Did Nostradamus predict the Queen’s death… 450 years ago?
By EIRIAN JANE PROSSER FOR MAILONLINE
- Book sales about Nostradamus have soared since the Queen died this month
- One interpretation says he predicted the Queen would die in 2022, aged 96
- The French prophet was previously hailed for predicting Hitler’s rise to power
Book sales about the astrologer Nostradamus have soared since the Queen died, as people have suggested the French prophet predicted her death more than 450 years ago.
Nostradamus has previously been hailed for predicting the Great Fire of London, Hitler’s rise to power, and the wars that hit Europe.
Since the Queen’s death on September 8, book sales of Mario Reading’s Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies for the Future have risen dramatically.
In the week before Her Majesty’s death, the book sold just five copies but by the week ending September 17 almost 8,000 copies had been sold pushing it to the top of the paperback charts, The Sunday Times reported.
Within the book, which was first published in 2006, Reading interprets one quatrain as ‘Queen Elizabeth II will die, circa 22, at the age of around 96’.
The increased popularity is thought to have grown since the extracts went viral on social media.
Before the Queen’s death, there were suggestions that Nostradamus had even predicted the war in Ukraine, with vague suggestions that France might even face a threat from the east.
It said: ‘Blue-head shall white-head harm in such degree, As France’s good to both shall e’er amount.’
Nostradamus expert Bobby Shailer, however, suggested that it could be referring to a third world war that could take place within the ‘next few years.’
Most of the predictions are contained in his renowned book Les Prophéties, which contains 942 forecasts in the form of quatrains.
Coined the ‘Prophet of Doom’, the French astrologer took inspiration from biblical texts and his own experiences with the plague.
Described as the ‘Prophet of Doom’ by mainstream historians, the French doctor, and astrologer was inspired by biblical texts and his own experiences of plague, with his predictions focused on famine, war, and sorrow.
More than 400 years after Nostradamus published his book, his work remains popular because his predictions are entirely open to interpretation.
Nostradamus’ 2022 predictions
Global warming
- Nostradamus predicted in 1555 that climate change would become so bad that the soaring temperatures would ‘half cook’ fish in the sea.
- He also suggested that, eventually, the human race will not see rain for 40 years, and when it finally does, there will be ‘great floods’ that would devastate nations.
- Nostradamus wrote: ‘Because of the solar heat on the sea/ Of Euboea the fishes half cooked/ the inhabitants will come to cut them/When the biscuit will fail Rhodes and Genoa.’
- In another section of his book, Nostradamus also wrote: ‘For forty years the rainbow will not be seen/ For forty years it will be seen every day/ The dry earth will grow more parched/ and there will be great floods when it is seen.’
The UN has warned that the Earth will likely warm by 1.5C within the next 20 years — a decade earlier than expected.
Asteroid strike
Nostradamus also appears to have predicted in 1555 that the Earth will be hit by an asteroid strike, causing mass death.
It is unclear from the astronomer’s predictions when this supposed strike of ‘celestial stone’ will occur, but he wrote that a ‘great fire’ would fall from the sky.
In one passage, Nostradamus wrote: ‘New, impetuous and sudden rain/ Will suddenly halt two armies/ Celestial stone, fires make the sea stony/ The death of seven by land and sea sudden.’
He also wrote: ‘A great fire will fall from the sky for three nights/ The cause will appear both stupefying and marvelous/ shortly afterward there will be an earthquake.’
Nostradamus appears to suggest that the Earth will be hit by scores of asteroids which will cause fires and devastation.
The world has already had close calls with asteroids, with an asteroid almost as long as a London bus narrowly missing Earth earlier this year.
Mass starvation caused by rampant global inflation
Nostradamus also predicted a global famine caused by inflation, which sends prices rising in a failing economy.
The mass starvation will also see conflict rise, according to Nostradamus, as people fight over natural resources impacted by climate change.
In one section, Nostradamus wrote: ‘No abbots, monks, no novices to learn/ Honey shall cost far more than candle-wax/ So high the price of wheat that man is stirred/ His fellow man to eat in his despair.’
Nostradamus appears to be suggesting that the human race may never learn from its policy mistakes, and prices will continue to rise – so much so that many are left starving.
Across the world, countries have seen political instability, the coronavirus pandemic, and shortages in supplies of natural gas, oil, and fertilizer caused an inflation boom, with prices rising for food and energy bills soaring.
Wholesale gas prices soared by 500 percent in less than 12 months in the UK as a result of raised energy demand and low gas exports from Russia and low supply from France.
The power of AI technology
Nostradamus appears to have predicted the rise of artificial intelligence almost five decades ago.
Technology has evolved to such an extent over the last few decades that it is hard to know what developments will happen in the near future, but Nostradamus appeared to suggest that humans will become ‘immortal’ through the rise of AI technology.
He wrote: ‘The Moon in the full night over the high mountain/ The new sage with a lone brain sees it/ By his disciples invited to be immortal/ Eyes to the south/ Hands in bosoms, bodies in the fire.’
Biography
French physician and astronomer-astrologer, famed for his prophecies written in the form of quatrain verse entitled “Centuries.” Nostradamus was the most widely read seer of the Renaissance, and is sometimes referred to as the “prophet of doom,” because many of his visions involve war and death. Although his work is still controversial, his followers believe he accurately predicted such events as the French Revolution, the birth and rise to power of Hitler and the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Nostradamus, sometimes called Michel de Notredame or Nostredame, was born to parents of simple lineage, the eldest of five sons. As a child, it was evident that he was very intelligent, and his grandfather taught him the basics of mathematics and astrology, as well as Latin, Greek and Hebrew. After his grandfather died, Nostradamus continued his studies at Avignon. In 1522, his parents, worried because they were ex-Jews during the Inquisition, sent him to study medicine at Montpellier. He easily earned his bachelor’s degree after three years there, and went into the countryside to help victims of the plague. Nearly four years later, he returned to Montpellier, enrolling on 23 October 1529, and obtained his doctorate. He remained there as a teacher for another year, but then took up his medical practice in the area of Agen.
Nostradamus lost his wife, Henriette d’Encausse, and their two sons to the plague in 1533. He remarried circa 1534 to a young girl ‘of high estate, very beautiful and admirable,’ but her name is lost to history. They had six children. In November 1555, he married a third time, to Anne Ponsart Gemelle, a rich widow.
His reputation suffered after the death of his family in the plague, and in 1538 he was accused of heresy due to a remark he had made years earlier to a workman casting a bronze statue of the Virgin. Although he said his comment to the workman that “he was making devils” was only descriptive of a lack of aesthetic appeal, the Inquisitors sent for him to go to Toulouse for trial. To avoid prosecution, he left the area, traveling in the Lorraine, as well as to Venice and Sicily. He stayed away from the Church authorities for the next six years.
He began writing his prophecies in 1547, although they weren’t published until 1555. In 1554, he was living in Marseilles, during the time of one of the worst floods in history. The floodwaters spread the plague like wildfire, and Nostradamus worked ceaselessly. He next settled in Salon, where he became widely known for his innovative medical treatments. Beginning in 1550, he produced a yearly almanac, and continued his work on the prophecies, getting much inspiration from a book called “De Mysteriis Egyptorum.” His fame grew, and he was invited to the court of Catherine de Médicis, queen consort of Henry II of France. He left for Paris on 14 July 1556, and two days later, on 17 July 1556, was given an audience. He was assigned the task of drawing up horoscopes for the seven royal children. Since he had already revealed their tragic fates in his “Centuries,” this was a difficult task, which he satisfied by saying that all her sons would be kings. Over the next few years, he concentrated on drawing up horoscopes for notables in Salon, and completed work on his book.
In the late 1550s, Nostradamus was suffering from gout and arthritis. By 1564, he had dropsy, and knew his end was near. He made his will on 17 June 1566 and on 1 July 1566, he had a local priest administer last rites. He died on 2 July 1566, 3:00 AM., Salon, France. He was buried upright in a wall at the Church of Cordeliers at Salon, with a marble plaque erected in his memory; however, during the Revolution, his grave was opened, and his remains were reburied at the Church of St. Laurent. The Congregation of the Index, under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Church, condemned his prophecies in 1781.
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