacent that tell us we are dealing with the theme of Christ's mortality. In the third line we have Agennos doctrines and Agennos means without a father. The term Agennos is one of the actual Greek words that dominated discussion at the Nicaean Council of 325 CE. The extent of its relevance to Nostradamus is shown in detail in my paper called Nicea_Agennos. There are two words in this list with which most people will have no familiarity but they are critical to the meaning. These two words are Albigensis and dualism and both of these occur as anagrams only in this verse and both relate to the religion of the Cathars a dualistic Gnostic sect based on principles similar to those found in Arianism. And Arianism was made a crime called heresy by the Nicaean Council. The Cathars were driven to extinction via the first crusade that was ever conducted against a Christian sect and the first that was under- taken in the homeland of the Crusaders. This action against the Cathars was called the Albigensian Crusade. The unique features of this war including the terror with which it was prosecuted are what Nostradamus links to wars which are still to come. And we can see this is the cyclical claim made by Nostradamus in the Epistle where he says I have calculated the present prophecies according to the order of the chain which contains its revolution. So I believe that there is great connectivity between these ideas and a consistency with Nostradamus' themes all of which implies these words are deliberately placed and not accidental. Accordingly they form a platform that is more detailed and upon which we can build further branches in these wars of religious division. Gateways to Families involved in Religious Wars. As I progress with this presentation I am showing the multi-layered meaning in Nostradamus' Prophecies while at the same time illustrating how the Epistle acts as a multi-layered code book for finding the start of the stories of meaning to Nostradamus. Not all of these keys lay in the names and topics for many lie in the structure of the Epistle. Even though much of the material of the Epistle seems incoherent and irrelevant to the known history of the world there is a meaningful value system that it reveals. Nostradamus makes much of family and lineage in both the tables of Biblical figures and his narrative about the great Dame who passes from being barren to become the matriarch of a dynasty involved in wars and empire building all of which brings out varying responses from the populace. This dynasty is involved with the conflicts between pagan, Christian and Eastern religions and their involvement culminates in the creation of a world ready for and fostering the rise of an Antichrist. This idea of lineage can be found throughout the hidden content of Nostradamus' Prophecies and it takes the form of stories of the prominent families involved in religious wars of the past and following the part they play in the wars of the centuries beyond that of Nostradamus' birth in 1503 CE. Earlier I used some of Nostradamus' words in the Epistle to Henry to establish that his references to the order of the chain refer to repeated cycles linking past, present and future. I also reported that this intertwined time basis is a constant feature found in his quatrains. But there is another sense of these words that ties in to the topic of this article in which the linkage between past, present and future is an allusion to the generations of several families. It is easy for me to demonstrate that there are gateways between the Epistle and the Prophecies with none being more visible that that provided by Nostradamus when he says I have calculated the present prophecies according to the order of the chain which contains its revolution. (H7b.1). This ties in extraordinarily well with the wording of Centuries 3 Quatrain 79 which says The fatal everlasting order through the chain will come to turn through consistent order.
Although the anagrams and text in this verse confirm the themes are intertwined events crossing several wars it would be a distraction to introduce all its threads so I have concentrated only on the content of the first line. In the right column I have shown the anagrams of the first line based around the capitalised letters and the sequences from where they come. Alone they seem to have little merit. However when looked at in alliance with Two revolutions caused by the evil scythe making a change of reign and centuries from verse C1 Q54 which is the previous verse in this paper it can be seen that this cluster validate the remarks with which I opened this article. Besides the astronomical relevance there is another meaning to the word revolution since it can be a time of rebellion. It is this wording which unites anagrams found in the verse with the religious war theme implied in all of Nostradamus' works. The keys that underpin the above verse are determined in the same manner as in each of the foregoing and this is shown in the next two tables. These verses occur one after the other. In each of these I restrict my analysis to the first line even though there are other valuable links in the others. The next verse illustrates the same connectivity but it is also the verse before C3 Q79 given above which links the order of the chain to passage H7b in the Epistle. By this means we see that connections exist between separate clusters of the Prophecies and the Epistle. This verse was mentioned earlier as having links to the Epistle and here it can be seen that the first line holds markers suggestive of an ancient lineage from Christ based on the male line. The verse preceding this C3 Q78 L1 has a similar allusion to this theme in its first line.
It implies a male lineage code based on Nostradamus' use of ſſ lettering and offers potential names of which one is Magdelaine. This name has a unity with the reference to the Lord found in the equivalent place in C3 79 while the reference to male lineage in Quatrain 78 is also consistent with the idea of lineage of Jesus. In each contributing part there is allusion to a single story, the fate of Jesus' lineage. But these are skeletons of truth needing more flesh to be put upon them and this I will do as I present more verses. And there is a tale to tell that will give meaning to this account of war in which the ancestral chain is broken at the Phocen Port (Marseille) only to be taken uin a modern war in the Atlantic at a time when European people suffer from the use of quantum-physics based antiparticle weapons. These terms are all part of the hidden message of these verses. These tales are developed throughout my other papers and can be found at my website. I believe the above evidence is enough to conclude that the Epistle's allusion to the order of the chain ties it very tightly to the Prophecies and that the rest of the Epistle provides a similar gateway for finding key verses. So, via the use of unique phrasing the Epistle provides the key words leading to verses that flesh out its own deliberately jumbled story. The phrases are the trunk from which come many branches and only when the twigs, leaves, flowers and seeds are present do we see the full beauty of the tree. That these branches exist can be shown by following the trail of one of those indicated above. There are eight occurrences of anagrams for lineage and of these only the five that include a capital letter show high relevance. The sequences in which they are found are shown below.
The text of Quatrain C3 Q78 in this list and displayed in full earlier is closely tied into the story of Geoffroi De Charny, the person whose surname is mentioned in C3 Q90 (see following link for De Charny). This thread illustrates that the key-list in the Epistle can be expanded thus providing us with a tree to understand each Prophecies proper place and purpose. For instance, given that Magdelaine, De Charny and Dupont are prominent family related names found amongst different religious affiliations and taking into account there is much more given in other lines of the above verses I feel there is enough to show the word 'lineage' found by using the gateways and messages in the Epistle is a new key-word to be added to those found directly in the Epistle. Although there are many more gateways within the Epistle to Henry it is essential that I divert from their presentation. I will return to this task later and show the paths to such things as the meaning of the three brothers and the reason Nostradamus uses such an emotive word as Satan in his work. But first I need to show that these paths from the Epistle do provide consistent tales. To do this I will concentrate on all the anagrams for Magdelaine/Magdalene and the names that are found in association with them. I will present all the anagrams for Rosemary, Beaufort and Hautpuls and in so doing show how tightly they are clustered and how they provide tales with both internal consistency and finite detail of specific events. I won't at this time present the text of the verses where these anagrams are found. However I present them after looking at their hidden content and it is then possible to see how all the data comes together. I begin with the name Magdalene which occurs only once. (Note that each of the following presentations are made ufrom anagrams found in the text of the line):
All we have is a collection of words based on key anagrams where sequences are shown by the use of hyphens. I have organised their order so that there is some sense of flow. Of course I could be wrong in choosing the order however as a group they do seem to have a consistency with the theme of a dynastic lineage based on planned marriages. To find such a connection would only be of passing interest if it depended only on one verse. The anagram for Magdelaines is interesting because its associated words seem to offer a rationale to the change in spelling of the name.
The Magdelaines anagram is the only one to be found in The Prophecies and its tale needs to be validated and expanded by further references. It is with this in mind that I move to a name raised in the Magdalene entry for which there are two other verses with that anagram as key, namely the family Hautpuls.
The first part of this pair of verses holds the tone of an illegitimate male child raised by a person who is not his father. This Englander is as much a rogue as the father and fits to the title of the marauding Englander seen in CIX.Q10 about a lineage trail (see previous article). The text of the latter verse actually refers to a bastard son. The Argyle-Beauforts raise the child but bestow their own name on the child. The second of the current verses under discussion suggests the son of the Hautpuls leads an army against the French who, recognising his lineage, seek to transform its threat. There is one other verse with an anagram of the name Beaufort and it tells us more about this nobleman's activities.
The name Rosemary is only found as anagrams in C5 Q42 and C6 Q75 both of which verses are already given above. This leaves three Magdelaine occurrences of which one was briefly raised in the previous article. The parts of these three verses most relevant to the foregoing themes are laid out below.
Below are the verses on which the above is based. It shows the translated and original text. The anagrams that can be found in the line are shown in the section titled Markers (Anagram).
On the basis of the evidence I have uncovered I believe Nostradamus did see into the future and he faithfully recorded it but the nature of truth is shaped by both the observation and the observer. It is the environment related by Nostradamus that gives away the clue that he did see through time but the meaning of what he saw depends on the mechanism by which it was acquired. I do not say, my son, that the knowledge of this matter cannot impress itself upon your feeble brain, nor do I say that very distant future causes are not knowable by a reasoning creature. If they are simply the creation of a goodly creature's intellectual soul out of current events, then they are not too greatly hidden from him nor, on the other hand can they be said to be revealed at all. But the perfect causes cannot be acquired without divine inspiration since all prophetic inspiration receives its prime motivating force from God the Creator, then from happiness and nature. Wherefore causes that are indifferent are produced indifferently the presage only partly comes true where it has been predicted. Because where human understanding is created intellectually it cannot see hidden things except by the voice coming from limbo via the thin flame, showing in what direction part of the future causes will be inclined. END of PAPER
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