Vlaicu Ionescu

Esoterist and Nostradamian Exegete

After an analysis of the existing studies and interpretations of Nostradamian prophecies, Vlaicu Ionescu reached the conclusion that the fundamental flaw of those essays is that they are unrelated to Traditional Thought, in the sense given by serious and competent researchers such as René Guénon in France and Julius Evola in Italy. This is the basis of Vlaicu Ionescu’s Nostradamian studies and his efforts to save the true coordinates of the Primordial Tradition from the darkness of oblivion, prejudice, dogmatism and naivete. (For more on this subject, see Le Message de Nostradamus sur l’Ère Prolétaire).[1] There are many interpretations of the Nostradamian prophetic writings but only one solution, as Nostradamus himself states in Epistle to Henry Second, par. 28.[2]
Within Traditional Thought, Traditional Cyclology recognizes the Great Cycle of Descent, Manvantara, of four periods/ages: from the Golden Age/Krita Yuga, to the Silver Age/Treta Yuga, to the Bronze Age/Dvapara Yuga and finally to the Iron Age/Kali Yuga. The “Proletarian Era” is the Kali Yuga, the Iron Age, where values are reversed and anti-traditional heresies flourish, as described in Vishnu-Purana (quoted by Ionescu from Evola’s La Rivolta Contro il Mondo Moderno.)[3]  In his article “Three Witnesses of the Tradition”, Charles Ridoux gives homage to three inspired exegetes, Jean Phaure, Raul Auclair and Vlaicu Ionescu, who each, in his own way, several decades in advance, highlighted the eschatological dimension of our time and the fall of Communism in the Soviet Empire, between 1989 and 1991[4]. They use various traditional and astrological cycles, great planetary concentrations (“dorifories”), the 2520-year Great Cycle of Daniel, Precessional Cycles and Sacred Numbers. Vlaicu Ionescu, in his exegesis of Nostradamus’s prophetic work, uses many of these traditional methods along with some that are specific to Nostradamus, such as the Nostradamian Week and the three Nostradamian Symbolic Chronologies. Cyclology along with Numerology and Alchemy are the main themes of Ionescu’s fourth volume of the Tetralogia Nostradamica (to be published).
Vlaicu Ionescu decided that his first book would be dedicated to the Communist Phenomenon, or what Nostradamus named the “Commun Advenement”. The abundance of Nostradamian texts on that subject makes Ionescu’s 1976 book, Le Message de Nostradamus sur l’Ère Prolétaire, longer than 800 pages, with prophecies on the evolution of Communism from the French Revolution to the fall of the Soviet Regime. One of the last chapters is titled, “1991, the year of the fall of the Soviet Regime, after 73 years and 7 months” [from the October 1917 Revolution]. The following chapter is titled, “The astral configuration of June 1991”. These prophesies were fulfilled with the victory of Boris Yeltsin in the election of June 12, 1991, exactly 73 years and 7 months after the October Revolution. (Ionescu calls this period “Trehemida” or half of a Nostradamian week, which is 7 x 21 years, 21 years being a quarter of a Uranian cycle.)
One of Vlaicu Ionescu’s fundamental theses is that an essential mission of Nostradamus was to warn humanity of the Proletarian Era, as he promises in Preface to his son Caesar and presents in Epistle to Henry Second and many quatrains. Ionescu’s research shows that the Epistle covers the Proletarian Era from the French Revolution, 1792, to the Great Monarch, born in 1999, and further to the fifth and final Antichrist, 3797; the Centuries cover in more detail the period from the time of Nostradamus, 1555, to the year 2242, years important in Nostradamian Cyclology
According to Vlaicu Ionescu, the Epistle to Henry Second constitutes the center of the Prophecies of Nostradamus, the center to which all the Centuries[5] gravitate. Ionescu conceives the Epistle as a framework of great events, of which the quatrains of the Centuries specify the secondary details. These constitute the prophetic works of Nostradamus, as opposed to his Almanacs, his horoscopes, his medical and literary works. The former works are the result of a transcendent communication, the latter are the works of the astrologer or physician, of Nostradamus the man.
Ionescu considers pars. 46 and 47 “the fundamental text of the Epistle”, because it predicts with extraordinary precision and clarity the social mutation produced by the Soviet Revolution and the enormity of its crimes, and it gives the exact duration of this regime:

And it will be in the month of October that a great social mutation (translation) will be made; and it will be such that one will think the gravity of the earth has lost its natural movement and has been plunged into the abyss of perpetual darkness. In March (au temps vernal), would have been preceding events (allusion to the March Revolution, when the Kerenski government overthrew the Dynasty). Thereafter, will follow extreme changes, reversal of realms and governments (permutation de regnes), passing through a great war (the First World War).
And it will be the spreading (pullulation) of the New Babylon, miserable daughter of the first one (the French Revolution), with her holocaust, but this one being much more enlarged by her abominations. And she will reign only 73 years and 7 months – Epistle to Henry Second pars. 46 and 47[6].

Nostradamus’s Quatrain I-16 indicates the end of Communism (“Peste”, in Nostradamian language), 73 years and 7 months after the October Revolution of 1917. The event is dated by the astral configuration of June 1991 (when Boris Yeltsin was elected president):

Faulx a l’estang joinct vers le Sagittaire,
En son haut AVGE de l’exaltation,
Peste, famine, mort de main militaire,
Le siècle approche de renovation.

When Saturn (Faulx) retrograde will be in Aquarius (à l’estang) and approaching (joinct) the conjunction Uranus-Neptune (à son haut), both also moving retrograde toward Sagittarius, and when this conjunction will be exalted by star Vega (AVGE de l’exaltation) of the higher sky (ex alto), Communism (Peste) will be struck with mortal misfortunes (famine, mort) by armed forces (de mains militaire), because the century approaches great “renovations”.

This is one of the examples where Nostradamus used trans-Saturnian planets, known to him, although not yet discovered in his lifetime.[8] 
Vlaicu Ionescu considers that the successes in the decryption and interpretation of Nostradamus's writings do not belong to him, but are the victories of Nostradamus himself, whom he considers to be "the greatest politician of our century" (the 20th century) and one of the greatest Christian prophets.
In Epistle to Henry Second, par. 15, Nostradamus speaks of the nature of prophecy in general and of the methods he uses in particular, suggesting an initiation belonging to the hesychastic doctrine of Christian Orthodoxy, to Hermeticism, and even to certain yoga techniques[9]. In par. 30, Nostradamus tells us the three sources of his prophecy: the Holy Spirit, the movement of the stars, and the power of the cyclic numbers. In par. 31, Nostradamus clarifies that his prophecy has a divine provenance and states the difference between it and ordinary clairvoyance.[10]
Vlaicu Ionescu demonstrates that Nostradamus realized a remarkable synthesis combining an esoteric metaphysical and prophetic initiation, following St. John the Apostle with an alchemical or hermetic initiation under the protection of the third Apostle of the Transfiguration, St. James the Great.[11]
It is this Christian perspective that underlies the decryption method that is the key to success. Vlaicu Ionescu proves the reality of the prophetic phenomenon and at the same time proves the falsity of all the materialistic skeptical doctrines that underlie communism and socialism, each political doctrine based on a philosophical doctrine.  “Vlaicu Ionescu is to hermetic and prophetic exegesis what Alexander Solzhenitsyn is to the literature of testimony and combat. They both testify through their courage and immense talent that there are still in our time of blindness and cowardice, spirits who know and dare to put themselves in the service of the Spirit”.[12]

Ionescu writes:[13]

I tried to rehabilitate the personality of Michel de Nostredame, reconsidering it above all in the perspective of what René Guénon and an elite of researchers after him named Traditional Thought. As a result, the first part of my first book sought to highlight the characteristics of this thought, which, by its very nature, must have remained rather esoteric, and put it in parallel with what might be called "modern thought": an empirical way of thinking, which, although not entirely shared by all contemporary scholars, seems to dominate our time. Basically, these are two stylistic modalities of the mind, equally ancient, each one having its apogees and its falls, during the course of history. The former considers inner experience as a source of knowledge, superior to what is offered by the senses. The second is limited to empirical knowledge alone. It is a bipolarity that has been dramatized today by the distinct functions that have been discovered between the right brain and the left brain.
I then touched on themes related to this duality: historical and supra-historical, quantity and quality, profane and sacred, culture of the masses and culture of elites. It is in this perspective that I have attempted to elucidate the theoretical framework within which we could understand the Nostradamian phenomenon and its meaning, especially for the period we have called the Proletarian Era.
The second contribution of this first work to Nostradamian hermeneutics was the discovery of the Nostradamian alchemical texts hidden among the prophetic texts. I have deciphered it in the light of the great classics of hermetic literature.

Notes:

[1] Vlaicu Ionescu, Le Message de Nostradamus sur l'Ère Prolétaire [MNEP] (The Message of Nostradamus on the Proletarian Era), 1976, Dervy-Livres, Paris, France – Introduction, pg. 28.
[2] Vlaicu Ionescu, Nostradamus - Epistola către Henric II (Nostradamus - Epistle to Henry II), 1999, Ed. Evex, Bucharest, Romania.) – pg. 60.
[3] MNEP, pp. 30, 32
[4]  Charles Ridoux, Journal of Traditional Cyclology - THREE WITNESSES OF THE TRADITION: JEAN PHAURE, RAOUL AUCLAIR, VLAICU IONESCU - Conference delivered in Paris on November. 23, 2003.
[5] Michel Nostradamus – Les Propheties, edition Benoist Rigaud, 1568 - includes the Epistle to Henry Second before the last three Centuries.
[6]  MNEP pg. 777; Vlaicu Ionescu, Nostradamus - L'Histoire Secrète du Monde [NHSM] (Nostradamus - The Secret History of the World),1986, Éditions du Félin, Paris, France, pg. 509; Epistle to Henry II, pg.106.
[7]  NHSM, pg. 511; MNEP pp.779-782
[8] Vlaicu Ionescu, “Nostradamus et les planètes trans-saturniennes", 1983 (Nostradamus and the Trans-Saturnian Planets), "Atlantis Nº 325", Paris.
[9]  Vlaicu Ionescu, Epistle to Henry II, pp. 57-58
[10] Vlaicu Ionescu, Epistle to Henry II, pg. 62.
[11]  Nostradamus - Profet al Lumii Moderne, Vol. I (Nostradamus - Prophet of the Modern World), Vol. I, 1999, Ed. Albatros, Bucharest, Romania, - pg. 56, 58 and 59.
[12] Jean Phaure in Préface to Vlaicu Ionescu’s MNEP, pg. 12.
[13] NHSM, Introduction, pg. 17-18.

Nostradamus and the twin towers attack

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THE NOSTRADAMUS PHENOMENON AND CONTEMPORARY SCIENTISM

The Epistle to Henry Second and the Centuries as deadly weapons against materialism. Read the full Article HERE

The first scientific attempt to explain the etymological system of occultation and the Latin construction of the Nostradamian text was made by Jean Le Roux de Louvicamp in his book La Clef de Nostradamus, 1710.[1]
Then, Anatole Le Pelletier, in his monumental work of 1867, Les Oracles de Michel de Nostredame[2], made a synthesis of all that was done before him and established 22 figures of occultation, all of a stylistic and linguistic nature. They are explained and discussed in Professor Ionescu's book, Le Message de Nostradamus sur l’Ère Prolétaire[3] in 1976.
Professor Ionescu discovered the alchemical/hermetical texts within Nostradamus’s prophetic texts, and this was the basis of a much more advanced method of Nostradamian cryptanalysis. Ionescu showed that the Prophet used the secret language of the alchemists, which is the "Cabala Hermetica." Based on this, Ionescu adds nine methods of decoding to Pelletier’s 22 figures of occultation in his approach of decryption—as indicated in Le Message de Nostradamus sur l’Ère Prolétaire and Nostradamus profet al lumii Moderne Vol. 1 (1999). One of its subtleties is the "cryptic toponymy," by which geographical names take other meanings through their etymological aspects or assonance.

It was due to the revolutionary method hereby established that Ionescu succeeded in predicting the dates of many future events, which was never achieved by any author of the 20th century. This was achieved by very few interpreters, including Le Pelletier, who predicted the fall of Napoleon III at the Battle of Sedan, in his book published four  years earlier, and Karl Ernst Krafft, who predicted in 1940 the inevitable defeat of Hitler.  
Ionescu’s successful predictions include:
- Prophecies on the evolution of Communism from the French Revolution to the fall of the Soviet Regime, which was precisely predicted to occur in June 1991 along with the events preceding that fall, including the communist doctrine’s losing ground in the consciousness of the masses and the revolt of Soviet Bloc countries from USSR domination. This was an incredible prediction, contradicting the opinion of all the political commentators, since it was made after the Helsinki Conference, by which the Western Powers accepted sine die the legitimacy of the Soviet Union.

(Le Message de Nostradamus sur l'Ère Prolétaire, 1976; Nostradamus—L'Histoire Secrète du Monde, 1987; later elaborated in Nostradamus—Epistola către Henric II, 1999.) In April 1991, Ionescu announced on Japanese television the end of Gorbachev's political career at the end of that summer.
- In 1973 Vlaicu Ionescu warned President Nixon that his second presidential term would be cut short as a result of a momentous scandal. His letter was withheld by the special assistant to the President, Roland L. Elliot, from Nixon on the pretext that he could not address that kind of message to the President.[4]

Ionescu published for the first time the solution of the famous Quatrain X-72 (with its twin quatrain V-41). Contrary to all the commentators who declared the date of July-August 1999 as the Apocalyptic Catastrophe, Vlaicu Ionescu demonstrated that Nostradamus only predicted the day of the total solar eclipse (August 11, 1999) as the birth date of the future king of France. There follows the presentation of quatrains about the epic of the "Great Monarch", in Les Dernières Victoires de Nostradamus.[5] “I always insisted on the comparison of the texts, and I discovered the existence of the "twin" quatrains, which clarify one another, complementing each other in a unitary synthesis.”The Nostradamian message becomes intelligible only as events approach. The entire meaning of a Nostradamian quatrain can only appear after the predicted event is fulfilled.
A more complete presentation of Ionescu's method can be found in his book Nostradamus— Profet al Lumii Moderne (Nostradamus—Prophet of the Modern World) Vol. I (1999).

Notes:

[1] Jean Le Roux, Cure de Louvicamp, La Clef de Nostradamus, 1710, Pierre Giffart, Paris, France.
[2] Anatole Le Pelletier, Les Oracles de Michel de Nostredame, 1867, Le Pelletier, Paris, France.
[3] Vlaicu Ionescu, Le Message de Nostradamus sur l’Ère Prolétaire, chapter “In search of a Nostradamian ‘Argot’”, pg.133-167.
[4] Marie-Therese de Brosses, Les Dernières Victoires de Nostradamus [DVN] (The Last Victories of Nostradamus), 1993, Éditions Filipacchi, Paris, France, pg. 98.
[5] DVN, chapter “L’èpopèe du Grand Monarque, pg.231

MICHEL DE NOSTREDAME 

Michel de Nostredame (14 December 1503, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France–July 1566, Salon-de-Provence, France), usually Latinized as Nostradamus, was a French astrologer, physician, and reputed seer, who is best known for his book Les Prophéties, a collection of 942 poetic quatrains predicting future events. The book was first published in 1555. Nostradamus published Almanacs regularly for 15 years. He was working as an astrologer for various wealthy patrons. Catherine de Medici became one of his foremost supporters.    
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostradamus

MAISON DE NOSTRADAMUS

Nostradamus Museum or the House of a Renaissance humanist: This municipal museum, created in 1992, "House of the writer and literary heritage" since 2006, is located in the house that Michel de NOSTREDAME, widower of a first marriage, bought in 1547 to establish a new family there with Anne PONSARD, with whom he had 6 children. It is in this place that he completed all his works and that he ended his days some twenty years later, in 1566.

Centre Nostradamus, “Resource Center for the study and transmission of knowledge from the 15th to 16th centuries”. A few steps from the Museum, in the Impasse de l'Ancienne Halle, this Documentation and Research Center, created in 2006, aims to be a scientific center complementary to the tourist center that is the Museum.
https://www.salondeprovence.fr/bouger-et-decouvrir/culture/maison-de-nostradamus/

Marie-Therese de Brosses, the French writer with whom Professor Ionescu wrote the best-seller Les Dernières Victoires de Nostradamus[1] in 1993 says in her foreword: "Whatever we could think about Nostradamus, one cannot deny his incredible talent to provoke beautiful deliriums... what's more astonishing, the craziest 'interpretations', quickly reduced by the facts to their true status of nonsensical divagations, seldom discredit their author."
De Brosses gives, as an example, Nostradamus: The End of the Millennium: Prophecies 1992-2001[2], by V.J. Hewitt and P. Lorie, published in the US in 1991 and in France in 1992. "This book," she says, "using a numerical decoding as picturesque as it is fanciful, affirms that the sage of Salon predicted and dated: an earthquake in California for May 8, 1993 at 7:05 o'clock; the imprisonment on February 1, 1995 of many Catholic priests for having contaminated their flock with AIDS; the election in 1995 of an English pope (the Archbishop Hume of Westminster). According to these two authors, some very essential and staggering events, like Richard Gere giving up Hollywood in June 1994 and other deeds of American movie stars, were the favorite preoccupation of our French visionary."
De Brosses was speaking only about the French edition of the book. Ionescu and de Brosses compare the two editions and find that, since no prediction for 1991 and 1992 in the American edition was fulfilled, those predictions were eliminated from the French translation and replaced by others for 1993-99. To this date, none of the predictions of this book has come true. One can read on the cover of the French edition: 1993: A gigantic wave submerges Mexico. 1994: Paris, a dead city in the night. 1995: America in fire. 1996: Return to power of Margaret Thatcher. 1997: Cancer is cured. 1998: First encounter with extraterrestrials.

This is typical of all the Nostradamian commentators of the 20th century. Their "predictions" in books and movies fill a whole cemetery. People should not believe that what the interpreters say is what Nostradamus said. Often, they are diametrically opposed. The greatest prophet of all time has been compromised by ridiculous publications. The visionary who never made a mistake has been presented here as full of errors.
In the 20th century, Ionescu is the only one who succeeded in rehabilitating Nostradamus's prestige: based on correct solutions to the quatrains, he determined the dates of future events, and these predictions were fulfilled at the fixed dates. His goal was to educate people and give correct information about the Prophet, and consequently to rehabilitate him and clarify his transcendental message.
Ionescu concluded that there is only one way to check the competence and the credibility of a Nostradamian interpreter: to see if he has determined the date of a future event and his prediction has been fulfilled. Without such proof, all the claims of those writers that they discovered the true decoding key or that they spoke with Nostradamus using a medium channel are ridiculous absurdities.

Notes:

[1] Marie-Therese de Brosses, Les Dernières Victoires de Nostradamus [DVN] (The Last Victories of Nostradamus), 1993, Éditions Filipacchi, Paris, France.
[2] V.J. Hewitt and P. Lorie, Nostradamus: The End of the Millennium: Prophecies 1992-2001, 1991, Simon and Schuster.