Nicene Council supplies keywords to Nostradamus Code

On the 16th July 2008 I struck upon a most remarkable discovery, namely that Nostradamus suggests that the orthodox view of the Catholic Church, in which God and Jesus have equal status, would be overturned in favour of the Arian heresy ( which places Jesus below God in a hierarchy of the divine).

I can establish these findings in a quite compelling way that draws on and reinforces all my other discoveries on Nostradamus' coding methods. It involves the strength given by the relevance of the anagrams hidden in the text of a line of Nostradamus verse and the strength of the relationship to the meaning given in the visible content of the line. (An anagram is a word made up by arranging letters letters in a different order).  In my other papers on this site I have already indicated that every message has an element of past, present and future. I also claim that the elements of the past, used by Nostradamus, are mainly drawn from classical allegorical reference (see my paper on code for more detail).

In the instance of the verses in this paper, the past event is the evolution of Christianity that took place in 324CE and it encompasses the Nicene Council and the Antioch Council that preceded it. 

The anagrams which act as the key to unlocking the mystery are so unusual (AGENNETOS, AEIGENES and Agennetogene) as to need an explanation as to why I would seek such words as well as needing an explanation as to what they mean. But first, I will show the wording of the three verses which hold these anagrams as they are shown in an original publication of Nostradamus' Prophecies. I also include the commonly given translation of the text to aid the reader. The anagrams I am discussing here are shown below in bold within the lines in which they occur. The first two are found as whole anagrams (no extra letters in the sequence) and these verses are the only ones where the whole anagrams  occur. Most of the other lines of these verses are shown later in this paper.

The second word AEIGENES, (from Gk: a=without / not, Eigen= separate item) occurs as a whole anagram when wrapped around the end and start of the line. The third word Agennetogene, (from Gk: a=a=without/ not, gennos=beget,  -tos =by means of, -genos = kin / race) is actually a split anagram (two parts in same line), it has no occurrence as a whole anagram anywhere in the text and its only occurrence is in the manner shown.. The first word AGENNETOS,  (from Gk a=without/ not, gennos=beget, -tos =by means of) is a complete anagram. 

The very religious nature of these lines and the common theme running through them is what alerted me that I might be on a relevant track.

The debate on Begotten versus Created

On the 17th July 2008, while writing this screed, I explored the meaning of Agennetos and found the early church fathers had often labelled Jesus' birth  as both Agennetos (without normal way of birth ) and Gennetos (normal way). I therefore searched for the latter word (gennetos) as an anagram as I had already found the first. To my surprise it also occurs and only once in a different line of one of the three verses named above. There is also the anagram GENETOS (by means of kin, Gk: from genos=kin / race, -tos =by means of) made from the same root in the same line of verse and it too only occurs once in all of Nostradamus' prophecies. The single versus double 'n' that differentiates the words came to be seen as the difference between created and begotten, but this only in the latter part of the third century. Before that these words had been used  interchangeably by the early Christian writers. In this context the appearance of both Gennetos and Genetos in the verse where I had identified the split anagram adds an additional interpretation for the verse. These new words also add a significant element to the analysis since the distinction between Agennetos and Genetos (as written in different early tracts) was at the heart of the theological problem dividing the Church in the fourth century. Those who adhered to the concept of the Christ born in the Normal Way were attacked by those who believed he was not only Begotten of God, but was of the same status as God in every way. As a consequence of these fourth century conferences. those who followed Arius' beliefs came to be branded heretics.

The establishment of the correct context left me with the quite unlikely coincidence whereby five unusual, words central to a religious debate appear  uniquely in three verses related to the place of Christ in religious thinking.

The level of unlikelihood is raised further by the means by which I found the coincidence. The evaluation of the level is tied to  whether I sought any words of meaning in these three  verses of obvious religious content or found the verses by searching for known religious words in a particular context. The first method based on the search within these three verse would have done much to my confidence level of their significance but to look for defined words and discover them in lines of relevance would be an amazing coincidence if left to chance alone. It was the second method I used and the reasons for my search were based on earlier leads I had uncovered. They had taken me to the heart of the Christian crisis in 324 which centred on the relationship of Jesus to God and the divinity of Christ.

In order to take these findings to the next level of evidence I need, at this point of my presentation, to give some background to the Arian controversy. Conveniently, it emerges quite simply by following the means by which I came to look for these unusual words.

Arian Heresy versus Orthodoxy 324CE

The words that became the subject of my search were found in an article on Arianism in Early Christianity by Octavian Sarbatoare (BA USyd). Note: The following quote below sets out the orthodox position that Arius opposed, but not the full Arian position; more of  Arius' view is given in summary, later in my paper.) 

      "Arius's work of bringing forth a new doctrine became apparent a decade before 319 CE, the year in which he  published his ideas in a work known as Thalia (The Banquet), that was a summary of his doctrine. Thalia as a composite work did not survive to the present days. It is believed that Arius as priest became frustrated with the doctrinal ideas of his Bishop Alexander of Alexandria, who was supported by Athanasius (296-373) in the key ideas of consubstantiality of the Father and the Son.

      "According to it, the Son is present in the Father without birth (agennetos), he was ever-begotten (aeigenes), and is unbegotten-begotten (agennetogene). But, Arius' logical assumption was that a father must somehow precede his son, such an inference leading to the idea that the Son has a beginning of his existence."

The origins of my particular search go back to June, 2008 when I began looking at the relevance of Philo Judaeus, the Alexandrian Jewish philosopher; born about 20 BC at Alexandria, Egypt and who died after 40 CE. My reason for doing so was that I had found Philo's name associated with some of my earlier research. One of the six verses  within Nostradamus' Prophecies in which this name occurs as a whole anagram is given below. It contains the anagrams of Philo, Antioch and Utopists

The words in the visible text suggest a relevance to these anagrams and I therefore looked more closely at Philo's work.

This study revealed that Philo tried to synthesize Greek Philosophy with Judaism by means of an allegorical and emblematic interpretation of scripture,. which I believe fits to the model in Nostradamus' Prophecies). The following quote comes from Wikipedia.

"Philo bases his hermeneutics on the assumption of a twofold meaning in the Bible, the literal and the allegorical. He distinguishes ... "ad litteram" in contrast to "allegorice".

The two interpretations, however, are not of equal importance: the literal sense is adapted to human needs; but the allegorical sense is the real one, which only the initiated comprehend. Hence Philo addresses himself to the μύσται ("initiated") among his audience, by whom he expects to be really comprehended." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo

Philo also argued that the personal deity of scripture is identical with the Form of the Good in Plato (author of Utopia), and the logos is its mediating creative force. Both Plato and Philo became cornerstone authorities for the Gnostic philosophy and it is from this standpoint that, at a later date, the views of people such as Saint Lucian of Antioch and Arius were built. Arianism had a more humanist view than its opponents- and it was during the 4th-century that this doctrine was first deemed heretical by orthodox Christianity. Arius proposed that Christ was merely the noblest of men and, being of a different substance, was not the son of God.

By making these ideas heretical the concepts of the old ones, Philo and Plato, were removed from the scene as referred to in Nostradamus' verse immediately above. Another pointer to their allegoric significance is that Plato's Utopia had at its core the idea of Everything as Communal property and responsibility.

Philo expressly taught the doctrine of 'creatio ex materia', in which God uses an invisible substrate to create the visible world- (from this basis reason leads to the idea Christ could only be created by God not begotten at the same time as  him). Plato contains similar themes to that given by Philo and of course Philo may have adopted his ideas from Plato.

There is historical support for the idea that Philo, a Jew,  had an impact on Christian thinking in Antioch and Nicaea. It was, after all, in these places that the cornerstones of Christianity were forged and we know he had an impact 
SEE: PHILO OF ALEXANDRIA and the Beginnings of Christian Thought by David T. Runia  which includes the following:

 "Some time before the end of the 3rd century the story was spread that the Jew, Philo, had had contact with members of the church at the very beginning of its existence."  

All of this gives extra weight to the visible text of the three verses with anagrams related to creation and begetting. One talks of 'blood and substance' while the other talks of the 'substance of the body and holy spirit'.

And contained within the visible text there is a threat hanging over the future of the sacred seat in Rome while in the parts of these verses not shown this threat seems to be dire. There is a further implication in the last line of the second verse for it goes on to say that the division between substance and spirit 'will be restored and received as the true seat. 

Another two anagrams are held in the second verse. They are the anagrams of Jerusalem (lieu sera m) and Islam (misla) in the second line [Note I and J appear the same in Nostradamus' writing). Both these terms have religious significance and seem quite capable of being part of the message contained in the visible text. They also hint at the source of the implied threat in the verses. These two words, however are not unique occurrences since IERUSALEM occurs 7 times and ISLAM 20 times in Nostradamus' Predictions. (Note: Jerusalem with a J never occurs as a whole anagram).

It is possible to make a distinction between the last verse and the other two that are given above, since, as I have shown above, the last verse incorporates the Arian-biased word Genetos (created of the flesh) as well as Gennetos (begotten of the flesh). It would be likely that this verse is about the progeny of mortals in some way linked to the philosophical battle fought out at Antioch and Nicaea. It therby points inevitably towards a birth line based on Christ and its recognition through the support of the Jewish and Islamic peoples. This can be supported from further analysis of the contents of these verses.

It would be wrong to conclude that on the basis of these materials it is destined to happen because the nature of this analysis so far, could have been stated by Nostradamus as a part of his beliefs. There is nothing in the foregoing that is inconsistent with the notion that Nostradamus was writing a secret code for members of a Gnostic/Arian sect of which he was a fellow traveller. It would then make sense of his writings and of the code contained within these verses. If such were the case then his messages of an Arian based triumph over the Catholic Church would be false. However there is more to consider before we can reach that conclusion.

So far I have only drawn on anagrams to which Nostradamus could be reasonably expected to have access; words such as Antioch Jerusalem, Islam, Philo and of course the three words from studies of the conferences of the fourth century. The arguments hang together even with this small base but there is more detail once we make the bold step that I have made in all my other papers on this site. But firstly, I will confine my word list to those that make sense of a narrative based only in the past and present views of a sixteenth century Frenchman. The previous part has shown how relevant an allegory of the past is as a means of code that can be decoded by a hidden set of anagrams. This next step extends it to Nostradamus' time and those things to which he was exposed in the sixteenth century.

Nostradamus' Life in lands of heresy 

I was particularly bemused when I discovered that one of the verses in my series of three was Centuries 6.  Quatrein 18. The reason for my bemusement was that last year I ended my novel (see link to extract below) with this quatrein. I therefore knew that it contained a word that linked it directly to the Arian faith and the cult of the Magdalene. My novel about Nostradamus tries to give a context to his early years that are not covered well in his biographies. It therefore spends a lot of time with his youth in St Remy and his early adulthood in the Pyrenees and especially Alet les Bains. Now Alet is a few kilometres north of Chateau les Rennes and both are in the heartland of the Grail and Magdalene legends. They are also at the core of Dan Brown's The De Vinci Code narrative. The Pyrenees are a major place where a form of Arian-Gnostic religion took root over a thousand years ago. It grew into a cult called the Cathars (also called Albigenses)  who were destroyed in a crusade against the Albigensian heresy by the Roman Catholic church in the early part of the last millennium. The legends and the Cathars predate Nostradamus' time and Nostradamus predates the people listed in the tale set out in The De Vinci Code. Significantly, in respect to the arguments of this paper, Nostradamus not only lived in Alet les Bains in his early twenties but his family's origins go back to this town. His own family had moved from here at the time of the Jewish expulsions about two decades before his birth. However others of the family had stayed.

So the setting of this region is fertile ground in which to find verses about the Arian heresy and to understand why Nostradamus might have had an interest. However, when writing my novel, the reasons I had chosen verse C.6 Q.18 was not just that it referred to Judaism (Nostradamus' family were converted Jews), but to an unusual word in the third line, the same one that contains the ancient words for begotten in the flesh and created in the flesh. The word is HAUTPOULS.

THE HAUTPOUL FAMILY

The Hautpouls were the lords of the Chateau Les Rennes for several centuries from the fourteenth century on. They were rich and powerful and very likely were clients of the young Nostradamus for at the time he was engaged in the work of an apothecary. Much has been made in modern times of a historical claim that the Hautpouls and Chateau Les Rennes hold the secret meaning of the Grail, with that secret being the blood line of Christ. This claim expands to imply the line is created from Jesus' child when Magdalene, the supposed mother of his child, and Jesus family, migrated to this region upon his death. 

We do not have to believe or disbelieve this story ourselves in order to accept that such a tale may have been very seductive to the young Nostradamus. Nor would it be strange if countryside around Alet les Bains and that around his birth place had seduced him into a belief in a secret cult. Nor would it be surprising to learn he was part of such a cult. This is the theme of my novel and I took it up because it was psychologically consistent with Nostradamus' personality and was the culture in which he was grounded. I do not suggest that I have any facts for this, my novel is after all a fiction, trying to fill a gap in Nostradamus' life. However, given that I have already assessed it as possible, based on his known history, I do not find it strange to find the word HAUTPOULS in a relevant verse of the text of Nostradamus for they were a powerful family of his time that lived nearby. He did live in Alet, it is likely he would have known the Hautpouls, Alet was famous in the sixteenth century for its alchemists, but of course I cannot claim any more than the possibility of a link.

In my novel the Hautpouls end up as the foster parents of Nostradamus' child, who he conceives via a young woman of his predecessors who lived at Alet les Bains. It is the story of Jesus line told in fantasy form and it is therefore bemusing to see this verse elevating the idea above my original intent. The discoveries made by me in the last few days now give this verse a distinctly Arian twist and link it to those Nostradamus verses that suggest there is a blood line.

It is time to re-examine the visible text and I believe it is easy to now interpret  "He and his kindred pushed high in the realm," as "the blood line is to be found in the high mountains of France." and additionally " the blood line will become very influential in France" or "Nostradamus family were displaced from the Pyrenees to St Remy which is higher in the realm". All are possible and such a word-play would seem quite consistent with Nostradamus' style.

The argument that I advance that the code for Hautpouls relates to the bloodline is based on the Greek anagrams found in the same line as the family name. It is enhanced by examining the letters that precede this name From egne hault pous we have GENE-HAUTPOULS. The word gene would have been known to Nostradamus but in a different context to that we might apply today. It is a form of the Greek word Genos which means kin or family or race. The other words about the blood line have been in Greek so it would seem reasonable to apply this term in the manner of the Greeks. If we do so our line now has two continuous anagrams that read FAMILY HAUTPOULS. It is worth adding that because this word is in the form GENE and not GENOS it implies a feminine aspect of the family. Further the anagrams now imply BORN OF THE FLESH THROUGH THE KIN OF THE FAMILY HAUTPOULS.

None of this takes the work out of the credibility zone of orthodoxy. To have found code imbedded in Nostradamus text that identifies his beliefs and his projections is not outside of normal expectations. The credibility of his beliefs would not alter the orthodoxy. It could all be true and yet be the meaningless, failed predictions of a sixteenth century eccentric.

The Author's Heresy

The next stage of this analysis takes me beyond the orthodox, to that territory, where I am either an eccentric of the type stated in my previous paragraph, or where, like Nostradamus, I am the decoder of an ancient message, with something much more significant to state.

A consequence of seeing the above words HAUTPOULS-GENE  is a temptation to take the modern interpretation of the word gene and call it the definitive element of a BLOODLINE. But this takes it outside the knowledge of a normal sixteenth century man. It could be taken as such but it would imply Nostradamus' Prophecies incorporate knowledge of modern words. This does fits with his reputation as a prophet and despite its improbability readers of Nostradamus would not usually consider this heretic. If he was a real prophet then lies within the abilities he claimed for himself in a statement written by Nostradamus about his prophecies.

By means of this past present and future become one eternity, for all things are naked and open. Nostradamus in his Preface to the Prophecies 1555

The wording is very supportive of the claims I have made in other papers and will continue to make here. Not only is there a concept of an eternal unity (Holy Ghost etc) but an idea of 'eigennes' (an eternal unity of time). This is what I claim is the basis of his code where each line uses events of past, present and future to produce a single story. 

Now, if there is a unity involving the future then normal rules may not apply. From here comes the step that requires an application of reason that in any other place would be unreasonable.  However I must take courage and, as in all my other papers, I present what else I've found while knowing the difficulties it creates. I have claimed elsewhere. and now claim here, that there is evidence that many of the most important anagrams are in English. Now, if I am to advance this heretical claim in this paper, I must set the bar for the hurdle at such a high point that my clearing it helps make it more plausible. I need to present anagrams of high relevance and low probability of being there by chance. I need them to be continuous, to be complete, to require no manipulation, trickery or sleight of hand.  I believe I can achieve all these things.

I commence with the line of verse that contains AGENNETOS (not born by normal means). 

The above processes produce whole anagrams without any cheating on my part. The words imply that the concept or status of the Agennetos (which is the blood and substance of the Catholic Church) will be denounced. 

This peculiarly immaculate set of anagrams has credibility in light of the visible text and the older-time code words found in the three verses, yet they are clearly English words and not French or Greek. There is only one occurrence of DENOUNCEMENTS and AGENNETOS and there is only one other occurrence of STATUS (at C.3, Q.44, L.2). The coincidence therefore cannot be dismissed as a product of their frequency nor can it be diminished by their overlapping or their lack of adjacency, they are individually and collectively perfect.

This is surely quite remarkable in itself but there is more about this line that needs to be shown.

Hidden code about Nostredame's encoding. 

By the same method as above i have revealed the name of NOSTREDAMUS. It should not surprise us to find his name within this work but is it a frequent product of chance lettering. In this form there is only one whole anagram. When spelt as 'Nostradamus', as nowadays applied, there are no occurrences. However there are three of NOSTREDAME of which one is of the form NOSTREDAMES. Nostradamus non-Latinized name was Michel de Nostredame so the forms found are consistent with this birth name.  Given this, the form  Nostredamus seems an acceptable variant and in this form there is only this verse. There are five occurrences of DENOTES. The linked words NOSTREDAMUS-DENOTES  obviously would not be considered to be of the same quality as the previous example but it is an additional element with a low improbability in its own right. It also has relevance for it places him in this verse of the bloodline, of the heresy, of the story of Chateau les Rennes and also in the act of denouncement of the orthodox position.

Even now I have not finished with this line. Let me reprocess it once more.

Ur was an ancient city in southern Mesopotamia / Sumer (modern day Iraq), in Nostradamus early years Iraq was part of the Persian Empire but in 1536 CE it fell to the Ottomans. Sumer is also an anagram in this line.

There is only one occurrence of encodements (and none for encodement) . However words such as 'agents (26)' and 'noted (53)' are too abundant to diminish the incredibility of this arrangement. And the name of the city of UR, if it is what is meant, would be impossible to verify on its own from the many hundreds of chance occurrences of this letter pair.

In normal events this third example should be assessed as having no merit except for the word encodements. And this coding word is justified by its association with the anagram Nostredamus  also found in this line of verse. Here we have a statement that is made self-evident only because of the steps I have set out in this paper. The secret to the fall of Rome's blood and substance, comes not from the visible words (the walls) but from code held inside Nostradamus blood and substance (the bloodline story held in this verse).

So of the three layouts I have shown the first is the most credible for it greatly diminishes the improbability of these being purely by chance. It also stands alone, requiring no support from the other two. The second is raised in credibility because of its content (Nostredamus) and its infrequency. However without some great support from other places, the frequency of words (other than encodements) from my third example render them useless, since all anagrams based on frequently found words have no ability to either validate or invalidate my unorthodox claim.

If we discard these frequent words there is still a message in which the words discovered, their placement and their interlocked nature, make it hard to discount.

The greatest hurdle this generates is not the obvious difficulty of Nostradamus writing code in modern English, but that it means the text of Nostradamus must originate from a prophetic source. If this work of mine is valid then this raises even bigger hurdles, since I must continually address the totally illogical ideas about prophecy held by most people.  Since they must be true to be prophetic they cannot be of help to man, and must serve another purpose. However, although the stage is not right to pursue this line of thought (see later sections), I can indicate that the answers may lie in this set of three verses.

The Footprint of the Holy Ghost

The line of verse just analysed, can now be read as Agennetos status denotes Nostredamus encodements. In other words the encodement seen in Nostradamus' work is conceived outside human means. It is worth noting that this is totally in keeping with Nostredamus own words on his inspiration (see below). Such a view of the origin of the code seems absolutely essential and inescapable, given the complexity that is contained in just this one line. This view of the source, together with new dimensions on the Hautpoul connection are developed in the remainder of this paper.

Returning to the status of the third set of anagrams that I found in the above line I can begin to provide some support for its wording outside of their frequency. To do so I go back to the line containing the Hautpouls-gene. Within this line I will once again resort to ancient Greek by employing Gennos for Begets

Now the implication of "Yet UR era begets Haultpouls Gene' implies a bloodline going back to the city of UR.  In the city of UR it is claimed that the prophet ABRAHAM was born See Genesis 11.27-31. The word 'yet' implies an apology, perhaps an apology for the Jewish background of the Hautpouls raised in this verse whose visible text is about the failure of the Jewish people to serve a King. The visible words "He and his kindred pushed high in the realm," together with this new code can, consistently with earlier suggestions, be interpreted as the bloodline of all the prophets, since the time of Abraham whose kin later took up exile in the Pyrenees (pushed high in the realm). The hidden keyword imputes that the name HAUTPOUL is one of those used by the descendents.

The Victim of the Third Reich

My reason for returning to this verse is far more compelling than to reveal the view just given. There is another set of linked anagrams which contain the message 'youngest pollutes' (Luy et son genre au regne hault pouse)which is based on two adjacent anagrams each of which only occurs once. I want to show that the lines so far ignored, are part of the same story. The relevance of 'youngest pollutes' I believe lie in the first two lines of Nostradamus text (for this same verse) which say:

It is implied the Hautpoul gene in modern times (youngest) becomes polluted. There is another anagram in the line containing 'pollutes youngest Hautpoul gene' that, I believe, bears on the nature of the pollution, this word is Roentgens (Luy et son genre au regne hault pous) which ony occurs five times throughout Nostradamus' text. This word in modern usage can mean X-rays, which are known to cause gene mutation. Once again there is justification for its inclusion provided by the visible text. The clues lie in the word Physics, and not the Jew's Art. Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen is the physicist who discovered X-rays in the late eighteenth century. He was not a Jew but during Hitler's regime, his major enemy was given control over German science and denounced Roentgen's work along with that of other German physicists as practising Jewish arts. The lines however imply  that despite an overdose of X-rays the patient lives on. 

And in the fourth line which contains the split anagram of Agennetogene (conceived outside of normal means) we also have adjacent whole anagrams for EUGENIST-RACE and the sequence NONE-EQUATING as well as HEURISTIC and CODE. (Heuristic occurs 1 time, Equating 4 and Eugenist 4. )

A Eugenist or Eugenicist is one who seeks to bring about hereditary improvement of the human race by controlled selective breeding. This has an immediately placable target for it surely typifies the policy of the Nazi regime. However the wording of the fourth line suggests the Jews are given pardon. This would seem to contradict their victim status during the genocide initiated by Hitler and his regime.

This apparent contradiction can be resolved by a means  which in itself displays an uncanny knowledge about the modern era, Uncanny because, since the end of the second world war, the word Eugenist has taken on a sinister meaning belying the fact that many peoples of the world seek to improve bloodlines by selective breeding both in animals and in their families. These people however, do not employ the methods of Hitler's regime. The term Eugenist does not deserve the universal taint it now carries but it does and so earlier users of the term can easily be vilified . In order to see that the Jews did look to improve their bloodline through non-life threatening eugenics I would refer the reader to the following link Jewish Eugenics by Rabbi Max Reichler, New York, 1916. Note that it was written before the war waged by Hitler.

The word heuristic emphasises the point that I am making since it means 'Of or relating to a usually speculative formulation serving as a guide in the investigation or solution of a problem.' This is what differentiates the Jewish position from the Nazi position because Hitler's Third Reich  speculated on and put into practice, dire means of forcing racial purity. However, the negative connotations of this term that has existed since 1945, have led to a 'politically correct' attitude whereby any suggestion of Judaism having once practised Eugenics is frowned on. This is one of the senses in which the race which denies Christ has been pardoned.

Returning to the HAUTPOULS blood line it is possible to reach the conclusion that during the Second World War one of the descendents of the Hautpouls was subject to Nazi breeding experiments involving X-rays but survived them. However it also can also be concluded that that persons offspring was conceived outside the normal means, in this case by genetic changes brought on by X-rays. The outcome of this is the genetic makeup of the offspring does not have a traceable ancestry i.e. they are AGENNETOGENE as found in the line. This child may well be  the person referred to as the King in the first line of this particular verse.

In relation to the Hautpouls, there is at least one candidate that might fit the above. The father may be Pierre Plantard, the shadowy figure that underpins the stories about the bloodline of Christ in the modern era. Plantard claims to have been held by the Gestapo in 1944 and 1945 and to be connected to the bloodline of the Hautpouls. And on the 20th July 2008, on the basis of these findings, I ran a search for his name for the very first time. Searches of this nature rarely exceed and given the length and complexity of the anagram I sought I did not rate my chances at all. However there is one and only one anagram of PIERREPLANTARD in the text of Nostradamus (C.9 Q.52 Line 3).

In writing these latter findings, I am once again brought to a personal crisis point since I am now stating things that go against everything I have previously believed. It isn't the first time I have had to do this in my investigation and this internal struggle of trying to rationalize what seems highly improbable, if not impossible, causes me long hours of thought.

I have up until now been very sceptical about the bloodline stories found commonly in southern France. I have enjoyed them as myths and rated them according to their lack of substance and credibility. I did not expect that I might have to reconsider that position even after I had written my novel and made use of the Hautpoult reference. It is only now that my earlier attitude is threatened that I must adjust and place my discoveries in a rational frame. The threat is not based on the evidence or the un-testable quality given inherent in the writings of others on this topic, but on that which I have outlined in this paper. I find myself still doubtful about the predictive nature of my findings but the extent to which my methods work implies I must embrace that they have truth. It cannot be that this level of complexity was placed within these texts and yet the messages they contain are false. Any failure most come not from their existence but by the way I interpret them so I can hold my doubt on the bloodline but it becomes harder and harder to do so. A little later I will quote Nostradamus to establish a different point but in it he highlights the weakness in prophecy. Much is due to inspiration, but some of it comes from those who seek to prophesy they calculate and use whatever techniques are at hand. This must always represent the weak link, although Nostradamus' identifies that which he states validates those who are truly inspired.

The upshot is my views have changed but in doing so I do not betray my nature; this is a common position for those engaged in research to find themselves in. Newton, Copernicus and many others have had to face the dilemma of their findings contradicting their most fundamental beliefs. This did not in any way diminish their desire for knowledge, their scepticism and their quest for truth.

Of all the positions I have had to change, none has been more significant than that of my place in this investigation. I am a sceptical person and remain so. I do not hold to superstition and I find it easy to be sceptical of claims by other views, even when proposed by highly acclaimed scientists. I have no religious beliefs and am fearful of zealots whether they be based in religion, science, politics, race or nationalism. To state these things is important as I want to progress to where I can try to put these findings into a perspective but in doing so it is essential that I provide insight into those of my attitudes which might bias my view.

In this context it is relevant to admit to my being disappointed in mankind, having once felt that by the opening of the means of communications via Television, radio, universal education and the internet, the world would become a better place. I felt that as people saw how they impacted on those with less advantage they would change for the better. But this didn't happen and the result seems to be the worsening of society. It was once bewildering to me to find that violence and sexual voyeurism were highly prevalent in the audiences of the world, but now I see it as that which defines our race. These  choices freely made by informed people indicate the true nature of the masses and it is not edifying. However, I do not see such people as coming from a lower status in our society. Rather to the contrary I see them as the ordinary people, I see them as the leaders of all kinds, I see them as their followers, and yes it is true I also see them in the branded outcasts of others for I see these traits at all levels. Selfishness, greed, deviance cannot be isolated to those considered 'evil'. These things exist in the people, all of them,  allowing despots to reign and corruption to thrive. And it is not just in the doing, it is in the ignoring and in the deliberate act of putting self-interest first. Hitler's Germany is only a small part of the infamy that touches all our societies whether it be Sudan, Iran, Australia or the USA. There are of course people who are different, but they are rare, too rare to influence a world where the might of self-interest always thrives best.

I am a private person, believing much of the evils of the world arise from personal aspirations, particularly thinking they know what is best.. This wariness of aspiration is not a common view since aspiration is an aspect usually lauded as a virtue. I therefore find it hard to be in this mode of public introspection but it is necessary in order to understand how much of what my work reveals is distinct from my values, as its initiator. But enough of this, I need to put my case.

It cannot be true that what I find concealed in Nostradamus' text came knowingly from Nostradamus himself. There is no credible basis for doing so. Nostradamus never made this claim, he saw himself as a vehicle for the expression of a divine presence, he claimed not to be a prophet but a seer.

Furthermore, my son, though I have mentioned the name prophet, I do not wish to assume for myself a title so sublime for the present. For he who is called a prophet now was once called a seer. Strictly speaking my son, a prophet is one who sees things remote from the natural knowledge of man....... Nostradamus in his Preface to the first set of 300+ Prophecies 1555

It is quite true, Sire, that my natural instinct has been inherited from my forebears, who did not believe they were predicting, and this natural instinct [implies that anything seen] has to be adjusted and integrated using long calculations. ..............Nostradamus in the Epistle accompanying his additional Prophecies

Nostradamus in the Epistle accompanying his additional Prophecies 1558 also commented on a statement about prophets that is contained in the Bible and emphasised a significant point. First the statement on which he comments:

...according to the calculation and Punic Chronicle of Joel : I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh and your sons and daughters will prophesy' 

Nostradamus noted:

But such Prophecy proceeded from the mouth of the Holy Ghost (Paracletes) who is the sovereign and eternal power joined with the heavens, and caused them [earthly prophets] to predict great and marvellous events.

As for myself , I would never claim such a title.......

The Author's Recantation

AND I, THE AUTHOR OF THIS PAPER, HAVE BEEN FORCED, BY THE EVIDENCE OF MY WORK, TO CONCLUDE THAT EVERY WORD OF THE ABOVE, AS WRITTEN BY NOSTRADAMUS, IS TRUE. 

For me, the best explanation of the results I obtain comes from accepting the reality of the PARACLETES (also called the Holy Ghost). it is only by the conception of words from outside the individual's mind that all this can be explained. And it is necessary that such a source has the non human attributes of being both formless and eternal.

Acceptance of this enables Nostradamus' work to be seen as a sequence in a continuous prophetic line, in which he knew a little of the future, but as he wrote, ideas and arrangements were seeded in the writings, that did not come from him.

Although it was never part of my previous beliefs and is not a logical product of them, I can reconcile such a concept in a rational way. I do not have to ignore reality nor do I need to become superstitious or religious in order to do so.

It is within my rational capacity to see Paracletes as an aspect of the universe of the type which we would expect to exist. The Paraclete can sit well amonst the other sentient forms we look for when we look beyond this world. The only certainty we can have about our search for other intelligence is that when we make contact with alien forms we will usually be surprised by their form. Whatever we might imagine or expect it will test our beliefs. The only way we will have of judging their reality will be on the reproducible evidence of their contact with man. The form of the Paraclete as a time dimensional being (dare I say time-lord) rather than a mass-space dimensional creature should not be outside our comprehension. Nor should it come as a surprise if the forms we discover are superior to us, sufficiently so, that earth-people might worship them.

It would seem plausible that a means of communication would be directly into the mind of man. Such events would seem like imagination, visions and inexplicable genius. Mankind has not been short on people with these traits, and although most events are probably not due to outside influence, it cannot be discounted that some events might have outside origins. This was certainly Nostradamus' claim.

By ambiguous opinions beyond all natural reasons, By Mahommetan dreams and even sometimes through the flaming missives brought by the angels of fire of God the Creator, there comes before the exterior senses, even our eyes, predictions of future events or things significant to a future happening....

All is predicted through divine inspiration, and by means of the angelic spirit.....

. ..............Nostradamus in the Epistle accompanying his additional Prophecies

Words, speech, art, all form a platform by which an outside influence might leave its imprint. The origin of minds of the human type, which transcends the basic needs, have to be special in evolutionary terms. Is whatever goes on deep within our minds a link to the origin? The idea of inspiration having a reality is obviously difficult to prove, that is why it is called inspiration.  The trick would be to find the means of identify it as non-human based and to judge the credibility of the evidence put forward. Inspiration is Agennetos, born not of the normal way.

Although Nostradamus comes from a much more religious framework than me (however that may have been his expedient escape from the Inquisitor General's office attention), I find myself in total agreement with other of Nostradamus views on the nature of his Prophecies. For example it cannot be possible either that predicted events do not happen nor that sufficient detail can be gleaned that would thwart its happening.

It is significant that Nostradamus does not make any observation on the nature of the Paraclete (his stated source) and in particular that he does not see any form of emotional involvement between the Paraclete and mankind. He does not associate a purpose with his work, he does not have a timetable set nor does he have a commandment to perform.

My personal position from before my research began is unchanged in this regard, the Paraclete, is not in any way of benefit or detriment to mankind. My only shift in attitude is in its existence and my evaluation of this existing spirit as a presnce in inspired works is that it makes a statement of record and no more or less. It seeks no reward, no recognition, no worship, since these are things for a temporal world not for an eternal being. And in addition it seeks no purpose for it cannot, it merely exists. Nor is it the creator, any more than are the Laws that made the universe, it is an aspect, not the origin. It does not place man above or below any other thing that exists and we can expect no favours, no answers to prayers. It leaves us naked in this world, needing to find strength from within ourselves, and not rely on it. It offers us no refuge from the actions we take, no excuse or pardon that we can seek whenever we harm others.

We know Nostradamus believed he had access to the Holy Spirit. This was why he discounted his role. Like Nostradamus I discount my role in the work I produce. I do not claim to be a prophet, to have visions, to speak with angels or demons. I believe my work is that of an ordinary man able to access a modern tool, the computer, a man who had a conviction Nostradamus' work contained a code (albeit I expected it to be conventional). 

Moreover, although Nostradamus could have used his life circumstances to support his work he chose not to do so. For this to occur he had to discount his propitious birth stars, his being born of a Jewish heritage, and the bloodline ties he must have felt through the Cathar traditions of Provence.  He did, however, acknowledge the influence of his ancestors and thus of his Jewish bloodline. He therefore had reasons that might have justified a claim to being a prophet, but instead he showed insight into the process in which he was engaged. Unlike Nostradamus I have no heritage that explains my part in this process, it is the computer age that gives me access. It therefore may come as  no surprise to find a single anagram in Nostradamus text  that spells out COMPUTERISATION ( fER POINCTU MIS A TOus jusques au manche) It exists in the fourth line of one of the verses examined earlier (C.10 Q.065 L.4).

All of this brings me to the issue of the Hautpoul bloodline. It surprises me to find it set out in the manner I have unfolded. It is hard to understand what it is doing there. It certainly isn't proof there is such a bloodline, it may only mean that a group of people believe in its existence. Logic leads me to the conclusion that it is the doings of these believers that provide the reason for its being there. It is not the only thing about which I have no interest at all. I also have no interest in the supremacy of an Arian/ Gnostic view, whether aided by non-Christian groups or not. Nor have I reason to predict the demise of the orthodox church, yet that is what I have set out in this paper. I see no gain in replacing one superstition with another, one set of mind-influencing power group by those equally set on conformity. The value of the predictions I uncover satisfy no personal goal, moreover it is discomfort I experience at how irrational it has seemed. Even the goal of a successful prediction, providing evidence of the Paracletes existence, does not drive me on. I am the product as well as the process in the search for personal inspiration. And that alone.

I do not believe in a second coming, nor of Armageddon but I find it plausible that both Nostradamus and I might be part of a revelation of other forms of intelligence. I believe these messages are not to do with the end of the world but the evolution towards an evolved kind of man, able to look at the future without the blinkers of superstition or fear, a participant in a more colourful universe. But, perhaps all this is delusional fantasy and mankind is not capable of becoming better, perhaps our demise happens, perhaps we change but whichever of these takes place I am sure it does not come from what I find, write, think or say; I am not the soul of this endeavour, if anything I am its vehicle. And out of the confidence taken from these works I can take heed of these words of Nostradamus :

..it is manifested chiefly by two means, which are contained in the understanding of the inspired one who prophesies.

One comes by infusion, clearing the supernatural light for the person who predicts by the doctrines of the stars, making it possible to predict through inspired revelation. The other is a fixed participation of the divine eternity. By means of it, the prophet comes to judge what has been given him by his divine spirit through God the Creator and his natural intuition.

So what is predicted, and is true, has an ethereal origin. . This light and the thin flame [of inspiration] are altogether efficacious.... it is the latter which renders philosophers so sure of themselves [as to believe] they have penetrated to the loftiest of doctrines.

....... Nostradamus in his Preface to the first set of 300+ Prophecies 1555

In conclusion I would observe that my access is not by special licence, it is there for others to find, nor is Nostradamus' Prophecies the only place from which similar evidence will come. 

THE DEMIURGE: A new way of looking at the universe and existence.

ADDENDUM 24th July 2008, Written today for those who might want a little thought outside the confines of Nostradamus work.

I long ago came to the conclusion there was nothing that supported the concept of a God that had the slightest of human emotional traits. I based this on my own evaluation of the evidence and the illogic on which such a concept is founded. With the advent of the above work, I needed to re-examine many of these ideas. That which follows is the result of this personal introspection which I though might be of interest to those who wonder how this work affects me.

When I was sixteen my class teacher, Mr Brideson,  wrote a philosopher's pithy quotation on the blackboard once a week. In the conceit of youth I felt that I could actually do better than some of these famous men. So, under the pseudonym of Nella REBBUE , I occasionally wrote my own. There is no doubt Mr Brideson saw through my cover. On one occasion I wrote "In nothing there is everything.". On seeing it, he commented, looking directly at me, "That looks a very religious position. What do you think Allan?"

I replied "It might be, but I see other things in it. It represents the universe at the largest and smallest scales. The universe is mainly space but everything is contained in it. The atom which is everything of substance is itself, mainly empty. And mass too is now seen as being made of energy, a lack of substance. And magnets affect other magnets without touching or having any physical emanations. Also each one of is conceived from nothing and out of nothing we get personalities. And then there is the creation of the universe for there was nothing and then suddenly there was everything."

At the time I thought my cover wasn't blown, since there was no condemnation for my stealing his precious quotation spot. Thinking back I realise he was probably pleased at visible, if somewhat precocious, proof of his success.

My point however, is that I have obviously considered these issues for a long time and they are still a truth that haunts me today. 

But I am not alone in being of a philosophic nature. Although some people do go through life without ever thinking along these lines, most do and that is true throughout man's history.

Of recent time, having accessed new evidence, I have had reason to question the nature of the cosmos as it is currently perceived. In so doing I have achieved a new way of understanding these issues, which I believe is both scientific and spiritual.

Religious creation ideas are so full of holes that most religious people align themselves to the science view. I believe they are the rational ones. This paper is not about creationism nor is it a form of science denial.

However, the science position has its own flaws, not the least of these being the breaking of one of its own fundamental premises, since the big bang theory represents a one-off event that no experiment can ever reproduce. Out of nothing the universe began, that is the science position. There is an inherent adjunct to this tenet implying it embraces all that can ever be known or is worthy of contemplation on this subject. We, as humans are incapable of comprehending what came before, seems to be its basis.  But it seems reasonable to ask how can nothing be the generator of anything? A list of such questions is endless, including those regarding the emergence of laws to govern the universe, or the creation of life,  the emergence of thought, o the process of evolution and also inspiration. As a person with an inclination to think along the lines of rationality, I feel unsatisfied with what we don't know and the way we deal with it. These problems all occur at the point of a discontinuity, at the point of unprecedented change.

My solution to the Cosmos is the reinterpretation of chance.

What is chance? I think most people would find it acceptable to define it as "Chance is an event that comes into being without a means of conception."  Of course like all definitions it has its flaws but iit serves as a starting point.

Now it seems to me that the problems of discontinuity can be resolved by placing chance on the same footing as electrical, magnetic and gravitational effects. All are non-substantial, that is having no mass or size. All are given credence because they allow explanations of phenomena in a way that can be quantified. They are also capable of having rational laws applied to them. Despite having nothing tangible we grant them the status of real existence on the evidence of their influence.

I believe we have to do the same with chance. We have abundant evidence to support its existence as a reality not just a rationality.

Doing so then allows me to define the primal state as the existence of 'an eternal source of conception without means'. This is close to the concept of a demiurge and this demiurge needs no other properties to perform the acts of creation. Now,  when we try to go back in our understanding, beyond the discontinuity at the instant of the creation, we can do so without a contradiction. Before creation there is no mass, space, wave or time associated with the demiurge. Creation doesn't arise from choice of a point in time because time doesn't exist until created. There is only the demiurge and then there is a universe with the demiurge instilled in all that then exists, whether it be time, space, mass, energy or wave. Chance exists both before and after creation, it is eternal.

No other properties are needed for all that then follows. There is no need of purpose, the demiurge has no need of interest in the created things, it needs no praise or recognition. The demiurge persists inside and beyond the bound of the creation and that is all it does. It is chance, that real dimension alongside time and space, mass and energy, that tells us the demiurge is there. It is chance that lets us have the ability to ponder our own existence and be challenged by it. We are created in an act of chance, our sense to perceive evolves from nothing, and  we carry the demiurge within us. 

In nothing there is everything sums up the demiurge. It is seen by us as nothing as it is not a created thing, it is perpetual, with properties of a demiurge which has no means to see itself. We see its effects, like the way we see electric fields but it is its effects that are real and that alone. We cannot and no longer expect to force the magic called 'electric' to reason with us, debate with us, command us, or to respond to our prayers and entreaties, yet we once did.  And we can expect no more of the demiurge than of its more ethereal creations, since to do so brings back the discontinuity of what came before 'there was'. It is only when 'being' and 'chance' are its only attributes that its eternity is explicable, We can't take backwards those properties that are created and they still apply for in so doing the demiurge cannot be eternal. If the demiurge leaves a trace, detectable by man it is therefore benign, a data stream and that alone. Any traceable evidence of the demiurge will tell us of the structure of the universe before time and space existed. Mankind may therefore experience things within the senses but which lie outside his own abilities. And if there were to be found a demiurgal trace lacking humankind's linear time bounds and detailing things beyond past and present, we would be misguided to see such a thing as a message with a purpose. To see and yet defy, defile or deify, this cannot ever be.  If it is possible to see the effects of time passing into the future, seeing will be our limit since time occurs as instants progressing one upon the other.

It may seem that this idea lies outside that which it is possible for science to embrace. However, although the aim of science is to chip away at those things previously deemed unknowable, it always creates a more profound mysticism as it succeeds. The theory of evolution ends up embracing 'chance' as its generator, the same factor that underlays the big bang. Evolution and the creation of the universe have one and the same causality and my concept allows 'the before' and 'the after' to have a unity that does not come when we deny 'chance' a real dimension such as bestowed on 'mass' and 'time'. Science takes us closer and closer to the conception points of time and space, life and the universe by removing layers of uncertainty, bit it does by generating even more powerful, mystic qualities. Equations show this, since the removal of ignorance generates universal or specific constants, each of which owes its origin in something other than man. These constants are the new mystery requiring explanation of why and how they came to be the values they are.

I stated that concepts such as electricity and magnetism invoke evidence that, when measured, can lead to laws. This is true of the demiurge. We have laws of physics, radiation, genes and chance events and they measure the products of inexplicable conception, but these just touch on the bigger questions. I would argue that by seeing conception as a common thread to chance events unifies many questions about subjects as diverse as inspiration, birth, origin of species, origin of life, black holes and the big bang. The concept of 'chance' as the demiurgal dimension thereby offers a new field for study with laws and enhanced understanding to follow. 

Such a concept unifies many of the mysteries of science and religion. The Holy Ghost can be seen as a manifestation of man's experience with the demiurge and many of the Holy Ghost's attributes can be found through mortal reaction to its presence. Visions, dreams, prophecy and inspiration are evidence of the demiurge for they are inexplicable conceptions. Yes we can rationalise their content, but it does explain how they become the ones that emerge.  And the religious literature abounds with an understanding of  how things came into being. The Word of God, the mystery of words, and the gift of tongues are mankind's attempts to account for demiurgal impacts left on mankind through evolution. The demiurge lies within all creation whether animate, inanimate or formless and so man too has the capacity to find change that occurs without knowable means. Thought appears to me to be one of the most likely places in which the demiurge's trail may be scientifically uncovered, since thinking generates so much inspiration dissociated from the flesh in which its found. Some of all thought, if not all, is conceived without a means. There should be no surprise that inspired thought carries more detectable evidence of the demiurge than any other experience to which humans have access. We are, after all, each imbued with the creating force that 'was before all was'. 

As stated earlier, ideas of the properties of the demiurge cannot be passed backwards from the properties held by things created but it does have identifiable properties arising out of the creation. Science tends to take us backwards towards the conception point creating ever more powerful mysteries. The fundamental constants that bind the universe and allow its creation are powerful elements of our understanding, but we increasingly understand the fragility they represent. The universe doesn't work as it does if these numbers are even very slightly different to what they are. The approach of knowledge to the point of conception brings increasing awareness of the perfection of the creation act. It also implies there is no chance that the demiurge is an act of chance itself. These creation-acts of the demiurge show that chance is not a property related to itself, it is omniscient and eternal. The demiurge is shown also to have the property of perfect creation. All-knowing and all-perfection are the unique properties of that which was before all else existed. That is what science increasingly tells us about the foundations of creation. These properties continued, as they must beyond the creation of the universe. It is present at the discontinuity which was creation, and beyond that instant when the laws and substance of the universe were formed. At a later point we uncover the same pattens in the seeds of life and the evolution of sentience. Science will take us closer to the conception point, and scientists might one day be lucky enough to give us a single equation of the universe but this would not have removed mysticism as the perfection within that single equation would be an even greater mystery. For there to be no mysticism left for science to uncover, it must reduce all the equations, to not one but none, Only if there is no existence would that be possible. So science and religion both embrace mysticism but it is the aims and attitudes to advancement of understanding that distinguish them. 

So, once again I state that reality draws science closer to some of the attributes given to what religious persons term the Creator. However my concept of the demiurge is misconstrued if it is confused with this term with its implication of human purpose. Omniscience creation and perfection are the only possible precursors to existence and they prerequisite, but they are eternal properties that do not progress or alter. Being eternal, there is no choice about creation and hence no purpose or design. There is therefore a demiurge whose properties are purely that it is an eternal, omniscient, potential for creation.

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