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Interviews/reviews: Het is bijna 2012, het einde van de wereld zal niet lang meer op zich laten wachten (FunX radio)
On November 7, 2011, the radio program Critix, broadcasted by the Dutch radio station FunX radio, discussed the year 2012, about which rumours circulate that the world will come to an end in this year. Not only the Maya indians predicted this, Nostradamus predicted this also. This was reason for FunX radio to ask Theo van Berkel to give his opinion about these rumours, since he investigated the predictional value of the Prophecies of Nostradamus for a long time and because he was interviewed about his investigation two years ago in another radio program of FunX radio.
This article contains a summary of the interview.

Interviews/reviews: Nostradamus & 2012 - Wie het verleden kan vertellen... (Dutch monthly ParaVisie, October 2011)
In this article, published in the October issue of the spiritual monthly ParaVisie, which celebrates its 25th year of existence, Niels Brummelman interviews three Dutch Century-scholars and let them explain what, according to them, the Centuries predict about the year 2012: Wim Zitman, author of Onbekende aspecten van Nostradamus, Rob van der Wilk, author of Nostradamus, de waarheid and Theo van Berkel, author of Nostradamus, astrologie en de Bijbel and author and webmaster of the equally named website. Further, Brummelman discusses briefly the ideas of Maarten Post and Rudy Cambier.

New articles in the substudy "World War II"

Nostrodamus (B.J. van der Zuylen [F.E. Farwerck], Amsterdam, 1929)
Discussion of a non-political brochure in which Frans Eduard Farwerck, Grandmaster of the National Council of the Dutch Federation of the International co-mingled Freemasonry Order "Le Droit Humain" tried to demonstrate by means of concrete evidence that it is possible to predict the future and that Nostradamus was a gifted seer. The study of this brochure, upon which this article is based, shows in which way Farwerck investigated the Centuries.
In this brochure, Farwerck did not discuss World War I of the years after this war. 

Information on Frans (Franz) Eduard Farwerck alias B.J. van der Zuylen (1889-1978)
Short biography about a succesfull carpet factory-owner, who became Grandmaster in the Freemasonry-circles, who got expelled from Freemasonry because of his subsequent membership of the Dutch National Socialist Movement, in which he became one of the most important advisors of Mussert, its General Leader, and had important functions, and who in the summer of 1940 had to resign from his functions within this Movement due to his past of Freemasonry.
After World War II, Farwerck published about North-European (German) mysticism, a topic which in 1931 fascinated him already.

Interviews/reviews: Did Nostradamus predict the death of Bin Laden?
Quite quickly after the death of Osama Bin Laden, rumours were spread on Internet that his death was predicted by Nostradamus. The staff of the Dutch radio program Nog steeds wakker Nederland was anxious to know the opinion of T.W.M. van Berkel, the author/webmaster of www.nostradamusresearch.org, who extensively investigated the predictions Nostradamus made. In the interview, Van Berkel explains why the predictions in the Centuries are open to a wide range of interpretations and why they cannot be linked to past events. The majority of these predictions are far from concrete, which means that afterwards, without any problem, a vast range of events can be linked to these predictions, as if they were predicted in detail.

2010-12-13

Research results: the Epistle to Henry II: practical jokes in the second biblical chronology
Some years ago, articles were published on this website in which the biblical chronologies in the Epistle to Henry II were discussed extensively. In the research upon which Nostradamus, astrologie en de Bijbel (De Meern, 2002) was founded, the second biblical chronology was the foundation of the millennium model, a time structure of 8000 years, running from the creation of the world until Judgment Day. French Century-scholars like Yves Lenoble and dr. Patrice Guinard suppose that the Centuries are based upon a time structure of 7000 years, ending in 2242 AD, which year, according to them, is given in the Preface to Cesar in an encrypted way (3797).
The question is why it is possible to derive two time structures from the Centuries, each based upon a biblical chronology and each confirmed by a quatrain which contains allusions to a final year. In this article, this question is answered. The answer has its consequences for the image of the Centuries which we most of the time have.

Substudy "World War II": Nostradamus - Prophetische Weltgeschichte (dr. N. Alexander Centurio [dr. phil. A.M. Centgraf], Bietigheim, 1968)
Discussion of the second and last book by dr. phil. Alexander Max Centgraf, in World War II an esteemed  national-socialist activist and propagandist, about Nostradamus and the Centuries. In this discussion, it is demonstrated that until late in his life, Centgraf used elements from his propagandistic Nostradamus-brochures in his books and did not dissociate himself of apologized for his demoralizing activities.
In 1981 a Dutch translation of Nostradamus - Prophetische Weltgeschichte was published, entitled De Profetieën van Nostradamus (Veen, Utrecht). Since 1995, this translation is entitled De ware voorspellingen van Nostradamus - de wonderbaarlijke profetieën van de 16e eeuwse ziener ook voor onze tijd en toekomst! (Kosmos, Utrecht/Antwerp). This translation must not be confused with the first Dutch translation of the Centuries by mr. dr. W.L. Vreede (mr. dr. H. Houwens Post), published in 1941 by Servire publishers, The Hague, NL, and reprinted between 1979 and 1996 by Schors publishers, Amsterdam.