Mario Reading - Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies for the Future

NOSTRADAMUS

THE COMPLETE PROPHECIES FOR THE FUTURE

MARIO READING

For my sister, Angela

By the same author

Non-Fiction
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The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus
Nostradamus: The Good News
Nostradamus & The Third Antichrist
The Watkins Dictionary of Dreams
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Fiction
The Nostradamus Prophecies
The Mayan Codex
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The Templar Inheritance

Mario Reading was born in Dorset, and brought up in England, Germany, and the South of France. He studied Comparative Literature at the University of East Anglia, where he specialized in French and German literature and translation. He speaks four languages. During a nomadic youth he sold rare books, taught riding in Africa, studied dressage in Vienna, played polo in India, Spain and Dubai, ran a seventy-horse polo stables in Gloucestershire, and helped manage his Mexican wifes coffee plantation.

In recent years he has established a worldwide reputation as an original and groundbreaking expert on Nostradamus. He is the author of the original bestselling edition of this book, Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies for the Future and also of Nostradamus: The Good News and Nostradamus & The Third Antichrist. He has recently brought out the ultimate collection of Nostradamuss prophecies in The Complete Nostradamus. His Nostradamus Trilogy, comprising The Nostradamus Prophecies, The Mayan Codex and The Third Antichrist thrillers based on the theme of Nostradamuss 58 missing prophecies has become an international bestseller, with rights to date sold in 38 countries. Mario has appeared in a number of documentaries on Nostradamus for, amongst others, the Discovery Channel, the National Geographic Channel, and the History Channel. He was also voted into the Top 100 Spiritually Influential Living People by Mind, Body, Spirit magazine.

CONTENTS

Power will be given to overcautious fools

NOSTRADAMUS

QUATRAIN NUMBER

2 / 95

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

A number of people have helped in the preparation of this book, and I should like to take this opportunity to thank them. My editor, Michael Mann, for his patience and wise counsel, which included the inspired suggestion of the summaries; my agent, Anthea Morton-Saner, for hanging in with me through thick and thin (mostly thin); Dr Gerald Phillipson, for his suggestions on the Kabbalah; Shelagh Boyd, for her enlightened copy-editing; the late Penny Stopa, for her tactful help with the production details; Ned Halley (another Nostradamus nut) for his cheerful barracking; and my wife, Claudia, for her loving support and encouragement.

INTRODUCTION

When I originally wrote this book in 2005 (for a 2006 publication date) I made much of my assumption that quatrain 10/26 20062008: Assassination of a World Leader, might well serve as a warning to President Bushs bodyguards to be especially careful of their Presidents welfare during the three-year period covered by the quatrain. In the event, although there were a number of plots against the US President during that period, I am very happy to say that none of them were successful. Mrs Benazir Bhutto, however, surely a world leader of the first magnitude, and very probably the next President of Pakistan, was assassinated exactly within my time frame, on 27 December 2007 (her assassination occurred exactly two weeks before the 2008 Pakistani elections). I am not proud of interpreting Nostradamuss prophecy correctly neither, presumably, would Nostradamus have been. He saw political murder as an unnecessary evil, and his instinct would have been that forewarned is very probably forearmed, and that all world leaders in the public eye would have done well, during that particularly fraught period in international politics, to have taken especial care of themselves.

Four further prophecies that I made in 2005 may now, with the benefit of hindsight, be seen to have hit the spot. They are 3/6 2006: Crisis in the Protestant Church; 3/7 2007: North Korean Crisis; 4/11 2011: Dangers to John Paul IIs Successor, Benedict XVI; and 1/18: Islamic Attack on a Northern French Port. All are fully explained in my authors notes, which follow the original prophecies. Apart from that I have made only two important changes to the original manuscript I have moved quatrains 8/28 and 2/28 from 2028 to 2008 for reasons which, when my authors notes are read, will soon become obvious. The 2008 Credit Crunch has been a world-shattering event, and it is quite clear that Nostradamus called and dated it correctly it was I who made the assumption that the events would occur in 2028, not him in fact his quatrain numbers are quite uncannily prescient. So Nostradamus triumphs again go read the quatrains and see why.

Now back to the Complete Prophecies for the Future. I have begun the commentaries marginally in the past, with the Twin Towers Disaster of 11 September 2001, not only because it coincided almost exactly with the turn of our century, but also because Nostradamuss predictions about the event are so detailed, and so astonishing, that they will give even further credence to his prognostications for both our future, and that of our planet. Interpreting Nostradamus is very much like working on a detective story. Following his filigrees of meaning through to a final, if tentative, conclusion, is an immensely satisfying work of deduction. I have therefore taken as my starting point the premise that the most esoteric of Nostradamuss quatrains in other words those without any obvious reference to the times in which he lived, or to the four and a half centuries immediately succeeding his death must, by default, refer to the future. I have therefore retranslated these, and approached them entirely afresh, without referring back to past commentaries.

Old French spellings are eccentric, to say the least, and both proper names and nouns can be spelled in a variety of ways. Meanings themselves were considered far more fluid then than they would be now, and an absolutely literal interpretation of any text would have been scoffed at by educated sixteenth-century readers. What is entirely new about my approach concerns the interrelation between quatrains one feeds from the other, as it were. By adhering to Nostradamuss own index dates when dealing with prophecies relating to the future, connections were found across The Centuries which threw an extraordinary collective light onto the meanings of individual, often opaque, prophecies.

Commentators in the past have approached all the quatrains individually, as separate predictions, but Nostradamus was an alchemist and a scryer, and he believed in mixing things, and from that admixture, truth would come. Alchemists believed that everything on earth was fused and inter-relatable and that one only had to discover the secret of this to reach hidden codes and morphological secrets. Many of the quatrains, although nominally stemming from different Nostradamian Centuries, are, in fact, closely interconnected and interrelated, and can only be correctly construed when this is borne in mind. This fact, this interrelation, only comes to light when one is in the actual process of interpreting them one quatrain feeds off the other, and a true interpretation can only be reached when this is taken into account. Previous commentators have simply not listened enough to Nostradamuss index dating.