5. The End of the World
Nostradamus first wrote of the end of the world in his famous letter to Henry II. You can read this letter in its entirety in Part 5, Section 11 of this book.
“Then the great empire of the Antichrist will begin where Attila and Xerxes descended (Central Asia and Persia/Iran)—in numbers great and countless, so many that the coming of the Holy Ghost, proceeding from the 48th degree will make a transmigration, driving out the abomination of the Antichrist [who is] making war against the Royal who will be the great Vicar of Jesus Christ, and against his Church, and his reign for a time and to the end of time.”
“And this will be preceded by a solar eclipse more dark than any since the creation of the world..., and there shall be in the month of October some great movement and transference and it will be such that one will think that the Earth has lots its natural movement, and that it will be plunged into the abyss of perpetual darkness; there will be initial omens in the spring, and extraordinary changes in rapid succession thereafter, reversals of kingdoms and mighty earthquakes, with the increase of the new Babylon..., augmented by the abomination of the first Holocaust, and it will last no less than 73 years and 7 months...”
“And then great peace will be established, union and concord between the children of the frontiers who have been gathered and separated by diverse reigns...”
There are also specific quatrains, reading much like the Book of Revelatons, that describe the aftermath of some kind of holocaust triggered by the battle of Armegeddon that pits the Chinese against Americans.
These quatrains appear to pick up after a bomb has been dropped and others suggest climate changes and changes in the earth’s position in the heavens.
For forty years the rainbow will not appear;
For forty years it will be seen every day:
The arid earth will grow more dry,
And great floods when it will be seen.
(Century 1, Quatrain 17)
This quatrain speaks of an extreme climate change. Many have interpreted it to mean that the earth will shift on its axis
You will see, sooner and later, great changes made,
Extreme horrors and vengeances:
For as the moon is thus led by its angel,
The heavens draw near to the reckoning.
(Century 1, Quatrain 56)
This quatrain suggests that horrors will be near as the moon appears closer to the earth. It might somehow describe the destruction of the moon as it is led by its angel towards a day of reckoning.
Pestilences extinguished, the world becomes smaller,
For a long time the lands will be inhabited in peace:
People will travel safely through the sky (over) land and wave:
Then wars will start anew.
(Century 1, Quatrain 63)
