CENTURIA III · QUATRAIN LXXI
The Besieged Islands
Ceux dans les isles de longtemps assiegez,
Prendront vigeur forte contre ennemis:
Ceux par dehors mors de faim profligez,
En plus grand faim que jamais seront mis.
Those in the islands long besieged
will take strong vigor against their enemies:
those outside, dying of hunger, profligate,
will be cast into greater famine than ever.
THE MASTER SAYS…
This quatrain touches on many events. It points to what has already happened in your time. For example, when the Japanese captured various islands in the Pacific Ocean, they starved people in order to get them to support their military plans. But the quatrain also relates to the future, when, due to the shift of the Earth, many territories will become islands. At this time people will be forced to learn to use all available food sources. As a result, many will starve, and many diseases will also appear. Translators say that this refers to the blockade of Britain during World War II and to concentration camps. No. They understood the idea correctly, but they got the place wrong. He shows me a globe in the mirror. He says that few people of his time understand that beyond Europe there are other countries as well. They know places like China and India, but they do not imagine that there are places like, for example, the Philippines, the Pacific basin. They will learn about them as new wonders. Something was written about these new lands, but they are still unfamiliar to the European mind.