If you watch any of the popularized television programming about Nostradamus, you will find that two hours are filled with no more than 15 quatrains being presented as uncannily accurate. When there are a total of 948 surviving quatrains (52 may have been censored by the Catholic Church), 15 equates to 1.5% accuracy rate. Statisticians would find that chance would produce more than this rate. All the hype does nothing to promote Nostradamus.



Additionally, if you read the quatrains that they post on the screen momentarily, you see that you are led to believe this is actually what Nostradamus wrote:

1.) The Old French is nowhere to be found

2.) The 4 lines of text have become a continuous thread of words, resembling a sentence.

3.) The punctuation of Nostradamus has vanished

In essence, you read something that the producers of a product being sold (cable television programming) have sensationalized to optimize interest in their product. The truth that nothing has accurately stated what Nostradamus wrote is not the purpose of commercialized programming. The purpose is intrigue, with the sales of popiel pocket fishermen between segments.



You will also see that at no time does anyone promote that: We know this is what Nostradamus meant to state, because he stated this meaning in another letter of instruction. Nostradamus wrote a Letter of Preface (a clear literary element of setting up the document that soon will be read) and a Letter to Henri II (designed to fully explain The Prophecies to the king who stipened the author to write the work). The inconvient truth is no one previously has been able to translate and interpret these letters so that the letters make sense. Instead of working to solve what the letters of meaning meant, they have preferred to perform dog and pony tricks with individual quatrains, offering paraphrased reconstructions of words, which amount to nothing more than the personal opinions of someone other than Nostradamus.



If you read the Preface according to systematic methods, it becomes clear, as does the letter to Henri II (although more difficult to obtain total clarity); and, both letters state that the verses cannot be read as prose (standard language, implying syntax). The reality is each word must be read separately, and understood fully, before another word can be read. The result is one word can require a full page of explanation and definition be understood, before that understanding can combine with another word. Take for instance, in the Letter to Henri II, when Nostradamus wrote of Plutarch, followed by Lycurgus. Do you know who Plutarch was? Do you know who Lycurgus was? If you are like me, then the answer is "No." However, as readers we tend to quickly move past the words we don't know and from reading the words we do know, we can make assumptions of the meaning the words we don't know have, allowing us to spare the pain of looking up and learning about what we don't know. The result of this lack of attention is 90% of the meaning of Nostradamus has been missed. Chalk it up to laziness. This laziness was know by Jesus Christ; and, He knew that simply having Nostradamus write in a style that was syntax free would keep everyone from realizing what truly was prophesied, for 450 years.



In my book, The Letters of Nostradamus, Realizing a Prophecy of Jesus Christ, I show you how Nostradamus is read for meaning. I do not teach you how to come to what interpretations I come to, so that meaning is explained to you. I could, but if you ar elike most lazy people, a class on how to read Nostradamus is too much to bear. You much prefer to be told the story without the explanation. That is what my book does. However, everything that I have written for your simple understanding can fully be explained. Still, while an intriguing story may or may not move you to belief, the ultimate point of a Prophecy is belief from faith, followed by actions founded on that faith. To come to this point of dawning, you need to make your own interpretation of the words of Nostradamus for the fullest impact of meaning. By reading the words yourself, knowing what guideposts mean what, while believing that the words originated from the divine, not the earthly, you will be allowed to see the fullest value of the words, from connecting to God yourself.



If you have done any serious investigation of Nostradamus before and have some questions about the meaning of a quatrain, then I would be willing to help you find the true meaning yourself. Every quatrain and both letters will be found to have been infallibly written. Nothing is by mistake or without reason and purpose. Send me your questions and I will try to help you find the meaning.



Sincerely,



Robert Tippett