From the Poem of the Man-God, by Maria Valtorta, Volume 5, original publication:
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Page 938.
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647. On the Passage, the Assumption and Royalty of the Blessed Virgin.
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18th April 1948.
[Mary says:]
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"Did I die? Yes, if you call the separation of the choice part of the spirit from the body.
No, if by death you understand the separation of the vivifying soul from the body, the corruption
of the flesh no longer vivified by the soul, and before that, the lugubrious sepulchre, and before
all these things, the pangs of death.
"How did I die, or better, how did I pass from the Earth to Heaven, first with My immortal part,
then with the perishable one? As if was fair for Her Who did not become acquainted with the stain
of sin."
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Page 940.
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5th January 1944.
[Jesus says:]
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"No sepulchre swallowed the corpse of Mary, because there never was a corpse of Mary, according to
human sense, because Mary did not die as whoever lived dies.
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"By divine decree, She was only separated from Her spirit, and Her most holy flesh once again joined
the spirit that had preceded it. By inverting the habitual laws, according to which an ecstasy ends
when the rapture ceases, that is, when the spirit returns to its normal state, it was Mary's body
that went to join the spirit, after a long rest on the funeral bed."
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