One of the things humans have been trying to do ever since the world started was predict the future. Greek kings would go to the Oracle before engaging in battle to make sure they would come out victorious. The Oracle herself was not the one who spoke to these kings, it was the high priest who interpreted what the Oracle had to say. Ancient races all over the world had their prophets. Some are said to have made accurate predictions, but in truth much of what has been said in the past was buried in symbolic language needed to be interpreted by someone. Once one gets to this point you can make this kind of language mean almost anything and humans have a habit of fitting it to past events to prove it is accurate. A case in point are the quatrains of Nostradamus. Nostradamus took great pains to hide what he was saying because he didn’t want to be persecuted by the church, but in doing so he left his predictions open to interpretation. There are those who state Nostradamus was merely a pretender and not a prophet at all. It has been said some of his predictions may have come from others such as Plutarch. The following is an example of one of his quatrains:
The year 1999 seven month,
From the sky will come a great King of terror:
To bring back to life the great King of Angolmois, (the Mongols),
Before after Mars to reign by good luck
(Century X, Quatrain 72)
This has been interpreted to mean there would be an attack on 9/11 in America. As I stated previously this prediction was fitted in after the attack. It had to be, nobody could’ve ever figured out what this meant before the attack and even after the attack you could have said it meant anyone of a number of events in 1999.

Over the years there have been many prophets, both biblical and modern-day. One of the most famous is a modern day one Edgar Cayce. He lived from 1877 to 1945. Cayce was considered a psychic and a prophet, as a matter of fact he was called the sleeping prophet, because this is how he gave his predictions. Some have called him a charlatan and said he only did it for money, but Cayce never asked anybody for a penny. This doesn’t mean he didn’t accept gifts. He was said to be very accurate with his predictions and there have been all sorts of estimates of this accuracy. While it is certainly not 100%, many believe he was correct more than half the time. Cayce believed human civilization went back ten million years and some of the things he said about ancient civilizations have come to pass. He stated the River Nile had changed course over the eons and had once emptied into the Atlantic Ocean. Years later radar images from a shuttle flight discovered the river had changed its course and once floated across the Sahara to Africa and into the Atlantic Ocean.

Cayce gave many predictions about ancient times. He talked about Atlantis. Cayce had lost his voice and wasn’t able to speak. A hypnotist who was performing an act in his town offered to help him and Cayce accepted. He brought Cayce to the office of a throat specialist and then hypnotized him. He was able to speak while in a trance, but his voice disappeared when he woke up. He received more treatments and declared himself cured while in one of the trances. His voice returned, but he would have many relapses. Over the years Cayce became famous as a clairvoyant. One man offered him one hundred dollars a day to predict the cotton market. Cayce was a poor man, but he still didn’t accept the offer. While in a trance he stated he could see some of people’s past lives. He had a stenographer record this and when he awoke from this trance he questioned it, because as a Christian he didn’t believe in reincarnation. Here is what his stenographer recorded during one of the sessions about reincarnation. ”In this we see the plan of development of those individuals set upon this plane, meaning the ability to enter again into the presence of the Creator and become a full part of that creation. Insofar as this entity is concerned, this is the third appearance on this plane, and before this one, as a monk. We see glimpses in the life of the entity now as were shown in the monk, in this mode of living. The body is only the vehicle ever of that spirit and soul that waft through all times and ever remain the same.”

Most of Cayce’s predictions were of a personal nature, but not all. Eleven years before the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in 1947, Edgar Cayce talked about a Jewish sect called the Essenes. He claimed men and women in this sect lived and worked together. When the Dead Sea Scrolls were found his psychic information was verified. Cayce had also stated the pyramids were much older than we are told and were 10,000 years old. There are quite a few people today who believe this and state watermarks on the pyramids and Sphinx prove they were there during the last time there was a flood on the Giza Plateau, which was about 10,000 years ago.

The meaning of Cayce’s predictions are clear and not buried in mystery such as those made by Nostradamus. Was there some sort of trickery involved? It doesn’t seem to be the case with Cayce. That sounded funny, anyway Nostradamus’s predictions are a completely different matter. Almost anyone can make a prediction, even one which is better understood and then find some event in history and fit it to it. I know there are quite a few followers of Nostradamus who will take umbrage at what I am saying, but all I can say is I would love to see an interpretation of one of his predictions which would show us an important event in the future and truthfully I don’t think this will ever happen.