NOSTRADAMUS'
CONVENTIONS: PART I
POETIC LICENSE

NOSTRADAMUS
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Considering that a NATO war with Russia is underway and Israel is about to go to war with Egypt, I can now address the critics and point to seven published books, whose premises have not changed in seventeen-years, and say I told you so.

The critics and people who have ignored my work and interpretations of Nostradamus' prophecies are now the copycats and shouting all at once that they saw it all coming.

Over the years, I have discovered that many readers of Nostradamus' prophetic poems always want to believe that he or she has a better interpretation. My answer to them is to concentrate on my interpretations and the predictions that I made seventeen-years ago and compare them to reality.

Most of Nostradamus' poems contain multiple prophecies or two or more perspectives in time. Each line in a poem is the edge of a puzzle piece. And all the 1,321 puzzle pieces are connected.

I have constructed this website around the structure and predictions made in my books. I did not have to reinvent the wheel to rebuild this website, because I quote liberally from seventeen-years of books. Understanding Nostradamus' Conventions is also required to understand Nostradamus' Dating Code.

Since many of the dates have now passed, the years that I pointed to seventeen-years ago are now a very measurable quantity. I have laid everything out as simply as I can.

THE MOST ACCURATE FUTURE FORECASTING WEBSITE ON THE INTERNET

Nostradamus and The Third Age of Mars 2024, G.A. Stewart, 2023, Page 2

Michel de Nostredame died on July 2^nd, 1566. There has been no complete edition of Nostradamus’ Les Propheties De M. Michel Nostradamus found that preceded his death, although there is enough evidence a complete edition did exist.

On May 4^th, 1555 Nostradamus allegedly published his first book of prophecies. I say allegedly, because some of the Nostradamus Experts believe The 1555 Macé Bonhomme Lyon Edition, once the standard of The Nostradamus Business Market, was printed decades later. In my 2022 book, The Nostradamus Compendium, I present an argument why they are wrong.

Apparently, the design was to create a Millade of ten chapters, known as Centuries, and fill them with one-hundred four-line poems known as Quatrains. However, at some unknown point, Nostradamus seemed to change his plan.

This first publication of Les Propheties De M. Michel Nostradamus begins with The Preface to César, Nostradamus’ two-year-old son at the time, and ends at Century IV – Quatrain 53.

The Centuries are the main body of Nostradamus’ prophetic work. The complete manuscript consists of ten chapters, or Centuries, and with two exceptions, each contains one-hundred Quatrains.

Quatrains found after his death point to the existence of a Century XI and Century XII, as well as some Quatrains that were once a part of a different format from the posthumous 1568 edition.

There are a total of 1,321 Nostradamus’ prophecies.

Counting the known Quatrains, Presages, and Sixains published in English to date comes to 1,140 prophetic poems. There have been an extra 27 Quatrains found, making the recognized total 1,167. I discovered evidence that points to more than the recognized 141 Presages.

My discovery of four unpublished Presages makes this the most unique Nostradamus Compendium in the history of Nostradamus' editions. Since that discovery, this changes the official numbering order of The Presages.

In the course of my research for my 2022 Nostradamus Compendium, I rediscovered Mario Gregorio’s website Propheties on Line, The largest library about Nostradamus for free.

If you are serious about All-Things Nostradamus, the following website is the world’s best reference to the oldest existing editions of Nostradamus’ prophecies. Readers can compare over three-dozen editions, allowing an exact analysis of Nostradamus’ writings. This research is only one part of the best Nostradamus website on the Internet.

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My 2019 book was basically the fourth update of my 2007 book, The Age of Desolation. The 2010, 2013, and 2017 editions have filled in some of the blanks in that timeline as certain Nostradamus’ prophecies were being fulfilled.

These books contain my benchmarks and copyrights for my interpretations of not only Nostradamus’ prophecies, but those of Edgar Cayce, and Biblical prophecy.

The critics often claim that Nostradamus’ writings are vague and ambiguous. Frankly, even from my first reading of his works, the complexity was obvious, and it was easy to note the structure in the repeating themes and characters; therefore, that well-worn criticism bears no weight...

And now that it is 2024, readers can discover exactly how right I painted the future.

THE GREAT STERILE DAME

Nostradamus and the Age of Desolation, G. A. Stewart, 2013, Page 246

Nostradamus was born in 1503. Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses on the Castle Church door in Wittenburg, Germany in 1517. From Nostradamus’ teenage years to his death forty-nine years later, he watched the Protestant Reformation ignite a wave of violence across Europe.

Many commentators have tried to define Nostradamus through his religious beliefs, whether it be regarding his Jewish roots or his Roman Catholic upbringing. That would be the conventional view.

As I mention in the previous chapter, Nostradamus was probably very closely allied with the Cathar community in southern France. His maternal grandfather, Jean de St. Rémy, was thought to have been the Royal Physician to René d'Anjou, a leading figure in the regions inhabited by the descendants of the Cathars.

In the book Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln, were able to link the Cathars with Nostradamus and the ultimate secret society, the Priory of Sion. Unfortunately, believing in this conspiracy has become the ultimate heresy; that is unless you fictionalize the story, write a best-selling novel called The Da Vinci Code, and then sell movie rights and live happily ever after.

The Priory of Sion was a secret society protecting the lineage of the Merovingian dynasty, not the descendants of Jesus Christ. The myth of the return of a Great Monarch has been around since the 6^th century.

The Gnostic Christians have been around for nearly two-thousand years; the Sethites, the Cathars, the Albigensian Crusade, these are all facts of history. The only conspiracy is that the Vatican committed genocide and tried to wipe them all off the face of the Earth.

L. DENIS VALVERANE - MUSEUM OF OLD SALON
NOSTRADAMUS EXAMINES THE YOUNG HENRY OF NAVARRE THE FUTURE HENRI IV

Memoires pour servir a l'history de France; Pierre L'Estoile, 1718, Volume II, Page 2

...He begged his Governor to see this young prince... Nostradamus was introduced to the chamber as he was being given his shirt, and after looking at him for a long time, he said that he would have the entire heritage, "...And if God gives you grace to live till then, you will have as master a King of France and Navarre."

Nostradamus had no interest in the fourteen-year-old Charles IX, who had been King of France for four-years. He was more interested in the eleven-year-old Henry of Navarre.

The Nostradamus Compendium, G. A. Stewart, 2022, Page 12

Henry of Navarre's meeting with Nostradamus is that well-documented evidence that professional critics and skeptics like the late James Randi just dismiss.

The young Henry of Navarre would go on to become the leader of the Huguenots and the Calvinist French. Charles IX King of France would go on to mercilessly prosecute France's Wars of Religion; he was a puppet working in conjunction with the Vatican and the Catholic League.

Charles IX would also order his sister Margaret of Valois to marry Henry of Navarre to put an end to the religious civil war. It was a disaster leading to one of the most ruthless and bloody massacres in history.

The Queen-Regent, Catherine de' Medici, had her twenty-two-year old son, Charles IX, carry out the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre on August 23^rd, 1572. There is speculation that within two-days as many as 30,000 Calvinist Protestants were murdered.

Henry of Navarre went on to defeat the Vatican and the Catholic League and become Henri IV King of France, the first of the Bourbon line.

I. THE TIMELINE

THE HISTORY OF THE GREAT DAME

Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 13: 1
For God will regard the long sterility of the great Dame, who shortly afterwards will conceive two principal infants:

TRANSLATION: Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 13:1

The Christian Church will become a sterile institution. Five-hundred-years after the Great Schism of 1054 C.E. reconciliation between the Eastern and Western churches will fail. The Christian Church will remain divided into two principal sects, the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 13:2
But she being in peril, [as] she who is adjoined by the temerity of the era being in peril of death in her eighteenth [year], and will be unable to live beyond her thirty-sixth [year]

TRANSLATION: Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 13:2

With the Christian Church already in trouble, the foolishness of the Protestant Reformation will come to France. Calvinism will take hold in 1562 after the Massacre at Wassy.

It will struggle for eighteen-years until Henri III of Navarre and the Huguenots capture the city of Cahors in 1580.

Near death, the Huguenot cause will be revived and Henri of Navarre will become Henri IV, King of France.

In 1598, Henri IV will sign The Edict of Nantes. Thirty-six years after the Massacre at Wassy, the Calvinists will think that this instrument has given them their freedom.

But on October 18^th, 1685, Louis XIV will revoke The Edict of Nantes and the Huguenots will be persecuted once again and Calvinism will be unable to survive in France.

Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 13:3
She will leave three males and one female, and of these two will not have had the same father,

TRANSLATION: Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 13:3

The Christian Church will then give birth to three males, the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the German Lutheran Church, and to one female, the Church of England, which like Calvinism will be fathered at the time of the Protestant Reformation, but they will not have the same origins.

NOSTRADAMUS MATH, NOSTRADAMUS IRONY,
AND
THE NOSTRADAMUS BUTTERFLY EFFECT

The Massacre at Wassy 1562 + 18 years = 1580

In peril of death [Calvinism] in her eighteenth [year].

Henri III of Navarre and the Huguenots capture the city of Cahors in 1580.

Henri III converts to Catholicism and becomes Henri IV of France.

[Calvinism] Unable to live beyond her thirty-sixth [year].

Henri IV signs The Edict of Nantes in 1598.

The Edict of Nantes – 1598 - The Massacre at Wassy – 1562 = 36 years.

What is the irony? Henri IV defeated the Catholic League and then in 1593 converted back to Catholicism to be crowned King of France in 1594. The new Bourbon King of France had his excommunication lifted by the Pope; he made peace with Spain, and then issued The Edict of Nantes in 1598, officially ending the 36-year-old civil war.

The 1598 Edict of Nantes was supposed to allow the Huguenots to worship as they pleased. It became a worthless piece of paper.

THE INEVITABLE NOSTRADAMUS’ TWIST
THE FINE PRINT TO KNOWING THE FUTURE

After The Edict of Nantes was signed in 1598, Calvinism did not die in its 36^th year. If this was your interpretation in 1598, then you would have thought that Nostradamus got it wrong. This is my first example of The Nostradamus Butterfly Effect and why Nostradamus was writing to future historians.

Henri IV’s conversion to Catholicism just delayed the extinction of Calvinism. On October 18^th, 1685, Louis XIV revoked The Edict of Nantes and the Huguenots were chased out of France. Only in 1685 would you have realized that Nostradamus got it right. The Edict of Nantes meant nothing, and Henri IV’s conversion meant that Calvinism would not “pass her thirty-sixth”. In 1598, Calvinism began its slow death in France.

Nostradamus provides his readers with the long view – beyond their lifetime. That ironic twist is not usable information for The Common Person on the Street.

Nostradamus’ sense of irony has brought down the many preconceptions of Nostradamus Commentators, including my own. Interpretations can crumble from assuming too much, and being on the wrong side of Nostradamus’ timeline.

II. THE FOUR CHILDREN OF THE GREAT DAME

BRING WAR TO EUROPE

Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 14:1
Of the three brothers there will be great differences, and then there will be unity and cooperation, that the three and four parts of Europe will tremble;

TRANSLATION: Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 14:1

For the three brothers of the Christian church, there will be great differences and

Many of the people of the Eastern Orthodox Church will be conquered by the Ottoman Empire, while those of the Roman Catholic Church will war with those of the Protestant Church as the Holy Roman Empire expands and contracts.

Religious wars in Europe will inspire a military renaissance in tactics and arms. Armies will make the continent tremble with the sound of newly developed artillery.

Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 14:2
For the youngest in age will sustain and augment the Christian monarchy: sects elevated and suddenly abased, Arabs retreat, Kingdoms united, new laws promulgated:

TRANSLATION: Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 14:2

Expatriate Calvinists will flee from France and eventually become the Puritans who will bring the Reformist movement to the North American Colonies, sustaining and expanding the Christian Church.

In the United States many Protestant sects will come and go. Some will be elevated and influence World leaders; others will be abased by scandals.

The Moslems will retreat from Europe and the Ottoman Empire will collapse.

Then the Kingdoms of Europe and the United States will unite, and [on September 11^th, 1990 to the Congress of the United States] the laws [of the New World Order] will be promulgated.

III. THE EMPIRES OF
THE FOUR CHILDREN

THE CHILDREN'S MILITARY ZENITHS

THE FIRST SON

POPE JOHN PAUL II, REAGAN AND GORBACHEV

Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 15:1
The oldest one will occupy the fierce crowned Lions, with their paws resting upon intrepid arms.

TRANSLATION: Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 15:1

The Oldest Brother, the Roman Catholic Church, will stand between the world's two largest superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. The Church will keep the fierce crowned Lions resting on their intrepid arms.

THE SECOND SON

VLADIMIR PUTIN, THE NEXT PETER THE GREAT

Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 16:1
The second deeply penetrates into the accompanied Latins, a second trembling path made and the furious one descends to Mount Jove [Great St. Bernard Pass].

To mount the Pyrenees, which shall not be transferred to the ancient monarchy,

TRANSLATION: Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 16:1

[During World War III] the armies of the Second Brother, the Eastern Orthodox Church, will deeply penetrate Italy and Spain. And just as Napoleon's army will accomplish on May 17^th, 1800, the [Furious One] will also lead his army across the Alps and descend from Great St. Bernard Pass into Italy.

Trying to mount the Pyrenees, Spain will not be transferred to the [Ancient Monarchy].

THE THIRD SON

Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 16:2
The third will cause a great inundation of human blood, and not found for a long time Mars fasting [or Lent in March/Mars in Lent].

THE DAUGHTER

Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 17:1
And the daughter will be given for the preservation of the Christian Church.

TRANSLATION: Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 17:1

Expatriate Calvinists and Anglicans will join the Puritans and find their way to the United States where warfare and invasion will not threaten the Christian Church.

THE PAGAN SECT OF NEW INFIDELS

Nostradamus and The Third Age of Mars 2024, G. A. Stewart, 2023, Page 20

The allegory of The Great Sterile Dame and her children fits perfectly with events in France during the Protestant Reformation. As readers can easily comprehend, The Epistle to Henry recounts significant dates related to the Protestant Reformation.

Nostradamus goes on to show how the children of The Great Sterile Dame represent regions of Europe. As he describes each child, he is giving his readers the description of their greatest military accomplishments, hence the sterility of each Christian Sect’s practice and beliefs in the teachingsof Jesus Christ.

Nostradamus and The Third Age of Mars 2024, G. A. Stewart, 2023, Page 26

This is how Nostradamus works. He uses the family tree of The Great Sterile Dame to identify the regional areas of his predictions. The Roman Catholic Church represents Italy, Spain, and France.

The Eastern Orthodox Church is symbolic of Russia and the former Soviet Union countries in the Balkans and Eastern Europe.

The German Lutheran Church represents Germany, and the northern European countries.

The Anglican Church is associated with England, and although Calvinism died in France, it resurfaced in Great Britain, and notably Scotland. The Protestant Reform sects such as the Presbyterians, Puritans, and Quakers seeded the American colonies.

As you will read, the United States and Great Britain are destined to share the same fate.

The First Son: The Catholic Church: The Vatican
The Second Son: The Eastern Orthodox Church: Russia
The Third Son: The German Lutheran Church: The Bilderberg Group
The House of Orange-Nassau
The House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
The Daughter: The Church of England/Protestant Sects: American Colonists

The Roman Catholic Church: Represents Italy, Spain, and France.
The Eastern Orthodox Church: Symbolic of Russia and the former Soviet Union countries in Eastern Europe.
The German Lutheran Church: Represents Germany, and the northern European countries.
The Anglican Church: Associated with England and its American Colonies.

King Charles III of Great Britain may rule the Church of England, but the roots of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha extend back to Germany.

Sectarian violence and religious warfare are why Nostradamus called Christianity “The Great Sterile Dame.” He predicted that the main betrayers of the teachings of Jesus Christ would belong to a Pagan Sect of New Infidels within Christianity.

Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 17:2

...Her dominator will fall into the pagan sect of the new infidels.

TRANSLATION: Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 17:2

Those descendants of the German Lutheran Church, the dominant Protestant sect, will eventually adopt Nazism and anti-Semitism. Out of fascism, a [Pagan Sect] will arise and be allied with the new infidels [Islamic terrorists].

NOSTRADAMUS' PAGAN SECT

V. FASCISM, WORLD WAR II, ANDTHE PAGAN SECT

Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 18:1

And the other, who to his great confusion and late repentance, will want to ruin her, will have three regions from extremely different leagues, namely, the Roman, the German and the Spaniard, will be of diverse sects [created] by military force. The 50^th to the 52^nd degree of latitude will be left behind.

TRANSLATION: Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 18:1

And the other, the militant [Pagan Sect], much to its great confusion and late repentance, will want to ruin the Great Dame. They will try to replace the Christian Church with fascism in Italy in 1922, Germany in 1933, and Spain in 1936.

[London, Great Britain] between the 50^th and 52^nd degree of latitude will be able to escape.

Nostradamus and The Third Age of Mars 2024, G. A. Stewart, 2023, Pages 9-10

Throughout The Quatrains, The Presages, and The Sixains, readers should note a series of poems that will include some number in the 1500 range, the 1600 range, and the 1700 range.

Most previous Nostradamus Commentators believed that these were predictions for years in the 1500s, the 1600s, and the 1700s. They are the dates for predictions, but you must also add the Code Key to each range for the Real Year. That Code Key is based on Christian historical dates.

I call these The 1500, 1600, and 1700 Series of Prophecies. They are the link that connects The Quatrains, The Presages, and The Sixains. They prove that the author of all three sets of poems was Nostradamus.

The Centuries were constructed around The Three Antichrists. It is a three act Greek play about the history of Christianity’s faceoff with Satan and his Antichrists, leading to The Final Battle.

Act I: The First Antichrist, Napoleon Bonaparte, The First French Empire.
Act II: The Second Antichrist: Adolf Hitler, The Third Reich.
Act III: The Third Antichrist: Barack Obama, The New World Order.

Nostradamus and The Third Age of Mars 2024, G. A. Stewart, 2023, Page 238

As readers will discover, and as I have mentioned, there are sets of related prophecies that seem to come in groups of three, even though each poem might span years or a decade, they present the path and history to an event.

There are 1,321 Nostradamus’ prophecies; approximately one-third of those are devoted to The World War III Series.

THE PRESERVATION OF THE CHURCH

Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 17:3
Of her two children: one faithful, and the other unfaithful to the confirmation of the Catholic Church.

TRANSLATION: Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 17:3

Of two children, the Third Son, the Protestant Church, will start new traditions; it will only be the Daughter, the Anglican Church of England, who will keep the ritual and structure of the Catholic Church.

XI. TWO EMPIRES PRECEDE THE THIRD ANTICHRIST

2A) THE RISE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE:

Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 26:1
Then one will come forth from the stock which had for so long remained sterile, proceeding from the 50^th degree, one who will renew the whole Christian Church.

TRANSLATION: Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 26:1

One country will come forth from people escaping religious persecution. They will create a form of government not seen since the time of the Greeks. These pilgrims will set sail from Portsmouth, England and sail around Land's End at the 50^th degree of latitude. They will renew the Christian Church.

Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 26:2
And then a great peace will be established, union and concord between children of the frontiers, who have gathered and separated from diverse realms.

TRANSLATION: Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 26:2

The children of the frontiers of America will establish peace between diverse people. From many different realms, through union and concord, they will form the United States.

Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 26:3
The instigator and promoter of military factions, will remain chained to the deepest pit, born of the diversity of Religions.

TRANSLATION: Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 26:3

The instigator of war and promoter of military factions is the diversity of religions. In this land through the Bill of Rights, they will chain sectarian violence to the deepest pit by advocating freedom for all religions.

UNDERSTANDING DATES AND METAPHORS

Nostradamus and The Third Age of Mars 2024, G. A. Stewart, 2023, Page 34

Nostradamus Quatrain IV-96
La soeur aisnee de l'Isle Britannique,
Quinz ans deuant le frere aura naissance:
Par son promis moyennant verrifique,
Succedera au regne de balance.

Nostradamus Quatrain IV-96
The elder sister of the British Isle,
Born Fifteen years before her brother:
Through her promise in return for verification,
Succeeding to the kingdom of the balance.

TRANSLATION/INTERPRETATION:
Nostradamus Quatrain IV-96
[America] The elder sister of the British Isle
Born Fifteen years [1776] before her brother [France in 1791]
Through her promise in return for verification [of nuclear weapons launches],
[America will] Succeed to the Kingdom of the balance [Christian Church/Justice]

This Quatrain is a good example of Nostradamus’ dating schemes and identifiers. The symbolism of The Kingdom of the Balance, the United States, and the preservation of Christianity is found throughout all of Nostradamus’ work. That is why I have included it here with the passages from The Epistle to Henry.

Here is a first important example on how to read Nostradamus’ dates. America celebrates July 4^th, 1776 as its Declaration of Independence from rule under the British crown.

“Fifteen years” later, King Louise XVI of France and Marie Antoinette tried to flee France. Their carriage ride to Varennes and arrest on the night of June 22^nd, 1791 is the symbolic end of the French monarchy.

These are not the actual dates of the founding of the Republic of the United States or the Republic of France, but in 1776 and in 1791 the symbolic events of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the capture of Louise XVI and Marie Antoinette would lead to the formation of both republics.

This is another perfect example of The Nostradamus Butterfly Effect.

It is important to note here also, as I explain in the chapters ahead, there is an unwritten part to my interpretation of this Quatrain that I will touch upon briefly. Line three in Quatrain IV-96 states that, “Through her promise in return for verification”, the United States will be, “Succeeding to the kingdom of the balance.”

The Kingdom of the Balance is the Christian Church. Lady Justice holds the balance. She is the judge of morality. Why will America inherit the power of the Christian Church? I suspect that during a nuclear missile attack, America will be sacrificed waiting for “verification” of the attack.

I will suggest in the pages ahead, that a similar analogy would be the early Christians sacrificed in Rome’s Coliseum. The New Rome must have its sacrifices, and that is most likely why Nostradamus believed that The Black King would be worse than the Roman Emperor Nero.

THE NOSTRADAMUS STANDARD

The Nostradamus Compendium, G. A. Stewart, 2022, Page 60

My final examination of over a century's worth of printed editions finds very small differences between editions; with the exception of The 1588 Paris Editions, The 1589 Raphael du Petit Val Edition, and The 1590 Francois de Sainct Jaure Antwerp Edition. The one connection that we see is their closeness in time to the end of France's Wars of Religion.

The most important connection that we see is Nostradamus' second daughter Anne, who was married to Pierre de Sève of Beaucaire, and whose brother, Vincent de Sève, would go on to print the first and best Nostradamus Compendium in 1605.

THESE FIVE EDITIONS I HAVE USED AS MY STANDARD

UNDERSTANDING
NOSTRADAMUS' CONVENTIONS II

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