In a recent blog post, Antonio
Socci, the author of The Fourth Secret of Fatima, notes the
importance of a recently published official biography of
Sr. Lucia from the Carmelites of Coimbra (the convent where
the Portuguese nun lived and died), titled "Um caminho sob o
olhar de Maria" (A Path Under the Gaze of Mary). This
explosive new text contains several important writings of
Sr. Lucia which were until now previously unpublished. Socci
cites a portion of this text which appears to be hugely
important in relation to my theory that the alleged
"attachment" to the Third Secret is related to St John Paul
II's reputed address at Fulda, Germany in 1980. It concerns
a vision which Sr. Lucia had which helped her to overcome
her fear about whether or not she should write down the
content of the Third Secret:
THE UNPUBLISHED PIECE
Towards 16:00 hours on January 3rd, 1944, in the convent’s
chapel, before the Tabernacle, Lucia asked Jesus to let her
know His will: ‘I then feel that a friendly hand,
affectionate and maternal, touches my shoulder.’
It is ‘the Mother of Heaven’ who says to her: ‘be at peace
and write what they command you to, but not that which you
were given to understand about its meaning,’ intending to
allude to the meaning of the vision that the Virgin herself
had revealed to her.
Right after – says Sr. Lucia – ‘I felt my spirit flooded by
a light-filled mystery which is God and in Him I saw and
heard: the point of the flame-like lance which detaches,
touches the axis of the earth and it [the earth] shakes:
mountains, cities, towns and villages with their inhabitants
are buried. The sea, rivers and clouds leave their bounds,
they overflow, flood and drag with them into a whirlpool,
houses and people in a number unable to be counted; it is
the purification of the world from the sin it
is immersed in. Hatred, ambition, cause detructive wars.
Afterward I felt in the increased beating of my heart and in
my spirit a quiet voice which said: ‘in time, one faith, one
baptism, one Church, Holy, Catholic,Apostolic. Heaven in
eternity!’ This word, ‘Heaven,’ filled my heart with peace
and happiness, so much so that, almost without realizing it,
I continued to repeat for some time: Heaven, Heaven!’
That is how she was given the strength to write the Third
Secret.
(Thanks to Johnsp for the translation from Italian)
The above newly published text mentions a catastrophic
earthquake, followed by the trembling of mountains, which in
turn leads to a hugely destructive tsunami, followed by war
- the exact sequence of events that I argue in my book
Unveiling the Apocalypse is depicted in the Bible itself,
concerning
the fall of Babylon and the "huge mountain, burning with
fire" being thrown into the sea in Rev 8:8, in relation to a
potential mega-tsunami caused by the collapse of a volcano
in the Canary Islands. It should be worth revisiting the
contents of an earlier post on the subject of Fulda, which I
will copy below:
Prior to the release of the Third Secret in the year 2000,
many commentators looked to some words attributed to Pope
John Paul II on Fatima in an attempt to gain some insight
into its content. The German magazine Stimme des Glaubens
reported that the pope had commented on the Third Secret
during a conference in Fulda, Germany in 1980. The most
striking component of this report was the words: "it should
be sufficient for all Christians to know this: if there is a
message in which it is written that
the oceans will flood whole areas of the earth, and that
from one moment to the next millions of people will perish,
truly the publication of such a message is no longer
something to be so much desired." The language used here,
which tells a sudden and abrupt flooding of "whole areas of
the earth" by the ocean - an event which will kill
"millions", can only describe the aftermath of a
mega-tsunami.
The deadiest such event in recorded history was that of the
2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which claimed the lives of around
230,000 people after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake. In order to
claim "millions" of lives, this event would have to be on a
vastly larger scale, and concentrated on densely populated
areas. The Indian Ocean tsunami is possibly the greatest in
size that can be generated by an earthquake - anything
larger can only be caused by massive landslides, such as
that of Lituya Bay, Alaska in 1958, which
reached a height of 524 metres (but given the confined
geography of the lake the effects of this mega-tsunami was
limited to a small area). It is these landslide-generated
events, known as mega-tsunamis, that produce waves of such
devastating heights. And mega-tsunamis with the capacity to
cross oceans can only be generated by large-scale volcanic
collapses.
The relevant text of the Fulda conference reported in Stimme
des Glaubens can be found below:
The Holy Father was asked, "What about the Third Secret of
Fatima? Should it not have already been published by 1960?"
Pope John Paul II replied: "Given the seriousness of the
contents, my predecessors in the Petrine office
diplomatically preferred to postpone publication so as not
to encourage the world power of Communism to make certain
moves.
"On the other hand, it should be sufficient for all
Christians to know this: if there is a message in which it
is written that the oceans will flood whole areas of the
earth, and that from one moment to the next millions of
people will perish, truly the publication of such a message
is no longer something to be so much desired."
The Pope continued: "Many wish to know simply from curiosity
and a taste for the sensational, but they forget that
knowledge also implies responsibility. They only seek the
satisfaction of their curiosity, and that is dangerous if at
the same time they are not disposed to do something, and if
they are convinced that it is impossible to do anything
against evil."
At this point the Pope grasped a Rosary and said: "Here is
the remedy against this evil. Pray, pray, and ask for
nothing more. Leave everything else to the Mother of God."
The Holy Father was then asked: "What is going to happen to
the Church?"
He answered: "We must prepare ourselves to suffer great
trials before long,such as will demand of us a disposition
to give up even life, and a total dedication to Christ and
for Christ … With your and my prayer it is possible to
mitigate this tribulation, but it is no longer possible to
avert it, because only thus can the Church be effectively
renewed. How many times has the renewal of the Church sprung
from blood! This time, too, it will not be otherwise. We
must be strong and prepared, and trust in Christ and His
Mother, and be very, very assiduous in praying the Rosary."
It must be noted however that there is some dispute as to
the legimacy of the Stimme des Glaubens report. Antonio
Socci, the author of The Fourth Secret of Fatima, stated in
issue 86 of The Fatima Crusader that the Vatican Press
Office and Cardinal Ratzinger denied that this meeting took
place. However rather curiously, the most recent publication
from sources inside the Vatican acknowledges that it did in
fact take place. In his book The Last Secret of Fatima,
Cardinal Bertone, the Vatican Secretary of State admits that
John Paul II did in fact say these words (p48). The Fatima
Network website is similarly assured that the Fulda
conference did in fact take place, stating:
This report was originally published in German in the
October 1981 issue of Stimme des Glaubens. It is given as a
verbatim report of the meeting between His Holiness John
Paul II and a select group of German Catholics at Fulda
during his visit to Germany the previous November. The
preface to the article states, "We know the name of the
reporter and also that the document is authentic." This
translation was made by Rev. M. Crowdy for Approaches
Magazine, edited by Mr. Hamish Fraser of Scotland. It was
translated from the Italian magazine published in Rome by
Father Francis Putti. Both magazines are worthy of our
trust.
So there seems to be some ongoing confusion as to the
reality behind these events. Whatever the truth is behind
the above words attributed to John Paul II at Fulda, they
tie in remarkably well with the various other predictions of
a volcano-generated mega-tsunami. We must also question
why,given that Cardinal Bertone would undoubtedly know the
contents of any "hidden text" of the Third Secret, he did
not refute that the Fulda conference took place altogether.
If the "hidden text" of the Third Secret did not contain any
references to the oceans flooding vast sections of the
earth, then it would be immediately obvious to the Cardinal
that the Fulda conference was a complete fabrication made by
the German press. It would be easier to dismiss that it ever
took place rather than attempt to explain the discrepancies
between these words and the published text of the Third
Secret. Does this implicitly suggest that there is some
truth behind the Third Secret containing reference to a
future mega-tsunami style event?
We also need to take into account the fact that Pope
Benedict XVI wrote the forward to Cardinal Bertone's book,
so would undoubtedly have been aware that it included
reference to the Fulda conference. It would be highly
unlikely that he would fail to correct Cardinal Bertone on
this matter if
he thought it did not take place. So either the pope glanced
over this section (again highly unlikely), or he came across
some information which changed his opinion as to whether
John Paul II did indeed make these comments at Fulda.
Looking back to the recently published text by the
Carmelites of Coimbra,which apparently depicts the aftermath
of the angel striking the earth with his flaming sword (or
"spear" in this translation) it also appears to closely
resemble the prophetic words of Blessed Elena Aliello:
The justice of Our Father is most offended. Men live in
their obstinacy of sin. The wrath of God is near. Soon the
world will be afflicted with great calamities, bloody
revolutions, frightful hurricanes, and the overflowing of
streams and the seas’. ‘Cry out until the priests of God
lend their ears
to my voice, to advise men that the time is near at hand,
and if men do not return to God with prayers and penances,
the world will be overturned in a new and more terrible war.
Arms most deadly will destroy peoples and nations!
One of the seers at Kibeho, Anathalie Mukamazimpaka, also
had a vision of some sort of chastisement involving the
crumbling of mountains:
"I saw mountains crashing into each other," said Anathalie.
"Stones coming out of the earth, nearly as if they were
angry. I saw storms crashing against each other and fire
coming from them. I don't know what this means.
I was told that people are causing this and that it is
coming."
It should also be worth revisiting some of my older material
concerning the mega-tsunami threat to the East Coast of the
Americas below:
Amongst the various other startling images depicted in the
Book of Revelation, the curious scene of a "great mountain,
burning with fire" being thrown into the sea appears to be
granted a certain significance.
The Apocalypse uses recapitulation as a literary device to
highlight areas of especial importance. The battle of
Armageddon, for example, is referred to in several different
places. The bizarre scene of a mountain being cast into the
sea in Rev 8:8 is recapitulated again by the angel throwing
a great millstone into the sea in Rev 18:21, connecting this
event with the fall of "Babylon" - the ruling world-power in
the eschatological age.
The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a
great mountain,burning with fire, was thrown into the sea,
and a third of the sea became blood. (Rev 8:8)
But what could this scene represent? Various preterist
scholars, such as D.E Aune, and more recently Elaine Pagels
in her popular 2012 book Revelations, argue that this
passage contains a description of the eruption of Vesuvius,
which destroyed Pompeii in 79AD. But as leading Revelation
academic G.K Beale points out, this particular volcanic
eruption can not be the sole point of reference, as the
verse in question is clearly based on chapter 51 of the Book
of Jeremiah, which describes the casting down of “a
burning mountain” and the destruction of Babylon in the sea:
“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, declares
the LORD, which destroys the whole earth; I will stretch out
my hand against you, and roll you down from the crags, and
make you a burnt mountain. No stone shall be taken from you
for a corner and no stone for a foundation, but you shall be
a perpetual waste, declares the LORD. “Set up a standard on
the earth; blow the trumpet among the nations; prepare the
nations for war against her...
(Jer 51:25-27)
“How Babylon is taken, the praise of the whole earth seized!
How Babylon has become a horror among the nations! The sea
has come up on Babylon; she is covered with its tumultuous
waves.
(Jer 51:41-42)
Chapter 51 of the Book of Jeremiah then concludes with a
passage which is alluded to again later in the Book of
Revelation:
And Jeremiah said to Seraiah: “When you come to Babylon, see
that you read all these words, and say, ‘O LORD, you have
said concerning this place that you will cut it off, so that
nothing shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, and it
shall be desolate forever.’ When you finish reading this
book, tie a stone to it and cast it into the midst of the
Euphrates, and say, ‘Thus shall Babylon sink, to rise no
more, because of the disaster that I am bringing upon her,
and they shall become exhausted.’”
(Jer 51:61-64)
Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone
and threw it into the sea, saying, “So will Babylon the
great city be thrown down with violence, and will be found
no more"...
(Rev 18:21)
The majority of scholars thus recognise that the burning
mountain being cast into the sea in the Apocalypse is the
exact same event which is symbolised by the angel casting a
millstone into the sea to signify how the eschatological
world power "Babylon" is to be destroyed. As Beale states:
"the burning mountain cast into the sea refers to the
judgment of a wicked kingdom. This kingdom is to be
identified as 'Babylon', 'the great city' of Revelation
11-18, which holds sway over the evil world system.
(Beale, G.K. The Book of Revelation p476).
So the "great mountain, burning with fire" is widely
recognised by Revelation scholars as a description of a
volcanic eruption.
But how could a volcano be thrown into the sea? And how
would this bring about the fall of the ruling world empire
at the end-time? I'll post a short extract from my book
below:
On the 12th of October 2000, the BBC's flagship documentary
series Horizon aired a programme that was to cause a
considerable amount of controversy in the world of
geophysics. Subtitled "Mega-tsunami: Wave of Destruction",
the documentary elaborated how the volcano Cumbre Vieja on
the Canary island of La Palma poses an enormous risk to the
eastern coastline of the Americas.
The documentary was based on the combined research of S.N.
Ward of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at
the University of California and S.J. Day of the Benfield
Greig Hazard Research Centre at University College, London,
who hoped to prove that Cumbre Vieja has the potential to
cause one of the greatest natural disasters ever known to
human civilisation. Ward and Day's research shows how the
inside of Cumbre Vieja is honeycombed with fissures caused
by the rising of molten magma
heating and vaporizing water which then erodes the inside of
the volcano.
This phenomenon has severely weakened the internal structure
of the volcano, making it extremely unstable. During its
last eruption in 1949, the southern volcano caused a massive
crack to appear, and the entire western portion of Cumbre
Vieja slipped a few metres towards the Atlantic Ocean.
In 2001, Ward and Day put forward a scientific paper showing
how that the entire western flank will eventually give way,
possibly even during its next eruption; sending 500 thousand
million tonnes of rock crashing into the ocean. Ward and
Day's research, which took other examples of this phenomenon
into account, suggested that the impact of this "lateral
collapse" would generate a colossal wave – dubbed a
"mega-tsunami", which could reach a local amplitude of
between 650-1500 metres. This wave would
then rapidly travel westwards reaching a speed of
approximately 720kph.
Although it would diminish in size by the time it made
landfall on the eastern seaboard of America, it could still
be as high as 50 metres (to give a sense of perspective, the
statue of liberty is 93 metres tall),devastating everything
in its wake up to 25km inland.
In comparison with this projected scenario, the Indian Ocean
tsunami that occurred on 26th December 2004, reached a
height of only 24m at Bandeh Aceh – the region worst
affected by the disaster, which was totally obliterated.
If this event unfolds in the manner that Ward and Day have
projected, then this "mega-tsunami" would be the greatest
natural disaster in recorded history. (Unveiling the
Apocalypse pp148-149)
