Saturday, February 17, 2018

Code Mechanism Part 21- Nostradamus' Sephirot for the input of his wife (Anne Ponsard) to his code.


Code Mechanism Part 21- Nostradamus' Sephirot for the input of his wife (Anne Ponsard) to his code.
   
Preamble: In the first chart of this series I stated:

Nostradamus' work holds many conundrums designed to limit access to the content of his Prophecies. This is true to an extent where most people believe his work is the deliberate shambles of a charlatan. Yet there is direct evidence in his prose writings that show he had a pre-thought plan which guided his work. His Preface to the first batch of Prophecies published in 1552 clearly indicate that he already knew the content that his Prophecies would cover. He wasn't making it up as he went but took already recorded events in what seems a random order and placed them in a new sequence which he called his ten Centuries.

In order to keep control over his writings Nostradamus then needed a scheme that would tell him which topics he had already covered and he did this by relying on a coding device well known in the sixteenth century. It is part of the Cabala but the reasons for its use don't necessarily require that he believed in the mystical principles at the heart of its source. He needed a scheme that a person in a later time would be able to associate with the time of his writing. The Tree of Life also known as the Sefirot, Sephirot or Sephiroth was such a device. It is probable that he drew up charts based on these trees in which he placed ten verses and then used the ciphers traditionally linked to the ten spheres of the tree to guide the content wording and lettering in each verse.

(Note: In the chart below verse content is presented in four formats
     1. Translation into English in black,
     2. Original French text in blue,
     3. English anagram sequences found in text in red
     4. Contribution to context of the chart in purple.
)

Aim of this presentation

It is the purpose of this paper to present the twenty-first Sefirot Chart of Ciphers which brings together highly important aspects of his coding techniques and the impact his wife Anne Ponsard had upon this process.

Even with modern techniques it is difficult to get an accurate picture of the lives of non-prominent people in earlier ages. There were no computers, many official documents have suffered or been lost through fire and decay. And the personal writings of individuals are not only scarce but are often highly unreliable being inventions or myths put out by those persons, their critics or their fans. Much of the literature on Michel de Nostredame suffers from these problems and facts about his wife and their relationship are even more subject to these effects.

Yet we do know that Nostradamus married Anne Ponsard Gemelle (aka Anne Ponsard) and that she bore him children over a period of about eighteen years. This period covers the time when he wrote and published his prophecies. Reportedly she was at the time of their marriage, young rich and widowed. Now it is unlikely that Nostradamus once married could retire to what has been called a secret room at the top of their house without his wife's noticing and making comment. Before they married Nostradamus had led a wandering life in which time he had come to Salon, Provence and then returned a few years later to marry Anne and take up residence for the rest of his life.

It is likely that Anne would have had good reason to be wary of such a person but still she did marry him and bear his children. And as those children came into being Nostradamus relied for his livelihood on his prophetic abilities and his skills with herbs. He wasn't a major prophet of his time with the bulk of his fame coming much later. Such a background indicates that dinner time table discussions between husband and wife would have been unbearable if Anne hadn't come to terms with the nature of the man she had married.

But she wouldn't have been totally happy with what she heard for she would have known the threat it carried for her, her wealth, her position in Salon and their children. It is almost inconceivable that she just tolerated this situation and in the verses below there is a pattern that suggests it was her fears that shaped the way the Prophecies were presented. But they also suggest she wasn't the passive ornament that is conveyed by most presenters of Nostradamus' personal history. The verses below suggest that he wrote his work in code using musical notation developed by Anne even though she had full knowledge of the scope of his predictions in relation to religion in the future. She would have had to take on board the presentation of a work that implies changing understanding of the real world would compel a brutal war fought in order to resolve the myths surrounding the birth of Jesus Christ. But she did so while demanding that it be presented in a way that brought no threat to those who must live with the author of such stories.

There are other elements in the charts that need understanding to show that fit to the themes of his work. Of these Eucrite (stony meteorite) and Bolis (extremely bright meteor) are worth pointing out before viewing the chart.

And finally it is worth noting that his comments on his work in 1558 cover much of the same concepts as shown in the chart below.

So I have dedicated my nocturnal and prophetic calculations, which are composed out of a natural instinct, accompanied by a poetic furore rather than in accord with the strict rules of poetry. And in the most part they have been composed and are in accord with astronomical calculations corresponding to the years, months and weeks of the regions, countries and most of the towns and cities of all Europe, including Africa and part of Asia. By changing of [these] regions [to ones] which approach the greater part of all these climates, and which consist of a natural [similar] group we can answer some one who needs to blow his own [trumpet/nose]; the algorithm will be as easy as the understanding of its meaning is difficult. Henry Epistle 1558 HEE2


More details on the above stories can be accessed through my papers about Centuries 6 Q100 and Cornelius Agrippa



Access to the full series and each of their verse analyses is available at Sefirot Index.