Old Document Review 'The Prophecy of the Tiburtine Sibyl'

This old document forms part of the Mirabilis liber which is a collection of prophecies from various sources and anthologies.  This part of the collection is said to be a surviving prophecy of the Tiburtine Sibyl, that she was one of ten Sibyls and that she is called Cassandra and lived for 367 years and traveled across many parts of the world from Asia to Africa and Europe.

There are a lot of similarities between this continuous prophecy and the prophecy by Bishop Bemechobus and seems to biblical based, however there are some very stark differences which have no apparent biblical links.  The story tells us of how she came to Rome where she was asked to interpret a dream, and so she took them up into the mountain and told them that 'The nine suns that you saw signify all the generations that are to come' and then she goes on to tell them what some of the things that are in store for some of these generations.  This is somewhat similar in a way to the belief of the Mayans that there are nine generations.

She goes on to list rulers and princes and successors to a point where there shall be 'wars between Christians and the pagans' in a time where 'Men shall be greedy and false and truth shall disappear'.  She lists a number of disasters including islands swallowed up by floods (Japan?) and bloodshed and earthquakes and so on.

Then she says that after all the wars that a king shall reign over the Greeks and French and Romans for a hundred and twelve years, at which point the Antichrist will appear and cause havoc.  Followed by the army from the north and the two witnesses Elias and Enoch, and the Antichrist will be killed by Michael.  Then the king (Christ) shall return 'through the spheres'.  And all mankind will be judged before earth is then finally destroyed.  What I find intriguing is that if the references to war are actually meant to represent World War 2 then if you add 112 years (of the UN) to 1945 you end up with 2057, and the Antichrist is said to rule for three years which gives you the end of the world being 2060, the exact same year which Isaac Newton came up with in his mathematical formula based upon the Book of Daniel > one word > hmmm

To read about the other prophecies in Mirabilis liber CLICK HERE

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.

The Tiburtine Sibyl (est50 B.C.)

The Tiburtine Sibyl,also known as Albunea, lived in Tibur (now Tivoli) and located about fifteen miles Northeast of Rome. Her temple, which still stands today, was surrounded by a "sacred" grove and by mineral springs which, poetically enough given the topic of this page, flowed into the Tiber. The reason for this Sibyl's importance to Christians is her meeting with Augustus, he had gone to seek out knowledge about his own divinity and also about his successor, however, instead he was informed of the coming of Christ “This Child will be greater than thou”.

Furthermore one of the writings from the Sibylline Oracles has been attributed to the Tiburtine Sibyl, which include predictions; that the final Emperor of Rome will be the ninth and he will vanquish the foes of Christianity, that the coming of the Antichrist will happen and he will oppose the two witnesses and eventually be slain by Michael the Archangel.

For more information please read Old Document Review 'The prophecy of the Tiburtine Sibyl' which formed part of the Mirabilis liber published in 1522