The Nostradamus Code: The Lost Manuscript That Unlocks the Secrets of the Master Prophet [Hardcover]

Ottavio Cesare Ramotti (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1998

Containing symbolic portraits of the portraits of the popes of the 17th to 21st centuries, this manuscript confirms the hidden chronology of Nostradamus's quatrains discovered by the well-known Nostradamus scholar Ottavio Cesare Ramotti.

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Italian

About the Author

For many years program analyst for the Interforce Electronic Center of the Italian National Police, Ottavio Cesare Ramotti has dedicated the past ten years to decoding more than 600 of the quatrains of Nostradamus. He lives in Rome.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 167 pages
• Publisher: Destiny Books (July 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 089281666X
• ISBN-13: 978-0892816668
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 8.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #880,771 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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17 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Author is knowledgable, but lacks esoteric understanding, October 16, 1998

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This review is from: The Nostradamus Code: The Lost Manuscript That Unlocks the Secrets of the Master Prophet (Hardcover)

While Ramotti has stated that the Nostradamus quatrains contain a code that reveals information beneath the surface, he does little in the way of making the reader understand what he has deciphered, and even less in making the reader understand his methodology. Much of it makes so little sense that it is amazing he printed it. He also does the decoding in Italian, which I feel should be in French. He implies by doing so that Nostradamus targeted an Italian audience for the quatrains. In reading the decoded verses, it appears that he groped to put together many of the sentences, making them sound almost incoherent. Insummary, I would say that he is indeed onto something with his decoding scheme, but he sorely lacks a deeply conscious, esoteric understanding of what is hidden beneath the quatrains, as well as the intepretation of the platelets (which contain many symbols of the tarot).

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Uncertainty, March 27, 2006

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D. Merchant (Ruston, LA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Nostradamus Code: The Lost Manuscript That Unlocks the Secrets of the Master Prophet (Hardcover)

Another writer, a Michael Rathford, also claims a lost manuscript of Nostradamus exists, but while Ramotti claims the lost manuscript was found in 1994, Rathford says 2004. What is going on? That is uncertain.

Also, Mr. Ramotti claims he created the computer program to decipher the manuscript, while Mr. Rathford in his book on the same subject claims that he created the computer program to decipher the manuscript. I suppose it is possible both independently created programs to decipher the same text, but I am left with a large uncertainty.

Humans have a fascination with patterns, and we have uncertainty and anxieties for the future. And so it should be no surprise that there will be those who will take advantage of that for their own gain. Yes, often new philosophies, new theories, etc, are often met with derision before acceptance, but that is no proof whatsoever of validity: "my theory is being attacked, therefore it is true" is nonsense. I could say rocks eat rainbows and produce butterflies which spit out babies and say to those how attack me "my theory is being attacked, therefore it is true." Proves nothing. As the Bible says "test all things, keep that which is good." Test. All things. Don't blindly accept things on face value, or at first blush. Or because the writer is playing on your fears, or anxieties, or weaknesses.

As for the one positive review, Mr. Moral Amor, my hesitation about accepting his review is that at his Web site he states that his new system of organic moral philosophy took 10 years at a cost of over 1 million dollars to create - I find that extremely difficult to accept. If he has discovered such an incredible system that will save the world, morally I would think he should share it for free, or at the very least at cost. Especially a moral system that will even make you look and feel younger (moral botox). Maybe that's just me, maybe my morality is wrong. If so, then I apologize for my ignorance.

11 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars False Manuscript?, September 15, 2001

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Patrick S. Tolen (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Nostradamus Code: The Lost Manuscript That Unlocks the Secrets of the Master Prophet (Hardcover)

I have communicated with a World-Known authority on Nostradamus, and he has told me that no such 'lost manuscript' of Nostradamus exists. Therefore, I must conclude that this book is not worth the paper it is printed on.