CENTURIA IV · QUATRAIN LIV
The Stranger’s Name
Du nom qui onques ne fut au Roy Gaulois,
Jamais ne fut un fouldre si craintif:
Tremblant l'Italie, l'Espaigne & les Anglois,
De femme estrangiers grandement attentif.
Of a name that never was to a Gallic king,
Never was there a lightning-bolt so fearful:
Trembling Italy, Spain, and the English,
Greatly attentive to women of foreign lands.
THE MASTER SAYS…
The frightening lightning strike refers to nuclear weapons. He says that the phrase “bearing a name that the French kings never had” refers to an underground leader who will rise to the position of leader of France in times of unrest. Since one of his ancestors comes from another country, his name is not like that of most Frenchmen, i.e., it is not a French name. Therefore he said: “Which the French kings never had.” And he says that the phrase “he will be extremely attentive to foreign women” means that when he deals with leaders and people from other countries, he wishes to listen to their point of view if they express it gently, and not impose it. He says that this is one of those quatrains that describe the situation in times of unrest. Translators think he is describing Napoleon. No, this is not Napoleon. This is Ogmios. Ogmios comes from eastern Europe. His name will sound strange to French ears.