The prophecy of Jean de Jerusalem
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, apart from John’s 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 today’s 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 credibility of John of Jerusalem, I think that I should start from the beginning. Once we see, and recognize, 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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"I see and I know what will be. I am the Scribe"
1
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
When the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand begins
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.
3
When the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand begins
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 emptyThe only law will be that of oneself and one’s 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 begins
Hunger 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.
5
When the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand begins
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 Father’s 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
When the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand begins
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.
7
When the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand begins
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.
8
When the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand begins
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.
9
When the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand begins
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
10
When the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand begins
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.
11
When the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand begins
Man will make merchandise 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.
12
When the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand begins
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.
13
When the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand begins
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.
14
When the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand begins
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 cliff’s 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.
15
When the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand begins
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.
16
When the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand begins
Men will be so numerous over the lands
That they will resemble an ant’s 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.
17
When the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand begins
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.
18
When the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand begins
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 don’t 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.
19
When the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand begins
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.
20
When the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand begins
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.
21
When the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand begins
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 won’t be enough for the land
And the air will eat away the bodies of the weakest.
22
When the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand begins
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.
23
When the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand begins
The 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.
24
When the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand begins
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 separate
That 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.
25
When the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand begins
The animals which Noah had embarked on his Ark
Will be no more in Man’s 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?
26
When the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand begins
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.
27
When the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand begins
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 giant
He 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.
28
When the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand begins
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 purity 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.
29
When the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand begins
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 menace
They 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.
30
When the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand begins
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 strong
He 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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31
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.
32
In the heart of the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
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.
33
In the heart of the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
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 don’t fall.
They will communicate with each other
For 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.
34
In the heart of the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
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 Man’s body will be bigger and skilful
And his mind will have embraced all things and will have understood them.
35
In the heart of the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
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.
36
In the heart of the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
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.
37
In the heart of the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
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.
38
In the heart of the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
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.
39
In the heart of the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
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.
40
In the heart of the Year Thousand that comes after Year Thousand
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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