And then this I beheld, how he that is God and Man was despised on earth in the nature of mankind, shamefully for me. What owe I then for all mine other defaults and sins, that none witteth but Truth, who is judge, to whom I owe this debt. And if she think that we shall write more explicitly than other creatures have written, it is begging, this that she hears, for she would that her even-Christian found God in themselves by writings and by words. These souls, that be such, cannot find the good nor the evil, nor have knowing of themselves to make judgement whether they be converted or perverted. Now seeth the will by the diffused[365] illumination of divine light. But one thing it pleaseth me to say, saith this soul, not for them that be settled, they have no need, for it does not concern them; but for them that are not, that yet shall be, they must trouble, for it is for them to take heed that they be upon their guard or waiting, if so be that love sendeth them anything of the same that he hath ordained for them, that they refuse it not, for nothing that may fall. Godfrey of Fountains was in the forefront of the virulent controversy concerning St Thomass teaching, which broke out at the Sorbonne and at Oxford between 1280 and 1300. She is content with what God is in himself. And now this soul hath so much won and learned of virtues, that she is above the virtues;[106] for such souls have in them all that the virtues can teach, and much more, without comparison. But this, that they save themselves by faith without works, and that they can no more work, it is not meant that they cease from all good works for evermore, and never do any work, but sit in sloth and idleness of soul and body; for those who take it so, they misunderstand it; but it is thus. But, saith Love, that which he hath said, that she shall tell the sum of her questions, is this, that if any have this which she shall say, in sooth, he hath that which none may tell the whole of, nor think [it], except he that alway worketh it in her, of his work, without her work, of his divine goodness. Thus then speaketh this soul, abashed by naught-thinking, by this far night of night; who in peace delighteth herself. [296] Now work in us, by you, of you, for us, without us, thus Lord as it pleaseth you. This to be in us, is very Being. For wit it for sooth, that they whom encumbrances trouble, be full far from this life that we have spoken of., Now, for love, saith Understanding of divine light, tell me, among you, who have somewhat to answer, what ye understand by this., And we shall tell you, say the souls of-wit-of-nature, what we understand by this. Howsoever great she be, she is nothing, who loveth or desireth of me, saith Love, whether to lose me or to win me, except it be only for my pleasure; for otherwise she is with herself, and not with me [at all]. This soul liveth not in Truth, that is the Deity, but Truth liveth in her, who hath all sayings in her fulfilled. This can be conveyed through the dramatic form, more convincingly, perhaps, than in a methodical treatise. The Mirror of Simple Souls Paperback - August 13, 2012 by Marguerite Porete (Author), C Kirchberger (Editor), M N (Translator) 91 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle $5.99 Read with Our Free App Paperback $19.95 7 Used from $17.12 10 New from $15.88 This edition of The Mirror of the Simple Soul was originally published in 1927. And since by my wickedness God is known and also his divine bounty, and since the souls salvation is no other thing than to know the divine bounty, then am I the cause of the salvation of all creatures, for the goodness of God is known by me. Truly, saith Love, but if ye know that no one can find them whom God hath made; and where they be, ye know all three, saith Love, for ye be with them in all moments of time. I have not so much of being that may make me be of him. It is significant that, in the last stage, he is led by Truth. a free soul, drunk! We have, however, retained them as affording a valuable indication of the general drift of the argument, and as elucidating the unpunctuated chaos of the British Museum MS. Who is ancestor[281] to this feeling? Even in their hybrid forms, these modes were still tied to specific institutions of truth-telling, with particular participants, spheres of address, and manners of speaking. But that is without their witting, for they ween they be, and for that weening they are content with their state., They have so much pleasure in their doings, saith this soul, that they ween[188] there be no better, and that deceiveth them from coming to better; thus they stand, within,[189] in their good wills., Such folk, saith Love, be never fulfilled.. Rather than merely a list of erroneous propositions, the text is a polemical narrative which employs various genres and literary styles from the canon of anti-heretical writings. The last, it accordeth with the first, for it discordeth not. Who shall wholly restore the hideousness of this loss? The first is the death of sin, as it is before said. This wot none, but if he have assayed this point. But this may not alway be had, as long as the soul hath company of the body in this world. The Son is fruition agreeable. Reason, saith this [soul] naughted and clarified by default of love of herself. M. Take heed of these words, that the soul saith, that she hath none other usage[152] nor none other may have. They are printed here from the Bod. Nor she knoweth naught but him, nor she loveth but him, nor she praiseth but him, for there is but he. His love is not served in this, nor is this naught[297] it may not be. The first is the Mirror of Simple Souls, written in the vernacular by Marguerite Porete, a woman condemned as a heretic, and the vernacular (re)trans- lations of this well-known text. For if they will, by this they may be and shall come to the being that we have spoken of, and shall yet be lords of themselves and of heaven and earth.. And, therefore, the will of this creature loveth only works of goodness, by fervour of grace, in taking all labours in which she may her spirit feed. It is possible, and his views are much illuminated by a comparison with those of the writer of the Letter. It is the easiest of his literary sources to trace. 1451) died as vicar of Mount Grace, Charterhouse, in 1528. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For she perceiveth in her spirit, and not without witting, what is the way by which he cometh to the gate, where she is oned to his will. I am more a fool than he that this would do, when I put so precious[317] a thing in speech, that may not be said, nor written. He had none other beholding in that doing, but the will of God his Father solely. None may believe, saith Love, the peace on peace of this, unless he be the same.. The following phrase seems to be a parenthesis addressed by such souls to others for these three modes of hiddenness are a benefit to us.. It behoveth me to keep the peace of my divine righteousness and yield to every [man] that which is his. Now Truth, saith this soul, tell to none, whatever I say of God, but to him. Reason, saith Love. This edition also con-tains invaluable historical sources in Appendix A (214#218). Marguerite Porete (died 1310) was a French beguine, mystic and the author of The Mirror of Simple Souls, a work of Christian . Ah, without fail, saith Reason, this is well said; [he who is] cumbered, encumbereth [others].. Ah, what then, for God? saith Holy Church. Reason, saith the soul, that ye hear me complain, it is mine all and my best in well-understanding. love! . For sin must be had in conscience,[54] will a man or nil he so, in the time or after. Ah God, how great a difference [there is] between the gift given by the mean of the loved to the lover, in comparison with the gift given without mean, of the loved to the lover. And then the wound is opened, to heal where it is hurt. How then soothly is this will naught, that is given and shall be given of him to us? And, moreover, a creature may not seek to know too much by asking[84] the divine will; for the understanding that giveth light, showeth to the soul [the] being that she loveth. And that I be of him so beloved, as he is Who Is; and as naked as I was when I was that which I am not. I certify thee, Reason, saith Love, and trust me fully, that all that this soul hath heard of God and all that might be said, is not worth speaking of compared to that which is in him, that never was said nor never shall be, and may not be said : and that is something that I have said, may not be said. And thus it behoveth her to lead, in breaking herself, for to enlarge the place where Love would have his being; and to encumber herself with many beings, so as to [dis]encumber herself to attain her being.. Here endeth the book that Love calleth The Mirror of Simple Souls. This union is called unity of the mind, not only because the Holy Spirit brings it about and guides therein the mind of man, but because it is the Holy Spirit himself. There dangers may no more appear, but glorious life is had. Thus she entereth and walketh in the way of illumination, that she might be taught into the ghostly influences of the divine work of God, there to be drenched[16] in the high flood, and oned to God by ravishing of love, by which she is all one spirit with her spouse. Uploaded by M. This is an usage in Loves game, by which these souls have then so clear sight in divine beholdings, that it seemeth to them that all which they or others say, it is but gabbings in respect of the high goodness and great nobleness that is in God; which may not be known except by himself for the magnitude of greatness. M. Touching these words that this soul saith: She taketh leave of virtues, Love declareth, but yet I am stirred here to say more to the matter, as thus: First: when a soul giveth herself to perfection she laboureth busily day and night to get virtues, by counsel of reason, and striveth with vices at every thought, at every word and deed that she perceiveth cometh of them, and busily searcheth [out] vices, them to destroy. The meaning of these words that the soul saith, that her inwardness feeleth not, she moveth not herself, it is meant for the time of ravishing in union. All work is forbidden her,[402] and she is in the simple Being of the Deity, as it was commanded sometime of Jesu Christ, the Son of God the Father. Then it is good, right, and reason, that true innocence dwell with us. And therefore, I say, saith this soul, that their rudeness I will no more hear: let them tell me nothing, for I can no more suffer it. But Love hath now told me the truth, and biddeth me pacify myself; for all that men may tell me is naught in comparison with that which is in him, which may not be said. These were verse competitions produced at the Puys, in which some question is mooted and alternate sides are taken by two or more characters. Such is the nature of thee. To the worship of God and of tham that be made free of God; and to the profite of tham that ne bene, that yet schall be, and God wille.. Such creatures, they can no more speak of God, no more than they can say where God is. for God does not move himself, nor does she move herself.. This God is over all in his divine nature, but the manhood is in heaven glorified and joined to the divine person of the Son, and [beside that] only in the holy Sacrament of the Altar. She finds what she seeks, and by her own activity procures the spiritual consolation she desires, and does the work herself but it is not, The author exhausts the snares into which the soul may fall by desires. He warns against spiritual curiosity seeking even in the explicit writing of his own book for knowledge which is to come from God alone. And you, Reason, do you marvel of this? saith the soul, that he willeth what I will. Lady, if it had been need, ye had for them that very time given your life rather than they should not have had forgiveness of God of that misdeed. This is the life [of the first] of them, who in all, mortify the body, in doing works of charity. peterjohnparisis I thought sometime alway to have lived of love, by desire of good will. To this accordeth holy writ, where that it saith: Septies in die cadit justus. Be the first one to, Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, Porete, Marguerite, approximately 1250-1310, Spiritual life -- Christianity -- Early works to 1800, urn:lcp:mirrorofsimpleso0000pore:lcpdf:6977e56d-d71c-4574-8ac0-88b032c602fb, urn:lcp:mirrorofsimpleso0000pore:epub:ffa6c348-48a4-4d2a-8b73-797d7b6536eb, Claremont School of Theology Library Donation, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). It is scarcely conceivable that we should attribute to Michael of Northbrook the translators device M.N.; his character, occupation, and date of death (1361) render such an hypothesis unlikely, but not impossible. This soul, saith Love, is in her highest perfection and most nigh the far night when Holy Church taketh not of ensample[398] in her life. And [though] the world, the flesh and the enemy, the fiend, and the four elements, the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth tormented her and despised her and devoured her, if it might so be, what might she lose, if God dwelled with her? Our author is therefore clear of the danger of those sects that abounded in South France, Italy and Lower Germany, both at his time and later in the fourteenth century, whose teaching exalted Love and Unknowing; sometimes at the expense of morality, more frequently in defiance of authority, and independent of ecclesiastical organisation and sacramental principles. Cf. This soul, saith Love, hath her mind and understanding and will, low; all is one being, this is in God. Why should such souls have conscience to take that which they lack, and that which is theirs, when they have need? If these twain cannot tell it, none shall tell it me, for none knoweth it unless he be of the lineage. And this hath this Lady [thereof]. i.e., liberty is my sole support. The spelling has been modernised and occasional alterations made in the structure of the sentences, together with various minor omissions and changes, all of which, however regrettable, seemed necessary in order to present the reader with an intelligible version. Her only comfort is in the knowledge of the sufficiency of her Beloved, according to Pure Love. And God the Holy Ghost hath in him this same nature divine. Sun and darkness and seas be fulfilled. O God, saith divine Love, that through him resteth concerning this, in soul naughted, how far is their life from the life of freeness, over which not-willing hath lordship. And forasmuch as I will naught, saith this soul, I am a solitary soul, and separate from myself,[197] and all free. O Lady Mary, that art the vessel that more perfectly wert fulfilled of divine light, right in the womb of your mother, than were the twelve apostles the day of Pentecost, when they gathered the abundance of the gifts of the Holy Ghost! ], Therefore I say, saith Reason, that I may not understand it; but meseemeth that this which this soul doth, is so well done, saith Reason, that I will serve her in all as her poor servant. But the righteous keepeth him from consenting to the fault, which might increase by such inclination, so that his falling, in which the righteous falleth by inclination to-fore said, is more virtue to him than vice, because of the will that dwelleth free by rejecting the fault, as it is said before; now may ye understand how the righteous falleth from high to low. If this naughted lady willeth the will of God, the more that she willeth it, the more she would will it; and that may she not, on account of the littleness of [the] creature, for God withholdeth the greatness of his divine righteousness. And they have so great pleasure in their works, that they have no knowing that there is any better being than the being of works of virtue and deaths of martyrdom, and they desire to persevere in this by help of meditations fulfilled with prayers, in multiplied means of good will, alway. For all that ever a creature may do of works of goodness, it is naught as in regard of his bounty for the divine wisdom gave not his highful goodness to souls, but for his own goodness self. And then I said this, that if it might be that he might love another more than me? teach me the understanding, who hast given me peace concerning my other questions!, This is, saith Love, that this is not with her,[93] nor may she have this of herself, for her thought is set in that [which is] peaceable, that is, in the Trinity. Then may not the body see the Trinity, since it may not see the angels and the souls. And then this I said to him, that if it might be that he might will that another loved me more than he loveth me? This soul, saith Love, hath so great faith in God, that she hath no dread to be poor, for as much as her love is rich; for faith teacheth her that right so as she hopeth of God, right such shall she find him, and thus hopeth she. And then, saith this soul to her caitiff wretched nature, that so many a day hath made her in servitude to dwell: Dame Nature, saith she, I take leave of you, love is me nigh that holdeth me free of him, against all, without dread., Then, saith Love, she feareth[109] not for tribulation, nor ceaseth[110] for consolation, nor groweth less for what is taken from her. She may not thence move nor have dis-ease, as long as her beloved is at ease, though any [should] fall into sin, nor for sin that ever was done. And these be the degrees by which men ascend from the valley to the top of the mountain that is so separate that it seeth God only. There is none but he that is, and she seeth this being of his divine majesty by union of love of bounty, spread and laid in him. But one that seeketh and findeth not dwelleth enfamined of that which she asketh. When Love worketh in the soul and holdeth in her the sparkles of his bright beams, she understandeth well by clarity of that light and by sweetness of that liquor that she hath drunk, [that] the work of love is more worth and draweth more to the union in God than doth her own work. She sitteth in that life, therefore she hath will., Ah God, saith Reason, Lady Love, tell me why ye have so often named soul, this chosen, beloved of yours, from the beginning of this book unto this time, since ye say that the marred persons have will, because they live yet in life of spirit? and such is the Beloved of my soul, saith the soul herself.[144]. They have so long striven with vices and wrought by virtues, that they may come to the nut kernel, that is, to the love of God, which is sweetness. She hath neither bottom nor floor, therefore hath she no place, and if she hath no place, then hath she not love for herself. And therefore is that more mine, because the most of my love [isin it]:[147] witness of love himself! I wot[39] well your service is too travailous. The issue that Mystics face is trying to put into words what is ineffable/wordless. This accordance is finely noble., I ask you a question: which is the most noble of these twain, the soul in gladness of that glory which draweth the soul, and embellisheth it by obedience to its nature, or that soul that to this glory is oned?, I know not, saith the soul that this first wrote, but Love, you yourself, say it for me! And if you had, saith Love, obeyed when I called you by the wills of Virtues that I sent you, you had had by rights the freedom that I have. Ye give all by pure fine noblesse, without asking of love his richesse, but [only] the will of his divine pleasing. There was in old time a lady, the which was a kings daughter of great worthiness and noble nature, that dwelt in a strange land. There is one substance enduring, one fruition agreeable, one conjunction amiable. The parallelism between our author s doctrine of the Dark Night and that of St John of the Cross admits of further analysis. And this that is, is God himself. Margherita Porete was burned as a heretic in Paris on 1st June 1310. I come again to my matter., Reason, saith Love, ye ask of us, of how many deaths it behoveth one to die before he come to this life? Perhaps he was one of the unknown fourteenth-century mystics who wrote as disciples of Rolle or Walter Hilton. The boldness and humour of the Fleming seems to have pleased his censors, and their verdict appears to have satisfied him. So it befell that this lady heard tell of the great courtesy and of the great largesse of King Alexander; and anon she loved him for his noble gentleness and for his high renown. And yet nevertheless, the dread of God might disturb the being of freeness. It dwelleth not long in any creature, but only in the space of its moving, and therefore is this gift noble and good, saith Love that doeth this work. Some such illustration will explain the rhythm of our work and the recurrences of theme, the appropriation of the thought of forerunners, and will vindicate our author from the charges of padding and plagiarism that have been levelled at him and at so many of the medieval creators. Why should I not do thus? The Quarterly Review,' " The Mirror of Simple Souls" and " Soeur'Threse de l'Enfant-Jsus" (under the title of "A Modern Saint") in The Fortnightly Review,' "The Blessed Angela of Foligno" in Franciscan Essays,' " Julian of Norwic " in TheSt. Love attempts to comfort this soul by the promise of great rewards for her present sense of loss, but the soul refuses this. Letter to the Brethren of Mons Dei (M.P.L. We dare not say that any is little, whom God shall look upon without end., Sooth it is, saith Love, a hand may not write the littleness of them as compared with the greatness of those that be dead of the death of nature and live of the life of spirit., I believe it well, saith Reason, and so do they. After the description of the habits, the point of view of the free soul, her aloneness and peace in God, her independence of judgement born of true dependence on God (Division III), follows the explanation of her attitude towards the pursuit of virtues, and an outline of what freedom from desire and will imply in the spiritual life (Divisions IV and V). [358] And his goodness may not suffer it since he hath so much of worth, that I should dwell a beggar. I owe it not;[20] it sufficeth me that it is [so], wherein I may know the divine wisdom. This anyone may say! He left, besides this work and his translation of the. The Latin translation has: Perhaps forbid, translated literally from F. defend., The bodily works refer to works of piety over and above that which is commanded . [325], Oh, saith this soul, why should I do anything that my Beloved doeth not, he wanteth nothing. cf. By an unknown French mystic of the thirteenth century. . And of the praising of this soul, and how, by having no more of will, she is above the law, but not against the law, CHAPTER I: Of secrets that this soul speaketh of, whereof the trinity prayeth her to leave for deeming of others that be governed by desire, reason, dread, will, CHAPTER II: Of certain things that this soul would be departed from, by the which she was servant, and of the love (?) 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