Nostradamus

Nostradamus was a French prophet, born in 1503, who published several books of prophecies written as short verses, the famous quatrains. To lay them all out here with their translations and a full interpretation would be an enormous task, so I have kept to a few of the readings that Dolores Cannon drew from his work.

According to Nostradamus, the next great event still to come is the rise of the third Antichrist, the first two being Napoleon and Hitler.

The story goes that this Antichrist made a promise to himself in a past life, that he would one day rule the world, and the wheel of karma turned to give him the chance in this lifetime. His potential and his openings for evil are balanced against an equal capacity to do good. In the early 1990s he is just beginning to act on his ambitions. He starts his political career at the local level and climbs from there, growing hungrier for power with each step.

He builds a systematic philosophy rooted in Marx and Engels, leaning on everything that points toward complete control of a population. Russia and China are vulnerable to it because of how readily they once embraced communism. The Antichrist uses this philosophy to win over the whole of Asia before turning to the rest of the world. His ideas spread through the careful manipulation of one institution of political power after another.

The reading also speaks of the Catholic Church. The last three popes, it says, will fall in quick succession. The first of them, the one reigning now, will be assassinated by gunfire. The second will be swallowed up by the Antichrist’s schemes. The third, the one born with a defect, will carry the destruction of the Church further than any other. The Antichrist will use him for a time while he clears his own path, and then discard him. His betrayal will speed things along, and his death will be the sign that the Catholic Church has reached its end.