The Encyclopedia of Prophecy

by Omar V. Garrison

The Encyclopedia of Prophecy offers a comprehensive examination of the great soothsayers and prophets of the past and present. It analyzes prophetic trends through the ages, covering long-range predictions which have come to pass, as well as those still awaiting fulfillment. It points out that while prophets are often wrong in their predictions, legions of prophets, both scientific and religious, have "seen" the future with an accuracy that is frequently chilling.

Faced with the uncertainty, if not the menace, of the future, people of every age and place on earth have tried to penetrate the barrier of time that separates us from tomorrow's world. The need to know what lies ahead becomes acute in periods of great cultural or political upheaval. That is why, in our own day, we are witnessing an extraordinary revival of popular interest in prophecy.

Omar V. Garrison has researched the foretellers of the future from pre-Christian times to the present. With clarity and understanding the thinking of the great seers is here presented in the concise and easily assimilated encyclopedia form. The great names in prophecy pass in review -- Nostradamus, St. Malachy, Paracelsus, Holzhauser, to name only a few, all the way to Edgar Cayce and today's Jeane Dixon. The secrets of Fatima are revealed . . . and, if we believe St. Malachy, only four Popes will follow Paul VI before the end of the world.