The Verse that links Nostradamus’Prophecies and Jesus Bloodline to the Story of the Christian Church.  

Copyright Allan Webber, 2008  

See the following paper for the Rationale & Rules underlying my work on Nostradamus. 

Using a verse from Nostradamus’ Prophecies I will seek to show something of equal potency as that already presented. The examination will then allow me to establish another major theme, that of Jesus and his legacy. The verse is shown below in its original French form (1568 edition) and its interpreted translation.

Centuries 3 Quatrein 059
Barbare empire par le tiers vsurpe ……………. Barbarian empire usurped by the third
La plus grand part de son sang mettra a mort….The greater part of his blood he will put to death
Par mort senile par luy le quart frappe………… Through senile death the fourth struck by him
Pour peur que sang parle sang ne soit mort…… For fear that the blood through the blood be not dead

I have a long-held interest in the second line of this verse because it holds one of the most unlikely anagrams one might expect as a by-product of chance. It is fourteen letters long and involves complex repetitive lettering (AAAEGMMNORRTTT). Needless to say there is only one anagram with this letter group in the whole of the text. 

It is embedded at the end of  the line as ang mettra a mort . Until it is revealed it is difficult to see, but once revealed, it has a compelling logic of its own.  From the lettering shown we can form the word TETRAGRAMMATON  the word used for the four Hebrew letters usually transliterated as YHWH (Yahweh) or JHVH (Jehovah) signifying the Hebrew name for God which the Jews regarded as too holy to pronounce. One of the uses of the Tetragrammaton involves using the four letters in anagrams to create names that can be used as alternate ways of saying God's name aloud.

The words of God's name are formed by transposing the four letters. With this in mind it is worth examining the lettering that precedes those from which TETRAGRAMMATON is formed. Doing this we see that  part de son sANG METTRA A MORT forms partdesons ANGMETTRAAMORT and from this comes transposed TETRAGRAMMATON. There are four instances where transposed occurs in the text. This combination of two significantly related words of high complexity raises real doubts about them existing side by side by chance alone but doesn’t preclude that possibility.

The fourth line reveals a different level of complexity hidden in the code because it contains key words that are Greek in origin. The use of Greek was certainly within Nostradamus' capacity since he studied the classic languages in order to read and debate the classics. From this background he would have been aware of the controversy around Jesus' relationship to God that dominated debate in the fourth century of the current era.

There are three words that I want to highlight, GENNOS, AGENNOS and MONOGENIST which are all found in the end of line 4  in the form of sang ne soit mort, sang ne soit mort, sang ne soit mort. Their meaning is;

(There is only one occurrence of monogenist, eight of agennos and eleven of gennos (three of which are part of the agennos occurrences).

Suddenly a light is shone on the significance of these two lines. As with a lock the key either works or doesn't, but once the right key is inserted there can be little doubt as to its being correct. The keywords in lines two and four can now be seen as relating to the early centuries debates between the Gnostics / Arians who believed in a mortal Christ and those who held the view that God and Christ were a unity. This period is the source of the allegory which underlies the cryptic message of Nostradamus’ text.

The greater part of his blood he will put to death
For fear that the blood through the blood be not dead

These words can be seen as suggesting that the concept of a possible blood line based on Christ is ended (put to death) for fear that Jesus' offspring (through the blood) would show he did not die as stated. It also implies a punishment of heretics who dared to defy the orthodox view. 

There is an anagram in line 4 worth highlighting at this point. This is the letter grouping for San Grael, the Holy Grail (arle sang) which is also SANG REAL, the Royal Blood. The lettering of SANGRAEL occurs nine times throughout the text.)

Saint Paul and the Holy Grail.

In the previous section I have shown that line four of C.3 Q.049 contains an anagram of  San Grael, the Holy Grail. I also pointed out that the verse talks about the blood line being extinct and that this is consistent with the persisting legend of a bloodline of Christ. There is more in this verse and it centres on a letter grouping in line two which gives the name of a saint around whom there is much debate. The line contains the name of PAUL.

The greater part of his blood he will put to death
La plus grand part de son sang mettra a mort
- aplus ……………………. mettra amortL
Paul’s mortal matter.

The name of this saint linked as it is to the anagrams MORTAL MATTER has a compelling logic that speaks of a priestly Jewish priestly marriage. The Essenes, the Jewish sect based around Qumran , during the period in which the stories of Jesus relate required that their priests practised celibacy. However in order to further the lineage of their important families the high officials had a ritualistic variance from celibacy in order to conceive.  In order to deal with the mortal matter of child bearing they entered an unclean or non-celibate state which allowed them to marry and to conceive before returning to the celibate way. It was customary for such marriages to be to the virginal daughters of important families to whom they were linked.

Barbara Thiering in her book interpreting the Dead Sea Scrolls and titled ‘Jesus : the Man’ (Doubleday 1992) narrates that Paul entered into marriage with Phoebe in September AD 53. Now on losing her virginity a woman took on a new name, in this case Phoebe. Immediately prior to marriage Paul had been joined in Athens by a woman named Damaris. Thiering ventures that this is the virginal name of Paul’s bride. She points out that Damaris is a variant of the name Tamar, both of which she applies to a most interesting hypothetical person, the first born child of Jesus and Mary who in AD53 turned 20 and reached the most favoured age for priestly marriage.  The name TAMAR occurs in the same line which contains TETRAGRAMATON and ‘Paul’s mortal metter’ (mettra amort). The implication of the anagrams is that Paul married Jesus’ daughter. This is in line with the work of Thiering and with the suggestions made by Nostradamus in this verse. ‘For fear that the blood through the blood be not dead’ makes sense when it is interpreted as the response to claims that Jesus’ and Paul’s mortal matter (born by  the daughter of Jesus’ blood) ensured the mortal family line.  There are other anagrams in this verse that are infrequent but highly telling in the context of the foregoing. The two towns Montpeliers and Arles can be found as well as ‘sons depart’. Together they form a picture of a family’s history that is in keeping with the legends of the Grail in Southern France . It is in some ways irrelevant whether this connection is factual for it would be sufficient that Nostradamus knew of the story and used it as an allegory.

Regardless of whether Nostradamus saw it as fact or a useful fiction there can be little doubt that at every level this verse of Nostradamus raises questions about Jesus’ mortality and the lineage tales that flowed from various non-orthodox beliefs. Moreover the nature of the anagrams is so intertwined with that tale that it is likely that they were intentionally placed there by Nostradamus.

The context for the verse C.III Q.59 in which Christ’s Status is raised .

So far I have concentrated on the second and fourth lines of verse C.3 Q.049. However, I cannot totally ignore the other two lines and I will show that they too have a relationship to the era before moving  on.

Centuries 3 Quatrein 059
Barbare empire par le tiers vsurpe ……………. Barbarian empire usurped by the third
La plus grand part de son sang mettra a mort….The greater part of his blood he will put to death
Par mort senile par luy le quart frappe………… Through senile death the fourth struck by him
Pour peur que sang parle sang ne soit mort…… For fear that the blood through the blood be not dead

 

Their key lies in lettering  found as le tiers vs in the first line which is an anagram for Silvester and it gains support from the content of both lines one and three. Anagrams for Silvester only occur twice, once in this verse and in the fourth verse beyond this one (Centuries III Quatrein 63). In that verse it is also the key but at this point it is only necessary to show the visible text of its first line which says “The Roman power will be thoroughly abased”. This helps us to identify that Silvester is a high official in the Roman Church and once we have that information the lines of our current verse become more meaningful. Par mort senile par luy le quart frappe (Through senile death the fourth struck by him) is relevant  since the first line applies to Silvester III (see below) while Silvester IV was the last pope to adopt the name Silvester.

The Catholic Encyclopaedia details four popes named Silvester, the first was St Silvester:

Pope St. Sylvester I (314-335): Date of birth unknown; d. 31 December , 335 . According to the "Liber pontificalis" (ed. Duchesne , I, 170) he was the son of a Roman named Rufinus .

It was during this period that the Roman Emperor, Constantine I (305-337), helped sow the seeds of the empire’s collapse. He, like his predecessor, split the army into border and mobile components. The border troops became soldier-farmers and the Roman forces then declined rapidly in efficiency, though they were still paid. Diocletian and Constantine both allowed many barbarians into the army, which had the result of decreasing its fighting efficiency or abasing the Roman power as stated in Nostradamus’ verse (L1 C. III Q.63) given above.

Both Constantine and Sylvester lived at the time of the Council of Nicaea (325AD), and both occupied positions from which they could influence the matter at the heart of the Council; Arianism versus what is now termed Orthodoxy. This is the theme I have already identified in analysing lines two and four.

The visible text of line one and three can also be applied to later Popes. Sylvester III (1045 Jan-Mar) who was considered to be a false Pope, an Antipope, or usurper, had his election cancelled on the charge of using bribery to gain office. Sylvester IV (1105, Nov 18) was the last pope to use this name and he too was an Antipope.

I have now shown that each of the lines details a story that takes us unerringly to the 4th century and the Arian debate. By the use of the underlying anagrams I am fulfilling the claim that Nostradamus made; his work can be interpreted to have only one meaning without ambiguity or false clues.