CENTURIA VII · QUATRAIN XXIV
The Poisoned Caviar
Lu2019enseveli sortira du tombeau,
Fera de chaines lier le fort du pont:
Empoisonne avec oeufs de Barbeau,
Grand de par Lorraine le Marquis du Pont.
The buried one will come out of the tomb,
he will have the fort of the bridge bound with chains:
poisoned with the eggs of the barbel,
great through Lorraine, the Marquis of the Bridge.
THE MASTER SAYS…
Brenda said: “He says that this verse relates to World War II. ‘The one who was buried and comes out of the tomb’ symbolizes Germany’s restoration of its status as a world power, even if only temporary. And ‘poisoned with the caviar of the barbel’ symbolizes its catastrophic attempt to wage war on two fronts and its attempt to seize Russia. He says that he used this symbolism because both in his time and in yours, one of the main things Russia is famous for is caviar, that is, sturgeon caviar. He says that it is a similar species of fish. He rather suggests that in your time there was a word in French for sturgeon. But in his time there were not enough contacts to form a word for precisely this fish, so he took the word for a fish that looked similar to it. According to the encyclopedia, barbel caviar is poisonous and causes vomiting and diarrhea. Comparing edible sturgeon caviar with poisonous barbel caviar can be an excellent symbolic comparison when it comes to the Nazis’ attempts to seize Russia. The symbolism lies in the fact that Russia would be poisonous to the Nazis if they tried to ‘eat it,’ so to speak. If they tried to do so, they would be vomited out or expelled from Russian land. He says that this symbolizes Hitler’s violation of peace treaties and the like, and that he got away with it. The various countries around him were strong, but he bound them in chains, because he acted so boldly that they did not know how to react. And he says that the last line symbolizes the salvation of Europe by the Allies through France. That is true. He says that he wrote quite a few quatrains dedicated to the two world wars, since they became important turning points in history. And the main turning points in history are especially easy to see in his magic mirror. He said that wars created a very strong connection in time. And both of them, especially World War I, radically changed the Earth, so that it would never be the same again. Because, according to him, destruction and violence on such a world scale had never before occurred in history.”