THE PROPHECIES
OF NOSTRADAMUS
FOR OUR TIMES
Bishop Lewis Keizer
On this page I shall explore the prophecies of Nostradamus concerning the years 1999 and continuing into the twenty-first century. As the time referred to by each prophecy draws near, I'll add my translation and interpretation to this page.
Although the prophecy for 1999 refers to war and terrorism, those for the twenty-first century describe the coming of a new spirituality and a new humanity. I shall be quoting from the book I privately circulated in 1984 entitled Prophecies Concerning the New Church, which is available through the Home Temple Press.
FIRST POSTING, SUMMER, 1999
CONCERNING PROPHECY
It is important to understand that future of
the planet and humanity ripens from a causal or "karmic" chain of consequences
that originate in human thought and action. The near
future is a tightly articulated field of probabilities whose outcomes can
be altered in a major way only by extreme transformation in the present, while the far
future can be radically changed by small transformations consistently applied--not unlike
navigation on the high seas. Human thought and action create the physical and noetic
environments that produce chains of events and probable outcomes. Human beings do
not yet realize their continual influence upon natural events such as earth changes,
climate, and weather.
Often an outcome that flows from a strong current depends upon a critical area of human thought and action. For example, according to Scripture, the prophet Jonah was forced against his will to prophesy doom to the city of Ninevah because the inhabitants were in great need of "repentance," or nacham, literally "submission" to the Higher Nature. In other words, the culture of the city was devolutionary and immoral. But after he delivered his prophecy of doom, the people were deeply affected and made major reform efforts. Consequently, the disasters Jonah had prophesied did not manifest. At the end of the Book of Jonah, the prophet complains to God that now he looks like a charlatan because doom did not befall the city to vindicate his prophecies. God replies that the response of the people averted disaster, and the prophet should rejoice.
MITIGATING THE DISASTER
PROPHESIED FOR 1999
The prophecies of Nostradamus have been uncannily accurate for four centuries
through the period of World War II. They predicted terrible disasters
for humanity in the 1980's and 1990's. However, some disasters like the global
catastrophes of May, 1988, have been averted, and the military events of 1994 that were to
begin a process of military power-building by the Third Anti-Christ, culminating in
world-wide nuclear holocaust in 1999, have been greatly mitigated.
In the last quarter of the
twentieth century, the doom prophecies of Nostradamus have clearly started to lose their
accuracy. Humanity has been making the changes and transformations necessary for
a positive future. By the same token, the positive prognostications
he made for the twenty-first century have increased likelihood of coming
into manifestation.
I have been working spiritually with many others on inner and outer planes for two
decades to help moderate the terrible karmic consequences that Nostradamus foresaw
developing full-blown in the year 1999. We initiated the December 31st Global Peace
Meditation in 1986. The eggregore of this and other sacred dates such as Wesak has been
"worked" every year by a large group of world-wide spiritual
servers, including the Synod of THG and Home Temple Bishops. We did esoteric work to
facilitate the disintegration of the old Soviet Union, to potentiate development of the
Star Wars and other anti-missile programs, to defeat Saddam Hussein in Desert Storm, and
to keep Saddam in check since that time.
During this final quarter of the twentieth century, many world-servers have carried out inspired work in political, sociological, legal, educational, medical, and other modalities to dissolve the ancient retrogressive currents that entrap humanity in its own ruts and to elevate the human spirit.
To what extent have we been able to mitigate the self-generated currents that Nostradamus foresaw leading to the apocalyptic disasters of 1999? We will soon know. My guess is that instead of the nearly three decades of war against the West prophesied to be led by the Islamic Anti-Christ, we may see a period of terrorism hopefully on a much lesser scale. The West will ultimately win the conflict, both militarily and politically.
The Twenty-First Century
and Beyond
Indeed, the astrological Age of Pisces is coming to a close. Nostradamus tells us
that Christian religious institutions rooted in anachronistic medieval thought and
practice will give way to a new Christ religion based on the achieving of Christhood--not
the worship of Jesus per se. Islam will undergo radical changes. Judaism and the
religions of the East, which have roots in the Arian Age, will outgrow their Piscean
transformations. This prepares the way for the new spiritual synthesis that will
create unity between religious cultures, and whose prophet (from the lineage of
Hermes Trismegistus, says Nostradamus) will make Thursday his holy day.
The European nations and Caucasian race will lose their world domination, and the foundations for new stocks and races will develop from Caucasian inter-marriage with non-Europeans. A New Humanity will begin to emerge in the twenty-first century, says Nostradamus, and increasing numbers of people will become psychically sensitive. More about all this will be posted when appropriate.
SECOND POSTING, JANUARY 25,
2002
Excerpted without changes from Prophecies
Concerning the New Church, Keizer, 1984
World
Events Surrounding the Emergence of the New Church
The
New Church manifests while the Old is still alive and the world is in catastrophic
disorder. As Nostradamus’ vision is summarized by Woldben in After Nostradamus (op. cit.,
p. 95):
“The events forecast
are essentially, schisms, birth of a new religion, transfer of the Roman
Catholic Curia, the slaughter of priests and similar matters.”
The
birth of the new religion is the New Church. In the past commentators have
considered certain quatrains about it to have reference to Anti-Christs or
heretics, but every mention of it is
positive, as we shall see. It is born amidst the destruction of the old
world and the Old Church.
Migres
migre de Genesve trestous,
Saturne
d’or en fer se changers;
Le
contre Raypoz exterminera tous,
Avant
l’a ruent de ciel signes fera.
IX.44
You are leaving, depart! Away from Geneva, everyone!
Saturn
shall be changed from gold into iron;
The
opposite of the positive ray is able to exterminate everyone!
Before
they lash out, Heaven will shown signs.
A
summit conference ending in failure symbolizes the radical failure of diplomatic
relations among world powers--not unlike the worsening of U.S.-Soviet relations
under the Carter and Reagan administrations. There is fear that planetary
extermination is possible by means of radiation pollution after a nuclear
holocaust. A later text reads, “Before it happens (l’advent),”
implying inevitability, but the more authentic text reads as I have translated.
The word ruer in reflexive means to
react or recoil in a “lashing out” fashion, which accurately conveys the
fear of nuclear war out of defensive misunderstanding
It is not
at all clear in the writings of Nostradamus, however, that nuclear war would
occur between the U.S. and the Soviets. As a matter of fact, all indications
point to a U.S. and European alliance against a powerful Islamic aggressor, with
one quatrain indicating that the U.S. and Soviets would eventually be forced
together in an alliance against the Arab conquerors.
Certainly
in Nostradamus’ time Europe was allied against the Moslems, whom the prophet
would have personally considered to be the Anti-Christ. It is understandable
that Nostradamus would see an Islamic Anti-Christ at the end of the era.
However, we must remember how objectively Nostradamus has predicted corruption
and ruin for his own beloved Catholic Church, and how many other predictions he
transmitted that went strongly against his personal love of France. We must
credit the prophet with fidelity in transmission, and take his visions of a
future Western-Islamic conflict seriously.
The
apocalyptic predictions so well known to this generation about war from the sky
in 1999 (X.72), the mention of London, Scotland, and Americh
united while the “false Anti-Christ” reigns (X.66--Is the Anti-Christ false,
or is the accusation false?), and the many other commentators have been eager to
apply to the twentieth century are not the proper subject of this book, but the
following four quatrains are linked and provide an overview of developments
leading to the triumph of the new era of peace:
Many
shall come and talk of peace
Between
very powerful rulers and governors;
But
it shall not be agreed to so soon
If
they do not show themselves more cooperative than others have.
See
what fury! Alas, what pity!
It
shall be so among many nations.
Never
was there seen such a friendship,
As
the wolves shall have trying to run in a pack!
Many
peoples shall come to speak
To
great governors that will
make war against them,
But
they will not be admitted to a hearing.
Alas!
What is God does not send peace upon earth?
Many
helps will come on all sides
From
nations far off who want to aid resistance;
They
will eventually come in a sudden haste,
But
for the present they will be unable to assist.
These same
conditions prevailed before each of the world wars, and they prevail now.
Massive peace demonstration are avoided and dismissed by those in power as
evidences of enemy activity, rather than a true measure of national sentiment.
These quatrains were added to Century VIII in most texts, 2-5.
In
them we see the impotence of mass desire for peace, for what has been called the
Planetary Pentecost has not yet occurred, and the Saturnines or “people of a
new leaven,” as Nostradamus calls them, have not yet been empowered by Heaven.
They must suffer persecution.
Yet
it is the change evident in the hearts of many who fervently desire an end to
all war, who appreciate the inner and spiritual values, who manifest healthy
conscience, true concern for universal love and justice--it is this fundamental
change in a critical mass of human souls now ready for initiation into a greater
consciousness, and a quantum leap into a new aeon, that constitutes the
spiritual reality of the lion lying down with the lamb, and the beating of
swords in plowshares. These souls form the multi-racial, multi-cultural or
“rainbow” bridge linking Heaven and earth, and making possible the
realization of Heaven on earth, the Above in the Below, the Inner in the Outer.
Many
of them are dogmatic peaceniks, anti-nuclear fanatics, or extremists with rigid
new-age doctrines of all sorts--occult, political, educational, and what have
you. Many of them are vulnerable to the mental snares that turn idealists into
fanatics who stop at nothing to achieve their imagined ends. But by and large
they are good people, beautiful people, new people in search of the new era.
Regardless of their flaws, they are beloved of Heaven. And yet they must be
crucified before they can experience resurrection, thus their “help” is
delayed, but eventually will arrive in a sudden haste. “But for the present
they [Hierarchy] will be unable to assist.”
The
Externalization of the New Church
At
the very time when God’s holy people (those mentioned above) are most
persecuted and aroused, the New Church will begin to manifest. Its beginnings
will come by means of a spiritual break-through of intuitive understanding that
will be expressed in many ways--new spiritual revelations, new political
thought, new ways and ideas of alternative approaches to science, society,
education, interpersonal relations, and reality in general. This is linked with
the human potential movement, women’s movement, the new churches, rediscovery
of ancient Christian gospels, interior values, and a whole new structure of
reality.
Las
qu’on verra grand people tourmente,
Et
Ia Loi Saincte en totale ruine;
Par
autres loix toute Ia Christiente,
Ouand
d’or, d’argent trouve nouvelle mine.
1.53
Alas,
how a great people shall be tormented,
And
the Divine Law in total ruin.
All
Christianity will be under other laws,
When
it will discover a new mine of gold and silver.
The
“new mine of gold and silver” is the Eternal Gospel announced by the
“angel” of Rev. 14.6. In general terms, the new mine is the meditative
interior, the Inner Guidance or Malkuth
(Rulership, “Kingdom”) within the heart. It is through the Western contact
with Eastern, Hindu, and Buddhist philosophy--especially through the
theosophical movement and influence of Blavatsky, Roerich, and others, that
Western culture began to turn to meditation. But it was through the earlier
teaching of Swedenborg and the manifestation of spiritualism that Western homo
religiosus was introduced to “inner
space.” All this is a manifestation of the Eternal Gospel.
The
historical founding of the New Church is explicitly fixed in time by the
prophecies of Nostradamus, and is synchronously linked with the archaeological
recovery of the bones of St. Peter. It is so linked because the founders of the
New Church must be the spiritual monads who were the historical apostles of the
Master Jesus, magnetized into activity by Peter, James, and John the Beloved.
The Apostle Peter’s bones were said to have been unearthed in 1941 by the
Vatican. However, they were not. Yet that is the birth-year of the Apostle, so
indicated.
Au
fondement de Ia nouvelle secte,
Seront
les os do grand Romain trouvez;
Sepulchre
en marbre apparoistra converte,
Terra
trembler in Avril, mal enfovez.
VI.66
At
the founding of a new sect,
The bones
of the great Roman will be found;
The
sepulcher will appear covered in marble,
The
earth will quake in April, ill-buried.
St.
Peter’s tomb will be opened by an earthquake that occurs near Easter (in
April). That will be the sign to all that the New Church has been externalized
and permanently founded upon earth.
Ouand
le sepulcre do grand Romain trouve,
Le
jour apres sera esleu pontife;
Do
senat gueres ii ne sera prouve,
Empoisonne
son sang au sacre scyphe.
111.65
When
the sepulcher of the great Roman is found,
A
Pope will be elected on the following day;
He will
not be much approved by the Senate,
His blood
poisoned through the sacred chalice.
Could
this be the same papal assassination described in IV.11 (cf. my p. 9)? One has
no way of knowing, but this month a book appeared in which the claim was made
that a recent Pope was poisoned. The premise was denied by the
Here
the founding of the New Church seems connected also to the election of an
unpopular Pope destined to be poisoned by Eucharistic wine. However, one
quatrain refers to the finding of the sepulcher, which could be archaeological,
and the other to the exposing of Peter’s remains through an earthquake in
April. Clearly the discovery of the sepulcher must occur first, and that is
linked with the election of a Pope destined to be secretly assassinated.
Therefore
the Easter earthquake with the revealing of St. Peter’s remains is the sign
that the New Church is established.
Lone
obscur cie aux profondes tenebres,
Son
frere passe de couleur ferrigine;
Le
qrande cache long temps soubs les tenebres,
Tiendra
fer dans Ia plaie sanguine.
1.84
The
moon will be obscured in deepest darkness,
Her
brother passing in a blood-red color;
The
Great One, long hidden in darkness,
Will hold
the iron sword in the bloody wound.
Normally
a full moon shines brightly. But when the moon is in exact alignment with earth
and sun, it moves into the earth’s shadow or umbra and is eclipsed. This
configuration of moon, earth, and sun aligned in polarity constitutes the
planetary meditation, when potent spiritual power can be channeled to the planet
and all souls within it, for good or for ill. The full moon is notorious for its
synchronicity with criminal behavior, were-animalism, and other negative occult
manifestations. But in Eastern mysticism the full moon is also recognized as the
bringer of spiritual power of great positive nature to those who know how to
receive it. The greatest annual full moons are those of Easter, Wesak, and
Taurus, or the Festival of Christ and Humanity.
Astronomically,
the Wesak moon one month after the date celebrated by the Old Church as Easter
(first full moon after the spring equinox) is in actuality the true Paschal
moon, being in the astronomical constellation of Pisces, as it was on the true
Passover Easter of the Master Jesus. Thus Wesak will be the new “Easter” of
the New Church. The Taurus moon, or Festival of Christ and Humanity, will be
astronomically a Pisces moon in another two thousand years, when it will become
the main festival of the new world religion to which the New Church is a bridge.
This
quatrain has been given a credible interpretation regarding the murder of the
Duke de Berry in 1820, but I find in it another meaning. The darkening of the
moon and reddening or darkening of the sun (cf. Mark 1 3.24 et.
al.) has been associated with the coming of the Son of Mankind or the New
Humanity in Christian apocalyptic from earliest times. It refers to a full moon
that is so well aligned as to create a lunar eclipse, followed by a new moon so
perfectly aligned as to create a solar eclipse. Such a planetary alignment
would, in esoteric terms, provide an opportunity for the most powerful full-moon
meditation possible, as well as the most destructive abuse of such transcendent
potency. If it were to occur at the esoterically most potent Wesak moon, it
would be a tremendous sign for those who understood--not unlike the sign of the
Magi, who saw the “star” of Christ in the East.
Well,
it did occur on the Wesak moon of 1984, and those who knew how to cooperate with
Hierarchy worked in conscious and subjective core groups to channel the potency
for the evolutionary good of mankind. Although their common invocative appeal
and evocative command was directed to the cleansing of psychic and astral
planetary influence, to the aligning of national leaders unto peace rather than
the vicious war that was breaking out all over, and to the enlightenment and
healing of all souls, nevertheless there was another side to the work. This was
the work of Shamballa and Divine Will, represented in these words: “The Great
One, long hidden in darkness, will hold the iron sword in the bloody wound.”
The
Sword of Shamballa now penetrates all human reality to the very hilt. This
quatrain is related to X.65 (cf. my p. 6), “Like an iron sword thrust in to
the hilt.” The ruin of the Old World is “not of your walls, but of your lifeblood
and spiritual substance,” as it is said of the Roman Church.
The
Sword of Shamballa is wielded by certain initiates, who are even now being
anointed and empowered to triumph in a world that has for long ages triumphed
over the saints of God. This reality precedes the founding of the New Church.
Celui
qu’aura Ia charge de destruire
Temples
& sectes changees par fantasie,
Plus
aux rochers qu ‘ aux vivans viendra noire
Par
langue ornee d’oreilles ressaisies.
1.96
He
that will have the charge of destroying
Temples
and sects changed by means of fantasy,
He
will do more harm to the stones than to the living,
By
a clever tongue filling up the ears.
Two
kinds of adversaries will destroy the Old Church. One, under the power of Satan
by permission of Heaven, is the fundamentalist “braggart,” whose success
with mass movements will be sectarian and transitory. The other--a divine
mission under the guidance of Heaven--will have a far greater and more spiritual
effect. The “stones” or institutions of the Church will be attacked, rather
than the souls of the people. Where the fundamentalist attack depends upon
“eating the flesh” of the Old Church (Rev. 17.16) and “winning the
souls” of the faithful (leading to ultimate great spiritual harm), the
dismantling of the Old Church overseen by Heaven is not an attempt to make
converts. Rather, it involves a battle of theological ideas.
Le
fort Nicene ne sera combatu,
Vaincu
sera par rutilant metal,
Son
faict sera on long temps debatu,
Au
citadins estrange espouvantal.
VIl.19
The
Nicene fortress will not be combatted,
But
it will be overcome by red metal;
The
deed will be debated for a long time,
And
will seem a strange and fearful thing to the inhabitants of the
citadel.
The
masters of the New Church will not directly attack basic Christian Nicene
theology, but through a process of synthesis over many generations as the New
Church reaches out and evolves, the ancient Nicene theology will pass away. The
Christian masses will experience doubt and uncertainty as they penetrate the
unfolding mysteries and revelations, and there will be much debate and mental
development along the way.
The
“red metal” is copper, which was used by alchemists for its bonding and
synthesizing properties. Copper was associated with Venus (in the positive
sense) because it could be used to “marry” metals of radically different
properties. The “red metal” is what is called synthesis, synergy, a loving
cooperation and willingness to look at similarities
rather than concentrate upon differences. Synthesis is the power of spiritual
evolution, inclusiveness, loving acceptance of differences in thought and
culture.
The
New Church will not be a dogmatic institution. It will be able to hold seemingly
mutually exclusive viewpoints on many theological issues, knowing that all
brothers and sister converge beyond words
and mental ideas in Spirit. Partisanship, separatism, and schism will be the
only values that cannot be tolerated in the New Church, and many streams of
apostolic teaching will flow upon its hills and valleys.
De
l’aquatique triplicite naistra,
Un
qui fera Feudy pour sa feste;
Son
bruit, loz, regne & puissance croistra,
Par
Terre & Mer, aux Orients tempeste.
1.50
From the aquatic triplicity he will be born,
One who will make Thursday his Holy Day;
His fame, praise, rule, and power will grow,
On
land and sea a tempest to the East.
The
great prophet of the New Church stands in the power and Spirit of St.
uniting
celebration of the New Church.
I am pledged to reveal no more, except that his power will be felt early in the twenty-first century
La
terre & l’air geleront se grand eau,
Lors
qu’on viendra pour Jeudy venerer;
Ce
qui sera jamais ne feut si beau,
Des
quatre parts le viendront honorer.
X.71
The
land and air will freeze with much water,
When
they will come to worship on Thursday;
That
which will come to be, never was so beautiful,
And
from the four parts, they will come to honor it.
The
New Church, with its Thursday holiday, will eventually spread into the four
corners of the world, leavening a process that will produce the world religion.
When this occurs, the earth will be experiencing another Ice Age. There is much
speculation about the prophetic views of a future Ice Age, including the theory
of polar shift. Nostradamus foresees a future time of peace and cooperation,
perhaps initially forced upon mankind by a planetary climatic crisis.
The
quatrains concerning the new religion with its Thursday holiday have been
misinterpreted and rather ignorantly mistranslated by those who try to assign
them to predictions about Anti-Christ. But in this quatrain the Thursday worship
is clearly a positive thing (“That which will come to be, never was
so beautiful”) that there can be no mistake either about the mission of the
man born in the aquatic triplicity, or the new religion. (Erika Cheetham
translates the phrase, “He who will come will never be as fair as the few
partners who come to honor him,” a grossly wrong
and strained translation; she also comments (incorrectly) that the aquatic
triplicity is “Aries, Cancer, and Aquarius,” and that the man prophesied is
Anti-Christ!)
Nostradamus
foresees specific works that masters of the New Church will complete. They
concern the Universal Eucharist, bridge-building for the world religion, psychic
and spiritual development of the people, and the Great Work of externalizing the
Christ.
And there appeared
a great wonder in Heaven--a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her
feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.
She
is the New Church, anointed with Christhood (the sun) and the moon under her
feet (occult understanding) and the twelve apostles externalized at the head to
guide her.
And
she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
The
“Birth Pangs of the Messiah.” It is darkest before the sunrise. The New
Church undergoes internal agony rather than persecution from without. She is as
yet only a spiritual reality.
The
great red dragon appears in Heaven and awaits to devour the Christ when He/She
is born, but the Child is caught up unto the Throne of God, to rule evermore.
The Woman flees into a wilderness where she is nurtured and protected “one
thousand two hundred and threescore days.” Then there is war in Heaven and
Michael casts Satan onto earth. Only at this point in revelation is the Woman,
the New Church, persecuted on earth, the critical mass of one hundred-forty-four
thousand saints achieved in Heaven, and the Eternal Gospel sent into the world.
The New Church has existed as the Church Esoteric in a subjective or spiritual mode from the earliest Christian times. It has been discerned by great sensitives like Swedenborg and mystics like Augustine throughout ecclesiastical history. St. John the Divine foresaw its realization upon earth “in a wilderness,” out of the common view “for a time, and times, and half a time,” until she has generated the full number of great souls necessary for externalization.
And
the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of
her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus
Christ.
Rev. 12.17
The
spiritual history of the New Church is recapitulated by all her seed. First they
must experience the initiation of inner torment, the “Birth Pangs” of the
Inner Christ. Then they find nurture, bliss, and protection--a Sabbath of shalom
to which they may return in retreat from their work in the world.
But
always and ever they face persecution in the world, and rarely have they been
empowered to triumph externally against the world’s evil, although they are
eternally protected.
Encor
seront les saincts temples pollus,
Et
expillez par Senat Tholosain;
Saturne
deux trois siecles revollus,
Dans
Avril, May, gens de nouveau levain.
IX.72
Again
will the holy temples be polluted,
And
pillaged by the Senate of Toulouse;
Saturn
two, three cycles revolving,
In
April, May, people of a new leaven.
After
one final abomination and persecution, the New Church will be established on
earth with the new age. The date is not clear. This follows the ministry of the
great prophet born of the watery triplicity (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces). Saturn
represents the God of Israel, Whose evolution was in two cycles from Judaism to
gentile Christianity, and Whose greatest festival was in April, that of the
Passover-Easter. Here deux is parallel
to Avril, and trois
parallel to May, for the third evolution of the One God comes not through
Islam (part of the second evolution), but through the New Church and the New
Scripture with its yet unborn revelators. Its greatest festival will be in May,
the Wesak moon (true Passover-Easter moon).
Au
revolvu du grand nombre septiesme,
Apparoistra
au temps Jeux d’Hecatombe;
Non
esloingne du grand age milliesme,
Que
les entrez sortiront de leur tombe.
Tant
attendu ne reviendra jamais,
Dedans
l’Europe, en Asie apparoistra,
Un
de Ia ligue islu du grand Hermes,
Et
sur tous Roy des Orients coistra.
X.74-75
The
year seven of the great number being passed [2001],
It
will manifest at the time of the Games of Spirit Sacrifice;
Not
far from the great age of the millenium [2000],
That
the dead shall come out of their tombs.
The
long awaited One will never come,
Within
Europe, in Asia will appear,
One
issued of the lineage of the great Hermes,
And
will grow great over all power in the
East.
After
the year A.D. 2007 there will be many Fifth Round psychics among mankind. The
Games of Spirit Sacrifice or of the Hecatombs symbolizes holocaustic warfare.
Thus at a time of mass death, psychic phenomena will manifest such that many
people will see and communicate with those who have died. Such phenomena have
been relatively common during great wars in which loved ones died, such as the
American Civil War (probably the greatest stimulus to the spiritualist movement
of that era) and the world wars. But in this case the phenomena will be so
widespread that they will be understood and accepted as real and normal. This
will be the initiation of the “people of a new leaven” into psychic reality.
Soon
after this the power of the prophet born in the aquatic triplicity will begin to
make itself felt in the political world. He will be established in Iran (the
East). The lineage from Trismegistus does not imply natural sciences, but occult
sciences. He will manifest as a master, and will be perceived by many Islamic
disciples as the final Imam. This he will be, but not as people have understood
it. He will renounce the title and teach that each soul must manifest as the
final Imam.
Dieu,
le ciel tout le Divin Verbe a l’unde,
Porte
par rouges sept razes a Bisance;
Contre
les oingz trois cens de Trebisconde,
Deux
Ioix mettront, & l’horror, puis credence.
VII.36
God,
all Heaven, the Divine Word, on
the waves,
Carried
by seven shaven redhats to Byzantium;
Against
the Anointed Ones three hundred of Trebizond,
Will
make two laws, and horror, then trust.
Masters
of the New Church will have an historic meeting with the many Islamic and Sufi
orders in Turkey to promote religious unity for the sake of world peace. These
bishops will be subjected to spiritual and psychic trial, but ultimately will
impress the others with their sanctity and achieve their mission. The
intercommunion of Islam and the New Church will serve as a model for world
religious ecumenism--a model heretofore thought most impossible of all possibilities,
since Christians and Moslems will have fought nuclear war previous to this
synodal meeting. As a result of this meeting, world peace will be largely won.
Les os des pieds & des mains enserrez,
Par bruit maison long ternps inhabitee;
Seront par songes concavant deterrez,
Maison
salubre & saris bruit habitee.
VII.41
The
bones of the feet and hands in shackles,
By
a poltergeist a house will be deserted for a long time;
Through
a dream the buried ones will be disinterred,
Thus
the house will become healthy and can be inhabited without
noise
of a poltergeist.
Normally
a “noisy ghost” is exorcized by finding the unhappy bones and burying them
in hallowed ground. In this case, however, the shackled bones must be dug up and
taken out of the ground to solve the haunting. That is because reference is to
“skeletons in the closet” of the Church.
There
are many great Christian saints who have been denied by the Church as heretics,
excommunicated, or refused the sacraments. These saints cannot be dismissed. The
New Church will dig them up and give them honor.
Some
examples are the works and writings of the lesser known apostles, like great
Thomas, whose Gospel (though transmitted through gnostic channels and thus
editorialized--but no moreso than the canonical gospels were editorialized in
their context) is one of the great mystic documents of the early Church. In the
early Church were female disciples and even apostles and bishops, whose graves
have only recently been discovered. There may be extant lines of apostolic
transmission that go back to Mary Magdalene through France, where legend says
that she brought the Shroud of Jesus, later to be kept at Turin.
The
New Church will bring all these great saints to recognition, thereby hallowing
its house and making it habitable.
Le
corps sans ame plus n’estre en sacrifice,
Jour
de Ia mort mis en nativite;
L’Esprit
Divin fera I’ame felice,
Voyant
Le Verbe en Son Eternite.
11.13
The
body without soul will no longer be admitted in sacrifice,
Or
the day of death placed on the nativity;
Divine
Spirit will make the soul happy,
Envisioning
the Word in Its Eternity.
The
New Church will reform the Eucharist as a true love-feast and communion with
universal life, such that it will be possible to have the Mass without physical
bread and wine, but impossible to have it with bread and wine if spiritual
meaning is absent.
The
New Church will reform the church festivals such that Easter (the day of death)
will no longer be a morbid remembrance of torture, but a glorious celebration of
resurrection. For physical death will be truly understood as a “nativity” or
birthday, and the Nativity of Christ will he celebrated on the Passover moon,
the Resurrection on the Wesak moon, and the Festival of Christ and Humanity on
the astrological Taurus moon. Astronomically these will be the Aquarian moon
(Easter), the Piscean moon (Wesak), and the Arian moon (Christ and Humanity).
Through deep instruction in scientific meditation great psychical and spiritual
evolution will be encouraged, which will “make the soul happy,” and
disciples able to truly understand Divine Wisdom on an interior level. The
“guru” will be within, and the object of priestly instruction will be to
facilitate and “bridge” the connection to Inner Guidance.
Other
prophecies of Nostradamus indicate that a time will come when all races will
intermarry, evolve, and through various catastrophes the Fifth Round of the
Fifth Root Race will externalize.
Un
peu de temps les temples de couleurs,
De
blanc & noir les deux entre-meslee;
Rouges
& jaunes leur embleront les leurs,
Sang,
terre, peste, faim, feu, d’eau affolce.
VI.1O
Within
a little while the temples of the colors,
White
and black will intermix;
Red
and yellow will put away their color,
Blood,
earth, pestilence, famine, fire, water will destroy them.
This
must be read esoterically with the following quatrain:
Des
sept rameaux a trois seront reduits,
Les
plus aisnez seront surprins par mort;
Fratricider
les deux seront seduits,
Les
conjures en dormant seront morts.
VI.1
1
The
seven branches will be reduced to three,
The
eldest will be surprised by death;
Two
will be said to kill their brothers,
And
the conspirators will be killed while sleeping.
The
seven branches of the Fifth Root Race will eventually no longer exist. Their
disappearance makes it possible for the Sixth Root Race to appear.
All
this reaches very far into the future, but in the shorter range the following
prediction is made:
Le
monde proche du dernier periode,
Saturne
encor tard sera de retour;
Translat
empier devers nation Brodde,
L’oeil
arrache a Narbon par autour.
111.92
The
world approaching its final period,
Saturn
will again come late to his return;
The
empire will be changed over to the dark-skinned nations,
And
Narbonne will have her eye picked out by a hawk.
Toward the end of this great round, the black and brown nations will come into their own as centers of world power, and the French and other European nations will lose their supremacy. We are now entering the final phase of the old “world” or age, and the Third World nations are indeed coming into their own. This indicates a coming period of great ascent for brown and black races in the new order