Refutation of Their Seventh Failed Attempt to Demonstrate Error
The Resistance Dominicans made a list in which they attempted to demonstrate errors in Valtorta's work. Here is their seventh listed item:
She said that she saw God at her creation
And how is that a problem? In order to do a proper analysis of this objection, I would need to consult the original statement with surrounding context, just as anyone has to do when analyzing any work, including Scripture (the reference for which, in typical fashion, they fail to provide).
Their objection cannot be taken seriously if they don't provide the reference and the relevant context. They have already proven themselves untrustworthy in being capable of accurately quoting or summarizing in their own words what Valtorta has written on other occasions in their article.
However, in general terms, the possibility that Our Lady's soul saw God at her creation is a non-problem. As a matter of fact, the Church herself implies much more than the mere idea that Our Lady (in some form) saw God at her creation. The Church applies these Scripture verses to Our Lady on many feast days in the traditional liturgical calendar where this verse is read on her feast days:
From the beginning, and before the world, was I created, and unto the world to come I shall not cease to be, and in the holy dwelling place I have ministered before Him. And so was I established in Sion, and in the holy city likewise I rested, and my power was in Jerusalem.
And I took root in an honourable people, and in the portion of my God His inheritance, and my abode is in the full assembly of saints. I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree on mount Sion. I was exalted like a palm tree in Cades, and as a rose plant in Jericho: As a fair olive tree in the plains, and as a plane tree by the water in the streets, was I exalted. I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon and aromatical balm: I yielded a sweet odour like the best myrrh:
And I perfumed my dwelling as storax, and galbanum, and onyx, and aloes, and as the frankincense not cut, and my odour is as the purest balm. I have stretched out my branches as the turpentine tree, and my branches are of honour and grace. As the vine I have brought forth a pleasant odour: and my flowers are the fruit of honour and riches. I am the mother of fair love, and of fear, and of knowledge, and of holy hope. In me is all grace of the way and of the truth, in me is all hope of life and of virtue.
Come over to me, all ye that desire me, and be filled with my fruits. For my spirit is sweet above honey, and my inheritance above honey and the honeycomb. My memory is unto everlasting generations. They that eat me, shall yet hunger: and they that drink me, shall yet thirst. He that hearkeneth to me, shall not be confounded: and they that work by me, shall not sin.
They that explain me shall have life everlasting. (Ecclesiasticus 24: 14-31)
Not only does the Church put these words into the mouth of Our Lady in the traditional liturgy, but the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary places the whole of Sirach 24 as the voice of Lady Wisdom into the mouth of the Immaculate Mary. Notice the bolded words in the above quotation.
Also, for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, the Church has the priest reading the following verse referring to Our Lady:
The Lord possessed me in the beginning of His ways, before He made any thing from the beginning. I was set up from eternity, and of old before the earth was made. The depths were not as yet, and I was already conceived; neither had the fountains of waters as yet sprung out; the mountains with their huge bulk had not as yet been established; before the hills I was brought forth;
He had not yet made the earth, nor the rivers, nor the poles of the world. When He prepared the heavens, I was present; when with a certain law and compass He enclosed the depths; when He established the sky above, and poised the fountains of waters; when He compassed the sea with its bounds, and set a law to the waters that they should not pass their limits; when He balanced the foundations of the earth; I was with Him forming all things: and was delighted every day, playing before Him at all times;
playing in the world; and my delights were to be with the children of men. Now therefore, ye children, hear me: Blessed are they that keep my ways. Hear instruction and be wise, and refuse it not. Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors. He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord. (Proverbs 8: 22-35)
Notice the bolded words above. So if the Church, in her wisdom, is so "daring" to imply to the faithful via liturgy and the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary that Our Lady's spirit/soul was with God at the Creation of the world, is it unreasonable to conclude that Our Lady saw God at her creation, which the Resistance Dominicans find so impossible?
I think that the above quotations more than adequately refute the Resistance Dominican's groundless objection. Moreover, as I said earlier, we need the original context of their isolated quotation. No serious scholar quotes from a book he is criticizing without giving a reference. Did they merely paraphrase in their own words what Valtorta wrote or is it a word-for-word quotation? How do we look it up if they didn't provide a reference? (We are talking about a text of 4,200 printed pages here). I am quite confident, considering the thorough combing through every line of her work done by world-renowned trustworthy theologians and by Fr. Gabriel Roschini (one of the greatest and most learned Mariologists of the 20th century who published a 395-page Mariological study of Valtorta's writings), that the statement in question is completely fine when considered in the relevant context.