Inspiration 1
Futility, or
the Wreck of the Titan
Early in 1989, shortly
after the Lockerbie disaster, I first came across a reference to Morgan
Robertson writing a novel about a ship called the ‘Titan’. In
essence, his novel described the loss of the ‘Titanic’ yet his novel
was written in 1898. The ‘Titanic’ struck an iceberg at 11.40pm on
14th April 1912 and sank a little over two hours later at 2.20 am on the
15th. It was fourteen years after 'Futility' had been
published.
I began to feel that his
novel must have been inspired. It was as though something had put the idea
into the head of Morgan Robertson, some Source of Intelligence that
knew the future in precise detail.
The book, originally
entitled ‘Futility’ was published by M.F. Mansfield in New York in
1898. It was republished in 1912, after the
Titanic sank, under the title ‘Futility and the Wreck of the
Titan’. There have been a few editions since, notably a 1974 one by the
Titanic Historical Society which printed the story of the Titan, that
of the Titanic, and recounted various other paranormal experiences
surrounding the loss of the Titanic.
In the 1990s, quite a
number of editions were printed. With one exception, they are reprints of
the 1912 edition, or a mixture of 1898 and 1912 editions.
Rather curiously, the
Titan statistics were changed, perhaps by ‘enthusiastic’ editors in 1912
to make the prophecy better? They made it worse. A happier ‘Hollywood style’
ending was also added.
1998 marked both the
anniversary of Morgan Robertson’s novel and James Cameron’s film of the
Titanic. Various centenary editions of ‘The Wreck of the Titan’
were produced, claiming to be reprints of the original 1898 edition. They
were all reprints of the 1912 edition, as far as the ship’s statistics were
concerned, but with the original 1898 ending.
The only genuine reprint
of the 1898 edition appears to be the privately printed book entitled ‘The
Futility God’ by Jack W Hannah, published in Mansfield, Ohio in
1975. Even in that there is another strange coincidence. The 1898
first edition was published by M.F. Mansfield in New York.
So, was Robertson really
inspired? Could it all have been lucky 'almost inevitable' guesses, as
the skeptics 'explain' it?
A Comparison of the Titan with the Titanic
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Date |
1898 (Date of novel) |
1912 ( Date of tragedy) |
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Name |
The
Titan |
The Titanic |
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Disaster |
North Atlantic |
North Atlantic |
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Route |
New York to Liverpool |
Southampton to New York |
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Voyage |
third ever |
first ever |
|
Causes |
Iceberg collision
Excessive speed
Too few lifeboats
‘As few as the law
allowed’ |
Iceberg collision
Excessive speed
Too few lifeboats
‘As few as Board of
Trade regulations permitted |
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Occurred in |
April, at night |
Collision 14th April,
11.40pm |
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Ship called |
Largest ship afloat
Greatest of the works of man |
Largest ship afloat
A wonder of the age
Unsinkable |
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Statistics |
Titan 1898 Edition |
Titan 1912 Reprint |
Titanic |
|
Length |
800 |
800 |
880 |
|
Watertight compartments |
15 |
15 |
9 |
|
Weight |
45,000 |
70,000 |
46,328 |
|
Displacement |
45,000 |
75,000 |
66,000 |
|
Horsepower |
40.000 |
70,000 |
45,000 |
|
Propellers |
3 |
3 |
3 |
The more I
read of Morgan Robertson and 'The Titan', the more I became
convinced that his inspiration was entirely analogous to the way we
had been shown the exact details of the destruction of Pan Am 103 in the car
chassis code prior to the disaster. . Could it be that there is some
outside Source of
Intelligence and that it is one and the same that gave Morgan Robertson his
ideas in 1898 and led us to the 'Lockerbie' enigma car in 1988?
The way I came across
this rare book, my first copy of ‘The Wreck of the Titan’ in a
charity shop in Sutton, Surrey in October 1989 served only to
reinforce my theories. This experience is described in detail in Chapter 6
of Volume 1 of
‘The Enigma
Variations’.
It is also described more
briefly in
'The Prophecy Codes'
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For other
Titan Coincidences see
A
Titan Postscript and
The Inspiration of Arthur C Clarke
The Phenomenon
of Inspiration
During the course of my research, I
have identified a number of other novels which appear to have elements of
the prophetic about them.
This number has gradually increased over time. The
earliest were brought to my attention in 1988. Apart from
The Last Temptation of Christ, few of thse novels are widely known, but a
couple of best sellers were added in 2004 and 2005. Then in 2006,
there was a particular emphasis on an old best seller from 1968,
2001 A Space Odyssey.
Are
such novels inspired, perhaps in
a way unbeknown even to their authors? Is this why the phrase ‘Life imitates
Art’ is so often encountered? Did the ideas come into the minds of these
various authors in order that their novels should have curious prophetic
elements of truth which link them firmly into the Web of Destiny? Amongst
such novels are Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, Enigma, by
Robert Harris, The Hermes Fall by John Baxter, Imperial Earth
and Hammer of God, by Arthur C. Clark. Others are Alan Ayckbourne’s
play Way Upstream, The Enigma Sacrifice by Michael Barak,
The Nostradamus Inheritance by Raymond Leonard, On the Beach by
Nevil Shute, The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker, The Watch
Gods by Barbara Wood and The Magdalene Scrolls by the same
author, The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis and the
screenplay for the 1988 film The Seventh Sign.
There are strange parallels between
our book Ankhsoun, Daughter of Ra and
both The Jewel of Seven Stars and The Watch Gods. An
intricate web of coincidence links the three books across time.
There are many more between our experiences over 17 years
and the locations and the story in Dan Brown's
novel The Da Vinci Code. These are
explored in some detail at
www.devincicode.co.uk.
There are yet more strange parallels in his prequel,
Angels and Demons. For instance, there is the strange mystery of
Code 503 which is
discussed in one respect in
The Diagrams of Truth at
www.voiceofgod.co.uk.
Another aspect is covered on
Lines of Kings at
www.isgodreal.co.uk.
The cross
connections between Imperial Earth and our book
The Enigma Variations are
also thought provoking, particularly when you realise that like me, Arthur C
Clark is fascinated by coincidence. In fact he lives in Sri Lanka, the
old name for which is Serendip. The earliest printed references to
meaningful coincidence are in Horace Walpole's 1754 story The Princes of
Serendip. Walpole coined the term serendipity to refer to apparently
fortuitous coincidence. Indeed, many of our own meaningful coincidences have
revolved around Arthur C Clarke's novels, most recently with the Warkworth
experiences which relate to Hammer of God. Other novels of his which
interconnect in the Enigma Codes of Destiny are Rendezvous with Rama
and The Sentinel of Eternity, which is the short story upon which
the basic plot of 2001, A Space Odyssey is set. Arthur C Clark
on several occasions refers to coincidence in his personal life, but his
biographers rather tend to ignore this as rather unscientific.
Added 11/9/07
There are strange
patterns in prophecy suggestive of external intelligent design. Morgan
Robertson wrote the story of the Titan in 1898, fourteen years before the
Titanic sank. Our prophetic, meaningful coincidences revolved around four
much more recent major disasters, the
Four Jigsaws.
There was first the Lockerbie air disaster, then
the Mecca
Tunnel disaster, then 9/11 and then
the Columbia Shuttle disaster. The prophetic
coincidences predicting these disasters came, respectively, 19 days, 17
days, 9 years and 4 months in advance of the event itself. One disaster
prophecy would be uncanny, viz the interest in Morgan Robertson and the
Titanic, but is it the action of a logical mind to dismiss all five examples
here as chance? Or do you prefer to just call it ‘spooky’ and ‘move on’ to
‘more important’ things?
These major disasters are tied together by strange conjunctions in space and
time. The Pan Am flight 103 disaster at Lockerbie was predicted by Code 557.
The town of Lockerbie is situated at 55º7’N. The Mecca tunnel stampede
disaster was predicted by Code 558 and it happened 558 days after Lockerbie.
You wouldn’t think it in terms of the dead, but that disaster killed 1426
pilgrims in Saudi Arabia, more than half the number of ‘innocent victims’
killed in the fall of the Twin Towers. One disaster is long forgotten, the
other held up as one of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind. But
the Saudi disaster was just incompetence and panic and not an affront to a
flag. Both events are equally significant in the Destiny Codes.
9/11 was predicted by Code 507 AND a Lockerbie connection. The Columbia
disaster codes came after we attended a significant church service, to join
a choir. The disaster itself came 508 days after 9/11, just as I was
recording a TV programme, Praise Be, which, two weeks later, was to come to
our town of Papakura to record our other choir singing hymns, one of which
happened to be ‘Thou whose almighty Word’.
There were
Four Jigsaws, the Quartet for the End Times. Lockerbie came at Christmas, the holiest time of the Christian year; the
Mecca disaster at the Feast of Eid-el-Adha, the holiest time of the Muslim
year. The religious connections to the Shuttle were also inescapable.
As for the Twin Towers disaster, code 507 had long been the Code for the
World’s End, long before I got that job at RAF Chicksands, the US Air Force
spy station whose only purpose was to detect all threats to America……
Was it just chance that set it at the crossroads of the A507 and the A600 in
Bedfordshire? Or was it destiny? For another Code for the End Times is 600.
That ‘Lockerbie’ coincidence at Chicksands came on the weekend of 11th-14th
September 1992, part of a combined coincidence clue.
9-11-92 has passed with 9-11. But 9-14 is yet to
come. Is that presaged by another novel, every bit as prophetic as was
Futility? That novel is The Dorset Disaster.
And finally, on to the second half of the September 1992 clue which
predicted 9/11. The second half came on 9-14-92 and relates to Event 914,
the event which will come because the Americans did not learn from 9-11, but
instead put two fingers up to God and invaded first Afghanistan and then
Iraq to fulfil the old adage ‘Get Somebody!! Teach the bastards a lesson!!
Don’t mess with the US!!’
But perhaps the most immediately relevant novel to a
prophecy of events to come in the near future could be The Dorset
Disaster. If Morgan Robertson was indeed
inspired with a knowledge of the future, perhaps so was Alexander Sirdar
III, when he got his idea to write a novel about a hypothetical American
nuclear power station disaster.
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It was fourteen years between Futility
and the Titanic. It is now nearly 24 years since 'The Dorset Disaster ' appeared in
print. The Enigma Codes of Destiny suggest that this disaster will indeed
strike the USA in the fullness of time. The codes have just not yet revealed
when this will be. Maybe its date will be like that of the Twin Towers
disaster, hidden in the codes long before, but
apparent only afterwards.
Perhaps it is another 'cryptic crossword' clue which will
have to await the 'publication of the solution', withy the disaster itself.
That is often the only way we come to know the Mind of God. Given the paranoia
in the American security services, it is probably better if the codes do not
reveal the time code until after the event. It cannot be prevented in any
case. It has
been set in train by so many wrong decisions made for the wrong reasons over
very many years,
indeed set in concrete, as it were, in the both the philosophy and the
culture of the 'land of the free and the home of the brave'. The only time clue
in the Codes is that the disaster will occur at around the same time as the
final crisis for the Heir Apparent to the British throne, The Prince of
Wales. To read more about the interweaving
of the threads of destiny for the Princes of Wales across 503 years
Lines of Kings For more on inspired
novels see the strange parallels between The Da Vinci Code and
our Alpha and Omega Codes at
devincicode.co.uk
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