Session 1 November 2025

As I have written elsewhere, this supernova had a profound effect on the young Sir Francis Bacon who was probably the person who wrote the Rosicrucian Manifesto referred to in the session above. Even as a young boy, he took the supernova as a sign, an augury or an omen, to launch what he saw as his 'Great Work' to restore western civilisation to the heights it once occupied.

By the way, I wonder whether Sir Francis Bacon might be another candidate as an undergrounder and a 'Deep Level Punctuator'. He rose from relative obscurity to become Lord Chancellor of England and was one of the main drivers in the creation of the British Empire which really started with the fledgling American colony of Virginia for which he, as secretary to the Virginia Company, would write the colony's constitution that would later greatly influence the drafting of the US Constitution. Many people also think that he may have been the Grand Master of the early 17th century Rosicrucians, an underground movement and brotherhood which had a great effect on the late Renaissance and heavily inspired the Enlightenment as well as the launch of the modern scientific age, Bacon being one of the founders of the modern scientific method. Finally, he was most likely the real writer or pen behind the plays of William Shakespeare that helped to create modern drama as we known it today and are amongst the most influential written works of the last millennia. On this basis you could argue that he was more influential in the long term than Sargon the Great, Queen Nefertiti, Mayer Amschel Rothschild and even Napoleon Bonaparte if he was indeed an undergrounder and a Deep Level Punctuator. Moreover, did he really die in 1626 as claimed or did he go underground with his fellow alchemists in that mysterious enclave in the Pyrenees?
A. Lobaczewski speaks of "schizoïds" who are people affected by a mild (probably DNA based) anomaly. He explains that during specific times of relative calm, schizoïds tend to come up public with "ideas" who find an echo in society. What happens then is that it gives birth to a pathocracy, a long process during which the schizoïd and his ideas are gradually discarded in favour of a basic STS agenda. Is this what happened with Bacon and Rosicrucians? From your knowledge of Bacon, was he more a kind of guy who wouldn't know that his manifesto was that wrong? Or a real bad guy? If the latter, the whole schizoïd appraoch would not apply.

In addition, I can see a very interesting point: Bacon sees a comet, and he writes his manifesto. I posted, the other day, about the idea of comets as "information flux", rather than "a simple rock" (so, a comet polarity would vary, from a negative information flux to positive). But this is high speculation on my part. Could be that a comet was carrying very negative ideas and that this is what influenced Bacon. As a schizoïd, his DNA-bit would have acted as a tuning receptor for the data - and he wrote the manifesto in turns. This would explain "Bacon was very impressed by the supernovae... and ...". Idea here would be that schizoïds such as Marx, and others who really wrote the big ideologies turning pathocracy - had a comet right in front of their eyes, at some point in time. Could be that those comets were of the family of "negative comets". A catalyst. The specific bit of A. Lobaczewski goes by "during stable times, schioïds believe they found a way to fix the world"; they would "come public" and "tell others". What if there was a trigger for this?

This could be a missing link in A. Lobaczewski's theory? He basically explains that "there exist schizoïds", that "those have deviant ideas", "are manifesto specialists" - and that "their negative potential is set in motion during stable times". As of now, those guys are simply "popping up with ideas". But those ideas give birth to things that are so negative... It becomes odd. The matter with schizoïds is that they are not 100% bad guys; as A. Lobaczewski explains, they are carriers of an anomaly, but they are "torn down between the world of normal people and the feeling for psychopathology/STS". They are far from being essential psychopaths. And so, it's still with them that the worst periods of history start. Was Bacon a schizoïd?
 
I am always hoping we get to say hello to Pierre and see what he is up to...I did not get to know him very well, but I feel a kind of kinship with him somehow. Would like to attend the next session, have some questions that are very interesting, but Ill make sure I search the archives first. Thanks again Laura, Andromeda and crew :love:
 
I find this gap of awareness quite peculiar considering all the recorded history of the 17th century. It literally saw the birth of astronomy as we know it, including the invention of the telescope just in time to see and study comets. We brought it up in this thread and sott.net.

Here's another synthesis.







Unless you have fancy telescopes, not available for the public. Past sessions must be seen with this new awareness, considering that there were some assumptions in the past. Laura explains it very well in her article Independence Day.
Thank you for the additional information. I must add that when I first read the C's comments posing the question as to what would happen if the brown star got close enough to be illuminated by the sun many years ago now, I was excited at the prospect of seeing such an event and even imagined something like Nostradamus's 'King of Terror' sending everyone into an apocalyptic panic. Hence, to find that the dark star, sometimes referred to as Nemesis, made its closest approach a few hundred years ago is, I would admit, a tad disappointing for me.

You mention in your response the famous comet of 1664. This was certainly seen in England and was viewed by many as a harbinger of doom, which in many ways was fulfilled over the following two years, since 1665 saw the last major outbreak of bubonic plague in England and 1666 (with people readily recognising the significance of the number "666" as the Mark of the Beast) seeing the Great Fire of London, which almost wiped out the entirety of the medieval City of London. Many commentators at the time, particularly those of a more Christian fundamentalist disposition, actually believed that this was the Apocalypse heralding the end of the world and saw these events as a just punishment of the profane, irreligious and licentious who had revelled in the years of merriment following the restoration of King Charles II (known to history as the "Merry Monarch") to the throne after the dour times Oliver Cromwell (as Lord Protector) and his Puritan supporters had imposed on the populace when they even cancelled the traditional festivities surrounding the Christmas period. Quoting selectively from Wikipedia:
The Great Plague of London, lasting from 1665 to 1666, was the most recent major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England.

The Great Plague killed an estimated 100,000 people — almost a quarter of London's population — in 18 months.

The 1665–66 epidemic was on a much smaller scale than the earlier Black Death pandemic. It became known afterwards as the "great" plague mainly because it was the last widespread outbreak of bubonic plague in England during the 400-year Second Pandemic.

In late 1664, a bright comet was seen in the sky and the people of London became fearful, wondering what evil event it portended.

[In] September [1666], the Great Fire of London destroyed much of the City of London, and some people believed that the fire put an end to the epidemic. It is now thought that the plague had largely subsided before the fire took place. Most of the later cases of plague were found in the suburbs, and it was the City of London that was destroyed by the fire.​

Ironically, in spite of the gloomy prognostications of the fundamentalists, London saw a rapid resurgence after the Great Fire with a major rebuilding programme and trade quickly recovering to pre-epidemic and pre-Great Fire levels. Quoting from Wikipedia again:
Not only was the capital rejuvenated, but it became a healthier environment in which to live. Londoners had a greater sense of community after they had overcome the great adversities of 1665 and 1666​

However, for Londoners living through those two grim years following the sighting of the comet, it must have seemed to them that they really were living at the end of the world, particularly after having experienced a brutal civil war just a few years before these events that had seen death and destruction on a huge scale and the whole social order turned upside down.

You said:​
Unless you have fancy telescopes, not available for the public.​

Unfortunately, I don't have a fancy telescope but then even those that do have not been able to detect the Dark Star in spite of their best efforts. Quoting from a 2017 Space.com article on the Nemesis Star Theory:
A solar companion may be hard to find, but it would still be visible by sensitive telescopes. Astronomers have scoured the sky using the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), which studied the sky over four years in three infrared wavelengths. The instrument discovered 173 brown dwarfs farther away than our solar system, but none near enough to be the infamous Nemesis.

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer completed its 1.25-year mission in February 2011, having discovered a number of brown dwarfs within 20 light-years. Again, none of these were located near the solar system.

See: Nemesis Star Theory: The Sun's 'Death Star' Companion

However, diving into conspiracy theory here, I recall reading years ago about an astronomer using a powerful infrared telescope who had been able to spot Nemesis and was going public over it. Unfortunately, he then met a sudden demise and the story never broke. I can't remember his name and have not been able to track the story down again but maybe someone else may have a better handle on it than me and a better memory for these things :-D.

Although it is believed that most stars start life as part of a binary star system, many astronomers take the view that if our sun had been part of a binary system, its twin escaped off into the galaxy billion of years ago. Quoting Space,com again:
In 2017, a new study suggested that nearly all stars like the sun were born with companions. The astronomers did detailed studies of young stars in the Perseus molecular cloud and backed up their work with modelling. But "Nemesis," if it did indeed exist at that time, broke free of the sun early in its history and moved into the rest of the Milky Way's population, the astronomers said.​

Well obviously the C's think otherwise. Nevertheless, searching for our sun's twin brown dwarf star, is no doubt like searching for the proverbial needle in a haystack.​
 
Unfortunately, I don't have a fancy telescope but then even those that do have not been able to detect the Dark Star in spite of their best efforts.
Maybe some astronomers saw the brown dwarf on its closest approach during the Maunder Minimum (1645-1715):


I also suspect that the WISE infrared survey more than a decade ago and maybe other infrared telescopes could have picked it up, but that it is being kept secret.

Another possibility is that the brown dwarf is currently in the galactic plane and difficult to spot due to too many stars in the background. In fact, if the Maunder Minimum observation (close to Sirius, a clue by the C's) was correct, then the brown dwarf could be close to the region of the galactic center now (opposite side of where it was probably spotted on its closest approach).
 

I think the C's said there were about 3,500 members of the Illuminati worldwide who do tend to intermarry between themselves. They would also seem to be the controllers of Freemasonry given what the C's said here:​



Freemasonry would seem to have its roots in Egypt with a group called the "Osirians" according to the C's:



Elsewhere the C's said that the Quorum was mostly alien and the Illuminati mostly human:



So, there seems to be a certain element within the Illuminati that is not human. However, the C's have also linked the Quorum/Illuminati with the alchemists:


This reference to the alchemists leads us to the mysterious enclave of alchemists in the Pyrenees who seem to have a direct relationship with the Quorum and also numbers the famous French medieval alchemist Nicholas Flamel among its ranks:



The C's also made a connection between Sir Francis Bacon and the enclave of alchemists in the Pyrenees and I believe, as some researchers do, that Bacon was heavily involved in the design and implementation of the Money Pit on Oak Island and the ingenious booby trap flood system that protects it, which has so far prevented all treasure seekers from getting to the buried treasure (i.e., a TDARM according to the C's):



But Bacon was not only a Rosicrucian as many link him with the emergence of English Freemasonry too. If Bacon was the real Shakespeare, then it is worth noting that the works of Shakespeare are replete with references to Freemasonry or the "Craft" as it is also known. As researchers have pointed out, only someone who was a Freemason could have had the in depth knowledge required to have included so many references to masonic ritual and symbolism as are contained in the works of Shakespeare. Alfred Dodd in his seminal work "Shakespeare: Creator of Freemasonry" itemises an almost unbelievable number of Masonic allusions in the Shakespeare plays, especially in "Love's Labour Lost". Indeed, many Baconians believe the clown parodied in Love's Labour Lost was in fact William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon. Quoting Matthew Walker in his Compeers by Night on Bacon’s links to Freemasonry:​

“As Dodd says, the body of evidence cited in his book "proves incontestably these works were saturated in Masonry." The problem is, and has always been, dual. In the first place, scholars do not realise that Bacon wrote the plays. And in the second place, in addition to this lamentable ignorance, the scholars who have studied the plays have had no familiarity with Freemasonry. When they encounter something, such as the knocking at the gate scene with the porter in Macbeth, it registers no more than light on the eyes of a blind man. But the repeated three knocks at the door, especially in connection with the association of King James I with Scottish Freemasonry, almost certainly alludes to the ritual of Freemasonry.”

So, it seems that Bacon was not only a grandmaster of the Rosicrucians but also a top ranking Freemason, which might suggest that he also had a link to the Illuminati as well as the enclave of alchemists in the Pyrenees since he was a practising alchemist too.

However, these references to Freemasonry and the Illuminati and Bacon's possible connection to both organisations leads indirectly to a connection with the undergrounders or subterranean civilisation who have sometimes gone by the name of 'The Nation of the Third Eye' since the C's have said that they were the inspiration for both Masonic lore and the Illuminati too:



So, we seem to have a slew of connections between the Quorum, the Illuminati, Freemasonry, the enclave of alchemists, the Rosicrucians and the Nation of the Third Eye with Sir Francis Bacon sitting somewhere in the middle of all this. It is not for nothing that I suggested he might be an undergrounder. It helps to know too that he was a genius and a polymath, one of the most brilliant men of his age who was really the driving force behind the Invisible College and the Royal Society in the 17th century. The fact that he should call his last work The New Atlantis, published only after his supposed death, is very illuminating too.

For those who might want to know more about Sir Francis Bacon and his links to the Rosicrucians, the Freemasons and Shakespeare's works, I attach a copy of my article Francis Bacon – The Man Behind the Curtain.

As to your contention that infertility may be one of the markers of "underground" members, well it is true that Bacon never had any children but another undergrounder certainly had lots of children and that was Queen Nefertiti who had six daughters and one son (Pharaoh Tutankhamun) with her husband Akhenaten and then one son (Isaac) that we know of with her second husband Abraham/Moses whilst in her guise as the biblical Sarah. I believe that it was her oldest daughter Princess Meritaten who was the last member of the Perseid family and who is referred to as the maid servant Hagar in the Bible. She inherited her mother's elongated head according to surviving busts of her.​

Yes, @MJF, I completely agree; the chances of Sir Francis Bacon being a subterranean are very high.
You've provided many connections, details, and "patterns," though this is certainly true in the case of historical figures, which is easier to identify.
In this post I published, if this story were true, Salvador Freixedo recounts stories of subterranean encounters with ordinary people.

 
I find the story of Napoleon's doubles interesting, but a bit secondary. At least for now.
Of far greater interest is Napoleon's "family." It was quite large by today's standards (13 children, 8 of whom survived to adulthood). Were any of them also "underground" figures, helping Napoleon in the future and maintaining his "legend"?
His older brother, Joseph, seems a good candidate. Napoleon's right-hand man, during the height of his power, was elected Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge of France.
Considering the number of Napoleon's siblings, it seems odd that this young man left behind only one child (Napoleon II), who died at 21, leaving no children of his own. The genetic line was broken.
It seems Napoleon himself long believed he was sterile. Was he truly sterile? (And then Napoleon II and other children attributed to Napoleon are not his children.)
Is infertility one of the markers of "underground" members? Do they deliberately send "sterile" men/women to the surface so that they cannot leave their DNA (genetic line) and continue the family line?

PS
In one session, the C's said that there are very few real Illuminati and that they "keep their DNA to themselves."
If the legend that Napoleon didn't die on the island of Saint Helena were true, I don't think a professional historian would take this fact lightly or dismiss it as secondary.
The academic implications would create a revolution and a questioning of historical events.
And that, in essence, is the TITANIC work that @Laura and many other members of this forum have been doing for a very long time.
Of course, the fact that Napoleon was a subterranean is already too impressive to easily grasp.
 
Except that clue opens up a whole new can of questions. A few obvious ones that come to mind are how much total energy can be contained in a 'purse'? What is the source/technology? How do they recharge their purses, or did they throw them away after use? The C's are probably not going to play much dice, so we are left to find out by ourselves primarily, or just wait and see. Interesting in any case.

There's no reason we can't ask for more details on the "purses" and who they worked.
 
I'm pretty sure they said 6% psychopaths worldwide, though cannot find the session.
I don't think it was in a session, but back when all the percentages were asked about, I added up the populations of all the countries involved to find the overall number, and it was 6%. That makes me think that when the C's talk about "psychopaths" they may be talking about all the ponerogenic personality disorders combined. 6% was the figure Lobaczewski gave for all such disorders, but in specific reference to Poland.
 
However, diving into conspiracy theory here, I recall reading years ago about an astronomer using a powerful infrared telescope who had been able to spot Nemesis and was going public over it. Unfortunately, he then met a sudden demise and the story never broke. I can't remember his name and have not been able to track the story down again but maybe someone else may have a better handle on it than me and a better memory for these things
Probably not the story you had in mind, but this is the most suspect story of someone with a very high profile dying in mysterious circumstances after binary research:

 
To go to people mind you have to be constructed that way. Maby human design explain it there is a CHANEL the thinker cominng from ajna. Gates 24-61. The idea that pop ups and may tak a form at right conditions.
 
Probably not the story you had in mind, but this is the most suspect story of someone with a very high profile dying in mysterious circumstances after binary research:


I recall that story but no, I don't think it is the particular story I had in mind, which I believe dates back much further in time than this. I may have read it on Andy Lloyd's Dark Star website, a site dedicated to the Dark Star Theory, which is still going - see The Dark Star Theory. There is a lot of interesting stuff on Lloyd's site for those who want to dip into it.​

Ajx said above:

"I also suspect that the WISE infrared survey more than a decade ago and maybe other infrared telescopes could have picked it up, but that it is being kept secret."

There is an article on Lloyd's site called 'The Dark Star Whistleblower'. In his article, Lloyd refers to an email from Bill Ryan and Kerry Cassidy from the Project Camelot Team in which they referred to a whistle blower going by the pseudonym of Henry Deacon, who was supposedly an ex-Livermore Physicist who had worked extensively in black projects for a number of US agencies. Ryan and Kerry stated:​

"Henry [Deacon] confirmed the existence of the “Dark Star”, and that its reality had been deduced by American military astrophysicists because of the need to account for certain gravitational anomalies that had been observed. (He mentioned the Pioneer spacecraft, for instance.) This is very important: the “Dark Star” is fully known and understood in the “black world”. When he told us this, we immediately realised how extraordinarily important this was."

I appreciate that Kerry Cassidy has interviewed Laura in the past for Project Camelot and thus she and Laura have history. My own view is that Kerry is well meaning but at times a little bit naïve. I therefore think that any testimony from Henry Deacon must come with a red flag warning. There may be others on the Forum who have even stronger views about him. However, in fairness to Andy Lloyd he does state:

"Although I am unable to personally verify the facts, I feel that it is my responsibility to place this information into the public domain, and allow you, the reader, to decide for yourself whether this might be authentic, or not."

Taking all this into account, the key passages in Ryan and Cassidy's email are:
In a recent unrecorded conversation with us, not yet reported on our site, Henry confirmed the existence of the “Dark Star”, and that its reality had been deduced by American military astrophysicists because of the need to account for certain gravitational anomalies that had been observed. (He mentioned the Pioneer spacecraft, for instance.) This is very important: the “Dark Star” is fully known and understood in the “black world”. When he told us this, we immediately realised how extraordinarily important this was.
Henry went on to explain that this was linked to Dan Burisch’s testimony and to the 2012 problem. Again, he was citing real-life feet-on-the-ground “black physics”, and NOT esoteric knowledge. The Dark Star (he did not mention whether it had been named, and we neglected to ask) has an extremely elliptical orbit and a long period. He did not know its size or mass, or in what spectrum it radiated. But your site appears to us, at first glance, to have the key facts quite correct.

The problems started a few years ago when the current approach of the Dark Star began to create resonance effects on Sol, our own sun. Kerry and I presumed these resonance effects are electromagnetic in nature rather than purely gravitational, but again we didn’t verify this. This, crucially, is what is causing the current increase in solar activity, and the rapid heating up not only of Earth (as in global warming), but of every planet in the system.

At one point not too long ago Henry worked on a routine project for NOAA (The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), and it was there that he heard about what he called the “second sun”. He confirmed that it’s on a long elliptical orbit which is inclined at an angle to the rest of the planets. It’s now approaching, and NOAA knows that this is the indirect cause (triggering increased solar activity through complex forms of resonance) of the heating of all the planets, not just ours. They factor this data into all their supercomputer weather forecasting calculations. [Note: the big question is why all this has been hushed up. Henry can speculate as well as we can – bad news on the way? – but he did not know for certain.]"

Well Deacon may just have read the C's material on the Dark Star I guess, the emails concerned here dating back to 2007. You will note that Deacon talks about the Dark Star approaching, yet the C's have now confirmed that the time of its closest approach was during the Maunder Minimum mini ice age. So, there must be a question mark there.

If there is any truth at all though in what Deacon says, then it would bear out Ajx's theory that the PTB are aware of the Dark Star but are keeping the details under wraps. Given what the C's said about the English astronomer killed in Chile, it seems they are even prepared to kill in order to keep it a secret.​
 
While we are here, the plane was going from Denver, is it time to review:
The Denver Airport Material with excerpts from the sessions.
The Denver Airport Material Image Catalog general introductory statements. [Edit: link corrected from original post.]
The Forum has this thread Denver Airport
There is also the following:
The Wave Chapter 30: Grape Wine In a Mason Jar: Jesus, Di and Dodi Take Off From the Denver Airport In Winter to Rain Contrails Upon Our Heads

If it is meaningful to speak of third cousins, as the relationship between a person and the great-great grandchild of a great-great grand parent, one may similarly consider that:

A meteorite hit Flight UA1093
Flight UA1093 was leaving from Denver Airport,
Denver Airport is home of the Denver Airport Murals,
The Denver Airport Murals may connect to the painting Winter/The Flood by Nicolas Poussin
The painting of Winter/The Flood was made during the Maunder Minimum
Hypotheses began to appear in the decades following the painting by Poussin, possibly inspired by the observations of visible comets that a comet may have caused the destructive flood recorded in ancient myths.
The meteorite that struck UA1093 and the comets which were seen in the 17th century are manifestations of similar underlying dynamics.


In the first article included in the quote, The Denver Airport Material, there is if quoting from Session 28 June 1997
Q: Okay. Back to Mr. Mann. He says that he has found, through applications of "mystery" teachings, and certain personal enlightenments, as well as the application of sacred geometry principles, the exact location on earth where one can transcend space and time, as he puts it. Is there such a place?

A: There are "points" where this process is facilitated more easily, but it is the process which is most key, not the locator. It has to do with magnetic field meridian conjunctions.

Q: Okay, he suggested that I look at Pouisson's painting 'Winter,' for clues.

A: Yes, go see the painting mentioned.
There are strong connections between this and both the Denver International Airport Murals, and the suggestions we gave you for your inground pool design!

Q: Well, he described it as a figure of Noah clinging to a horse between two pillars. Other than the alchemical symbols I have discovered through etymology and philology, for the horse, what other implications does this figure suggest?

A: Maybe it is something about either the notation of the "knight," or the gas nebula in Orion. By the way, Laura, have you contemplated the life of your father and what led him to his drug addiction and destruction? Hmmmm? Big clues to be found there?? And, if so, what? What indeed!!

Nicholas Poussin's painting Winter was made during the Maunder minimum
Poussin lived from June 1594 – 19 November 1665 (soon 360 years). The time he was working on The Four Seasons (1660-1664), overlaps with the Maunder minimum:
[T]he Little Ice Age lasted from 1450 to 1850, and the Maunder minimum was kind of like a period of particular intensity in the middle of that from 1645 to 1715
Q: (L) And from what I have here on my little paper, is that the Little Ice Age lasted from 1450 to 1850, and the Maunder minimum was kind of like a period of particular intensity in the middle of that from 1645 to 1715. So, would it be safe to say that the period of the Maunder minimum within the Little Ice Age was the period when this companion star was closest to earth - or closest to our sun or perihelion?

A: Yes

Q: (L) And since the Little Ice Age lasted from 1450 to 1850, that was the period of its generalized influence?

A: Yes


Q: (L) So that suggests that it takes like 400 years for something like that to pass through the Oort cloud?

A: Yes
Winter is the last of his series, The Four Seasons.
The Eng Wiki has about the background for the creation:
The French born painter Nicolas Poussin had made his home in Rome since the age of 30. At the end of his life, from 1660 to 1664, he undertook his last set of paintings, The Four Seasons, a work commissioned by the Duc de Richelieu, grand-nephew of Cardinal Richelieu. Work on the paintings was necessarily slow, because of general ill health and the continuing tremor in his hands, which had affected Poussin since 1640 and turned him into a recluse.
For Poussin, being a painter, suffering from tremor of his hands, poor health in general, and still producing such a work must have been a huge battle!

Next are a few descriptions and interpretations of the painting
For both stoic philosophers and for early Christians the seasons represented the harmony of nature; but for Christians the seasons, often depicted personified surrounding the Good Shepherd, and the succession of night and day also symbolized the death and resurrection of Christ and the salvation of man (1 Clement 9: 4–18, 11: 16-20 s:1 Clement (William Wake translation)).

Departing from the traditions of classical antiquity or medieval illuminations, where the seasons were represented either by allegorical figures or by scenes from everyday country life, Poussin chose to symbolize each season by a specific episode from the Old Testament. For Spring he chose Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden from Genesis; [...] and for Winter the Flood from the Book of Noah. In addition to the obvious seasonal references, some commentators have seen further less immediate biblical references. The bread and wine in Summer and grapes in Autumn could refer to the eucharist. The whole sequence could also represent Man's path to redemption: his state of innocence before the original sin and the Fall in Spring; the union that gave rise to the birth of Christ through the House of David in Summer; the Mosaic laws in Autumn; and finally the Last Judgement in Winter.
The Book of Noah, mentioned in the English Wiki has been lost, so how do they know that was an inspiration, why do they mention it? The French Wiki takes the inspiration for the image to be Genesis chapters 6-9, also known as the Genesis flood narrative, which again belongs to a whole group of Flood myths. The Flood myths Wiki tells us that connections between a flood and comets became expressed in the 1690s. (This was just a generation after Poussin's painting.):
The earliest known hypothesis about a comet that had a widespread effect on human populations can be attributed to Edmond Halley, who in 1694 suggested that a worldwide flood had been the result of a near-miss by a comet.[46][47] The issue was taken up in more detail by William Whiston, a protégé of and popularizer of the theories of Isaac Newton, who argued in his book A New Theory of the Earth (1696) that a comet encounter was the probable cause of the Biblical Flood of Noah in 2342 BCE.[48] Whiston also attributed the origins of the atmosphere and other significant changes in the Earth to the effects of comets.[49]

In Pierre-Simon Laplace's book Exposition Du Systême Du Monde (The System of the World), first published in 1796, he stated:[50]

[T]he greater part of men and animals drowned in a universal deluge, or destroyed by the violence of the shock given to the terrestrial globe; whole species destroyed; all the monuments of human industry reversed: such are the disasters which a shock of a comet would produce.[51][52]

A similar hypothesis was popularized by Minnesota congressman and pseudoarchaeology writer Ignatius L. Donnelly in his book Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel (1883), which followed his better-known book Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1882). In Ragnarok, Donnelly argued that an enormous comet struck the Earth around 6,000 BCE to 9,000 BCE,[c] destroying an advanced civilization on the "lost continent" of Atlantis. Donnelly, following others before him, attributed the Biblical Flood to this event, which he hypothesized had also resulted in catastrophic fires and climate change. Shortly after the publication of Ragnarok, one commenter noted, "Whiston ascertained that the deluge of Noah came from a comet's tail; but Donnelly has outdone Whiston, for he has shown that our planet has suffered not only from a cometary flood, but from cometary fire, and a cometary rain of stones."[55]
Flight UA1093 was merely hit by small meteorite, but the principle that cosmic objects sometimes interact directly with the earth atmosphere and occasionally penetrate it to hit the surface is similar, and if the pebble that hit the plane was an indicator, more is on the way. In the session, there was:
You will certainly soon be experiencing the effects of this last passage for some time to come.
Q: (L) So that suggests that it takes like 400 years for something like that to pass through the Oort cloud?

A: Yes

Q: (Joe) And how long does it take to come back?

A: No dice.

Q: (Joe) Would it be 180 years?

A: No. You will certainly soon be experiencing the effects of this last passage for some time to come.
The following was 30 years before Poussin began working on The Four Season
What was the "star" of 1630 - It was a comet that was part of a group flung by the passage of the dark star
(Gaby) What was the "star" of 1630, and did it have anything to do with the Maunder Minimum 15 years later?

(L) Well, I would say yeah... Did it have anything to do with the Maunder Minimum 15 years later?

A: It was a comet that was part of a group flung by the passage of the dark star.

Note about Winter/The Flood/Le Deluge
The English Wiki for The Four Seasons has several paragraphs of commentary on Winter/The Flood/Le Deluge.
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The single painting from the Seasons which has been most discussed over the years is probably Winter or The Deluge. Although Poussin is primarily regarded as one of the greatest classicist painters, his Deluge created for him a unique position in the history of romantic painting. The Deluge was the prototype and inspiration for a large number of nineteenth-century deluges and tempests. It became known as one of the first masterpieces of the "horrific sublime" and acquired unique importance in the Louvre for romantic landscape painters. Almost all French critics and historians of art commented on it, many hailing it as the greatest painting of all time. In England Hazlitt described it as "perhaps the finest historical landscape in the world" and Constable considered it "alone in the world".
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Nicolas Poussin's painting and work has been discussed in these posts, using the spelling Pouisson, see for instance Phosphorus and The Frequency of Light by Laura, and in these posts using the spelling Poussin.
Here is the painting:
Nicolas_Poussin_-_L'Hiver_ou_Le_Déluge.jpg
 
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