Old Document Review 'Compendium revelationum'

This ancient document was written by Savonarola in 1495 and appeared not only in Mirabilis liber collection of prophecies in 1522, but was also seen as an important influence over what Nostradamus wrote in his preface to Cesar.

It is used as an extract in the Mirabilis liber, however, the manuscript itself is not a prophecy but a commentary about the abilities and knowledge that prophets obtain.  There are several points that the author makes, first that a prophet must not 'give what is holy to the dogs', recording that he has always been wary in revealing the things he is shown.

Next he states that a prophet is simply a person who knows things that every other human being is simply blind or ignorant to, that a prophet has a different kind of perception and a deep understanding of free will.  

Furthermore that only God knows truly what will happen in the future, this can be demonstrated in how some prophets have gone out a message for people to turn for their wicked ways to avoid destruction.  But when they have turned from the wicked ways, and the destruction avoided, the prophecy will not be fulfilled, but in a sense only God would have known that those circumstances would happen.

Lastly he mentions how prophets are under a beam of supernatural light, and within this light the prophet will understand but two things, the vision and the source of the revelation itself.  But this light is so strong upon their soul that it provides the prophet with complete certainty or the vision and the source.  Here a prophet is seen as a person without doubts.

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Old Document Review 'The prophecies of Joannes Vatiguerro'

There are three seperate manuscipts in the Mirabilis liber that are said to originate from this author, but published as a whole with the rest of the collection in Mirabilis liber in 1522, so the original prophecies would have existed before this date.

To be honest there is a huge amount of material in these prophecies, and many of them can be referenced against the prophecies of Nostradamus, in a sense proving that he had this book in his vast library of prophecy books. However there are a number of events that are foretold that have since come to pass since 1522, below I have listed a few:

-the plot against the King of France in 1503

-the capture of King Francis I during the Battle of Pavia in 1525

-the massive earthquake of 1556 in China which claimed 800,000 lives

-the French Revolution (1789-1799)

-the consolidation of Spain after the invasion of Aragon by Philip V in 1707

There is also a number of prophecies given in these manuscripts which can be seen as talking about the end times, again I have listed a few below

-frightening earthquakes in many places

-food production shall diminish

-the sea will rage

-the air will be contaminated

-two moons will be seen at the same time

-an unspeakable plague

Michel de Nostredame (1503-1566)

Michel de Nostredame or otherwise referred to as Nostradamus was born in the south of France and was part of a large family.  In his teens he enrolled in the University of Avignon where he stayed until it closed a year later due to an outbreak of the plague.  It is said that he traveled afterwards for about eight years where he gained a particular interest in herbal remedies, then he entered the University of Montepellier to become a doctor but was expelled for being associated with herbal remedies and for slandering procedures that some doctors were intent on using at the time such as 'draining the blood' to heal sickness.

In 1531 Nostradamus met Jules-Cesar Scaliger , a leading scholar of the time and this is where he is rumored to have gained access to ancient books and scrolls which were at the time banned in the general society.  It is said that he married and had two children but they were all lost to the plague and so he devoted many years to help fight outbreaks.  In 1547 he settled down again in Salon-de-Provence where he re-married and had six children.

His first almanac was written for 1550 and was so popular that he decided to produce one once a year, and by the end of his life he had written well over six thousand prophecies.  He was dragged into the limelight when he apparently foretold the death of the King of France with a very exactly prediction.  From then on he was asked by prominent people for assistance, not only as a seer but as a healer.

There has been incredible debates about whether he was a true seer, or whether he was severely influenced by the work of others such as Joachim of Fiore, the Tiburtine Sibyl and others.  Many people however point to the fact that in his letters he clearly says that he is not a prophet.  Yet in all my research I have not yet found a biblical prophet that ever referred to themselves as being a prophet.  Prophecy is seen as a gift from God, one that maybe can be stripped away if the gifted person claims any greatness on their own behalf.

The greatest difficulty in reviewing any of the prophecies by Nostradamus is that, the translations tend not to be very accurate.  This is because the original by Nostradamus was written in old French and many people have attempted to translate using modern french, or even slightly adapting it in a way to make the prophecies apply to certain circumstances in modern times.  I came across this myself after comparing the words of his prophecies claimed on a DVD Nostradamus documentary against the words in my copy of his complete collection, and there were so completely different it was crazy.  However it is still my belief that he was a true prophet, it is not his fault that we cannot translate his words properly.