CENTURIA III · QUATRAIN XIII
The Two Captives
Par foudre en l'arche or & argent fondu,
De deux captifs l'un l'autre mangera:
De la cite le plus grand estendu,
Quand submergee la classe nagera.
By lightning in the ark gold and silver melted,
of two captives one the other will eat:
of the city the greatest one stretched out,
when submerged the fleet will swim.
THE MASTER SAYS…
Nostradamus says that this quatrain is connected with a number of inventions of your civilization that you will call “modern.” All of them, sadly, will be applied in the military industry. The first part of this quatrain encodes the invention of the electric light bulb and the technique of chrome-plating metal products. The second part describes the introduction of a “fleet” of integrated circuits in the field of microelectronics, allowing important communication points to be spread out, “stretched” in space without disrupting the quality of communication. The two captives are a description of the discovery by scientists of two important types of energy that can be balanced only in the case of their mutual annihilation. The experiments of alchemists, along with the activities of astrologers, contributed to the development of chemistry, physics, and astronomy, which ultimately formed the modern stereotype of your science. Nostradamus prefers that this part of the quatrain be deciphered without his help, especially since you have already received a hint for the correct decoding. He spent so much time and psychic energy on encoding all the quatrains that what you have to do does not compare with the work he has done. Based on these considerations, he does not wish to reveal all his secrets to anyone.