Jules Scaliger and Nostradamus C. III Q.63

It is widely accepted that Nostradamus spent some years working with Juljes Scaliger of Agen. It is believed that it was at the invitation of Jules that Nostradamus came to this small town on the river Garonne to practise medicine. Although the details of this period of Nostradamus’ life are often in dispute we do know that in the 1530’s Nostradamus was a close associate of Jules Scaliger. The Italian born Jules of disputed ancestry is a well-documented figure in history because of his very public disputes over many scholarly issues with the even more famous Erasmus. It was during the time that Nostradamus was linked to Scaliger that many important publications were released; amongst them those of Agrippa on magic, code and the occult. Copernicus’ earliest works suggesting the planets moved around the sun were also in circulation. This was a period of high intellectual excitement and considerable risk for those who dared to venture too far from the views held by the powerful religious leaders of that time. Accordingly many scholars were circumspect in what they published, waiting for a time when their work would not call down the wrath of the buffoons in Rome . This is the setting in one of the three verses that contain an anagram of Scaliger’s first name. The hidden text of this verse provides some powerful reasons for believing that the anagrams for Jules apply to the period in the 1530’s when Nostradamus lived in Agen.

C.III Q.63.

The hidden civil hatreds and debates may well relate to the frequent outbursts of animosity between Jules Scaliger and the even more famous Erasmus but  the anagrams that appear in the third line may also tell us much about the relationship between Scaliger and Nostradamus especially at the time they parted.

These anagrams  occur in quite remarkable sequences that reason suggests shouldn’t occur either by chance or design.  From Occultes haines ciujles et debats  the following can be found based on a number of very rarely found anagrams.

Of the major words found in the above Jules is the one found most frequently in the Prophecies. There are four other occurrences which still makes it very rare. Ethicalness, detestable, juices and hesitancies occur nowhere else which amplifies the relevance of the adjacent anagrams which say Jules_ethicalness, Detestable_juices and Jules_hesitancies. And these  are very much in line with the text of the line where they are found which says Hidden/Occult civil hatreds and debates. And the ethicalness of the use of Occult medicines is surely something over which two medical practitioners might have serious disagreement. But the discussions of the occult only provided part of what is a quite unexpected brush with history. Jules Scaliger bore many children and his son Joseph was born shortly after Nostradamus’ departure. He played a significant part in the history of astronomy. It was Joseph Scaliger, historian, poet and astronomer, who, in the early seventeenth century, proposed a scheme for dating history that was independent of the many calendars in use in ancient times. He built his calendar and named the major unit the Julian Day (in honour of his father). It was based around a scheme that numbered the days from an arbitrary date in pre-history and used astronomic data to match historic events to the new calendar. This calendar has since been adopted by astronomers and is still used today.

In this naming of the Julian Day we can see a meaning for text of the first line which says the Roman power will be thoroughly abased  because the Roman, Julius Caesar, created the Julian Calendar and this new astronomy-dating system, with a very similar name for its years, helped in the demise of the Julian Calendar that had been in use for 1500 years. There is even a touch of the civil hatred and debate mentioned in the third line since the foundations of this new calendar of Joseph Scaliger incorporates the Roman Indiction Cycle which was a 15 year cycle for the payment of civil taxes, and therefore this cycle represented a time of great civil hatred and debate.

There is already a quite high level of connection between the message of the verse, Jules Scaliger, his family and the rare anagrams found in the third line but there are other anagrams in this verse that are equally as relevant . A unique word not so far shown is that of division and it is adjacent to an anagram for time which gives us time division (d-voiSin-i mite) as an adjacent sequence in the second line. There is also an anagram for timelier in the same line and it is also rare, only occuring in one other verse. It too is part of a sequence and it says sons grand vision timelier. These two anagrammatic sequences are found in the second line whose text says Following in the footsteps of its/his great neighbour. Nostradamus may well be referring to his use of  a calendar system that was not created until 1608 by Joseph Scaliger. Nostradamus was after all neighbour to Jules Scaliger during the 1530's and the ideas for the calendar system may well have come from ideas held by Jules. And Joseph, Jules' son may also have gained his ideas from his father and then felt it important enough to honour this authorship even though it conflicted with an existing calendar system.

Joseph Scaliger was a highly regarded  scholar but was renowned for his integration of old ideas not their creation.  It is quite likely that such issues were debated and developed by Jules Scaliger and Michel de Nostredame and then passed on at a later stage to Joseph by Jules. If so then we have a clue as to the topic of the debate; it was the idea of a calendar based on astronomic events. There is also a sequence in the last line that fits to the same theme by suggesting that the debates were also about the rules.of.earliest order.

I believe the above verse shows that there is strong evidence that Nostradamus  did include the story of his relationship with Jules Scaliger in this verse but it is not the only verse where this is highly provocative detail of this relationship.

Jules Scaliger of Agen –C.IX Q.11

In the previous section I showed that C. III Q.63 relates to Nostradamus’ relationship with Jules Scaliger of Agen in the 1530’s. This verse  is worthy of additional comment that being it is a verse other analysts generally ignore. There are a great number of verses that I have already presented in other articles that also have visible text that offers little meaning. Many people argue that the meaningless nature of  the verses is sufficient proof Nostradamus was no prophet but a charlatan. I argue differently and believe that it is a gross error to assume these verses are not precise statements with specific meaning. If Nostradamus had no real message to present and his only interest was in teasing his readers into believing in them as occult prophecies it is highly likely he would have made sure that each verse could be classified in one way or another. But so many apparently meaningless verses means this he didn’t do. For this reason I believe no analyst can claim to have found the key to Nostradamus unless they can find meaning in this type of verse and in so doing provide evidence that supports Nostradamus’ own claim at the end of his Preface to his first publication where he says:

• Take now this gift of your father, Michel Nostradamus, who hopes to explain to you each prophecy of the quatrains included here.

Every verse cannot be explained unless it has meaning. Nostradamus his claim goes further in the Epistle that precedes the publication of all 942 verses. He begins by stating that his visible text is of the nature stated above but goes on to say:

 • … most of the prophetic quatrains are so risky that there is no easy way of getting to them and even less of interpreting them (la plupart des quatrains prophetiques sont tellement scabreux , que l’on n’y saurait donner voie ni moins aucuns interpretere)  

But the danger of the times, O Most Serene King, requires that such secrets should not be bared except in enigmatic sentences having, however, only one sense and meaning and nothing ambiguous or amphibological inserted.
Nostradamus, 1558 in his Epistle to King Henry

and a little later in the same document we are provided the themes of the verses:

 • ….Nevertheless I wanted to leave a record in writing of the years, towns, cities and regions in which most of the events will come to pass, even those of the year 1585 and of the year 1606, reckoning from the present time which is March 14 1557 and going far beyond to the events which will take place at the beginning of the seventh millenary.

 • I have made computations for events over almost as long a period to come as that which has already passed, and by these they will know in all regions what is to happen in the course of time, just as it is written with nothing superfluous added.

In this way Nostradamus nominates two particular years as important, 1585 and 1606, and interestingly they were the publication dates of two of Joseph Scaliger’s works that have connection with this series of my work. In 1585 Joseph Juste Scaliger published an alphabeticised volume of poetry (c.f. Psalm 119) and in 1606 he published a Thesaurus of the chronology of history based on astronomical references in all the then extant texts of many languages to which he could gain access. Preceding these he had, in 1582, published the basis that became the Thesaurus and he spent the next 24 years researching the astronomic records. I believe there is evidence in Nostradamus Prophecies that the ideas in these two volumes are at the heart of Nostradamus' astronomic dating system. There is a quatrain which holds two of the remaining four anagrams of Jules that can be found in the Prophecies. This verse has a most remarkable sequence that only occurs once.  

Below I present  C.IX Q.11 with its remarkable sequence Jules of Agen:

C.IX Q.11.

The last line of this verse contains the word jugeans which doesn't exist. Nostradamus only uses it in this single place but it is this word that delivers up a remarkably salient anagrammatic sequence which is Jules of Agens (lesju geans of). What makes it even more unusual is that of the four occurrences of the anagram for Jules two of them occur in this verse. The second occurrence is at the start of the first line and is formed from part of the word juste which is the middle name of Jules famous son Joseph. So the names of Jules is connected to the middle name of his last son. This then removes the lack of meaning in the second line since its reference and in the middle aptly applies to his son's middle name and Joseph was the completion of Jules public duties of fatherhood .Jules' son Joseph Juste Scaliger would go on to fill much of the other tones of the verse including those of the first line. This verse is rich in sequential anagrams of a type that suggest they are intentional. It is not my intent to pursue this idea further nor to explain all the sequences that can be found in full depth but I will show the frame they provide for use in later analyses.  

The sequence of adjacent anagrams Jules.of.Agens continues to become Jules.of.Agen’s.Quatrein (raintQue lesju geans fo) . Jules did write quatrains and the line in which it is found suggests that it will take a long, long time before anyone notices that they hold a secret worth uncovering. In the same line there is an anagram of sequential (aintQueles) and this is of course a word that is highly relevant to these hidden anagrams.  This anagram only occurs in one other verse so it is very infrequent. An anagram for contrast  is even more rare occurring only here and it forms a sequence contrast.your.Norse.

The first line, the holder of the other anagram for Jules, is also quite powerfully placed to with its anagram sequence giving relevance to the text.  It says Jules.Rotate.On.Mortal.Driven.Matter (Lejus teator amortl on viendr amettr). This links to the religious theme I show is behind a large part of the Prophecies; the division between the sects over the unity of Christ with God (see Nostradamus on Gnosticism). It is a debate on the mortal matter of Jesus. All of this fits tightly to the previous verse in this paper but it also ties in with material I present in other papers. Verses such as  C. III . Q.59 where Tetragrammaton (the names of God) and mortal.matter are found hidden under lines with distinct Christ-like tones (see my earlier work). 

The implication is that Jules wavered between orthodoxy and Gnosticism. Further, the evidence of the last two verses analysed give the distinct impression that Jules Scaliger and his son Joseph are critical to both the story of the astronomic code Nostradamus used and its purpose. There are some further anagrams in the current verse that give a tantalising glimpse of what may be found as these ideas are pursued. The second line holds Tenet.Illumed (entet duemilli) while the third line hints Unvaried.Step.Retains.Readings (Sigrande peSt uviendra naiStre) as well as Preassigned (SigrandepeS). 

The first line therefore implies Jules and his son Joseph are likely to shed light on the nature of the unvaried step which retains readings and at the same time it will illume the underlying  tenet  as implied in the nagrams of the other lines. And on this matter the first line does indeed give direction for it holds anagrams  which say Just.Rotate.Letter (juSt eatort__ttreLe ). Interestingly, when you take all these sequences the coding system mentioned comes uncannily close to the methods I use for the decoding (see my rules for decoding).