How did Nostradamus see such things in detail? Some people have the ability, most people do not. As most people do not, they will claim it does no exist and is not possible: my book The Decoded Prophecies of Nostradamus disproves those who say prophecy is not possible. I happen to know some people who do have this ability, and in this case it occurs through dreams. As an example, in a dream one person saw a beautiful white book open before me, but on this book was a very deadly spider - navy blue in color. They then gathered some cleaning material from a kitchen and threw it on the spider, and killed it - it sort of became splattered, and its blood was the color of blue ink. When I heard this dream, the meaning was quite clear to me. In dreams, and in the visions of Swedenborg, spiders represent falsity, and their poison represents a false idea that can mislead people. Killing the spider means removing the falsity - but for it to be splattered on the book shows that anyone opening the book could see the falsity that had been removed. I was a bit amazed at this particular dream, because little did this person know I had begun translating the book of Psalms in the Bible. What I have discovered is that all English translations of the Bible contain many mistranslations (see the post The Mistranslations of the Bible). The effort of what I started was not to create a new translation, but to fix the mistranslation - and DOCUMENT it. So basically anyone reading it will see the change, and it will be documented as to why the change was necessary to fix the mistranslation. It will be a digital translation, with a hyperlink of the change that will explain the mistranslation. So this is killing the spider: not only is the spider removed from the book, its blood is left on it as evidence. This is the hyperlinking I had been doing exposing the mistranslations: from now on, no one will be confused as to which translation is right. The person who had the dream had no idea I was doing this. The hyperlinks to the explanation of the mistranslations of the Bible in the tool I am using are navy blue in color.
So, if anyone is curious, what was the mistranslation I happened to uncover? It was a particularly bad one, in Psalms 17, and it is present in most English translations. Here it is, from the King James version:
Thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress. Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer. (Ps. 17:3-4)
There are a number of mistranslations here, the worst one is the phrase "I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress." One can take it to mean that even though one should wish or think to say something evil, just cover it up in front of others and not deal with the desire to do it. So what does this passage say? It actually says this:
You have refined me and shall find no wicked device (intent);
Nothing has gone out of my mouth according to the works of men.
By the word of Your lips I have kept away from the paths of robbers.
Quite different, isn't it? One should try to purify oneself from within, to remove evil intentions: appearance before others is nothing. In the dream, cleaning material was used to kill the spider, and the particular line uses the word "refine" as in refining and purifying metal. Problem is, all the modern translations continue to follow the King James Version. It happens to be translated correctly in the Septuagint. The book in the dream was white, and the Psalm ends in this manner:
As for me, I will observe Your face in righteousness:
I shall be satisfied when I awake to Your manifestation.
Which speaks of how one awakens after death to see the glory of God's light at the end of that dark tunnel - God's "face." Instead of manifestation the KJV has "likeness" which does not do the word justice; the Septuagint translated it as "glory" which is more accurate. For each change I am making, I am creating a hyperlink to a note explaining the mistranslation and the correction. This is the white book with the splattered blue spider in it. So Psalms 17 is done, I have hit Psalms 18, and as it is a long one I decided to take a break and blog a bit. I include this story here because like the dream, many of the quatrains of Nostradamus are highly symbolic and one does not know what they mean until one reaches the time they are fulfilled.
THE PROPHECY OF PRESIDENT BUSH AND BARACK OBAMA
Peace and Freedom to Iran, photograph by Negar Daneshfar
Returning back to the subject at hand, in the second half of the book on the prophecies of Nostradamus which I haven't published yet there is this prophecy, one which I happened to interpret on the very day that President Obama one the Nobel Peace prize - a well deserved one, for reversing the war path of the previous administration. And now just in the past few days an agreement has been reached between the United States and Iran to reverse Iran's uranium enrichment program. And I think it will be successful, despite the protest of Israel and Saudi Arabia who would just love it if the U.S. would bomb Shiite Iran to smithereens. This is not being said to the public, but I believe these negotiations were initiated once U.S. intelligence - and an inner circle of politicians - became aware that Saudi Arabia had initiated a false flag operation in Syria, and was responsible for the chemical attack in August 2013 in order to pull in the U.S. to bomb Syria. Here is the quatrain (VI-24) with its interpretation:
Mars and the scepter will be found conjoined,
Under Cancer, a calamitous war:
A short time after a new King will be anointed,
Who will pacify the earth for a long time.
Under Cancer, a calamitous war:
A short time after a new King will be anointed,
Who will pacify the earth for a long time.
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in 1926 the author Wollner first recognized that the astrological configuration in line 1
would take place on 21 June 2002 when Mars and Jupiter (the scepter) were in
conjunction in Cancer. In 1989 Dolores Cannon (another author on Nostradamus) stated that the astrological
configuration symbolically refers to an American President (the scepter, a
ruler or the planet Jupiter) who is hungry for war (signified by Mars), where
Cancer will be a strong influence in his horoscope. Afterwards a new President will come along
who will work for peace, and there will be peace for a while after. This will be during the strength of the
American union, before it wanes in power. This interpretation of the quatrain is
interesting as the President during 2002 was George W. Bush, who was born on 6 July
1946 under the sign of Cancer. In 2002
preparations were begun to invade Iraq following the attack of September
11. George Bush was succeeded by
President Barack Obama in 2009, who turned America around to follow a policy of
peace.
Narrated Anas: The Prophet said, "Medina is a sanctuary from that place to that. Its trees should not be cut and no heresy should be innovated nor any sin should be committed in it, and whoever innovates in it an heresy or commits sins, then he will incur the curse of Allah, the angels, and all the people."