Q. Isn't 'Mabus' (II.62) the third Antichrist after all, then?

A. All Nostradamus says about 'Mabus' is that he will die!

While the fact is rather striking that the last US ambassador to Saudi
Arabia was Raymond E Mabus, Governor of Mississippi, it is probably
more relevant that Jan Gossaert de MABUSE, the Flemish painter, diedon
October 1st 1532. In that same year the Emperor Charles V finally
managed to push back the Muslim Ottoman hordes from before the very
gates of Vienna - thus 'avenging' their previous 'laying waste of man
and beast alike'. In the same year, too, there was a particularly
bright comet - though not Halley's, which had returned the previous
year. The astrological situation between 14th and 18th September 1532
Julian (it seemsto have been N's normal practice to take the situation
shortly before the event, as though trying to pinpoint the 'causes'
rather than the event itself) had

sun in Libra
moon moving from Pisces to Taurus
Mercury in Libra
Venus in Scorpio
Mars in Libra

The next time the same situation occurs (I have not so far managed to
find a match involving Jupiter and Saturn as well - but N seems
normally to have been satisfied with such five-planet matches) is
between 18th and 23rd October 2002 (Gregorian) - which is when, if we
follow N's normal logic, the same sequence of events ought therefore
to follow too. It should therefore involve the death of a prominent
painter, a comet, and the halting or throwing back of a Muslim
invasion - apparently somewhere to the south of Lisbon.

Meanwhile, my 2003 book has:

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II.62. Original 1555 text

Mabus puis tost alors mourra, viendra
De gens & bestes une horrible defaite:
Puis tout à coup la vengence on verra
Cent, main, soif, faim, quand courra la comete.

Read as modern French:


destruction

Sang humain

Then, Mabus shortly dying, there shall be
Of man and beast a massacre most dread.
Then suddenly they’ll awful vengeance see:
Thirst, famine, blood, with comet overhead.

Source: Accounts of the events of 1532, when a notable daylight comet
(not Halley’s) marked the death of the prominent Flemish painter Jan
Gossaert de Mabuse in October and the bloody repulsing of the Ottoman
invaders in Hungary by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. What was
subsequently to become known as Halley’s comet had already been
observed, and would duly be recorded by Lycosthenes, if possibly for
the wrong year: ‘This year in the middle of August a Comet was seen in
Germany, Italy and France in the west for three weeks from around 6
August . . . before sunrise and at dusk after sunset. It passed
through Cancer, Leo, Virgo and Libra, where it ceased to be visible,
and did not appear any more thereafter. In the same year . . . the
greater part of the forces of Soliman were captured or cut down . . .
There are those who say that this Comet bodes ill and portends
calamitous war for the Swiss . . . Apianus [chief astrologer of the
Emperor Charles V] has recorded his observations of the motion of this
Comet. There also exists an [astrological] assessment of this Comet by
Theophrasus Paracelsus.’ Then, in a further passage subsequently
translated by Batman: In the moneth of September a Comet was seene
again in Virgo, and in ye house of Mercury for certayne weekes, two
houres in the morning before the sunne rising, and in the East part
which lasted 3. whole moneths, the flame was very terrible, for in
greatnesse and continuance he surpassed the other Comet which we saw
the yere past. The famous Doctor of Phisick Achilles Gassarus and John
Virdungus Hastiodus a notable Astrologer hath described and interprete
this Comet. Charles’s victory over the Turks in Hungary in 1532 was
followed only three years later by his triumphant attack on the Muslim
pirate Barbarossa at Tunis and his freeing of thousands of Christian
captives (see II.79, VI.70) - reflecting the Mirabilis liber’s
prediction of a vast Muslim invasion of Europe (see I.9, I.75, II.24)
followed eventually by a triumphant Christian counter-attack (see
I.55).