CENTURIA IX · QUATRAIN XCIX
The Russian Winter
Vent Aquilon fera partir le siege,
Par murs jeter cendres, chauls & pousiere,
Par pluie apres qui leur fera bien piege,
Dernier secours encontre leur frontiere.
The wind Aquilon will make the siege be raised,
against the walls casting ash, lime and dust,
afterwards by rain that will prove a good trap for them,
the last relief encountered at their frontier.
THE MASTER SAYS…
Most of this quatrain has already come to pass. It relates to Hitler’s attempt to capture Russia. He advanced as far as he could, but the Russian winter forced him to turn back before he could achieve his goal — to destroy Moscow. The dust, ash, and lime concern the Russians’ scorched-earth policy, when they burned all the grain during their retreat so that the Germans would not get any food. When they reached a more moderate climate, where the winter was not so severe, tanks — he calls them “metal beasts,” but by description these are precisely tanks — and other vehicles broke up the roads, churning up such mud that they got stuck and could not move further. They barely managed to cross the border, returning to their own territory with the pitiful remnants of their troops. Translators say this refers to Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow. They may be right, because Nostradamus said his quatrains have multiple meanings.