I should write in my intro that no one needs to read these 'super posts' @___@ unless they're truley interested. I'm just putting this stuff down so I can think about it and access it easily. The world's gonna have a lot of 'super posts'/rambling in it ^_____-.
Me rambling:
Apparently Nostradamus was headed for Hell and knew it well [
that rhymes X)]. That sure does suck. In The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, Dante travels through Hell with Virgil 'n such. If Nostradamus haden't lived like two centuries after Dante they would have 'seen' each other in Hell [ring 8 I think *shrugz*], that wouldv'e been an interesting visit.
But back to him heading to Hell. Nostradamus was involved in the occult, he used material objects to aid him in seeing prophecies, unlike those spiritually inspired without the aid of materials.
Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD, and because of these detestable practices the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you. (Deut. 18:10-12)
He burnt the books that he discovered these 'forbidden' techniques. He told his son to never use his father's techniques:
... he indicates how it is possible for the diviner to open the mind to divine inspiration not merely through the use of judicial astrology, but with the ritual aid of lymbe and exigue flamme ... Almost in the same breath, however, he beseeches his infant son never to dabble in such practices for, he says, they desiccate the body, disturb the mind, and send the soul to perdition. For that reason he has reduced to ashes the ancient books in which he first discovered the techniques involved. They burned, he says, with an unnatural brilliance (NE, p. 64).
Got the info that this post was inspired from here if ya wanna know more.
A painting representing Dante's book and Hell.
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