The statue of St. Peter the first, and perhaps the last, pope named Peter before the end of days. A popular Protestant conspiracy from the 17th century and later conjured up again in the 19th by the Seventh Day Adventists presumed the Papal Tiara had a Latin inscription taken from the Donation of Constantine. Add the numerical equivalent of Latin letters and reach a sum of 666. Other conspiracy theories have 666 emblazoned on papal miters or tiaras as an abbreviation of Julius Caesar's Latin inscription Vini (Veni), Vidi, Vinci – "I came, I saw, I conquered" -- in the Roman numerals VI VI VI (666). Thus, the Beast of Revelation is a future pope, some believe. This conspiracy theory was soundly debunked in the 20th century. I will write about it in detail in the future. For today's blog, I mention it only because Nostradamus seems to apply hints to the "pope-as-antichrist" in these prophecies using another lead.

Friends,
Quatrain 66 of Century 6 has Catholic prophet Nostradamus using the number of the Beast in Revelation to tie the discovery of a great Roman’s tomb with either an earthquake as a metaphor for religious upheaval or literally he implies a tomb uncovered around the time of a natural disaster and/or quake. In both possible interpretations, the Church is undergoing an apostasy: the opening stage of undermined faith in laity and leadership alike expected in the Catholic version of the Apocalypse. I disseminated in great detail the thrust of collected visions of the Apostasy, Roman Catholic Apocalypse and visions of a subsequent Age of the Holy Spirit beyond the need of churches here: see Apostasy. The latter prophecies either speak of a completely new world religion or a new renaissance of what it is to be universal happens after the Catholic Apocalypse — what the Greek word Katholicós means. Nostradamus’ prophecies imply that the embrace of a larger universal understanding of God and existence transpires sometime after the bones of the great Roman, which is either St. Peter or St. Paul, are found.

Quatrain 66 of Century 6 reads:

Au fondement de la nouuelle secte,
Seront les oz du grand Romain trouués,
Sepulchre en marbre apparoistra couuerte,
Terre trembler en Auril, mal enfouez.

At the founding of a new sect,
The bones of the great Roman will be found,
The sepulcher covered by marble will appear,
The earth trembles in April, badly buried.

In part two of the series (see 666) we followed an interesting lead suggested by “CJ” that the Aquila quake in Italy of April 2009 happened close enough to the discovery of bones purported to be relics of St. Paul to make him that great Roman, not St. Peter. Just a few months later scientific carbon dating proved that the bones hail from the times of St. Paul. The tomb under the altar of the Church of St. Paul just outside the Vatican walls is made of white marble. Pope Benedict XVI announced the discovery of the tomb on 12/6/06 (Twelve is 6 X 6) of the 6th day (666) in 2006 (or, 2 X 6 = 12). The quatrain is 66 of Century 6 (666).

Now, before we get too Aposta-sassy about this surprising number of sleuth-sayer hits, let us see how Nostradamus in another quatrain may give us similar clues that actually match the moldy bones of another “great Roman” besides the Apostle Paul. Century 9 Quatrain 84 reads:

Roy exposé parfaira L’hecatombe,
Apres auoir trouué son origine:
Torrent ouurir de marbre & plomb la tombe
D’vn grand Romain d’enseigne Medusine.

The King exposed will complete the slaughter,
After having found his origin:
A torrent to open the tomb of marble and lead
Of the great Roman with the Medusine device.

The great Nostradamus scholar Edgar Leoni gives us the Latin Medusaeus, for Medusa whose serpent-topped head turned all onlookers to stone. Lee McCann believes it is an anagram Deus in Me the motto of Saint Peter. I would add that the name Peter, or pierre in French, means “stone.” The Medusa that can turn people into stone may be Nostradamus nasty description of the final Pope of the foretold Apocalypse who he infers elsewhere in is prophecies will be named Peter.

The Medieval Irish prophet, St. Malachy, purportedly came to the same conclusion several hundred years before Nostradamus in his famous papal prophecies. In 1138, Malachy purportedly predicted the last pope of the Vatican during the apocalypse would be named Peter. Over the centuries, many believed the average life expectancy of pontiffs, placed the succession of the final pope on his list around, or shortly after, the dawning of the new millennium.

These prophecies were rediscovered around 1595. They hint of 111 successors to St. Peter’s throne from the times of St. Malachy to the end times, each pontiff cryptically described by two-to-three word Latin mottoes. A paragraph plays coda describing the 112th and final pope of Judgment Day.

These fascinating prophecies may have been written a half-a-century “after” Nostradamus’ quatrains by a man hiding his true identity under the nom-de-plume of the famous St. Malachy. Thirty-six popes were foretold in the list unto the Catholic apocalypse beyond 1595. The usual forgery should have fallen flat once hindsight was no longer aiding its phony prophet. Instead, the remaining mottoes’ accuracy beyond the potential forger’s publication is remarkably high. Read more of the complete details here: Last Pope.

There is a reoccurring theme in Catholic eschatology. Nostradamus and other seers predict vast natural disasters and/or wars destined to unearth the tomb of Saint Peter in the ruins of the Vatican after a great flood and fire. Nostradamus in the following quatrain is less vague than 6 Q66 about which great Roman he is intending the apocalypse to uncover. Living closer to the end time might have sharpened his insight.

Nostradamus wrote verse 6 Q66 in 1556. Verse 84 of Century 9 was set down one to two years later. Maybe his second glimpse of the future was clearer than the first. He might have seen the uncovering of St. Paul’s tomb and mistook that sepulcher for the first pope who will be named like the last, Peter. Clearly, the unearthing in the second prophecy alludes to a natural or man-made catastrophe. The quake is not in Aquila in 2009 but toppling the Vatican itself in the near future.

The current Pope Benedict is the second-to-last pope in St. Malachy’s list. He is in his eighties; so a few years hence will come his successor, the Last Pope. There is an unwritten rule. No pope can use the name of the first Pope. Could Nostradamus have confused his “great Romans”? Could the last pope then be named “Paul” — Pope Paul VII?

Time and events will soon answer that question, perhaps before 2015. I have often sensed over the decades that Nostradamus great Roman and Malachy’s Peter the Roman would rule during what I call the Roaring 2020s. This is the decade when unsustainable economic, social and ecological habits of humanity meet a catastrophic reckoning if destiny’s inclination does not change.

John Hogue

(16 May 2010)

I wanted to remind you all of it today as one of the few blogs “not” inundating you with Senator Ted Kennedy memorandums, prophetic or otherwise, as his body is being driven to Boston from Hyannis Port.

(I know the route to Hyannis well. Back in the late 1970s I was part of the Highfield Theater summer stock company in neighboring Falmouth. Some of you might remember seeing me perform in Gilbert and Sullivan operettas Iolanthe (as Lord Mounterrarat), HMS Pinafore (Bill Bobstay, Boatswain’s Mate) and one of the leads in my favorite G-and-S show (can you guess?), playing Sir Marmaduke Pointdextre in The Sorcerer. You might have seen me play French General Birabeau in Desert Song or dance as the drunken notary with a quill stuck in his hair in Offenbach’s La Pericole. You might have watched me change my race on stage from a white cracker racist (Senator Billboard Rawkins) to an afro-dued African American dude with the strike of a lightning bolt whilst standing over a pot of Leprechaun gold in Finian’s Rainbow. Anyway, I made the pilgrimage to the entrance of the Kennedy compound on one of my rare days off from Highfield Theater. I’ve got a lot to say about the death of the last Kennedy brother so many of you down the years thought Nostradamus might have foreseen as the third and final brother to die as president. Blogs are coming.

Today, as I’m trying to clear out my inbox answering letters, in preparation for the tsunami of emails to come from being on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory this Wednesday (2 September 2009), a letter from Marc-Andre written back on 9 January inspired a reply that I want to share with him and all of you.

MARC-ANDRE:
Been really enjoying your bulletin updates , your views on the “victim” dynamic are quite similar to my own, I am sure you have caught a lot of sh*t for stating your “trut.”

HOGUE
Yes, I did. It was expected. I have a new wave of Hamas blogs coming that should stir the sh*t some more, I hope.

MARC-ANDRE:
But that is a good thing…. at least people are “thinking”… there is a lot of intense energy coming our way over the next few years and many of us will be questioning everything we thought we “knew” — your views and bulletins can hopefully serve as a primer for folks (even those you anger) to get them ready, even subconsciously, for the coming “storm.”

HOGUE
That is my intention.

MARC-ANDRE:
You may anger them now, but in hindsight, those that are open to growth, will thank you and others like you who push then to think, question and awaken…. keep up the good work.

HOGUE
I like angry people. They have life. Anyone who can have their apple cart of dogmas and programs upturned is someone who can change.

Osho used to tell a Sufi story. It reverberates in my memory when my inbox explodes with pissed-off browsers after I’ve said something pushing their buttons.

A Sufi mystic had published a book. He told a disciple to bring the book to his mother and father as a gift and watch very closely their reactions and report to him.

The disciple came back that afternoon and said, “My father was enraged. He tore the book from my hands and threw it out the front door into the dirty streets, yelling, ‘This book is written by a heretic against our Islamic traditions and I will send this dog filth where it belongs! You tell your master THAT!’”

“What did you mother do?” Asked his Sufi master.

“Mother tried to calm down father, gently admonishing him. She dispassionately said, ‘Husband, you should have more tolerance for other views and ideas. There is good in all religions. God is in all things. We must be loving.’”

The Sufi pondered this nodding, then told his disciple, “There is no hope for your mother having a religious transformation; however your father…There is every possibility for him.”

The moral of this story, you ask?

This is my understanding of what Osho was trying to tell me and how it relates to my readers of these blogs. Sometimes an angry letter writer is on the verge of shifting into one who will love because anger and love are so deeply intertwined. There is totality in him or her. Look at what happened to St. Paul on the road to Damascus. He was seeking out the arrest and execution of Christians. Then he had his heat stroke moment and became as fierce a lover and messenger of Christ as he had been his fierce enemy. If it weren’t for St. Paul, Christianity would have never spread to the outside world.

Sometimes the people who agree calmly with me and praise my work are just wishy-washy types. That isn’t always the case of course. Still, it is worth meditating on. On the other hand, I am often drawn to answer my angry mailers first because beyond those who are just cuckoo birds or adolescent-minded or just sociopaths enjoying a hit-and-run by email at my expense, more than half the angry people I reply to shift out of anger to understanding. It is quite surprising and unexpected. That’s why I try to answer all the 5,000-plus letters sent every year. I give back what I get as many of you know. I hope you understand that I give back something more than a hit or gratefulness.

Be total, my readers. Wishy-washiness is not going to transform your being. Wishy-washy people will not give birth to a new humanity

John Hogue

(27 August 2009)

Nostradamus predictions about antichrist: