I am not saying, my son - mark me well, here - that knowledge of such things cannot be

implanted in your deficient mind, or that events in the distant future may not be within the

understanding of any reasoning being. Nevertheless, if these things current or distant are brought

to the awareness of this reasoning and intelligent being they will be neither too obscure nor too

clearly revealed.

Perfect knowledge of such things cannot be acquired without divine inspiration, given that all

prophetic inspiration derives its initial origin from God Almighty, then from chance and nature.

Since all these portents are produced impartially, prophecy comes to pass partly as predicted. For

understanding created by the intellect cannot be acquired by means of the occult, only by the aid

of the zodiac, bringing forth that small flame by whose light part of the future may be discerned.

Nostradamus