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Excerpts from the 1985 edition

Theme: Maria Valtorta and her work · Page 1 of 2

Reading comfort

Aa

GRM 41.10

The Gospel as revealed to me

Quotation

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. These are voices, I have told you and I repeat it, which my spiritual hearing perceives as being identical to human voices. I hear them as kind or angry voices, strong or weak, joyful or sad, as if one spoke very close to me. The «second voice», instead, is like a light, an intuition that speaks in my spirit. «In» not «to» my spirit. It is an indication.

So, while I was approaching the group of the disputant parties and I did not know who was the illustrious personage who was disputing so heatedly beside an old man, this internal ‘something’ said to me: ‘Gamaliel – Hillel’. Yes. First Gamaliel and then Hillel. I have no doubt about it. While 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. And I was thus able to learn who was the man with the pharisaic appearance.

Detail

Maria sees the scene of the Final Resurrection (resurrection of the flesh), which she mentions at the end of the paragraph. She explains the intervention of her inner counselor in this vision, as well as in that of Jesus' dialogue with the doctors when he was twelve. Part of the text has been removed from the new edition, and all has been rewritten here.