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Nostradamus Uses Some Techniques
Borrowed From The Delphic Oracle
When I am seated alone at night
in my secret study,
musing over the brass bowl
which rests on a tripod
a slender flame comes forth
from nothing and signals
the time for me to utter
the sacred mantra. With the divining branch
in hand, it's wet tip points to limb and foot.
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According to John Hogue in his Nostradamus and the Millennium,
Nostradamus hints at some of the magical practices he used to bring to an ecsatic trance
state on astrologically auspicious nights in his Salon study. Visions came to him through
flame or water gazing. Nostradmus refers to a ritual practiced by Branchus, a Delphic
prophetess of ancient Greece. He sits on a brass tripod, spine erect, using the resulting
discomfort to remain alert. The tripod's legs were angled at the same degree as the pyramids
of Egypt in order to create a similar bio-electric force which it was believed would sharpen
psychic powers. Another tripod stands at his feet with a brass bowl filled with steaming
water and pungent with stimulating oils.
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