OCCULT VIEW

Nostradamus is viewed with skepticism by most people.  The skeptics have a point when they insist his predictions are so vague they can be applied to multiple situations.  Is there anything in his writings that pass for clear cut evidence Nostradamus predicted the future?  I will offer one example, a quatrain that reads like gibberish at first, but in reality is an uncanny prophecy, one of his greatest predictions:

           Century I, Quatrain 64
At night they will think they have seen the sun,
when they see the half pig man:
Noise, screams, battles seen fought in the skies.
The brute beasts will be heard to speak.

At first glance this seems nonsensical…the sun at night, half pig men and talking beasts.  Rubbish!  Bullcrap!  Nobody could understand this quatrain until the 20th century. The key is the third line.  This prediction might be a genuine prophetic vision containing sight and sound, clairvoyance and clairaudience.

Aerial warfare obviously did not exist during the time of Nostradamus in the 1500s.   It reads like Nostradamus uncomprehendingly tried to describe what he witnessed in words that made sense to him, describing a dogfight or a nighttime bombing raid.  Imagine if Nostradamus watched a news reel of the WWII Battle of Britain.  How would he describe it in four lines?

BRUTE BEASTS

“At night they will think they have seen the sun” is describing the spotlights trying to pinpoint the fighter aircraft and bombers in the sky.  Imagine the experience of the pilot suddenly getting hit with a searchlight.  The “half pig man” describes the appearance of an aviator wearing a flying helmet and oxygen mask.  “Noise, screams, battles seen fought in the skies” is the sound of aerial warfare, the shriek and roar of planes, bombs dropping, and anti-aircraft gunfire.  “The brute beasts will be heard to speak” is the radio communication in the cockpit or the aviators themselves inside the aircraft (beasts). 

It is remarkable how well this prediction conveys the experience of actually witnessing the event, trying to describe it in words that are insufficient to the task. If we still doubt Nostradamus predicted air travel, consider the quatrain that immediately preceded Quatrain 64:

           Century I, Quatrain 63
Pestilences extinguished, the world becomes smaller,
for a long time the lands will be inhabited peacefully.
People will travel safely through the sky (over) land and seas:
then wars will start up again.

The world was made smaller by modern air travel.  These two predictions were on target.