Evening star., 1903-11-07
PROPHECY OF 0RvAL
Dire Things That Threaten
Paris in the Near Future.
WITH FIRE AND SWORD
OTHER SEERS WHO. HAVE AC-
CURATELY FoREToLD FUTURE.
All Agree There's to Be Trouble in the
Early Part of This
Century.

Century.
| Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
| PARIS, October 2j 1903
The prophecy of Orval threatens trouble
for the near future. The prophecies of Nos
| tradamus and the Christian Kabbalists, in
| terpreted by ancient and modern commen-
! tators agree in the -eboding, and see a
| momentous train of world events to follow
| on the opening of our century. And two
| Partisan seers of what may be called we'll
| stablished reputation very strangely line
up with these others of old times to pre-
dict dire things for Paris after 1904.
These prophecies affect Parisans. l will
| not say that they receive them with re-
| spect, much less with fear; they joke about
| them; but the very joking has such a queer
note of interest in it that we may call the
| predictions kind of permanent topic of
i the day.
| Men who hear them in the street talk of
| them in the cafe and those who talk of
! them in the cafe take them to the family
| dinner table The fact is that the uncer
| tainty of the French future, in view of the
| present social and political situation, has
| prepared the minds of many to be inf1u-
| enced by such things. Less than hun
| dred years ago all France believed Ill
| prophecy, and century is too short
| a time to change the instincts of a peo
| pie.
If the true test of prophecy be that the
| thing shall happen, then both Orval and
| Nostradamus deserve credit.
| The prophecy of OrVal. which has always
| had great vogue in France, is attr buted to
| Philip Olivarius, Cistercian monk, whose
| manuscript is claimed to be dated 1oi4.
| Philip Olivarius never hesitated to give
| dates, and it has been these dates that have
| given the greatest credit to his prophecy or
| prophecies, they have done, in scercely
| a less degree to those of Nostradamus.
| Throughout the centuries the dates Of
Philip Oiivarius have struck home with re-
markable eNactueSS
| This Cistcrcian monkprophet has but one
| fault, according to the needs of modern
| times. We cannot blame him for it. Being
a creature of his epoch, he is clear in his
illusions to God, pOpes and kings, but lie
seems to have had a presentiment of the
action of the masses only in a confused
and agitated way, so that his vision be-
comes the more obscure the more the pco
pie and their interests force themselves TO
the front.
It Came True.
About the year 1s4S the accuracy with
which Olivarius had foretold the rise and
fall of Louis Philippe became a matter of
general admiration and wonderment. Orval
had set down the event for 1880, as he reg
ularly dealt in decades, not in odd years.
''The Cock shall blot out the White
Flower, the old Latin text of his prophecy
runs
The White Flower was the fieur de lys
the Bourbon lily, until Louis Philippe. the
emblem of the monarchy, everywhere IN
evidence in the decoration of architecture,
furn ture. tapestry, porcelain, in the crown
of the king and on the flag of France
The Cock an old Gaultsh emblem, was
taken up by Louis Philippe and later on
adopted by Napoleon. Today it figures on
the 20-franc goldpieces of the republic; and
it symbolizes. in its way, rather the popu-
lation of France than France itself OF its
governors.
1.-The man shall call himself king of the
people," continued Olivarius: There shall
be commotion among the nations, because
the crown shall be placed in the hand of the
citizens who have waged war in the great
city
All this was tremendously accurate, Louis
Philippe calling himself THE Citizen King
and King of the French" instead of King
of France" and the popular revolution
that afterward drove him out did put the
crown in the hand of the ctizens-because,
| fighting in the great city, they established
the republic of 1S4S.
Orval put down the Franco Phussian war
for 1870, Woe to you, great city 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
during fourteen times six and SIX times
thirteen moons Then God will have tired
of giving mercy. And when the unborn in
FAINT shall attain to mans estate. the vile
man shall feel his power growing with n
him.
The kings armed by the Lord" were
doubtless the kings of the German states.
Paris certainly treated to fire during
the bombardment and the commune. Four
teen times six and six times thirteen moons
makes 1C2 moons, the period of blessing
her finances in order, recovered her place
aAong nations. and which brings US to
1856 QS71-2 plus fourteen years.. and the
rise of Boulangism, anarchy and anti
Semitism, the seeds of the present trou-
bic and uncertainty.
Coming Down to Date.
And now, let the unborn child of 1885
come to mans estate in twenty-one years.
The addition QSS5 plus twenty-one) will
bring us to the year 1905, when the evil
man shall feel his power within him
These are the last clear visions of Phi lip
Olivarius. the Cistercian monk whose dates
from the middle of the sixteenth century to
the middle of the nineteenth have been so
strangely confirmed by events that it is
pity we have not space to relate them. 1t
must be sufficient to give these few last pre-
| dctions. The light begins to blind his eyes.
| Out of his usual habit he set down a mys-
! terious event for the year 1896. In the year
| 1886 there will be much evil and little
good" Concerning the proper interpreta-
| tion of this Dreyfusards and antiDreyfus-
ards do not agree; but Phil p hit the date
for sure.
AS a conclusion, the monk evidently fear
ed greatly for the opening of the twentieth
century, his last date apart from the addi-
| ton of twenty-one years to 1885, being the
| year 1900:
LET everything become separate The
| century of the end has begun. God fights
| for His two just ones: but the man of evil
| prevails 1t is done. The high God erects a
| wall of fire which daZzles my understand
| ing; and 1 more
| In occult circles it Is well known who
| the man Of evil is.
| He is Antemos, alive today. forty-eight
years old. and is already directing, from
| his secret place. the forces which are to
| upset the world few years hence-perhaps
| beginning in 1894.
| The Anti-Christ
| As will be seen, the venerable Holzauzer
| who wrote in 1858, is perfectly clear about