A definitive, factual, A-Z reference guide offering a global
perspective on the role of prophecy in world history, religion,
folklore, and literature. From at least 1200 B.C. and probably long
before, prophets have attempted to see into the future. Most-from
ancient oracles to modern astrologers, from doomsday sects to
telephone psychics-have been wrong the majority of the time, says
British researcher Geoffrey Ashe. True foreknowledge is rare, but
those rare occurrences are impressive. In this fascinating
reference work, the first to encompass the entire 3,000 year span
of recorded prophecy, Ashe examines the predictions of both good
prophets and bad, including seers like Jacques Cazotte, who
forecast the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution, and Morgan
Robertson, who described the Titanic disaster 14 years before it
happened. He refutes many of the far-fetched claims of Nostradamus,
and highlights those that foreshadow events after his lifetime. He
also examines failed prophecies that have been influential,
including the many end-of-the-world forecasts, along with the
surprisingly accurate visions of some science-fiction authors. More
than 100 entries on prophets and prophecies from the Antichrist to
Yevgeny Zamyatin, the Russian author whose writings influenced
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's 1984 Extensive
illustrations with drawings and diagrams including engravings from
William Blake's so-called prophetic books and depictions of the ten
incarnations of Vishnu Numerous photographs of writers such as D.
H. Lawrence, H. G. Wells, and E. M. Forster; spiritual leaders such
as Madame Blavatsky, founder of Theosophy; and Theodor Herzl,
founder of Zionism A bibliography as a guide for extended research
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