00:021586-1607, the camera opens onto a Europe in tension, suspended between faith and reason.
00:08The heavens, for centuries considered the language of the divine, are beginning to be deciphered by
00:14human minds. It is the beginning of a silent and dangerous revolution. At the end of the 16th century,
00:20In 1586, Pope Urban VIII issued a severe bull. All forms of divination,
00:27Astrology, enchantment, and witchcraft are condemned. The church seeks to preserve order.
00:34spiritual in a world where knowledge challenges dogma, but the real point
00:39The turning point would come years later. In 1607, the Council of Mechelen issued an edict that
00:46It will mark a turning point in the history of European thought. The condemnation is not only against astrology,
00:51but against those who dare to observe the sky with scientific eyes. In Italy and Germany,
00:56Two names begin to resonate strongly: Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler. Their discoveries
01:02They break with the Aristotelian tradition. Instead, they propose mathematical laws,
01:07elliptical orbits, a universe governed by rational principles. It is here that the voice
01:12Nostradamas's words, written decades earlier, seem to emerge from time like a haunting echo.
01:19In the 8-1 quartet, he warns, the number of expelled astronomers will grow so large.
01:26Exiles and censored books. The year 1607, for sacred globular, that nothing sacred will be
01:33Assured. The rise of astronomers marks a change of era, but with that growth comes
01:39The persecution. Banned books, silenced ideas, men forced into exile.
01:44Nostradamus not only anticipates the conflict, he describes it with precision. In quatrain 4-18,
01:50He adds, "One of the most learned about celestial matters. Perhaps it's due to ignorant princes."
01:56Reproved, punished with edicts, expelled as scoundrels. The tension between knowledge and
02:03Power becomes evident. The wise are persecuted, not for being wrong, but for challenging the established order.
02:09And in his predictions for the year 1555, Nostradamus mentions that in Germany there are wise people in
02:17celestial events. They will see what I see and find perfect truth in my words.
02:22a direct reference to Johann Kepler and his laws of planetary motion.
02:26Meanwhile, Galileo perfected the telescope, bringing the heavens closer to the human eye and making them move further away.
02:33of the exclusive domain of the divine. The shadow of the plague in France.
02:37But it's not just the skies that worry Europe; on land, an ancient threat returns. That same
02:42In 1607, the plague spread again through France. The cities of Avignon, Nîmes,
02:49Montauban and Véciers are affected. In Paris, King Henry IV orders the construction of the hospital.
02:55from San Luis designated for the infected. However, the magnitude exceeds all expectations.
03:01Nostradamus, once again, seems to have recorded this moment in quatrain 356.
03:07Montauban, Nîmes, Avignon and Véciers. Plague, thunder and hail at the end of March.
03:14From Paris Bridge, Léon Wall, Montpellier, from 607. The combination of disasters, epidemic,
03:22Storms, chaos. It paints a picture of total crisis, as if the world order were...
03:28cracking. And in the 52nd sextilla we read, The great city where there is no bread half-eaten,
03:33Another blow to Saint Bartholomew will linger deep in his soul. Here, hunger
03:39And the conflicts evoke a climate of profound instability. Mars, symbol of war, enters
03:45Aries, and with it, violence seems inevitable. The year 1607 thus becomes a crossroads of
03:52paths. On one hand, the birth of modern science, driven by courageous minds, by
03:58Another is the resistance of a world that fears losing its certainties, amidst edicts, diseases, and
04:04Prophetic visions. Europe is moving towards a new era. And on that threshold, the voice of Nostradamus.
04:10It remains, ambiguous, unsettling, like a whisper that travels through the centuries. These texts form
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