| The prophecies of Nostradamus, today popularly | | | | century, a thousand years before the time of |
| believed to be the work of a charlatan, are given new | | | | Nostradamus. St. George, however, does not view this |
| life in Morten St. George's Incantation of the Law | | | | as a strategic problem for the prophecies: "If the |
| Against Inept Critics: A Guide to Cryptic Thinking. St. | | | | prophecies foresaw historical secrets, it is safe to |
| George discovered that some of the famous stanzas | | | | assume that they also foresaw their translation into |
| masked their message by means of a unique type of | | | | French; consequently, what we see in Nostradamus' |
| cryptography involving the deployment of a wide array | | | | book are the intended prophecies. Even the |
| of deception devices. Nonetheless, a rigorous and | | | | destruction of the remaining fifty-eight prophecies can |
| systematic unraveling of these devices does not | | | | be deemed as foreseen and thus intended." |
| always wind up with the prophecies confirming | | | | As for the other nine hundred stanzas (Nostradamus |
| recorded history. Unperturbed, St. George allows his | | | | published a total of 942 stanzas), St. George says |
| decoding techniques to take the prophecies to where | | | | they are largely re-writes, re-combinations, or thematic |
| they lead: | | | | derivatives of elements of the original one hundred |
| * Napoleon Bonaparte was murdered on his island of | | | | stanzas, with lots of new place names thrown in for |
| captivity by poison in the wine, instigated by a woman | | | | good measure. Indeed, meticulous analysis of the 942 |
| enraged over the defeat of his army in 1813. | | | | stanzas reveals a large number of repeating terms |
| * President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by a | | | | and concepts. Consequently, according to St. George, |
| group of conspirators led by his vice-president, Lyndon | | | | the other nine hundred stanzas have no prophetic |
| Baines Johnson. Officially accused by the Warren | | | | merit at all; their purpose was only to mask or conceal |
| Commission, Lee Harvey Oswald was completely | | | | the forty-two stanzas of the sixth century, and they |
| innocent since the bullets that killed Kennedy were | | | | were very successful at doing just that. |
| fired from a rooftop, not from an open window. | | | | When asked if the forty-two prophecies were the |
| * The JFK conspirators were also behind the | | | | product of extraordinary psychic powers, St. George |
| assassination of Kennedy's brother, Senator Robert F. | | | | asserted: "The future cannot be foreseen by means |
| Kennedy, several years later. | | | | of psychic powers, nor by means of astrological |
| * Martin Luther King was assassinated because of his | | | | calculations, tarot cards, black magic, crystal balls, or |
| opposition to the Vietnam War, not because of racism. | | | | any other such thing." Then pressured to explain the |
| * Egyptian president Anwar Sadat was assassinated | | | | prophecies, St. George replied: "Super-civilization |
| because of his support for the anti-Islamic Shah of Iran, | | | | technology. Very simple, really. You gain access to the |
| not because of his efforts to make peace with Israel. | | | | time stream by orbiting our planet at the speed of light." |
| * The Russians paid the Bulgarians with a suitcase | | | | The final question was: What was the motive for |
| containing gold and more than a hundred thousand | | | | writing one hundred prophecies in the sixth century? |
| rubles to attempt the assassination of Pope John Paul | | | | To this, St. George responded: "The gloom of the Dark |
| II. | | | | Ages was already upon the scene, and ignorance |
| * American satellites over the Falkland Islands guided a | | | | became perpetually self-generating. It's a common |
| British submarine to an Argentine cruiser, which was | | | | misconception that technological progress is an |
| torpedoed resulting in the death of hundreds of | | | | inherent characteristic of humankind. Without |
| Argentine sailors. | | | | intervention, western civilization today would be exactly |
| St. George claims that this information, as well as a | | | | like it was back then, embroiled in an endless cycle of |
| clear allusion to all the major events of world history | | | | famine, plague, and petty warfare. It took the |
| from Hiroshima to September 11, are conveyed by a | | | | prophecies fourteen hundred years to achieve their |
| mere forty-two stanzas that interconnect in intricate | | | | objective, which seems like a long time by the |
| ways to supply the needed details. According to St. | | | | standard of a human lifetime, but might not be such a |
| George, these forty-stanzas were originally part of a | | | | long time by other standards. |
| group of one hundred stanzas written in the sixth | | | | |