I.69
La grand montaigne ronde de sept estades,
Apres paix, guerre, faim, inundation,
Roulera loing abysmant grands contrades,
Mesmes antiques, & grand fondation.
Verse translation
The mighty mount seven stadia in girth --
Once peace, war, famine, flood have all abounded --
Shall roll and crush great kingdoms of the earth,
However far, or old, or firmly founded.
The famous prophetic dream of Nebuchadnezzar, as described in the
second chapter of the Book of Daniel, in which 'a stone... cut out of
a mountain without hands' destroys a mighty statue of gold, silver,
bronze, iron and clay that Daniel interprets as standing for four
successive ancient world empires (conventionally associated with
Babylon, Persia, Greece and Rome). The stone grows into 'a great
mountain filling the whole earth' and stands for the expected Kingdom
of God, which 'shall shatter and make an end of all these kingdoms,
while it shall itself endure for ever.' The mountain is evidently
here associated with King David's Mount Zion (the site of ancient
Jerusalem) - long used by the Bible to represent the Kingdom itself
- which indeed measured around a mile in circumference, though the
actual source of Nostradamus's 'seven stadia' (some 1400 yards)
appears to have been Josephus's description of King Herod's
fortress of Masada.
Merlin the Magician
"As it once was so shall it be again, world without end"
[TEOTW: 27, Shelter from the Storm, 346]
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| User: "" |
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18 Apr 2006 12:50:41 PM |
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Cut down to your proper size, eh little worm man.....
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| User: "Merlin" |
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18 Apr 2006 02:57:57 PM |
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wrote:
Cut down to your proper size, eh little worm man.....
Talking to yourself again, eh Mr DiMwit!
Go play with your dolls and leave Nostradamus to the experts..
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18 Apr 2006 04:50:57 PM |
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Go join a skeptic group or something....Did you know that Nostradamus
wrote PROPHECIES not HISTORY, you little monkey?
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| User: "" |
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17 Apr 2006 03:53:30 PM |
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The hand having writ moves on eh?
Stretching it a bit on the Masada side, never mind though the fundies
buy it from catch phrases, alone.
Though Le Vert seems to have the essence of it:
C I-Q69 La grand montaigne ronde de sept estades,
Apres paix, guerre, faim, inundation,
Roulera loing abysmant grands contrades,
Mesmes antiques, et grand fondation.
The great mountain, circled by seven temples--After peace, war, hunger
[and] flood-
Shall push [from] afar great lands into the abyss, Even ancient ones,
and [of] illustrious foundation.
Line 1. 'estade' (Latin 'stadium') may indicate a station, place, or
temple. It can also be a measure of length, about one eighth of a mile.
In this context the reference seems to be to the seven hills and seven
great temples of Rome. Line 2. Or, 'After peace [shall come] war,
hunger, flood.' Line 3. 'contrade' was considered an Italianate form.
It may offer a hint as to the location of the action.
This is sometimes interpreted as vulcanism, but a more likely
interpretation is general warfare followed by Papal interdiction and
release from vows of fealty.
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