!? Maria-Laach Prophecy (c. mid 1700s – possible modern hoax)
SUSPICIOUS – lack of
earlier source texts before the year 1938 and the context of the text
itself suggest it is an elaborate 20th century forgery /
hoax
The 'Maria-Laach prophecy'
is a prophecy, or a prophetic commentary that allegedly was written
by a 'prior' or a 'monk' from the Benedictine monastery of
Maria-Laach in Germany and was supposed to have been written at least
200 years before the year 1938. It details the horrors of the 20th
century, that there would be three world wars before a great age of
peace.
However, there are some
major red flags with this text.
A.
Lack of Early texts:
The prophecy was
first published in 1938 by Louis Emrich in his book “Alteund neue Prophezeiungen über den Weltkrieg der Zukunft" .
(Strasbourg 1938, S. 51-58).
Emrich claims the prophecy
was at least 200 years old by the time he published it, and, also
claims that there were several copies of it everywhere, including the
Vatican library, however, for a text that has been around for as long
as that, I cannot find an earlier mention of it in a library or
archive, or even a publication of it that pre-dates Emrich's book in
a German, English, French, or even an Italian source.
The most telling red flag
is a Google search on German sites only turns up four pages of
results, and not one is an ancient text listed in an archive that
predates Emrich's publication. Any publication that mentions it
actually quotes Emrich's book. So, it is very suspicious to have
such a 'well known' ancient text in which several ancient copies of
it are supposed to have been preserved in various libraries to not
turn up before 1938.
B. The details of the
Three World Wars are strangely out of sync for a creditable prophecy:
If the text was written
centuries before the three world wars as claimed, the description of
events is strangely out of sync in that the prophecies declare each
of the thee wars will be worse than the other, and then contradicts
that claim.
The text sloughs over WWI,
and then goes into incredible allegorical detail with the various
horrors and monstrous inventions that will come out in WW II, and
that this second war would come from Germany, and bring it to utter
destruction under a leader that would have two ones to his name.
Then, when WW III is mentioned, this event is completely sloughed
over again with no details and with only the simple mention that it
will be 'short' and that the Great Peace will come, after which
Christ will come.
This is strange in that
we know by the prophecies from real mystics and true theological
commentators that the third world war will indeed by short, but it
will be worse than the other two put together, and, that a great king
will arrive to bring the peace. It is strange that the 'Maria-Laach'
text completely plays this down if not ignoring it completely,
especially as the 'Great Monarch' prophecies play a major role in the
Germanic prophetic tradition of the old 'Birch Tree Prophecies'.
Also, it is incredible
that a monk or theologian would completely ignore the details of the
third world war and the prophecies that foretell the coming of the
Great King. In fact, the text even ignores the teaching that the
Antichrist will arrive before Christ comes.
Rather, the Maria-Laach
text concentrates on the evil leader of the second world war that
will have two 'ones' in his name who will bring Germany to utter
destruction. Emrich suggests this means the number 11, and
conveniently points out that Adolf Hitler has 11 letters in his name.
What is curious, we see
Louis Emrich make an impassioned plea to the leader of Germany at
that time, aka Adolf Hitler, to reconsider his actions before it is
too late!
“His fate will become
clear in the near future if he continues on the path he followed
until September 27, 1938. May he recognize in good time, for the
benefit of the German people, who are committed to Germany by Goethe,
Schiller and Heine, and for the benefit of all peace-loving peoples
all over the world, which catastrophe he is causing if he does not
deviate from this misfortune at the last minute. If he does not do so
in a delusional delusion, then his fate is sealed, exactly according
to the details of the extremely revealing prophecy of Maria-Laach and
other similar traditions.” (Louis Emrich- source: click here.)
What does this tell us?
As there seems to be no
evidence that the Maria-Laach text existed before 1938, that the
'prophecy' completely concentrates on the inventions and evils of
WWII and sloughs off what comes before and after, and that the
earliest known published text of it includes an impassioned plea to
Hitler to reconsider his actions in 1938, it seems that this prophecy
was an elaborate hoax made up sometime in the late 1930s or written
in an attempt to make the Nazi leader reconsider how he was leading
the country before he eventually destroyed it.
It is a known fact Hitler
was fascinated with mysticism and prophecies, and it is possible that
whoever wrote this saw the way things were going in Germany and
thought that by making up another prophecy about Germany's
destruction that they could influence Hitler and change the course of history before it
was too late.
Therefore, as the origin
of the Maria-Laach text is dubious and a possible hoax, it is not
mentioned in the Timeline.
(March 1, 2020)
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