KAISER ANTICHRIST

Evening Star, Issue 15909, 15 September 1915, Page 2

KAISER ANTICHRIST

HISTORY OF A REMARKABLE PREDICTION. WHO WAS~JOHANNES? FULL TEXT OF~THE PROPHECY. The prophecy of Brother Johannes, which was first printed in part in. the London.,' Evening Standard ' on October 3 and reprinted'on October 17, caused a, profound impression, and in reply to the many inquiries as to the history and identity of the author the ' Evening Standard' is now able to offer the following explanation, without, however, assuming any reuponsibility for its authenticity:— The Latin original of the prophecy was found .among the papers of the late Adrien Peladan (author of a work in three volumes on ' Prophecies,' and editor of a review named ' The Annals of the Supernatural') by his son, who had it translated into French and published in the columns of the 'Figaro.' As to the man himself, little can be gleaned of his biography save the meagre facts given by M. Peladan. —A Monk's Manuscript.— According to him, his father came into the possession of the manuscript through a monk of St. Michael de Frigolet, near Taraseon, who in turn received it from an Abbe Donat, a learned priest, who died at a very great age. M. Peladan, a son, a deep student of all matters appertaining to theology, found the manuscript in 1890, on the death of his father, among a | mass of other papers dealing with the gift of prophetic vision. Although even I at that time he was startled by the extraordinary vividness of the picture drawn by Brother Johannes, he" never thought of it again until the entrance of England into the present struggle recalled to his mind "the leopard and his claws.'-' He rediscovered the prophecy, and the wonderful accuracy of the description of the battling nations led him to translate it. M. Peladan believes Brother Johannes to have been a French monk, who lived and wrote in the 16th century. The work of .Brother Johannes has becomo a matter of profound interest both in France and England, and at the request of numerous readers the ' Evening Standard ' prints to-day in full the text of the prophecy as it .appeared in the 'Figaro.' —Kaiser as the Veritable Antichrist.— Following is the full text of the; prophecy, the first 17 paragraphs now being included for the first time: — 1. Several times has one seemed to recognise him, because all the slayers of the Lamb resemble each other, and all the wicked are the precursors of the Great Wicked One. 2. The veritable Antichrist will be one of the monarchs of his time, a son of Luther; he will invoke God, and call himself His messenger. 3. The prince of lies will swear by the Bible; he will call himself the Arm of the Most High, chastising corrupted people. 4. He will only have one arm, but his innumerable armies, who will take as their motto " God is with us," will seem like infernal legions. 5. .For a long while he will act by ruse and treason; his spies will spread all over the earth, and he will be the master of the secrets of those in power. 6. He will have theologians in his pay to certify aud prove his celestial mission. 7. A war will furnish him with the reason for lifting the mask. It will not be one which he will make against the French monarchs, but another, which will be easily recognised by the fact that in two weeks' time it will have becomo universal. 8. It will call to arms all Christians, all Mohammedans, and even other very distant peoples. Armies will be formed in the four parts of the world. —Christian Worlds—Fiendish Acts.— 9. For men's minds will be opened by angels, and in the third week they will understand that this is the Antichrist, and that they will all become slaves if they do not trample down this conquering one. 10. The Antichrist will be recognisable by several marks. He will ohiefly massacre priests, monks, women, children, and old people; he will show no mercy; he will pass along holding a torch like the barbarians, but invoking the name of Christ. those of Christians, but his acts will be those of Nero and the Roman persecutors; there will be an eagle in his coat of arms, and there will also be one in that of his confederate, the other wicked monarch. 12. But this one is a Christian, and he will die cursed by the Pope Benedicts, who will be elected at the beginning of the reign of the Antichrist. 13. Priests and monks will no longer be seen confessing and absolving the combatants, because for the first time priests and monks will fight with the other citizens, and also because, Pope Benedictus having cursed the Antichrist, it will be proclaimed that all those who wage war against him will be in a state of grace, and should they die, will, like martyrs, go straight to Heaven. 14. The Pope's "Bull" proclaiming these things will make a great sensation, and will c.ause the death of the monarch the Antichrist's ally. 15. In order to conquer the Antichrist, more men must'be killed than Rome has ever held. It will require an effort from all lands, for the cock, the leopard, and the white eagle would not suffice to overcome the black eagle if they were not helped by the prayers and devotion of all the human race. —Humanity in Grave Peril.— 16. Never before has humanity been in such peril, for the triumph of the Antichrist would be that of the Demon, in whom he is incarnated. 17. For it has been said that twenty centuries after the Incarnation of the Word the Beast in his turn would be incarnated, and would threaten the earth with as many evils as the Divine Incarnation had brought it graces. 18. Near the year two thousand the Antichrist will appear; his army will surpass in numbers anything herebefore imagined: • there will be Christians amongst his hordes, and amongst the defenders of the Lamb there will be Mohammedans and savage tribes. 19. For the first time the Lamb will be entirely red, in the whole of the Christian world there will not be a space that will not- be red; and the heavens, the earth, the water, and even the air will be red, for blood will flow in a sphere of the four elements at the same time. 20. The black eagle will throw itself upon the cock, which will lose many of its feathers, but will strike heroically with its spur. It would soon be annihilated were it not for the help of the leopard and its claws. 21. The black eagle will come from the land of Luther, will surprise the cock by another side, and will invade one-half of the land of the cock. 22. The white eagle, which will come from the north, will surprise the black eagle and the other eagle, and will completely invade the land of the Antichrist from one end to. the other. —Rivers Crossed Over Corpses.— 23. The black eagle will be forced to leave the cock to fight the white eagle, and the cock will pursue the black eagle into the land of the Antichrist to help the white eagle. 24. The battles, waged until then will be small in comparison to those that will take place in the land of Luther, because the seven angels will at the same time pour fire from their burners on the impious land (image taken from the Apocalypse), which means that the Lamb will order the extermination of the Antichrist's race. 25. When the Beast sees he is lost he will become furious"; during months the beak of the white eagle, the claws of the leopard, and the spurs of the «ywak must harass him.

26. Rivers will be crossed over massesot dead bodies, which in some places will change the course of waters. Onlv great noblemen, superior officers and princes will • receive burial, for to the carnage caused by firearms will *be added those who perished by famine and plague. * 27. The Antichrist will several times ask for peace, but the seven angels who precede the three animals, defenders of the Lamb, have declared that victory shall only be accorded on the condition that the Antichrist be crushed, like Btraw on the threshing-floor. 28. Executors of the Lamb's justice these three animals cannot stop fighi> ing as long as any soldiers remain to the Antichrist. 29. The reason the sentence of the Lamb is so implacable is that the Antichrist has pretended to be a Christian, and to be acting in His Name, so that if he did not perish the fruit of the Redemption would be lost, and the gates of Hell would prevail against the Saviour. —Predicts Era of Peace. 30. It will be seen that it is not a human combat which will he waged where the Antichrist forges his arms. The three animals, defenders of the Lamb, will exterminate the Antichrist's last army; but the battlefield will become as an altar of sacrifice, larger than the greatest of cities, and the corpses will have changed its shape by raising in it chains of mounds. 31. The Antichrist will lose his crown, and will die demented and alone. His Empire will be divided into twentytwo States, but none will have either a Royal House, an army, or vessels. 32. The white eagle, by Michael's order, will drive the Crescent from Europe, where only Christians" will remain; it will occupy Constantinople. 33. Then an era of peace and prosperity will commence for all the universe, and there will be no more" war, each nation being governed according to its wish, and living in justice. 34. There will bo no Lutherans or schismatics. The Lamb will reign, and the joys of humanity will commence. Happy they who, escaping from the perils of this prodigious time, can taste of its fruit, which will be the reign of the Eternal Spirit and the sanetification of humanity, only to be achieved by the defeat of the Antichrist.