I am reposting an article originally posted around 2011-2013, which was motivated by watching a cable program that parroted the routinely repeated conclusion that reason to believe Nostradamus had some magical-mystical-secret talent to know the future was he foresaw the jousting death of his king. This is relative to one quatrain, with nothing stated in either the Preface or the Epistle to Henry II that supports that conclusion, as Nostradamus writing, “Oh and look for where Henry dies in a greusome accident.”
Nostradamus did not foresee his king’s death. As a devoted subject and a Christian, if Nostradamus had been shown that tragic event it would have been for the purpose of sending urgent word to Herny not to joust. Nostradamus did not warn Henry in the letter he sent to him explaining the meaning of the poems, of which the one numbered 35, in Centurie Premiere (the “First” group of “One hundred”) was one. It was after Henry II’s death that his wife, then Queen Regent Catherine de Medici read that quatrain and (in hindsight) gave Nostradamus credit for having predicted the event. It is unknown how Nostradamus reacted to such recognition, but I imagine him saying something like (while bowing), “Your majesty speaks too kindly to your humble servant.”
One needs to see that this hindisghted way of plucking one small piece of the whole out, looking at it, and then making it project something completely irrelevant to the whole. It is like looking at one puzzle piece out of a box of 1,000 pieces (without looking at the cover picture as a guide) and pretending to know what that one little piece means.
In 2003, I knew very little of the depth contained in The Prophecies of Nostradamus, but I was driven by an inner voice to let the world know the truth I had been led to see. Without any fluency in French (or Latin) and going solely by the English translations of an author whose book I had purchased over 35 years prior, I stood in front of a group of card-carrying Skeptics, telling them my opinion about the accuracy of Nostradamus. Their summation of my presentation (in the group’s monthly online newsletter) was headed “Predicting the Past.” For all I presented about what Nostradamus perfectly predicted, which had come true (quatrain I-35 was not one of those five I discussed), to know what happened, after the fact, is useless information. Skeptics want a prediction that can be tested for accuracy, by knowing when and what something will happen.
When the group’s leader told me he wanted to know future predictions of things to come, which could be tested, I explained the astrology of Nostradamus could indicate a major earthquake in Turkey, in May sometime soon. He reported in the newsletter that an earthquake did in fact occur in Turkey, but it was only a 4.5, while pointing out that region of the world is prone for earthquakes. I learned from that experience; and when I published my first book, I used the subtitle: Volume 1: Predicting the Past.
This means knowing the past is vital, in order to realize when one is slap-dab in the middle of a major warning from Yahweh (THE Prophecies). Nostradamus wrote a beginning, middle, and end to the epic poem Yahweh, through Jesus within his soul, led him to write. Knowing a past that is relative to the now and projecting realistically into the future is important to know. However, to think people today need to think Nostradamus predicted the death of a king of France in 1559 … how would that have any meaning in a world that no longer adores kings and rulers no longer ride horses carrying long wooden poles?
With this said, let me repeat what I posted before (with some edits), as the same conclusion applies. Quatrain I-35 has to do with our future that is still ahead. It has nothing to do with a long forgotten past. It served Yahweh by being popularized as myth, which was part of His plan to keep The Prophecies relevant in 2025.
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Article posted on Pearls of Nostradamus blog at blogspot.com (a revival of a deleted Yahoo blog post) Nostradamus & the History Channel
(Subtitle: Interpretation of quatrain I-35)
I watched an episode of the History Channel’s series Decoding the Past today, this one focusing on Edgar Cayce. In the first 15 minutes of a 60 minute show, Cayce was not mentioned. They used that time to set up the theme of how so many different people had come up with prophecies about the end of the world (the names used were the Mayan Calendar; the Hopi Indians foretelling of the coming of a 5th world – the end of the 4th; Mother Shipton in England – contemporary to Nostradamus but the two did not know one another; and the old standby himself – Nostradamus). This was the lead up to Edgar Cayce, although he did not (according to the show) predict much more than some earth changes, where parts of the East Coast would be submerged, with increased volcanic and hurricane activity between 1958 and 1998. That fell short of end of world stuff.
Let me clear up a couple of things for anyone who watched the same show (it is a repeat) and thinks a History Channel show represents absolute truth. It does not.
First of all, this show identified Nostradamus as the “court astrologer and magician”. Nostradamus was not a magician. He might have been an alchemist [Sir Isaac Newton was such], in the truest form of the word (not someone who tried to change lead into gold, but someone who understood the philosopher stone as something grasped from within), but there is absolutely no proof that he was anything more than a botanist-apothecary and astrologer. He knew how to make potions and salves, lozenges for sore throats, etc. There is absolutely no proof that he practiced some form of sleight of hand, with something up his sleeve, which is what magicians do. There is no real magic, despite how hard Harry Potter fans wish for it to be so.
This false claim led to them falsely claiming that “Nostradamus’ most famous work, Les Propheties, was produced by astrological calculations and magic.” That is so absurd, it is ridiculous. Nostradamus claimed he wrote from an ecstatic state, where the ecstasy was due to a divine presence. How wonderful a tie-in that truth would be to a show about Edgar Cayce, who fell asleep and was overcome by the divine, which talked through Cayce’s mouth, while Cayce slept. The same thing happened to Nostradamus, only he was conscious while the spirit moved his hand and pen.
Second, they had John Hogue acting as “Prophecy Expert”, who giddily proclaimed how great Nostradamus was by reminding the viewers that Nostradamus predicted the jousting death of King Henry II, with the announcer adding, “four years before his (Henry’s) death.” Hogue then read to an audience that quatrain, leading one to think he knew what he was talking about. He would read something written by Nostradamus, then recite some known history of Henry’s death, as one is led to believe the two parts (Nostradamus & History) connect. They do not. That quatrain is not about the death of Henry.
This is true history. Catherine de Medici, Henry’s wife (queen) and mother of his heirs to the throne, loved Nostradamus and believed in his abilities as an astrologer. She summoned him to Paris on a few occasions, particularly about her seven sons. Nostradamus was made her court’s Physician in Ordinary, in 1564, when Catherine was Queen Regent, after Henry’s death. That was his only official title to the throne. It was, in fact, Catherine that began the rumor that one quatrain perfectly fit Henry’s tragic accident.
Now with that relationship, would it not be strange that Nostradamus wrote about Henry’s death in a quatrain, knew it to be that, but would later say to Catherine after Henry’s death, “Darn Your Majesty. I was so sure you would figure out that one, before the King’s horrible death.” It would be strange, if not treasonous! But, it was not the truth, because Nostradamus did not know about Henry’s coming death, or he would have told them to beware. That quatrain has nothing to do with Henry.
The quatrain in question is in Century 1, number 35. It goes like this:
Le lyon jeune le vieux surmontera,
En champ bellique par singulier duelle:
Dans caige d’or les yeulx luy crevera,
Deux classes une, puis mourir, mort cruelle.
This can translate in English as this:
Him courage youthful it ancient will overcome,
Upon army lodged warlike for singular dual:
Inwardly crate with gold them eyes he will break asunder,
Two orders one, able to perish, death unmerciful.
Guess what a “lion” is. I’ll tell you. Metaphorically, it is someone from England, who is different from someone of Scotland (then a very separate country – and wanting to be again now). Henry was wounded by a French nobleman, Gabriel de Montgomery, who was a captain in Henry’s Scots Guard. The word used to state, “will surpass” or “will vanquish” is surmontera, which also means, “top, surmount”, and “overcome”. Montgomery was 29 when the accident took place, and he did not have reason to “vanquish” Henry. He gained nothing from it, and the Scots Guard tried for a long time to suppress the connection to them and the death of a king. Montgomery was so distraught he left France.
The accident took place on a jousting field, with stands for spectators, not a “field warlike” (bellique). There is a difference; but there was a duel (special or singular) between two warriors, one old, one young. The word duelle is the feminine spelling for duel, which states a “duality,” as “dual.” While an English “duel” is recognized as an argument of “dual” opinions, to be settled by weaponry, the word must be read as “dual,” as a “duality.”
A helmet is not a cage. A cage is more like a place where two men cannot get out – like a cage fight. The word caige refers more to a “crate,” such that birds would be caught in such a “cage,” as a wooden trap. “Of gold” means there will be wagers over the outcome, but some form of gold jewelry could be used to gouge eyes blind. “Two ranks one” means only one will stand in the end. One will die.
While it is true this quatrain could easily be mistaken for the history of the death of Henry II, more is needed to support that theory. Where else did Nostradamus tell that he foretold of the death of his king? There is nothing in the Preface or the letter he sent to Henry II. He said he wrote The Prophecies of a future long away from his times, after his own death, which was after Henry’s death. An event in 1559 does not fit that information. This quatrain has nothing to support that as its event in history. Thus, the quatrain is telling of something still to come.
I think it is important to get the facts straight. The History Channel is more about sensationalism, and those guys tend to bend the truth.
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Let me now add an interpretation that takes this puzzle piece and places it snugly between many other arranged puzzle pieces, which show a picture of a coming End Times war.
Le is a capitalized pronoun (not an article) meaning an important “Him” is the initial focus.
The use of lion becomes metaphor for the astrological sign Leo (Latin meaning “Lion”), where that projects “courage, heart, and strong ego.” This means “He” is “courageous.”
The words jeune, followed by le vieux, becomes a statement that “He” shows “courage” to those “young,” who are then filled with “it ancient,” which is both a desire for “old” ways to return and demonic possession by “him ancient,” who is Satan.
This drive “will overcome” one’s basic nature, such that line one (the main theme statement for this quatrain) speaks of a leader (“Him”) who will incite “courage” in “young” soldiers, who “will be overcome” by “him ancient,” as the spirit that motivates all warriors.
This is then conformed in the secondary theme statement (line two), where this spirit will come “Upon” those who are an “army lodged” (a meaning of champ) for “warfare” purposes. They will have been prepared for a “singular” suprise attack, where there will be “dual” agents in this “army lodged.” The “singular dual” is then Muslims added with Eastern European Communists. Those “youths” “will be overcome” with rage to do “battle.”
The “Inwardly” felt motivations for Eastern Europeans will be the promise of a “crate of gold,” where Western Europeans represent the land of plenty, which is theirs for the taking. This lure of “gold” (as wealth and property) will fill their “eyes,” making them ready to “break asunder” and “cleave” to their imaginary enemies, seeking what they do not have.
This will then be “Two” separate militaries that “Both” will be “orders” and “ranks” of soldiers, each with its own “fleets” (Latin translation of classes) to invade “one” target (Western Europe – Christianity – Capitalism). In Italy, there will be “Two” separate invasion “fleets” that will target that “one” country. They will be “able” (puis as a form of pouvoir) to cause unexpecting Western Europeans “to die” in these attacks. The unprepared Western European militaries will run for their lives, but they will be pursued until “dead without mercy.”
As you can see, this future event makes the capitalization of Les Propheties be important, as a warning to all who claim to be Christian. Those will have turned away from Jesus and God and allowed the enemy (“Him”) to be filled with the “courage” of a “lion.” One can then take this future event prophesied and place it over a very old prediction (in hindsight) of a king dying in a jousting accident. It is a story remiscent of the story of Arthur, when he lost his “courage” and sword, allowing the kingdom to be “overcome” by evil. That is why this quatrain is important to understand.
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