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 Die
Weissagungen des Nostradamus (1921 [1920])
In daily life, Carl Loog
was director of a telegraph office in Berlin. Two articles which he
wrote about telegraphy, are part of the collection of the Deutsche
Nationalbibliothek: the article Pufferbetrieb, published in
Berlin in 1927 in Telegraphen- und Fernsprech-Technik and the
article Die selbsttätige Regelung des Pufferbetriebes mittels
Relais-Stufenschaltung, published in Berlin in 1931, also in Telegraphen-
und Fernsprech-Technik.
On Nostradamus, Loog wrote one book: Die Weissagugen des
Nostradamus: erstmalige Auffindung des
Chiffreschlüssels und Enthüllung der Prophezeiungen über Europas
Zukunft und Frankreichs Glück und Niedergang, 1555-2200 (Pfullingen in Württemberg, 1921). In this book ,
which was finished in the course of 1920, Loog arranged a number of
quatrains by means of a key he derived from a number of Latin
lines in the Letters which accompany the Centuries. Basing himself upon
these quatrains, he made statements about the past, the present and the
future of Europe until 2200.
In 1921,
Die Weissagungen
des Nostradamus had eight editions. From the fourth edition, an
epilogue was included, dating from October 1921, in which Loog explained
some elements of his cipher key and defended himself against critics. In
a more extensive version, this epilogue was published in the January
issue of volume 1922 of the monthly
Psychische Studien – Monatliche Zeitschrift vorzüglich der
Untersuchung der wenig gekannten Phänomene des Seelenlebens gewidmet.
It was entitled: Prophezeiungen - eine Erwiderung. This reply
made clear that Loog addressed directing himself to notably count Carl
L.F.O. Von Klinckowstroem, whose criticism on his code key was
published in a previous issue. In Mysterien von Sonne und Seele
(Berlin, 1922 [1921]), dr. Hans-Hermann Kritzinger, a prominent person
in the paranormal field, who in 1922 was the editor of Psychische Studien,
made some remarks which show that he and Loog heavily exchanged views
about Nostradamus and the compilation of the Centuries.[1]
A
manuscript, finished in 1939
In World War II, Kritzinger became involved in the
compilation of national-socialist propaganda, based upon the Centuries
and/or Century-comments. In 1961, he told the British researcher Ellic Howe that Loog gave him a manuscript in December 1939; Loog had
made a new translation of the Centuries and had given new
comments. Kritzinger said that he did not give this manuscript to the
Ministry of Propaganda; he considered it not suited for psychological warfare. It is
not clear what he did with it in later years.[2]
A
reply in 1940
By the end of 1940, the national-socialist weekly Der
Reichswart published a letter on Nostradamus and the Centuries,
written by Loog. To this letter, the title Prophete rechts - Prophete links - war Nostradamus wirklich
Scharlaten und Betrüger? was given. On this website, it is entitled
Nostradamus Scharlatan? In this letter, Loog replied to
a sceptical article about Nostradamus and the Centuries,
previously published in Der Reichswart. By means of his comments
in Die Weissagungen des Nostradamus, about which Loog wrote that
it was sold out for years, he wanted to prove that Nostradamus was right
by discussing a number of quatrains which, according to him, were
fulfilled in previous years until 1940.[3]
Loog did not refer to other publications he wrote. This indicates that
between 1921 and 1940, no book by Loog about Nostradamus was published
and that the manuscript he gave to Kritzinger was not published.
The
fortune of Loog's 1921-comment on quatrain 03-57
In the study of the fortune in
World War II of the Centuries
and Century-comments, Loog's comment on quatrain 03-57 plays an
important part. In Die Weissagungen des Nostradamus, Loog linked
the beginning of the time span of 290 years of this quatrain to 1649,
the year in which the British king Charles I was beheaded. For 1939, the
year in which the time span of quatrain 03-57 would come to an end, Loog
foresaw the last and most severe crisis in England in a series of seven,
counting from the beheading of Charles I, and at the same time a crisis
in Poland. In Mysterien von Sonne und Seele, Kritzinger quoted
this comment.
After the German invasion in Poland in September 1939, this comment was
taken out of its context and linked to this invasion. For dr. Paul
Joseph Goebbels, the German Propaganda minister, this link was reason to
lose himself in the Centuries. He decided to use them for
psychological warfare, in order to exploit the omnipresent superstition.[4] Nostradamus
Scharlatan? shows that Loog had the opinion that the
events in Poland in September 1939 matched with what he wrote in Die
Weissagungen des Nostradamus about quatrain 03-57 in connection with
1939.
Political
ideas
From Die Weissagungen des Nostradamus it becomes clear that Loog's
political ideas were nationalistic. He turned himself against the use of
the Centuries for political purposes.[5]
According to Kritzinger, who in December 1939 asked Loog if he
wanted to adapt the Centuries to psychological warfare, Loog
definitely did
not want to become involved in this.[6]
As far as I am concerned, Loog's Nostradamus Scharlatan? is not written for propaganda reasons. It
is a letter, which is the result of Loog's ongoing research. Prophete rechts - Prophete links
shows that in 1940, Loog was convinced that the Centuries
would be fulfilled, that he had derived a key which enabled him to comment
them and that the major part of his comment in Die Weissagungen des
Nostradamus fitted to what happened in the past years.
Whether or not Loog had connections with national-socialism, I don't
know.
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Karl Drude
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The
fortune of Die Weissagungen des Nostradamus
In 1941, due
to the Aktion-Heß, a razzia among astrologers and occultists in
Germany, following the flight on May 10, 1941, of Rudolf Heß, Hitler's
deputy, to England, the Gestapo confiscated all astrological and occult
literature and ordered the publishers of these books to close their
office. Thus, Die Weissagungen des Nostradamus was taken out of
print and Johannes Baum publishers had to cease their activities.
After World War II,
Johannes Baum publishers resumed her activities, but Die Weissagungen des Nostradamus remained
unpublished.
The German Century-scholar Karl Drude, who as a
soldier got wounded in his knee in World War II, kept on studying Loog's hints about
the key with which the quatrains might be arranged in the proper order.
In 1962, Das magische Quadrat des Nostradamus was published in
Munich. In this book, Drude presented a magic square which contained a
continuous chain of the Latin lines in the Preface to Cesar and the
Epistle to Henry II, which he had arranged in a particular order. In 1963, Nostradamus - ein Leben in
der bedeutendsten Zeitwende des Abendlandes und seine Auferstehung
was published, also in Munich. In this book, Drude discussed a.o. the
life of Nostradamus and the fortune of the Centuries from the
beginning of their existence. In 1969, he wrote an extensive
introduction to the re-edition of the 1668-J.Ribou-edition of the Centuries.
Articles on this
website about publications by Carl Loog
De Meern, the
Netherlands, October 2, 2006
T.W.M. van Berkel
actualized on December 8, 2007
Notes
- Kritzinger-1922,
p.127-128. [text]
- Howe, p.223.
[text]
- In 1940, according to Willi A. Boelcke,
reprinted copies of the fifth edition of Die Weissagungen
des Nostradamus were available (Boelcke-1966, p.304). [text]
- Van Berkel: Quatrain
03-57 and Die Weissagungen des Nostradamus (C. Loog,
Pfullingen in Württenberg, 1921 [1920]) [text]
- Loog-1921, p.109. [text]
- Howe, p.223. [text]
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