Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-12-19
PROPHECIES THAT CAME TRUE.
Faculty of ForetelIing History Said
to be a Scientific Fact.


to be a Scientific Fact.
DR.. Max Kemmerich, who Is IA
nous Munich scholar and scientist, has
written a remarkable book entitled
Prophecies" in which he proves that
the faculty of foreseeing and foretell-
ing history is an indubitable scientific
fact, subject to convincing demonstra-
ton.
Kemmerich is not a Spiritualist or
mystic. He is skeptical, hard-headed
savant, and his last preceding book,
"Curiosities of Culture" even betrays
a certain irreverence. Moreover, even
about prophecy he is not credulous.
He admits that many traditional
prophecies were frauds, because they
were really made after and not before
the event But he reminds us that
thinkers as different as Plato, Cicero,
ST. Augustine, and in modern times
Kant and Schopenhauer all believed in
prophecy. We know absolutely moth
ing of the metaphysical relations of
the human mind to time and space;
how then, when we admit memory, can
we deny prophecy as impossible? All
we can do is declare it improved II
there is no proof. But, says Kemmer-
lch, there is overwhelming proof, and
of such proof his book contains 400
pages.
Kemmerich accepts, quite independ-
entity of religious dogmatism, the Bible
prophecies as historical. facts. The
prophecy that the Jews would survive
in history is one of the most remark
able, in view Of the fact that much
greater races than the Jews, like the
Babylonians, perished utterly. The
first of the prophets, Amos, who lived
500 B. c., was convinced Of the persist
ence of the Hebrew race; and, now,
nearly 5000 years later, he still Is right.
Micah prophesied the destruction of
Jerusalem a hundred years before
hand; and he also foresaw that Baby
lonia would be the Jews land of exile.
jeremiah so confidently foresaw that
Jerusalem would be rebuilt that he
bought a plot Of land during what
seemed the hopeless time of the siege
by Nebuchadnezzar. The return from
exile, the destruction of Babylon and
many other historic events were fore
told by Old Testament prophets.
DR.. Kemmerich finds it significant
that the Delphic oracles kept their
reputation for 1000 years, and that the
Egyptian oracles lasted several thou
sand years. The murder Of Julius Cae-
sar was foreseen by men who had no
concern with the plot. The Middle
Ages are full of authenticated prophe-
cies, often coming in the shape of Wis
ions. The Kaiser Friedrich III. dream
ed that he was being crowned by the
simple, obscure Bishop Parentucelli.
The dream surprised him. But later
Parentucelli became Pope Nicholas ",
and it was from his hands that Fried
erich received the imperial crown.
DR.. Kemmerich holds that only GER
tain rare individuals can prophesy.
The gift is not necessarily bound up
with great brains. Many prophets
have been simple men. Kepler and
Melancthon, on the other hand, blum
dered badly in certain auguries, but
Kepler redeemed his name as prophet
by inserting in his almanac the six
Ms" meaning M(agnus), M(onarcha),
M(atthias), M(ense), M(artis), M(ori-
teur), that Is, prediction that Kaiser
Matthias would die in March Of that
year. In March he duly died. Another
great astronomer, Tycho Brahe, pre-
dicted the advent and death of Gusta-
vus Adolphus.
The murder Of Henri w. of France
by Ravaillac was predicted in the most
categorical way. Joachim Greulich de-
scribed in advance the siege of Vienna
by the Turks under Kara Mustapha
and likewise the expulsion of the
French Bourbons. The latter predic-
ton was made in the reign of Louis
XIV, when the Bourbons were at the
height of their power and security. Ir
1900 the Able Lenin predicted the
greatness of the house of Brandenburg
and even declared that it's chief woult
unite Germany and become kaiser. A:
the oldest manuscript record of this