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John of Jerusalem was born not long after the year 1000 AD.
Historians think that his parents may have been pilgrims on the road to Saint James of Compostella
in Spain. These pilgrims came mostly from Germany, France and Italy and travelled for months, or
even years.
John was probably born during one of these pilgrimages and, as often happened in those days, was
given to the Benedictine monks at Vezelay (Burgundy) on the return journey.
The monks describe him as “child of the Monastery, son of Burgundy, soldier of Christ in the Holy
Land”, where he lived for about twenty years, participating in the conquest of Jerusalem, and
writing his prophecies. The manuscript mentions that “he often retired to the desert to meditate,
where the sky and the earth meet”.
He wrote in the margin of his manuscript: “the book of Prophecies is a secret protocol”.
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 recognise, the
picture which he paints of us as we are now, we should be more inclined to believe his optimism
about our future.
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.
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
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 empty
The only law will be that of oneself and one’s clan
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 mechandise of everything
Everything will have its price
Trees, water and animals
Nothing more will be given and everything will be sold.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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 purety 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.