CENTURIA I · QUATRAIN XLVIII
The Sun’s Farewell
Vingt ans du regne de la lune passez,
Sept mil ans autre tiendra sa monarchie:
Quand le soleil prendra ses jours lassez,
Lors accomplit & mine ma prophetie.
Twenty years of the reign of the moon passed,
seven thousand years another will hold his monarchy:
when the Sun takes up its weary days,
then shall my prophecy be accomplished & ended.
THE MASTER SAYS…
Nostradamus says that he wrote this quatrain in response to a question asked by one of his contemporaries, namely: “You have already written so many prophecies, and you are still writing them. How long will this continue? In other words, how far can you look into the future?” In response to this question, the above quatrain was written, in which Nostradamus indicated that the boundaries of his prophecies are practically unlimited in time and can extend into infinity. In any case, in a transcendental state he was able to observe even events lying far beyond the last phase of the existence of our planet and the Solar System itself. No, by the time of the described events, the Earth and the Sun will have long ceased to exist, they will simply cease to exist, because in one of his visions connected with a very distant future, he had to observe the “farewell” release of energy by the Sun. It will be a colossal explosion, after which a cosmic vacuum will form in the place where our star was. As a result of the release of energy during such a monstrous explosion, the Earth will literally be incinerated and cease to exist as an astronomical object. Nostradamus tries to reassure you that the indicated events belong to such a distant future that there is no need to worry about it now. Both figures in the quatrain are conditional and intended to “cloud the brains” of the meticulous Inquisition. In fact, it speaks of the Moon, where in the future the center of science, communication, and space research will be located. The main task of the lunar center will be the sectional construction of blocks for huge orbital stations capable of accommodating thousands of people and functioning exclusively in autonomous mode. The period of seven thousand years characterizes the last, most prosperous and longest period of successful development of earthly civilization, when people will finally be able to taste all the fruits of a prosperous life. Nostradamus does not call them anything at all. He simply describes them. They are of different shapes: some are cylindrical, others conical, others spherical. All of them have huge appendages resembling solar batteries, protruding far beyond the station and obviously performing the functions of energy accumulators. After this, the next stage in the development of science and technology at the lunar base will be the construction of super-powerful and super-capacious space stations capable of effectively moving and stopping at any point in near space for an indefinite period of time. This will make it possible to “unload the Moon” and shift the center of gravity of scientific research to long-term giant space stations. This delightful period in the development of earthly civilization, as Nostradamus says, may last seven, or possibly more, thousand years. Nostradamus says in amazement that there is a rational grain in these reasonings, but he prefers to use a more reliable method. After these words, a vision of the “Magic Mirror” induced by Nostradamus arises in my head.