3. The method of subtraction of one part of the number from another. For example, 9.86, 9 – is a number of century (hundred), corresponding to 900, consequently 900-86 = 814. If we add 1 in the front we will get 1814 – the year of Paris capture.
In many prophecies, several methods are used simultaneously. For example in quatrain 9.21: if we rotate 9 in 6, swap 2 and 1 we will get 600-12 = 588, add 1 in front we will get 1588 – the year of d'Guise murder.
In any case, the digit 1 is always used as the basis for encryption. Apparently, different methods of encryption were used intentionally so that no one could decipher everything at once. The technique that I developed does not provide 100% credibility and does not always lead to decryption of the number. However, it often gives the years which correspond to the meaning of prophecies. I think Nostradamus used exactly these methods for quatrains numbers encryption and, perhaps some others.
Nostradamus prophecies come true so accurately,
that it seems that all of us – just the performers
of roles in the great Divine drama called "History”.
Quatrain 1.1 Secret cabinet
Estant assis de nuict secret estude,
Seul repose fus la selle d'airain;
Flambe exigue sortant de solitude
Feit proferer qui n'est a croire en (vain.
I seated at night in secret cabinet,
Only resting on the copper saddle:
Tiny flame leaving the solitude
Make prosper what is not vain to believe.
I think that the first quatrain does not contain any prophecy but describes the environment in which the prophet used to live and work. Nostradamus lived in a small town Salon in France. It is known that he had a secret room on the second floor of his house where he wrote his prophecies at night (the quatrain number 1.1 probably means that the prophet talked one on one with God).
Quatrain 1.2 Divine shine
La verge en main mise au milieu des (branches,
De l'onde il moulle le limbe & le pied,
Vn peur & voix fremissent par les manches,
Splendeur diuine, le diuin pres s'assied
The rod in the hands placed in the middle of branches.
With the wave he moistens and the hem and the foot:
A fear and voice trembling of the handles: Divine splendour.
The divine is seated nearby.
Judging by the content, the second quatrain like the first, is not a prediction. The first line can be the key for decryption. The branches may mean the digits of quatrain, and "rod" – the digit 1, which must be placed between the digits of the numbers to get the answer. The last 2 lines, perhaps, say that the prophecy was given to him from Heaven. If to believe in this Nostradamus revelation it means he heard "the voice" and saw "divinity", and then the trembling of the handles is understood.