Blindness
Christ gives sight to a blind man.
Jesus has healed many blind people, but blindness can also be spiritual.
In "The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me"
The Infirm
- Go and tell, the blind see, and the lame walk... (Matthew 11:1-5)[1]
- Healing of the blind man from Bethsaida: I see people, I see them like trees, but they walk. (Mark 8:22-26)[2]
- Healing of Sidoine (Bartholomew) the man born blind (John 9:1-34).[3]
Spiritual Blindness
- It is strange this stubbornness, this mental impotence even among the best of those who follow Jesus in understanding His greatest mission... Everything the Sacred Books say is true, except this: that the Messiah must suffer and die, and be defeated by men.[4]
- They make themselves blind by their free will. And the Father sent me so that the separation would take place and that one would truly know the sons of Light and those of the Darkness, those who want to see and those who want to become blind (John 9:39-41).[5]
In Other Works of Maria Valtorta
In the Notebooks
- Catechesis of September 25, 1944: "Do you not know that, in either Niniveh, there are at least ten percent and five percent of those one hundred and twenty thousand who feel their misfortune of being spiritually blind and the deficiency of their spiritual intelligence? They cry out to me: 'Jesus, have pity on us, who are sick! Make us see! Open our hearts and our minds so that they may understand you!' And I, Jesus of Nazareth, the good Master, the divine Thaumaturge, should I not have pity on them? Moreover, not only on them, but also on those whom their dealings with Vice have made like animals."
In the Fundamental Christian Texts
In the Bible
- "Be stunned and amazed, become blind and without sight; be drunk, but not with wine, stagger, but not with strong drink, for Yahweh has poured out a spirit of stupor upon you: Prophets, He has closed your eyes! Seers, He has veiled your heads! And all the visions have become to you like the words of a sealed book handed to one who knows how to read saying: 'Read this.' But he answers: 'I cannot, for it is sealed.' And the book is handed to one who does not know how to read saying: 'Read this.' But he answers: 'I do not know how to read.'" [6]
- "Ephraim, because you have played the harlot, Israel has been defiled. Their actions make it impossible for them to return to their God, for a spirit of prostitution breathes in them, and they do not know Yahweh. The pride of Israel testifies against it. Israel and Ephraim stumble over their sin, and Judah also stumbles with them."[7]