Secret_History

Afterword 667
As he aged, Leonardo’s dark view of mankind and his general pessimism grew.
He was reported to erupt into fury liberally laced with scatological phrases that
remind us of the diatribe about man penned by Jonathan Swift: “Men who can call
themselves nothing more than a passage for food, producers of dung, fillers up of
privies, for of them nothing else appears in the world, nor is there any virtue in
them, for nothing of them remains but full privies.”
Francis I had such great respect for Leonardo that he required nothing of him at
all - he just wanted to be able to drop in as often as possible and talk to the Master.
It was in France, an “alien land”, that Leonardo gave his final trumpet blast in an
apocalyptic series of drawings called “The Deluge” which he predicted would one
day inundate the earth and end the world of Man.
These drawings, almost abstract in their abandonment of traditional artistic
styles, were obviously vivid exercises of his imagination. His scientific knowledge
is applied here with devastating effect, showing how puny are the means of man
when pitted against nature.
“Ah, what dreadful tumults one heard resounding through the gloomy air!”, he
wrote in the commentary to these drawings; “Ah me, how many lamentations!”
His depictions of the deluge were terrifying:
“Let the dark, gloomy air be seen beaten by the rush of opposing winds wreathed in
perpetual rain mingled with hail... All around let there be seen ancient trees
uprooted and torn in pieces by the fury of the winds... And let the fragments of
some of the mountains be fallen down into the depths of one of the valleys, and
there form a barrier to the swollen waters of its rivers, which having already burst
the barrier rushes on with immense waves...”
This was Leonardo’s Last Judgment on the World, his last message to mankind.
[See Plates 18 and 19.] Strange that it is the message of Auch Cathedral, the
message of Fulcanelli, Kardec, Nostradamus, etc. And strange that they are all tied
together via their connections to Marguerite of Navarre.
Recall that the burial scene of Christ in Auch Cathedral was inspired by
Margaret of Austria, who married into the family that was in possession of the
Shroud of Turin. Margaret’s husband, Philibert de Savoie was a cousin of one of
the bishops that was involved in the commissioning of the work of the cathedral,
Francois de Savoie, and that Marguerite of Navarre, the second cousin of
Margaret of Austria, was closely associated with Auch Cathedral.
Remember: Marguerite of Navarre takes us right back to Fulcanelli via
François Rabelais whose series, Le Tiers Livre des faicts et dicts héroïques du
bon Pantagruel (1546), was dedicated to her.
It was after the death of Leonardo that Marguerite became involved in the
movement for the reform of the church, meeting and corresponding with the
leading reformers of the period. In 1527, Marguerite married Henri d’Albret, King
of Navarre. Henri d’Albret was the son of Catherine de Foix, descended from a
famous Cathar family.
Recall also that another of Marguerite’s associates and correspondents was Jules
Cesar Scaliger who was a close friend and associate of Nostradamus, that
Nostradamus, as mentioned, was born in Alet-le-Bains, in Foix lands, and that
Nostradamus also attended school with Rabelais.