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predicting, and that this is natural instinct has been adjusted and integrated with long calculations. At the
same time, I freed my soul, mind and heart of all care, solicitude and vexation. All of these prerequisites for
presaging I achieved in part by means of the brazen tripod.
There are some who would attribute to me that which is not mine at all. The eternal God alone, who is the
thorough searcher of humane hearts, pious, just and merciful, is the true judge, and it is to him I pray to
defend me from the calumny of evil men. These evil ones, in their slanderous way, would likewise want to
inquire how all your most ancient progenitors, the Kings of France, have cured the scrofula, how those of
other nations have cured the bite of snakes, how those of yet other nations have had a certain instinct for the
art of divination and still others which would be too long to recite here.
Notwithstanding those who cannot contain the malignity of the evil spirit, as time elapses after my death, my
writings will have more weight than during my lifetime. Should I, however, have made any errors in my
calculation of dates, or prove unable to please everybody, I beg that your more than Imperial Majesty will
forgive me. I protest before God and his Saints that I do not propose to insert any writings in this present
Epistle that will be contrary to the true Catholic faith, whilst consulting the astronomical calculations to the
best of my ability.
Such is the extent of time past, subject to correction by the most learned judgment, that the first man, Adam,
came 1,242 years before Noah (not reckoning by such Gentile calculations as Varro used, but simply by the
Holy Scriptures, as best my weak understanding and astronomical calculations can interpret them.) About
1,080 years after Noah and the universal flood came Abraham, who, according to some, was a first-rate
astrologer and invented the Chaldean alphabet. About 515 or 516 years later came Moses, and from his time
to that of David about 570 years elapsed. From the time of David to that of out Savior and Redeemer, Jesus
Christ, born of the unique Virgin, 1,350 year elapsed, according to some chronographs. Some may object that
this calculation cannot be true, because it differs from that of Eusebius. From the time of the human
redemption to the detestable heresy of the Saracens about 621 years elapsed. From this one can easily add up
the amount of time gone by.
Although my calculations may not hold good for all nations, they have, however, been determined by the
celestial movements, combined with the emotion, handed down to me by my forebears, which comes over me
at certain hours. But the danger of the times, O Most Serene King, requires that such secrets should not be
bared except in enigmatic sentences having, however, only one sense and meaning, and nothing ambiguous
or amphibological inserted. Rather they are under a cloudy obscurity, with a natural infusion not unlike the
creation of the world, according to the calculation and Punic Chronicle of Joel: I will pour out my spirit upon
all flesh and your sons and daughters will prophesy. But such Prophecy proceeded from the mouth of the
Holy Ghost who was the sovereign and eternal power, together with the heavens, and caused some of them to
predict great and marvelous events.
As for myself, I would never claim such a title, never, please God. I readily admit that all proceeds from God
and render to Him thanks, honor and immortal praise. I have mixed therewith no divination coming from fate.
All from God and nature, and for the most part integrated with celestial movements. It is much like seeing in
a burning mirror, with clouded vision, the great events, sad, prodigious and calamitous events that in due time
will fall upon the principal worshippers. First, upon the temples of God; secondly, upon those who, sustained
by the earth, approach such a decadence. Also a thousand other calamitous events which will be known to
happen in due time.
Epistle to Henry II 77
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For God will take notice of the long barrenness of the great dame, who thereupon will conceive two principal
children. But she will be in danger, and the female to whom she will have given birth will also, because of the
temerity of the age, be in danger of death in her eighteenth year, and will be unable to live beyond her
thirty-sixth year. She will leave three males, and one female, and of these two will not have had the same
father.
There will be great differences between the three brothers, and then there will be such great cooperation and
agreement between them that the three and four parts of Europe will tremble. The youngest of them will
sustain and augment the Christian monarchy, and under him sects will be elevated, and suddenly cast down,
Arabs will be driven back, kingdoms united and new laws promulgated.
The oldest one will rule the land whose escutcheon is that of the furious crowned lions with their paws resting
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