Nostradamus - The New Millennium [antikvár]

INTRODUCTION • The New Millennium ^^ ughout history there have been gifted idividuals with great powers of prophecy, lemost among these was Michel de Nostradame, better known to us by his Latinized pseudonym, Nostradamus. Nostradamus lived in Southern France over 435 years ago and has gained tremendous fame in the 20th and 21st century. The life and work of this 16th-century Renaissance man was an enigma even to his contemporaries and has fascinated generations in the centuries since his death. Today, Nostradamus - "Celestial Scientist," seer, doctor of medicine, herbalist and creator of cosmetics and fruit preservatives - still attracts both praise and blame and provokes controversy. His ten volume history of the future, Les Prophéties (The Prophecies)', containing the greater part of his 1,104 prophecies contained in four-line stanzas called "quatrains," is one of the few works to remain constantly in print for over 400 years. Efforts to unravel its obscure verses have gathered their own momentum and, in these pivotal times as we enter the new millennium, current interest in his predictions has now reached a new level of worldwide interest never before seen. The skeptics who believed Nostradamus' popularity would not survive a peaceful passing into the new millennium saw their forecast go up in the smoke and debris of the World Trade Center's collapse. The long acknowledged The sky will burn at forty-five degrees. Fire approaches the great new city. Immediately a huge, scatteredflame leaps up when they want verification fiom the French. C6Q97 Garden of the world near the new city, in the path of the hollow mountains: It will be seized and plunged into the CIO Q49 For this third edition of his milestone first bool< on the prophet Nostradamus, Hogue reveais new revelations uncovered after the terrible events of II September, 2001: " Tiie new city is New Yorlt. It is relatively young as cities go and there are no cities exactly on or near latitude 45 that one could call "new" and significant enough to alert Nostradamus' attention. [He describes] the Flaming engines of two jet airliners approaching the great new city. They crash into the World Trade Center towers. Huge Fireballs of scattered flame erupt while intelligence sources in the US seeli verlFlcation From their French opposltes about rumors oF an imminent attack on America A day before the attack on New York, on 10 September, French Intelligence began looking into troubling indications that al-Qaeda operatives were about to attack American assets in Europe, primarily the American Embassy in Paris. French oFFiclals did contact their American counterparts who waited For verification too late to stop the fire Falling out oF the skies over New York with the roar oF jet engines The hollow mountains are "seized and plunged" into the boiling "vat" or cuue as Nostradamus describes it in Renaissance French. The cuue is a fermenting cauldron wherein Nostradamus, a physician and cosmetic manuFacttirer by proFession, would plunge materials For the mixing oF his medicines and cosmetics. The cauldron would emit boiling clouds as objects were seized and thrown into it. 1 believe his use of cuue Is a poetic attempt to capture the vision oF vast, mountainous buildings being pushed down by gravity. It describes the hollow mountains crumbling and melting away in the Ferment oF boiling clouds made of their own pulverized debris." ^ 1