Vincent Bridges

Next Balkan War:

I/74

After tarrying they will move forward by rowing for Epirus.

The great relief effort will be toward Antioch:

The black curly-haired one will strain hard for the Empire,

Brazen Barb(arossa) will be roasted on a spit.

This is one of those quatrains just on the edge of becoming intelligible as events happen. It has had other close possibilitites through the years, the Barbary pirates, the Battle of Lepanto, even Hitler is suggested. But the attack toward Syria from the Balkans, the black curly haired leader under the double eagle of the Hapsburg, struggling for the Empire, sounds alot like Milosovic and his plans. Roasted on a spit suggests hoisted by a rocket, perhaps.

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V/90

In the Cyclades, in Perinthus and Larissa,

In Sparta, all of Peloponnesus:

A great famine — plague through false dust (fallout?).

Nine months it will last and through the whole peninsula.

Some sort of nuclear disaster is clearly foreseen, one that causes Europe to be evacuated or lifeless for nine months. Given this quatrain’s close association with V/91, which dates with precision the start of the current Kosovo Conflict, this event is a probable outcome likely to occur soon after, perhaps even within a matter of months.

VI/98

Ruin for the Volcae (of Languedoc) with fear so very terrible,

Their great city (Toulouse) stained, pestilential deed:

To plunder Sun, Moon and violate their temples:

And the two rivers to redden with gushing blood.

This quatrain is considered part of a treasure hunt theme woven around the idea of lost ancient gold of a people here called the Volcae. The Volcae are a legendary tribe of Celtic Freebooters said to have hidden their treasure near Toulouse. This quatrain could also relate to the disaster predicted for southern France as part of the Balkan terror campaign. (It may also be a retro-active prophecy flashing back to the mysterious destruction of Glanum in the late 3rd century.)

VII/6

Naples, Palermo and all of Sicily,

Will be uninhabited through barbarian hands,

Corsica, Salerno, the island of Sardinia,

Hunger, plague, war, the end of extended evils.

This quatrain, like II/96, is part of the so-called apocalyptic sequence. It points to the widespread destruction caused by nuclear terrorism in the Balkans. It suggests that is the end of the extended evils, or this is as bad as it possibly gets. On this we must agree with the prophet.

PF/83 & 106

And at present, we are conducted by the Moon — by means of the total power of the eternal god — when she will have completed her entire cycle, the Sun, then Saturn will come. According to the celestial signs the reign of Saturn will return a second time so that as it is all calculated, the world then approaches its final death-dealing revolution.

According to the visible judgement of the stars, although we are in the seventh number of the millenary — which finishes all — we are approaching the eighth cycle which is in the firmament of the latitudinary dimension of the eighth sphere, whence the great eternal God will come to complete the revolution and the heavenly bodies will return to their motions and the superior movement will render the earth stable and secure for us. . . so that men coming after will see them, knowing the events to have occurred infallibly; such as those others we have noted, speaking more clearly - for although they were written under a cloud the meanings will be understood. When the time comes for the removal of ignorance, the situation will be cleared up still more.

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As I sit this Saturday morning watching to the news and pondering my week’s work on the prophecies of Nostradamus, I am left with the eerie sensation that 445 years ago the Seer of Provence watched the headlines unfold just as I am now watching his prophecies unfold. Never mind what the 16th century philosopher thought of the marvel of Television (”Good Heavens, what changes!” he exclaims in one quatrain), he would have understood the name and perhaps even the ubiquity of its images. The prophetic news from the past, Nostradamus’ quatrains, are deciphered by the images on the magic mirror of our television screens. As I watch this, I am struck with a strange sensation, not deja vu exactly, but more like a deja tu, a shared experience of a temporal moment outside of its space/time frame. Nostradamus in the past comments on his future is such a way as to explain my present.

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Apocalyptic Sequence of Events:

I/16

Saturn joined with (Scorpio) transiting toward Sagitarrius

At its highest, saluting the increase, exaltation

Pest, famine, death through military hands,

The century and the Cycle aproaches its renewal.

I/30

Because of the tormented seas, the strange ship,

Will arrive at an unknown port:

Notwithstanding the signals from the branch of palm,

After death, pillage: good advice (or birds) arriving late.

I/55

Under the opposite Babylonian climate,

There will be great shedding of blood:

Heaven will appear unjust both on land and sea and in the air,

Sects, famine, kingdoms, plagues, confusion.

I/69

The great mountain seven stadia around (4,247 feet),

After peace, war, famine flooding:

(The impact) will spread far, drowning great countries

Even antiquities and their mighty foundations.

I/70

Rain, famine and war in Persia will not cease,

A trust too great will betray the monarch:

For the end was planned in France,

A secret sign for one to be more sparing.

II/19 (Jewish State)

Newcomers build a place without defense,

Occupying a place (which) until then (was) inhabitable:

Meadows, houses, fields, towns, to take at pleasure,

Famine, plague, war, extensive arable land.

II/46

After a great misery for mankind an even greater approaches.

The great motor of the centuries is renewed

It will rain blood, milk, famine, iron and pestilence,

In the sky will be seen a fire, dragging a trail of sparks

II/62

Mabus will soon die, then will come,

A horrible undoing of people and animals,

At once one will see vengence,

One hundred powers, thirst, famine, when the comet will pass.

II/96

A burning torch will be seen in the night sky

Near the end and the source of the Rhone:

Famine, weapons: the help provided is late,

When Persia turns to invade Macedonia.

III/19

In Lucca it will come to rain blood and milk,

Shortly before the change of governor:

Great plague and war, famine and drought will be seen,

Far from where their Prince rector will die.

* VI/6 (Comet and Eclipse prediction)

There will appear towards the seven stars of Ursa major and Polaris,

Not far from Cancer, the bearded star:

Susa, Siena, Boetica, Eretria,

Great Rome will die, the night having vanished.

VI/10

In a short time the colors of temples

Black and white, the two will be intermingled.

The red and the yellow ones will carry off their possesions.

Blood, earth, plague, hunger, fire, maddened with thirst

VII/6

Naples, Palermo and all of Sicily

Will be uninhabited through barbarian hands,

Cosica, Salerno, the island of Sardinia,

Hunger, plague, war, the end of the extended evils.

VIII/17

Those at ease will suddenly be cast down

The world put into trouble by three brothers,

The enemies will sieze the marine city,

Famine, fire, Blood, plague, all evils doubled.