!? THE 'CEDAR OF LEBANON' PROPHECY (c. 1239-1287, 1347)
This is a fake prophecy.
Originally it was an
astrological prediction written by an anonymous author in Hungary in
1239 and was used to 'predict' the dangers of the Mongol invasions of
the early 13th century – the story around the alleged
prophecy was spun that it was written by a monk who had a miraculous
vision in a 'Cistercian monestary' where a hand appeared during Mass
and wrote out future events. The first red flag indicating that this
is a false prophecy is it first occurred in a monastery at a town
called 'Snusnayacum' which never existed, nor is there any place that
remotely sounds like it, even as a code word.
The prophecy was then
altered to fit around the events of the fall of Lebanon and Acre
during the Crusader period- in that the 'Cedar of Lebanon would fall' along with Tripoli and Acre. The editor changing the vision to have
happened to a 'Cistercian monk in Tripoli', c. 1287, but the date
does not add up as the monks had left the Cistercian monastery of
Belmont near Tripoli several years before the prophecy occurred, another red flag.
The text had also been added to since it was first circulated during
the Mongol threats.
However, the false
prophecy was obviously mistaken for a real Great Monarch prophecy and
caught on, we find a version of it recorded in the 'Annals of
Ireland' for the year 1348, the record stating the miracle happened
in 1347 (!) evidence that dates were continually changed to suit the
century.
The history of this fake
prophecy is long enough to where a whole book has been written about
its dubious origins and the various additions made to it over the
centuries. See “The Powers of Prophecy: The Cedar of Lebanon
Vision from the Mongol Onslaught to the Dawn of the Enlightenment”
by Robert E. Lerner, Cornell University Press (2009) from which this
information was taken.
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