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 so-called "big bang" origin of the universe.¹

Such a display of galaxies never before seen, with their billions of suns and planets, is clearly mind-boggling, and raises exponentially the likelihood of other planets in the universe inhabited like earth by living beings. But modern man's hubris, his conceit spawned by his technological prowess, brooks no evidence suggesting the existence of other races on other worlds that could rival his assumed sovereignty in the universe.²

In the presentation offered here, Christ Himself sharply addresses this swollen pride of modern man and quickly 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-God³, 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.

"Maria, now I take you by the hand to guide you in the most obscure point of the book of John⁵. The commentators of this book have exhausted their capacities with many deductions to explain to themselves and to the people who the "Great Babylon" is⁶. With human vision to — which the shocks of events desired or which happened were not foreign — they have given the name of Babylon to many things.

But how is it they have never thought that the "Great Babylon" is the whole of Earth?⁷
I would be a very little and limited Creator-God if I had created only Earth as an inhabited world!⁸ 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.

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.⁸And God's perfection will be apparent to you when — with the intellectual vision of your spirit united again to God — you can see the marvels of those worlds.

Is not Earth perhaps the great Harlot⁹ 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?¹⁰

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 accomplished 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.¹¹ 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.¹²

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.¹³ 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!'

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: GESU¹⁴:Greatness, Eternity, Sanctity,Unity. Write: CHRISTO¹⁴:Charity, Redemption, Immensity,Sapience¹⁵, Trinity, Omnipotence (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.

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 Head¹⁶ 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.

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 waters¹⁷which 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,¹⁸ Satan will come for the last time and will find followers at 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 Beloved¹⁹ 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'."

CHRIST IN THE UNIVERSE²⁰

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, shamefast²¹, 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

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1. For more on this see the special Press Release on the Hubble Space Telescope. Further information can also be found on the HST Website.

2. This attitude is typically exemplified, e.g., in the "official" public stance of the Air Force's Project Blue Book, apparently a "front" organization and military cover-up designed specifically to defuse public interest in any such evidence amassed over the last 5 decades by consistently denying or debunking it, as suggested by the MAJIC Organization. At the same time the government and the military were apparently conducting their own very concerned secret investigations of this evidence, as witnessed by the controversial Majestic-12 Documents in the case, e.g., of the The Roswell Incident. (See also the Rodeghier/Chesney Analysis of the Air Force Report on Roswell). For a quite recent occurrence of this phenomenon, see the CNN report of the Costa Rica incident.

3. Maria Valtorta, The Poem of the Man-God, trans., Nicandro Picozzi and Patrick McLaughlin (Centro Editoriale Valtortiano srl, 1986-1990), 5 Volumes, hardbound, $35.00 U.S. Distributed (among others) by Saint Raphael's Publications Inc., 31 King St. W., Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, J1H 1N5, and in select bookstores in the U.S. See also links to other Valtorta Sites given on this Website.

4. From Maria Valtorta's, I Quaderni del 1943 (Edizioni Pisani / Centro Editoriale Valtortiano srl, Via Po 95, 03036 Isola del Liri [FR], Italia, 1985): 156-160.

5. "...book of John": that is, the Book of Revelation, or the Apocalypse.

6. Cf. Revelation: Chapters 14, 16, 18, 19.

7. Valtorta here explains: "In dictating to me, Jesus makes me understand that when He says 'Earth,' [capitalized], He means the world taken not as a globe of dust and water, but rather as a union of persons. When therefore He says 'Earth,' He means, I would say: a moral entity. And when He says 'the earth,' [not capitalized], He means simply the planet composed of clods, mountains, waters. The first term is culpable, the second is innocent." [Note: In this translation, therefore, "Earth" capitalized without an article stands for this moral entity of people; while "the earth" in lower case and with an article stands for the innocent planet. —Translator]

8. Cf. Paragraph 3 of the Introduction with its associated Footnote 2 above.

9. Revelation: Chapters 17 & 19.

10. "...the earth's day" — probably in the sense of earth's brief epoch or period of existence.

11. Revelation 17:8.

12. On a typed copy Valtorta notes in pencil at the foot of the page: "After the defeat of the Antichrist and the destruction of Babylon."

13. The allusion is, of course, to Judas Iscariot's betrayal of Christ.

14. The Italian form of the names (Gesu & Christo) are retained here because of the acronym that they form as subsequently explained by Christ in this sentence.

15. "Sapience" basically transliterates the Latin & Italian "Sapientia," meaning "Wisdom". "Sapience: is a rare English word, but a word beginning with "S" is needed to preserve the acronym in English.. ("Sagacity" is another possible alternative.) A similar acronym could feasibly be made for the English form "JESUS CHRIST": JESUS: = Joy, Exaltation, Sapience, Unity, Salvation. CHRIST = Charity, Holiness, Royalty, Immensity, Sovereignty, Truth.

16. As above, Valtorta notes: "In the period of peace which precedes the judgment."

17. Cf. Revelation 1:15; 14:2-3; 19:6.

18. As above, Valtorta notes: "The attempt at peace after the chastisements, at a spiritual evangelization.

19. "...the Beloved": that is, St. John the Apostle.

20. Alice Meynell, The Poems of Alice Meynell (Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd., 28 Orchard SV, W1, 8-10 Paternoster Row EC 4, London, 1972): 92.

21. "Shamfast": i.e., shamefaced