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Former President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while driving through downtown Dallas. Nostradamus predicted it centuries earlier. People would hear the name Nostradamus and they would say, oh, this is a guy that's able to tell the future. Even the Germans were using Nostradamus predictions as a form of propaganda at the time to try to convince people, hey, join our side. It's written in destiny. It's going to happen. Nostradamus did run into some controversy with his predictions, as some thought that he was a servant of the devil. Even the Nazis at the time were familiar with Nostradamus predictions. Predicts in one quatrain, from the depths of Western Europe will be born of poor folks, a young child who by his tongue will seduce a great many people. Nostradamus, probably the most famous clairvoyant fortune teller of all time. I mean, this guy allegedly predicted the rise of Hitler to the assassination of JFK and tons of other things. And even have made prophecies for the future. For as this date in 2024 have not happened yet, but if, based on his impeccable track record, might very well come true. Now, if you're like me, I just heard the name Nostradamus growing up, you'd be like, oh, this guy's like a Nostradamus. He knows the future. Oh, you endowed like Nostradamus. That's what people used to tell me as a child. What? That's not true. More importantly, people would hear the name Nostradamus and they would say, oh, this is a guy that's able to tell the future. But who was he? What did he really believe? What were his prophecies actually? Were they really true or were they just people kind of retroactively fitting, you know, some type of narrative to it after events had already occurred? And does he actually have the predictive abilities that he and many people at his time claimed that he had? Today we're explaining everything. We're going through all of his most famous prophecies and even the ones that haven't come true yet. My name is Mark Yagnan. Welcome to Religion Camp. This is the show where we explain the most interesting and fascinating stories of the mystical nature of things that we cannot see and things that we cannot know, and going through basically academic literature, going through different mystical stories and trying to understand all of the secrets of the cosmos. I got Christos to my right in the woods, and I got my dear friend Gabriel, the archangel in heaven, helping me do this show. Let us begin. Nostradamus who was this guy? Right? I mean, I don't. I don't. I couldn't even tell you when he lived or anything like that until me and my buddy Sam did some research. Nostradamus, AKA Michel de Nostradamus. French. What are the odds? Did you know that? I had no idea. This is a French guy that lived in this place in France called Saint Remy around 1500s. He was born 1503 on December 14th. Happy birthday, Nostradamus. Whenever that is. He was one of nine children born to this woman named Ranieri de Saint Remy and her husband, Homme de Nocedomme. This guy was like a well to do grain dealer and like a notary. He was like a prominent person in the town. And in the coming years, this guy Michel would become known as a French astrologer and a physician and sort of like a doctor of sorts, and would eventually become the most widely read clairvoyant or seer of the Renaissance. I mean, this guy was like a sensation in his time. He began as a medical student. He had a medical practice in A. In 1530 with no medical degree. Because at the time, I don't even think you needed a medical degree to do anything. I mean, there was no. You just kind of were like, I'm a doctor. And they were like, why are you a doctor? And you're like, because I'm doing surgery on you right now, so shut up and take this potion. It's crazy. So he starts as a doctor, and he was forced to leave the University of Avignon due to an outbreak of the bubonic plague. Yeah, that bubonic plague. Kind of a bummer if you miss graduation because of COVID It's nothing like getting expelled from school because of the Black Death. And then he was eventually expelled from a medical school at the University of Montpellier. He was expelled for his previous work as an apothecary, which is again, the medical equivalent of a pharmacist. And that was a profession deemed by medical academics of Nostradamus time as sort of unfit. It was kind of. They saw it as, you know, not really lining up with the proper medical establishment of the time. Other sources state that he was not expelled and actually received his license to practice medicine in 1525. Either way, he continued to practice medicine. And at the time, he also used a Latinized version of his name, which was a common practice amongst, you know, medieval academics from Nostradam to Nostradamus. And he became a plague doctor. Pretty sick, right? Have you seen the old mass of like the plague doctors, where they had like the extended nose because they thought that it was the air that was actually causing the disease, this idea of bad air. So they had like these kind of pockets of air that they looked. It was almost like a bird thing, and it kind of kept the air away from their nose. And they thought that was going to prevent them from the plague, when in fact, I think it was rats. I think that's what the. I think that's what it was. And they were trying to kill cats. They thought cats were causing it. And actually the cats were killing the rats, which was stopping it. So they actually made it way worse. Anyway, 1544, he moved to a place known as Salon de Provence, where he gained renown for his innovation in medical treatments during the outbreaks of the plague, you know, in places like Lyon in 46, 47. And some of these were very progressive methods. Like at the time, he was encouraging hygiene, which again, this is far beyond germ theory and the microscope were even invented. And he was removing infected corpses from the city streets. And he avoided bloodletting, which was a very common practice where basically you let blood go out of your body because they believe that the blood was bad. And if you get rid of the bad blood, then eventually your body can make new good blood. And unfortunately, a lot of people bled out and died. Pretty sure that's how George Washington died. Does one fact check that I think that's true? I don't. I don't know. If only I had a computer in front of me. Anyway, he creates a rose pill. This is like a, like an herbal, like lozenge made of rose hips, which is like a basic root, is rich in vitamin C, and it provided relief to patients with mild causes of the plague. And his cure rate was impressive. I mean, this guy was like a legit doctor that was curing people and helping people with early versions of the plague. And though much can be attributed to keeping his patients clean, administering like low fat diets and providing fresh air, he had an amazing practice and was really helping a lot of people. And as a result of that, he ends up becoming like a celebrity doctor the south of France. Like in 1534, Nostradamus lost his wife and children while away on a medical mission in Italy. And this caused people to question his notoriety as a plague doctor because they're like, wait a second, this celebrity doctor, his whole family just dies. Like, how good of a doctor can he really be? So he goes under some scrutiny for that. Fast forward, 1538, Nostradamus makes casual remarks about a religious statue that landed him with a charge of heresy again in France at this time is extremely Catholic, and he was ordered to appear in front of the Inquisition. Yes, the. Not the Spanish Inquisition, French Inquisition, which is just a little stuffier, just a little more snobbish, like, huh. This is a powerful office within the Catholic Church in those days, whose aim was to, like, you know, combat heresy and blasphemy and witchcraft and anything else that was considered deviant at the time. And Nostradamus dodged his summons and left Provence and traveled through Italy, Greece, and Turkey for a few years. And it's alleged that during these travels across Europe, Nostradamus experienced this psychic awakening. And this is where we get the Nostradamus that we know today. According to the legend, Nostradamus came across a group of Franciscan monks while traveling through Italy. And this is one of the early stories of one of his premonitions and sort of psychic powers coming to fruition. These group of Franciscans, they're traveling across, like, a muddy road near an Italian town of Ancona, and they see the solitary doctor walking towards them. Nostradamus steps aside to let them pass, but before they had done so, he kneels in the mud in front of one of them, Brother Felice Peretti. The friars are all kind of, like, confused. They're like, why is this doctor just kneeling in front of only one of us? It's kind of weird, right? Pretty was of lowly birth and had been someone that was, you know, they call him swineherds at the time. He's basically someone that, like, raises pigs on a farm. It's like the lowest job you can have. And before joining the Order of St. Francis and becoming a Franciscan monk, Nostradamus tells them, I must cede myself and bend a knee before His Holiness. And again, he doesn't do it to all the monks. He does it to one, specifically the lowest of the monks. That comes from a pretty unsubstantial family. And the monks kind of react with a kind of an amusement. And Nostradamus must have appeared crazy just on a muddy road, just like my liege. And all the monks kind of just go on their way. However, 40 years after this chance encounter on a muddy road, and 19 years after the death of Nostradamus, Brother Peretti, the one monk that Nostradamus knelt in front of, was elected Pope Sixtus V. Pretty weird. So let's talk about Nostradamus and his sort of interest in sort of Occult knowledge. Six years after Nostradamus felt he'd been away long enough to dodge the Inquisition in France. He then returns to France and resumes treating plague victims. 1547, he settles down in his hometown of Salon de Provence, marries a rich widow named Anna Postard and has six children. Pretty good number. After he had settled for a few years, Nostradamus begins to shift from medicine into sort of trying to ascertain occult wisdom. Things that, you know, you might find in, you know, secret books that you can try to gain type of knowledge from that are outside of the common, you know, knowledge traditions of a university or of a religion. And he spent hours at night allegedly meditating in front of a bowl filled with water and herbs in order to induce like a trance to bring on visions. And it was these visions that gave him the basis of his predictions of the future. What was in that bowl? That's what I want to know, right? A bowl of herbs. Maybe he was ripping something. I don't know. I don't know exactly what it was, but it seems. I don't know, it seems kind of on the nose. Tradition. Anyway, let's talk about some of his prophecies. 1550, he begins writing his first almanac of like, astrological information and predictions for the coming years. The almanacs are publications containing astronomical and meteorological data for a given year that often include an assortment of other, like, miscellaneous information. And almanacs at the time in France are extremely popular because alongside the predictions of the following year, they provided useful information for farmers and merchants. And, you know, they contained like little bits of like folklore. They were kind of just like casual reading that people would use that would have like some weather data, but also just, you know, stuff of the day kind of stories. And it was within these almanacs that Nostradamus introduced to the French public his first prophecies. And it is thought that he used basically what's known as like judicial astrology. And this is like the art of forecasting future events by calculating the planets and celestial bodies in relation to the earth at various points in time. And he's also kind of imbuing with them the visions that he had had while meditating in front of this bowl of herbs. Anyway, many modern day scholars, namely this guy Peter Le Meissure, Le Mes, My French is falling apart as we're talking. This guy was a Cambridge linguist and like a translator who wrote like a ton of books on Nostradamus. They're starting to think that Nostradamus was Neither an astrologer or a prophet, but simply a believer in the fact that history would repeat itself. So this is sort of a non mystical explanation for someone like Nostradamus that he wasn't necessarily translating some type of divine apparition, but rather was just an extremely intelligent guy that was able to intuit past events, therefore leading to future events. But that is, I guess, up to us to figure out. To each their own. Others think that he was using ancient techniques known as bibliomancy. This is the use of books in divination to make his predictions. He would basically like select extracts from ancient texts, mainly prophecies of like, the Apocalypse from the Bible and other, you know, such like, ancient literature that he could find and then making these kinds of like, calculations based on, you know, the recurrence of these events to the future. His almanacs, regardless, received a great response from the French at the time. And his name quickly spread around the country. And people were just trying to get their hands on his almanacs and his predictions following the success of these almanacs that he was writing in which his prophecies are really the thing that everyone wants to read about. They don't give a shit about the weather. They're like, what is this guy talking? And he decides to set out all of his visions in a masterwork, sort of his opus, which he titles centuries. He planned to write 10 volumes for in which he would make, you know, 100 predictions each forecasting the next 2,000 years. He published the first volume in 1555. The works consisted of like. It's almost like written in a riddle type form. It's like a limerick or something. It's technically called a quatrain. This is a rhymed, four lined verse grouped in hundreds. Each set of 100 is called a century, thus called the centuries. Scholars suspect that he used this poetic method to communicate his prophecies, possibly because he was worried again by this French acquisition. He didn't want to appear before this court. So he was like, okay, maybe if I write it in this sort of shrouded language, then, you know, I can just be like, oh, this is literary. This is not a prophecy. I'm not using divination. I'm not a part of the occult. I'm just, just a guy. I'm like a poet. And in these sort of quatrains, he uses a mixture of languages such as Greek, Italian, Latin, and even like a dialect of French used in the place that he lived. And again, this is likely used to further disguise his potential controversial prophecies. According to Nostradamus, he wrote in allegories because again, he feared that his prophecies in too much clarity upon his readers might cause unrest and again would potentially put people into chaos and the church would come down on him and the monarchy and just the nature of the powers that be at the time would see him as potential threat. Or it's possible that he was worried that his prophecies would, you know, be prevented from coming true if everyone knew the future like he did. It's kind of like a logic trap. If he's, you know, if I say, oh, this thing's going to happen in the future, then everyone can stop it from happening and then therefore his prophecies don't come true, which therefore affect his ability to be a clairvoyant or a seer. It seems like a convenient cover up, but regardless, this is how he wrote it. I mean, Nostradamus himself goes on to say that such secret events should not be manifested except by an enigmatical sentence. So that's how he wrote it. And in 1555 he published La Prophecies, a collection of his major long term predictions. And oddly enough, Nostradamus enjoyed a good relationship with the Vatican. Didn't see that coming. It's believed that he avoided prosecution for heresy by the Inquisition because he didn't extend his writings to the practice of magic. He was very specific about this. His popularity grew and he became one of the most famous figures of the Renaissance. But Nostradamus did run into some controversy with his predictions as some thought that he was a servant of the devil and others said that he was fake or insane. However, many more people believe that the prophecies were spiritually inspired. So now Nostradamus has published tons, tons of his prophecies and he publishes his centuries and now he enters into high society. His growing fame, thanks to some of his prophecies appearing to have come to life, made him attractive to a lot of people, specifically to Europe's elite class. One of the people that takes a great fascination in Nostradamus is Catherine de Medici. This is the queen consort of King Henry II of France and was one of Nostradamus greatest admirers. She just loved him. She read his almanacs in 1555 when he published them where he hinted at unnamed threats to her family. So she summons him to Paris to explain and draw up horoscopes, which is basically just like forecasting a person's future for her children. A few years later, she Made him counselor and physician in ordinary, basically a personal doctor of King Henry's court. It's pretty amazing. And then in 1556, while serving in this capacity, Nostradamus explains a another prophecy from century one, which he assumed to refer to King Henry. Now this is where it gets wild. The prophecy told basically of a young lion who would overcome an older one in the field of battle and he would die a cruel death. Nostradamus warned the king he should avoid ceremonial jousting at all cost. Now this will come up later. Remember this, the lion the will overcome the older one and he should refuse to do any ceremonial jousting. Put a pin in that. During this period, the Roman Catholic Church had a body called the Congregation of the Index, which would basically censor books that they saw to be heretical. But they never condemned Nostradamus. Despite his popularity, however, with his cryptic style and provocative content, his prophecies continued to stir up controversy. And people would talk about them all the time, furthering Nostradamus fame. Now Nostradamus is famous across all of France. The Renaissance is in full swing and he is known as the seer, the person that can see the future and has made friends with people in high places. But his greatest prophecy of all is maybe his own death. He suffered from gout and arthritis for much of his adulthood. In later years, his condition worsened due to enema or dropsy, which is basically, this is probably too technical, but it's fluid, like accumulating underneath the skin and within different cavities of the body. And it's believed that this may have caused his heart to fail. He was found dead in his bed in the morning of July 2, 1566, at the age of 62. It's alleged that his final prophecy was made on July 1, the day before, when he told his secretary, you will not find me alive at sunrise. That. That seems like a prophecy I could make come true, right? Like, hey, you're never going to see me again and then just kill yourself. I don't know. Regardless, let's go through some of Nostradamus prophecies at the time that came true. Some of the other ones that much later after his death came true. And then even some of the prophecies that have yet to come true, but might. Let's talk about it. The death of Henry ii, King of France. Remember this? This is the quatrain that basically legitimized Nostradamus reputation as the prophet, as the guy that was able to see the future. This is Basically what the entire quatrain says, and I'll read it verbatim. The young lion will overcome the older one on the field of combat. In single battle, he will pierce his eye through a golden cage. Two wounds made one. Then he dies a cruel death. Now, this prophecy is well known. In 1559, when King Henry II of France held a three day nightly tournament in honor of the marriages of his sister Marguerite to the Duke of Savoy and of his daughter to King Philip II of Spain. Again, all these people are intermarrying each other as a form of sort of, you know, kingdom unity. Now, matter of fact, Nostradamus had personally warned King Henry not to take part in any jousting tournaments three years prior, like we had just talked about. But Henry did not heed the seer's warning and took part in the events anyway. He donned his full, beautiful armor, carrying a great shield with a decoration of a lion on it. And after winning each round, he would raise up his visor on his golden helmet and look to the crowd, and they were going crazy. And this goes on for days, okay? These jousting tournaments would go on over and over, more and more jousts, and they would have the winner continue to fight. It was amazing. And on the third day at sunset, Henry, who again is the older one in this case, prepared for his final bout against this guy, Count Montgomery, who was known as the Young Lion. The bout ended in a draw, and Henry insisted on a final match. The young count tried to excuse himself, aware of the prophecy himself. Again, Montgomery knew of this prophecy and Henry continued to insist. And he said, we gotta do it. The people are going crazy. We must do it. And Montgomery relented. During the second charge, there was a loud crack of broken lances. Bang. Montgomery's spear hit the king's helmet and splintered right into the king's eye and temple. Two wounds becoming one. A splinter from the count's broken lance pierced the king's golden visor lodged behind his left eye, blinding him and penetrating into his brain. The royal doctors and surgeons tried everything, and Henry II passed away on the 10th of July, 1559, after 10 days in agony. I would call that a cruel death in the eyes of many. This solidified Nostradamus as the seer of the time, someone that could truly predict future events. Again, the prophecy says that a young lion will overcome the older one on a field of combat in a single battle. And his eyes will be pierced through a golden cage. Two wounds made one. And he will die. A Cruel death. Many people saw this and said, this is exactly what he was talking about. Nostradamus is correct. So now we have the Franciscan prediction. We have this prediction of Henry II dying. And now people have extrapolated Nostradamus's predictions even farther, going so far as to predict the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany. Now, the rise of Hitler. This is an interesting one. Okay, this is from one of Nostradamus most famous centuries. Again, a quatrain, and this is what it reads. From the depths of Western Europe will be born of poor folks, a young child who by his tongue will seduce a great many people. His fame will spread even to the east from the depths of Western Europe. Again, Hitler was born in Austria. By his tongue will seduce many, many people. Hitler was renowned as a impeccable orator. His rallies and speeches and demonstrations, all of which were televised and broadcast on the radio, were pivotal in galvanizing the German people at the time with this sort of nationalistic, zealous and kind of, for lack of a better word, seduce them into going to war. His fame will spread even to the East. And this is an interesting one because Hitler's fascist rhetoric was very popular to many people in Europe at the time, but also to his allies in Japan, the land of the rising sun, very much in the east. And they obviously became allies with Nazi Germany. He even allegedly go so far as to predict the fall of Hitler. Now, this is from a different quatrain. Beasts ferocious from hunger will swim across rivers. The greater part of the region will be against the hister. The Great One will cause it to be dragged in an iron cage when the German child will observe nothing. Now let's break down what some people have predicted as the fall of Hitler. Bees ferocious from hunger will swim across rivers again. After years of waiting to return to mainland Europe, Britain and American forces cross the English Channel in the D day landings to overturn Nazi occupied France. And then the rest of Europe. Greater part of the region will be against hister, though hister is most likely a reference to the old name for the Danube River. It's strikingly close to Hitler. I mean, it's like basically a letter off and makes sense in the context of the quatrain being about the end of World War II and Hitler's fall is what some scholars have gathered. The greater part of the region could mean most of the world, or again most of Europe, as the Allies rallied against the Great One will cause it to be dragged in an iron cage. The Great One could refer to Hitler, who came very close to creating a Third Reich and making Germany the dominant global superpower. Or it could be even referring to the ussr because it was the nation's sheer size and manpower that ultimately crippled the Nazi war machine, causing it to be dragged in an iron cage. It being Germany, dragged being the Allies forcing their surrender. An iron cage could potentially be in reference to the Allied powers again, United States, Britain, ussr encircling Germany, or even to the ussr and quote the Iron Curtain, which descended across eastern Germany once World War II ended. And the last verse of the quatrain, the German child will observe nothing again in the context of eastern Germany. Many were trapped behind this Iron Curtain. But this part is likely just a reference to the bleak conditions of post war Germany. Now, what's interesting is that Nostradamus involvement with the sort of Nazi predictions didn't just end with the predictions. So shortly after Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Magda Goebbels, the wife of Hitler's propaganda minister Goebbels, stumbled upon a passage in the book Mysterion von San und Syl Mysteries of the sun in Soul, in which one of Nostradamus quatrains was believed to predict the crises that would develop in England Poland Poland in 1939. So even the Nazis at the time were familiar with Nostradamus predictions. And as we know, the Nazis were fascinated with the occult. Specifically, Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler had deep, deep connections with the occult and sort of Norse mythology where a lot of, like, the Aryan sort of belief came about and they were kind of creating like, their own weird occult religion within Nazi Germany, which is an episode we should definitely do at a later time. But regardless, after bringing the passage to her husband, Joseph Goebbels, he ordered the creation and distribution of a brochure that would convince those living in neutral countries that a Nazi victory was inevitable. I mean, Nostradamus predicted it centuries earlier. It's going to happen. So even the Germans were using Nostradamus predictions as a form of propaganda at the time to try to convince people, hey, join our side. It's written in destiny. It's going to happen. What's interesting is that the Allies retaliated with a bit of psychological warfare of their own, airdropping large quantities of flyers over German occupied territories, claiming that Nostradamus had actually foreseen Germany's defeat. Yeah. In an attempt to boost American morale, MGM produced a series of short films about the famous soothsayer Nostradamus. I mean, it's just crazy. Even during the events of World War II, people are still transfixed on the stories of Nostradamus and are using his different sort of cryptic quatrains as evidence that they would either win or lose the events of World War II. And thus his legacy lives on. Now, that's not his only prediction that has come to transpire allegedly in the modern time. Let's talk about the assassination of RFK and jfk. One of Nostradamus quatrains goes like this. The ancient task will be completed from on high. Evil will fall on the great man. A dead innocent will be accused of the deed. The guilty will remain in the Midst. Now, on November 22, 1963, JFK was assassinated as he drove through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas. The Warren Commission declared that the President was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald on the sixth floor of the Texas Book Depository. Although some crazy people, conspiracy theorists, I guess, believed that there were maybe other forces at play behind the scenes, namely the CIA and the Deep State, maybe the Mafia, who knows? Nostradamus prediction seems to substantiate this theory that Lee Harvey Oswald was not the main perpetrator of JFK's murder, as the Warren Commission, again the commission that investigated JFK's assassination had claimed. I mean, Lee Harvey Oswald himself said, you got the wrong guy. I'm a patsy. I'm not the one that killed jfk. They're setting me up. It's pretty interesting. Let's go through the quatrain line for line from on high. Evil will fall on the great man. On high could be a reference to JFK being shot from above or maybe just an allusion to his status as the President of the United States and leader of the free world that was taken from him by evil entities. The dead innocent will be accused of the deed. Oswald was murdered shortly after being accused of assassinating JFK by a guy named Jack Ruby before he could talk or face trial. Acting as the perfect scapegoat and taking full blame for, quote, the deed. The guilty will remain in the midst. This could be an allusion to maybe the Warren Commission's failure or perhaps the unwillingness to identify the actual perpetrator who, you know, if it wasn't Lee Harvey Oswald, remains unidentified to this day and maybe to the US Government's unwillingness to disclose the classified assassination records. Now, many scholars and theorists have even made reference to some of Nostradamus other predictions to jfk and not only to jfk, but to RFK as well. Here's One of the quatrains that people point to. The great man will be struck down in the day by a thunderbolt, the evil deed predicted by the bearer of a petition. According to the prediction, another falls at nighttime. Conflict in Reims, London and pestilence in Tuscany. JFK was shot shortly after 12 noon in the day, quote unquote, in Dallas, Texas in 1963. And although Oswald did not wield a thunderbolt, he did wield an Italian Carcano bolt action rifle to shoot the President, which is stated to have made a loud thunderbolt like cracking noise when fired. And in Nostradamus day, guns as we know them had not been invented. So a thunderbolt maybe was an appropriate metaphor. Again, if we're presuming that Nostradamus is seeing the future, he's trying to describe the events of modern day with the limited information that he has at the time. So he sees something, here's a thunderbolt and he goes, there you go. It must have been a thunderbolt, when in fact it was a gun. Who's to say? The bearer of a petition could be Gene Dixon, one of the best known American physicists and astrologers of the 20th century. In 1956, an issue of Parade magazine, she stated that a Democrat would win the presidency in 1960 and either be assassinated or die in office. Kind of a strange prediction for a physicist. Now, another part of the quatrain, another falls at nighttime. Some have speculated this is a reference to the death of JFK's brother, Robert F. Kennedy. Robert F. Kennedy, as we know, was a senator, was assassinated a few minutes after 1am, moments after his victory speech in 1968 at the presidential primary. The last line of the quatrain says, conflict in Reims, London and pestilence in Tuscany. This is likely meant to depict the seismic impact that both the deaths of JFK and RFK had around the world. Now, again, what do I think of these prophecies? They seem maybe a little far fetched. You know, a thunderbolt, a gun, maybe a little thunderbolt, I don't know. Again, Nostradamus said, I can't put these exact prophecies in direct language or else people might lose their minds. I could get killed of, you know, heresy, who knows? So Nostradamus has some cover on this one. Now, let's look forward to other prophecies that Nostradamus has made. And maybe they predict things that could happen in the future. One that many people point out is the climate crisis. So many quatrains across Nostradamus prophecies predict some type of grand cataclysm, specifically involving the climate. The dry earth will grow more parched, he predicts in one quatrain, and there will be great floods. Forest fires are already, you know, occurring at a far more frequent rate and partially due to the quote, parched earth that many people speculate as the sea levels rising globally. Again, Nostradamus goes on to say, very great famine through pestiferous wave. Pestiferous, That's a word we should use more. Now this could either indicate that rising sea levels could cause pestiferous waves or tsunamis that then would destroy agriculture and allow disease and starvation to take hold. Alternatively, some people speculate that he could just be alluding to a rise in pests or insects, waves of locusts which thrive in warmer climates, just destroying crops all over the world and producing famine. Who's to say? I don't know. That one doesn't strike me as the most compelling. Personally, I look at that and I'm like, again, this kind of leads credence to some scholars ideas that he's just looking at the past and being like, well, there's great famine in the past and insects have taken over crops in the past and floods have destroyed great many people in the future or in the past. So, you know, I think it's a pretty safe prediction that these things will happen in the future as well. Now there's some others, again the people have brought up. This is an interesting one. This is, as the quatrain reads, after combat and naval battle, the great Neptune in his highest belfry red adversary will become pale with fear, putting the great ocean in dread. Now some people speculate that this could be technically referring to the conflict in Taiwan. There have been rumblings of war breaking out between China and the United States, particularly in recent years over the dispute about the sovereignty of Taiwan as its own nation. The quatrain that we just read seems to be a prophecy about the aftermath of such a war if it were to break out. So let's break it down. Obviously the opening line after combat, again, after the end of the war that has seen combat in mainland China. And naval referring to the warfare in the Taiwan Strait. Now let's look at the next line. Neptune in his highest belfry. Neptune may be referring to the ocean which has reached, quote, the highest belfry or bell tower, indicating that weapons of mass destruction may have been used, causing a tsunami that has reached the highest levels. Alternatively, Neptune could be referring to a Ukrainian weapon, the R360 which is a Neptune subsonic cruise missile that has been used by the Ukrainians against the Russian ships this year. If the Americans were to engage in naval warfare in the Taiwan Strait, it is likely that they would use tried and tested anti ship missiles from one of their allies, AKA Ukraine. Now red adversary will become pale with fear. This one's a little bit more on the nose. Red adversary could mean, you know, Communist China and becoming pale with fear because of the US's extreme destructive weaponry, potentially even nuclear missiles. And the last line from the quatrain, putting the great ocean in dread. All of those who dwell around the Pacific fear what is obviously, you know, seems like an escalating war and what that war could look like. And if nuclear weapons are used, this would cause massive tsunamis in the whole region. Now again I look at this kind of prophecy, I'm like maybe it seems like there's a lot of, you know, a lot of gratuitous know, interpretation being used. Could be, I don't know, I, I again I look at him like I think, I don't know the red adversary at the time like that, that could also be like Russia, like the, you know, the Red Square of Moscow. I just wonder. With a lot of these prophecies you can ascribe your own kind of meanings to them. But alas, that is one of the interpretations that I found. Now here's another one, this one is quite interesting. Maybe you guys can figure out what this one is. Here's the quatrain as it's written. The two contenders will unite together when most others unite with Mars. The African leader is fearful and trembles. The dual alliance is separated by the fleet. What do you think, Christos? What is that one about? That's an easy one. Two contenders will unite together. Most others. When most others unite with Mars, the African leader is fearful and trembles. The dual alliance is separated by the fleet. Fleet? Not yet, Christos, we're going to get to that one in a second. You're always so eager to talk about 9, 11 and it's really pissing me off. Okay, this prophecy is maybe, you know, more obscure, but some people have theorized that it's referring to Elon Musk. That's right. And his efforts to colonize Mars. Let's go through it. The African leader, preferably presumably referring to, you know, South African born tech billionaire Elon Musk. Now if I'm thinking African leader, I don't think I would think of a white guy. But that's how some people have interpreted this Passage two contenders unite together against Mars, AKA Elon, who's working to colonize Mars and has support of most of the globe. African leader is fearful and trembles. Musk is frightened by whoever the rising power is. Potentially a Russian Chinese alliance working to colonize Mars themselves and impair Elon's efforts. Corresponding with the line from another verse, the light of Mars shall go out, indicating that Musk may have to pause his audacious plans to leave the red planet to deal with his disruptors on Earth. Or worse, it may indicate that a conflict has broken out on Mars and the colony has been destroyed. That's a crazy one. Dual alliance is separated by the fleet. This could potentially be the US Navy, obviously the fleet of ships within the Navy that breaks up the dual alliance. Or if far enough in the future it may be a space fleet, maybe, you know, an operation. That one seems like a stretch for me. I don't know. I read that one, I'm like, I'm not so sure. But who knows? It's not crazy to think that there could be a full on colony on Mars that people are fully inhabiting and that there's an African leader named Elon Musk that's putting them there and that it all gets separated. What do you guys think? That one's a crazy one. Let's, let's do another. Okay, this one is interesting. I'll read the prophecy first and then maybe you guys can deduce what it's about. Here's how the quatrain is written and again translated into English. For the record, he didn't write these in English, he obviously wrote them in French. Let's read 5 and 40 degrees. The sky shall burn to the great new city shall the fire draw nigh with vehemence the flames shall spread and churn when the Normans they conclusions try. Now this quatrain is fascinating and I think the first time I ever heard of Nostradamus was in relation to some type of September 11th prediction. Now people have pointed to 5 and 40 degrees, which is said to be the latitude of New York City. New York's latitude is technically 40 and 47 degrees, but it's interpreted as 4.5 degrees, even though the decimal point had not really come to be used in Europe at Nostradamus time. New City. Similarly, you know, obviously people are claiming that that is New York. And again, people have tried to fit the, the idea of the Normans and it seems like it's kind of contrived at best. Now what's fascinating about this prophecy is that there are other prophecies surrounding this day from Nostradamus that are even more specific. So let me just read one of these that has been circulating on the Internet. In the city of God, there will be a great thunder. Two brothers torn apart by chaos. While the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb. The third big war will begin when the big city is burning. Another prediction from Nostradamus, in the year of the new century and nine months, from the sky will come a great king of terror. The sky will burn at 45 degrees. Fire approaches the new city. In the city of York, there will be a great collapse. Two twin brothers torn apart by chaos. While the fortress falls, the great leader will succumb. Now, what's interesting about the last two quatrains that I read is that they're fake. That's right. A lot of the quatrains that came in the wake of September 11th were actually done by journalists that were using these sort of famous and fancy sounding quatrains in the style of Nostradamus to kind of illustrate to people how many of these predictions that Nostradamus made without proper context and fact checking could either be 1 misinterpreted or 2 just completely fabricated. Now, what's interesting is that in the wake of September 11th, that's how I found out about Nostradamus. I had read these two metal birds crashing into tall statues in the city of York, and the world will soon end after. Again, these were just part of chain emails that were going around the Internet at the time that allegedly referred to Nostradamus. And me, like many other people, didn't fact check them. So I only bring up those last two prophecies to illustrate the point that when things are sort of said in kind of flowery, interesting language, oftentimes people will ascribe a meaning to it. And furthermore, they could just be completely fake. And it's actually interesting to note, Nostradamus himself, in a letter to King Henry II that we spoke about before, states that his prophecies were about Europe, North Africa and parts of Asia Minor only. So I think a lot of Nostradamus texts are fascinating and should be researched and looked at. It seems like many of his older prophecies, maybe they came true. I wasn't there. Maybe they really happened the way people said. Or maybe it's possible that people saw the prophecies and kind of ascribed a retroactive feeling to them. Regardless, the point still stands. Nostradamus in his time and even today has a stronghold on the minds of many people across the world, and myself included, who are fascinated in trying to understand the prophecies of people that claim to see the future. But what do you think? You tell me. Maybe I missed some things. Feel free to point me to different quatrains that maybe prove other events in history, or maybe that prove other events that will occur. Thank you guys so much for tuning in to another episode of Religion Camp. I'll see you next time. Peace be with.