The Third Secret of Fatima Revealed?
http://www.apokalypso.com/ThirdSecretRevealed.html

The upcoming trip of Pope Benedict XVI to Israel is likely to shed considerable light on the meaning of two enigmatic prophecies – one that dates back to the Middle Ages and the other that is less than a century old. I am speaking, of course, about the two interlaced prophecies concerning the Papacy that occupied most of my attention in the first Apokalypso volume, Prophecies of the End of Time: St. Malachy’s 12th Century visions of future Popes, and the Third Secret of Fatima revealed to Portuguese shepherdess Lucia dos Santos in 1917.

As for St. Malachy’s prophecies, they were published over four centuries ago, and their content, if not their authenticity, is not in dispute. Malachy O’Morgair Archbishop of Armagh was summoned to Rome to confer with Pope Innocent II in 1137. Upon catching his first glimpse of the Eternal City (so the story goes) he fell into a trance, in which he saw a parade of 108 Pontiffs, beginning with Pope Innocent’s successor and ending with last Pope, Peter II. In Malachy’s vision, each Pope had a unique epithet or motto. Over the intervening years, these epithets have proven uncannily prescient, and they all seem to have several layers of meaning.

As discussed in my 2005 update, entitled “The Glory of the Olive Tree, Revisited”, the motto for Pope Benedict XVI, Gloria olivae, can be interpreted on several levels. Most obvious is the link to the name Benedict itself, since the olive tree is a symbol of the Benedictine order. On a deeper level, the epithet relates to Israel, and more particularly to the Temple of Solomon, in which the “Glory of Israel” was thought to abide. Within the Temple itself, the Glory resided in the innermost sanctuary, the so-called “Holy of Holies”, where no one but the High Priest could enter.

Within the Temple’s “Holy of Holies” was a large rock which the Jews call the Eben Shetiyyah, or “foundation stone”, because it’s considered to be the foundation on which the Earth was created. Jewish, Christian and Moslem traditions have all taught that this rock marks the “center of the World”, a center that was associated with the emblem of the Cross long before the crucifixion of Jesus. The same traditions identify this stone as the site of the altar that Noah raised when he left the Ark. God’s Covenant with Noah, which unites Judaism, Christianity and Islam, is symbolized by the sign of the celestial Bow. In the Jewish festival of Lag b’Omer, arrows are customarily fired into the air as a reminder of the Bow of that Covenant. According to Jewish legend, the age of the Messiah will open on the date of Lag b’Omer, and the reappearance of the Bow in its full splendor will augur the Messiah’s appearance.

The “Glory of the Olive Tree” – which is to say, “The Glory of Israel” – also relates to the Ark of the Covenant, which rested on top of the Shetiyyah stone in the Holy of Holies in Solomon’s Temple. The Ark of the Covenant was so named because it contained the tablets that Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai. In 1 Samuel 4:22, the capture of the Ark by the Philistines was lamented in these words: “The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God is taken.” Shortly before the Babylonians destroyed Solomon’s Temple in 586 BC, the Ark of the Covenant was hidden by the Jewish High Priest, supposedly in a deep cavern beneath the Shetiyyah stone.

When the Second Temple was built after the Babylonian exile, the Ark of the Covenant was not found, but the Eben Shetiyyah remained to mark the location of the Holy of Holies. When the Roman destroyed the Temple again in 70 AD, nothing was left but the outer walls below the Temple Mount that still exist today. But on the Temple Mount itself, the foundation stone remained. In the 7th Century, the “Rock” would become one of Islam’s most sacred sites as the spot from which the Prophet Mohammed was said to have ascended into heaven. When the Moslems conquered Jerusalem, they built the Dome of the Rock mosque around the Eben Shetiyyah and also constructed the nearby Al Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount.

Getting back to the Pope’s visit to Israel, he will generally be following an itinerary similar to that of John Paul’s visit in 2000. But there is one very significant difference. Benedict, unlike John Paul, will visit the Dome of the Rock, the very site to which his motto Gloria olivae applies. Not only that, but his visit to the Dome of the Rock will be on Tuesday, May 12, 2009, which is the day of the bow-and-arrow festival of Lag b’Omer. And the next day, May 13th, is the feast of Our Lady of Fatima. Which brings us back to the content of the Third Secret.

Unlike Malachy’s prophecies, the Third Secret remains somewhat of a mystery. When Our Lady appeared to Lucia and her two companions in July 1917, she showed the three children a series of visions, culminating in one of a “Bishop dressed in White” being assassinated beneath a large Cross at the summit of a mountain by soldiers firing bullets and arrows. After the visions, Our Lady explained their meaning to the children, but asked that the last part of her explanation be kept secret. In 1944 Lucia wrote the secret on a single sheet of paper and placed it in a sealed envelope entrusted it to the Bishop of Fatima for delivery to the Pope, with instructions that it be opened and disclosed to the World in the year 1960. This document came to be known as the Third Secret of Fatima.

While the Vatican claims to have disclosed the Third Secret in June 2000, what was actually revealed was Lucia’s account of the vision of the “Bishop dressed in White”, not the explanatory narrative of Our Lady. Instead, the Vatican supplied its own interpretation of the Fatima Vision, which was written by then-Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI. According to his analysis, the Vision was simply a premonition of the attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square on May 13, 1981 – and nothing more. Since his interpretation neglects the obvious inconsistency that John Paul, unlike the Pope of the Vision, survived the shooting, it has become increasingly discredited among Fatima scholars. Another defect in the “official explanation” is that it doesn’t even attempt to address is the anachronistic arrows that are fired at the Pope in the Fatima Vision.

But ironically, the scenario of Benedict’s visit to the Dome of the Rock on May 12, 2009, actually matches the Fatima Vision much better than the attempt on the life of his predecessor. He will ascend to the summit of the Temple Mount, to the Dome of the Rock which marks the symbolic Cross of the World’s center (and was surmounted by an actual Cross during the Crusaders’ occupation of Jerusalem), on a date marked by the ritual shooting of arrows. The Fatima Vision also has the Pope ascending the mountain after witnessing scenes of horrific carnage. According to Benedict’s itinerary, he will witness precisely such scenes in Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial the day before he visits the Dome of the Rock.

Does all this mean that Benedict is the “Bishop dressed in White” of the Fatima Vision? Does it mean he’s destined to be assassinated on the Temple Mount on May 12th? I think not. As I explain in the third chapter of Prophecies of the End of Time, the Bishop of the Vision must be the last Pope, Malachy’s “Peter of Rome”. Yet the strikingly coincidental alignment of timing and events for the Pope’s visit of May 12th does suggest that something remarkable will occur, something which will shed new light on the meaning of both the Third Secret and Benedict’s “Glory of the Olive Tree” epithet.

Do we have any clues as to what this occurrence might involve? Certainly, the Temple Mount is not only the center of the World, but also its most vulnerable and volatile piece of real estate. For example, during the recent Passover holiday, Israeli extremists threatened to hold Jewish prayer services in the Al Aqsa mosque and actually forced their way into the mosque’s courtyard. Religious fanatics, including a former Israeli chief rabbi, have suggested destroying the Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa and building a Third Temple on the site. Others have urged that the Temple Mount be opened up to archaeological excavations in search of the lost Ark of the Covenant. And, as I outlined in my 2005 update, the Vatican has its own agenda for the Temple Mount, as it aspires to become the custodian of Jerusalem’s sacred sites under some future Middle East peace agreement.

An “incident” on the Temple Mount might provide a pretext for Israeli security forces to take control of the Temple Mount – a step, perhaps, in the direction of “relocating” the Moslem holy sites and/or sanctioning archaeological digs. Such an incident might also lead to some form of international supervision over the Temple Mount, with eager Vatican participation. In either case, the risks associated with these gambits are enormous, with Armageddon quite literally in the offing.

Although the nature of the incident on the Temple Mount is uncertain, it’s aftermath is sure to involve massive disinformation and deception. As I explain in my first book, arrows are frequently featured in scriptural imagery as metaphors for lies and calumnies. If something does go amiss during the Pope’s visit to the Dome of the Rock, we can be sure that there will emerge a convenient “villain” against whom the wrath of righteous indignation can be directed by an orchestrated campaign of slanders.

When the clouds propaganda finally part, however, we may arrive at a clearer idea of what the Third Secret of Fatima actually says and what it actually asks of the Catholic Church and its Pontiff. Benedict XVI, who as a Cardinal was so instrumental in down-playing the significance of the Fatima revelations, may through a bizarre twist of fate become an instrument of finally fulfilling Our Lady’s directives.

The Third Secret of Fatima
Excerpt from: http://www.trosch.org/ide/fatima_secret.html

The Third Part of the Secret revealed at the Cova da Iria-Fatima, on July 13, 1917.

I write in obedience to you, my God, who command me to do so through his Excellency the Bishop of Leiria and through your Most Holy Mother and mine.

After the two parts which I have already explained, at the left of Our Lady and a little above, we saw an Angel with a flaming sword in his left hand; flashing, it gave out flames that looked as though they would set the world on fire; but they died out in contact with the splendor that Our Lady radiated towards him from her right hand: pointing to the earth with his right hand, the Angel cried out in a loud voice: ‘Penance, Penance, Penance!'. And we saw in an immense light that is God: ‘something similar to how people appear in a mirror when they pass in front of it' a Bishop dressed in White ‘we had the impression that it was the Holy Father'. Other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark; before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way; having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big Cross he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way there died one after another the other Bishops, Priests, men and women Religious, and various lay people of different ranks and positions. Beneath the two arms of the Cross there were two Angels each with a crystal aspersorium in his hand, in which they gathered up the blood of the Martyrs and with it sprinkled the souls that were making their way to God.

Tuy-3-1-1944.

13 March 2008, 4:04 PM

I should have checked this out before. The days between the 1917 events at Fatima were 153.

The time period is said to be for six consecutive months. That is probably why I didn't think that it was actually five months.

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1-4-03, 6:52 AM

On January 2, I read a printout of one of the pages of apokalypso.com, that I printed out
on May 18, 02. Simon Peter, and the numbers 17 and 153 are part of the article.

http://apokalypso.com/Ch4_Bones-of-Triumvir.htm

“The Bones of the Triumvir”

    – on the theme of St. Peter’s tomb in the prophecies of Nostradamus

It’s well known that Nostradamus scrambled the order of the stanzas in his Centuries. To truly comprehend the prognoses of the Provençal physician, therefore, we must seek to restore the lost order of the Quatrains. My own preferred approach to this task is to “track” a specific theme through the Centuries, picking up on those Quatrains that appear to refer to related events. We can then assume that these related verses were grouped together in the Prophet’s original rendering.

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Based on the historical record, therefore, it’s quite likely that St. Peter’s interment beneath the main alter of the Roman basilica that bears his name is a fraud, a fabrication out of the same whole cloth as the so-called “Donation of Constantine”, and probably of the same vintage. As the fiction of Constantine’s bequest of Rome’s imperial power to Pope Sylvester was used to validate the Papacy’s claim to supreme temporal authority, so was the illusory throne of Peter deployed to establish Rome’s spiritual sway. The Donation of Constantine was finally exposed as a rank forgery in the 16th Century during Nostradamus’ own lifetime. It appears that the Prophet viewed this revelation as foreshadowing a parallel exposé in our own time, perhaps involving the authenticity of St.

Peter’s tomb. Nostradamus saw the religious wars of his day as symptomatic of the weakening of Rome’s secular and spiritual hegemony in the Western world. Projecting the Vatican’s historical decline into the future, the French Seer envisioned the devastating crisis that would enfold Roman Catholicism at the turn of the Third Millennium.

Nostradamus’ vision of a abrupt, unexpected disintegration of the Holy See in our times is consistent with the 12th Century prophecy of St. Malachy, insofar as the latter indicates that Pope John Paul II will have only two successors, and that one of those will be an Antipope. Later, in the 19th and 20th Century, the same warning of an impending “eclipse” of the Catholic Church was repeated in ecstatic apparitions of the Blessed Virgin, the most notable of which occurred in La Salette, France, in 1846, and Fatima, Portugal, in 1917. What’s particularly intriguing about Malachy’s prophecy, especially in the context of our discussion, is his reference to the last Pope as “Peter the Roman”.

This designation implies that the 21st Century Pope Peter will be distinguishable from his First Century counterpart because the former will truly be a Roman, while the latter was not. In this regard, Malachy’s vision points to a much needed renewal of the Catholic priesthood, based upon the genuine martyrdom of “Peter the Roman” rather than the spurious tradition of Simon the Fisherman.

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With this background, let’s turn now to consider how the theme of St. Peter’s supposed Vatican tomb plays out in the Centuries of Nostradamus. Granting that the good Doctor “shuffled the deck” vis-à-vis the order of his Quatrains, still it’s unlikely that the current numbering is totally random. For example, the Prophet could hardly have overlooked the significance of the 66th Quatrain in Century VI, corresponding as it did to the ill-famed number of the Beast, 666. So let’s start our hunt at that point:

At the foundation of the new sect,
The bones of the great Roman will be found,
A sepulcher covered in marble will appear,
Earthquake in April, buried evil.

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This one is from my file:

C6:Q66

At the foundation of the new sect,
The bones of the great Roman will be found,
A sepulchre covered by marble will appear,
Earth to quake in April poorly buried.

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Thus far, all the pieces seem to fit nicely. But several nagging question still remain. Who was the “great Roman” whose bones were enclosed in Constantine’s marble mausoleum? And what are we to make of the “buried evil” referred to in the stanza’s final line? If we search for other stanzas in which the words “bones” and “marble” both appear, we find only one, the 7th Quatrain in Century V:

The bones of the Triumvir will be found,
Searching deep for an enigmatic treasure:
The peace of those around this cavity of marble
and metallic lead will be disturbed.

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The fact that Pius XI was assassinated, and that his subsequent burial precipitated the Vatican’s search for St. Peter’s tomb, casts a new layer of meaning on another of Nostradamus’ prophecies. Again, the Prophet highlights the importance of this particular stanza by assigning it a highly recognizable number – 3.65, the sixty-fifth Quatrain in Century III.

When the sepulcher of the great Roman is found, The day after a new Pontiff will be elected:

Scarcely will the Conclave have approved the new Pope [His predecessor] poisoned, his blood in the sacred chalice.

It’s rather obvious that the “sepulcher of the great Roman” in Quatrain 3.65 is the same as the marble sepulcher in which the “bones of the great Roman” are said to be found in Quatrain 6.66. It’s also quite plausible that the “sacred chalice” envisioned here refers to the Holy Grail, which was the “enigmatic treasure” alluded to in Quatrain 5.7.

We might speculate further that the murder of Pius XI – a murder enacted in the interests of fascism and with the apparent complicity of Vatican insiders – relates to the “buried evil” spoken of in Quatrain 6.66.

Because Pius XI was assassinated on the anniversary of his papal coronation, his reign lasted exactly 17 years. It happens that the number 17 has a particular relevance to the theme of St. Peter. In the last chapter of John’s gospel, the resurrected Christ appoints Simon Peter to shepherd His flock until He return. Before doing this, however, Jesus instructs the Fisherman to cast his net for a prodigious catch of fish, numbering 153.

Adding up the numbers from 1 to 17, we find the sum is 153.

The prophetic significance of the number 153 apparently relates to the succession of Popes who trace their authority to St. Peter. In that context, the 153rd Pontiff was Leo IX (1049-1054), who initiated the so-called “Reform Papacy” of the 11th Century. While the Reform movement was ostensibly aimed at rooting out corruption within the Church, it’s principal thrust was the concentration of power in the hands of the Pope and his circle of Cardinals. As we mentioned earlier, this was the era in which the dogma of a celibate priesthood was imposed. It was also the period during which the Papacy took on the trappings of a temporal monarchy, including the appropriation of the imperial purple vestments worn by the Roman Caesars. In this regard, critics of the Vatican’s absolutism have frequently invoked the image of the purple-arrayed harlot of Babylon in Chapter 17 of the book of Revelation – another instance in which the number 17 strangely prefigures the Papacy’s approaching apocalyptic crisis.

The ominous import to the Vatican of the number 17 and its derivative 153 was evidently not lost on Nostradamus. In the 92nd Quatrain of Century Five, he very clearly refers to the assassination of Pius XI as setting off a sequence of calamitous events, the consequences of which are only now becoming apparent.

After the see has been held for seventeen years,
It will change hands five times in a comparable period of time:
Then one will be elected at the same time [as another],
Who will not be too much in conformity with the Romans.

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From my file:

C5:Q92

After the seat has been held seventeen years,
Five will change within such a period:
Then one will be elected at the same time,
Who to the Romans will not be too agreeable.

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Pope Pius XI held the Keys of St. Peter for exactly seventeen years from February 11, 1922 to February 11, 1939. During the two decades beginning with the last year of his successor's reign, there were five occupants of the Papal throne, beginning with Pius XII, who died in October 1958, followed by John XXIII (1958 - 1963), Paul VI (1963 - 1978), John Paul I (Aug.-Sept.1978), and finally John Paul II, elected on October 16, 1978. The latter, being the first non-Italian Pope in over four-and-a-half centuries, is often identified by Nostradamus’ modern interpreters as the one who is “not too much in conformity with the Romans”. But a more careful reading of this stanza suggests that the French Prophet is instead referring to the Pope who will be elected after the reign of Polish Pontiff.

Interpreted in this manner, this Quatrain also conforms to St. Malachy’s prediction that John Paul II would have a pair of successors, both elected “at the same time”, one of whom would be an Antipope.

Historically, Antipopes have been associated with disputed papal elections in which two candidates both claim victory. Thus, the last true Pope, Malachy’s “Peter the Roman”, will be elected “at the same time” as another candidate, an Antipope who will also claim the papal throne. St. Malachy calls this Antipope “the Glory of the Olive Tree”. Since the Olive Tree typically appears in Scripture as a symbol of the Jewish people, Malachy’s prophecy clearly suggests that the Antipope will be a Jew who has converted to Catholicism. In this sense, he will be the diabolical mirror-image of Peter the Roman, who, despite his epithet, will be break sharply with the conformity of the Roman priesthood by seeking to restore it to its Jewish roots.

It appears, therefore, that the next – and last – genuine Pope will take the name Peter. Since the Roman Pontificate was supposedly initiated by the Apostle Peter, one might expect that the name Peter would have been chosen by many previous Popes. But it’s a curious fact that not one of the 260-odd Catholic Pontiffs elected to date has opted to honor the great Fisherman by assuming his name. Why? St. Malachy’s prediction that Peter would be the last Pope doesn’t explain it, since more than 160 Popes had shunned the name of the great Apostle before Malachy ever received his vision in 1140 AD.

Moreover, Malachy’s list of future Popes was kept hidden in the Vatican archives until its first publication in 1559 (in time, by the way, for Nostradamus to have read them while he was completing his own prophecies). So why should all of the 220 Popes enthroned before the publication of Malachy’s list have avoided using the name of the alleged founder of their line? Given the consistency of this pattern, one would have to assume that this unwritten taboo is deeply ingrained in the Church hierarchy. One might also interpret this odd aversion for Peter’s name as an implicit acknowledgment of the spurious character of the Papacy’s Petrine legacy.

Be that as it may, the choice of the name Peter by a newly elected Pope would constitute nothing short of an act of outright rebellion against the Vatican hierarchy. It would signal the intent of the part of the new Pontiff to radically transform the Catholic priesthood, to literally rebuild the Church on a new foundation. Instead of the foundation of falsehood, whose emblem is the bogus tomb of St. Peter, the last Pope would lay down a foundation of Truth. But to do so would necessarily expose the mountain of lies upon which the power of the Roman hierarchy rests.

This mountain of lies appears symbolically in the last of the three visions revealed by the Virgin Mary at Fatima in 1917. In that vision, a future Pope is seen ascending a steep mountain, followed by a priesthood consisting of both men and women. At the top of the mountain, they are fired upon by soldiers surrounding a large Cross made of the trunks of oak trees. Mountaintop oak groves are, of course, notorious in the Jewish Scriptures as sites of idolatrous worship of such abominations as Baal and Moloch. It’s also noteworthy that the soldiers in the Fatima vision shoot arrows at the Pope and his entourage. Scriptural imagery, particularly in the Book of Psalms, often employs arrows as a metaphor for the tongues of the wicked seeking to defame the Righteous. This tells us that the reactionary crusade to unseat Pope Peter will involve both physical violence and a vicious campaign of lies aimed at vilifying him.

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Note: Baal is Bel, Lord, Belmarkuke, Enki, Apollo.

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Not surprisingly, the aspersed blood of purification which figures so prominently in the Fatima vision also crops up in the visions of Nostradamus. The 98th Quatrain of his Second Century, describes this corresponding vision:

The one whose face is sprinkled with blood
Of the victim recently sacrificed:
Jupiter in Leo, foreseeing through an omen:
[One] put to death then for the sake of the Bride.

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From my file:

C2:Q98

The one whose face is splattered with the blood
Of the victim nearly sacrificed:
Jupiter in Leon, omen through presage:
To be put to death then for the bride.

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In Catholic theology, the Church is the Bride of Christ. So here we have another prophetic rendering of the passion of a martyred Pope, who will lay down his life to restore the virtue of this “Bride”. By doing so, he will forever dissolve the absolute monarchy of the Holy See and establish himself as the founding “St. Peter” of a cleansed Church. Our Provençal astrologer predicts that these events will unfold when the planet Jupiter is passing through the Zodiac sign of Leo, the Lion. The next time Jupiter will be transiting Leo is the period from August 2002 to August 2003.

Elsewhere in his Centuries, Nostradamus envisions an apocalyptic crisis involving the Roman Catholic clergy. The crisis that he prophesies appears to bear all the earmarks of the one now beginning to unfold in our times. If that’s so, then the good Doctor’s prognosis clearly points toward a bloody reckoning:

The blood of the Church people will be poured out,
In as great abundance as water:
And for a long time it will not be stanched,
Woe, woe to the clergy, ruin and complaints.

We read the foregoing lines in Quatrain 8.98. While the Prophet “shuffled the deck” pretty thoroughly, even the best shuffle leaves some “cards” in their original order.

Consequently, we find a few instances in which two sequential Quatrains are obviously meant to be read together. And this is one of them. If we go on to Quatrain 8.99, we encounter a further elaboration of the outcome of the Vatican’s current crisis:

As a consequence of the power of the three temporal Kings,
The Holy See will be relocated to another place:
Where the reality of the spirit endowed with a physical body
Will be restored and recognized as the true See.

Insofar as Nostradamus foresees the restored Church relocating its seat away from Rome, he’s in accord with the visions of the 19th Century Catholic prophetess, the Venerable Anne Catherine Emmerich. Anticipating a future schism in the Church, Anne Emmerich foretold that the true Pope would be forced to flee Rome, which would become the seat of a “dark, counterfeit church”. But, if we look closer at the last stanza, Nostradamus seems to be predicting something more than the a mere geographical shift in the Holy See. In a most physician-like way, he refers in the third line to the visceral unity of the Spirit and the Body. It’s almost as if he knew that the Church’s denial of the reality – and, yes, even the divinity – of the Body would become the source of its undoing. Quite astoundingly, he foresees that, with the translation of the Church’s physical location, will come a corresponding shift in its theological paradigms. When the Church is reborn, therefore, it will rediscover that human sexuality is not something to be hidden and denied, but rather that it is the sacred energy that enlivens the Spirit. To rediscover this particular truth, Catholicism – and, indeed, Christianity in general – must also rediscover its roots in Jewish mysticism, as revealed in the teachings of the Kabbalah.

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Continuing with the scenario laid out in the Epistle, we read of a series of world events that will coincide with this crisis in Catholicism. Among these events is a military assault on the “habitation of Abraham”, which corresponds to the modern city of Hebron in Palestine. Hebron was in fact assaulted by Israeli forces while this article was being written (April-May 2002). Another current event to which Nostradamus refers is the desecration of a venerated tomb in the Biblical town of Shechem. That town is now known as Nablus, and it was indeed the site of shameful desecration of the tomb of the Jewish Patriarch Joseph by an Arab mob during the early stages of the current Palestinian uprising in October 2000.

With the intervention of the secular authorities in the internal affairs of the Church will come not only the plundering of the Vatican’s assets but also a forfeiture of the hierarchy’s power. Those who refuse to fall into line with the domination of the Holy See by the “three temporal Kings” will be mercilessly persecuted.

"It will seem that God has loosed Satan from his infernal prison to give birth to the great Dog and Doham, who will make such an abominable schism within the Church that the cardinals and bishops will find themselves blinded and impotent, not knowing what to make of it all, and they will be stripped of their power. Then will commence a persecution of the Church the like of which has never been seen before."

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Note: This is like Revelation 9:11

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In the 37th paragraph of the Epistle, Nostradamus reveals that the Antipope will be an adherent to a religious “sect” which will be promoted by the Triumvirate of temporal rulers and will spread throughout the world. Initially, therefore, the Third Antichrist will not be a solitary tyrant, but will rule the world jointly with two other “Triumvirs”. Not coincidentally, the pattern of the Triumvirate also characterized the rise to power of both Napoleon and Hitler. Before becoming Emperor of France, Bonaparte was one of a Triumvirate of Consuls. Similarly, in the formative years of the Nazi Party, Adolf Hitler shared power in a Triumvirate with Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Goering.

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Note: On 12-28-02 "The Mighty Sisto" made contact by IM and told of a dream with the above three Nazis.

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Consequently, the Antichrist of the Apocalypse may be characterized as a “Triumvir” is two senses. First, as we have just said, he will initially share power as one of the Triumvirate of the “three temporal Kings” foreseen by Nostradamus. Second, he will be the “third” in the line of historical Antichrists, the rightful heir to the odious legacies of Bonaparte and Hitler. Nostradamus speaks of this “third one”, who will nonetheless rank “first” in perpetrating atrocities:

The third one ranks first, doing worse than Nero,
The valiant finished off, so much human blood to flow:
He will cause the ovens to be rebuilt,
Golden age dead, new King, great scandal.

Since this is the 17th Quatrain of Century IX, we again find the number 17 associated with the fall of the Papacy and the rise of the Antichrist. Moreover, it’s possible that Nostradamus intentionally positioned this stanza as Quatrain 9.17 as an allusion to the year 1917, when the Third Secret of Fatima was revealed. In the last line, we see a reference to the “great scandal”, now beginning to engulf the Catholic hierarchy, which is destined to bring an end to the “golden age” of the Vatican’s moral authority.

Particularly ominous is the allusion in the third line to the rebuilding of “ovens”, which suggests that the “third one” will resume the nightmarish Holocaust of Dachau, Treblinka and Auschwitz. And the reference to Nero all but clinches the identification of the “new King” as the Antichrist, since the notorious figure 666 of the Beast of Revelation is a numerical rendering of the name “Nero Caesar"

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Note, 17th Quatrain of Century IX = 9 x 17 = 153.

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Nero was, of course, the Emperor who supposedly ordered the execution of St. Peter.

According to one version of the story, Nero sought revenge on Peter because he had brought disgrace on the Emperor’s favorite magician, Simon Magus. If Nero was the original prototype of the Beast, then it must be said that Simon Magus was the original prototype of the False Prophet who serves as the Beast’s spiritual accomplice. Although the pejorative “Magus” epithet – meaning “magician” – was later attached to his name by Christian writers, he was actually known in Rome as Simon Magnus, or Simon the Great.

And, while the historical presence of Simon the Apostle in Rome is, at best, uncertain, Simon Magus’ sojourn in the Eternal City is quite well documented. In fact, Simon Magus founded his own sect which came to dominate the early Christian community in Rome. This sect later evolved into a form of Christianity known as “Gnosticism”.

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When Gnosticism was subsequently branded a heresy by the official Church, the fact that the original Christian community in Rome had been established by Simon Magus understandably became quite an embarrassing historical detail, and one that weighed heavily against the claim of Rome to be the supreme See. The standard response of authoritarian institutions to inconvenient historical details is to alter them, and this was apparently what the Church of Rome hoped to accomplish by promoting the fiction of St.

Peter’s role in founding the local Christian community. As it often did in converting the tales of popular pagan deities into the “lives of saints”, the Roman Church simply merged the identities of Simon Magus and Simon the Fisherman, fashioning a fictional persona for the latter out of the historical character of the former.

That being the case, it’s likely that the victim of the execution decreed by Nero on Vatican Hill in 64 AD was not Simon Peter, but Simon Magus. The fact that Simon Magus had at one time been the one of the Emperor’s favorites does not at all argue against this scenario, since Nero was notorious for disposing of such people once they fell into disfavor. Apparently Simon had exceeded the limits of his magical powers in an effort to please the crowds who assembled for the diversions offered by Nero at his Vatican circus maximus. When he fell from the sky during a levitation performance, the scorn of the rabble grated on the pride of his patron Nero, who petulantly demanded his crucifixion. The image of “falling from the sky” is one that Nostradamus applies prophetically, in Quatrain 1.27, to the Antipope who will be the modern counterpart of Simon Magus:

Under the oak tree of southern France, struck from the sky,
Not far there, the treasure is hidden:
He who for long centuries had been gathered in,
Found dead, the eye gouged out by ambition.

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One of the philosophical consequences of viewing mundane reality as essentially demonic is the belief that reality can manipulated by the invocation of demons. For that reason, there has always been a strong nexus between occultism and dualistic creeds, such as Gnosticism. In fact, the storied feats of Simon Magus were attributed to his skill in manipulating the power of demons. For that reason, Simon served as the model for Goethe’s demon-invoking character Faust. One of the most memorable scenes in Goethe’s tragedy involves Faust’s participation in Walpurgis Night – a sort of annual orgy of demons and their occult worshipers. Traditionally, Walpurgis Night is the eve of May Day, the last night of the month of April. Nostradamus seems to be referring to that date in his 42nd Quatrain of Century I:

The tenth day of April by Gothic reckoning
Revived again by devilish people:
The fire extinguished, diabolic assembly
Searching for the bones of the Demon of Psellus.

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Addressing his son and heir César, Nostradamus explains, in the 16th paragraph of the Preface, the evil he sought to avert by destroying Psellus’ occult manual:

Thus, so that you might not be led astray in the future in a search for the perfect transformation of silver, or of gold, or of incorruptible metals under the earth, or hidden in the sea, I have reduced them to ashes.

This passage implies that the demonic manipulation of physical reality, as explained in books like Psellus’, aims at the “alchemists’ dream” of transmuting base metals into gold and silver. It’s not coincidental, moreover, that the legendary Holy Grail was said to have the miraculous power to transform ordinary matter into precious objects.

While the Grail is typically represented as a golden Chalice, the latter is simply an emblem for the occult knowledge which the Grail embodies. As we’ve already seen, Nostradamus’ prophecies indicate that the search for the Grail is somehow tied in with search for the bones of “St. Peter”, aka Simon Magus. We’ve also learned that the number 17 and its expanded derivative 153 furnish important “clues” in this search. If we pursue this lead to Quatrain 1.53, we read the following:

Alas! the people will see a great one tormented
And the holy law in utter ruin,
[Replaced by] other laws throughout Christendom,
When a new source of gold and silver is found.

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But when the German archaeologists opened the sepulcher in 1942, they found no human remains within it. Perhaps the answer lies in another Quatrain, the 84th in Century IX, which also speaks of a tomb encased in marble and lead:

The King exposed will complete the slaughter,
After having found his origin:
Rush to open the tomb of marble and lead,
Of the great Roman with a Medusine insignia.

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Inserted 1-5-03, 5:40 PM

Dee received an e-mail from her friend, Michell this morning, relating her dream last night. It seemed to closely follow the symbolism of the above article.

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Diana was a focus of the press for 17 years.

Dee's dream of 49/211, as related to the assination of the Pope on 2-11-1939, who was crowned Pope on 2_11-1922, exactly 17 years.

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4-26-04, 10:04 AM

Found this while searching my files for the Da Vinci Code:

3-7-97, From Ho mail:

BARBARA - WHO CALLS HERSELF BOBBI SENT THIS OUT TO THE FLEDGLING WICCA GROUP AND I THOUGHT YOU'D ENJOY IT....THANKS BOBBI -

This isn't exactly Celtic, but of interest to all. I've just concluded some astrological research that seems to support the idea that the next decade or so will be one of great religious/philosophical turmoil and exploration.

This is based on the precept that Pluto entered the sign of Sagittarius in early 1995 and will finally leave there.

10-6-2008.

Here is a list I compiled of what happened the previous times that Pluto was in Sagittarius. It is based on professional astrology software and the contents of three encyclopedias (Groliers,

Comptons, and Encarta.)

(skip long list)

1502 Columbus sails on his fourth voyage of discovery.

1503-1510 Copernicus receives doctorate in Canonical law and then completes treatsie on heliocentric astronomy.

1503 Juan Bermudez lands on the island of Bermuda, which is named for him.

1503 Arquebuses (handguns) help the Spanish defeat the French

Italy.

1503 The Spanish crown approves encomienda (enforced slavery) in the American colonies.

1503 Leonardo da Vinci begins painting the Mona Lisa.

1503-1513 Julius II is pope.

1503 Nostradamus Born.

1504 The watch is invented by Peter Heinlein.

1506 Construction of St. Peter's Basilica begins.

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In a message dated 6/21/2004 10:14:51 PM Pacific Standard Time, Sst writes:

<< Subj: [greatdreams-forum] John Doe #2 and the Pope >> (snip)

<< I was reading a book about Nostradamus published in 2001 before 9/11 and it  says that Quatrain V.92 says that after holding the seat for 17 years, Five  will change in just such a period (17 more years). >> (snip)

<< The author was trying to find a pope in history that served 17 years -- the only one was Pious XI and he served from 1922 to 1939. But he wasn't followed by five more men who served like period. >> (snip)

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Hi all.

T.J. did a fine article about this subject:

http://apokalypso.com/Triumvir.htm

Dee included Michelle's dream about the Pope and President Bush on this page:

YOU GOTTA BE JOKING!!! The Beast of Revelation

http://www.greatdreams.com/joking-beast.htm

Her dream was quite coincidental to me, as I had just read T.J.'s article about the Triumvir. Also coincidental was the date of her dream, 1/5/2003. That can be expressed symbolically as 1/5/03, or 1503, or 153.

The number 153 was mentioned in the article as related to the Popes via Peter the Fisherman in the 153 Fish in the Net story in John 21. The numbers 1 through 17 add to 153.

Also coincidentally interesting is that Nostradamus was born in 1503. Dee covered the 153 Fish in the Net story in this article:

17 FISH - THE BIBLE AND THE STARS

http://www.greatdreams.com/constellations/17-fish.htm

Regards,

Joe

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In a message dated 9/20/2004 11:45:45 AM Pacific Standard Time, William writes:

<< Subj: Re: 288 - 137 = 151
Date: 9/20/2004 11:45:45 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: William
To: JMason4557@aol.com (& others)

Hi Joe,

This is a fascinating and important dream.

It's about the Second Coming, for sure. This was represented by the destruction of the twin towers, and is the birth of a new humanity. The twins are a perfect metaphor for both ideas. I totally agree about the numbers relating to Jesus Christ and the 153 fish in John 21. Incidentally, in the combined value system I use

angel (c) = 153

This came before 151 (Jesus Christ) which recapitulates the biblical story of the angel announcing the birth of Jesus.

However, I was also struck by the fact that the twins were joined at the foot, which must be significant. Visually, they would create either the letter V or the letter M.

Now V is the 22nd letter of the alphabet, and M is the 13th, so we have further lines of enquiry here.

Lord (r) = 22 = 11 + 11

The MM reminds me of Mother Mary or Mary Magdalene.

Mary Magdalene = 119 = 272 - 153

Also

M (c) = 57 = Mary

MM (c) = 114 = God (c)

For an explanation of the systems I use, see:

http://www.thenewbiblecode.co.uk/aboutnumbers.html

In Christ,

Bill

on 20/9/04 1:41 am, JMason4557@aol.com at JMason4557@aol.com wrote:

This is a followup to my last e-mail.

Dee had a two dreams this morning that involved twins and the numbers 15.3 and

15.1. >> [my snip]