CRITIQUE: POEM OF THE MAN-GOD

MEDJUGORJE'S GOSPEL

Maria Valtorta, 1897-1961
Volume I - Part 2

Page 171 Valtorta's dream: The oldest of the Magi speaks on behalf of them all. He explains to Mary that one night the previous December, they saw a new star of an unusual brightness appear in the sky. The maps of the sky had never shown or mentioned such a star. Its name was unknown because it had no name. . . .

Page 172 Valtorta's dream: The wise men had seen it and had striven to understand its meaning. They were happy to give up the little sleep they usually granted themselves and forgetting even their food, they devoted themselves entirely to studying the zodiac.

V's Wise men: "Here is gold which befits a king to possess, incense which befits a God. Mother, here is the myrrh because Your Child is a Man as well as God and He will experience the bitterness of the flesh and of human life as well as the inevitable law of death."

Comment: Valtorta quotes the wise men as prophets!

Page 173 Valtorta's dream: Jesus smiles and plays with the little chains and fringes of the robes of the three Magi. He looks curiously at the open coffer, full of a yellow sparkling substance, and He smiles at the rainbow produced by the sun shining on the brilliant top of the lid of myrrh.

Jesus walks with a hesitant step, like all children, and He laughs kicking His little feet on the strip of the floor lit up by the sun. Mary, bending down over the Child, takes His hand and guides it, in a blessing gesture over the head of each Wise Man. It is already a sign of the cross, traced by Jesus' little fingers, guided by Mary.

Page 176 Valtorta's dream: The three Wise Men were really great. Firstly, because of their supernatural virtues, secondly because of their science, last because of their wealth.

Page 178 Jesus: "It is Mary who takes the hand of Jesus, Who does not yet know how to bless, and She guides it in the holy gesture. It is always Mary who takes Jesus' hand and guides it, even now. Now Jesus knows how to bless, but sometimes His pierced hand falls down tired and disheartened, because He knows that it is useless to bless."

Page 179 Valtorta's dream: Joseph is now sighing deeply as if he had a nightmare and he awakes with a start. He sits up on his bed, rubs his eyes and looks around. It is the dead of night. He knocks very gently, a very soft knocking with the tips of his fingers. He must have heard a voice asking him to enter because he opens the door carefully. Mary is kneeling near the cradle in Her light dress and is praying, watching Jesus Who is sleeping peacefully. Jesus is the same age as I saw Him in the vision of the Magi, a Child about one year old.

Page 180 V's Joseph: "We must go away from here at once. It must be at once. Prepare the coffer and a sack with everything You can put in them. 1*11 prepare the rest, I'll take as much as I can. We will flee at dawn. I would go even sooner but I must speak to the landlady."

V's Mary: "Why this flight?"

V's Joseph: "I will tell you later. It is because of Jesus. An angel said to me 'Take the Child and His Mother and escape into Egypt."

Valtorta's dream: Only when Her sack is full, and it is obviously very heavy.

V's Mary: "Shall I take also the woollen blankets?"

V's Joseph: "Take as much as You can. We will lose the rest. Things will be useful because we will have to stay away for a long time. I have taken the gifts of the Magi because they will be very useful down there. I am going to spend all the money I have to buy two donkeys. We cannot send them back, so I will have to buy them. I'll go now, without awaiting dawn.

Page 181 Valtorta's dream: Mary gathers a few more things, then, after looking at Jesus, She goes out and comes back with some little dresses which appear to be still damp: perhaps they were washed the day before. She folds them, wraps them up in a cloth, and adds them to the other thinqs. There is nothing else. She looks around and in a corner She sees one of Jesus' toys: a little sheep carved in wood. She picks it up sobbing, and kisses it. On the wood-there are traces of Jesus' little teeth and the ears of the little sheep are all nibbled.

V's Mary: "Yes, love of Your Mummy. Yes. Your milk. Before the usual time. You are always ready to suck Your Mummy's breast My little holy Lamb!

Valtorta's dream: Jesus laughs and plays, kicking His feet out of the blankets, moving His arms happily in a typical childish style, so beautiful to see. He pushes His feet against His Mummy's stomach. He arches His back leaning His fair head on Her breast, and then throws Himself back nnd laughs, holding with His hands the laces that tie Mary's dress to Her neck, endeavoring to open it. He looks most beautiful in His little linen shirt, plump and as rosy as a flower.

Mary nurses Him and Jesus avidly sucks His Mother's good milk, and when He feels that only a little is coming from Her right breast. He looks for the left one, laughing while doing so and looking up at His Mother. Then He falls asleep again on Her breast. His rosy round little cheek resting against Her white round breast.

Page 182 V's Joseph: "Are you ready? Is Jesus ready? Have You taken His blankets and His little bed? We can't take His cradle, but He must have at least His little mattress: poor Baby, Whose death they are seeking! Herod wants Him dead, because he is afraid of Him. that filthy beast, because of his human kingdom he is afraid of this innocent Child. I do not think he will revenge himself by seeking Him as far as Galilee. It would bevery difficult for him to find outthat we are Galileans, least of all that we are from Nazareth and who we are precisely. Unless satan helps him to thank him for being his faithful servant, . . . but if that should happen. . . God will help us. Don't cry, Mary. To see You crying is a greater pain for me than having to go into exile."

Page 183 Valtorta's dream: The landlady, in tears, kisses Her goodbye and, lifting the edge of the shawl, she kisses the forehead of the Child Who is sleeping calmly. They go down the outside steps. The first light of dawn enables them to see faintly. In the dim light, three little donkeys can be seen. The strongest is loaded with the good and chattels. The other two are saddled. Joseph is busy fastening the coffer and bundles on the pack-saddle of the first sack. The flight begins while Bethlehem, still dreaming of the phantasmagoric scene of the Magi, is sleeping peacefully, unaware of what is impending over it.

Comment: One donkey loaded with household possessions, is not in accordance with the Gospel story of our Holy Family fleeing into Egypt, or being able to flee into Egypt!

Page 184 V's Jesus: "My Mother uttered a cry of joy when, after about four years. She went back to Nazareth and entered Her house, and kissed the walls where Her 'yes' had opened Her bosom to receive the Son of God."

Page 186 V's Jesus: "Mary was and remained a virgin, and that only Her soul was married to Joseph, exactly as Her spirit was united only to the Spirit of God, by Whose deed She conceived Her Only Son: 1. Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of the Father and of Mary."

Page 187 V's Jesus: "The angel said: 'The Child and His Mother', proves to you that Mary was His real Mother, but She was not a wife of Joseph. She remained for ever: 'The virgin betrothed to Joseph.' "

Paqe 188 Valtorta: I think He must be two years old, or two and a half at the very most. He is playing with some little pieces of carved wood, which looks like little sheep or little horses. Page 189 Valtorta's dream: I do not see anybody. Mary looks towards the centre of the town not towards the country, as if She were waiting for someone. I can now see a man coming along the road; he is not very tall, but is well built. I recognize Joseph, who is smiling. He looks younger than when I saw him in the vision of Paradise.

Page 191 Valtorta's dream: They then sit down at the table after saying their prayers. Obviously they do not bless themselves with the sign of the cross, but they pray. It is Joseph who says the prayers, and Mary answers. I do not understand anything at all. It must be a psalm, but it is said in a language which is entirely unknown to me.

Comment: Since Valtorta does not understand anything at all, how would she be able to provide conversation text, since none of it is Italian? Satan!

Page 191 Valtorta's dream: The crust of the loaf, as well as the inside, is very dark, it looks like rye bread or bread made with barley. It certainly contains a lot of bran, judging by its colour. Jesus is nibbling happily at His apple, and He smiles displaying His little white teeth. Their supper ends with some olives or dates. I cannot tell exactly which because they appear to be too light to be olives and too hard to be dates. There is no wine. The supper of poor people.

Page 195 Valtorta's dream: They go Into the workshop. Joseph shows Him a small hammer, a tiny saw, some very small screwdrivers, a plane suitable for a doll, which are all lying on the bench of a budding carpenter: a bench suitable for little Jesus' size.

V's Joseph: "See, to saw. You must put this piece of wood like that. You then take the saw like that, and making sure that You do not catch Your fingers. You start sawing.. ."

V's dream: The lesson begins. Jesus, blushing with the effort and pressing His lips together, saws the piece of wood carefully and then planes it, and although it is not perfectly straight. He thinks it is nice. Joseph praises Him and with patience and love teaches Him how to work.

Comment: Our Lord Jesus created the universe, but Valtorta depicts Him sawing wood, although not perfectly straight must take carpentry lessons from Joseph!

Page 196 V's Jesus: "From Joseph I learned, and never had a pupil a kinder teacher - I learned everything that makes a man of a child, and a man who is to earn his own bread."

Page 197 V's Jesus: "Finally I would like to draw the attention of parents to how Joseph made a clever workman of Me, without any help of pedagogical learning. As soon as I was old enough to handle tools, he did not let Me lead a life of idleness, but he started Me to work and he made use of My love for Mary as the means to spur Me to work. I was to make useful things for Mother. That is how he inculcated the respect which every son should have for his mother and teaching for the future carpenter was based on that respectful and loving incentive."

Page 200 V's Mary sees Him lying still on the ground shouts: "Jesus, Jesus! Get up! Don't lie down like that! Your Mummy does not want to see You dead!"

Page 201 V's Mary: "Do you know what I have for you? Guess."

Jesus thinks, but He cannot guess. Jesus unties the rope which is holding the lid on, he lifts it... and a little white sheep, a real flock of foam, appears sleeping in the very clean hay.

V's Jesus: "For me! For me! Thank you, father!"

Page 202 V's Mary: "I will never send Jesus to school."

V's Joseph: "There is no need for Jesus to go to school. Mary was brought up in the Temple, and She knows the Law as well as any doctor. She will be His Teacher."

Page 04 V's Jesus: "There was no other doctor in Israel like My sweet Mother. Seat of Wisdom, and of true Wisdom, She taught us for the world, and for Heaven. I say: 'She taught us' because I was Her pupil exactly as My cousins."

Pages 106, 107 Valtorta's dream: Jesus is a handsome young boy, twelve years old, tall, well built, strong but not fat. His eyes are still the eyes of a child. They are large, wide open when looking, with a sparkle of joy lost in the seriousness of His glance. Later they will not be so wide open. His eyelashes will cover half of them to conceal the excessive wickedness which is in the world, from the Pure and Holy One. Only when working miracles, they will be open and bright, even brighter than now, to cast out demons and death, to heal diseases and sins.

Page 209 V's Joseph: "I ask you to note that His constitution proves that He is no longer in His childhood or minority. I ask you to examine Him kindly and fairly, to judge that what I here. His father have stated, is the truth. I have prepared Him for this hour and for this dignity of a son of the Law. He knows the precepts, the traditions, the decisions, the customs of the finger and the phylacteries. He knows how to say the daily prayers and blessings. Therefore, since He knows the Law in Itself and in its three branches of Halascia, Midrasc and Aggada, He can behave as a man. Therefore I wish to be free from the responsibility of His actions and of His sins."

Comment: Blasphemy: Valtorta's Joseph: "l wish to be free from the responsibility of His actions and of His sins." Saint Joseph, spouse of Immaculate Mary never made that statement.

Page 210 V's Jesus: "I know that many rabbis, Shammai is the last of them and is still alive, say that an egg laid on a Sabbath is against the precept, but I think that there is a difference between man and animals or whoever fulfills a natural act, such as giving birth. If I compel a horse to work I am responsible for its sin, [A horse can sin?] because I force it to work with a whip, but if a hen lays an egg which has matured in its ovary or a sheep lambs a little one on a Sabbath, because it is ready to be born, no, such a deed is not a sin, neither is the egg laid or the lamb born on a Sabbath a sin in the eyes of God."

Page 216 Hillel: "Child, who taught you these words?"

V's Jesus: "The Spirit of God. I have no human teacher. This is the Word of the Lord Who speaks to you through My lips."

Hillel: "Come near us that I may see You, Child, and my hope may be revived by Your faith and my soul enlightened by the brightness of Yours."

V's Jesus: "Be consoled, my people. Speak to the heart of Jerusalem and call to her that her time of service is ended. A voice cries in the wilderness: 'Prepare a way for the Lord, then the glory of the Lord shall be revealed."

Shammai: "See that, Nazarene. It refers here to an ended slavery, but never before have we been slaves as now, and there is the mention of a precursor. Where is he? You are talking nonsense."

Twelve year old Valtorta's Jesus: "I tell you that admonition of the Precursor should be addressed to you more than anyone else. To you and those like you. Otherwise you will not see the glory of the Lord, neither will you understand the word of God because meanness, pride and falsehood will prevent you from seeing and hearing."

Shammai: "How dare You speak to a master like that?"

V's Jesus: "I speak thus, and thus I shall speak even to My death, because above Me there are the interests of the Lord and the love for Truth of which I am the Son."

Page 219 Valtorta's dream: What I wanted to tell you at the beginning is this. Today you were asking me how I had been able to find out the names of Hillel, Gamaliel and of Shammai. It is the voice that I call 'the second voice' which tells me these things. A voice even less audible than Jesus' and the voices of other people who dictate. . . . White I was wondering who they were, the internal monitor pointed out the third unpleasant individual to me, just as Gamaliel was calling him by name. I was thus able to learn who was the man with the pharisaic appearance. Today this internal monitor makes me understand that I was seeing the universe after its death. The same happens many times in visions. It is this monitor who makes me understand certain details which I would not be able to grasp by myself and which are necessary for comprehension. I do not know whether I have made myself clear. [No!] I am stopping because Jesus is beginning to speak.

V's Jesus: "See Mary's distress, when She realized, after the groups of men and women had gathered together, that I was not with Joseph. To look for a child in the Temple does not make sense. What could a child be doing in the Temple? ... She hears Her Creature weeping and looking for Her, but Jesus is not weeping. He is teaching. All of a sudden, from beyond the barrier of a large group of people. She hears His voice saying: 'These stones will vibrate. . .' She endeavors to make Her way through the crowd, and succeeds after much effort. There is Her Son, standing in the midst of the doctors with His arms stretched out.

"Mary is the Prudent Virgin, but anxiety overcomes prudence. She runs to Her Son, embraces Him, lifting Him off the stool and putting Him down on the ground and She exclaims: 'Oh! Why have You done this to us? For three days we have been looking for You. Your Mummy is dying with pain. Son. Your father [Joseph] is exhausted with fatigue. Why, Jesus?!"

Page 227 V's Jesus: "Go before Me and tell the Patriarchs that the Savior is in the world and the Kingdom of Heaven will soon be opened to them. Go, father. May My blessing accompany you."

V's Jesus: "Joseph was Mary's father, Her spouse, Her brother, Her friend, Her protector.

"The will of the Eternal Father Who had asked Her to be a spouse and a Mother, was now imposing upon Her widowhood and separation from Her Creature, but Mary utters, shedding tears, one of Her most sublime remarks: 'Yes. Yes, Lord, let it be done to Me according to Your word.!"

Page 129 V's Jesus: "Consider how much spiritual progress Joseph made from the moment he comes into My house to the moment of the flight into Egypt. At the beginning Joseph was but a just man of his times."

Page 235 Valtorta's dream: Two or three times Jesus tells Mary to sit down and to eat with Him. She does not want to. She shakes Her head, smiling sadly. . . . The bread is rather dark brown as if the bran had not been removed from the flour.

Page 237 Valtorta's dream: Jesus, Whom I have never seen drink wine, from out of an amphora on the bookcase, pours some white wine into a goblet, and He puts it on the table. He then takes Mary by Her hand and makes Her sit beside Him and drink some of the wine, into which He dips a small slice of bread, which He gives Her to eat. Neither Jesus nor Mary was lying down as was customary in rich banquets in those times, but they were sitting at the table as we do. They are both silent, waiting. Mary caresses Jesus' right hand and His knees, Jesus pats Mary's arm and Her head. Then Jesus rises, and so does Mary. They embrace and kiss each other very fondly and repeatedly. They always seem to be on the point of separating and parting, but each time Mary embraces Her Creature over and over again.

Page 238 V's Jesus: "With so many books dealing with Me and which, after so many revisions, changes and fineries have become unreal, I want to give those who believe in Me a vision brought back to the truth of My mortal days."

Page 239 V's Jesus: "Mary had one good thing, one love on the earth: Her Son. The only thing left to Her. Her parents died a long time before. Joseph died some years earlier. Only I was left to love Her and make Her feel She was not atone. Her relatives, because of Me, of Whose divine origin they were not aware, were somewhat hostile to Her, because they considered Her incapable of imposing Herself on Her Son, Who did not behave according to good common sense, and turned down marriage proposals which could bring prestige to the family, as well as material help."

Page 241 V's Jesus: "Mary prays. She does not object to praying because God had given Her sorrows. Remember that. She prays together with Jesus. She prays the Father: Ours and yours. The first 'Our Father' was said in the kitchen garden in Nazareth to console Mary's pain, to offer 'our' wills to the Eternal, when a period of greater and greater sacrifices was about to begin for us, culminating with the sacrifice of My life and My Mother's acceptance of the death of Her son. Although we had nothing for which the Father should forgive us, just out of humility, we the Faultless Ones, begged the Father's pardon that we might proceed worthily in our mission, after being forgiven and absolved of even a sigh.

"When you pray, be always united to Me. I will pray for you in a loud voice, drowning your human voices with My voice of Man-God. I will take your prayers in My pierced hands and I will raise them to the Father. They [prayers?] will thus become victims of infinite value. My voice mingled with yours, will rise like a filial kiss to the Father and the purple of My wounds will make your prayers valuable ones. Be in Me if you want to have the Father in you, with you, for you."

Page 243 Valtorta's dream: In the midst of them, standing on a rock, there is a man whom I recognize at once to be the Baptist, although it is the first time I have seen him. He is announcing the Messiah and exhorting the people to prepare their heart for His coming, eradicating alt obstructions and rectifying their thoughts. It is a violent and harsh speech. The Precursor does not posses the light hand Jesus used to cure the wounds of heart. He is a doctor who lays the wound bare, scrutinizes it and cuts it mercilessly. Jesus and John [the Baptist] stare at each other for a moment: Jesus, with His very sweet blue eyes; John with his very severe black flashing ones. Seen from nearby, one is the antithesis of the other. They are both tall - their only resemblance - for the rest, they differ immensely. Jesus is fair haired. His hair is long and tidy. His face is white ivory. His eyes blue. His garment simple, but majestic. John is hairy: his straight, black hair falls unevenly onto his shoulders, his sparse dark beard covers his face almost completely, but his cheeks, hollowed by fasting, are still noticeable, his feverish eyes are black, his complexion is dark, tanned by the sun and weather-beaten, his body is covered with hairs, he is half-naked in his camel-hair garment, which is tied to his waist by a leather belt and covers his trunk, reaching down to his thin sides, whilst his right side is uncovered and bare, completely weather-beaten. They look like a savage and an angel, seen close together.

Comment: Since John "is half-covered in a camel-hair garment," how does Valtorta conclude that his body is covered with hairs? "Cat-scan" vision? John Baptist looks like a savage? Horrible!

V's Jesus: "John did not need any sign for himself. His soul, which had been presanctified in his mother's womb, possessed that penetration of supernatural intelligence which all men would have had, if Adam had not sinned."

Page245 V's Jesus: "John [Baptist], had been purified from fault [original sin?], when the Full of Grace lovingly embraced Elizabeth who, after being barren, had become pregnant. The child leapt out of joy in her womb, because he felt the scales of sin falling from his soul, as a scab falls off a wound when the latter is healed. John was the lips, I the Word. He was the Precursor both in the Gospel and in martyrdom; I, by means of My divine perfection, made perfect both the Gospel which John had started, and martyrdom, suffered to defend the Law of God."

Page 248 Valtorta's dream: Jesus clenches His hands in silent prayer.

Satan: "Ah! It is You, then? I have been looking for You for such a long time! I have been watching You for so long. Since You were baptized. Are you calling the Eternal? He is far away. You are now on the earth, in the midst of men, and I reign over men. Yet, I feel sorry for You, and I want to help You, because You are so good, and You have come to sacrifice Yourself for nothing. Men will hate You because of Your goodness. They understand nothing but gold, food and pleasure. Sacrifice, sorrow, obedience are words more arid for them than the land around us here. They are more arid than this dust. Only snakes can hide here, waiting to bite, and jackals waiting to tear to pieces. Come with me. It is not worthwhile suffering for them. I know them better than You do. You don't trust me. You are wrong. I am the wisdom of the earth. I can be Your teacher and show You how to triumph. See the important thing is to triumph. Then, once we have imposed ourselves and we have enchanted the world, then we can take them wherever we want. First, we must be as they wish us to be. Like them. We must allure them, making them believe that we admire them and follow their thoughts. You are young and handsome. Start with a woman. One must always start from her. I made a mistake inducing her to be disobedient. I should have advised her differently. I would have turned her into a better instrument, and I would hqve beaten Cod. I was in a hurry, but You, I will teach You, because one day I looked at You with angelical joy, and a fraction of that love is still left in me, [The great liar, satan does not love'] but You must listen to me, and make use of my experience. Find yourself a woman. Where you do not succeed, she will. You are the new Adam: You must have Your Eve."

Paqes 253, 254, When John is near Jesus, he shouts: "Lamb of God Who takes away the sins of the world!" Jesus turns around, and looks at him. There are now only a few steps between them. They look at each other: Jesus with His serious scrutinising look, John with his pure eyes smiling in his beautiful, youthful face, that looks like the face of a girl. He is about twenty years old, and on his rosy cheeks there is only the sign of a blond down, like a golden veil.

V's Jesus: "Whom are you looking for?"

V's John: "For You, Master."

V's Jesus: "How do you know I am a Master?"

V's John: "The Baptist told me."

V's Jesus: "Who are you?"

V's John: "I am John of Zebedee, and this is James, my brother."

V's Jesus: "Where is John the Baptist?"

V's John: "Herod has taken him. He is in prison, at Machaerus."

V's Jesus: "John the Baptist is the victim of the lust of an obscene couple."

Page 261 Valtorta's dream: John, both in yesterday's vision and to-day's is very young. His face is rose and beardless, the fair complexion of a youth, who can hardly be called a man. There are no signs of moustache or beard, but only the smoothness of his rosy cheeks, his red lips, and his bright smile and pure look, not so much because of its deep turquoise hue, as because of the limpidity of his virginal soul shining through his eyes. His blond-brown long soft hair undulates at each step while he walks almost as fast as if he were running.

V's Jesus: "Do you love Me, John, son of Zebedee?"

V's John: "So much. Master. I think I always loved You. Before meeting You, long before, my soul was looking for You. When I saw You, my soul said: 'Here is the One you are seeking.' "

V's Jesus: "You have a father and a mother, brothers and sisters, you have your life, and with your life, you have a woman and love. How will you be able to leave all that for My sake?"

V's John: "Master, I do not know, but I think, if it is not pride to say so, that Your fondness will take the place of father and mother, of brothers and sister, and also of a woman. I will be compensated for everything, if You love me."

Page 267 V's Jesus: "I want you and everybody to consider John's behaviour. You admire him because he was pure, loving, faithful, but you do not notice that he was great also in humility. He was the first one responsible for Peter's coming to me."

Comment: In our Holy Gospel, Andrew brought Peter to Jesus!

Page 268 V's Jesus: "John is My favourite. I looked at myself in him as in a mirror, I could see My virtues in Him. I loved him like another Self. I could see in him the glance of My Father, Who considered him a little Christ. My Mother would say to Me: "I feel as if he were My second son."

Comment: Second son? Who was the first son? Some people tell us that we are equal before God.
Valtorta's Jesus: "John is My favourite."

Page 269 Valtorta's dream: The vision shows them coming out of the village and starting their journey to Bethsaida. I do not hear what they are saying, in fact the vision is interrupted and it is resumed only when they are entering Bethsaida. I realize that it is that town because I see Peter, Andrew and James, with their wives, awaiting Jesus at the entrance to the village.

Page 270 Valtorta's dream: Some children look in inquisitively from the kitchen garden and the street. I do not know whether they are Peter's children. [Typical for Valtorta] I only know that he frowns at the intruders to keep them out. Jesus smiles and says: "Leave them alone."

Page 273 Valtorta's dream: The Word is speaking. It speaks with joy to the honest, with sorrow to the dishonest, with delight to the holy and the pure, with mercy to sinners.

Page 276 Valtorta's dream: Judas Thaddeus is a handsome man, in the fullness of his virile manhood. He is tall, although not quite so tall as Jesus, well built and strong, of a dark brown- olive complexion, like saint Joseph when young, but not sallow: his eyes have something in common with those of Jesus because they are blue, verging on periwinkle. His brown beard is squarely cut, his hair wavy, but not so curly as Jesus', and is the same hue as his beard.

Page 281 Valtorta's dream: Mary listens benignly to what they are telling Her, then She takes off Her mantle and kindly helps to finish laying the tables. I see Her going to and fro sorting out the bed-seats, straightening up the wreaths of flowers, improving the appearance of the fruit dishes. I see a village. I do not know whether it is Cana or a nearby village. I see Jesus with John and another man, who I think is Judas Thaddeus, but I may be wrong. It is my impression that Mary is either a relation or a close friend of the bridegroom's relatives, because She is on familiar terms with them.

Page 282 Valtorta's dream: I notice one thing. [Only one thing?] With the exception of the mothers of the young couple and of Mary, no woman is sitting at the table. All the women, who are making a din worthy of one hundred people, are sitting at the other table near the wall, and are served after the young couple and the guests of importance. Jesus is sitting near the landlord, in front of Mary, Whose place is near the bride.

Page 283 V's Jesus: "From the moment My mission started, I was no longer the Son submissive to My Mother, but I was the Servant of God. My moral ties with My Mother were broken."

Page 284 Valtorta's dream: A murmur spreads through the hall, they all turn their heads towards Jesus and Mary, some stand up to get a better view, some go near the jars. Then a moment's silence, which is immediately broken by an outburst of praises for Jesus. He stands up and simply says: "Thank Mary" and withdraws from the banquet.

Page 289 It must still be Passover time, because there is always a lot of people in town.

Paqe 291 Valtorta's dream: The man is on the point of throwing himself at Jesus' feet, but he remembers he is still impure, according to the Law, and he restrains himself. He kisses his own hand, and throws a kiss to Jesus and weeps. He weeps out of joy.

Paqe 293 V's Jesus: "My Peter, you will be one of My stones, the first one."

Paqe 298 V's Jesus looks at him. He is not angry. He smiles as one smiles at a child. He gets up, goes slowly over to Peter and smiling, says to him: "Peter! Peter! You are a big, old baby!"

Paqes 309, 310, 311 V's Jesus: "I have never gone fishing and I expect to be taught by you."

"See, Master: this is what we do. I go out beside the boat of James of Zebedee, and we go thus to the right point, both boats together. Then we lower the net. We hold one end. You said You wanted to hold it."

V's Jesus: "Yes, if you tell Me what I have to do."

"Please, Master, be careful, it is our daily bread. Keep an eye on the net, that jolts may not turn it over. The fish fight for their freedom with strong strokes of their tails, and if there is a lot of them. . . You will understand. They are small things, but if ten, one hundred, a thousand get together, they become as strong as Leviathan."

Valtorta's dream: Peter takes Jesus' hand and kisses it. He is deeply moved.

Andrew looks, but does not dare take Jesus' hand, but Jesus caressing his hair with His hand says: "I love you very much, too."

"Oh! Master! Have I kept You waiting?" John looks at Jesus with the eyes of a lover.

Paqe 313 Valtorta's dream: The man who is crying and laughing, stands up, and after a moment's hesitation between respect and desire, he lifts his face and meets Jesus' eyes: Jesus smiling full of merciful love. It must be beautiful to recover your sight and see that face as the first thing! The man screams and stretches his arms. It is an instinctive action, but he controls himself.

Page 315 V's Jesus stretches out His arms in His usual oratorical attitude. "Who came to sanctify has risen. He has come from the secrecy of His house, where He prepared Himself for this mission. He purified Himself to give you an example of purification. He established His position with the mighty ones in the Temple and with the people of God, and is now among you. It is I . Not as some of you think and hope, with clouded minds and unrest in their hearts. The Kingdom of which I am the future King and to which I call you, is more notable and greater."

Page 316 A bearded Israelite stands up to contradict Him: "What You have stated appears to be contrast with what is in the sacred book of Maccabees, glory of Israel. If what You say is correct, is there no conflict between Your doctrine and the sentence of what I have quoted?"

V's Jesus: "I do not know who you are, but I will give you My answer, whoever you are. . . ."

Page 323 Valtorta's dream: A boy comes in, whom I recognize as one of the boys I saw in the first visions of Capernaum, and exactly the one who tumbled down near Jesus' feet, and promised he would be good, so he would get the honey of Paradise.

Page 329 Jesus has embraced John, and IS resting His head on His disciple's.

Page 342 V's Jesus: "Do as I tell you. Peter. Always listen to those who love you."

Pages 358, 359 V's Judas: "If You have never sinned, how can You judge sinners?"

V's Jesus: "I am a man and the Son of God. What I might ignore as a man and judge wrongly, I know and judge as the Son of God."

V's Judas: "Have You never yielded [to temptation]?"

V's Jesus: "No, never."

V's Judas: "How did You manage?"

V's Jesus: "I said: 'Father, lead Me not into temptation'."

V's Judas: "What? You, the Messiah, You work miracles and You ask Your Father for Help?"

V's Jesus: "Not only for help: I ask Him not to lead Me into temptation."

Page 365 Valtorta's dream: Jesus says some psalms and John prays with Him, but his voice dies down and he falls asleep with his head on Jesus' lap. Jesus smiles and stretches His mantle on the shoulders of the sleeping disciple and continues to pray mentally."

Page 391 V's Jesus: "Get up. Elias and you, Levi and you, whose name I do not know."

Page 410 Valtorta's dream: Judas .comes out with a woman who is about fifty years old. She is rather tall, but not so tall as her son, who has her same dark eyes and curly hair.

V's Jesus: "Peace to you, woman. May God be with you and your creature."

"Oh'. Yes! With my creature." It sounds more like a sigh than a reply.

Page 411 Valtorta's dread: Jesus has fastened the red leather open-work straps of the new sandals, which reach up to His ankles. They are much nicer than His sandals of a workman, and they resemble Judas's sandals, which are like shoes with open-work showing parts of his feet.

Page 414 Valtorta's dream: It is a short journey: about four hundred metres, probably a little more. The first houses of Kerioth are now visible and it looks like a decent little town.

Page 415 V's Jesus: "I will commit a robbery, not deserving to be punished by fire. I will snatch from satan's fire many of his preys and I will take them to the Kingdom of peace, of which I am the Prince, and to the future century: the eternal time of which I am the Father."

Page 472 Valtorta's dream: Jesus stretches His arms out and blesses the country. He departs. "What have You done. Master?" asks Simon, who has noticed the unusual gesture."

V's Jesus: "I put a seal on everything. That no demon may damage things and thus cause trouble to those wretched people. I could do no more."

Paqe 475 Mary: "Oh! My dear! Are you thirsty? You must be. I will now prepare..."

V's Jesus: "Yes, I am thirsty for Your kisses, Mother, for Your caresses. Let Me stay like this, with My head on Your shoulder, as when I was a little boy... Oh! Mother! How I miss You!"

Paqe 476 V's Mary: "My Son! What, do You want Your poor Mother to do better than You do?"

Paqe 478 V's Jesus: "It is not necessary. Judas will be here today."

V's Mary: "How do You know?"

Jesus smiles and is silent.

Paqe 485 Valtorta's dream: Peter cannot keep silent. "At least beg His forgiveness, boy. If I had been in Jesus' place, you would not have got off just with words. You are more than unfair. You are lacking in respect, my fine gentleman! Is that how they educate you in the Temple? Or is it you that is not educable?"

Page 489 Valtorta's dream: Jesus goes into the kitchen garden, which looks as if it has been washed by the storm of the previous evening. He sees His Mother bending over some little plants. He goes up to Her and greets Her. How sweet is their kiss! Jesus embraces Her shoulders with His left arm and draws Her to Himself kissing Her forehead, just under Her hair line and He then bows down to be kissed by His Mother on the cheek.

Page 536 V's Jesus: "No. Do not do that. Do not lose your soul. [You] do not have to love Me, if you wish. Do not believe that I am the Messiah, but do not hate. Do not hate, Alphaeus. Scoff at Me. Call Me insane, but do not hate. "

Page 540 Valtorta's dream: It must be summer, because the fig tree has its first ripe fruits.

Paqe 659 V's Jesus: "When you see anyone tortured by misfortune, you can be sure that he suffers on account of satan. When you see one who is the cause of misfortune, you may conclude that he is an instrument of satan."

Paqe 672 V's Jesus: "A soul. To Me you are all 'souls'. Nothing else. Men, women, old people, children: souls, and nothing but souls. Children are white souls, young boys blue souls, young people pink souls, just people gold souls, sinners are pitched souls."

Comment: Valtorta: young boys blue souls, young people pink souls! Since young boys are young people, do they blue and pink souls? I am really interested! Colored coded souls?

Page 673 V's Jesus: "You suffered for that, but you have told the truth. I am telling you that I am pleased with you. The next time it will not cost you so much to be good. It is the first step that matters. Well done Judas!" and Jesus caresses him.

Paqe 690 V's Jesus: "When My Mother was carrying Me, when She was pregnant of Me-God, as She is the Humble and Loving One, She went to serve John's mother, who was Her cousin on Her mother's side, and was pregnant in her old age. The Baptist already had a soul, as he was in his seventh [Gospel: sixth?] month, and the germ of man, closed in his mother's womb, leapt with joy on hearing the voice of the Spouse of God. A precursor also in that, he preceded all the redeemed souls, because Grace was communicated from womb to womb and penetrating, it cancelled the Original Sin from the soul of the child. I therefore say that on the earth there are ihree who possess Wisdom, as there are in Heaven ThreeWho are Wisdom: the Word, His Mother, the Precursor on the earth; the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit in Heaven."

Paqe 694 V's Jesus: "Get up, mother. Your son is cured. Man: remove your tunic from your chest. That is where you had the spot, so your mother may be comforted."

Valtorta's dream: The young man lowers his tunic, nude in the eyes of everybody. His skin is the smooth clean skin of a strong young man.

Pages 698, 699 Valtorta's Person: "God! I have that poor wreck there who upsets me, but I am almost forgetting his state to listen to You, Divine One."

V's Jesus: "I am not divine as you understand the term. You call divine who is superior to man. I say that word Is to be given only to him who Is from God."

V's Jesus: "Bring Me the invalid."

Valtorta's dream: They drag him there, while he howls and writhes.

V's Jesus: "See? You say that he is insane and that no doctor can cure him. It is true. No doctor: because he is not insane. One of the infernal gods, a heathen, has entered him."

Valtorta's dream: The Roman is about to prostrate himself.

V's Jesus: "Raise your spirit. God is in Heaven. Worship Him and go towards Him. Goodbye."

Page 703 Peter to Andrew: "You make me angry! You know everything, you do everything and you never tell me anything. You are worse than a fish."

Page 723 Mary to Jesus: "You were separated from Me by a barrier which prevented me from caressing Your beloved body and I could only adore Your spirit."

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