Preface
From the onset, I want to state clearly that as a fairly learned fellow, I rarely fall for religious deceptions/ supernatural claims. I frequently analyse books/confessions from people who have claimed to have had supernatural experiences but, in most cases, I don’t find God or Jesus in those claims. Visions of heaven and hell are all over the internet but I treat them with lots of suspicion.
About a year ago, however, I came across this 5 volume book by an Italian mystic called Maria Valtorta. Valtorta claimed to have had personal conversations with Jesus, which resulted in about 15,000 hand written pages detailing the life of Jesus. This represented over 700 episodes of Jesus’ life, most of which are of course not recorded in the gospel.
I must frankly admit that going through these volumes, I have been moved in spirit in a way that I have never experienced before. I am confident that her visions were authentic.
Now, I plead with all atheists to keep off this thread because I want to address myself to believers(including Mayekeke) so that you can give your views regarding these revelations.
The poem of Man God aka The gospel as revealed to me.
This book offers in a very detailed manner the life of Jesus. In fact, you will be surprised to learn that it is about 500 times bigger than ,say, the Mathew gospel. From Jesus childhood to his ascension you come to terms with the real Jesus, his disciples, how they looked(BTW ,Judas, is described as having been a very handsome man but corrupted by his city’s debauchery) , the petty arguments that the disciples always had, how Jesus looked like, his loving eyes when he preached BUT his severe eyes when he admonished….etc, etc, etc, etc.
In short if you want to know who exactly Jesus was and the specific circumstances that made him use parables, it’s all in the book.
You may ask: how true is this book?
Lets see what scientists have said about the book
The poem of Man God: First scientifically approved revelation?
a) One of the most amazing things about the book is that all the 700 hundreds episodes were not written in chronological order. Maria would for instance start with the beatitudes, crucifixion, birth and so one but when the episodes were rearranged by her spiritual mentor, they perfectly flowed. Keep in mind that the book contains over 500 persons. So, scientists question how was it possible for someone who was bed ridden to write a narrative in no particular order? Look at it this way: can you write a novel of 700 chapters with over 500 characters starting with chapter 14, then 76 , then 3 then 397 and so on?
b) The geography of Palestine: Scientists have been amazed at how Maria- who never left italy as she was bedridden- could know ancient Palestine towns that are being discovered today. Some towns in the book were discovered by archaeologists much later after the book had been published.
c) The stars on the eve of crucifixion. Let me quote Wikipedia regarding Maria’s stellar description on the eve of crucifixion:
‘In episode written on December 11, 1945 Valtorta wrote of a night Jesus spent atGadara:
“The sky is glistening with countless stars… with its springtime constellations and the magnificent stars of Orion: of Rigil and Betelgeuse, of Aldebaran, of Perseus, Andromeda and Cassiopeia and the Pleiades united like sisters. And Sapphirine Venus covered with diamonds, and Mars of pale ruby and the topaz of Jupiter…”
In 1992Purdue UniversityphysicistLonnie VanZandtanalyzed these events to estimate a date for the event described.[18]Using a computer simulation, VanZandt noted that the only possibilities for the observation Valtorta described during the month of March would be AD31 and AD33, and after considering other elements in the narrative concluded that March AD33 was the only possibility.[18]According to VanZandt the estimation of the joint observability of these three stars and the position of the moon during that time would have been almost impossible without a computer system.[18]
Crucifixion:
Maria then describes in a graphic detail the whole process ofcrucifixion of Jesus and one doctor said that very few doctors could actually have managed to describe what Maria described. In her description, she medically describes Jesus death in a way that many many doctors cannot be able to. Keep in mind she was simply a simple uneducated woman.
Much Much More.
I really cannot exhaust this book. Of course the Catholic Church has opposed this book but I want people with open minds to read this book and make their own judgements.
The best place to begin with is to start with this website: valtorta.org or even the Wikipedia. The book simply goes into deeper details regarding Jesus teachings. These will be some of your experiences:
a) Jesus will clarify for you what he meant by ‘ this generation will not pass away’
b) You will discover that Jesus first appeared to his mother before Mary Magdalene(after resurrection)
c) You will see the sheer attempts that Jesus made to save Judas but all in vain(including Jesus terribly weeping and beseeching Judas not to go to Jerusalem).
d) You will discover why, in Jesus words, Judas is the greatest sinner ever(not the likes of Hitler)
e) You will discover why the woman caught in adultery was ultimately not saved.
f) You will discover why Jesus said that of all people who believed in him, only Mary Magdalene fully understood Jesus.
g) You will read about all that satan told jesus when he tempted him/
h) You will read about why, in the end of days, three-quarter of Christians will renounce jesus.
i) You will discover that the infamous antichrist will be a spiritual figure in human form and not a political leader as such.
j) You will learn that we have millions and millions of planets with lives. In fact, this is what Jesus says about extraterrestrial lives:
I would be a very small and limited God the Creator if I had created only the Earth asan inhabitedworld! With a beat of My will I have brought forth worlds upon worlds from nothing and cast them as luminous fine dust into the immensity of the firmament.
"The Earth, about which you are so proud and fierce, is nothing but one of the bits of fine dust rotating in unboundedness, and notthe biggest one. It is certainly the most corrupt one, though. Lives upon lives are teeming in the millions of worlds which are the joy of your gaze on peaceful nights, andthe perfection of God will appear to you when, with the intellectual sight of your spirits rejoined to God, you are able to see the wonders of those worlds.
k) you will discover how dead the universe will be come the resurrection day(stars moon and the sun all dead)
You can start with this website: valtorta.org and I have also uploaded 1 volume of the book.