The Prophecy of John of Jerusalem

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The prophecy of John of Jerusalem

John of Jerusalem was born not long after the year 1000 AD.

Historians think that his parents may have been pilgrims on the road to Saint James of Compostella

in Spain. These pilgrims came mostly from Germany, France and Italy and travelled for months, or

even years.

John was probably born during one of these pilgrimages and, as often happened in those days, wasgiven to the Benedictine monks at Vezelay (Burgundy) on the return journey.

The monks describe him as child of the Monastery, son of Burgundy, soldier of Christ in the Holy

Land, where he lived for about twenty years, participating in the conquest of Jerusalem, and

writing his prophecies. The manuscript mentions that he often retired to the desert to meditate,

where the sky and the earth meet.

He wrote in the margin of his manuscript: the book of Prophecies is a secret protocol.

He was one of the founders of the Order of the Temple, and died around 1120, at the age of 77.

I have translated his prophecies from the original French. There may be some who would question

my translation. I would be happy to hear from them. The original language is not coded and, apartfrom Johns difficulty in describing modern things (of which he does a pretty good job) is very easy

to understand.

There are forty prophecies. Numbers one to thirty all begin with When the Year Thousand that

comes after Year Thousand begins and describe todays world with astonishing accuracy.

Numbers thirty-one to forty all begin with In the heart of the Year Thousand that comes after Year

Thousand and describes what comes right after those dark ages and that is known in John's

revelation as the 1000 years kingdom.

I would love to go directly to the prophecies for this Golden Age but, for the sake of the credibilityof John of Jerusalem, I think that I should start from the beginning. Once we see, and recognise, the

picture which he paints of us as we are now, we should be more inclined to believe his optimism

about our future.


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When the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand begins

Gold will be in the Blood.

Whoever looks at the sky will calculate how to profit from it

Whoever enters the Temple will meet merchants

The Rulers will be money-changers and usurers

The Sword will defend the Serpent.

But fire will be smouldering

Each town will be Sodom and Gomorrah

And the children of the children

Will become the fiery swarm

They will raise up the old banners.

2


Man will have peopled the Heavens and the Earth and the Seas with his Creatures

He will want the powers of God

He will know no limit

But each thing will turn against him

He will stagger like a drunken king

He will gallop like a blind knight

And with his spurs he will push his mount into the forest

At the end of the road will be the fall.


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Towers of Babel will rise in all corners of the Earth

That one will be Rome and this one will be Byzance

The fields will be empty

The only law will be that of oneself and ones clan

But the Barbarians will be in the city

There will not be enough bread for everyone

And games will no longer be sufficient

Then people with no future

Will light great fires.

4

When the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand beginsHunger will squeeze the stomachs of so many men

And cold will turn blue so many hands

That these people will want to see another world

And dream-merchants will come who will offer them the poison.

But it will destroy bodies and rot souls

And those who will have mixed the poison with their blood

Will be like wild beasts caught in a trap

And will kill and rape and extort and steal

And life will become an everyday apocalypse.


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Each person will seek as much sexual pleasure as he can

The man will repudiate his wife as many times as he marries

And the woman will go from place to place taking whomever pleases her

Giving birth without giving the Fathers name

But no educator will guide the child

And each one among the others will be alone

Tradition will be lost

The Law will be forgotten

As if the Annunciation had never been made and man

Will become wild again

6


The father will take his pleasure with his daughter

Man with man, woman with woman

The old man with the impubescent child

And that will be known by all.

But blood will become impure

The disease will spread from bed to bed

The body will receive all the putrefactions of the earth

Faces will be gaunt, limbs will be emaciated

Love will be a great threat

For those who only know each other sexually.


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He who speaks of sworn Oaths and of Law

Will not be heard

He who preaches the Christian Faith

Will lose his voice in the desert.

But everywhere will spread the strong waters

Of other religions

False messiahs will assemble blinded men

And the armed Infidel will be like never before

He will speak of justice and of right

And his faith will be burning and decisive

He will take his revenge for the Crusade.

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The noise of killing will roll like a storm upon the earth

There will be barbarians among the soldiers of the last legions

People of different faiths will live in the heart of the Holy Cities

Each in turn will be barbarous, faithless and lawless.

There will be no more law and order

Hate will spread like a flame in the dry forest

Barbarians will massacre soldiers

Those of no faith will slit the throats of the faithful

Brutality will be everywhere and the cities will die.


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9


Men will judge each other according to their Race and their Religion

Nobody will listen to the suffering hearts of the children

They will be taken from their nests like baby birds

And no-one will be able to protect them from the rapid hand

By the gauntlet.

Hate will flood the lands which thought themselves pacified

And nobody will be spared, neither the elderly nor the wounded

Houses will be destroyed or stolen

People will take the place of others

Each one will close his eyes so as not to see the women raped

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Everyone will know what is happening everywhere on Earth

They will see the child whose bones are piercing his skin

And the one whose eyes are covered in flies

And the one being hunted like a rat.

But the man who sees will turn away his head

For he will be thinking only of himself

That man will give a handful of seeds in charity

When he sleeps on full sacks

And what he gives with one hand he will take back with the other.


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Man will make mechandise of everything

Everything will have its price

Trees, water and animals

Nothing more will be given and everything will be sold.

But then Man will be no more than his weight of flesh

His body will be bartered like a side of meat

They will take his eye and his heart

Nothing will be sacred, neither his life nor his soul

They will compete for his dead body and his blood

Like a dead animal to be cut up.

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Man will have changed the face of the earth

He will think himself the master and Ruler

Of the forests and the flocks

He will have burrowed into the ground and the sky

And left his mark in the rivers and the seas.

But the earth will be naked and sterile

The Air will become burning hot and the water will stink

Life will wilt because man will use up the richness of the world

And man will be alone like a wolf in hatred of himself.


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The child too will be sold

Some people will use him like a quintain

To get sexual pleasure from his new skin

Others will treat him like a servile animal.

They will forget the sacred weakness of the child

And his mystery

He will be a foal to be trained

Like a lamb to be bled, to be slaughtered

And man will be nothing more than savage cruelty.

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The opinions and the minds of men will be imprisoned

They will be intoxicated and will not know it

They will take images and reflections for the truth of the world

They will be treated like sheep.

Then the flesh-eaters will come

Rapacious people will herd them

The better to lead them to the cliffs edge

And turn them against each other

They will be skinned for their wool and their leather

And man if he survives will be stripped of his soul.


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Rulers with no religious beliefs will reign

They will issue orders to unsuspecting and passive crowds of people

They will hide their faces and keep their names secret

And their castles will be hidden in the forests.

But they will decide the fate of everything and of everyone

No-one will participate in the meetings of their order

Everyone will be a true serf and will believe himself to be a free man and a knight

The only ones to rise up will be those of the untamed cities

And of the heretic faiths

But first of all they will be defeated and burnt alive.

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Men will be so numerous over the lands

That they will resemble an ants nest

Into which a stick has been poked

They will swarm everywhere and death will crush them underfoot

Like frightened insects.

Great movements will push them from one country to another

Brown skins will mix with white skins

The Christian faith with that of the Infidel

Some will preach sworn peace

But everywhere there will be fighting among enemy tribes.


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Men will want to break down all barriers

The mother will have the hair of an old woman

The path of nature will be abandoned

And families will be like scattered grains

That nothing can unite.

It will therefore be another world

Each person will roam without ties like a bolted horse

Going in all directions with no guide

Unhappy the knight who mounts this steed

He will be without stirrups and will fall into the ditch.

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Men will no longer rely on the law of God

But will want to lead their lives like a horse

They will want to choose their children in their wives wombs

And will kill those that they dont like.

But what sort of man takes himself for God like that?

The Powerful will seize the best lands

And the most beautiful women

The poor and the weak will be cattle

Each home will become a donjon

Fear will be in every heart like a poison.


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A black and secret order will have risen

Its law will be of hate and its arm poison

It will want always more gold and will spread its reign

Over the earth

Those who serve it will be bound to each other by a kiss of blood.

Good men and the weak will be submitted to its rule

The Powerful will enter its service

The only law will be that which it dictates in the shadows

It will sell the poison even in the churches

And the world will walk with the scorpion under its heel.

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A lot of men will remain seated with their arms crossed

Or will wander without knowing where, with glazed eyes

For they will no longer have a forge to beat metal

And no field to cultivate

They will be like a seed which cannot take root

Roaming around and owning nothing, humiliated and desperate

The youngest and the oldest often homeless

They will have only war to save them

And they will start by fighting themselves

And they will hate their lives.


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Illnesses from the water from the sky and from the earth

Will attack man and endanger him

He will want to revive that which he has destroyed

And protect that which remains

He will be afraid of the days to come.

But it will be very late

The desert will swallow up the land

And water will be deeper and deeper

It will flow some days

Taking everything like a flood

And the next day there wont be enough for the land

And the air will eat away the bodies of the weakest.

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The earth will quake in several places

And the cities will fall down

Everything that will have been built without heeding the wise ones

Will be endangered and destroyed

Mud will submerge towns

And the ground will open under the Palaces.

Man will persist for his pride is his folly

He will not heed the repeated warnings of the earth

But fire will destroy the new Romes

And in the accumulated ruins

The poor and the lawless will loot in spite of the Legions

The abandoned riches.


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When the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand beginsThe sun will burn the earth

The Air will no longer be a veil which protects from the fire

It will be only a curtain with holes

And the burning light will eat away skins and eyes.

The sea will rise like boiling water

Cities and seasides will be covered

And entire continents will disappear

Men will take refuge on the heights

And they will rebuild already forgetting that which has happened.

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Men will know how to make mirages live

The senses will be deceived and they will believe they are touching that which is not

They will follow paths which are seen only by the eyes

And in this way dreams will be able to come alive.

But man will no longer know how to separateThat which is from that which is not

He will be lost inside false labyrinths

Those who will know how to make the mirages live

Will take advantage of the naive man by deceiving him

And a lot of men will become grovelling dogs.


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The animals which Noah had embarked on his Ark

Will be no more in Mans hands

Than beasts transformed according to his will

And who will worry about their lifetime of suffering?

Man will have made each species into what he wanted

And he will have destroyed numerous ones

What will the man have become who will have changed the laws of life

Who will have made the living animal a piece of clay

Will he be the equal of God or the child of the Devil?

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You must be afraid for the child of man

Poison and despair will lie in wait for him

He will be desired only selfishly and not for his own sake or for the world

He will be tracked down for sexual pleasure and sometimes his body will be sold.

But even the one being protected by his family

Will be in danger of having a dead mind

He will live inside games and mirages

Which will guide him because there will be no more educators

No-one will have taught him to hope and how to act.


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Man will think that he is God when he will be nothing more than a baby

He will hit out, always overcome by anger and jealousy,

But he will be armed with the power that he has taken

And blind Prometheus he will be able to destroy everything around him.

He will remain a dwarf of the soul and he will have the strength of a giantHe will take enormous strides forward but he will not know which road to take

His head will be heavy with knowledge

But he will not know why he lives and dies

He will be like the fire always gesticulating or the child who whimpers.

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Whole regions will be prey to war

Beyond the Roman limes and even on the former territory of the Empire, men of same cities will

cut each others throats

Here it will be war between tribes and there between religious believers.

The Jews and the children of Allah will unendingly oppose each other

And the land of Christ will be their battlefield

But the infidels will want to defend the purety of their faith everywhere

And opposite them will be only doubt and power

Then death will advance everywhere like the flag of the new times.


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A multitude of men will be excluded from human life

They will have neither rights, nor roof, nor bread,

They will be naked and will have only their bodies to sell

They will be pushed far away from the opulent towers of Babel.

They will swarm like a remorse and a menaceThey will occupy entire regions and will proliferate

They will listen to the preachings of vengeance

And they will launch an attack on the proud towers

The time of barbaric invasions will have come.

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Man will have entered into the dark labyrinth

He will be afraid and he will close his eyes for he will no longer want to see

He will be wary of everything and afraid at every step

But still he will be pushed onward for no halt will be allowed him.

Even though the voice of Cassandra will be loud and strongHe will not hear it

For he will want to possess more and more and his head will be lost in mirages

Those who govern him will deceive him

And there will be only bad shepherds.


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In the heart of the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand

Men will have at last opened their eyes

They will no longer be locked up inside their heads or in their cities

They will see and hear each other from one point of the earth to another

They will know that whatever strikes one of them hurts the others.

Men will be like a great single body

Of which each of them will be a tiny part

And together they will constitute the heart

And there will be one language which will be spoken by everyone and this is how the great

human being will be born.

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Man will have conquered the sky

He will create stars in the great dark blue sea

And he will navigate on this shining ship

New Ulysses, companion of the sun, for the celestial Odyssey.

But he will also be the ruler of the water

He will have built great nautical cities

Which will be fed by sea crops

He will live like this in every part of the great domain

And nothing will be forbidden him.


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Men will be able to go down under the waters

Their bodies will be new and they will be fish

And some will fly high, higher than the birds

As if stones dont fall.

They will communicate with each otherFor their minds will be so greatly open that they will receive all messages

And dreams will be shared

And they will live as long as the oldest of men

The one of whom the Holy Books speak.

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Man will know what the spirit of all things is

The stone or the water, the body of the animal or the gaze of others

He will have pierced the secrets that the ancient Gods possessed

And he will open door after door in the labyrinth of the new life.

He will create with the gushing power of a water source

He will teach the knowledge to the multitude of men

And the children will know more about the earth and the sky than anyone before them

And Mans body will be bigger and skilful

And his mind will have embraced all things and will have understood them.


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Man will no longer be the only ruler for woman will come and seize the sceptre

She will be the great mistress of the future times

And that which she thinks, she will impose on men

She will be the mother of this Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand

She will spread the warm softness of the sea after the days of the Devil

She will be beauty after the ugliness of the barbarous times

The Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand will change into a gentle time

People will love and they will share

They will dream and they will give birth to the dreams.

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Man will have a second birth

The Spirit will take hold of the human throng

Who will worship in brotherhood

Then the end of the barbarous times will begin.

This will be the time of a new vigour of the Faith

After the black days of the beginning of the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand

Happy days will open up

Man will again find the path of Men

And the earth will be in order.


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Roads will go from one end of the earth and the sky to the other end

Forests will be dense again

And the deserts will have been irrigated

The waters will have become pure again.

The earth will be like a garden

Man will watch over everything that lives

He will purify that which he has soiled

He will feel as if all the earth is his home

And he will be wise in thinking of the days to come.

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Each person will be like a measured footstep

They will know everything about the world and about their bodies

They will cure illness before it appears

Each person will be healer of himself and of the others.

They will have understood that you have to help to be able to maintain

And man, after the times of narrow-mindedness and of avarice,

Will open his heart and his purse to the poorest

He will feel himself to be a knight of the human order

And in this way a new time will at last begin.


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Man will have learnt to give and to share

The bitter days of solitude will be gone

He will believe once more in the spirit

And the Barbarians will have acquired recognition.

But that will come after the war and the fires

That will spring up from the blackened ruins of the towers of Babel

And it will have taken an iron fist

For the disorder to be put in order and for man to find again the right path.

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Man will know that all living things are bearers of light

And that they are creatures to be respected

He will have built the new cities

In the sky, on the earth and on the sea.

He will have the memory of what was

And he will know what will be

He will no longer be afraid of his own death

For in his life he will have lived several lives

And the light, he will understand, will never go out.

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