CENTURIA II · QUATRAIN LIII — READING A
The Plague Fires
La grande peste de cite maritime,
Ne cessera que mort ne soit vengee
Du juste sang par pris damne sans crime,
De la grand dame par feincte n'outragee.
The great plague of the maritime city
will not cease until death be avenged
of the just blood, condemned for a price without crime,
of the great lady outraged by feint.
THE MASTER SAYS…
He says that this quatrain encodes two different events. The first has long remained in the past for you, when London was gripped by an epidemic of bubonic plague. The second event also relates to the greatest epidemic of our civilization. You call it AIDS. First it will engulf New York City, and then the epidemic, like a forest fire, will engulf the vast majority of the population of your country. To the question about the unjustly condemned man, Nostradamus apologizes and wishes to avoid a direct answer. He says that in time you yourselves will understand who is meant. By the time the AIDS epidemic spreads, there will be no effective medicine capable of suppressing the development of this disease, because it can only be discovered naturally, that is, at the cost of an enormous number of deaths.