INTRODUCTION
VI.C
LEGIS CANTIO
CONTRA INEPTOS CRITICOS
Quos
legent hosce versus mature censuncto,
Profanum
vulgar & inscium ne attracto.
Omnesq;
Astrologi, Blenni, Barbari procul sunto,
Qui
alter fadit, if rite, facer esto
INCANTATIONS
OF THE LAW AGAINST INEPT CRITICS
May
those who read these verses think upon them deeply.
Let
the profane and ignorant herd keep away.
Let
all astrologers, idiots, and barbarians stay far off.
He
who does otherwise, let him be priest to the rite.
A
interesting incantation for so remarkable a man to make when his world was full
of such people. Michel de
Nostradame existed in a time when fear and despair were an integral part of
life. The Grand Inquisition, which
began around 1228, was still spreading its bloody wings.
It began to decline during the late 16th century, but in Spain
it survived until the 1800’s. Nostradamus
was summoned once to appear before the Inquisition in 1538 on a matter of a few
thoughtless words spoken to a workman. He
was released, but fled France for a time anyway.
He wrote in Latin and French, using disguising anagrams. His injunction against astrologers may have been placed there
to misguide, as he often refers to the influences of the stars and planets in
his Quatrains.
He was
very careful not to write his Quatrains too clearly for fear of the
Inquisition’s interdiction against any actions that might be construed as
heresy.
TIME
FRAME
Perhaps
the first thing to be said is that the time frame we use in today’s world, the
Gregorian Calendar, is seriously out of sync with the actual passage of time.
Consider this:
The
Julian calendar, introduced in 46 B.C. by
Julius Caesar, is the basis of our modern calendar.
Following the merger of the Christian Church and Imperial
Rome, years came to be numbered with reference to the year of the birth of
Christ (although this date is now regarded as actually being 4 B.C.) In this
system the year immediately before the year 1 A.D. is the year 1 B.C.
There is no year 0.
The
Emperor Augustus and, it is believed, the Council of Nicea (325 A.D.) readjusted
the calendar by a few days as well, throwing more confusion into the mix.
When
the Julian calendar began to be seriously out of sync with the seasons and the
solar year (solstices and equinoxes) around the 16th century, Pope
Gregory XIII introduced the Gregorian calendar. There were three major changes
involved.
1)
He removed ten days from the year completely (the day following
October 4, 1582 was declared to be October 15, 1582).
2)
A year was decided to be a leap year if it
a.
Was divisible by 4 but not by 100 or
b.
Was divisible by 400
3)
Easter was going to be
determined by a set of new rules.
What
does all this have to do with Nostradamus?
Quite a bit, but only as far as the timing of the Millennium, and when it
can truly be expected. Our current
calendars are off by many years. But
we do have a source we can look to for the correct dating.
Over
800 years Before the Common Era, the Maya were finalizing a calendar system that
is still considered to be one of the most precise ever devised.
The
Maya believed that the earth cycled through Ages consisting of 5,125.4 years
each. They also believed that the
world had already experienced four Ages, all of which ended in catastrophe.
The
culmination of the Maya Age we are currently in is not the year 2000.
It is, however, very, very near.
On
December 21, 2011 the new Age will begin.
A
FEW NOTES
There
are certain ways Nostradamus names areas, people of power and objects he had no
concept of except as they were revealed to him in his visions.
His way of describing a person in power was to call him a King, “Roi”,
or “le chef,” meaning leader. The
“New City” is generally known to be New York City, although he also used
other descriptive names as well. America
itself he identifies as ‘Hesperies.’
He called airplanes and other flying objects, ‘arrows’ and
‘globes’ as well as by a few other names.
As he called submarines ‘fish,’ he calls airplanes ‘birds.’
The
following quatrains seem to point to events that have recently taken place.
While I attribute most of these quatrains to the attack upon the World
Trade Center buildings, some of them apply to the Pentagon as well,
and some clearly point to the American bombing of Afghanistan.
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