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    Nostradamus 2003-2025: A History of the Future
    Nostradamus 2003-2025: A History of the Future
    Nostradamus 2003-2025: A History of the Future
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    Nostradamus 2003-2025: A History of the Future

    By Peter Lorie

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    Who wouldn't want to know the answer to the question:
    "WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT?"
    For hundreds of years, philosophers, scientists, and mystics have studied the enigmatic writings of the great prognosticator Nostradamus for clues as to what our future holds. Drawing upon recent investigations undertaken by government agencies, major corporations, and noted works by world-renowned researchers, this book contains never-before revealed predictions for the years 2003-2025 -- including a haunting reference to the September 11 attacks on the Twin Towers in one of Nostradamus's most famous quatrains.
    Arranged in chronological year-by-year order of events, predictions range from the future of science and technology, to drastic changes in climate, population explosions, political upheaval, and social and cultural milestones for humanity. For all those who wish to know the foretold destiny of our world in the next quarter century, this is a must-have guide for the future.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPocket Books
    Release dateOct 21, 2002
    ISBN9780743457750
    Nostradamus 2003-2025: A History of the Future
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    Peter Lorie

    Peter Lorie has written extensively for the new age market, including books about predictions, superstitions, and spiritual guides such as Nostradamus.

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      Nostradamus 2003-2025 - Peter Lorie

      SEPTEMBER 11, 2001

      The year 1999 and seven months, from the skies will come a great and frightening king, to devastate the great King of Angoulmois, before After Mars to reign through happiness.

      —C10 V72¹

      This quatrain has most often been interpreted as meaning that the world was somehow going to end. It is one of the very few verses that contains an actual date in Nostradamus’s future, and the year 1999 is, of course, a very emotive year as it is the end of a century and millennium (at least as far as popular belief is concerned), and could therefore be the end of an era, or even of mankind. Though, of course, it was not. The concept of a doomsday is popular among many interpreters. But the universe tends not to be aware of mankind’s calendars, only mankind is aware of the time of day and the date of the year. Nostradamus was not a fool and would not have made such a presumption. This does not detract, however, from the importance of the whole concept of the millennium as a turning point in human transformation. And if we take into account the fact that Nostradamus was often wrong on his dates by a year or two (pretty good over a 450-year-long sight), we can easily apply this quatrain to September 11, 2001.

      The first, most important part of this verse is the reference to Angoulmois, for this brings us back to our suggestion that many of the prophet’s verses contain words that are essentially historically sourced. Most interpreters take the name Angoulmois in relation only to its ancient position in the Dark Ages, so this is where we will begin our hunt.

      The people of Angouleme were invaded by the Huns, a Mongol race led by a violent and powerful king named Attila. The area of Angoulmois, which was then the province of France in which the city of Angouleme stood, was a large area of southwest France now known as Charente. The city lies upon a high plateau above the conjunction of the Charente and Anguienne rivers and was therefore a great vantage point for conquering Visigoths, Huns, and Mongols. But why are we looking at this obscure place in relation to a king hundreds of years before Nostradamus’s lifetime?²

      The popular belief is that there is some connection between the ancient Mongols and the Book of Revelations insofar as Nostradamus appears to make reference to the raising of the dead—to resuscitate the great King of Angoulmois³—i.e., that the Second Advent will bring Christ back to raise Attila the Hun from his rotting grave and judge him for his dastardly deeds, or something of that kind. This seems somewhat obscure. There may be a much simpler reason for the use of the town as a symbol.

      Let’s look a little further into the future of Attila the Hun. In fact, let’s move right forward to the time of Nostradamus himself.

      During Nostradamus’s early years, around 1524 when he was eighteen, a man named Giovanni da Verrazano served the French king Francis I, from 1515 to 1547. Francis I also happened to be Count of Angouleme, being part of the French royal dynasty of Valois (the same dynasty to which Catherine de’ Medici belonged).

      Verrazano traveled a very long distance to a remote island off the coast of a country that had been visited some years earlier by Christopher Columbus. Verrazano called this island Angouleme after his master’s title Count of Angouleme. It later became known as Manhattan Island. One of the bridges leading out of Manhattan is named after the island’s founder—Verrazano Bridge.

      Nostradamus would have known all about Angouleme, and if we believe in his powers of sight, he would have had at least some idea about what this small island was going to turn out to be some years later. This simply and effectively connects the prediction at the top of this section with New York’s Manhattan Island.

      The connections with the Book of Revelation are also traditionally tied together by turning the numbers 999 upside down to make 666—the sign of the Beast of the Apocalypse—the Devil. This may have some significance if we consider how many of the prophet’s predictions have a strong flavor of religious doom, but it seems less sensible to worry too much about this.

      So, we have a terrifying leader likely to appear from the sky around the years perhaps between 1999 and 2001 over New York City, which will devastate the city (Angoulmois/Manhattan). Sounds pretty accurate, even though the date is two years off. But in truth, all this got us nowhere in terms of saving lives. First, the date was wrong, so where do you start looking? Second, who would have figured out that Angoulmois might mean Manhattan, and third, from what part of the sky might the devastation occur? One of the few (there is only truly one other verse that quotes an actual date among the 1,000 verses in the Centuries) quatrains that contains an actual date, therefore, gave very little other evidence of the event itself, even though it is a very famous verse among those who study the Prophet. Most of the effective verses are linked to other verses and have much more information, so that one of the most devastating events in the history of humankind was not mapped in sufficient detail to make any positive impact on our sensibilities of our future before September 2001. More’s the pity.

      Nevertheless, Nostradamus’s work has given us a great deal, and the more we concentrate on the original material, the more chance we have of making something of it. And the rest of this book is about just that concentration—perhaps some of it to good effect.

      THE PROPHECIES—OLD AND YOUNG

      2003 GLOBAL ECONOMIES

      The inflated imitations of gold and silver which after the rapture are thrown into the fire, all is exhausted and dissipated by the debt. All scrips and bonds are wiped out. At the fourth pillar dedicated to Saturn, split by earthquake and flood: Vexing everyone an urn of gold is found and then restored.

      —C8 V28/29¹

      Here, Nostradamus describes modern currency at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and the highly inflated rapture of stock market and currency activity that gathered speed throughout 1998 and 1999. He tells us that debt dissipates energy, and eventually many financial instruments are wiped out.

      In the verses of this series, the prophet refers to the father figure of the world’s financial activity, America (Saturn), which at this time is (incidentally) split by earthquakes and floods, much like what occurred during the latter part of 1998, but discovers an urn of gold that restores the situation back to normal. He continues by telling us that this new treasure causes all manner of problems in itself—vexing everyone—before solving the problem. The process of the unfolding changes in our global currencies is likely to be quite long, and at the end of the old millennium and the beginning of the new may not have seemed at all obvious, given the highly buoyant market. However, it is worth considering some of the following information in light of Nostradamus’s

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