Nostradamus: The Spiritual Quatrains (Paperback)

It is a challenging area for scholarship because they are so often neglected. It goes without saying these are the final prophecies of the savant. No oracles here of devastations encompassing the world but visions of a new spirituality that focuses on raising the consciousness of man.

There is no chronological order to the quatrains. The savant purposely jumbled them and the predictions are written intentionally couched in obscure form liberally scattered with Greek and Latin words and an arcane tongue called the "green language" the occultist's form of obscuration. One may ask why didn't he just write plainly? I would assume the visions that came to him in a flame or a bowl of water were indeed first written down clearly. But due to religious bigotry his life was at risk for he lived during the Church Inquisition when a word wrongly construed met harsh penalties, even death at the stake.

In 1547, he settled with his second wife in the small town of Salon, France (His first wife and two small children had died in the plague ravaging Franch in the early 1530's). It was here that he began work on his materpiece Les Propheties a collection of 100 quatrains in ten books called centuries although century seven for some unknown mysterious reason contained 42 predictions. From my examination and analysis of the quatrains in century seven there are none of a spiritual nature hence symbolically I have published just 42 quatrains in this seventh millennium.

Contray to the claims of theorists, no one has yet found a key that unlocks the secrets of his work. Perhaps that's the way he intended it to be or either none have been privy to the sacred rite that reveals it.

Even the discovery of a non-coded work is in vain for Chavigny, his one and only disciple, would have been aware of it but he makes no mention of it. All we have are the quatrains themselves even though some are in couplets and we can connect some by a theme. Most are spread throughout the centuries making chronology impossible. Others have taken purely to astrology to unravel his secrets although 16th century astrology is not the same as that of today's but they have ignored his quatrain on the incantation of the law against inept critics which explicity tells the same to keep far away. The key to unveiling the mysteries of his spiritual quatrains does not lie in finding a non-coded work but in finding one that is.