NOSTRADAMUS – THE TRUTH Five Centuries of Prophecies Validated

Why has the book on the true identity of 'Shakespeare' caught my attention? In Network 99 (Spring 2009) I had reviewed 'D.U.', The Disappearance of the Universe, by Gary Renard. I quote (pp.330-331) from Renard's book:

'The gentleman who wrote the Shakespeare material was an Earl whose family's crest bore the image of a lion shaking a spear. To honor his family he was sometimes toasted at Court with the phrase, 'Your countenance shakes a spear!' But this Earl was forbidden by Queen Elizabeth the First, who was a political genius and very controlling, from putting his name on his work. There was a social stigma attached to the stage at that time. Plays, especially comedies, were not considered to be serious literature and were beneath the dignity of royalty. It turns out there was an actor by the name of William Shakespeare. When Edward de Vere, the seventeenth Earl of Oxford, found out about this man, he thought it was almost too good to be true. Here was de Vere being toasted at Court with the phrase related to his family crest, a lion shaking a spear, and here's a man in the business named Shakespeare! Edward struck a deal with William to put his name on the work and have the plays presented to the public with the actor playing the part of author. It was a sly way for Edward to get some credit for his work without actually putting his name on it. The plan succeeded very nicely, although Shakespeare wasn't really paid that much, and many of the plays were published all at once as a catalog after the actor named Shakespeare passed away.' (End of quotation)

What you have just read is a 'clear vision' given to Gary Renard by an ascended master in 1997, as reported in Renard's book 'D.U.', published in 2003, i.e., five years before Roper's Proving Shakespeare. In his book Roper presents scholarly, definitive, convincing evidence that E De Vere, Earl of Oxford, was the man hiding with pseudonym 'William Shakespeare' behind an actor conveniently called Will Shaxspere, from Stratford-upon-Avon, to act as author of his work. I learned about Roper's book via a review in the Fall 2009 issue of the Journal of Scientific Exploration. I then sent him the passage quoted above from Renard's book. His response:

'I was most intrigued to discover that Gary Renard had published an almost identical account to my own, describing how the name Shakespeare came into existence. As far as I was aware, no one but I had drawn this conclusion, and I am familiar with most literature on this subject.'

Roper's is undoubtedly the most thorough, scholarly and definitive study of de Vere as author of the Shakespeare material. He uses and interprets numerous documents of the period and he breaks a code which was hidden in a text on a historic plaque by people who knew Shakespeare's true identity. Proving Shakespeare is a most impressive and fascinating piece of work. Now to Nostradamus: Roper informed me about this book prior to its publication. He wrote:

'… upon reading your review [of Renard's two books], I found that you were repeating so much that I am already familiar with, and which I have put into the final chapter, the Afterword, of my new book, which is published next month. With regard to this book, were you to follow through all the links concerning this publication, which are to be found on my website, there is one in particular concerning a quite devastating future for those living in Geneva. I do not think bad news such as this can ever be welcome, but in my defence, I can only say that my interpretations have never failed in the past.' (end of quotation).

The relevant links in Roper's website www.davidroper.eu are: Nostradamus The Truth / www.nostradamus.org.uk / A Look Into the Future [1] This leads you to the following prophecy (in its original ancient French as well as) in modern English translation: Migrate, migrate from Geneva, absolutely everyone! Saturn will change itself: made of gold out of iron, The opposite positive beam will exterminate all: Before the violent issue, the heavens will give signs. The website explains that this must be understood as a reference to the presently ongoing experiments in CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in which positively charged atomic nuclei are brought into violent collisions with a positive beam of nuclei travelling in the opposite direction. A strange form of matter is thus created, a so called quark-gluon plasma, which requires such immense energies that the likes of it haven't existed since the first instants of the Big Bang. In 2000, CERN announced compelling evidence that this exotic form of matter had finally been created by colliding high energy lead ions into gold and lead targets. The discovery was confirmed in 2005 elsewhere and will be a major area of research at the LHC. Roper's comment at the end of his website:

'Because of the similarities that exist between what Nostradamus predicted for Geneva and the activities intended for the LHC, also at Geneva, it is fair comment and a matter of public interest to draw attention to the relevant similarities that exist.'

That urgent call to leave Geneva before it becomes exterminated is certainly an unwelcome message and one that is unlikely to be taken seriously there. So we are left to helplessly stand by and observe the future inevitable course of predetermined history or, if not, then wonder why in this first instance in 450 years, the predicted calamity refuses to happen.

Roper's book presents some 200 prophecies, out of a total of 945 published by Nostradamus 1555 - 1558. Those 200 cover the period from 1557 to 2009, while the remainder was said by Nostradamus to extend as far as the year 3797. The 200 represent an impressively complete record of the major historical events in the history of France and beyond, including such recent examples as 9/11, the war in Iraq, and the prediction that great clarity will come in our times concerning the meaning of Nostradamus' work.

Roper has enriched his Nostradamus book with an Afterword in which he presents a careful analysis of the apparent conflict between predetermination of future events in prophetic revelations, on the one hand, and free will that might be exercised to prevent the predicted events from happening, on the other hand. Nostradamus has carefully worded his prophecies such that, although they can quite clearly be identified with past events, they can not accurately be assigned to future dates or places in advance. That renders it impossible to change the course of predetermined events and it thus guarantees free will. Furthermore, our experience of the flow of time and of separation between past, present and future is a product of our normal state of consciousness. The entire outer world of matter, space and time is generated by our consciousness. It is not matter that generates an illusion of consciousness, but consciousness that generates an illusion of matter and of spatial and temporal separations (read again my review of Gary Renard's books). Renard is told by an ascended master: 'Don't take the tricks of time seriously. What you think of as the past is an illusory happening that is taking place right now. The future is happening right now, but your mind has divided these images up to make them look like time. Yet the whole thing happened all at once and is already over.' Within this worldview there is a Knowledge who knows everything. In Heaven, the future is already present. It is us who believe that the future is still open. Roper calls this a block universe which contains it all, past, future, the whole works. It is us who move through this block universe with the illusion of an open future. And yet we really do have free will, except that what my free will is going to decide tomorrow is known already today to the Knowledge who knows all. Roper calls this Knowledge God and he suggests that the existence of accurate prophecies can be taken as a proof of an all-knowing God. If you don't like that you still must acknowledge the existence of a body of information about events which for us lie in the future, i.e., information that is apparently accessible to ascended masters as well as to earth bound people with access to prophetic vision like, some 450 years ago, that French physician Michel de Nostredame. It is reasonable to expect the prophecies of Nostradamus continuing to reveal major events in the world on a regular basis. The implications are therefore profound, and these will be a major source of contention for very many years to come.