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.

Nostradamus C.6 Q.100: The powerful curse of musical code. Although generally ignored or dismissed as a weird curse this verse holds highly potent clues to the encoding techniques concealing Nostradamus' deepest secrets. It is the obvious verse to contain highly vital information since it is the only one entirely in Latin and the only one with a header. And the curse itself is not a curse but an invitation to ignore its threat if you wish to know Nostradamus' secrets.   C.6 Q.100 INCANTATION OF THE LAW AGAINST INEPT CRITICS Let those who read this verse consider it deeply Let the profane and the ignorant herd keep away And far away all Astrologers, Idiots and Barbarians May he who does otherwise be subject to the sacred rites LEGIS CANTIO CONTRA INEPTOS CRITICOS. Quos legent hosce versus mature censunto Profanum vulgus et inscium ne attrectato. Omnesq Astrologi Blenni Barbari procul sunto Qui aliter facit is rite sacer esto . Anagram Sequences in French Text. (** = full line coverage) < **A CONTRACTION INSPECTOR LOGICISES IT**><OCCITAN TRAIN POETS><**SO ANGLICISTE POETS NOTARICON CRITIC**><CONTAINER ACTIONS STOP CRITIC> <CONTRACEPTIONS [stopping start of] ACTION> <conSeQuent verSe choSe soul a true sum>.<conSeQuent ethnologues><choSe gentle> <erasmus true>encounterS <neat Proof unites vulganum [common prayer? ] music><Proof num-valu guest in neumaticS><muSic act to entreat guest in vulganum [common prayer]>  <mOon to Sun><prior arab Sun-cult enBibling StAr logo ><Astrologiq mOonset><Omens qASt unto procluS [ancient writer]> <**Questorial riteS its ace artifice**><createS Quotes><aliQuots [equal portions] its riteS actifier><**aliQuot aS its secret rite artifice**><aS coQuetries satiric filter> FREQUENCIES OF RAREST OCCURRENCE in Centuries contraction, locicises, Angliciste, Notaricon, critic, ethnologues, Vulganum, moonset, sun-cult, star-logo Erasmus, neumatics, satiric questorial, coquetries, actifier - Occitan, inspector, container, consequent, music, guest actions, prior, Proclus, quotes, filter - - - entreat action poets gentle - - chose - - Moon proof Reading the above extracts on Erasmus and the text of Nostradamus verse C.6 Q.100  it is easy to see that Erasmus fits the description of someone suited to be a participant in whatever message the verse contains, However Erasmus had died nearly 20 years before the quatrains were written and published. Yet in this verse is one of the two anagrams for Erasmus that are found in Nostradamus' Prophecies. I believe that Nostradamus wrote this verse for a specific audience and that names such as Erasmus were his ciphers for these people to use as markers. And there are many good reasons why this verse should also be considered to contain a cipher for Julius Caesar Scaliger, the most prominent of Latin writer of his time. Firstly this quatrain is the only one in Latin which suggests the importance this language choice must have in identifying its import to specific readers. A further clue is Scaliger was considered by Erasmus to be an inept critic. Jules was prolific in his attacks on many scholars of his time and claims of ineptitude flew freely amongst him and those he criticised. Nostradamus' reference to the inept critic in his header again draws attention to the battle between Scaliger and Erasmus. it tells the knowledgeable reader that this is the verse where the key lies to whatever purpose Nostradamus' Prophecies serves. The solution in this verse lies within a group or sect that is highly interested in the issues  that divided and united these two new conservative heretics (Erasmus and Scaliger) and who viewed Nostradamus as their own special courier. They were people Nostradamus had met in Agen during the time that Scaliger was in battle with Erasmus from 1533 to 1538CE. Wikipedia includes the following short statement that tells us much that is relevant to identifying the ciphers. 'In 1531 he [Scaliger] printed his first oration against Erasmus in defence of Cicero and the Ciceronians. It is a piece of vigorous invective, displaying, like all his subsequent writings, an astonishing command of Latin and much brilliant rhetoric, but full of vulgar abuse, and completely missing the point of the Ciceronianus of Erasmus.' Scaliger, like many others of his time, also published works on Poetry and Religion. Some of these were published as collections in later years.  Given the relationship that had once existed between the two men and Nostradamus high esteem of the contributions Scaliger made to his own progress, it wouldn't be at all surprising for this verse to have been  used in the way I imply. However this quatrain was published in 1555 when Erasmus was dead and Scaliger was already confined to his bed and unable to adequately respond. Scaliger died in 1558, the same year that the second part of Nostradamus' Prophecies were officially published. Although both Scaliger and Erasmus are indicated as ciphers underpinning this verse it self-evidently wasn't in order for the attention of either of these men to be drawn to it. The name, Erasmus, is to be found in the first line where it occurs in an anagram  as ersus ma.  The only other place where an anagram for this name can be found  is C.3 Q.64 line 1 so it cannot be discounted as a commonly found letter group. Nor can those that are found behind the header where the following uniquely occurring anagrams occur: LEGIS CANTIO CONTRA IN EPTOS CRITICOS  Angliciste (meaning a student of English- which Erasmus was)   LEGIS CANTIO CONTRA IN EPTOS CRITICOS  Notaricon or Notarikon (is a method of deriving a word, akin to the creation of an acronym, by using various but fixed order combinations of letters from each word. The word "notarikon" is related to the Latin word "notarius," meaning "short-hand writer." or contracted writing)   LEGIS CANTIO CONTRA IN EPTOS CRITICOS  Contraction Critic(s)    Now these words are found together with other more frequently found anagrams which are often  adjacent to these rare ones and this gives all of them extra poignancy. For example there is Contraction.in.Poet.Critics, Angliciste.Notaricon.Poets.Critic or the whole line can be completed to read So.Angliciste.Poet.Notaricon.Critic. The  term angliciste is very interesting since it can be readily applied to Erasmus. He had spent several periods in England, most notably from 1509 to 1514 and he maintained many of these contacts thoughout his life. However it also applies to a great deal of scholars in that era, especially those linked to Marguerite de Navarre whose territory included Nerac, 15 kilometres from Agen. Nerac, under Marguerite's rule, was a haven for radicals and those under stress. Erasmus was one of the guests to this region as were Calvin and the poet Rabelais.  And although this verse was self-evidently not aimed at Erasmus who died in 1536CE it may well refer to one or more of Erasmus' friends or students. Julius Scaliger on the other hand had no interest or liking for the English so the angliciste epithet can't apply to him. However, whatever way these rare anagrams are reconstructed there seems to be a meaningful coding purpose underpinning this verse, a conclusion that is strengthened by the anagrams found in the other lines of this verse. The first line saying Quos legent hosce versus mature censunto has anagrams which yield Erasmus chose-length consequent verse a true.sum. Consequent occurs as anagrams in a total of 5 quatrains while verse.a.true.sum is an adjacent sequence. The anagram that provides this sequence is only found in this verse as is a.true.sum. The second line is equally as intricate and relevant to the messages already shown. In its wording Profanum vulgus et inscium ne attrectato we find guest.in.music  where both guest and music are reasonably rare (four other occurrences each). Although other anagrams like proof occur more frequently (20x for proof) they form a powerful sequence that states Proof num-value guest in music. There is also an anagram for neumatics which occurs here and only one other verse. The word relates to the notation of incantations and chants using neumes as musical-value ciphers. Given that  this verse is meant to be an incantation and the previous line's hidden content alludes to a true sum there is a coherence given to the whole and it flowers into a beautiful coding scheme based on the structure of a verse and using ciphers based on the same principle as music in the 16th Century. There is one other anagram found in the 2nd line and it is is unique being found nowhere else in the prophecies. This word is Vulganum and it forms a sequence which uses most of line to say Proof.Neumatics.Unites.Vulganum (common Book of prayer) The evidence I have presented  above tells us that the key to Nostradamus work is somehow tied into two famous 16th C figures, Erasmus and Julius Scaliger, yet it was clearly not intended for them. Although it can be shown there is strong evidence that this verse is about a coding scheme there seems to be allusions to 16th C music as well as poetry. In addition the verse 's text highlights the religious aspect  of  Nostradamus intended cipher.  It is therefore highly possible that guests to the region of Nerac formed a sect (or group with common goals) into which Nostradamus had been initiated and his career path then determined by them. It is possible to trace these conclusions in many other powerful verses in the Prophecies. From these verses it becomes apparent that their purpose is to further the prospects of the Bourbon line and validate its claim to being part of the lineage of Christ. It is also apparent that this sect infiltrated the royalty of Europe including that of England and Scotland.

Nostradamus C.3 Q.46 (C.III Q.46). : Signs and Fixed stars that show times are changing

Nostradamus Centuries 3 Quatrain 46: The city of Plancus becomes a seaport. The anagrams of this verse fit into the schemes documented by Agrippa, the writer who in Nostradamus'  life-time was one of the foremost authorities on ancient coding techniques (see my paper on Agrippa for more). And the anagrams in the third line hold a highly potent set of rare, complex words independently related to our current understanding of  disease (cholera, spirochetal and bacteriophagals). The whole narrative involving floods and related disasters in  the 21st Century can be read in my Kindle book Nostradamus: Impact on the 21st Century.  This verse is also discussed in detail in my paper titled Floods.   C.3 Q.46 The sky ( of Plancus' city ) forebodes to us Through clear signs and fixed stars, That the time of its sudden change is approaching, Neither for its good, nor for its evils. Le ciel (de Plancus la cite) nous pre$age Par clers in$ignes et par e$toilles fixes Que de $on change $ubit s'aproche l'aage Ne pour $on bienne pour $es malefices Anagram sequences in French Text. <speculation agreeS><unPlaced coastline LegacieS><Super gale inculcates ice led Plan><Sage precautions><Sea eruptions><perSecutions><portunes ageS><tenacious preSages> <Sensing repeatS rise to fix ill Parcels><Set presagient> <polarSite engineS ><Seaport seeing ill Sins><sex lifes toilS> <Agens [J Scaliger's] choSen><bits use a crop><encodeS changeS eQual-age><cholera age> <a spirochetal age><buSiest><bacteriophagals uSe> <siNce europeS nine flames Suborn><eraSmus file><our peN><pourS Nieces on europeS females> FREQUENCIES OF RAREST OCCURRENCE in Centuries speculation, inculcates, persecutions, spirochetal, bacteriophagals, females unplaced, legacies, precautions, tenacious, Erasmus coastline eruptions, sensing, Polarsite presagient, flames suborn Presages, chosen - - Seaport, busiest, cholera - engines portunes, lifes - Nieces - encodes - Europes