How was Nostradamus able to see visions of the future

Michel de Nostradamus 21 December 1503 – 2 July 1566 Michel de Nostredame was a French seer and physician. He has gathered fame mainly because of the publication of his book, `Les Propheties’. It is a collection of 942 poetic quatrains in the form of sharing his visions and hallucinations about future events. This book was first published in 1555. Nostradamus, as he later came to be known as, was born in a Jewish family. He later converted to Catholicism. He studied at the University of Avignon but had to delay his progress as a result of the outbreak of a plague. After completing his studies, he worked as an apothecary for many years before he enrolled again in the University of Montpelier to earn a doctorate. Nostradamus had indifferent health once he reached the age of sixty. He suffered from a severe case of gout and that ultimately developed into edema. During his lifetime, Nostradamus attracted several supporters who felt, along with the royalty of that time -the Medicis, that he had the ability to see visions and predict many important world events accurately. My impression after reading his 942 quatrains as translated by Erika Cheetham is that he was visited by djinns who made him see visions through his dreams or through a series of hallucinations. There is nothing like genuine and supernatural prophetic abilities. Most of his quatrains are vague at best and barring about forty verses or so out of 942, could apply to almost anything and cannot be marveled at as accurate predictions. No one possesses prophetic powers. Such people were always helped by djinns or Archangels who alone possessed knowledge of futuristic visions. The first installment of his prophecies was printed in 1555 and it contained only 353 quatrains. The next edition was printed in 1558 with three hundred more quatrains. The final edition came out in 1568 after his death and it contained ten centuries and 942 quatrains. Going back earlier in his life, the major sources for his prophecies were the `Mirabilis Liber’ written by Pseudo Methodius in 1522 and the writer Savonarola. Nostradamus said he was able to predict the future through a combination of astrological study and divine inspiration. He had long studied the supposed relationship between the movement of heavenly bodies and earthly events, and he claimed an angelic spirit helped him understand how these forces would manifest themselves. He sought out inspiration through various forms of meditation, generally focusing in on fire or water, possibly while under the influence of mild hallucinogens, such as nutmeg. Meditating late at night, Nostradamus claimed, he would see and understand events in the near and distant future. Nostradamus didn’t start out with the intention to write a book of poetry. Instead, he spent his nights in the attic in his home in Salon, France. This attic became the retreat where he studied his favorite topics, read, and pursued his interest in astrology. It was also here that Nostradamus began using meditation techniques and a prayerful attitude to ask for visions of what the future might be. He wrote notes and even made sketches of the visions he saw. He then transformed the notes into the poetry form that exists today as his prophecies. Nostradamus arranged his prophetic quatrains into ten groups of 100 — well, almost. Century 7 has only about half its quatrains, and no one has figured out why Nostradamus shorted this century. These ten groups are called centuries, but don’t get derailed into thinking that these grouped prophecies covered 100 years. Here, centuries have nothing to do with years and everything to do with keeping 942 prophecies organized somehow. There are several striking quatrains among his 942 – one of them is this example: “Prediction: The blood of the of the just will commit a fault at London; Burnt through lightning of twenty threes the six; The ancient lady will fall from her high place; Several of the same sect will be killed.” This is pointing certainly to the Great Fire of London. Concerning the date, multiplying twenty by three and adding six gives us 66 of the seventeenth century. The devastating three-day blaze started in London on 2nd September, 1666. However, the fire was not set off by lightning but by a spark from the ovens in Thomas Farriner’s Bakery in Pudding Lane. Thousands of people perished in the flames. Another is this – “From the depths of the West of Europe, A young child will be born of poor people, He who by his tongue will seduce a great troop; his fame will increase towards the realm of the East… Beats ferocious with hunger will cross the rivers; the greater part of the battlefield will be against Hister.” This is certainly referring to Adolf Hitler who was born on 20th April 1889 in Austria and was raised in a middle class family. Hitler came to be recognised for his oratory abilities and he did seduce by his tongue and triggered the Second World War by invading Poland. Another remarkable quatrain is this one – “The great man will be struck down in the day by a thunderbolt; an evil deed foretold by the bearer of a petition; according to the prediction, another falls at night time.” This is referring to the assassination of the Kennedy brothers. Listen to this one – “Earthshaking fire from the center of the Earth will cause tremors around the New City; two great rocks will war for a long time and Arethusa will redden a new river.” This is referring to the fall of the twin towers in New York City in 2001. He also wrote in 1551 that in a twin year will arise a queen (corona) who will come from the East (China) and who will spread a plague (virus) in the darkness of night, on a country with seven hills (Italy) and will transform the twilight of men into dust to destroy and ruin the world. According to him, it will be the end of the world economy. It has happened. It is fascinating that he saw dreams and visions of this magnitude and retained this in his memory to journalise later. I still feel that a higher cadre of angels or djinns showed him all that. Like Solomon and Joseph nd a great other few in the history of Creation, Nostradamus was among a chosen few.