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The Third Antichrist

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The

Third

Antichrist

Mario Reading is a multi-talented writer of both fiction and non-fiction. His varied life has included selling rare books, teaching riding in Africa, studying dressage in Vienna, running a polo stable in Gloucestershire and maintaining a coffee plantation in Mexico. An acknowledged expert on the prophecies of Nostradamus, Reading is the author of eight non-fiction titles, as well as the bestselling novel
The Nostradamus Prophecies
.

Also by Mario Reading

THE NOSTRADAMUS TRILOGY

The Nostradamus Prophecies

The Mayan Codex

The Third Antichrist

NON-FICTION

The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus

Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies for the Future

Nostradamus: The Good News

Dictionary of Cinema

The Movie Companion

The Watkins Dictionary of Dreams

Nostradamus: The Top 100 Prophecies

Nostradamus and the Third Antichrist: Napoleon,

Hitler and the One Still to Come

FICTION

The Music-Makers

First published in the UK in 2011 by Corvus, an imprint of Atlantic Books Ltd.

The moral right of Mario Reading to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents act of 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

This is a work of fiction. All characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

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A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN: 978-0-85789-666-7
eISBN: 978-0-85789-479-3

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Here are three of Nostradamus’s Third Antichrist quatrains, originally published between 1555 and 1558. See my book
Nostradamus and the Third Antichrist: Napoleon, Hitler and the One Still To Come
(Watkins, 2011) for the remaining thirty-three.

INDEX DATE: 35

CENTURY NUMBER: 3

Du plus profond de l’Occident d’Europe,

De pauvres gens un ieune enfant naistra,

Qui par sa langue seduira grande troupe:

Son bruit au regne d’Orient plus croistra
.

From deep in the Western part of Europe

A child will be born, to poor parents

He will seduce the multitude with his tongue

The noise of his reputation will grow in the Eastern kingdom.

INDEX DATE: 10

CENTURY NUMBER: 10

Tasche de murdre enormes adulteres,

Grand ennemy de tout le genre humain

Que sera pire qu’ayeulx, oncles, ne peres

En fer, feu, eau, sanguin & inhumain
.

Stained with mass murder and adultery

This great enemy of humanity

Will be worse than any man before him

In steel, fire, water, bloody and monstrous.

INDEX DATE: 32

CENTURY NUMBER: 7

Du mont Royal naistra d’une casane,

Qui cave & compte viendra tyranniser,

Dresser copie de la marche Millane,

Favene Florence d’or & gens expuiser
.

Though born in poverty, he will take supreme power

He will tyrannize and bankrupt his people

Raising a thousand-year army

He will seem lucky, though he costs both lives and money.

EPIGRAPHS

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

II Peter 3: 10

At that meeting he was struck for the first time by the endless variety of men’s minds, which prevents a truth from ever presenting itself identically to two persons.

War And Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.

Pensées D’Un Biologiste
by Jean Rostand

An Ocean With No Shore

By Ibn al-’Arabi (1165–1240)

I marvelled at an ocean with no shore,
and at a shore without an ocean;
At a dawn without darkness,
and at a night with no daybreak;
Then later at a sphere with no locality
known to either fool or sage;
And at a sky-blue dome thrust high above the earth,
twirling – driven;
And at a blossoming world with no heaven
and no hell, its secrets hidden...

I courted an eternal mystery;
for I was asked: ‘Has thought bewitched you?’
I answered: ‘I cannot say;
my advice would be: have patience with it while you live.
But, in essence, once thought becomes established
in my mind, the embers stutter into flame,
and are consumed by inextinguishable fire’
It was then told me: ‘He does not pick a flower
who deems himself, by rights, “freeborn”.
He who woos a beauty in her bedroom, devoured by love,
will never carp at the bride-price!’

I paid her dower and was given her in marriage
all through the night until the break of dawn
But I found only myself. – Or rather
the person I married – may his affair be noised abroad:
For, adding to the sun’s light
is the refulgent moon, the shining stars;
Reproached, like time – though the Prophet

(blessings be upon his head!)
had once declared of your Lord that He is Time.

This book is a gift for my wife

CONTENTS

Cenucenca, Orheiul Vechi, Moldova: 7 October 1982