POPULAR PROPHECIES IN EUROPE.

Evening Star, Issue 3408, 23 January 1874, Page 3

POPULAR PROPHECIES IN EUROPE.

One of the most remarkable events upon which these popular prophecies converge is the fate of France. Anil here the coincidences are aonumerous and sostrikingas to be really astonishing. In the ‘Prophecy of Orval, for example, the whole course of events, from the revolution of 1798 to the sack of Paris by the Communists and its siege by the Germans, is foretold as minutely and as accurately as if it were all history, written after the occurrence detailed. In ‘Blackwood,’ for December, 1848, there will be found an article on this subject, in which all the facta are fairly and impartially stated. Here is a literal translation q£ ons passage from the previsions of Orval the Solitary ; - “ Howl, sons of Brutus ! (The Republican party is thus indicated.) Call unto you the beasts that are about to devour you ! God alone is great! What a noise of arms 1 A full number of moons is not yet completed, and behold many warriors are coming { Jt is done ! The desolated Mountain of’God cries to God. The song of Judah (the remnants of tbo Royal race of France) cry to God from the foreign land, and behold, God is not deaf ! His fiery arrows are launched. Ten times six moons and not yet six times ten moons have appeased His wrath. Woe to thee, great city ! Behold, kings armed by the Lord come against thee ; but already has fire laid thee level with the ground. But the just shall not perish: God has heard them The place of crime is purified by fire' The great nver runs with its waters red with blood to the sea. Then Ganl, torn to pieces, gathers itself together, agairL l God loves peace. Comm 0 y^ung 1 prince, quit St*? 1 * S jo”* the Lion to,\he White PioWer l Come 1 iq foreseen, God wills. The anient Wood of the ages shall once again heal up divisions, and a ®nu g \P astor . s n ball be seeu in Celtic Gaul. The Man mighty through God shall seat himself firmly, and, by many wise laws, peace shall be established. God shall be acknowledged to be with him, so wise and prudent shall be the scion of the Cap.” 'j he Cap is Capet, the family name of the Bourbon; and the White Flower aignifies the Bourbon lilies. As % translation is n om iß4q VOl tb We no * W and printed m .J B •3*., t^er P Pa n n°t be question of-its authenticity. The other prophecies all proceed in the same strain. The revolutionary madness is to work itself fully out; France is to bo desolated both by internal strifes and foreign invasions; Paris is to be burned u n a i n bufc totall y destroyed; and then Sh m l }-/ 0 Io T an i era of healing and tranquillity under the rule of the last remaining jrjpresentative of the Bourbons, "M'ademoi-

seille Lenormand, a once fashionable -pro- • pbetess of Paris, ■whom it is, said even the first Napoleon consulted, details a message which she received from the Angel Itlrael in 1815. It is given in one of her prophetical books published in 1817, and predicts thus of Paris “ 0 modern Carthage! I have-before my eyes the picture that thou shalt offer to the future ages, and the image of the fate that awaits thee. Tyre fell a prey to an avaricious and barbarian conqueror, whom her wealth made her enemy ; thou shalt bo the prey of a crafty conqueror, whom thy cowardice encourages, and whom thy indifference renders more persevering to wound thee. Tyre spared ho efforts to recover her fall ; thou shalt lavish all thine efforts to accelerate thine own fall. Tyre fell under the might ' of brute force; thou shalt succumb to the might of perfidy, and shalb receive only the just punishment of thy wilful blindness.” in a similar strain it is foretold that the “ Parisian himself, his heart filled with rage and despair, and full of the lesson he had been taught by the Muscovite, shall aid with his own hand the efforts of the remorseless foreign invader to lay the queen of cities in ruins.” One of th,e most curious of modern secular prophecies was the Chevalier de Chatelain’s prediction of the exact duration of the second Napoleonic empire. In a volume in the possession of the present writer, hearing date propecy of old Nostra-, damns (the Merlin of Prance) is quoted, setting forth m antique rhyme, that when the second empire shall ,be set up in' Lutetia (Paris), it should live eighteen years less a quarter, ami _ not, a day; more. Now, thesecond empire was proclaimed on December 3, 1852, and abolished on September 3, 1870. The prediction was thus verified to a single day.' " 1 •■ ■■ v■. -.‘ . ; ; ,{To,he continued.)