World, society, the Earth, the universe
In the way of speaking of the Christ, the world most often designates the part of men who live without caring about the interests of God, but actively seeking human interests: money, flesh, and power. Satan is thus called "the prince of this world" (cf. Jn 12:31).
In "The Gospel as it was revealed to me"
Society, humanity
- Under the name of flesh, I put yours and that of the world: that is to say the pomp and the seductions of the world, that is to say wealth, celebrations, honors, powers that come from the world.[1]
- The world belongs to the wicked. Paradise belongs to the good. This is the truth and the promise. It is on this that your quiet strength rests. The world passes away. Paradise does not pass away.[2] (Jesus)
- The World hates. He who hates sees and wants to make others see the evil in the holiest things.[3]
- The reasons of the world and those of God.[4]
- The world is here. The world of tomorrow in the little Israelite pure who will not even realize that he will become the "Christian"; the world, the old world of Israel in the Zealot; humanity in John, the Gentiles in Sintica.[5]
- He wanted to come into the world and take on flesh to redeem flesh and souls and the world, but he did not want to accept the pomp of the world and the centers of sin, and He had nothing carnal or worldly in Him.[6]
- You see how the eyes of the world are always on us, to slander us or study us, and also out of veneration. But these last are the small number among the many eyes that watch us. Yet it is of this small number that we must take the greatest care because it is on their faith that the study of the world is focused.[7]
The earth, the universe
- Satan, at the Temptation of the Christ: "Worship me. I will give you the earth."[8]
- "You are the salt of the Earth" – (Matthew 5:13-14) - First announcement.[9]
- The Announcer knew the paths of the earth, because He had come down to speak to the Prophets…[10]
- Sermon on the Mount: "You are the salt of the Earth."[11] and [12]
- The Beatitudes: Blessed if I am gentle, because I will inherit the Earth![13]
- The Our Father: "Let your Kingdom come on earth as it is in Heaven." Desire with all your strength for this coming. It would be joy on earth if it arrived.[14]
- At the beginning, there was heaven and earth and it was for them that light was given, and through the light all things were made.[15]
- The Earth is an altar, Simon, a vast altar. It was meant to be an altar of perpetual praise to its Creator. But the Earth is filled with sins. It must therefore be an altar of perpetual expiation, sacrifice, on which the hosties burn.[16]
In other works by Maria Valtorta
In the Notebooks of 1943
- Catechesis of August 22, 1943: "But how is it that they did not think that the ‘great Babylon’ is the whole Earth? I would be a very small and limited Creator God if I had only created the Earth as an inhabited world! With a beat of my will, I have brought forth worlds and worlds from nothing and I have thrown them, luminous dust, into the immensity of the firmament. The Earth, of which you are so proud and so fiercely jealous, is but one of these specks turning in infinity, and not the largest. But certainly the most corrupt. Lives and lives abound in the millions of worlds that delight your gaze in serene nights, and the perfection of God will appear to you when you can see, with the intellectual vision of the spirit reunited to God, the wonders of these worlds. Is not the Earth the great prostitute who has fornicated with all the powers of earth and hell, and have not the inhabitants of the Earth prostituted themselves, body and soul, to triumph in the earthly day?"[17]