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Michel de Notredame formerly Michel de Nostredame, born Michel Gassonet (14 December 1503 – 1 July 1566) was a French physician, astrologer, occultist and author of almanacs, most famous for his book Les Propheties; known primarily as Nostradamus, the latinization of his given name.

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β€œTomorrow, I shall no longer be here.”
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β€œ''Estant assis de nuit secret estude,
Seul repousΓ© sur la selle d'Γ¦rain,
Flambe exigue sortant de solitude,
Fait prosperer qui n'est Γ  croire vain.”
β€œWhen twenty years of the Moon's reign have passed
another will take up his reign for seven thousand years.
When the exhausted Sun takes up his cycle
then my prophecy and threats will be accomplished.”
β€œI had determined to go as far as declaring in abstruse and puzzling utterances the future causes of the "common advent", even those truly cogent ones that I have foreseen. Yet lest whatever human changes may be to come should scandalise delicate ears, the whole thing is written in nebulous form, rather than as a clear prophecy of any kind.”
β€œIf I have eschewed the word prophet, I do not wish to attribute to myself such lofty title at the present time, for whoever is called a prophet now was once called a seer; since a prophet, my son, is properly speaking one who sees distant things through a natural knowledge of all creatures. And it can happen that the prophet bringing about the perfect light of prophecy may make manifest things both human and divine, because this cannot be done otherwise, given that the effects of predicting the future extend far off into time.”
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Nostradamus on Prophecy 4 quotes

β€œWhen twenty years of the Moon's reign have passed another will take up his reign for seven thousand years. When the exhausted Sun takes up his cycle then my prophecy and threats will be accomplished.”
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Nostradamus on Lila (Hinduism)

β€œThis creative activity of the Divine is called lila, the play of God, and the world is seen as the stage of the divine play.”
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Nostradamus on Prophet

β€œIf I have eschewed the word prophet, I do not wish to attribute to myself such lofty title at the present time, for whoever is called a prophet now was once called a seer; since a prophet, my son, is properly speaking one who sees distant things through a natural knowledge of all creatures. And it can happen that the prophet bringing about the perfect light of prophecy may make manifest things both human and divine, because this cannot be done otherwise, given that the effects of predicting the future extend far off into time.”
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Nostradamus on Omen

β€œPerfect knowledge of such things cannot be acquired without divine inspiration, given that all prophetic inspiration derives its initial origin from God Almighty, then from chance and nature. Since all these portents are produced impartially, prophecy comes to pass partly as predicted. For understanding created by the intellect cannot be acquired by means of the occult, only by the aid of the zodiac, bringing forth that small flame by whose light part of the future may be discerned. We need god to prosper those without him will not.”
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H.P. Blavatsky on Nostradamus

β€œWere we to record the failures and ridiculous blunders of astronomers, we are afraid they would outnumber by far those of the astrologers. Present events fully vindicate Nostradamus, who has been so much ridiculed by our skeptics.”

About Nostradamus

Michel de Notredame formerly Michel de Nostredame, born Michel Gassonet (14 December 1503 – 1 July 1566) was a French physician, astrologer, occultist and author of almanacs, most famous for his book Les Propheties; known primarily as Nostradamus, the latinization of his given name.