After having decyphered Nostradamus' prophecy many years ago, I
noticed a coincidence between the date of the unintended
destruction of Paris (August 13, 2017) found therein and the
number of books and the category of such books published by
Nostradamus.
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This post is not intended as a reference to Nostradamus' works,
as this can be found at
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http://web.ncf.ca/cj559/1399_books.html
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It is a re-post of
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Subject: How many books?
Message-ID: <20020522183434.N95747-100000@sheppard1.torfree.net>
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 18:36:19 -0400

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How many books?

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The debate over Nostradamus' bibliography being far from over, it
is useful to attempt to list his works known to exist and those
alleged to have existed, in the hope of verifying a statement
about Nostradamus' prophetic output made by Chavigny in his
"Janus", published in 1594:
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« Qui a escrit di-ie en 24. liures tant en prose que
vers,des choses du tout merueilleuses en style fort
obscur,& qui ne se donne de premier front à entendre, à
la mode accoustumée & familière de tous Vaticinateurs. »
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So we have it from a person alleged to have been his secretary:
Nostradamus wrote twenty-four books, some in prose, some in
poetry.
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We know of four books in poetry, which include some prose, which
are generally referred to as the Centuries, but which Nostradamus
calls 'The Prophecies'. This leaves twenty books unaccounted for.
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Next come the Almanachs. These are mostly in prose, but all
include some poetry. Most are now lost. Assuming that Nostradamus
wrote one Almanach per year, from 1554 (for 1555) to 1566 (for
1567), with the exception of 1555 (for 1556), this would yield a
total of thirteen Almanachs. Seven books are unaccounted for.
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Finally, there were books entirely in prose called
Prognostications. Many of these were lost. So, we cannot be sure
of the true number either. Were there seven? This would then
account for all of the twenty-four books mentioned by Chavigny.
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Totalling the books which contain some poetry, we can say
tentatively that Nostradamus would have written 13 Almanachs plus
4 books of Prophecies, for a total of 17 books. It is very
tempting to conclude that Nostradamus did so in order to point to
the date of the unintended destruction of Paris, on August 13,
2017. The 13 Almanachs would stand for August 13, and the total
of 17 books containing poetry would stand for year 2017.
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If there were seven books of Prognostications in prose, we would
face yet another oddity about this number, the seventh Centurie
having always been incomplete in all three of his books which
contain it. Paris being destroyed on August 1, 2017, Julian, or
on August 13, 2017, Gregorian, we see that her end occurs after
the seventh month (July) of 2017 in either case.
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It might be a stretch but, so far, this is the best attempt to
reconcile the outward form of Nostradamus' prophecies with the
date of the destruction of Paris.
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As to the time of that event, we have already covered that point
*ad nauseam*, the 353 quatrains of the first book of Centuries
speaking to this, Paris being nuked at 3:53 a.m. on that fateful
Sunday.
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If the above were all true, we would be able to conclude that
Nostradamus did not only hide his prophecy about the end of Paris
absolutely everywhere in his published texts, but that he also
managed to hide the date and time of it in the manner in which he
did publish these 24 books.
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Clever, eh, this Nostradamus?!
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