The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-19

Francois" and the popular revolution
which drove him out, to found q new re-
public.
continues the text, "but let them hasten.
The thoughts of the Gaulish Celt Will
clash together"
They have been clashing ever since,
Orval put the Franco-Prussian war
down for 1870. ''Woe to you, great CITY
he said, speaking to France. Behold the
kings armed by the Lord! Already the
fire brings you to the earth. Yet the just
shall not perish. God has listened TO
them. The place Of crime is purified by
fire. God loves peace. He has stu piesseo
YOU during fourteen times SIX anu SIX
times thirteen moons. Then Goo VIII 'ire
of having given mercy.
Fourteen times six and six times tnlf-
teen moons makes seventy-eight moons
or fourteen years. This brings us to 1851
and the rise of Boulangism, French col
onial expansion, anarchy and anti-Sem-
itism. the seeds OF all the present trou-
bles
This is the last clear vision OF Pnhip
Olivarius, the Cistercian monk. Inc ngnI
begins to blind his eyes. Quite out OF ms
ordinary habit. he sets down terrlnle
event for an odd year, 1896. In the year
1896 Paris will disappear. to reappear no
more There will be much evil ana no
good" For the events to follow the text
almost finished. is composed OF obscure
phrases each of which would need pro-
found study. as his latest commentator
in 1920 admits naively. AS conclusion
the monk evidently fears for this mn oe
steele a new cataclysm like that WHICH
was. enormously, foretold for the year
1000 His prophecy ends with 1883 he
everything become separate the century ~.
of the end has begun. God fights LOT MS
two Just ones, but the man OF eVh pr
walls But it is done. The high zoo
erects a wall of fire which dazzles my uh-
Outstanding, and see no more.
In occult circles it is well known Whom
the evil man is. He is AntemoS' dhNe "
dav. "A years old, and already olrectlis,
from his secret place, those FORCES "hioIi
shall unset the world few years hence
AS will be seen, the venerable holzauHei,
who wrote in 1858, is perfectly clear apou1
him. The antichrist of Christian reFela-
ton, every interpreter OIL 81. ooL,n na S
fixed his date, approximately at the en-
Of tha nineteenth or the beginning OF INC
twentieth century Nostradamus, an as
troIoeer pure and simple, with no claim 10
supernatural vision, had glimpse Oh hini'
The predictions of this Frenchman'
Michael Nostradamus, VINO wrote soiho
where about 1870, are so well known anu
so accessible in libraries that his triumphs
oT,er his own future in our past need no
recital Essentially French, he oeaiI
largely with the fate of his own country.
Two hundred years before the frehch
revolution he told that great upheaVal 10
the very date. For 1892 he wrote;
beginning in this year there VIII De
the greatest persecution of the Christan
church. Mobiles and Bishops shall be de-
stroved The fair land of France SHAH
he desolated by fire and sword. THESE
uuhappinesses will cause renewal OIL tne
world. which is to last a hundred years.
At the expiration of this hundred years
the troubles are to recommence' me
land will be torn apart. Brother shaii
strive against brother. A great ana evll
genius rises, who snail coIllehu win '"'
stars themselves"
The occultists of Paris have what they
consider a perfect answer TO the obJec-
ton of yagueness in the ancient prophets
and astrologists. They say, hrst, that
the predictions are not vague because the
dates are given. The old seers peheld
the future in broad lines III you want
orophecies with clearer details, dealing
more infinitely with the present times,
Won have but to consult the utterances or
Mile Couedon. Every one Will remember
the first excitement over the voyante OF
the Rue Paradis in 1896, when she was
consulted by. personages as diverse as
Charcot, lola Felix Faure and the Arch
bishop of Paris. Being chosen, according
to her firm conviction, TO warn her con-
temporares of great events prepared for
fte near future, she has never ceased to
prophesy. Her foretelling of the fire OF
the charity bazaar is admittedly inexpli-
cable on rational grounds; while her pre-
diction of the death of Felix Faure and
the voting of the retroactive law which
is to remove the Dreyfus case from the
jurisdiction of the Criminal Chamber are
circumstantial enough to satisfy the most
eXacting.
1t was in May, 1895, during visit OF the
Comtesse de Maille and several other
fashionable ladies, that Mile Couedon fell
into a trance and repeated the following
verses
Near to the Champs Elysees,
/ see a place that is not high,
That is not for piety,
But approached for charity
Which is not the verify.
I see the fire lift itself;
/ hear the people screaming.
/ see flesh grilled
And bodies calcined-
l see them by shovelfuis.'
In+errogated by the ladies, she declared
that none of them should perish In the
fire. This turned out as true as the SIMS
tor prediction itself, for in May, 1s97-a
,aor later-on the date of the catastrophe
t,yo of these ladies were travelling, Wnile
tho Comtesse de Maille made miraculous
ascane from the burning shed ltseli.
The prophecies of Mile. Coueoon are
given to the world in doggerei verse Oh
such monotonous character mat no Vio-
lanca "a done to it in a simple prose trans
,atio, Her rhymes almost invariably
80 IN ..e.' or Ter" the commonest French
4arnoination. which may be compared to
.1ng', in English. 1t is as If a poet should
rit