Maria Valtorta – Notebooks - August 22, 1943: I would be a very small and limited Creator God if I had created only the Earth as an inhabited world! Lives and lives swarm in the millions of worlds! Jesus says: «I told you one day that the eternal envious seeks to copy God in all the manifestations of God. God has his faithful archangels. Satan has his. Michael: testimony of God, has an infernal emulator; and so does Gabriel: strength of God. The first beast, coming out of the sea, which with a blasphemous voice makes the deluded proclaim: “Who is like the beast?”, corresponds to Michael. Defeated and wounded by him in the battle between the ranks of God and Lucifer, at the beginning of time, healed by Satan, she has a deadly hatred toward Michael, and love, if love can be spoken of among demons - but it is better to say: absolute subjection - for Satan. Faithful minister of his accursed king, he uses his intelligence to harm the race of man, God's creature, and to serve his master. Endless and measureless force is used by him to persuade man to erase, from himself, my sign that horrifies the spirits of darkness. Once that is removed, with the sin that removes grace, a luminous chrism on your being, the Beast can approach and induce man to adore it as if it were a God and to serve it in crime. If man reflected on the subjection to which he gives himself by marrying guilt, he would not sin. But man does not reflect. He looks at the moment and the joy of the moment, and worse than Esau he exchanges divine birth for a plate of lentils. Satan, however, does not only use this violent seducer of man. As little as man reflects, in general, there are still too many men who, not out of love, but out of fear of punishment, do not want to sin gravely. And here then is the other satanic minister, the second beast. In sheep's clothing he has the spirit of a dragon. He is the second manifestation of Satan and corresponds to Gabriel, because he announces the Beast and is his strongest force: the one that dismantles without appearing and persuades with false sweetness that it is right to follow in the footsteps of the Beast. It is useless to speak of political power and land. No. If ever you can refer to the first the name of human Power and to the second of human Science. And if Power in itself produces rebels, Science, when it is uniquely human, corrupts without producing rebellion and leads to perdition an infinite number of followers. How many are lost through the pride of the mind that makes them despise Faith and kill the soul with the pride that separates from God! For if I reap the harvest of the earth on the last day, a reaper is already among you. And it is this spirit of Evil that mows you down and does not make of you ears of eternal wheat, but straw for the dwellings of Satan. One, only one science is necessary. I will repeat it a thousand times: to know God and serve Him, to know Him in things, to see Him in events and to know how to distinguish Him from His antagonist so as not to fall into perdition. Instead, you are concerned with increasing human knowledge to the detriment of superhuman knowledge. I do not condemn Science. On the contrary, I am pleased that man deepens with knowledge the knowledge he has accumulated, to be able to understand and admire Me more and more in my works. I have given you intelligence for this. But you must use it to see God in the law of the star, in the formation of the flower, in the conception of being, and not use intelligence to violate life or deny the Creator. Rationalism, Humanism, Philosophy, Theosophy, Naturism, Classicism, Darwinism, you have schools and doctrines of all kinds and you are concerned with all of them, however much the Truth is greatly distorted or suppressed in them. Only the school of Christianity you do not want to follow and deepen. Natural resistance, after all. By deepening your religious culture you would be forced either to follow the Law, and you do not want to do that, or to openly confess that you want to trample on the Law. And you do not want to do that either. Therefore you do not want to become learned in supernatural Science. But poor fools! And what will you do with your little schools and your little words when you have to take my exam? You have extinguished the infinite light of true Science in you and you have believed you could illuminate your souls with surrogates of light, just like poor madmen who pretend to extinguish the sun by making a new sun out of so many little lanterns. But even if the fogs hide the sun, the sun is always there in my firmament. But even if with your doctrines you create fogs that veil Knowledge and Truth, Truth and Knowledge are always there because they come from Me who am eternal. Seek true Wisdom and you will understand Science as it should be understood. Clear your souls of all artificial superstructures and raise up the true Faith....