Me, I, My and Us, the MIMU of Self
BY Lynard – August 2025
Nostradamus, Fidelity and Infidelity
A focus on the Nostradamus rarely discussed Epistle to King Henry II of France and the conflict in America.
Mention Michel De Nostradame in any conversation regarding politics, you get instant eye-rolls. For ostensibly good reasons. If you search the internet for Nostradamus predictions you will see everything from upcoming earthquakes, deadly viruses, the death of the high and mighty and a host of other every-day historical minutiae.
As Nostradamus observers have noted, Nostradamus was a Jew who converted to Catholicism. He was also a respected physician and, more importantly, a Frenchman. Most of all, a Frenchman. To a fault really. After he published a successful almanac in 1550 he gained support from patrons as an astrologer. In 1555 he published Les Prophéties, which we today refer to as the Nostradamus prophecies. The collection of prophecies consists of 942 “poetic” quatrains with each collection of a hundred known as a Century.
Not to be ignored, England had its own prophetess known as Mother Shipton, or Ursula Southheil. She lived from 1487 to 1561, almost a contemporary of Nostradamus. Aside from a very eventful life and an even more eventful legend surrounding her life, Mother Shipton, focused on future events impacting her immediate environs.
Then there is America’s own Edgar Cayce . His prophecies were more oriented toward the lost continent of Atlantis and spiritual matters. The most interesting prophecy Cayce has made concerns China becoming a “Christian” nation. It dovetails with a prediction Nostradamus hints at. Both Cayce and Nostradamus use the word “Christian” and if you are at all familiar with the history of Western religion (going back to its foundation in the ancient Sumerian civilization) , you know they are referring to the teaching of Jesus of Nazareth, not the Catholic nor Protestant churches.
The Genesis of America
The Christian Church is the prism through which Nostradamus opines about the future. He mentions the Christian Church numerous times in the Epistle to his prophecies dedicated to King Henry II of France. It is in the Epistle that he makes a subtle distinction between the Catholic Church (which he refers to simply as the Church) and the Christian Church. He also makes a distinction between the Christian Church and the “pagan sect of new infidels”–in other words, Protestants.
It is when he writes about the birth of America that he makes this last distinction. I quote this paragraph in detail because, myself not being a “religious” denizen, it has fascinated me since I first read it. (Emphasis added, notes added below quote).
“For God will take notice of the long barrenness of the great dame1 [France], who thereupon will conceive two principal children2 [American Rebellion and French Revolution]. But she [First France Republic] will be in danger, and the female [America] to whom she will have given birth will also, because of the temerity of the age 3, be in danger of death in her [“her” undefined”] eighteenth year4, and will be unable to live beyond her thirty-sixth year. She will leave three males, and one female5, and of these two will not have had the same father [“father” undefined].”
- The “great dame” is always France. In the quatrains, “Babylon” is always Paris.
- Here “principal children” are ideas with their origins all the way back to the 1600s and specifically to René Descartes’ DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD in 1637 and the American “pagan” Baptists in the late 1600s.
- The First France Republic was Revolutionary France which existed from 1789 to 1795. Before the First Republic, the American Revolution, from 1776 to 1789, with its origins in the same ideas, resulted in the United States in 1783 and American Constitution in 1789.
- “Her” is a problem here. If “her” refers to the “great dame”, 1789 plus 18 years is 1807. What happened in 1807 that threatened the French Revolution? For one thing, in 1806, Napoleon I issued the Berlin Decree which essentially sought to isolate Europe from outside influence like that exerted by Britain and the United States. In 1807, after the Battle of Friedland, Russia sued for peace and Europe was divided into a French zone of influence and a Russian zone of influence. If “her” refers to “the female to whom she have given birth” in 1776 plus 18 years would be 1794. What happened in America in 1794? The Whiskey Rebellion. Definitely a threat to the Republic which was a reaction to the first federal tax imposed by the United States. But then we have the death of “her” in the 36th year when the Count of Artois was crowned Charles X and returned to Paris as King in 1824, thirty-six years after Revolutionary France was born.
- Nostradamus opacity. Three males, one female. The identity of the female is rather obvious: America. ( In Century IV, Quatrain 96, Nostradamus refers to America as the “eldest sister of the Britannic Island). By extension of analysis, the three males should be three French Republics. But there are now five French Republics (and will most likely be more to come). Nostradamus repeats this rift on “males” in the quatrains which points to other revolutions. One of these is the Russian Revolution, occurring in October (old Russian calendar) which Nostradamus describes as earth-shaking. The other two “males” are as yet unidentified.
Yes, Nostradamus predicts earthquakes and earth changes in the quatrains. The usual. The expected. But such changes are relevant only in so far as they relate to France. What has always interested me is the philosophical perspective Nostradamus brings to the events he previews. That philosophy is very obvious from the Epistle and the prophecies themselves.
In 1991, I pushed a booklet, THE AGE OF NEPTUNE: A COMPUTERIZED Study of Selected Nostradamus Prophecies. I was intrigued by his rather specific prediction that the Soviet Union would last seventy-three years (it did, ending in 1989), followed by an age of terror (September 2011 being only a paramount example). Nostradamus believed neither the Soviet Union nor America adhered to the “true” course of divinely inspired human conduct. In his view, the Russian Revolution, the anti-thesis of Western civilization, gave rise to Nazism and the terrorism of “religious” (really, nationalists) fanatics that ensued. All these aberrant ideas on the organization of human social order originated during the Age of Reason and specifically the world-view of René Descartes. America would prevail in the spiritual struggle between these aberrant ideas because it was created from the best of Western civilization tradition–for “the preservation of the Christian Church”. There is a lot to unravel in Nostradamus’ concept of the “Christian Church”. Suffice it to say for the moment that it is not organized religion. To him, it was much, much deeper and for over two hundred years, America has upheld its birthright. Now, that is in question.
The Wayward Daughter
In the same paragraph of the Henry IV Epistle examined above, he hints at a flaw in America that only now is it possible to unravel.
The daughter shall be given for the preservation of the Christian Church, the dominator falling into the Pagan sect of new infidels (Protestants), and she will have two children, the one fidelity, the other infidelity by confirmation of the Catholic Church.
In 1991 it was easy to identify the first of the two children born of (America) daughter. The identity of the second daughter, the daughter identified by infidelity, remained an enigma until the rise of the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement. There is nothing new about the movement. The basis for stratification of society between the common people and the divinely anointed, was replaced by the “scientific” concept of race and ethnicity. It has been a part of America since the end of the Civil War and is an outgrowth of the same anti-Christian outlook which gave birth to the Russian Revolution.
The American Civil War was a war between the underlying forces of god-mandated liberty and the supporting pillars of community stratification determined by human “science”. The American Revolution took the rights of humans out of the hands of humans (divinely anointed or not) and put the rights under the guardianship of God with all responsibility residing in the Will of the individual. The Civil War confirmed this. Fidelity. Note however that the process which resolved the conflict between adherence to the founding ideas of the nation and the fight to reassert a new version of the old rationale was the process of war. Stick a pin in this.
Infidelity “by confirmation of the Catholic Church” describes our current conflict between liberty and subservience.
At the same time America has elected the most retrogressive, anti-liberty president it has ever had, the Catholic Church elevates to the Papacy a man embodying the very essence of what America has been. This dichotomy denotes an end to two threads in history: the papacy as perceived by national republican governments since the French Revolution (Napoleon’s rationale for imprisonment of Pope Pius VI for example); and an end to the ascendency of America as an exceptional nation in a community of nations.
The American Civil war was the fidelity of America to the ideals of its inception, to the age of enlightenment with the caveat that the individual was born with a covenant with God, not a nation, not a state, not a king and had a responsibility for their own fate. This as opposed to the idea that the fate of the individual, the nation was dependent upon the will and fate of a king. This idea of human stratification morphed into the more “scientific” concept of evolution, race and eugenics. It is the crutch the infidelity to the American’s foundation has limped along on since the Civil War. The current conflict is simply a rehash of the old conflict, dragging the crutch of “us” and “them” along to ensure there is a reason for stratification humanity.
The History Playbook and Future Events
If you approach the epistle and the quatrains of Nostradamaus with the idea that predictions are contained therein, you are on a fool’s mission. Nostradamaus most likely saw himself as a historian. The history of the future is merely a history of the past: different names, different places with the same situations, basically the same settings. It is not as difficult as it would seem.
The course of every would-be dictator, every would-be king is the same. There are those who genuflect and bow to the “prince” in hopes of gaining favor and escaping wrath; those who follow because their allegiance is to what they can see and respond to. We see that today. When the “prince” is threatened with reality, the distraction is always some version of the “enemy at the gates” to cower the timid into submission. None of this is new.
How America gets out of the current threat to its foundation is an open question. We know how history answers this question. There are slight variations but essentially they are all the same. In America, because America is America, there is a possible variant. The People make their voices heard with their votes. This would mean the reverse of what has been said about fidelity and infidelity. Infidelity was the Civil War. Fidelity, voting for the government to respect the divinity of the individual, would be America adhering to its principles and voting for continuation of the American experiment.
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