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INTRODUCTION
The Hubble Space Telescope, successfully launched by NASA into orbit around our planet,
has been hailed by scientists and astronomers as a landmark achievement of modern science.
Its 86-inch mirror and attached camera aimed through a kind of "keyhole" of our own galaxy
a speck of sky the width of a dime at a distance of 75 feet have provided a spectacular view
of the visible horizon of the universe.
A series of 342 separate pictures taken continuously from December 18-28, 1995, have yielded
a fantastic array of 1500 different types of galaxies with their billions of suns and planets.
Some of these, the dimmest and thus farthest away, are thought to be at the very edge of the
visible horizon of the universe. Scientists therefore believe that they may well have a kind of
"time machine" enabling man to see backward to perhaps less than 1 billion years after the socalled "big bang" origin of the universe.
In the presentation offered here, Christ Himself sharply addresses the swollen pride of modern
man and punctures his inflated ego. "Babylon the Great" is another Dictation or Locution
given by Christ, on the date indicated, to the great contemporary mystic, Maria Valtorta.
Although best known for her masterwork, The Poem of the Man-God1, Valtorta also received
many other revelations collected in her 3-Volume series entitled: I Quaderni
1943, ...1944, ...1945-50. The Dictation presented here is taken from her first volume: I
Quaderni 1943 ["Notebooks for 1943"], and has been specially translated for this Website.
By way of exception and as a fitting conclusion and recapitulation, Alice Meynell's profound
and inspired poem, "Christ In the Universe," has been appended at the end of this Dictation to
invite Valtorta readers to ponder more deeply the opening theme of the Dictation and,
hopefully, to inspire praise for the Creator of so seemingly infinite and magnificent a universe.
Translator

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[August 22, 1943]
JESUS :

"Maria, now I take you by the hand to guide you in the most obscure
point of the book of John . The commentators of this book have
exhausted their capacities with many deductions to explain to
themselves and to the people who the "Great Babylon" is . With
human visionto which the shocks of events desired or which
happened were not foreign they have given the name of Babylon to
many things.
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But how is it they have never thought that the "Great Babylon" is the
whole of Earth?
I would be a very little and limited Creator-God if I had created only
Earth as an inhabited world! With a throb of My Will I have raised up
worlds upon worlds from nothing and cast them forth luminous
fine dust in the immensity of the firmament.
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Earth, of which you are all so proud and so fierce, is but one of the
bits of fine dust revolving in that infinity, and not the largest. But She
is certainly the most corrupt. Lives and [more] lives teem in the
millions of worlds that are the joy of your gaze on serene nights.i
Is not Earth perhaps the great Harlot who has fornicated with all the
powers of the earth and of hell? And the inhabitants of Earth, have
they not prostituted themselves: bodies and souls, to triumph also in
the earth's day?
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Yes. For it is so. The crimes of Earth have all the names of
blasphemy, as has the Beast with whom Earth and Her inhabitants
have also allied themselves in order to triumph. The seven sins stand
as a horrible ornament on the head of the Beast who transports Earth
and the earthly into the pastures of the Evil One. And the ten horns, a
metaphorical number, stand to point out the infinite wickedness the
Beast accomplishes to obtain, at whatever cost, as much as It wants
in Its ferocious lust.
Has not Earth, soaked with the blood of martyrs, been perhaps
intoxicated by this holy liqueur which, drunk down with Her
sacrilegious mouth, is changed in Her mouth into a potion of
accursed drunkenness? The Beast that carries Her: [Itself] the
compendium and synthesis of all the evil wrought from Adam on, just
to triumph in the world and in the flesh draws after It all those who
by adoring It will become king for an hour and of an accursed
kingdom. You are kings as sons of God, and it is an eternal Kingdom.
But you become kings for an hour and of an accursed kingdom when
you adore Satan, who cannot give you but an ephemeral triumph,
paid for at the price of an eternity of horror.
The Beast says John was and is not. At the end of the world it
will be so. The Beast was, because It really has been; It is not,
because I, the Christ, will have conquered and buried It, because It
will no longer be necessary then for the triumphs of the world.
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Is not Earth seated upon the waters of Her seas, and has She not
made use of these to do harm? What has She not made use of?
Peoples, nations, races, borders, interests, food, expansions: She
has used all to fornicate and accomplish endless homicides and
Iscariot betrayals. Her very own sons, nourished by Her with the
blood of sin, will accomplish God's vengeance upon Her by
destroying Her, destroying themselves, bringing the sum total of their
crimes against God and against man to the perfect number demanded
by My thundering: 'ENOUGH!'*
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In that hour the blood of the martyrs and the prophets will boil up
again, steaming toward My Throne with a pleasing fragrance, and the
clods of the earth which had collected the groans of those killed out
of hatred for Me and received their last quiverings, will give a loud
shout formed of all those holy moans, and will tremble with an
anguished convulsion, shaking men's cities and houses where they
sin and kill, and filling the vault of Heaven with a voice that asks for
Justice.
And Justice there will be. I will come. I will come because I am
Faithful and Truthful. I will come to give Peace to the faithful and holy
Judgment to those who have lived. I will come with My Name whose
meaning is known to Me alone and in whose letters are the main
attributes of God of Whom I am Part and Whole.
Write: GESU :Greatness, Eternity, Sanctity,Unity.
Write: CHRISTO :Charity, Redemption, Immensity,Sapience , Trinity, O
mnipotence (of God compressed into the Name of the Word become
human). And if it seems to you that some attributes are lacking,
consider that Justice is included in Sanctity, for whoever has sanctity
is just; Royalty is included in Greatness; Creation, in Omnipotence. In
My Name therefore the praises of God are proclaimed.
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O Holy Name, whose sound terrifies the demons. Name of Life, You
give Life, Light, strength to him who loves You and invokes You.
Name which is the crown upon My Head as Victor over the Beast and
his prophet who will be seized, skewered, submerged, buried in the
liquid and eternal fire whose bite is ferocious and inconceivable to
human feeling.
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It will then be the time of My Kingdom on Earth. Thus there will be a

rest from the demonic crimes to give man time to hear again the
voices of Heaven. With the Force which unchains horror taken
away, great spiritual streams will descend like cascades of grace, like
rivers of heavenly water, to speak words of Light.
But as, over the centuries, they did not gather up the isolated Voices
which speak of the Good, beginning with that of the Word, so men will
be deaf, always deaf except those marked with My Mark, My dearly
beloved friends straining to follow Me men will be deaf to the
voices of many spirits, to voices like the noise of many waters which
will sing the new song to guide the peoples to meet the Light, and
above all to Me: the eternal Word. When the last attempt has been
completed, Satan will come for the last time and will find followers at
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the four corners of the earth, and they will be more numerous than the
sands of the sea.
Oh! Christ! Oh! Jesus Who died to save men! Only the patience of a
God could have waited so long, done so much, obtained so little
without withdrawing His gift from men and letting them perish long
before the appointed hour! Only My Patience which is Love could
await you all, knowing that like sand filtering through a very fine
sieve, some rare souls would come to glory compared to the
mass which does not know how, is unwilling to filter through the
sieve of the Law, of Love, of Sacrifice to reach Me.
But in the hour of My coming when, in the garment of God, King and
Judge, I come to assemble the elect and to curse the reprobate,
hurling them there where the Antichrist, the Beast and Satan will
already be for eternity, after the supreme victory of Jesus Christ, Son
of God, Conqueror of Death and of the Evil One to those elect who
have known how to remain 'a l i v e' in life, a l i v e in their spirit,
awaiting the hour of Our triumph, I will give the possession of the
Heavenly dwelling, I will Give Myself without ceasing and without
measure.
Strain toward that hour, Maria. Call it, and call Me with all the strength
of your spirit. Lo, I am already coming when a soul calls Me. Together
with the Beloved who saw from the earth the glory of the Lamb, Son
of God, the glory of his and your Jesus, say, with every beat of your
heart: 'Come, Lord Jesus'."
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CHRIST IN
THE
UNIVERSE1
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WITH this ambiguous earth

His dealings have been told us. These abide:
The signal to a maid, the human birth,
The lesson, and the young Man crucified.
But not a star of all
The innumerable host of stars has heard
How He administered this terrestrial ball.
Our race have kept their Lord's entrusted Word.
Of His earth-visiting feet

None knows the secret, cherished, perilous,

The terrible, shamefast18, frightened, whispered, sweet,
Heart-shattering secret of His way with us.
No planet knows that this
Our wayside planet, carrying land and wave,
Love and life multiplied, and pain and bliss,
Bears, as chief treasure, one forsaken grave.
Not, in our little day,
May His devices with the heavens be guessed,
His pilgrimage to thread the Milky Way,
Or His bestowals there be manifest.
But, in the eternities,
Doubtless we shall compare together, hear
A million alien Gospels, in what guise
He trod the Pleiades, the Lyre, the Bear.
O be prepared, my soul!
To read the inconceivable, to scan
The million forms of God those stars unroll
When, in our turn, we show to them a Man.
Alice Meynell