Prognosis of the next 24 years - Prognosis auff 24 Jar zukünftig
Prognosis of the next 24 years - Prognosis auff 24 Jar zukünftig
Paracelsus
Augsburg (Germany)
Before Saying
This book of prophecies, composed of 32 articles, spans a period of 24 years according to the author.
Paracelsi … Opera: Bücher und Schrifften , 1603
The Prognosticatio based on the Keys of the Tarot and on the binary of Pythagoras, includes 32 beautiful prophetic engravings, of which the Future and mainly the French Revolution were responsible for bringing out the astonishing prescience… Eliphas Lévi who possessed an admirable library of occultism was never able to obtain the Prognosticatio
For anyone who thinks of describing the actions of the stars above us, one question cannot fail to arise: if we who live on earth cannot see well what lies at our feet, if we often stumble and stumble, is it not still more difficult for us to find our way in the sky? We will briefly answer that where the eyes are of no use, the feet are of even less use to us.
We must therefore adhere to this doctrine: God wants us to have experience of all his works, to penetrate the secrets of nature and for nothing of this to remain foreign to us. This is why these magnificent sciences have been revealed to man in a completely miraculous way, and which he could not have appropriated, even at the cost of a thousand labors.
This is how God made us, and it is up to him to teach us, since man could not achieve this on his own. For example, is it possible to conceive that the characters of writing were invented outside of divine intuition? God judged it good that they should be, so he gave the faculty to man.
Therefore God created his marvelous works so that man might become acquainted with them; he also founded a school where we can study what is not accessible to the sight and understanding of anyone. The fisherman catches fish a hundred fathoms under the waters that he has never seen; the miner brings back to the day gold extracted several hundred fathoms under the earth, where his eye cannot reach. And it is God who has taught us all this.
Now since there is nothing so mysterious that it cannot be discovered, it is a question of bringing it to light, whether in the firmament of heaven, in the sea, or on earth. All things must be disclosed here below, but through the intermediary of the man who discovers all things. Who then will designate the first master and point him out if he is not descended from Adam? But God uses the creature to act, it is to him that he leaves the care of manifesting what is in him, and he teaches him how.
While describing the march of the universe as it will be accomplished during these twenty-four years, it is rather sad to note this: Man has become so greedy for gain, he has so deceived himself, that it is impossible that his days should not be shortened. Man has forgotten the Lord his God, he no longer even lives according to the principles of the latter: this is the reason which obliges us to scrutinize the mystery attached to the signs of the sun, the moon and the stars, to consider also the misery of the peoples on earth, where no one tolerates any more that another has his place in the sun. There is only one number in which we should live here below: unity; we should not know how to count beyond one. The divinity contains the number three, but to bring it back to one; we humans, we must do as God, transform ourselves into unity. We must here below submit ourselves in the same way to unity, be in unity. Rest exists only in one and in no other number, all that is plurality is disquiet: dissension is always the fact of one rising up against the other. We are like the calculator, when he adds a number to know how much the total makes. This is our misery and our gnawing worm.
What joy and happiness to live in unity! Heaven also has its harmonious course in this number, the earth all things. As soon as it is no longer thus, signs appear in the sun, the moon, the stars, which testify in its favor. But the end is not yet here, although it is announced by the signs: the great pity is only just beginning. Happy is he who does not sit on the seat of pestilence and who does not live in sin! All will be visited. Each must recognize in all conscience that whoever rises up against God can neither subsist nor maintain himself. It is hard to fight against him: no one can overcome him. Therefore it is great folly for man to rise up against what it is not given to him to overcome.
Now there are 32 articles which cannot fail to be verified in time and which are reported here in all humility, however unworthy the one who reports them. Like a serpent they fold themselves up, until the end comes. But who then will regret to see himself freed from all this presumption and all these vanities? Who will not rejoice in seeing that unity is reestablished, that there is only one pastor, only one dwelling place: unity. Then the precious balm will flow into Aaron's beard, the blessing will descend from above, and it will emanate from God.
If there were no tears in heaven when Lucifer was cast into the abysses of hell, why should we be hurt to see pride, its fellow man, cast down so that unity alone reigns henceforth? For a long time now an upheaval in the world has been predicted. But the signs today are there to announce it; they are only the beginning, the operation will continue, they will not stop there, the time has come ( Tempora nationum ) for their accomplishment. For justice cannot be diverted from its goal, it demands to be satisfied, and will be.
I do not know who are those who put their trust in God: of those alone the prognostication will pass unnoticed; the others will recognize it better than I and will know better than I who it concerns: this is what Kabalistic, the origin and mother of Astronomy, wants. But so mysterious is the course of things that we do not see them until they have happened. And this is, it must be recognized, because God often does not want us to convert and escape the punishment reserved for us. Also our eyes see things without seeing them. No one, likewise, must inspire suspicion in anyone: we must simply let things be accomplished. I will not deny what others have done, because many are the symptoms announcing that this monarchy is going to dissolve.
The inside of a thing, on the outside, is translated by its signs. Nature has its signs and magic its own. You have therefore been marked to be the devourer of whoever has dealings with you. Happy is he who has not been defiled by you, for you spare no one who approaches you! Magic has taken you into consideration and has endowed you with your rights. But since people are more attentive to beauty than to signs, you devour what falls under your control. Therefore it is your beauty, not piety, that people seek in you.
A flower grows as high as it is given to grow. He who encourages its growth and allows it to blossom has also destined it to wither. It will be the same for you. Magic has adorned you with its gifts so that you may be known. As you have arisen, you will be reduced to nothing. For before you and before you were, magic knew you, and that is why it compared you to a flower that, beautiful today, will be dried up tomorrow. By wisdom and the fear of God you would have maintained yourself, but you did not know how to see it, your own wisdom has caused your downfall.
You were enjoying a delicious rest, but you did not know how to recognize it and you let yourself be won over by agitation. Your presumption has overthrown you, it has divided you: you can no longer boast of what made you glorious. So you will be humiliated and will take up the old man again. You could very well have come to the aid of the world, been useful to it, corrected yourself and others, but you were lost by that which caused the reprobation and annihilation of Adam and your first ancestors. However you will come to repentance. But no one will be grateful to you for it.
You have divided duty into right and left, as if you were not to be bothered by either party; both will press you with their embrace and hatred will overflow upon you. A whore makes love only in divisions: a time is granted to her for that. But woe to her: her shame will burst forth into the light and it will be proven that there is no love without pain. However great you esteem yourself and however high your head rises, another head will be imposed upon you: you will be reduced to the role of a simple member even though you are not accustomed to it. You will be forced to swallow and eat the things you have not assimilated.
You have not had the wisdom that your crown required, but have instead rebelled violently against the crown. You have done much harm. A stone will fall upon you and crush you without mercy, for you have unjustly shed innocent blood and have not recognized what you should have recognized, namely that you were the prerogative of a crown. He whom you have despised will pursue you evening and morning, before you have counted to three. You will find no safe shelter with those who are your allies, for they themselves must succumb.
Your taste is too strong, it is neither wholesome nor pleasing to all, and therefore your enemies, those to whom you are harmful, envelop you in mist and shadow so that you become temperate, and that no fruit may be born from you, contrary to what you hoped. And then you will yield to someone you do not know. In the beginning you were full of valour, you behaved with the grandeur of a hero, but this attitude separated you from your companions and it is not to that which is separated that the best part goes. However you will win praise and victory, since you have recognized yourself.
You have never ceased to obey your own will, and this is what has predestined you to be surrounded by many misfortunes. For you have not seen yourself in the stone where magic has prefigured you with this thinness. You have not recognized yourself there, this is why you will incur the punishment that has broken all the proud. If you had, as much as you believe, spirit and intelligence, you would have avoided the catastrophe, you would have seen yourself in the mirror of another more proud than you. But no, so your wisdom is only foolishness in time.
Who then knows for whom the sun shines, or to whom will be given what man is unable to take for himself? All is in the hands of God, who dispenses it wisely. It follows that man seeks in vain to resist. The hour has come that will mark your end, and, unheard of, your strength, your alliances, your power, all that you had amassed in yourself will be thrown to the ground. And deceiving yourself, you will deceive others and will be an object of pity for yourself.
Although God has made you to be feared and dreaded by everyone, nevertheless a term has been assigned to you: on the appointed day you will break your back and will not even be able to drag yourself along. And men will be astonished and say: Who would have thought that he would be so well tamed? Would you not have done better to keep your measure and not to imagine that you are what we now have before our eyes? Think of your end: here you are paralyzed, thrown, to the point of making you and yours howl with pain.
Your garment, which is not bridal, thus reveals your heart and has made you known. Like gold and silver, you must be purified from your defilements and put to the test more than seven times, with a stricter severity than fire purifies gold and silver from their dross. Meditate on what you were at the beginning. Your neighbor has been only too favorable to you, his hands, more than you deserved, have stretched out to you. You will be asked to account for it. Your uncertain wealth belongs to another.
Although the sun has once shone for you, and you have smeared your face and filled your belly with the honey you used to savor, as you did not have the wisdom to consider the end and forgot winter, its coming will rob you of your pleasures and force you one day to suck your claws. Because you are of the bear kind and have no more reason than they. Magic has taken you in its lakes, so that you may be recognized as such… If you had had the wit of a man, winter would not have fallen upon you unexpectedly.
Such a one sits firmly, though every seat must one day collapse, such another sits above him and you yourself on top, but that is not your place and you should be below, not above. You will therefore be driven out from there, since you are a nuisance, an intolerable burden, and that is also why SP will fall. The throne you occupy is your payment, the reward of your intrigues, and with it those temporal honors, those pompous praises and all the accumulated riches you enjoy. Like these perishable things, you too will disappear.
Excess of kindness causes many inconveniences. This one has only contempt for kindness, and his stupidity incites him to great blows, but which always fall short. It will be with him like grass when the time has come: the master disposes of it and it is mown down. If, more circumspect, you had considered the end, you would have seen your misery and would have recognized yourself. But no, you wanted it thus. And such is the reward, the end that you sought. Your wisdom, you will turn it into derision.
Too much generosity embarrasses us and harms us, because it is a bad counselor and one will be wounded by one's own weapons. Pride has come to you for having given without measure, but this pride has only a time. It will go so far and no further, enough for everything to be squandered and for you to have nothing left. If you had duly considered that no one should rise up against the poor, you would have allowed your freedom to assert itself in the face of your neighbor. But your own heart has led you astray. And your wisdom evidently passes for foolishness.
There is nothing so good that it cannot become bad when one occupies a high rank. A high position is a source of pride, which brings nothing good. A head will therefore impose itself on you so that you can serve as its member and let yourself be dominated while carrying it, and with it other members. Even if it were more imperious, you would only have more docility. It will come at a time when you did not expect it and will ruin your great designs. But the union will take place for you, as in sleep.
The child goes to school and learns. When he reaches the age of man, he blushes at his youthful works and considers them as nothing. It will be the same with you: what you write at this age will not be your work and will become for you an occasion to regret the time lost, because as we grow older we learn to know ourselves and to see that everything that seemed to us a pearl is far from being a pearl. And that is why a hand will fall upon you, which will lacerate you like a rough draft.
He who builds a house must take care that the enemy does not come and tear it down. He who tears it down must take care that, when it is torn down, it is not rebuilt, in order to avoid the ridicule of both follies. To rebuild what has been destroyed is what the children of men do when they neglect to consider the end. They raise up, they decorate, they clean up, and they forget everything that is subject to destruction and which, when raised up, will again collapse, especially since they did not set it on rock, but on sand.
An eagle will not come out of you; therefore, a wind will be unleashed that will overwhelm you and your offspring. Everything seems to be going well, of itself, and you say to yourself: O my soul, you have everything you taste and desire, which cannot fail to be yours. This is truly paradise, - and you think that nothing untoward can happen. At the height of your deliberations and rejoicings, the deluge will overwhelm you, and the harsh noon wind will sweep you like ashes from the face of the earth. For we were not born for pleasure and opulence, but for the valley of tears and sorrows, and you have forgotten it.
You jump and caper in your garden and do not fail to find pleasure in it. But because you disregard wisdom, that you follow only your whim and badly regulate your good, you cannot fail to be cast down, and those who were to assure your rest, excite you and force you to leap. But reflect on yourself and consider that the goods of man are vain things. Thus, you will correct yourself and will no longer expose yourself to the danger that you run at all hours. Consider that presumption, disorder, have always gone wrong.
Things remain upright as long as they are kept upright. As for the man who has raised himself up, a time comes when he turns from top to bottom. Man will therefore bring his wisdom back to the earth where he will bury what has come out of it, to give it to another. The wisdom of men does not last, it is like the flower of the fields, it is lovely and charming. They say: time bears roses, but it also fades them, and it will be the same for you who made yourself.
When peace returns, your guards cease to watch, your guides and your courage slacken, and it is then that you will be visited in your nest with your brood, and you will have to yield to the one you wanted to make yield, and consequently, you will abandon your eggs and your nest. You will be caught in the trap that you had set for others and will never again return to your former self, any more than your young will become what they were. Your enemy will adorn himself with your spoils, and he will laugh at you.
Although you have not laid your heart bare, yet there is nothing that must remain hidden and not be confessed in due time. He will therefore recognize you who must recognize you. And if you thought you could place yourself above the gentle in silk and the strong in iron, you will say to yourself: "Very well, we cannot do what we wanted. Who then are those who hinder us? First there are the gentle and then the strong." And you will pay for it with your blood. But if you thought of humiliating yourself rather than reigning here below, what happiness you would taste!
There are three persons in God, who form only one number. Men must also form unity. As soon as this is no longer the case, what happens? Every empire divided within itself disintegrates. Therefore no empire disappears except as a result of its own division. To build a house and form an alliance, one must first appeal to unity, to act in such a way that the number one is not divided, because that which is capable of division is unstable and vain. Discord creeps in. But console yourself: you will become one.
What is the use of allying yourselves, if you do not see that you are in contradiction both in mind and heart? Different on the outside in dress, you are also different on the inside. Because you are not, you will be governed by him of whom it is written: Render to him what is his. For the animal intelligence is perishable, only that which affirms itself in God and which is ordered remains. It will come in its time. Thus your projects will be confounded.
A thing must be held to be true and understood in such a way as to leave no doubt. But your knowledge, in the end, was limited and full of gaps, that is why you have hindered yourself in your own doubt. You did not feel it necessary to affix the true seal; you pushed presumption to the point of sealing with your own. But since you were wrong and were not who you believed yourself to be, you will perish a miserable death, because you have not ceased to live in doubt and to build, you and others, on sand. You have wept and will weep even more.
The Sybil was thinking of you when she said: You f… and live now in roses, for you are temporal, and it is time that has brought you into being. What the Sybil says of you will be fulfilled, and she will say even more. The summer that makes the roses bloom is the season of setbacks when all things are divided, when we see that man has built on sand and that his enterprise will be ruined. That you have built on rock, that would be very surprising. When the time comes, the things will also come for which it came.
Because we have forgotten that the government of the world is bad, forgotten that there must be one head and not several, this is the cause of dissensions and discord, each acting in his own way. It is not fitting that we seek our own personal well-being. We must think of the general interest. Since most refuse to do so, it is absolutely necessary that they be brought down. The commandment that prescribes union will be obeyed. And they will exult, the unfortunate people who have been oppressed for so long.
The voices cannot be heard in unison; it is therefore vain for the five to deliberate. Beware of the number forty-two, a little before or a little after will come one who will do his will, who will bend you like a reed and split your loins without mercy. For your advice is not inspired by him whom you think is with you. If you had considered that man is devoid of wisdom, each one before turning away, would distrust himself and would not turn away, conscious of the terrible debt he will have to pay on the day of wrath.
It will thus come to pasture that each will be led to his pasture, for grazing on the grass of others is what causes quarrels and misery in this world. But if each returns to the fold, there will be unity: the mouth suffers to graze according to its good pleasure and for the sole pleasure of the palate, as is the case in the pastures of others. How beautiful will be the hour, and poverty, when he comes who will return each to his meadow, not far from number XLIII.
You have often collected yourself and often gathered yourself together, but the adversary was not with you, that is why everything has been resolved in you in vain and for nothing. You must withdraw alone and ask yourself within yourself: Where do you come from? From whom do you get your wisdom? What would you do if you made another decision and knew yourself and others? You would stop immediately. But since you would like to be the one who should not be and sit on the chair of SP that must collapse, you will not persist in your designs, because he who is your master will change your heart.
There will come a renovation and a transformation that will make us like children who know nothing of the cunning and craftiness of old men. It will be like this around the time when we count X, perhaps a little less, but no more. A long period, if we consider it according to human life, but which should be considered brief: all the ruins and catastrophes accumulated by this roaring lion, which we have seen grow for so many years, could not happen in the blink of an eye. But he will live in happiness, he who will be peaceful like a child, because human knowledge only engenders worry and pain.
You have toiled hard to bring the golden age into the world, so you are right to rest, your labor accomplished. Happy is he who is born in this age of sleep! He will not have known evil, since you have purified everything, at the cost of great efforts and great suffering during these days. No one has been able to prevent you from doing so and no one will wake you again, until as many years have passed as your enemies count from their cradle.
Prognostication explained by Doctor Paracelsus
These articles, as we have seen, are thirty-two in number and are spread over a period of twenty-four years, during which their accomplishment will take place. The least of them would require a large book. And if everything were exposed in plain language, what would not be the shudder of horror that would shake the world like a reed? But it is difficult to reveal all that is hidden beneath, so incredible does it seem.
The second article borrows the symbol of the lily. Rather than a lily, it should be a toad, for the toad is the first magicum signum ; but the transformation has taken place from the toad to a flower. However, as the toad swells with venom, so pride swells those who are imbued with it. It is not a cultivated lily, but a wild one growing on thorns that do not allow one to enjoy its perfume.
There will be such misery, such smoke will rise that one will have to understand well in the end. And, believe me, one will hardly laugh, because to be abandoned by one's best companions makes one weak and stupid. Moreover, the contagion will reach the very one who was the pampered child of the house. So you can well imagine that if one had enough leisure, strength and clairvoyance, assuming that time permits to write not universaliter , but particulariter , a host of words would not fail to come to light.
The next four articles will also cause much misfortune before each is fully accomplished: foreign alliances must be resorted to, a chain must be formed, building and overthrowing, pulling down and building, seeking on all sides if refreshment can be found. But the eighth article must prove triumphant; for otherwise it would be impossible as long as they live here below that there should be rest and peace. Each one does only as he pleases and forgets his reason for being here below, saying: I do so because I want it so.
A rod may be bent if necessary; it nevertheless returns to its natural direction. Tell yourself that nothing can be kept bent indefinitely, that everything returns to its normal position. If this does not happen all at once, your relaxation will be too slow for you to ever find the dimension in which you could delight yourself. And the following article has its reason for being, which invites you to do penance, to cover yourself with ashes and wear sackcloth. Would it indeed have a different fate than Nineveh, if God wanted the prophecies of Jonah not to be fulfilled by dint of prayer? And it is a meager pittance to suck one's nails, an almost painful operation, when the cold weather returns. But one only reaps what one has sown.
These are great words that the Virgin Mary spoke when she said: He has deposed the mighty from their thrones. So no one should be surprised that impossible things happen, since everything is in the hands of God. Let the proud humble themselves; the hungry will be satisfied, and what should not endure will be overthrown. Blessed are the poor, they will not be abandoned, and no more anyone who has no support. For what letter attached to letter can do, how can he who has no hollow to fix himself on?
If one could imagine the course of time as a scaffolded tower, it would doubtless reach the height of that of Babel; but just as the tower of Babel was miraculously abandoned, a time will come when one will no longer be able to build. Then all the accumulated writings will remain powerless. You will have to voluntarily return the stone to the place from which you took it; you will be the plaything of the wind, since you have not built walls to protect yourself from it, and this somersault will be much more unpleasant for you than for your neighbor.
Who but the wise would know the ends and know that man can do nothing by himself? If all is in the hands of God, what use are the forces of man, who is nothing but a reed? Consequently, they will succumb when he who has given himself over to so many secret tricks is subjugated. But first of all, the following article must be fulfilled. Indeed, if you do not sweep your own house, how will you sweep the houses of others? He who does not know how to guide himself, will know much less how to guide his neighbor. All those who tried to resist will give up, for everything will be restored in peace and put back in its place. Alliances will also disappear, which are only made to maintain discord, to which you aspire with all your heart.
For a long time God waited to see what man intended to do and how he intended to use his wisdom. Yet nothing lasting, nothing certain exists yet; but man persuades himself that he must not doubt, for doubt is the enemy of faith, that there must be certainty, otherwise everything is called into question, and this is torture for him. Then the sun will shine on him who will be his own judge; there will be no alliances or chains strong enough to prevent the coming of that era when each one will mow the grass of his furrow and live like the innocent and candid child.
God slept for a long time because he was willing to grant himself this rest; often also he was awakened; but when he rises, all creatures are seized with trembling. He is the one who pulls down and raises up at his pleasure. He has proposed to act for twenty-four more years before returning to rest. But this is only a moment for him. He makes us languish, not by discarding one article each year, but by mixing them one with the other and adding them until all are accomplished. This is why no one must be named or held in suspicion before the time.