Well having found another translation of said Epistle, it is
interesting to see how translations vary. text as found numbered
according to Leoni
Stewart on Nostradamus' Prophetic Epistle To Henry II Of France
There are many translations and interpretation of the Centuries
currently available, but popular editions usually exclude the
important Preface), and the prophetic Epistle, quoted below. This text
should be compared in terms of the imagery to that of Merlin, and to
the extracts from Biblical prophecies quoted in our other chapters.
Epistle To Henry II
To the most invincible, very puissant, and most Christian Henry King
of France the Second: Michael Nostradamus, his most humble, most
obedient servant and subject, wishes victory and happiness.
1. For that sovereign observation that I had, O most Christian and
very victorious King, since that my face, long obscured with cloud,
presented itself before the deity of your measureless Majesty, since
that in that I have been perpetually dazzled, never failing to honour
and worthily revere that day,
2. when first before it, as before a singularly humane majesty, I
presented myself. I searched for some occasion by which to manifest
good heart and frank courage, by the means of which I might grow into
greater knowledge of your serene Majesty. I soon found in effect it
was impossible for me to declare it, considering the contrast of the
solitariness of my long obnubilation and obscurity, and my being
suddenly thrust into brilliancy, and transported into the presence of
the sovereign eye of the first monarch of the universe. Likewise I
have long hung in doubt as to whom I ought to dedicate these three
Centuries to, the remainder of my Prophecies amounting now to a
thousand. I have long meditated on an act of such audacity. I have at
last ventured to address your Majesty, and was not daunted from it as
Plutarch, that grave author, relates in the life of Lycurgus, that,
seeing the gifts and presents that were made in the way of sacrifice
at the temples of the immortal gods in that age, many were staggered
at the expense, and dared not approach the temple to present anything.
Notwithstanding this, I saw your royal splendour to be accompanied
with an incomparable humanity, and, paid my addresses to it, not as to
those Kings of Persia whom it was not permissible to approach.
3. But to a very prudent and very wise Prince I have dedicated my
nocturnal and prophetic calculations, composed out of a natural
instinct, and accompanied by a poetic fervour, rather than according
to the strict rules of poetry. Most part, indeed, has been composed
and adjusted by astronomical calculation corresponding to the years,
months, and weeks, of the regions, countries, and for the most part
town and cities, throughout Europe, Africa, and a part of Asia, which
nearest approach each-other in all these climates, and this is
composed in a natural manner.
4. Possibly some may answer - who, if so, had better blow his nose
[that he may see the clearer by it] - that the rhythm is as easy to be
understood, as the sense is hard to get at. Therefore, O most gracious
King, the bulk of the prophetic quatrains are so rude, that there is
no making way through them, nor is there any interpreter of them.
5. Nevertheless, being always anxious to set down the years, towns,
and regions cited, where the events are to occur, even from the year
1585, and the year 1606, dating from the present time, which is the
14th of March 1557. Then passing far beyond to things which shall
happen at the commencement of the seventh millenary, deeply
calculated, so far as my astronomic calculus, and other knowledge, has
been able to reach, to the time when the adversaries of Jesus Christ
and of His Church shall begin to multiply in great force. The whole
has been composed and calculated on days and hours of best election
and disposition, and with all the accuracy I could attain to. At a
moment 'Minerva libera et non invita,' ['When Minerva was free and
favourable,']
6. my calculations looking forward to events through a space of time
to come that nearly equals that of the past even up to the present,
and by this they will know in the lapse of time and in all regions
what is to happen, all written down thus particularly, immingled with
nothing superfluous.Notwithstanding that some say, 'Quod de futuris
non est determinata omnino veritas,' ['There can be no truth entirely
determined for certain which concerns the filture.']
7. I will confess, Sire, that I believed myself capable of presage
from the natural instinct I inherit of my ancestors, adjusted and
regulated by elaborate calculation, and the endeavour to free the
soul, mind, and heart from all care, solicitude, and anxiety, by
resting and tranquilizing the spirit, which finally has all to be
completed and perfected in one respect tripode aeneo by the brazen
tripod.
8. With all this there will be many to attribute to me as mine, things
no more mine than nothing. The Almighty alone, who strictly searches
the human heart, pious, just, and pitiful, is the true judge; to Him I
pray to defend me from the calumny of wicked men. Such persons, with
equal calumny, will bring into question how all your ancient
progenitors the Kings of France have cured the evil; how those of
other nations have cured the bite of serpents; others have had a
certain instinct in the art of divination, and other faculties that
would be too long to recount here.
9. Notwithstanding such as cannot be restrained from the exercise of
the malignancy of the evil spirit, by the lapse of time, and after my
extinction here on earth, my writings will be more valued than during
my lifetime.However, if I err in calculation of ages, or find myself
unable to please all the world, may it please your Imperial Majesty to
forgive me, for I protest before God and His saints, that I purpose to
insert nothing whatever in writing this present Epistle that shall
militate against the true Catholic Faith, while consulting the
astronomical calculations to the very best of my knowledge.
10. For the stretch of time of our forefathers which has gone before
is such, submitting myself to the direction of the soundest
chronologists, that the first man, Adam., was about one thousand two
hundred and forty years before Noah, not computing time by Gentile
records, such as Varro has committed to writing, but taking simply the
Sacred Scriptures for the guide in my astronomic reckonings, to the
best of my feeble understanding. After Noah, from him and the
universal deluge, about one thousand and fourscore years, came
Abraham, who was a sovereign astrologer according to some; he first
invented the Chaldæan alphabet. Then came Moses, about five hundred
and fifteen or sixteen years later. Between the time of David and
Moses five hundred and seventy years elapsed. Then after the time of
David and the time of our Saviour and Redeemer, Jesus Christ, born of
a pure Virgin, there elapsed (according to some chronographers) one
thousand three hundred and fifty years. Some, indeed, may object to
this supputation as not true, because it varies from that of Eusebius.
Since the time of the human redemption to the hateful apostacy of the
Saracens there have been six hundred and twenty-one years, or
thereabouts.
11. Now, from this it is easy to gather what time has elapsed if my
supputation be not good and available for all nations, for that all is
calculated by the celestial courses, associated in my case with an
emotion that steals over me at certain subsecival hours from an
emotional tendency handed down to me from a line of ancestors. But the
injuriousness of our time, O most serene Sovereign, requires that such
secret events should not transpire, except in enigmatic sentences,
having but one sense and one only meaning, and quite unmingled with
calculation that is of ambiguity or amphihology. Say, rather, under a
veiled obscurity from some natural emotional effusion, that resembles
the sentential delivery of the thousand and two Prophets, that have
been from the Creation of the world, according to the calculation and
Punic Chronicle of Joel: 'Effundum spiritum meum super omnem carnem,
et prophetabunt filii vestri, et filæ vestræ..' See Joel ii.28. But
this prophecy proceeded from the mouth of the Holy Spirit, which was
the sovereign power eternal, in conjunction with the celestial bodies,
has caused some of the number to predict great and marvellous events.
12. As to myself in this place, I set up no claim to such a title
never, please God. I fully confess that all proceeds from God, and for
that I return Him thanks, honour, and immortal praise, and have
mingled nothing with it of the divination which proceeds a fato, but a
Deo, a naturd, and for the most part accompanied with the movement of
the celestial courses. Much as, if looking into a burning mirror [we
see], as with darkened vision, the great events, sad or portentous,
and calamitous occurrences that are about to fall upon the principal
worshippers. First upon the temples of God, secondly upon such as have
their support from the earth this decadence draweth nigh, with a
thousand other calamitous incidents that in the course of time will be
known to happen.
13. For God will take notice of the long barrenness of the great Dame,
who afterwards will conceive two principal children. But, she being in
great danger, the girl she will give birth to with risk at her age of
death in the eighteenth year, and not possible to outlive the
thirty-sixth, will leave three males and one female, and he will have
two who never had any of the same father.
14. The three brothers will be so different, though united and agreed
that the three and four parts of Europe will tremble. By the youngest
in years will the Christian monarchy be sustained and augmented;
heresies spring up and suddenly cast down, the Arabs driven back,
kingdoms united, and new laws promulgated.
15. Of the other children the first shall possess the furious crowned
Lions, holding their paws upon the bold escutcheon.
16. The second, accompanied by the Latins, shall penetrate so far that
a second trembling and furious descent shall be made, descending Mons
Jovis to mount the Pyrenees, shall not be translated to the antique
monarchy, and a third inundation of human blood shall arise and March
for a long while will not be found in Lent.
17. The daughter shall be given for the preservation of the Christian
Church, the dominator failing into the Pagan sect of new infidels, and
she will have two children, the one fidelity, the other infidelity, by
the confirmation of the Catholic Church.
18. The other, who to his great confusion and tardy repentance wished
to ruin her, will have three regions over a wide extent of leagues,
that is to say, Roumania, Germany, and Spain, which will entail great
intricacy of military handling, stretching from the 50th to the 52nd
degree of latitude.
19. And they will have to respect the more distant religions of Europe
and the north above the 48th degree of latitude, which at first in a
vain timidity will tremble, and then the more western, southern, and
eastern will tremble. Their power will become such, that what is
brought about by union and concord will prove insuperable by warlike
conquest.
20. By nature they will be equal, but exceedingly different in faith.
21. After this the sterile Dame, of greater power than the second,
shall be received by two nations, by the first made obstinate by him
who had power over all, by the second,
22. and third, that shall extend his forces towards the circuit of the
east of Europe; [arrived] there his standards will stop and succumb,
but by sea he will run on to Trinacria and the Adriatic with his
myrmidons. The Germans will succumb wholly and the Barbaric sect will
be disquieted and driven back by the whole of the Latin race.
23. Then shall begin the grand Empire of Antichrist in the Atila and
Xerxes, to descend with innumerable multitudes, so that the coming of
the Holy Spirit, issuing from the 48th degree, shall make a
transmigration, chasing away the abomination of Antichrist, that made
war upon the royal person of the great vicar of Jesus Christ, and
against His Church, and reign per tempus, et in occasione temporis
[for a time, and to the end of time].
24. This will be preceded by an eclipse of the sun, more obscure and
tenebrose than has ever been since the creation of the world, up to
the death and passion of Jesus Christ, and from thence till now. There
will be in the month of October a grand revolution made, such that one
would think that the librating body of the earth had lost its natural
movement in the abyss of perpetual darkness.
25. There will be seen precursive signs in the spring-time, and after
extreme changes ensuing, reversal of kingdoms, and great earthquakes.
All this accompanied with the procreations of the New Babylon, a
miserable prostitute big with the abomination of the first holocaust.
It will continue for only seventy-three years seven months.
26. Then there will issue from the stock so long time barren,
proceeding from the 50th degree, one who will renovate the whole
Christian Church. A great peace, union, and concord will then spring
up between some of the children of races opposed to each other and
separated by diverse kingdoms. Such a peace shall be set up, that the
instigator and promoter of military faction by means of the diversity
of religions, shall dwell attached to the bottom of the abyss, and
united to the kingdom of the furious, who shall counterfeit the wise.
27. The countries, towns, cities, and provinces that had forsaken
their old customs to free themselves, enthralling themselves more
deeply, shall become secretly weary of their liberty, and, true
religion lost, shall commence by striking off to the left, to return
more than ever to the right. Then replacing holiness, so long
desecrated by their former writings,
28. afterwards the result will be that the great dog will issue as an
irresistible mastiff who will destroy everything, even to all that may
have been prepared in time past, till the churches will be restored as
at first, and the clergy reinstated in their pristine condition; till
it lapses again into whoredom and luxury, to commit and perpetrate a
thousand crimes.
29. And, drawing near to another desolation, then, when she shall be
at her highest and sublimest point of dignity, the kings and generals
will come up, and her two swords will be taken from her, and nothing
will be left her but the semblance of them. From which by the means of
the crookedness that draweth them, the people causing it to go
straight, and not willing to submit unto them by the end opposite to
the sharp hand that toucheth the ground they shall provoke.
30. Until there shall be born unto the branch a long time sterile, one
who shall deliver the French people from the benign slavery that they
voluntarily submitted to, putting himself under the protection of
Mars, and stripping Jupiter of all his honours and dignities, for the
city constituted free and seated in another narrow Mesopotamia. The
chief and governor shall be cast from the midst, and set in a place of
the air, ignorant of the conspiracy of the conspirators with the
second Thrasibulus, who for a long time had prepared all this.
31. Then shall the impurities and abominations be with great shame set
forth and manifested to the darkness of the veiled light, shall cease
towards the end of his reign, and the chiefs of the Church shall
evince but little of the love of God, whilst many of them shall
apostatize from the true faith. Of the three sects (Lutheran,
Catholic, and Mahometan), that which is in the middle, by the action
of its own worshippers, will be thrown a little into decadence. The
first totally throughout Europe, and the chief part of Africa
exterminated by the third, by means of the poor in spirit, who by the
madness engendered of libidinous luxury, will commit adultery.
32. The people will pull down the pillar, and chase away the adherents
of the legislators, and it shall seem, from the kingdoms weakened by
the Orientals, that God the Creator has loosed Satan from the infernal
prisons, to make room for the great Dog and Dohan, which will make so
great and injurious a breach in the Churches, that neither the reds
nor the whites, who are without eyes and without hands, cannot judge
of the situation, and their power will be taken from them.
33. Then shall commence a persecution of the Church such as never was
before. While this is enacting, such a pestilence shall spring up that
out of three parts of mankind two shall be removed. To such a length
will this proceed that one will neither know nor recognize the fields
or houses, and grass will grow in the streets of the cities as high as
a man's knees. To the clergy there shall be a total desolation, and
the martial men shall usurp what shall come back from the City of the
Sun, and from Malta, and the Islands of Hieres, and the great chain of
the port shall be opened that takes its name from the marine ox.
34. A new incursion shall be made from the maritime shores, eager to
give the leap of liberty since the first taking by the Mahometans.
Their assaults shall not be at all in vain, and in the place where the
habitation of Abraham was, it shall be assailed by those who hold the
Jovialists in reverence. The city of Achem (in the Island of Sumatra)
shall be encompassed and assaulted on all sides by a great force of
armed men. Their maritime forces shall be weakened by the Westerns.
Upon this kingdom a great desolation shall come, and the great cities
shall be depopulated, and such as enter in shall come under the
vengeance of the wrath of God.
35. The Holy Sepulchre, for so long a period an object of great
veneration, shall remain exposed to the blighting dew of evening under
the stars of heaven, and of the sun and moon. The holy place shall be
converted into a stable for cattle small and large, applied to other
base purposes. Oh, what a calamitous time will that be for women with
child!
36. For then the Sultan of the East will be vanquished, driven for
the most part by the Northern and Western men, who will kill him,
overthrow him, and put the rest to flight, and his children, the
offspring of many women, imprisoned. Then will come to its fulfilment
the prophecy of the Royal Prophet, 'Ut audiret gemitus compeditorum,
et solveret filios interemptorurn.' ('Let the sighing of the prisoner
come before thee, to release the children of death') (Ps. 1xxviii.
11).
37. What great oppression shall then fall upon the princes and rulers
of kingdoms, even on those who are maritime and Oriental, their
tongues intermingled from all nations of the earth! Tongues of the
Latin nations, mingled with Arabic and North-African communication.
All the Eastern kings will be driven away, overthrown, and
exterminated, not at all by means of the kings of the North and the
drawing near of our age, but by means of the three secretly united who
seek out death and snares by ambush sprung upon one, another. The
renewal of this Triumvirate shall endure for seven years, while its
renown shall spread all over the world, and the sacrifice of the holy
and immaculate wafer shall be upheld.
38. Then shall two lords of the North conquer the Orientals, and so
great report and tumultuary warfare shall issue from these that all
the East shall tremble at the noise of these two brothers of the
North, who are yet not brothers.
39. And because, Sire, by this discourse I almost introduce confusion
into these predictions as to the time when the event of each shall
fall out; for the detailed account of the time that follows is very
little conformable, if at all, to what I gave above, that indeed could
not err, being by astronomic rule and consonant with the Holy
Scriptures themselves. Had I wished to give to every quatrain its
detailed date, it could easily have been done, but it would not have
been agreeable to all, and still less to interpret them, Sire, until
your Majesty should have fully sanctioned me to do this, in order not
to furnish calumniators with an opportunity to injure me.
40. Always reckoning the years since the creation of the world to the
birth of Noah as being 1506 years, and from that to the completion of
the building of the ark at the period of the universal deluge 600
years elapsed (let them be solar years, or lunar, or mixed), I hold
that the Scripture takes them to be solar. At the conclusion of this
600 years, Noah entered the ark to escape the deluge. The deluge was
universal over the earth, and lasted one year and two months. From the
conclusion of the deluge to the birth of Abraham, there elapsed 295
years, and 100 years from that to the birth of Isaac. From Isaac: to
Jacob 60 years. From the time he went into Egypt until his coming out
of it was 130 years; and from the entry of Jacob, into Egypt to his
exit was 430 years; and from that to the building of the Temple by
Solomon in the fortieth year of his reign, makes 480 years. From the
building of the Temple to Jesus Christ, according to the supputation
of the Hierographs, there passed 490 years. Thus by this calculation
that I have made, collecting it out of the sacred writings, there are
about 4173 years and eight months less or more. Now, from Jesus
Christ, in that there is such a diversity of opinion, I pass it by.
41. Having calculated the present prophecies in accordance with the
order of the chain which contains the revolution, and the whole by
astronomical rule, together with my own hereditary instinct. After
some time, and including in it the period Saturn takes to turn between
the 7th of April up to the 25th of August; Jupiter from the 14th of
June to the 7th of October; Mars from the 17th of April to the 22nd of
June; Venus from the 9th of April to the 22nd of May; Mercury from the
3rd of February to the 24th of the same; afterwards from the 1st of
June to the 24th of the same; and from the 25th of September to the
16th of October, Saturn in Capricorn, Jupiter in Aquarius, Mars in
Scorpio, Venus in Pisces, Mercury within a month in Capricorn,
Aquarius, and Pisces; the moon in Aquarius, the Dragon's head in
Libra, the tail in her sign opposite. Following the conjunction of
Jupiter to Mercury, with a quadrin aspect of Mars to Mercury, and the
head of the Dragon shall be with a conjunction of Sol with Jupiter,
the year shall be peaceful without eclipse.
42. Then will be the commencement (of a period) that will comprehend
in itself what will long endure [i.e. the vulgar advent of the French
Revolution], and in its first year there shall be a great persecution
of the Christian Church, fiercer than that in Africa, and this will
burst out the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two; they
will think it to be a renovation of time.
43. After this the people of Rome will begin to reconstitute
themselves, and to chase away the obscurity of darkness, recovering
some share of their ancient brightness, but not without much division
and continual changes. Venice after that, in great force and power,
shall raise her wings very high, not much short of the force of
ancient Rome.
44. At that time great Byzantine sails, associated with the
Piedmontese by the help and power of the North, will so restrain them
that the two Cretans will not be able to maintain their faith. The
arks built by the ancient warriors will accompany them to the waves of
Neptune. In the Adriatic there will be such permutations, that what
was united will be separated, and that will be reduced to a house
which before was a great city, including the Pampotan and Mesopotamia
of Europe, to 45, and others to 41, 42, and 37.
45. And in that time and those countries the infernal power will set
the power of the adversaries of its law against the Church of Jesus
Christ. This will constitute the second Antichrist, which will
persecute that Church and its true vicar, by means of the power of the
temporal kings, who in their ignorance will be reduced by tongues that
will cut more than any sword in the hands of a madman.
46. The said reign of the Antichrist will last only to the death of
him who was born at the near the [commencement] of the century and of
the other one of the city of Plancus [Lyon,] accompanied by him the
elect of Modena Fulcy and of Ferrara, upheld by the Adriatic
Piedmontese and proximity of great Trinacria [Sicily].
47. afterwards the Gallic Ogmios shall pass the Mount Jovis
accompanied by so great a number that from afar the Empire shall be
presented with it's grand law and for some time thereafter the blood
of the Innocent will be shed profusely by the guilty recently elevated
to power. Then, because of great deluges, the memory of things
contained in these instruments will suffer incalculable loss, even to
the alphabet. This will happen among the Northerns by divine will
48. once again Satan will be bound, and universal peace will be
established among mankind, and the Church of Jesus Christ will be
delivered from all tribulation. although the Azostains would desire to
mix with the honey the gall of their pestilent seduction. This will be
near the seventh millenary, when the sanctuary of Jesus Christ will no
longer be trodden down by the infidels who come from the North; the
world approaching its great conflagration, although by my supputation
in my prophecies, the course of time runs much farther on.
49. In the epistle that some years since I dedicated to my son Caesar
Nostradamus, I have openly enough declared some points without
presage. But here, Sire, are comprised many great and marvellous
events to come, which those who follow after us shall see.
50. And during the said astrological supputation, harmonized with
the sacred Scriptures, the persecution of the Ecclesiastics shall take
its rise in the power of the kings of the North, united with the
Easterns. And this persecution shall last eleven years, or somewhat
less, by which time the chief Northern king shall pass away,
51. which years being run, a united Southern king shall succeed,
which shall still more fiercely persecute the clergy of the Church for
the space of three years by the Apostolical seduction of one who will
take away all the absolute power from the Church Militant, and holy
people of God who observe its ritual, and the whole order of religion
shall be greatly persecuted and so afflicted that the blood of true
ecclesiastics shall float everywhere.
52. To one of those horrible temporal kings such praise shall be given
by his adherents that he will have shed more human blood of innocent
ecclesiastics, than any could do of wine. This king will commit crimes
against the Church that are incredible. Human blood will flow in the
public streets and churches, like water after impetuous rain, and will
crimson with blood the neighbouring rivers, and by another naval war
redden the sea to such a degree that one king shall say to another,
'Bellis rubuit novalibus aequor.' ['The sea blushed red with the blood
of naval fights.']
53. Then in the same year and those following there will ensue the
most horrible pestilence and the most astonishing on account of the
famine that will precede, and such tribulation that nothing
approaching it ever happened since the first foundation of the
Christian Church; this also throughout all the Latin regions, leaving
traces in all the countries under the rule of Spain.
54. Then the third King of the North, hearing the complaint of the
people from his principal title, will raise up a mighty army, and pass
through the limits of his last progenitors and great-grandfathers, to
him who will replace almost everything in its old condition. The great
Vicar of the Cope shall be put back to his pristine state; but,
desolated and abandoned by all, will return to the sanctuary destroyed
by Paganism, when the Old and New Testament will be thrust out and
burnt.
55. After that Antichrist will be the infernal prince. Then at this
last epoch, all the kingdoms of Christianity, as well as of the
infidel world, will be shaken during the space of twenty-five years,
and the wars and battles will be more grievous, and the towns, cities,
castles, and all other edifices will be burnt, desolated, and
destroyed with much effusion of vestal blood, married women and widows
violated, sucking children dashed and broken against the walls of
towns; and so many evils will be committed by means of Satan, the
prince infernal, that nearly all the world will become undone and
desolated. Before the events occur certain strange birds will cry in
the air, 'To-day! to-day!' and after a given time will disappear.
56. After this has endured for a certain length of time, there will be
almost renewed another reign of Saturn, the age of gold. God the
Creator shall say, hearing the affliction of His people, Satan shall
be precipitated and bound in the bottomless abyss, and then shall
commence between God and men a universal peace. There he shall abide
for the space of a thousand years, and shall turn his greatest force
against the power of the Church, and shall then be bound again.
57. How justly are all these figures adapted by the divine letters to
visible celestial things, that is to say, by Saturn, Jupiter, and
Mars, and others in conjunction with them, as may be seen more at
large by some of the quatrains! I would have calculated it more
deeply, and adapted the one to the other; but, seeing, O most serene
King, that some who are given to censure will raise a difficulty, I
shall take the opportunity to retire my pen and seek my nocturnal
repose. 'Multa etiam, O Rex omnium potentissime praeclara, et sane in
brevi ventura, sed omnia in hac tud Epistola, innectere non possumus
necvolumus, sed ad intellegenda quaedam facta, horrida fata pauca
libanda sunt, quarnvis tanta sit in omnes tua amplitudo et humanitas
homines, deosque pietas, ut solos amplissimo et Christianissimo Regis
nomine, et ad quem summa totius religionis auctoritas deferatur dignus
esse videare.'
58. Many things, O most potent king of all, of the most remarkable
kind are shortly to happen, that I neither could nor would interweave
them all into this epistle; but in order to comprehend certain facts,
a few horrible destinies must be set down in extract, although your
amplitude and humanity towards all men is so The said reign of
Antichrist will last only to the death of him who was born near the
[commencement] of the century, and of the other in the city of
Plancus, accompanied by him the elect of Modena, Fulcy by Ferara,
upheld by the Adriatic Piedmontese, and the proximity of the great
Trinacria. Afterwards the Gallic Ogmion shall pass the Mount Jovis,
accompanied by so great a number that from afar the Empire shall be
presented with its grand law, and then and for some time after shall
be profusely shed the blood of the innocent by the guilty recently
elevated to power. Then by great deluges the memory of things
contained in such instruments shall suffer incalculable loss, even to
the Alphabet itself. This will happen among the Northerns. By the
Divine Will once again Satan will be bound, and universal peace
established amongst mankind, and the Church of Jesus Christ delivered
from all tribulation, great, and your piety to the gods, that you
alone seem worthy of the grand title of the most Christian King, and
to whom the highest authority in all religion should be deferred.']
59. But I shall only beseech you, O most clement King, by this your
singular and most prudent goodness, to understand rather the desire of
my heart, and the sovereign wish I have to obey your most excellent
Majesty, ever since my eyes approached so nearly to your solar
splendour, than the grandeur of my work can attain to or acquire.
Faciebat Michael Nostradramus Solonoe Petrae Provinciae From Salon
this 27th June, 1558.
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