CENTURIA IX · QUATRAIN LIII
The Three Chimneys
Le Neron jeune dans les trois cheminees
Fera de paiges vifs pour ardoir getter:
Hereux qui loing sera de telz menees,
Trois de son sang le feront mort guetter.
The young Nero at the three chimneys
will have living pages cast into the burning:
happy the one who is far from such doings,
three of his blood will make death lie in wait.
THE MASTER SAYS…
Brenda said: “He says that in the quatrain Hitler is called the young Nero, and the three chimneys are a reference to the death camps. Hitler never went near the death camps, but he was very pleased with their work. He says that this refers to the Jews and people who were in the death camps. He says that each person’s life can be viewed as a book in the process of being written. Each person’s life contains enormous potential, like an unread book. And all this potential was thrown away, thrown into the fire, so to speak. He says that this refers to the factions within Germany that tried to overthrow his power.”