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APRIL — MAY 2003 & REVIEWS be just too big a book. Among the sacred When he discovered the old monk's writings B oO oO K Ss places and sites listed are: Abydos, Egypt; and twigged to the similarities with the ; Avebury, England; Chaco Canyon, New Nostradamus quatrains, he knew he was Reviewed by Ruth Parnell Mexico, USA; Delphi, Greece; Macchu onto something. But it looked to him as if THE GALAXY ON EARTH: Picchu, Peru; Mount Kailash, Tibet; Rennes- | Nostradamus had been selective in what he " . " le-Chateau, France; Troy, Turkey; Uluru, borrowed, choosing passages that he judged A Traveler $ Guide to the Planet's Australia; and Wu-Tai Shan, or five Terrace to havea predictive quality and which he Visionary Geography M Para : . : ; . 4 ountain, in China. Leviton gives advice could make use of in the context of his tur- by Richard Leviton on how to access the ancient messages and bulent times. Cambier suggests that Hampton Roads, USA, 2002 energies of these visionary sites. Nostradamus misunderstood the prior's mis- ISBN 1-571 74-222-0 (584pp tpb) Considering the growing interest in spiritu- _ use of the future tense in telling facts about his latest offering from researcher al travel and sacred landscapes and struc- the past, and thought he'd stumbled across Richard Leviton is a guidebook to sacred _ tures, Leviton's book fills a special niche. some long-lost prophecies about chaos and sites and spiritual places all around the cataclysm. These sorts of writings apparent- globe. The first part serves as an introduc- NOSTRADAMUS AND THE LOST ly were popular in his time. tion to geomancy, cosmology, the planetary — TEMPLAR LEGACY But what was the Cistercian monk actually grid system and our part in this metaphysical by Rudy Cambier writing about? As Cambier interprets, it was matrix. The second part, "An A-Z Frontier Publishing, Netherlands, and the location of a Templar treasure that hadn't Inventory of the Light Pattern Library of the int been collected after the Order's demise in Earth Grid", categorises at least 40 specific ont ass Ba T1 8 18803 aN 2002 1307. Cambier went in search of it and geomantic features—known as Albion, Availability: Australia/NZ/UK/Europe— found significant artefacts and documents. Cosmic Egg, Dome, Dragon, Grail Castle, NEXUS offices; USA—Adventures In Nostradamus and the Lost Templar Labyrinth, Landscape Zodiac, and so on— Unlimited Press, website http:/Avww Legacy, he challenges "Nostraddicts" to get plus their principles and applications, and adventuresunlimited ress com . real and look at the evidence before them. cross-references them to locations on the verything is o eon uestion in these planet. For instance, Leviton identifies 108 Ex bat prophecy-watchers will be labyrinths (nine types, 12 of each) located at by ; yn a stunned by Rudy Cambier's assertion that Nostradannus Chichén Itza, Easter Island, Glastonbury, Nostradamus stele and plagiarised the verses and the Sedona and elsewhere. He has counted for which he is famous. After a decade of 4 Tespol 1,746 domes, or residences of the gods, and research, Cambier came to the breathtaking Pores provides an extensive list of stars corre- conclusion that the 10 Centuries could not Leguey sponding to ancient domes on Earth. have been written in the 1550s by The third part, taking up the majority of Nostradamus, but were in fact penned the book, is "A Geomantic Gazetteer" between 1323 and 1328 by a Cistercian describing 56 holy sites. Each has a small Prior, Yves de Lessions, Abbey of Camron map identifying the location within acoun- _in Hainaut on the French/Belgian border. try and covers physical description, history The supposed middle-French source just and archaeology, myth and legend, notes didn't fit a language that looked like Picard, from mystics and tourists and geomantic the 14th-century Flanders vernacular. So features. Unfortunately no photographs are | Cambier embarked on a detective journey to included, but, if they had been, this would decode the language and uncover the facts. When he discovered the old monk's writings and twigged to the similarities with the Nostradamus quatrains, he knew he was onto something. But it looked to him as if Nostradamus had been selective in what he borrowed, choosing passages that he judged to have a predictive quality and which he could make use of in the context of his tur- bulent times. Cambier suggests that Nostradamus misunderstood the prior's mis- use of the future tense in telling facts about the past, and thought he'd stumbled across some long-lost prophecies about chaos and cataclysm. These sorts of writings apparent- ly were popular in his time. But what was the Cistercian monk actually writing about? As Cambier interprets, it was the location of a Templar treasure that hadn't been collected after the Order's demise in 1307. Cambier went in search of it and found significant artefacts and documents. In Nostradamus and the Lost Templar Legacy, he challenges "Nostraddicts" to get real and look at the evidence before them. Bidy Com a Nostradannus and the Lost Templar Legacy NEXUS = 65 www.nexusmagazine.com