The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-06-16
WAR PREDICTED
300 YEARS AGO
WEIRD OLD DOCUMENT UN-
EARTHED WHICH DES-
CRIBES WORLD WAR

In a publication called Omens of
the Great War the following re-
markable allegory. written by
Brother Johannes 800 years ago,
appears. In deciphering the allie
CORY it must be remembered that
France is represented by a cock,
England by a leopard. Russia by a
white eagle, Germany by a black
eagle, and Austria by the 'other
eagle" while the lamb stands for
Justice, mercy and truth.
Toward the year 1000 the Anti
Christ will manifest himself. His
army will surpass in numbers all
hat can be imagined.
There will be Christians among
the legions and there will be Mo
hamedians and savage soldiers
among the defenders of the lamb.
/ For the first time the lamb will
be all red. There will not be a
single spot in the Christian world
that will not be red. and red will
be the heavens, the earth. the
waters, and even the air for blood
will flow in the domains of the
four elements at once.
The black eagle will throw him
self on the cock, who will lose
many feathers, but will strike back
heroically with his spurs. He soon
would BIZ crushed were it not for
the help Of the leopard and his
claws.
THE black eagle will come from
the country of Luther, will surprise
the cock from another side, and
will invade the country of the cock
up to the middle of it.
THE white eagle coming from
the north, will surprise the black
eagle and the ''other eagle" and
will invade the country of the
Antichrist from one end to the
other.
THE black eagle will see him
self forced to liberate the cock in
order to fight the white eagle, and
the cock will pursue the black
eagle into the country of the Anti
christ to help the white eagle.
THE battles fought up to then
will be as nothing compared to
those which will take place in the
country of Luther, for the sever
angels will together pour in the
fire of their censors on the i'm
pious earth, which signifies the
lamb will order the determination
of the race of A%ntichrist.
"When the beast sees thai he is
lost he will become furious. and
for many months the beak of the
wife eagle, the claws of the leo
pard and the spurs of h cock Will
%furiously strike at him.
"They will cross rivers over the
bodies of the slain, and these. in
places, will change the course OF
the waters. They will bury on the
men of noble families, the leading
commandments and the princes, be-
cause to the arnag made by the
armies will be joined the wholesale
death of those who will die of nun
ger or the pest.
'"The Antichrist will ask many
times for peace, but the seven
angels who walk in front OF the
three animals defending the lamb
have declared that victory will only
be granted on the condition that
the Antichrist be crushed like straw
on the barn floor.
''The executors of the justice OF
the lamb cannot stop fighting as
long as the Antichrist possesses
soldiers to fight against them.
THAT which makes the decree o.!
the lamb so implacable is that Anti
christ has pretended to be a fol-
lower of Christ and to act in His
Name, and if he does not perish
the fruit of the Redeemer would be
lost and the doors of Hades would
prevail against the Savior.
1.-THE fight which will take place
where the Antichrist FORCES his
arms. will not be in any way a
human fight.
(This may have reference to Es-
sen, where the Krupp works are.
and many authorities believe that
the decisive battle may take place
in Westphalia).
''The three animals defending the
lamb will exterminate the last army
OF the Antichrist, but they will be
forced to erect on the battlefield
a pyre as large as a city, for the
bodies of the dead will change the
aspect of the countryside, as there
will be mounds of the slain.
THE Antichrist will lose his
crown and will die in solitude and
madness. His empire will be di-
vided into twenty-five states, u
none of them will n longer pos
sess fortresses. armies or vessels.
Cautiously enough this lumber
comedies with the number of Ger
man states).
"Tha white eagle by the order