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July 7, 2025 · 5:27 am

Quatrain I-01 (Part 2)


I have broken this quatrain’s interpretation into two part because it is rather deep and involved. As the first quatrain found after the Preface, it makes an important statement about who will be able to understand what is written in the poetic verses. These four line then become a microcosm of the macrocosm that is the Preface. For one to realize the truth of this first poem, one needs to discern the truth of the Preface. This quatrain then confirms portions of that explained in introduction.

With the two main themes stating Yahweh as the source, with His “BEING appointed to” a wife-soul, such that the “darkness” that clouds the words, placing them in a “hidden” form, requiring devotion to “study,” rather than quickly read, this demands one receive the Advocate that is Jesus’ soul. With one coming from divine creation and returning each life ended to Judgment, for one to stand “Alone” in the world as a soul “remarried” to Yahweh, devoted to being His servant, that brings from “above” the resurrection of Jesus “there,” within the flesh of the reborn Son. This is not to be pampered or to have one brag about being saved by Jesus, it is to enter ministry in that name. Thus, one’s soul-body becomes the “saddle” or “seat of bronze” upon which the soul of Jesus sits, uttering divine Prophecies of truth.

The secondary theme then has line three clarify this “seat of bronze” or “brass.” The first word of line three is a capitalized Flambe, which means “a Flame” and “a Great blaze of fire,” with the accented (past participle) Flambé adding “Flamed, Blazed, Glistered; and also Blasted with flaming or hot scalding lead” (Cotgrave, 1611). In Part 1, I wrote how the translation of “saddle,” in which Jesus was positioned, became a depiction of him on a white horse, as Revelation 19:11 depicts. In Revelation 19:12, this return of Jesus is portrayed with “the eyes of him like flame of fire.” This depiction continues in Revelation 19:15, where it states, “out of his mouth comes a sharp sword so that with it he can strike down the nations;” adding “he will shepherd them with a rod of iron,” which will be “of the fury of God Almighty.” This becomes Nostradamus as the “white horse” that wears the “saddle upon” which Jesus speaks (“out of his mouth”) through The Prophecies, as sent by “God Almighty.” The stories of the quatrains “Blaze,” such that the “nations” that rule over souls will be “Blazed with flaming lead.”

Detailing that important word is exigue, which is Latin (Vocative of exigu), meaning “cramped, small, few in number, and narrow.” The French equivalent is exiguë (feminine of exigu), means “small, modest, and insufficient.” This says this important “Blaze” of The Prophecies is so difficult to discern (even as clear pictures of war, famine, disease, and death are found in the quatrians) that this “Great blaze of fire” coming will seems “small” and insignificant to the masses. So many false shepherds will have cried “Wolf!” – with no wolf to be seen – that the chances of the future actually manifesting seem “small.” This (when John’s Acopalypse prophecy is applied to the ‘second coming of Jesus’ or the promised Messiah for the Jews [who reject Jesus]) becomes a story people do lip service endorsing, when few actually believe.

That leads to the word sortant, which is the present participle of sortir, meaning “outgoing, going out, issuing, coming forth, going beyond, furnishing, delivering, and bringing out of,” This says, much like when Saul changed his name to Paul (meaning “Small, Little”), with “few in number” quatrains making sense, from that “narrow” scope of the whole, there will be an “issuing” and “coming forth” of truth, which will be “delivering” and “bringing out of” a deep, amazing truth that now is when the future has come. It is like being in the middle of a mine field, after someone has triggered the first of many dangers that surround.

Keeping in mind this is explaining or clarifying those who are “Alone” as souls “remarried” to Yahweh, reborn as His Son from “above,” the truth will then be possible “there” (or “here” on earth) via one like Nostradamus, who is the “saddle” or “seat of brass” that speaks the truth of Prophecy in the name of Jesus. This is then said to come “to” those who have sacrificed the rewards and desires of the material realm, for a higher goal (eternal Salvation). They find great warmth and comfort listening to the revelations of Yahweh in “privacy.” They enjoy the “solitude” of prayer and hearing the instructions they each must follow. Each of these souls in flesh reborn as Jesus will have gone to the “wilderness” (their proverbial forty days fasting from worldly wants), no longer willing to waste their souls in commitment to a “desert” that offers only “loneliness,” void of the moisture of everlasting waters.

With this clarification grasped, line three ends with a comma mark, separating it from line four’s train of thought. Line four then tells of the promise that comes from servitude to Yahweh, as the Son reborn into flesh. Line four then begins with the past participle of the verb Faire, such that Faict means “Done, Acted, Made, Wroght, Forged, Composed, Framed; Fashioned; Performed, Exploited; Achieved; Finished and Accomplished.” As a noun, it means “Fact, Act, Action, Word, Deed; Feat; Performance, Achievement, Exploit; and Argument in pleading.” Following line three’s focus on that “small issuing out of privacy,” the importance of “Act, Acted,” and “Action” makes this be the name of the book that tells what the Apostles “Performed,” as they “Fashioned, Forged,” and “Accomplished” the spread of the way of life that was true Christianity. The brother of Jesus, James, was led by the soul of Jesus within his soul to write, “Faith without Works is dead.” Thus, line four is putting important attention on that “Done” and “Performed” by Saints who are told the truth of The Prophecies (as well as all divine literature).

The details to this “Work” is then so other will be able “to prosper” and “thrive,” after they have been “given success unto” how to commit to Yahweh and gain eternal Salvation by being reborn from “above” as Jesus. This is all “who” and “whom” will be “born abides” in the name of Jesus (reading n’est as a contracted né to est), versus those “who” and “whom” “not is” so divinely possessed (reading as ne est). This is not determined by Yahweh, nor by Jesus, as it is “to” the one “who” seeks to be “with” eternal life assured, willing to submit and commit fully unto “remarriage” of one’s soul with the Spirit of Yahweh, begatting the soul of Jesus as His Son reborn in His wife-souls. This becomes a matter of “belief.”

The word croire means “to believe or think assuredly; to trust, have confidence in, give credit unto; also to lend, put in trust with, and commit into the hands of” (Cotgrave, 1611). This is where one must understand the difference between “belief” and “faith,” where many “think assuredly” those two are the same. They are not. “Belief” is a matter of learning what someone one “trusts” has told one, such as a teacher in school, a foreman at work, or a pastor at church. This becomes an exercise of memorization, where the only thing known certainly is the one telling one what “to believe.” Such memorization is the testd and scored, meaning one is more conditioned “to believe” that which is judged as the right answer. “Faith,” on the other hand, is personal experience that is greater than “belief.” “Beliefs” can be shattered when a “trusted” teacher proves to be a liar or a fraud. That comes to dreamers when they wake up; but “faith” is always confirmed by life; and this judgment is “private” and “Only” known by those with experience.

A minister once shared with the congregation that he was a licensed pilot, which was a talent he shared with his students in a university. His students “believed” he could fly an airplane because he told them he could. However, he said on stormy days he would tell the students that he would be flying from that college town to a larger city after class; and anyone wanting to join him could go along free (round-trip). When the thunder and lightning was all about, there were never any who expressed “faith” in his flying abilities, taking him up on his offer. That is the difference that must be discerned here.

This then leads to the last word of this quatrain, wich is vain. This means “vain; empty, void; frustrate; frivolous, trifling, idle, without purpose; also faint, weak, feeble, forceless.” This becomes a statement of whether one is “born abides,” as a servant of Jesus, the Lord within, “who” one experiences and “trusts” completely with “faith” or if one “not is” divinely possessed by the soul of Jesus and known nothing of that presence. Those “to put confidence in” the directions of Jesus (without being frightened by the sounds and sights of thunder and lightning) will be “empty” of self-will, self-ego, and self, just as a virgin bride places her complete trust in her new husband to lead her properly. It is those “who” sacrifice only “to prosper” in the material realm, “who” reject Yahweh and have no “belief” that Jesus can be anywhere other than far away in heaven, sitting on an invisible throne next to God. They deny divine possession and the “Work” necessary to bring that within one’s “BEING.” Their souls will be “void, empty” of promise, as their lives will become “idle,” from “frivilous” pursuits. They will find when Judgment comes how true it is that “vanity” is a deadly sin.

This means quatrain I-01 speaks of the commitment Nostradamus made so long ago, whereby the words can ring true as him telling about a typical night while writing quatrains. That serves no purpose as a Prophecy. That role manifests when one’s eyes are open to the demand that one become a rebirth of Nostradamus the Apostle and Saint, which means also being a soul-body committed to Yahweh in “remarriage” Spiritually. “Only” with Jesus within as one’s Lord can one realize the truth of the future that is now upon us. The purpose is not to stop the world from being the world – sin can only exist in the material realm – one can only save one’s own soul. One does that through sacrifice of self unto Yahweh and being reborn in the name of the Son. That then leads to “Action” and “Deed,” which is telling other lost seekers how to submit to Yahweh and be saved.

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July 6, 2025 · 6:00 pm

Quatrain I-01 (Part 1)


The first quatrain found in The Prophecies is often ignored as one with impact on all future readers, seen simply as an explanation of the ‘magical’ process that Nostradamus used when writing his verses. The French written is this:

ESTANT assis de nuict secret estude,

Seul repousé sus la selle d’aerain,

Flambe exigue sortant de solitude,

Faict prosperer qui n’est à croire vain.

This is translated into English by Crystal Links as this:

Sitting alone at night in secret study;
it is placed on the brass tripod.
A slight flame comes out of the emptiness and makes 
successful that which should not be believed in vain.

Notice how changes have been made, such as lines two and four not beginning with a capitalized word. The word “tripod” is magically added, as it was not written (tripode or trépied). Still, there is an air of similarity surrounding this translation, making it almost have that meaning. Here is a picture of this quatrain, which is the French that led to that translation:

From this it is clear to see the drop cap E that is the first letter of an all-caps word ESTANT. While every first quatrain in a Centurie is printed with an elaborate drop cap, with other quatrains likewise showing line one beginning with an all-caps word, this cannot be seen as some printer’s right. It must be respected as intended to be written in this manner, whereby a word in all-caps would be an all-important word to discern. As such, the Crystal Links translation ignores this presentation (as well as maintaining the punctuation marks written).

Here is a viable English translation that abides by that written in French:

BEING placed from darkness inward meditation,

Alone settled upon the seat of brass:

Blazed sparingly issuing out of solitude,

Made to prosper that which not is to believe frivolous.

The all-caps word ESTANT is the present participle of the verb ESTRE (now ÉTRE), meaning “BEING, SUBSISTING, REMAINING, ABIDING, STANDING, or RESTING.” This makes it the opposite of “Sitting,” but the all-importance must be seen as the state of life that is “BEING” and “EXISTING.” The importance of all-caps then takes the reader beyond a state of self, to the presence of a most divine “BEING,” where one’s soul is joined with that celestial presence, so two soul-spirits are “EXISTING” as one. This is vital to grasp.

This is then detailed by the word assis, which means “set, sitting; seated, placed, settled, fixed, planted; also limited, appointed; taxed or assessed.” A separate listing by Randal Cotgrave shows it used to denote “assessements or impositions.” This becomes a statement that says the state of higher “BEING” is “settled, fixed,” and “planted” with one’s own “Being.” This has been “appointed,” from a divine “assessment” of one’s self-sacrifice to serve Yahweh as His wife-soul. This makes the “BEING” be the soul of Jesus, where’s one’s soul has become reborn in his name. Thus, a “EXISTENCE fixed” and “appointed” is a Saint or Apostle.

To then link that to the preposition de, which links to nuict, this states movement “to” a new state of “BEING,” “from” one that was surrounded by “darkness,” where “night” is when the light of the sun has disappeared, leaving one in a state of “BEING” that is “seated” or “sitting” “with” an “absence of light.” That is the confusion within one’s soul that is lost and unable to see the truth.

When the word secret is relative to this “absence of light” and “darkness” that is surrounding one, the truth is then “hidden, concealed, abstruse, mystical,” and “unknown.” The truth is a “secret” that is a “mystery,” contained “inward” and kept “close” from “counsel.” This then becomes something that requires “study,” through “diligent search, meditation,” and “beating of the brain about matters of learning.” (Cotgrave, 1611) To have “private study” means to personally “care,” show “diligence, labor,” and “endeavor to contrive to accomplish [compass] a matter” sought to know. This is not public education, as much as it demands “affection, desire, good will,” and “great mind unto” understanding that which the public is “in the dark about.

This makes the main theme statement less about Nostradamus setting the stage for his solitary talents being bragged, as it is more applicable to all in the future who will repeat his state of “BEING” that has become “appointed” to escape “from” an “absence of light,” whereby the demand for “private study” requires one listen to the “inward” voice that comes from “meditation.” One is not attempting to figure things out, as one has an “affection” to “accomplish good will.” This is the ministry of a Saint, as a Saint is in the “dark” without the light of Jesus leading one’s “learning.” This is then a main theme that tells readers today, “To understand The Prophecies written by Nostradamus, one must surrender one’s soul to serving Yahweh totally, so one will be reborn in the name of Jesus. That “BEING fixed” will remove the “darkness” through divine insight, just as that Nostradamus received.

With the main theme statement (line one) separated by a comma mark, the secondary theme (line two) then begins a new line of thought based on that, making the importance of Seul need to be understood. This word means “Alone, Single, Only, Sole, Only one, Mere; By itself [singular or several].” This importantly states the union of that “BEING” within a “Single” individual, which sets the “Lone” soul as unique, “By itself,” with all others of like union being a collection of Christians that are “By itself” a “Single” group where each is “Alone” with Jesus within. With this understood, the word repousé is one that implies words of different spellings.

This word can be repoussé (from repousser), which Cotgrave listed and referred the reader to look up repoulsé. He then translated that word as meaning “repulsed, repelled; foiled; or thrust, pushed, or driven back.” The addition of an s and the modification of that s to an l means it would be acceptable to also read the word as répousé, where the Middle French spelling loses the accent, becoming respousé. That word means “remarried,” as “re-spoused” or “married again” and the word can be read as r’espousé, with re- acting like an abbreviated combined prefix. The implication is the one where an individual desired to be joined, as taken by “Only one,” but that union was “rejected” or that first marriage was annulled or divorced, leading one to become “remarried.” Still, if one changes repousé to reposé (tossing away the u), one becomes “reposed, rested; settled, stayed, quiet, grave, and discrete.” It seems Crystal Links chose to go this route with “placed.”

The most accurate application of the word written is to accent the e and keep all letters written in place, with no removals or changes. This makes répousé the primary intent of that written, although the other meanings would be intended to have merit, on a secondary level. Because every use of the word la (lower-case [460] or capitalized [141]) demands it be accented and read as là (there are only three actual uses of là in all the quatrains). This is because there is no importance of an article. Therefore, a rule for understanding The Prophecies says it is okay to add an accent mark when none is present. If one is present, that must be unchanged. Therefore, the secondary theme begins by stating, “By itself married again.”

This makes the connecting word sus become ” on, upon, up, above,” or “over,” where this stands alone as a statement that “One married again” to comes from “above,” which is how Jesus explained to Nicodemus that to be assured of Salvation (inherit eternal life) one must be born again from “above.” This makes the word sus be relative to a higher power that is “over” one (“seated with darkness”), while having come “upon” one, so two are joined together “Alone.” This says to be “married again” to Yahweh (as a soul, still in a body of flesh, one reincarnated from a spiritual union with Him before birth) results in the child of that “remarriage,” which is Jesus, the “Only” Son of His. Thus, from “above” is “there” in that body of life (soul and flesh) is Jesus reborn, gaining that soul assured Salvation.

This is then said to be relative to the word selle, which means a “stool” or “seat,” while also a “saddle” (Cotgrave, 1611). This should now be seen as a statement about the soul in the body of flesh, who (like Nostradamus) has become a “resting” place (reposé) for the divine soul of Jesus. This means Jesus uses one whose soul has “remarried” Yahweh as a “seat” from which he will operate. This becomes a servant to Yahweh and the Lord born again from “above,” where Jesus sits “upon” the “saddle” of his new flesh. In terms of John’s Apocalypse, this is the return of Jesus on a “white horse” (hippos leukos). When this then links to d’ærain, meaning “of brass, copper, or bronze, this now relates to Greek mythology and the oracle of Delphi.

The “stool” is the “seat” of Jesus, “placed above” the ether of Yahweh that prophesied the truth of Apollo.

This makes the secondary theme statement be focused on one becoming a Prophet of truth, where Yahweh “Alone” knows the future; and one must become “married again” to this “Only” source, so one can become a tool that guides those seeking the truth. In the mythology of Pythia, the oracle of Apollo at his temple in Delphi, people questioned and were told the truth; but they were always finding the truth different from their interpretations of it. This is how people are drawn to Nostradamus to tell them the truth about the future, with them going away thinking they know what to expect; but they find out those preconceptions were far off the mark. With this how Nostradamus explained The Prophecies to be, the secondary theme ends with a colon, meaning this “saddle of bronze” will be clarified in line three.

Go to Quatrain I-01 Part 2

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