Prophecies
4,000 Years of Prophets, Visionaries and Predictions
Published on 1. January 2012
288 pages
978-1-78028-340-1 (ISBN)
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Discover how accurate past visions of the future have turned out to be and explore the continuity of the prophetic tradition. This is a fascinating anthology of amazing and curious stories - such as clairvoyant dreams about the sinking of the Titanic and the Reichstaag Fire in Berlin. It includes features on ancient shamans and soothsayers, Egyptian dream analysis, Greek oracles and Roman auguries, the ancient roots of astrology, messianic visionaries, medieval seers, African systems of divination, Aztec prophecies of cataclysms, the mysteries of Pachacamac, Nostradamus and his "Centuries" and the futurism of H. G. Wells.
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Tony Allan studied history at Oxford and was for many years a writer and editor with Time-Life Books, serving as Series Editor of the Time-Life History of the World, and working as an author and consultant on Myth and Mankind, a 20-volume study of comparative mythology.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part One: Mouthpieces of the Gods
- 1. The Roots of Prophecy
- 2. The Old Testament Prophets
- 3. The Coming of the Messiah
- 4. The Reign of the Antichrist
- 5. The Apocalypse of St John
- 6. A Divine Madness
- 7. The Navel of the World
- 8. Visions of the Sibyl
- 9. The Mysteries of Pachacamac
- 10. The Apostle of the Third Age
- 11. The Papal Predictions
- 12. The Voices of Joan of Arc
- 13. The Blood-Stained Path to Heavenly Peace
- 14. Joseph Smith, the Latter-Day Prophet
- 15. Native American Holy Men
- 16. The Secrets of Fatima
- Part Two: Dreams and Premonitions
- 17. The Gods of Mesopotamia
- 18. Foretelling Pharaoh's Future
- 19. Aztec Visions of the Cataclysm
- 20. Premonitions of Death
- 21. Dreams that Foretold Disasters
- 22. The Sinking of the Titanic
- 23. An Experiment with Time
- Part Three: Systems of Divination
- 24. The Ancient Roots of Astrology
- 25. The Book of Changes
- 26. The Druids
- 27. Roman Augury
- 28. The Tarot
- 29. African Divination
- 30. Calendrical Systems of Mesoamerica
- 31. The Scryer's Art
- 32. A Plethora of Methods
- Part Four: Seers And Clairvoyans
- 33. Merlin the Prophet
- 34. Wizards and Wise Women
- 35. The Templar's Curse
- 36. Nostradamus and the Centuries
- 37. The Cazotte Prophecy
- 38. 'Second Sight' in the Scottish Highlands
- 39. The Woman Clothed with the Sun
- 40. The Sleeping Prophet
- 41. The Hitler Prophecies
- Part Five: Thinking the Future
- 42. Leonardo, the Renaissance Visionary
- 43. Utopia and its Neighbours
- 44. Jules Verne and the Technological Imagination
- 45. The Prophet of the Modern Age
- 46. Prediction as Science
- 47. The Rise of Futurology
- Copyright
