Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd Cherubin.

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However, it is not in Saint-Rémy that one is likely to find the true spirit of Nostradamus – in its concern for words, etymologies and arcanities – but in an area about a mile to the south of the town.[…]The one thing which his day-to-day astrology had in common with his quatrains is the tendency for them both to involve prolixity, or arcanity, of expression. A fine example of this arcanity may be seen in the section of the letter to Rosenberger, quoted at the opening of this chapter. After reading this section, one cannot help concluding that Nostradamus was being self-indulgently obscurantist.[…]How best may we summarize these complex analyses of sixteenth-century arcanities?

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