The Systems of Nostradamus
Back in 2001, when I was first led by a divine inner spirit to understand The Prophecies of Nostradamus, I began to be shown the various systematic elements in the quatrains that were keys to understanding that written. At that time, I did not know anything about the letters included in Nostradamus’ publication, because the only book I knew about Nostradamus was the one I owned, written by Erika Cheetham. Her book did not mention any letters.
After being led (sometimes against my will, often kicking and screaming like a crying child that is forced to do something) for a decade, I had struggled to understand Old French. I was often guessing about the meaning of words that were simply conjugated verbs, which were not in a French to English dictionary I bought. I had used an English dictionary, delving into the etymology of English words that sounded French, to see what the root means were to certain words. I began to painstakingly translate every individual word in The Prophecies (quatrains only at first); and it was that devotion and dedication that allowed me to be divinely led to sources that made translations much simpler.
Because I was not fluent in French, I was led to realize the French are fluent in French and they cannot see the meaning, because they are reading divine syntax applied to French words by normal French language rules. I had to look everything up, over and over, because I did not have a brain that was programed to read according to normal rules, missing the divine intent. The more I translated, the more I would be led to gain new insights. This would happen as I wrote and usually midway into what I was writing; so, I would have to edit and rewrite the first parts, so the new awareness I gained later was applied there.
Then, I was led to discover more than Erika Cheetham had written a book about Nostradamus. I discovered the Preface and the Epistle to Henry II (King of France). I had to translate them, word by word. The more work I did the more my work was rewarded with deeper insight, all divine inspiration. The more that was placed on my plate, the more tools were made available for me to process that.
I had written and published through a P.O.D. (print-on-demand) publisher my first book, which used a Biblical quote from Matthew 7:6 that Nostradamus wrote in his letter of Preface, which says, “Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you” (KJV). My first book’s title was then (appropriately) Pearls Before Swine, because I was explaining a holy work for unholy people to read.
The problem with that book was it was 740 pages and only explained 111 of the 943 quatrains in The Prophecies. As such, the subtitle was “Volume 1: Predicting the Past. I used that title because a group of skeptics (card-carrying) I spoke to reviewed my lecture as having said little about the future that could be tested for accuracy, thus provable. I only predicted the past, which is hind sighted. A friend had suggested I do multiple volumes, because he said nobody wants to read more than three to four hundred pages in a book.
From writing that book, I became more divinely led to being knowledgeable about how to read the written word for understanding; and before I could begin to write volume two, others were asking me if I could simply tell what Nostradamus meant without all the explaining. That led me to write my second book, which I published through a different P.O.D. publisher. That book dealt with the letters, which was Nostradamus giving his overview of what the quatrains said.
The problem I faced, which I initially planned to avoid, was only writing a book that explained the Preface, because it was fairly straightforward in what it said, if one knew how to use divine syntax rules. The Epistle to Henry II was a different task. In a book that I had bought (a worthless explanation of The Prophecies), the author Henry C. Roberts presented the Epistle to Henry II and footnoted the first page of his analysis, stating (I paraphrase) he would not have placed that letter into his book, but the publisher demanded he do so. He concluded that the letter was little more than the ravings of a lunatic. While it was far from that, that epistle was indeed a known challenge to make sense of. However, the divine voice within me told me not to worry, we would cross that bridge when the Preface part of the book was completed.
When I reached that point, (around 2005, or four years into my divine education, through devotion and commitment) I had done plenty of translations and interpretation to see there was consistent methods that must be applied to all understanding of divine text. I took a deep breath and simply began approaching the epistle to Henry II like I had the Preface. As I was well underway, the voice within ask, can you see it? I looked and realized the Epistle to Henry II was like the 943 quatrains. Those verses had to be rearranged to make a meaningful story, like an epic poem. The Epistle to Henry II was explaining The Prophecies by being like the verses. The seeming lunacy was a simple matter of seeing it as a puzzle that had to be separated into parts and reconstructed, so it told a lucid story of explanation. Soon after I saw that, I was led to realize intricate separation points. Then, with the letter in parts, it became a matter of putting the puzzle together, so it made perfect sense.
Still, I was limited to explaining all that because I was writing a book to satisfy those who wanted to know the story, without all the explanation. That meant I had to use a reconstructed Epistle to Henry and translate it (like the Preface), as if Nostradamus was simply telling what The Prophecies meant, through two letters. The name of that book was then The Letters of Nostradamus: Realizing A Prophecy of Jesus Christ.
With that done, the second P.O.D. publisher turned out to be thieves that refused to pay royalties to any of the authors whose books they published. I found out there were many who complained, with the Internet beginning to be a sounding board for such things. Unhappy with having to pay lots of money to publish books that had small returns, my wife and I became a publisher. That meant buying a CD of InDesign and figuring out how to create professionally printable documents and design covers with ISBN barcodes. We practiced that art on a reprint of The Letters of Nostradamus, forcing the P.O.D. publisher to cease and desist having anything to do with my book published through them.
It was then that I realized it was important to explain The Letters of Nostradamus, because the copies we sold to friends invariably let to them asking, “How did you get that from that?” Rather than write a book that explained both letters, I was led to write a book that explained the divine syntax that is involved in understanding both quatrains and letters. I then organized the different categories of rules that addressed elements of writing that everyone misses. This is because reading (after the third grade of elementary school) becomes an automatic process, so ingrained in one’s brain that one reads gulps of words so fast, with understanding, that people can read books in short amounts of time and come away knowing enough about what he or she read to sound smart about it. This is an impossibility when attempting to read The Prophecies, especially when the common mistake is taking one quatrain at a time and trying to understand the whole, from a bite.
So, I wrote and published my third book between late 2010 and into 2011, with the publication date in 2011. The title of that book is The Systems of Nostradamus: Instructions for Making Sense of The Prophecies. The front cover is a picture of puzzle pieces, with the type for the title-subtitle casting shadows, making it difficult to read atop the backdrop of puzzle pieces. All of this is symbolic of the complexity that really is not as complex as it seems. One simply needs to slow down and trying to speed read the front cover; and that is one of the systems explained.
The book then breaks down the various components of The Prophecies, where everything becomes important, with nothing insignificant. The title says the word contains “Inspired utterances of a Prophet,” which is greater than a brain calculating predictions. The Preface sets the basic rules that outline the parameters of meaning the quatrains will detail. The text is not only French, but there is a significant amount of Latin presented, especially in the Preface, which is the language of the Church of Rome. The verses have an ABAB rhyme scheme, which connects lines one and three, and lines two and four. The order of the words, like the order of the verses, must be maintained, being from a divine source. There are systems involving manufactured words, use of punctuation and symbols, with ampersands being most important to understand. Symmetry plays a role. The language of astrology needs to be understood correctly. All in all, this book becomes a book of course study for serious students that want to be able to make sense of The Prophecies on their own.
Before I began this project, after my wife and I had published The Letters of Nostradamus, we had become members of an Episcopal church. My wife was born and raised as an Episcopalian, while I had minimal experience in my first wife’s Methodist church affiliation, where the kneeling, standing, sitting, standing and reading things aloud was all quite confusing to a born and raised Pentecostal child. My wife and I had been brought together by Yahweh, where we both believed our souls had been together in past lives. She was strongly attracted to the work I was doing with my first book and loved me for my commitment to serving God. We instantly fell in love and remain in love still, although she passed in 2019. Yahweh brought us together because He knew my wife wanted to have a committed role serving Him; and He knew that role would be through the priesthood in the Episcopal Church.
We had met, fallen in love, and due to my vow of poverty my ‘girlfriend’ financed my first book, only knowing me a matter of months (in this incarnation together). We lived six hundred miles apart and she wanted me closer to where she lived, as she was an executive for a company she co-founded and could not move (plus she was newly divorced and had children she wanted to stay close to). I was only writing, making money through a job Yahweh sent me miraculously, one that paid to meet my financial needs, while affording me free time to write. After I moved (from my elderly mother’s house) to be close to my wife-to-be, mother nature destroyed most of the homes in that area. We were forced to relocate closer to where her business was; and that was where we began to regularly attend church each Sunday.
I learned that the Episcopal Church had a schedule of Biblical readings, where each Sunday a predetermined set of readings would be presented to the congregation, with the priest reading the Gospel presentation. A sermon was then presented by the priest, followed by the kneeling, sitting, standing and saying things out loud, which my wife-to-be, then wife helped me with. I was even certified as an Episcopalian, with some documentation put in the files of that church that said I was ‘legal tender.’
I tell you this because each week, when coming in the door for the service, a greeter would hand everyone a list of all the things that would be read and spoken aloud. Before the service each Sunday, I would sit in the pew and read the Biblical readings for that Sunday. Doing that, the voice in my soul asked, “Can you see it?” Yes! I silently said back. The same systems that made understanding Nostradamus applied to the Biblical readings each week. There were four printed in the handout (an Old Testament, a Psalm, an Epistle, and a Gospel reading). When one knew how to read those readings for deep understanding, a thin thread (sometime a thick cable) linked each of the four readings; so that link was the intent behind those four being together on one particular Sunday.
I pointed this out to my wife-to-be, then wife, and she could see what I was saying. Neither of us had any significant training in Bible reading. We sat on pews and heard some things, but as to reading the Holy Bible, neither had done that. By my understanding the divine syntax of The Prophecies of Nostradamus and my wife’s love of listening to me explain that to her, she could understand the truth intended in Scripture.
The sad thing was the priest never presented a sermon that taught the lessons of that thread. We tried other Episcopal churches in that area, only to find the same failure to teach the truth of Scripture to the congregation. It became that lack in Episcopalian priests that was what spoke divinely to my wife, where she knew she must sacrifice her position with a company she helped create and made good money doing important work there and devote her remaining live to serving Yahweh as the one priest in the Episcopal Church that was a Saint. It was with that awareness that I wrote The Systems of Nostradamus, without explaining how Nostradamus’ work and the books of the Holy Bible all came from the same source, making those systems apply across the board to all divine works.
With all of this history presented, here is a front cover picture of that book. Beside that picture is a QR code that links to the printer (Ingram Sparks), who prints the books I publish as Katrina Pearls. By scanning that QRC, one can see what discounted rate that is listed for this book (I forget); and read the blurb that advertises that book. I am not soliciting any sales. It is simply part of the picture; and I typically do not ever scan QRCs. I did, however, test one to see if it works and it does.
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