What is the true nature of the prophecies of Nostradamus then?  And how useful are they?  As we are getting so close to the ominous 1999 date, it is inevitable that Nostradamus and one specific quatrain, numbered X-72, will get much attention of the world, and I felt it was important and a good opportunity to put out some extensively-analyzed and unmisleadingly-presented information on the Internet in conjunction with Quatrain X-72 that would answer those questions.  1999 will be a defining moment for Nostradamus and the prophecies of Nostradamus will likely have a very different value in people's minds afterwards, and it is my hope and belief that the unique information provided on this page will assist and encourage the process in a productive way.  It is likely that the readers who have not followed my work, even if they are very familiar with Nostradamus' prophecies, will be surprised by my approach as it has virtually nothing in common with others' takes on the prophecies.  The key difference is the very extensive, dynamic, and correlative symbology involved in my analysis.

While Nostradamus/Quatrain X-72 is the central topic of this discourse, as you read on you will see that the true issue is not predicting the future or proving the validity of the prophecy.  What happens is that the quatrain begins to function as a tool that guides us to notice connections between various events or concepts across space and time that are otherwise seemingly unrelated.  In other words, the quatrain, through its deep symbology, pushes one to notice order in chaos, and have a perspective that transcends the dimension of time.  (The same applies to other quatrains also, not just X-72.)  The result is that one begins to see the 'big picture', the larger 'reality', instead of just speculating about the future.  And then it will be seen that to know the (potential) future is to know the past and perceive the 'big picture'.  The apparent obscurity of the wording of the quatrains is not an attempt to trick people or be safe, but more likley due to his using the language of 'symbolism' which resonates with inter-temporal concepts and patterns which are the ingredients for shaping the 'big picture'.

Speaking of the "big picture", one of the key elements of this article will be the Hollywood movies which in my view contain a lot of 'hints' about the 'big picture', as you'd know if you have followed my web site for the past year or so.  There will be numerous references to various major movies (which I hope you all have seen), and the 'side effect' of this will be more confirmation that the there are those in media/entertainment industry who are very aware of the 'big picture' and planting hints in their products.  Also, if you haven't already, I encourage the readers to read The Nile Time-map Theory, Babylon Matrix, and/or The Elysian Fields (all written by this author) as there will be references to those works and it would be helpful if the reader is familiar with these.

The phrase "Final Solution" in the title has both positive and negative meanings.  It is positive in that the following may be the 'final solution' to the enigmatic quatrain, X-72, which suggests in turn the return of somthing that has been lost for so long to 'finally solve' a great mystery.  The negative implications on the other hand....  Well, it turns out that the 'big picture' ain't so pretty.

(The presention on this page is not as organized or detailed as I want it to be, but it will be updated/revised from time to time.)

  "From the Sky"

 
First of all, let me clarify the timeframe indicated by the first line 'the year 1999, seven month'.  Although most people tend to quickly assume that it refers to July 1999, it is not necessarily so.  If it's translated as "seventh month", then obviously it refers to July.  But it is also translatable as "seven months" in which case it would refer to the end of July or beginning of August.  Furthermore, since September originally was the "seventh month" ('sept' means seven) it is possible that the line refers to Sept. 1999.  So, it can be said that the indicated time is less specific 'summer/fall of 1999'.

There are so far mainly three planned events that fit the first two lines of Quatrain X-72 well.  They are the Cassini probe to Saturn, the Russian spacestation Mir, and Mars/probe(s):

Line 1: "The year 1999 seven month,"

• The Cassini probe to Saturn, launched by NASA on Oct. 6, '97, comes back after 680 days and flies by Earth on August 16, 1999 before heading toward Saturn. Interestingly, August 2 1999, which is almost exactly "7 months" after 1/1/99 and just 14 days before the Cassini Earth flyby, would mark the 666th day since the launch of Cassini.
• Another event scheduled for 1999 is bringing the Mir space station crashing down to Earth in 1999.  The Russian Space Agency had been targeting December '99, but interestingly, NASA pushed for a July 1999 exit - as if to delibrately match Nostradamus' quatrain, X-72.
• NASA's Mars Global Surveyor that took three pictures of Cydonia in April '98 is to begin its primary mission of mapping the Red Planet in March 1999.  It may take more pictures of Cydonia or some other region with signs of artificiality, and it might possibly occur around July 1999.

 
Line 2: "From the sky will come a great King of terror:"
 
• Cassini obviously comes "from the sky" in Aug. 1999. There is another possible reason for it to be associated with 'terror': Cassini carries a lot of plutonium material (72 lb. actually), and if the spacecraft's trajectory got shifted a little and plunge into the Earth's atmosphere, it would cause a major disaster.  While the possibility of this happening is small, the potentiality is there.  There is an even more remarkable symbolic correlation that involves the fact that the "King of terror" may not really be "King of terror".  That is, even though it is almost always translated as "King of terror", the original French words, due to some confusion with the spelling of the word "terror" (in French), may have been (as Peter Lemesurier, author of a number of Nostradamus books, insists) "Roy deffraieur" instead of the normally assumed "Roy d'effrayeur", which changes the meaning from "King of terror" to "King (of) defraying/appeasing/satisfying" which would correspond to Saturn who is pretty much synonymous with abundance/fullness (=> 'satifying'), and also "satur" means 'gorged'.  Thereofore the line becomes "from the sky will come Saturn", which of course corresponds to Cassini which is a probe to Saturn.
• "Mir", too, comes down "from the sky".  But why should it be called a "King of terror"?  If anything, it's the opposite since 'Mir' means 'peace'.  Again, the solution is to use the other translation/interpretation, "appeasing/satisfying King", which relates to Saturn.  Saturn, in mythology, is the god of the Golden Age, i.e. thet age of 'peace', thus corresponding to Mir/'peace'.
• Since Mars' two moons are named Phobos (= 'fear') and Deimos (= 'terror'), Mars can be viewed as the 'king of terror'.  What comes "from the sky" may be the information/proof concerning the existence (in the past and/or present) of intelligence on the planet.
 
 
(Additionally, it should be noted that it has been reported that the Palestinians would announce the formation of a State of Palestine on May 5, 1999, even if the Middle East process continues to stall.  If this happens, it is not hard to imagine a war immediately following it, coinciding with the summer/fall '99 timeframe.)
 
Are those just a series of coincidences or could there be some kind of underlying order/pattern that is driving those coincidences?  As we move on, we'll see that the above is just the tip of the iceberg.

  Thor's Hammer

 
Line 4: "Before after Mars to reign by good luck"

This is a line that has perplexed all those who tried to interpret the quatrain.  They tried to interpret 'Mars' as 'war' (which is an astrological association, since Mars is a 'god of war'), but the following phrase "reign through good luck" did not seem to make any sense.  As for me, this line provided significant clues that let me see the (potential) 'big picture', the big context.

The puzzling phrase, "good luck", holds the key to decoding the quatrain.  It's actually quite simple, and it's somewhat surprising that no one has picked up on it until now.  There is an ancient symbol that is associated with 'good luck' - it is the swastika (one of the oldest symbols of mankind), a version of which was used by the Nazis (the notion of 'good luck'/'good fortune' is associated particularly with the 'sinistroverse' swastika - i.e. the legs of the swastika pointing clockwise - which is the version adopted by the Nazis).  The implication of this is obviously disturbing.  If we are to interpret Mars as 'war', then we get 'war to reign by the Nazis'.  Does this mean the Nazis will return as a major political/military force?  Unlikely.  But one has to keep in mind that the influence and of Nazism did not die out when the war ended.

For example, there has been rumors that Martin Bormann, Hitler's deputy, was orchestrating a global Nazi empire in South America after the war.  And it is not even a rumor but a fact that Bormann, on August 10, '44, well aware by then that the Nazis would lose the war, gathered German business leaders and Nazi officials and to discuss a plan that was to be known as 'Operation Eagle Flight' whose purpose was the continuation of Nazism through the massive transfer of their wealth and technology to other parts of the world.  As a result of this, 750 foreign front corporations were created (in Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, Turkey, Argentina), aided by foreign banks and corporations.  Therefore the notion of 'war by the Nazis' could mean war engineered from behind the scenes by those influential/wealthy people/organizations that have some kind of Nazi connection.

While the above suggests intriguing possibilities, there is a particular association that can be made that is in line with the interpretations of the foregoing linesinterpretations involving space missions Cassini, Mir, and MGS.  (The relevance of space exploration is hinted by the swastika as the symbol has been also associated with stargazing/astronomy/calendar-making.)

It happens that NASA is closely connected with the Nazis:  After the WWII, many Nazi scientists became the founding members of our spacd program.  For example, Wernher von Braun, who worked closely with  SS Obergruppenfuhrer Dr. Hans Kammler (who was in charge of Germany's high-tech weapons programs), eventuall became director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center after the war.  Luftwaffe Maj. Gen. Walter Dornberger, who also worked closely with Kammler, became the vice president of Bell Aircraft Company and Bell Aerosystems Company in the United States.  Etc.

Could this mean that NASA is still influenced by Nazism?  This might have something to do with all the mythological symbology (involving Isis/Sirius, Osiris/Orion, Horus, 19.5, 33, July 20, etc. etc. as first pointed out by Richard Hoagland) incorporated into many, if not all, of major space missions (although another shadowy group is involved in this), as the driving force behind Nazism were certain mystical organizations such as the 'Thule Society', 'Vril Society', and 'Edelweiss Society'.  Nazism was more than just a political movement.  It was deeply devoted to mystical beliefs and symbols.  The Nazi/Thule mysticism even claimed that some extraterrestrial beings ('underground supermen') were their true leaders.

Considering the above, the forth line, "Before after Mars to reign by good luck", can fittingly be applied to the recent rash of Mars probes (Pathfinder, Glabal Surveryor, Planet B, and more future missions);  it would suggest that the probes being sent to the Red Planet around 1999 ("before after") are somehow related to Nazism.  And since the "king" of the Nazis was supposedly some kind of extraterrstrials ("supermen"), it might be implied that the "great King of terror" ("terror" at least partially referring to the Nazis) that is to come "from the sky" involves some kind of contact with extraterrestrial intelligence in conjunction with Mars (eg. confirmation of the artificial structures on Mars).  It is intriguing that in the movie 'Contact' (Jodie Foster in it, and the story written by Carl Sagan), the very first visual transmission (the 'first contact') recieved from the extraterrestrials (in Vega) displayed the image of the Nazi symbol, the swastika, and Hitler making a speech for the Olympic Games in Germany!  In this case, Hitler as the "King of terror" (as he is the 'king' of Nazism) quite literally 'came from the sky', as if to conform to Nostradamus' prophecy.  (This seems to demonstrate my contention that movies and TV programs somehow so often contain many hints about the 'big picture'.)

Hitler making a speech at the Olympics is also symbolically significant in that the Olympics honor Zeus/Jupiter (the group of gods led by Jupiter/Zeus was called the Olympians) who is the Greco-Roman counterpart of Thor the thunder-god of Norse mythology who in turn is often associated with the swastika.  This Jupiter-Nazi connection correlates to the naming of the Nazis' 'Operation Eagle Flight' because Jupiter/Thor is often associated with the eagle.  The eagle appears on some depictions of  'Thor's Hammer', which is also associated with lightening and the swastika.  Thor uses the Hammer as a thrown missile.

Now, what is interesting about 'Thor's Hammer' is that it is said that the thrown hammer always returns to Thor's hand like a boomerang.  This can be related to another space mission that was associated with the quatrain earlier, Cassini, which indeed comes back (in Aug. 1999) from the inner solar system to Earth like a boomerang before going out toward Saturn.

There is a swastika connection with the Mir spacestation also.  One of the swastika's meaning is 'peace', and 'peace' is exactly what the name 'Mir' means in Russian!  And since positive symbolisms, such as 'peace', are usually carried by the 'destroverse' swastika (i.e. the legs angled counter-clockwise) which is the opposite of the Nazi/'good luck' symbol, it is rather symbolically congruent that Mir is to be brought down and destroyed.
 
 

 
Though it is a subjective observation and in need of more supportive evidence, for some time I have been noticing parabolic 'hints' coming from the media/entertainment (movies, TV shows, etc.) that suggest that the concept of 'luck'/'good fortune' is somehow connected to the civilization that supposedly came before our history, which could be called 'Atlantis'.  As if to confirm this connection, it happens that the only place in US outside of the state of Nevada where gambling (which quite directly relates to 'luck' and 'good fortune') is legal is named Atlantic City.  Also interestingly, the city most famous for its gambling casinos is of course named 'Las Vegas' - is it just a coincidence that in the aforementioned movie, 'Contact', the signal from extraterrestial intelligence (the signal contained visual images of the swastika and Hitler, as mentioned before) came from 'Vega'?  Did Carl Sagan know the 'big picture' and wrote the story semi-metaphorically?  How could he know?  I wonder.  Moreover, Las Vegas is filled with ancient Egyptian symbols (pyramids, sphinx, obelisks, costumes, etc.), and ancient Egypt is the culture most often associated with Atlantis - for example, it is susptected that there is a "Hall of Records" assoicated with the Great Sphinx in Egypt that supposedly contains information regarding Atlantis.  Remarkably, the Great Sphinx was called the "Father of Terrors" by the Arabs, which corresponds to the second line:
 
Line 2:  From the sky will come a great King of terror:

As you can see, the phrase "King of terror" is used which very closely resembles "Father of Terrors".  Also, at this point, we can start to make some sense out of the third line of X-72 in conjunction with the fourth line.
 
Line 3:  To bring back to life the great King of Angolmois
Line 4:  Before after Mars to reign by good luck

The concept of 'bringing back to life'/resurrection brings to mind the resurrection of Osiris, an important Egyptian god who was associated with the 'Golden Age'/'First Time', which could probably be called 'Atlantis', which preceded
ancient Egypt.  In the mythology, Osiris was murdered by his brother Seth, but later temporarily resurrected by his wife/sister Isis to receive his seed and bore Horus.  In ancient Egypt, each pharaoh was considered to be Horus, and Horus' mission was to avenge his father, Osiris, and bring back the Golden Age.  Osiris can be viewed as the "once and future king" (like King Arthur of the Holy Grail - which is actually a very related issue), which could be related to the "king" of the third line and the "before after (once and future?) Mars to reign" part of the fourth line.  Curiously, it would seem to let Mars relate to the "king" (i.e. 'once and future Mars' instead of once and future king'), just as the 'king' of "King of terror" (second line) was referable to Mars earlier.  It should also be noted that 'Cairo', where the Great Sphinx/"King of terror" sits, essentially means 'Mars'.  All this seems to insinuate a connection between 'Atlantis' and Mars, which happens to be a concept derived in my Babylon Matrix article.  It appears very possible that the quatrain describes the return of the (knowledge of) Golden Age/First Time/Atlantis in conjunction with the discoveries that is to be made by the Mars probes.

It is interesting that many secret esoteric societies with secret knowledge and rituals (Masonry, Templars, Rosicrucians, Essenes, Followers of Horus, etc.) that existed throughout history under various names seem to have their roots ultimately in ancient Egypt, if not Atlantis itself.  It is quite conceivable that the Thule Society, the driving force behind Nazism, was also had some kind of connection to the ancient civilization.  It would therefore be symbolically congruent that the 'bringing back' of the kingdom of Osiris (=> Atlantis), which was a major theme in ancient Egypt, is to occur through space probes to Mars which quite possibly are under the influence of some type of Nazism (corresponding to the phrase "by good luck").

There is another significant and dreadful notion that can be derived from the Atlantis connection in conjunction with Thor/'Thor's Hammer' mentioned earlier.  Thor, a 'thunder god', basically is the Norse counterpart of Greco-Roman Jupiter/Zeus, also a 'thunder god', who, in the myth, brought about the Flood to wipe out mankind - not unlike the Nazis' 'Final Solution' which was an attemp to genetically purify mankind through genocide.  This Jupiter's "Flood", in my model (based on 'Nile Time-map Theory', 'The Elysian Fields', etc.), correponds to the destruction of what could be called 'Atlantis' in or conjointly with the Age of Taurus - roughly 4490BC~2330BC.  (Conformably, my model has treated Jupiter as an antagonist.)  Considering the association made (though somewhat loosely) between Hitler/"King of terror" and Olympics/Jupiter/Thor earlier, it could be hypothesized that what is to come "from the sky" relates to the "king" of the gods, Jupiter, and the so-called "Flood".  In other words, that which terminated "Atlantis", or the "First Time", might be about to repeat at this particular time, or at least the potential for the 'Final Solution' seems to be there.

So far, the "King of terror" has been associated with the Great Sphinx, some type of extraterrstrial intelligence, Hitler/Nazism, Thor/Jupiter/Zeus, Mars, and even Saturn.  Amazingly, the timing of circa 2000 AD correlates with some of the associations - specifically the Sphinx, Mars, and Saturn.  That's because in my 'Nile Time-map Theory' in which Saturn and the Sphinx play a big role, it is established that the latitude of Giza (i.e. Sphinx & pyramids) and Cairo, 30 deg. N, which marks the end of point of Saturn's orbit in the model, corresponds to the epoch of 2000 AD.  And as mentioned earlier, Cario means Mars.

Now the only part of the quatrain still not very well-correlated is the "great King of Angolmois" part of Line 3.  What is "Angolmois" anyway?  There was a region in south-east France which as a province was called 'Angoumois' where today there is a  French city called 'Angouleme'.  However, except for the fact that the region is at longitude 0 deg., there doesn't seem to be anything that special about the place as far as I can tell.  There is actually some indication that it has something to do with christianity, but I will not go into that at this time.  As we move closer to the summer of 1999, I'm sure it will be much clearer.
 
 

 
In my work 'The Elysian Fields', it was pointed out that there often appears to be a link between quatrains that surround  a quatrain numbered '72' (i.e. I-72, II-72, III-72, etc.).  It is probably due to the fact that the # 72 is one of the 'key/sacred numbers' appears repeatedly in ancient texts (for example, Osiris was murdered by 72 conspirators lead by Seth) - the root of the number is most likely the number of years the Earth to take to move 1 degree in its extremely long precessional cycle (the slight 'wobble' of the planet) - and that Nostradamus was very likely initiated into the secret teachings of the 'underground' and was well aware of the significance of the number.  It also just happens that the Cassini spacecraft is somehow carrying 72 lb. of plutonium.  The fact that the '1999' quatrain is numbered 72 suggests the significance and profoundity of this particular prophecy.  So, it wasn't a big surprise, though I was still amazed, to find that the X-72's neighboring quatrains yield much symbolic correlation and corroboration that confirm my interpretation of the quatrain X-72.  In particular, the suggested relevance of Jupiter to X-72, "King of terror", swastika/"good luck", Nazism is much strengthened by the additional information. 

 

First, here is Quatrain X-71 that immediately precedes the '1999 quatrain':
 

Century X-71
La terre & lair geleront si grand eau,
Lors qu'on viendra pour Ieudy venerer:
Ce qui sera iamais ne fut si beau,
Des quatre parts le viendront honorer.

The earth and air will freeze so much water,
When they will come to venerate Thursday:
That which will be will not ever be as fair as it was
From the four parts they will come to honor it.


The key is the second line, as it relates to Jupiter/Thor.  Quite simply, "thursday" is 'Thor's day', and also a day of Jupiter.  With Thor/Jupiter comes the associations - Nazis/Hitler, swastika, Flood, Atlantis,  eagle, and all that.  The other lines are rather vague and don't seem to contain much useful symbolism, although the first line seems to alludes to major earth-changes and might relate to Jupiter making 'winter' in mythology.  Also, the third line can be implying that Jupiter will not be as nice as it/he was in the past (in mythology, at least as we know it today, Jupiter is usually not depicted as a sinister deity), as can be imagined from the Nazi connection.

The concept of 'venerating Thursday' yields another interesting association.  There doesn't seem to be a major religious holiday associated specifically with Thursday, but there is a semi-religious holiday that is celebrated on Thursday - 'Thanksgiving Day' of the United States which is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November.  Although Thanksgiving Day is a day to give thanks with feasting and prayer for the year's blessings, it was originally a harvest festival, a day to thank God for crop fertility and in America it used to be a totally religious event.  Now, this relates to, instead of Jupiter, Saturn, the god of agriculture and associated with abundance.  Thus, we're looking at another example of the Saturn-Jupiter mix-up which was discussed in 'The Elysian Fields' in conjunction with other quatrains, and even with X-72 we experienced this very confusion in conjunction with the term "King of terror/appeasing".  Since in my model Saturn and Jupiter represent two opposing forces, the seemingly deliberate, repeated mix-up is to be viewed as a significant 'message'.  One likely possibility is that there is to be a major deception and/or misidentification regarding a new 'force' that will appear before us.

The significance of the Saturn-Jupiter rivalry/confusion appears to be reinforced by the fact that Cassini (representing Saturn) and Jupiter will 'cross' on Dec. 30, 2000 - virtually the very eve of the next Millennium (the 3rd millennium officially begins on Jan. 1, 2001).  I can't help but infer that the Saturn/Cassini-Jupiter crossing occurring just 1 (or 2) day before the new Millennium is a deliberate symbology 'planted' by some faction of the secret underground society who is running the show from behind the scenes.  Possibly, the Nazi force is involved.  Another interesting points is that 72 years from 1929, which is the year the State of Vatican City was established, brings us to the very year, 2001, the beginning of the Millennium.

Here is an illustration of Cassini's trajectory (borrowed from NASA's web site): 



 

It should also be noted that Saturn was the god of the 'Golden Age' as was Osiris.  And both of these deities are sometimes said to be in some kind of 'magic sleep' or ruling the place where the dead go.  And both are said to return to bring another Golden Age.  Therefore it is quite reasonable to assume that these two 'gods' have a, at least partly, shared identity.  Correspondingly, just as Osiris, Saturn may be associated with 'Atlantis' ('First Time').  It is interesting, moreover, that in Mars (which was also associated with Atlantis earlier while interpreting X-72), according to some of the former US military 'remote-viewers' (= desciplined and highly controlled clairvoyance;  just declassified in mid-'90s), there supposedly are beings in sort of chriogenic state and taken cared of by some kind of machines...  which makes me wonder if there is a connection between the 'hibernating' beings in Mars and Saturn's (and Osiris') 'magic sleep'.  It, then, can be hypothesized that the potential "Martians" ("Atlanteans"?) will be a major part of the coming event involving the saga of Saturn, Jupiter/Thor, ancient Egypt, Hitler/Nazism, etc.

Let's move on to Quatrain X-73 which immediately succeeds X-72 (the '1999' quatrain):
 

Century X-73
Le temps present auecques le passe',
Sera iuge' par grand Iouialiste:
Le monde tard luy sera lasse',
Et desloyal par le clerge' iuriste.

The present time together with the past
Will be judged by the great Jovialist:
The world too late will be tired of him,
And through the clergy outh-taker disloyal.


The first line, as should be obvious to you, relates to the return of (the knowledge) of 'Atlantis'/First Time/Golden Age.  The second line has a clear reference to, yet again, Jupiter, as the word "Jovialist" is derived from Jupiter/Jove.  The "judge" part can refer to a genocidal 'Final Solution'-type event.  The fourth line appears to be Church related.  In a way, the second line also relates to the Roman Catholic Church as it is historically associated with Jupiter.  For example, the current Church can be viewed as the extension of the Roman Empire and the Roman Emperor was called "Jovien" (= 'of Jupiter').  So, this quatrain may well be suggesting that the coming event around the turn of the millennium will involve the Church.

Now, let's move on to the very next quatrain X-74:
 

Century X-74
Au reuolu du grand nombre septiesme,
Apparoistra au temps ieux d'Hecatombe:
Non esloigne' du grand aage milliesme,
Que les entrez sortiront de leur tombe.

The year of the great seventh number accomplished,
It will appear at the time of the games of slaughter:
Not far from the great millennial age,
When the buried will go out from their tombs.


This quatrain is quite striking.  Line 1 can correspond to the "7 month" ("The year 1999 and seven month") part of X-72, and also to the Age of Aquarius which is just about to begin in this epoch since it is the seventh Age counting from the Age of Leo (roughly 10,970BC~8810BC).  The reason for counting from the Age of Leo is because it is one of the epochs encoded archaeoastronomically in the Giza monuments - the pyramids and the Sphinx (according to Robert Bauval's 'Star Correlation Theory'. See 'The Message of the Sphinx') that corresponds to the 'First Time';  and it is also the epoch when 'time began' in my model based on the Nile timeline (see 'Nile Time-map Theory').  So, the first line can refer to the epoch of 2000 AD, especially considering the third line which says "not far from the millennial age".

The "game of slaughter" of the second line can easily relate to the Olympic Games which started in Greece as a pure athletic festival but in the Roman culture degenerated into violence and greed - i.e. the 'game of slaughter'.  So, again, this relates to Jupiter (remember, Olympics honor Zeus/Jupiter), with a subtle reference to Rome again.  By the way, isn't it interesting that the last summer Olympics before 1999 was held in Atlanta (=> 'Atlantis') in '98?  (Yep, hints are everywhere!)  Also, the Olympics became a 'game of slaughter' when it was held in '72, the year of the key number, in (West) Germany, the home of Nazism, as during the event eight Arab terrorists attacked the quarters of the Israeli team and ended up in 17 deaths, as if to accentuate the symbolism involved (72, Nazism/Germany, etc.).

The fourth line, "when the buried will go out from their tombs", is.... well, remarkable isn't it?  As mentioned earlier, Osiris (and Saturn) is the god of the dead/underworld.  Both Osiris and Saturn have been associated with the Golden Age/'First Time'/'Atlantis'.  So, you can see what the line implies.  The "Martians" of the remote viewers are semi-dead underground.  Some survivors of the Atlanteans have supposedly gone underground (of earth), according to some sources (why is 'Atlas', in mythology, said to carry the word on his shoulders?  Makes one wonder).  So, the line may be a predicting the lost race finally 'coming out' of their 'hibernation'.  Also, more symbolically, it may simply refer to the re-surfacing of the lost ancient 'knowledge', as the term 'the dead', in a old gnostic view, referred to 'the uninitiated'/unenlightened/those without the sacred knowledge.  Thus the the phrase 'dead/buried coming out of their tomb' can mean that the unenlightened general public is finally initiated into the Secret.  All those different levels of interpretation all interact to depict the 'big picture'.

Speaking of the 'big picture', it is conceivable that the 'game of slaughter' refers to a eugenics project (i.e. selective breeding to produce desired qualities).  It was the Nazis' main goal to eradicate "inferior" genes/races from the human gene pool, and through a desired breeding process produce a pure 'super race'.  Similarly, the purpose of Jupiter's 'Flood' was to cleanse the earth because mankind had become, in his view, corrupted/contaminated.  The nature of the corruption is clear in the Bible version of the tale of the Flood;  the "sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them...  And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth...  And the Lord said, I will destroy man..." (Genesis 6:4~7)  As you can see, it had to do with interbreeding / genetics.  So, Nazism and Jupiter converge again, this time on the concept of the 'game of slaughter' - eugenics and genocide.

The following is an "interpretation", if it can be described as such, of X-72 (the '1999' quatrain) done by a hypnotized subject who sort of 'downloads' information from the 'unconscious matrix' after being read a quatrain, not unlike how one downloads information from the internet (think of the computer as the brain, monitor the conscious mind, and the internet as the yet unidentified field/matrix where all information is stored which is accessible through the modem which represents a yet unidentified part/function of our brain that produces psychic/psi/telepathic abilities).  The "interpretations" of the quatrains obtained in this way are presented in "Conversations With Nostradamus Vol.1~3" by Dolores Cannon (regressionist/hypnotist), and this is the information obtained in conjunction with X-72:
 

Summary of information obtained through Brenda in the '80s (CWN 1, p244~5):
 
• It has to do with secret project involving eugenics, which has been going on secretly for several decades.
• The products of this will be utilized during the coming time of war.
• "They're keeping tabulations on all of this."
• The "great King of terror" is the person in overall charge of this project who is the "power behind the throne", "the real king rather than the leaders". "This person is very secretive and nobody is aware of the power he wields".

Shocking in various ways, isn't it?  Shocking that this otherwise seemingly absurd interpretation of X-72 conforms to the eugenics-Nazi-Jupiter connection I made.  Shocking that psychic functioning seems to be real and works.  Shocking that there may really be a eugenics project going on behind the scenes.  Shocking that this may play a big part in the coming events.  Additionally , the information concerning the project going on for several decades conforms to the Nazi-connection model.

At this point, I'd like to point out that the DNA molecule is known to be swastika-shaped.  Yet again, Nazism/Thor/Jupiter and genetics are linked, as if all the above wasn't enough.

Additionally, since the CWN material is brought up, I'd like to present another quatrain and a hypnotic "interpretation" that mesh so well with much of what I've come up with so far:
 

Quatrain 1,80
De la sixieme clair splendeur celeste,
Viendra tonner si fort en la Bourgogne:
Puis naistra monstre de treshideuse beste,
Mars, Avril, Mai, Juin grand charpin & rongne.

From the sixth bright celestial light
it will come to thunder very strongly in Burgundy.
Then a monster will be born of a very hideuos beast:
In March, April, May and June great wounding and worrying.

 
Summary of information obtained through Brenda (CWN 1, p256~7):
 
1. the "sixth bright celestial light" refers to Jupiter, instead of Saturn which would be normally considered the sixth planet.
2. Jupiter would be the sixth planet if the "destroyed" planet between Mars and Jupiter (current Asteroid Belt) is counted.
3. The reference to Jupiter is emphasized by adding the notion of 'thunder' (second line) which is closely associated with Thor/Jupiter.
4. The "Antichrist", who will be associated with Thursday, will be behind the event(s).
5. "There will be much bloodshed and warfare and, due to the horrible nature of the weapons, many terrible things will be taking place."  There will be what appears to be gross deformities caused by parental exposure to radiation.
6. The time frame will be something like 1997~2001.

The correlations:  Points 1 ~ 3 above conform to the aforementioned Jupiter-Saturn confusion.  Point 2 is new and rather radical concept, but it relates to the concept of genocide.  Point 4 relates to radiation (=> Cassini plutonium connection) and genetics.  Point 6 corresponds to X-72's indicated time frame, "1999".  Point 4 connects the 'Antichrist' with 'Thursday', which is something that is indicated repeatedly in CWN, and it sure does agree with my model in which Hitler, generally viewed as an "antichrist", is connected with Thursday/Thor/Jupiter.  Furthermore, it turns out that the mention of "Burgundy" in the second line gives even more credence to the Nazi-Jupiter connection, because Burgundy, a region in France, was the very place where Himmler (head of Nazi SS, a Vril Society member) dreamed to create a fully independent nation ruled by the SS!  "Burgundy" appearing in the same line as "thunder" (=>Jupiter/Thor) is therefore no coincidence.

Now, what about the 'destroyed planet' (Point 2)?  Here is a quote from the hypnotic interpretation:

        "one of the great lights, due to a war in the heavens, was
        destroyed. The one which was between Mars and Jupiter is no
        more."

"A war in the heavens"?  The hypnotic subject goes on to say that the 'asteroid belt' that exists today between Mars and Jupiter is the aftermath of the destruction (which is a strange piece of information but it's actually not unheard of, as some scientists and researchers have hypothesized that a destruction of a planetary object may well be what created what is now known as the asteroid belt).  But a "war in the heavens"?  What are we talking about here... 'Star Wars'?

I assume that most of us have seen the Star Wars movies, as they're one of the most popular movie series.  In the movies, the "Jedi" fight the dark force lead by "Darth Vader" whose homebase is the "Death Star" - the huge artificial planetoid.  Could it be just a coincidence that "Jedi" closely resembles that word "Jeudi" which in French means 'Thursday'?  But why would the "good guys" associated with the Thor/Jupiter force?  Well, remember that Darth Vader (which means 'Dark Father') was also a Jedi who strayed into the 'dark side'.  Since he is the "Father", he would fit the character of 'Jupiter' (=> 'king of the gods') as discussed in this article.  And the 'Death Star'... which is basically a 'planet-destroyer'.  Ringing any bells?

It gets even more interesting:  Darth Vader's original name is Anakin Skywalker, and "Anakin" is derived from Anakim (as according to George Lukas, the creator of Star Wars, the name is a variation on the race of giants in Genesis - the "giants" would be the 'Nephilim' or the 'Anakim').  Those who are familiar with various theories concerning the Nefilim (or the Sumerian counterpart, 'Annunnaki') are probably going "ah ha!!"  Because those 'sons of God' or 'fallen angels' are often theorized to be beings who came from elsewhere to manipulate the affairs on Earth in the ancient times, and they're associated with interbreeding (with 'daughters of man') and the Flood.  The connection with Jupiter, Atlantis, etc. should be obvious.  In a way, the Anannuki are our father figure, just as Darth Vader/'Dark Father' turns out to be Luke Skywalker's father.  And isn't it interesting that, in the movie 'Contact', it was also symbolically the 'father' that makes the 'Contact' from the stars (and the father figure is subtly overlaid with Hitler/Nazis).  And it is probably no coincidence that a new Star Wars movie comes to the theaters in 1999!

Let me add some more to the notion of Jupiter/'Dark Father' and destroying a planet.  I feel it was a 'hint' that the SL-9 comets crashed into Jupiter in July of '94 producing a great light show to catch the attention of the whole world.  It demonstrated the tremendous devastation a comet or an asteroid can cause on a planet.  But symbolically, it may have hinted at the nature of the "Flood"/genocide that is mythologically connected with Jupiter.  In other words, the message may be that the 'Flood', the destruction of 'Atlantis', was caused by an incoming rock or rocks from space.  It is curious that in '98 we had two major movies, 'Deep Impact' and 'Armageddon', that dealt with this very concept of an asteroid/comet hurling toward the Earth.  Especially, I found Armageddon intriguing as it quite clearly contained subtle hints that confirm the Jupiter/Flood/Atlantis-asteroid/comet connection.  The opening scene of the movie shows a precursor event in which incoming rocks destroys a spaceshuttle operating in space which is named... 'Atlantis'!  So, 'Atlantis' is destroyed by rocks from space as a forerunner, before they figures out that the whole planet is now in grave danger.  The 'hints' are all very congruent.

I have almost no doubt that all the coincidental messages are actually carefully engineered behind the scenes.  By whom?  Those who are not "dead", that is, those who have been initiated into the Secret or Mystery.  Where did they get the 'Secret'?  I'd say it was passed down generation to generation in secret societies throughout history since the time of... ancient Egypt or even Atlantis.  And now the general public seems to be gradually initiated into the Secret through the media under the guise of 'entertainment', or through deliberate 'leaking' of key information.  Does this, then, mean that there is a asteroid or comet that is headed toward earth right now to collide with the Earth?  That seems to be a possibility, but I somehow feel that, even if the danger is real, it will not directly occur in 1999.  ...At least I certainly hope not :)
 
 

 
So we've come up with Jupiter/Thor, Olympics, Hitler/Nazism, Antichrist, Final Solution / genocide, terrorism, eugenics, Atlantis (underground survivors?), Mars (beings in chriogenic state?), ET intelligence, 'Star Wars'....  which are all interconnected.  Let me try to roughly re-construct the possible basic scenario (This section will contain many conjectures):
 
In the pre-historic Golden Age some force, which I associated with 'Jupiter', came from other realm and interfered with the flow of evolution, which involved interbreeding/genetic engineering.  This incident took place in or in conjunction with 'Atlantis' (or "Garden of Eden") which had a close connection with Mars somehow.  And the interference had to do with giving 'knowledge' to mankind, which is in Genesis represented by Eve eating the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge.  It was, at least in part, a project to create a new better race(s).  It may have been a sort of 'game', gamble, or race for some kind of 'entertainment', perhaps like the Olympic Games which happens to be a event in which different nations/races compete under the Olympic 'fire' - and fire symbolizes 'knowledge'.  But just as the Olympics became degenerated and discontinued, as a result of the interference a decision was made by (at least a faction of) the Jupiter force to discontinue the human 'race'.  There was an opposing faction that was for the continuation of mankind on Earth, and they saved man from total annihilation, and the race and the 'knowledge' continued... underground, both symbolically and literally.  Some may have gone under the surface of the planet to continue their civilization.  Some survived on the surface, but the 'knowledge' became a 'secret'.  As the nearly-destroyed civilization may be or may include that of Mars, some survivors there might have gone underground and went into a chriogenic state.  At any rate, civilizations again started growing on earth but the 'knowledge' for the most part remained 'underground'.  Throughout history, there was a force that paralleled the position of 'Jupiter' (authoritarian dark father figure), like the Roman Empire, Church, Nazis, etc. that attempted to manipulate, suppress, and eradicate the 'knowledge' (information, DNA, etc.).  First it was the suppression of information, then it became the suppression of certain race(s)/DNA.  Now at the end of the second millennium and at the end of the Age of Pisces, we may be looking at another eradication of the entire or majority of the human race by the "King of terror" which is a composite of many inter-related things - Jupiter, Mars, Atlantis, ancient Egypt (pyramids, Sphinx), other-realm beings, Death Star/planet destroyer, "Darth Vader"/Dark Father/Anunnaki, Cassini, Hitler/Nazis, "antichrist", etc.  It is as if all the mess made in the forgotten past is coming back to challenge us.  And the coming event may also involve signs of intelligence on Mars, new discoveries concerning 'Atlantis', underground "Atlanteans", beings in chriogenic state in Mars, genetically engineered humans, etc.  There will be a resistance movement, and it's all part of the 'Star Wars' that has been surrounding mankind since the beginning.

Let me next try to list and very roughly explicate the nature of the 'knowledge' that seems to be playing a key role in the whole saga, and identifiable with the forbidden fruit Eve ate, the forbidden "fire" Prometheus gave to humans, the Ark of the Covenant, the 'Holy Grail', 'Mary', etc.  Just as anything else in mythology, it does not seem to refer to one specific thing but various things/concepts.  One obvious association is the 'information' that has been passed down from the previous civilization and/or from the "gods" or 'sons of the gods' that most of us have forgotten about.  It would be the memory of our own past.  Another thing that is symbolized by the 'knowledge' appears to be sexual/procreational potency.  This notion is discussed in depth by Zecharia Sitchin (author of 'The 12th Planet' the main theme of which, incidentally, is the Death-Star like planet that supposedly comes to our solar system from time to time), and the situation depicted well metaphorically in the movie 'Jurassic Park' (by Spielberg), in which the humans are represented by the dinasours, and the 'gods' by humans.  Another thing that seems to be represented by the 'knowledge' is certain genetic material that has been given or 'leaked' to mankind by those from elsewhere... the "gods".  This was probably done through direct interbreeding and/or sophisticated genetic engineering, which is what various ancient texts suggest happened (Genesis, Book of Enoch, Sumerian texts, gnostic texts, etc.).  Can it be just a coincidence that we became aware of the reality of cloning in the mid '90s when scientists cloned a sheep, and that the name given to the sheep was 'Dolly' (i.e. Dorothy) which means 'gift of God' - the phrase used to describe Prometheus' 'fire'?  (Also, if you've seen the movie 'Twister', you may recall that the machine that had those little flying 'sensors' was named "Dorothy". That movie, if you watch carefully is quite clearly about genetic engineering and psi capability - those little flying sesors represent the 'psi gene'/"fire")  Also, is it a coincidence that human cloning has started in '98 (by "Dr. Seed")?  Now, at any rate, the "gift" humans received could be described as the Gene of Isis (Isis being identifiable with Eve), thus the term Genesis (Gene-Isis);  Isis was the Egyptian Goddess of wisdom/knowledge and magic, the wife/sister of Osiris, and basically our Mother since Isis gave birth to Horus and the 'Followers of Horus', semi-gods, could be associated with the 'sons of God'/fallen angels/Nefilim etc. who have mixed with humans.

The point that I wanted to get to was the significance of the notion of 'magic' that enters the association of the 'knowledge'/'fire'.  What is 'magic' then, and how does it work?  Again, it is helpful to refer to movie examples.  It can be identified with "the Force" in Star Wars which the Jedi (Luke, Obi-wan, Darth Vader, etc.) can utilize.  Conformably, the name "Skywalker" (last names of Luke and his father Darth Vader), according to George Lukas, is derived from  'Loki' who is the Norse god of fire (like Prometheus).  References to psi abilities (telepathy, telekinesis, etc.) are also subtly in the movie 'Contact', one of which is in the scene where Jodie Foster (or the character she is playing) first hears the signal from outerspace through her headphones which are connected to the huge parabolic antennas.  In the scene, Jodie is quietly sitting with her eyes closed like Buddha in meditation, then the camera closes in on her left eye until the eye fills the whole screen, at which point her left eye opens as she finally hears the signal from 'out there', comparable to Buddha achieving enlightenment.  It is a metaphorical depiction of opening up the 'psychic'/telepathic sense, we could say it shows activation of the telepathic 'antenna' in parables....  so the big "parabolic antennas" in the scene are really a great pun! :)  Anyway, the focus on the left eye relates to Horus' left eye which was lost in the battle with Seth;  so Jodie opening the left eye symbolises regaining the lost 'eyesight' - psi/psychic sense which is right-brain related (left eye is connected to the right brain, and right eye to the left brain).  The metaphor is that when the psi sense is opened, it receives information just as the huge antennas hear radio signals.  Eventually, after the scene in the movie, Jodie goes through an interdimensional travel to the Vega star system, which can also be taken to refer to the nature of psi - which is basially an interdimensional perception.  I'd also recommend watching the Sci-Fi TV show, 'Babylon 5' (currently played on TNT) for a great depiction of the nature of the "telepaths", and quite literal depiction of the 'big picture'.

Another related key point that I want to touch on is the probable perpetuation of the 'psi blood line' throughout history up to the present time.  Likely, there still are 'keepers' of the "Isis DNA", if that can be calle that, and this is probably connected to the mystical secret societies that existed throughout history who seem to have influenced the course of history greatly from behind the scenes, probably both positively and negatively.  Though it is likely that the 'psi DNA' is not "active" for a long time (since the Flood?) as may be suggested by inactive state of Osiris, Saturn, King Arthur/Merlin, and even Jesus, etc. and their destined 'return', in mythology.  The resurfacing memory of the ancient past, the supposed undergound civilization, and the supposed 'hibernating' beings in Mars, both, again supposedly, begining to come back out may all correspond to this also.

So, it could roughly be inferred that the 'Jupiter' force, the "Dark Father", is a suppresser of this 'gift of fire'.  Could it be that this oppressive force is to come back in/around 1999 as suggested by the quatrain, because our technology and awareness have just evolved to the point where we can begin to access the forbidden "knowledge" - the lost past, Atlantis, Mars, "magic", etc.?  It is probably comparable to the dinasours in 'Jurassic Park' figuring out how to procreate, and the keepers of the park being terrified by it.

Interestingly, in this perspective, the concept of the remnant of the Nazis, the modern Jupiter force, being involved in the space program would become more meaningful if there IS a legacy of the 'knowledge', the 'fire', waiting for us to find out there - particularly on Mars as we have space probes swarming Mars (Pathfinder, Global Surveyor, Planet B, and many more to follow) now around the suggested timeframe of 1999 - as by infiltrating the space program they would be able to control and suppress the revelation and circulation of the lost 'knowledge' just as the "Dark Father" would do.  This would explain why there is so much dishonesty in NASA as pointed out by researchers like Richard Hoagland, Stanley McDaniel, etc.  It should also be added that there seems to be another shadowy faction (likely Masonic, and Templar related) heavily involved with the space program which is working toward enlightenment, and for the resurfacing of the lost 'knowledge'.  So, inevitably there probably is a secret war going on behind the scenes... not unlike two parants fighting to decide what's best for their child - more freedom or more decipline?  So, it will really interesting to see how the information from Mars would be handled.  It could probably go either way as X-72 allows either scenario to play out... suppression/deception or revelation/enlightenment.  The deciding factor may be our own actions and reactions, which are dependent on the level of our awareness.

I do not necessarily think that everything discussed in this article will culminate in 1999.  But it seems very likely that 1999 will be a key year for the whole saga.  Perhaps it is a beginning of someting... maybe an end of something, or possibly both.  The best way to put it, in my view, is that it is to be a major nexus point.

Perhaps, this is the time for us to assert our right to exist without forced limitation, like the T-Rex roars as the banner reading "Jurassic Park" (representing the man's control over the dinasaurs) falls to the ground near the end of the movie when the dinasours have taken over the island, and declare our independence as done in the movie 'Independence Day'.  At the last secne of 'Jurassic Park', the keepers and guests evacuate from the island on a helicopter, and as they fly over an ocean the father-figure guy who used to hate children rests lovingly with children.  As the guy looks out the window, a bird, the animal that directly decended from dinasaurs, is freely flying along the helicopter.  This is the ending we want.  The 'Father' accepting us, and us finally freely flying.  It would be as joyful and exciting as Rose leaning forward at the front tip of the Titanic and screaming, "I'm flying!!  I'm flying!!".  We belong among the stars.