Evening star., 1899-03-18

contrary, are given to the public unre-
servedly. and their character is SO remaik-
able that the greatest Skeptics are aston
ished at them The uncertainty of the
French future, in view of the present trou-
bles, has prepared the minds of many to be
influenced by these two strange women. Il
is remembered that the old-time prophecies
Of Nostradamus, OrvaI and the Christian
cabalists agrae with their forebodings of
the century's end. Perhaps" they say,
there may be something in it, after ALL
Prophecies Came True.
If the test of prophecy is that the thing
should happen, then both Orval and Nos
tradamus ought to be venerated. The
Prophecy OF Orval, which has always had
great vogue in France, is attributed to
Philip Olivarius, a Cstercian monk, whose
manuscript Is said to have been dated 1914
The monk never hesitated to give dates
In truth, dates gave the greatest eclat to
his name. they did in a less degree, to
that of Nostradamus. Throughout the CEN
turies his dates have struck home with re-
markable exactness The Cistercian monk
has but one fault. according to the needs
of modern times. He is clear and definite
in all his illusions to Cod popes and kings.
but he seems to have had presentiment of
the action of the masses only in a con-
fused and agitated way, so that his vision
becomes the more obscure the more the
people themselves force their way. About
1913 the accuracy with which he had fore
made matter of general admiration in the
Paris papers. Orval had set down the
events for 1885, he always dealt in de-
cades, not in odd years.
THE cock shall blot out the white flow
er, the Old Latin text reads. 'HThe man
shall call himself king of the people There
shall be great commotion among the ma
tons. because the crown shall be placed in
the hands of workingmen who have waged
war in the great cities"
The CatacIysm of 1900.
Nothing could be more exact than this
prediction of the fall of the Bourbon lilies
the rise of the citizen king, who was not
called king of France" but "Roi des
Francais," and the popular revolution
which drove him out to found a new repub-
lic
1.-THE reign Of evil men will increase"
continues the text, 'but let them hasten
The thoughts of the Gaul and Ceh will
clash together" They have been clashing
ever since.
Orval put the Franco-Prussian war down
Tor 1870. Woe to You, great city, he said,
speaking to France. Behold, the kings
are 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 still blessed you dur
teen moons; then God will tire of having
given mercy
Fourteen times six and six times thirteen
moons makes 1852 moons or fourteen years
This brings us to 1883, and the rise of
Boulangism, French colonial expansion, an
archy and anti-Semitism, the seeds of all
the present troubles.
o,I11d This ds, is the last clear vision Of Philip
OliVarius, the CiStercian monk. The light
begins to blind his eyes. Quite out of his
ordinary habit he sets down a terrible
event for an odd year-1s06. "In the year
1896 Paris will disappear, to reappear no
more Inere Will ba much evil
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 1S39-admits naively. As a conclusion the
monk evidently fears for this fin de siecte a
new cataclysm. His prophecy ends with
The century Of the end has begun God
fights for his two Just ones, but the man
of evil prevails. But 1t is done. The high
God erects wall Of fire which dazzles my
understanding, and see no more"
Known in Occult Circles.
In occult circles 1t is well known who the
evil man is. He is Antemos. alive today
forty-four years old, and already directing
from his secret place, those forces which
shall upset the world few years hence
As will be seen, the venerable HoIzauzer
who wrote in 1858, is perfectly clear about
him. The antichrist of, Christian reyela-
tion, every interpreter of ST. John has fixed
his date, approximately. at the end of rhe
nineteenth century or the beginning of the
twentieth century. Nostra damus an as
trologer pure and simple, with no clair, to
supernatural vision, had a glimpse OF him
The predictions of this Frenchman
Michael Nostradamus, who wrote some
where about 1870, are so well known and
so accessible in libraries that his triumphs
over his own future in our past need no re-
eital Essentially French, he dealt largely
with the fate of his own country. Two
hundred years before the French revolution