CENTURIA IV · QUATRAIN XXIII
The Burning Harbor
La legion dans la marine classe, Calcine,
Magnes, souphre, & poix bruslera:
Le long repos de l'asseuree phce,
Port Selyn, Hercle feu les consumera.
The legion in the marine fleet, calched
magnesia, sulfur, and pitch will burn:
the long rest of the assured truce,
Port Selyn, Hercle fire will consume them.
THE MASTER SAYS…
This quatrain relates to Asia. He points to Asia on his map. Here a maritime accident is described that will occur on an island. John had difficulty pronouncing the name. He made several attempts, until he settled on Macao. He shows me an English ship. It will explode in their harbor, which will cause great damage to the city. Is the list of chemicals he lists in the quatrain connected with this? Yes. These chemicals will be on the ship and will cause the explosion. An accident will occur that will cause a fire, as a result of which the city of Macao will also burn. It seems an error crept into the name, since I clearly read the word “Monaco” in the quatrain. Monaco is located on the Mediterranean coast, far from Macao, which is near Hong Kong. This sounded contradictory, and I thought that at last we had encountered something that could immediately provoke criticism from skeptics. But on closer examination it turned out that it was the translators who read the name this way — “Monaco.” In the original text there is the word “Hercle,” which was translated as the Latin name “Herculeis Monacei,” another name for Monaco. And this is Cheetham’s personal interpretation. In other works devoted to Nostradamus’s quatrains, the word “Hercle” is absent. If John had been influenced by what I was pronouncing, he would most likely have connected it with Monaco, not Macao. This is undoubted confirmation that John did not reason much, but simply reported what Nostradamus showed him in the magic mirror. Will there be human casualties? Yes, many people will die. This will happen quite soon, in the early 1990s. Translators thought that this might be connected with “Greek fire,” if he knows what that is. Yes. He did it earlier. Did it earlier? They believe that this is exactly what he means. No! He says that it has existed for centuries. The Greeks and Romans used it on their war galleys. The Venetians were known for always using it when conquering new lands for trade. They thought that he might have given the recipe for “Greek fire” here. He says: “What? Anyone who has even some knowledge knows this recipe.”