Epistle
to Henry II
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...[the quatrains]
having only one sense and meaning, and
nothing ambiguous or amphibological is inserted... |
The
"reference number system" is not a prediction system, but a
way of describing fulfilment years. This system can be applied to those
quatrains, in which years are mentioned. Seven quatrains are at stake.
Description
of the reference number system
The most early year which is mentioned in the quatrains is the year 580
in quatrain 06-02. In this quatrain, also the year 703 is mentioned. The
most remote year is the year 1999, mentioned in quatrain 10-72. In other
quatrains, the years 1607, 1609, 1700 and 1727 are mentioned. The year
1607 is mentioned in two quatrains.
Many investigators think that these years belong to the period
1580-1999. According to them, the year 580 is an abbreviation of the
year 1580 and the year 703 is an abbreviation of the year 1703. In
Nostradamus' lifetime, such abbreviations were common.[1]
However, these investigators can not explain why this way of
abbreviating was not used constantly.
The
passage in the letter to Henry II shows that Nostradamus did not play
tricks in his calculations. In the investigation on which Nostradamus,
astrology and the Bible
is based, the assumption was that the numerical value of these years
have to be used without any restriction.
The time span of the quatrains starts at March 1, 1555, and ends on
November 9, 3797. The years 580 and 703 are far before this time span.
The other years are within this time span. It is strange that
Nostradamus, if he means the year 1999 AD in the case of the year 1999,
does not mention any year between 1999 and 3797. It is also strange that
he mentions years which are not within the time span.
The
enigma of the years can be solved in a very easy way: to look at the
years as numbers in a series of years. The figures of these years are
smaller than 2242, the number of years of the time span of the
quatrains. This led to the "reference number system".
The idea
behind the "reference number system" is that the years, mentioned in the quatrains, are
not years, but reference numbers in the series of years between 1555 and
3797. Each year (and if present, further time specifications) has to be
added to March 1, 1555, the beginning date of the time span of the
quatrains. The year 580 for example is the 580th year in the series of
2242 years. In fact, it is the year 2132. The year 1999 is the 1999th
year in the series of 2242 years, counted from March 1, 1555. This year
is in fact the year 3554.
Undefined
periods
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Quatrain
03-57
Seven times you will see the British nation change,
Steeped in blood in two hundred ninety years.
France not at all supported by Germanic,
Aries doubts his Bastarnian pole.
Quatrain 03-94
For five hundred years more one will not keep count of him
Who was the ornament of his time
Then suddenly great light he will give,
He who for this century will render them very satisfied.
Quatrain
10-100
The great empire will be for England,
The all-powerful one for more than three hundred years.
Great forces to pass by sea and land,
The Lusitanians will not be satisfied thereby. |
There
are no references in these quatrains to the year 1555 or to March 1,
1555, the beginning of the time span of the quatrains. Because of this,
no fulfilment years or fulfilment periods have been calculated. The
reference number system can not be applied to these three quatrains.
Analysis
of the "year quatrains"
The name "year quatrains" is given to those quatrains which
contain years which should be converted to fulfilment years by means of
the reference number system. The pages on which these quatrains are
analyzed briefly, can be opened by clicking on the hyperlinks below.
In a number of cases, comments of other Century-scholars such as prof. Pierre
Brind'Amour (Les premières centuries ou prophéties, 1996), Jacques Halbronn
D.Litt. (numerous publications on Internet) and dr. Christian Wöllner (Das
Mysterium des Nostradamus, 1926), are also
included.
T.W.M.
van Berkel
Notes
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In
one of his publications, Cesar wrote the year 1546 as 546
(Leroy, p.66). [text]
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