The Systems of Nostradamus: Instructions for Making Sense of The Prophecies

Very early on in my work with Les Propheties of Nostradamus, I realized two things. First, I saw that the whole of the work, which numbered well over nine hundred verses, was in the wrong order and in need of being rearranged into an order of story. That means The Prophecies equates to an epic poem with an End Times theme and not an assorment of random visions. Second, in order to understand the true meaning of each quatrain, one needs to realize the language of French (Old or Middle French) is of secondary importance. This means a fluency in French does little towards solving the riddles created by improper use of that language. If speaking French was most important for understanding, then the French of Nostradamus' day would have figured everything out; and that was not the case.

This then makes one come to realize the title of the work makes an important statement about "Prophecy," which (by definition) means the utterances of a prophet that is divinely inspired. Nostradamus wrote in his Preface that this was indeed the case, referencing God and Jesus, with Michel de Nostredame being a devout Roman Catholic. In order to test any author's work for validity and reliability, one must take Nostradamus at his word and test the divinity of what he wrote.

This means (as I was led divinely to realize) there is a divine syntax that applies to Les Propheties, which is not the same syntax that applies to the French text the work was produced in. Because my initial focus was going through the quatrains to find if anything could be read as predicting the events of September 11, 2001, I found the quatrain that many others have found, which all related to those events. That quatrain is found in "Century X" (Centurie Dixieme) and states in the first line:

L'an mil neuf cens nonante neuf sept mois

This translates in syntactical French, using the rules that guide Google Translate, to state:

The year one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine, seven months

The quatrain then tells of the "King of Terror" coming "From the sky." That has people saying the prediction was right about the events of 9/11/2001, just off by two years.

However, when a divine syntax is realized, the same written words state:

It year ... millennium ... nine ... estimate ... not before ... new ... seven ... month

This then becomes a statement about the change from the 1566 Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar of 1582, which was sixteen years after Nostrdamus' death. Thus, he wrote (using divine syntax) abut an important "year," which was relative to the next "millennium." That would begin on 1/1/2001 (not 2000). The "year 2000" ended one "millennium," transitioning to the next "millennium," 2001.

This then focuses on the number "nine," which is an "estimate," when cens is read as rooted in the Latin censio, meaning "assessment" or "estimate." The number "nine" can then be read as a day, as being close to eleven; but it points to the number of months in "The year" of the new "millennium." That would be "September," but this is an "assessment" that took the unnumbered months of January and February, where the old Roman calendar "assessed" March to be the first month of a new year.

When nonante is realized to be Swiss French and noth the standard French word for "ninety, the word divides into non ante, making a statement that the "estimate" of "nine" is "not before" that number." It is a "new" view of "nine, which relates to the old view of "September" being the "seventh month" of each "year." In French, the lower-case sept translates both as "seven" and as "September," because the French do not capitalize the "months" of "the year." The reason is the "month" is simply a number.

Thus, when divine syntax rules are applied to this one line of verse, what appears to be a close, but inaccurate prediction becomes a deeply detailing prophecy that perfectly fits the event of September 11, 2001.

Ths is just one example, which addresses only a couple of rules listed in the book I have produced. It is a necessary tool for anyone attempting to understand The Prophecies of Nostradaus. It is, in essence, a 'How to Speak Divine Language' book, recognizing that Nostradamus was indeed a prophet whose soul was led by divine possession. It is not a Frenchman in the sixteenth century that thought he was smart enough to know what the future held, but a self-sacrificing servant of Yahweh, reborn as His Son through Holy Baptism of Spirit; so, the true author of Les Propheties is Jesus reborn into the flesh of that Frenchman.

It was my deep work with The Prophecies that led me to write this book, which I completed the text for in April 28, 2010, publishing in 2011, after Katrina Pearls Publishing was up and running. It was between the years 2006 and 2010 that I became involved with the Episcopal Church, due to my wife's membership. It was from reading the handouts at the door each Sunday that I saw the same divine syntax that I have become fluent in, allowing me to understand what Nostradamus wrote, made deeper meaning of Scripture stand out. I pointed out what I was seeing to my wife and she too was astonished.

Prior to my involvement in the Episcopal Church, neither my wife nor I had done any serious reading of Scripture, with her experience being sitting in a pew and letting the vibrations of some reader flow past her ears. We realized we knew nothing of value about divine Scripture. It was then, after I had published this book, that I saw the same syntax for understanding Nostramus applied for understanding what the prophets of the Old and New Testaments wrote. All were from the same divine source: Yahweh, through His Son's possession of a saint.

It is for this reason that I highly recommend this book for all who are seeking a greater understanding of Scripture, as the more one realizes the truth, the more one's soul is opened to receive the Spirit of commitment to serve Yahweh.