{Prophecy}[21st June 1971]

[Redbook1:208-210][19710621]{Prophecy}[21st June 1971]

Monday 21st June 1971

            I suppose prophecy is comforting and attractive because it offers an apparent certainty in an uncertain world.

            One has to be very careful not to be taken in by likely generalisations.

            Prophecies of Nostradamus on World Events: the commentary is awful, although there is much research behind it (or there seems to be).  It is interesting to compare the editor’s application of Nostradamus to the editor’s near future (our recent past) -- how wrong the editor was: how dangerous is interpretation.  Nevertheless some of Nostradamus's prophecies correspond too closely to our history to be easily explicable; some of his prophecies for the end of this century are fascinating.  What on earth do they mean?  He is singularly unhelpful in enabling us to see the future, however right he may be.  I should like to see what the editor left out, of Nostradamus's prophecies.

            I should also like to see Jean Dixon's new book.  If she is honest, there is no doubt about her ability: perhaps because she is more recent, her prophecies appear clearer.  But we are only now beginning to hear about her prophecies of things which have not yet happened.  Her prophecies concerning the end of the century appear superficially similar to Nostradamus's.  Has she read him?

            I pat myself on the back for a minor (and very easy) prophecy (something that was already happening, although I didn't know it then): that as 2,000 a.d. approached we would see a repeat of the speculation which occurred as 1,000 a.d. approached, when the millennium [sic – end of the world?] was widely expected.  That is deduction -- but at what level?

           

            Seriously, already we see the reaction against technology and science which may bring the other side of Man's nature to the fore again.

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