This world holds many mysteries, and at World Mysteries.com, we strive to keep you up on new strange happenings, new insights into older discoveries, and new developments into unraveling what we cannot understand yet.
And, we're out to show you how an understanding of such mysteries can help you find answers to some of the questions you have.
In this, the first one of our articles on ancient world mysteries and how they relate to you, we'll focus on Nostradamus.
His book gained instant acclaim, and he even was summoned to court by the French Queen, Catherine de Medici. Nostradamus died at 63 years of age, but he's leaving a great and sometimes troubling set of visions and prophecies as his heritage.
Nostradamus did not only forecast what would happen during his lifetime and in the immediate future after his death, but also things that have happened in our not too distant past, and things that will happen in our future. To protect himself, he shrouded his quatrains in obscurity, but at other times, he is chillingly literal and even mentions names. Here are some of the things he forecast many years before they happened:
- Hitler - Even though Nostradamus calls him "Hister," It's clear he's talking about Hitler in this quatrain:
- Beasts ferocious with hunger will cross the rivers,
The greater part of the battlefield will be against Hister.
Into a cage of iron will the great one be drawn,
When the child of Germany observes nothing.
- Napoleon - Many prophecies of Nostradamus concern France, and the name "Napoleon," changed like a word game but still recognizable, shows up in many of his quatrains. This quatrain clearly describes Napoleon:
- An Emperor will be born near Italy
Who will cost the Empire dearly.
It will be said when his allies are seen
That he is less a Prince than a butcher.
- The Atomic Bomb - There are many references to terrible wars and great destruction, and here is one, loosely translated, that tells of the atom bomb and the destruction it brings:
§ Near the gates and within the cities
there will be two scourges the like of which was never seen,
famine within plague, people put out by steel,
crying to the great immortal God for relief.
Nostradamus also gave prophecies for our times, forecasts that will affect your life. Even though they aren't always clear, you can get information about the future and the future of the United States. Here are just some of the potential things you can be looking for in the future, as prophesied by Nostradamus:
· Great Advancements, Peace and Prosperity - In this very straightforward quatrain, Nostradamus describes our modern world with the amazing scientific and technical advancements we now enjoy:
o Pestilences extinguished, the world becomes smaller,
For a long time the lands will be inhabited in peace:
People will travel safely through the sky (over) land and wave:
Then wars will start anew.
· Obama Elected to be the New President - This quatrain refers to a person of low ancestry who would gain a very high office in the union. And, that person will put an end to a very unpopular war:
o There will be peace, union and change,
Estates, offices, low high and high very low:
To prepare a trip, the first offspring torment,
War to cease, civil process, debates.
· World War III - Nostradamus often referred to great misery, plagues and wars, and many believe that this quatrain describes the beginning of WW III, with rockets coming from the sky:
The bearded star, the three
great princes will be made
enemies. The shaky peace on
earth will be struck by fire
from the skies. Po, The
winding Tiber, a serpent placed
on the shore.
