THE PROPHECY OF MAYENCE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 83, 7 December 1914, Page 3

THE PROPHECY OF MAYENCE.

The predictions about the war are j very numerous, and a recent London Referee reproduces the famous “ Prophecy of Mayence," which first came to light in 1854. It is not based on astrological calculations. It emanates from what was formerly called inspiration. A man is said to be inspired when he is in a state in which he says or writes things of which he i s not conscious'without the summons and control of the will. It is not now called inspiration, because it involves a breach of equilibrium which people

in general stigmatise as a species of insanity. But the partition which divides inspiration from insanity is very thin, and many of cur greatest writers —including Shakespeare, Milton, Scott, Sickens, Tennyson, and last, but not least, Burns —have had to confess that they werfe not in their normal state when their best things were written. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe relates that several chapters of “ Uncle Tom’s Cabin” asserted themselves without her volition. She merely held the pen in position, and the pan seemed to guide itself. Everyone is familiar with the story of Joan ct Arc, and how she was able to save France from the dominance of the enemy. People of her own day and many people even of the present time, would ascribe her actions to hallucinations. But call it what we will —hallucination or communion with an archangel—it mat- j

ters little. By the agency thereof, I Joan of Arc, a poor village girl of j no standing in the world’s estimation, , astounded her nation, and accomplish- j od a task which the combined skill oi ! the French King and his generals had almost abandoned as hopeless. The author of the prophecy of Mayence was a highly illumined sneer of the last century. The prophecy consists of IS verses, the first nine of which apply to, and are verified by the wars of ISG6 and 1870, and the second nine apply to the war of 1914. The verses, though written in 1854, did net attract much attention till 1867, when | people began to observe the current j events were fulfilling in the predio- i

liens. It. will be interesting to note as to how far the present crisis is in

Agreement with the nine last verses. Here is the complete prophecy:— 1. When the little pecpm of the Oder shall feel themselves strong enough to shake off the yoke of their protector, and when the] barley is sprouting from the ears, their King William shall march against Austria.

2. They will have victory upon vie'ory up to the gates of Vienna, but a word from the ere at emperor of the west, shall make the heroes tremble on the field of vi V:- and the barley shall not be cr !he red v.i until he has : igned-parv ■'••ken of? the yoke, and returned trim a; Ivnily to his country. 3. But at the gathering in of the fourth barley, and that or ' the oats,

a dreadful sound of war shall call the harvesters to arms. A formidable army, followed by an extraordinary number of engines of war that hell

alone could have inverted, shall start towards the West.

4. Wee unto thee, great nation, woe to you who have abandoned the rights divine and human.

5. The God of Battles ha? forsaken you; who will succour you? 6. Napoleon 111., mocking 'his adversary at first, shall soon turn back towards- the “ Chene-Populeux,” where he shall disappear never to reappear.

7. In spite of the heroic resistance of France, a multitude of soldiers — blue, yellow and black —shall scatter themselves over a great part of France. Alsace and Lorraine shall bo carried away from France for a period and half a period. (Apparently a generation and a half is meant.) 8. The French shall only taka courage again as against each other. 9. Woe to thee, great city, woe to the, city of iniquity. Fire and sword shall succeed fire and famine.

10. Courage, French patriots, Germany cannot carry out its schemes of supremacy.

11. But the time of mercy approaches. The Czar shall come in the midst of you to seal the Alliance. 12. That is the man of salvation, the wise, the invincible, he shall count his enterprises by his victories. 13. He shall drive out the enemy of France, he shall march to victory on victory until the day of divine justice. 14. That day he shall command seven armies of soldiers of different nations (France, Belgium, Britain, Holland. Russia, Japan and Servia) agains'U three -(Germany,.. fAustruVHuugary) to the quarter of Bouleaux between Ham, Woerl and Paderborn.

15. Woe to thee, people of the North, thy seventh generation shall answer for all thy crimes. Woe to the people of the East (Austria means Eastern kingdom with reference to Prance under Charlemange), thou shalt spread afar the cries of affliction Jnd innocent blood. Never will such an army be seen.Note. —Seven generations make 210 rears. The realm of Prussia dates from 1731. Therefore, the seventh generation is living between 1893 and 1923.

IG. Three days the sun shall rise upwards on the heads of the combatants without being <!een through the c!oud s of smoke.

17. Then the commander shall get the victory; two of his enemies shall be annihilated, the remainder of the three shall fly towards the extreme East (of Europe). 18. William 11. shall be the last King of Prussia. Germany and Austria shall form three realms.—Poland, Hanover and Savony. Here ends the “ Phophecy of Mayence.” It is throe years since “L’Ecbn rm

the Kaiser, drawn up by Monsieur Larmier. Here is its translatino:

“(William \H V jbeirn in Beilin on Thursday, January 27th, 1?69. The conjunction of Saturn and Mars in Taurus presages the fall of the house of Hohenzoller* and cf the German Empire in 1918 or 1914, Jupiter announces that William 11. will be the last German Emperor of the house of Hohenzollern. If there is a war in 1914 between France and Germany, France will be victorious.”