Nostradamus C04 Q25: The prophet dreams the Nordic rune song of life and death
Copyright: Allan Webber, December 2015, Jan 2023

Verse C4 Q25 is paired with C7 Q36 because it deals with the impact that ideas with ancient origins may have on the future of humankind.

This verse is intriguing because of a sense of importance conveyed through its enigmatic wording.

It reads like a drug filled mind that sees the dreamer drifting in a visionary world where older constraints no longer apply and it reads much like the Song of Odin when he hung for nine days on the Tree of Life.

        Lofty bodies endlessly visible to the eye,
       Via these reasons they will come to obscure:
       Body, forehead included, sense and head invisible,
       Diminishing the sacred prayers.  

Yet it reflects the idea that astronomy is an important part of his code and it mentions aspects that seem to want to be part of the mystery in the first pair of verses in this series.

It is in this quite enigmatic emotional setting that the anagrams act to ease the mind

There are powerful anagrams right at the beginning of the verse that confirm this for they tell us this is about an unmissable process (es Corps_  ſublimes ſans ).

 This takes on an air of relevance because of the last line of text which alludes to a process as part of a prayer.

What makes all the above unmissable is anagrams for Odinisms, luminant minds and two anagrams for Sibl with another anagram for process adjacent to one of the Sibl entries (ſibl_es Corps). 

 There is one other critical anagram that occurs in the first line; that for Alfonsine (ns final oe) for that  is the name applied to a 13th century astronomy table  still used in Nostradamus' day.

The entry for this topic in Wikipedia says 'The Alfonsine Tables...provided data for computing the position of the Sun, Moon and planets relative to the fixed stars. The tables were named after Alfonso X of Castile, who sponsored their creation.'

This verse like C7 Q36 therefore presents several agencies that are seen by Nostradamus as origins inspiring human actions but which by his choices indicates some level of disquiet as to the way they are used.