Jesus Christ’s Speeches in Maria Valtorta’s Mystical Writings: Setting, Topics, Duration and Deep-Language Mathematical Analysis

Abstract

We have studied Jesus Christ’s speeches contained in The Gospel as revealed to me by Maria Valtorta to assess: (i) similarities and differences of the speeches delivered to diverse audiences, through deep-language statistics; (ii) duration of the speeches delivered in different occasions; (iii) whether the setting of the speeches is realistic. Mathematically, the speeches can be divided into two sets: (a) two apparently well-planned and coordinated series of speeches delivered at “Clear Water” and at the Horns of Hattin (Sermon of the Mountain); (b) extempore speeches delivered in many localities (parables, speeches to people or to disciples, in Synagogues, at the Temple). By converting sequences of words into intervals, through a suitable reading/speaking speed, the speeches’ durations were found to be realistic. The setting of the speeches allows the assessment of the likelihood of the places and occasions for delivering them. Maria Valtorta wrote extraordinary speeches that she attributed to the alleged Jesus of Nazareth. In addition to their theological and doctrinal contents (whose study is far beyond the scope of this paper), the speeches are so realistic in whatever mathematical parameter, or setting, we study them, that she is either a great literary author, or—as she claims—an attentive “eyewitness” of what she reports.

Multiple Communication Channels in Literary Texts

“…Figure 1 shows the resulting vector (11) for the texts listed in Table 1, and referred to (normalized) the coordinates of Clear Water (CW, located at the origin, coordinates (0, 0)), and those of Jesus says, JS, located at (1, 1). As already observed [46], we can notice, very clearly, that the data concerning the sermons Table 1. Total number of words and sentences in the texts referred to the indicated audiences (the number in parentheses is the number of text subdivisions considered in calculating averages and regression lines) and average number of: characters per word (C p ), words per sentence (P F ), words per punctuation marks (interpunctions)-which coincides with the word interval (I P ) [1]-and punctuation marks per sentence (M F ), which is also the number of word intervals contained in a sentence.…”

Saint Peter’s First Burial Site According to Maria Valtorta’s Mystical Writings, Checked against the Archeology of Rome in the I Century

“…What we wish to point out is the objective fact: the comparison between her MWs and what the archeologists have later found is very precise. Moreover, these striking coincidences apply also to many other observations she reports on the Holy Land of 2000 years ago [1][2][3], an interesting and surprising characteristic of her MWs that would deserve careful studies to be further clarified.…”

“…She had only a Bible and the Catechism of Pius X. But, so far, every time some of the data she reports have been cheeked [1][2][3], they have appeared to be correct, sometimes anticipating what scholars would later have found, e.g., archeologists, as in the following example.…”

“…J 2020, 3 15 [53], who a century ago drew 46 large maps, with scale 1: 1000 (1 cm = 10 m), of the city of Rome, with indicated all main archeological sites [54]. These maps are available online (https://rometheimperialfora19952010.wordpress.com/2014/08/18/roma-archeologia-e-restauro-arc hitettura-roma-carta-archeologica-rodolfo-lanciani-la-forma-urbis-romae-roma-milano-1893-19 01-46-grandi-tavole-in-scala-11000-in-pdf-2014-2008/, last access: 21 June 2020).…”

“…Recently, a rigorous and scientific analysis of the large literary work written by Maria Valtorta (1897-1961-an Italian mystic-, on Jesus' life, has strikingly evidenced the presence of large amount of data concerning facts and events occurred 2000 years ago in the Holy Land, which are well beyond her knowledge and skills [1][2][3]. According to Maria Valtorta, her writings were consequence of mystical visions: she wrote what she saw and heard.…”