Experts still have not been able to solve all the mysteries of Nostradamus, for example, his prediction about the lady from the future.

For more than four centuries, the mysteries of Nostradamus have attracted many different interpreters. And, notice, their interpretations are often quite different. And most often, such interpretations are published, as a rule, after a resonant event: they say, and Nostradamus foresaw wars, natural disasters, and destructive man-made disasters, and epidemics.



Mysteries of Nostradamus Shuttle explosion on takeoff? Nostradamus foresaw. However, neither aircraft nor other realities of the development of technology oracle has not described. But the fire was in the sky? Was. So he hit the spot. The economic crisis? And here he is proud: for he predicted that the price of a bushel of grain would soar that people would eat each other. The astrologer did not specify dates, and exaggeration is a thing familiar to poetry in general, and even more so in prophecies. It was about Genoa, but there is no need to specify.



Why have so many experts failed to understand all the mysteries of Nostradamus? Probably for several reasons. First, there are no connoisseurs of Old French and Latin, so literary translations are interpreted that only vaguely resemble the original text of Michel Nostradamus. And secondly, most likely, the author of "Centuries" and did not really want to be solved.

Metaphor or truth? And, skillfully using the ambiguity of words, metaphoricalness, allegorical speech, Michel Nostradamus so vaguely built phrases that everyone could and can explain his prophecies at his own discretion, in accordance with the level of education, spiritual development, with a worldview. So Hitler’s propagandists, too freely using the texts of the Centuries, spread “prophecies” about the triumph of the Third Reich throughout the world.

The other day I heard one of the “fresh” interpreters, who, in particular, promised to reveal, in his words, “some deep essence”. ladylikeRepeatedly found in the prophecies of the astrologer. I will not name the interpreter, since he did not name anyone except Nostradamus da John the Theologian.



What did the interpreter interest me? It is the promise to reveal the symbolic meaning of the image of the lady. However, the announced dive into the depths of mysterious prophecies about this stranger from the future, so far away for an astrologer, did not happen. The site visitors were asked to read some quatrains, which was accompanied by comments such as “a certain woman”, “a certain spiritual energy”, “a certain period”, “some social groups will cease to exist”, “some spiritual warfare”. Do you feel how “clear” the essence is due to such interpretations?

Did the interpretation help to understand the mysteries of Nostradamus? And for some reason, as a prediction of the future, poems were read in which, which is extremely rare for the quatrains of Nostradamus, the date is indicated - the seventh month of 1999 (remember, then very many people, twisted by this prophecy, seriously waited for the end of the world in the form of a universal catastrophe and scratched their heads about what month the astrologer meant - July or September, since in Latin "seventh" is September).



The cherries on the cake were “social society”, “months” and “hetacomb games” (yes, that’s right, although there is no such word, but “hecatomb” is a sacrifice in ancient Greece; later the word came to mean the destruction or death of many people).

So, through the stump of the deck, the interpreter came to the conclusion that the “lady from the creek”, “lustful woman”, “lady with an untainted reputation” and one of the pair of “fugitives from the golden cage” are the same “some woman”. And it is involved in all or many of the events approaching the second coming, or the end of the world. It's weird, isn't it? .



Or maybe Nostradamus wrote allegorically about conscience, love, faith, justice, power, eternity? The interpreter of the prophecies summed up his explanations: “There will be some spiritual warfare.” There will be no visible catastrophe, no one except those endowed with higher spirituality will notice that this has already happened. I didn’t mention names so as not to offend anyone. If there are any coincidences, they are accidental.” Like a movie.

Researchers of the legacy of Nostradamus came to the conclusion that most of his quatrains are not about the future, but about the past in relation to 1555, when the first edition of the Centuries was published.



The astrologer and poet believed that the events of world history are cyclically repeated, as planetary configurations are repeated and the same signs occur (eclipses of the Sun and Moon, planetary parades, comet flights and other astronomical phenomena). And he described the events of the past, hoping that similar things will happen in the future.

Between the past and the future there is the present. And it's ours. It also depends on you and me what the future will be.