All we know about her derives either from her book, the Mirror of Simple Souls, or from documents connected to her condemnation in Paris Expand 2 PDF Life and Death by the Book: A Dramatic Reading of Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls Manuel Ceballos Art 2018 The Mirror is a theological treatise which analyzes how love in human beings is related to divine love, and how the human soul by means of this relation may experience a lasting union of indistinct ion with God in this life. 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. She feeleth no joy, for she herself is joy. And right so it is of body and of spirit. This is sooth, saith Love, for all others than these make answer through want of simplicity, but only these naked [souls] forget and have naught to answer., This soul, saith Love, doeth no more work for God nor for herself, nor for her even-Christian, even as it is said before in this book. Never loved the soul finely that doubteth that this be not true. Lord, this is a greater thing to embrace our hearts in the love of you, by thinking on one of your benefits that ye have done for us, than were all the world and the heaven and the earth, if they were set on fire for to destroy one body. For it is made of a spirit so strong and cutting, that there be but few such or none. And this soul seeth naught but God himself, for whoso seeth this of himself, he seeth not but Gods self. [210], O Lady Love, that all things maketh light, tell us, saith this soul, why they work in Virtues as well as the perished, and serve them, and feel and desire and run by burning of cutting desire in the work of the spirit? (4) She on whom all Holy Church is founded. This soul is printed in God, she hath taken his very imprint, by union of love, in the manner that the wax taketh the form of the seal, so hath this soul taken the print of God and his very likeness. She receiveth this that she hath, of the bounty of God, of the will of his love, of this gentle far night. I wot not to whom I may say mine entent. This is the prescription of Fervour-of-Spirit, and Love appeals to the experience of those who have tested it by trial. For the labour of man and the desire to have some substance outside himself, to increase his love, that is but some shadowing or glimmering of knowing of the bounty of God. And then is a soul in the sixth state, of all things made free, pure, and clarified, not glorified; for glorifying is in the seventh estate that we shall have in glory, that none can speak of. She hath long heard say, by the Holy Ghost, that God setteth the least little at the most high [worth], of his sole bounty, and therefore, this soul hath no distress because of sin that she ever did, nor hope on account of thing that she might do, but only in the goodness of him that is her Beloved. She is then under the work of cleanness, and above the work of charity. There dangers may no more appear, but glorious life is had. Tell me., Ye were naught, saith Truth, before ye had anything forfeited to me, of this which I gave you; now ye be another, for ye be worse than naught, saith Truth, at all times, when ye have willed other than my will. To it he attributes certain purgative and illuminative effects which become more marked as advance is made. His divine bounty may not suffer him [to do so]. MSS. There is one substance enduring, one fruition agreeable, one conjunction amiable. This is sooth, saith Love, under such control live they, that these virtues have power over., But these souls that I speak of, have the virtues put at point;[46] for they do nothing for them, but the virtues do all that the souls will, without control or withstanding, for these souls be their mistresses.. But whoever will understand it and learn how they perish who dwell in Virtues, [let him] ask it of Love. The Mirror provides many illustrations of the conflict then raging, notably the obscure passage concerning the Sacrament if it be brayed in a mortar, which possibly refers to controversy over the nature of the Eucharist. What emerges from this new approach is the Mirror and its author's unambiguous didactic intent - a fact long . And when I desired [it], saith Love, and when it pleaseth me, and was necessary to you, I hold need [to be] this, that I desired it ye refused me by as many messages as I sent you. O Truth, Way, and Life, what is this for us to think of? MS. God loveth better the more of him in him, than the less of himself., And in the perfect fulfilment of this more , The soul protests against the exaggerated spiritual talk of others, urging first that these speak too little of Gods. . We know that the teaching of St Bernard in the addresses on the Canticles and the treatises by Richard of St Victor cannot have been intended for the uninitiated, and, moreover, both St Teresa and St John of the Cross suffered the same accusations as were evidently brought against the theories of our author. Oh I was then your servant, but now I am delivered out of your thraldom. $253. So then, heretics may not it attain, for their sensuality will not suffer it. ii. [It is as] if a lord would have tribute in his land because men owed it him by rights; for the lord owes not tribute to his servants, but the servants owe it to their lord. Her work needs to be judged on its own theological merit, or lack thereof, rather than by the accusation of heresy, which could also be the result of political (Church and/or secular power) machinations. And though I wist that the sweet manhood of Christ Jesu and the Virgin and all the court of heaven might not suffer that I had the torments everlastingly, but [rather] that I had the being that I was come from, and God seeth this in himself (if it might be this pity of them and this good will), and thus saith to me: If thou wilt, I shall yield thee that which thou art come from, by my will, for this that my friends of my court will it, but were it not their will, thou shouldest not have it, wherefore I yield thee this gift, if thou wilt, take it! It should fall in my choice rather without end to dwell in torment than I should take it, since I had it not of his sole will. And Love hath in him no discretion. And through this I am the salvation of creatures and the glory of God.. It is not too much to say that, in this period, it is unique both in form and in content. Oh! Surmont, Vicartus generalis. For she is so little, that she may not herself find, and all thing wrought is so far from her, that she may not feel it, and God is so great that she may nothing of him comprehend. but that the divine nature took nature of man oneing him thereto in the person of God the Son. And now she liveth of the life of glory, the which life of glory is born in the death of mortifying the spirit. Ah, soul! saith Love, how you are encumbered by your self!, Yea, soothly, saith this soul, my body is in feebleness and my soul in dread, and often I have heaviness, saith she, will I or nill I of these two natures, that the far-off freedom I may not have.. Understand holily, all as it is; so may God give you alway being without removing! I say that I am obliged to answer [in] my language, what I have learned of secrets at the secret court of God, where courtesy is law, and love measure, and bounty is food. Reason, saith Love, is that men may give her naught. Give, saith Love, what might they give her? Her other work on Marguerite includes Seeing Marguerite in the Mirror: A Linguistic Analysis of Porete's 'Mirror of Simple Souls' (Peeters, 2011). Search the history of over 804 billion This is carried to the extreme in his contemptuous attacks on that Reason which is litteral, and in his glorification of not-knowing and not-willing, culminating in the experience of the Dark Night. In these words is the gloss of this song.. And she willeth naught, for it is so little this that she willeth and that God willeth in her, in comparison with this that she would will, which she may not have, [namely] that [which] God wills her to have [ultimately]. The soul feels all to be done for her and in her by God himself. This is to be understood, that these folks do the contrary of that which delighteth them. This soul, saith Love, is taken in and put in her due place, knit and oned in the high Trinity so she may not will but the divine will, by the divine work of all the Trinity. These passages should be compared with Fnelons writings on Disinterested Love. This is sooth, that there is nothing more certain than this, that God is not God if my will be taken from me, except my will will it. [82] And by this understanding this soul hath all and she hath naught, she knoweth all and she knoweth naught. And these pains and passions be not only in the exercise of the spirit, by putting away vices in getting of virtues, but they be also of bodily exercise by commandments of virtues and by counsel of reason; to fast and wake, and to do penance in many sundry wises, and forsake all her own pleasures and all lusts and likings; and in the beginning of all this, it is ofttimes full sharp and full hard. And if we do this, to our power, we shall come to this, that we shall have it all, by putting out of us all thoughts of partie, all works of perfection, and all demands of Reason. And right as it is of some angels compared with others, as ye have heard say, right so it is by grace of the naughted souls that we speak of, as compared with all those that be not. These souls use of all things made, of which nature hath need, with such peace of heart as they do of the earth, that they go upon., They have a good foundation, saith Love, and high edification that resteth them of all things. There the soul is abandoned in God for him, in him, of himself. This is the end,[148] saith this soul, of the peace of my spirit. She wot but one thing, that is, that she wot naught; and she willeth but one thing, that is, that she willeth naught; and this naught witting and naught willing giveth her, saith the Holy Ghost, all the treasure fulfilled, that is closed in the Trinity, without end. The Mirror reflects a contemporary ecclesiastical world that was itself an inversion of women's experience and values. It ariseth from no other thing[248] but that [the soul] was not yet there,[249] as compared to the great gifts that he hath to give, and the same that never was given nor said of mouth, nor of heart thought, [may be had] if anyone desired this, and could dispose himself thereto.. Whoso hath perfect charity he is mortified in affection of [the] life of spirit,[36] by works of charity. Therefore his eye beholdeth me: that he loveth none more than me. Ah, ah, saith then this Soul, how great, then, is the All of him, when this may be said of the least of him O right sweet Love, saith this soul, that only wit ye, and that sufficeth me., Now ye wit how this soul is come into believing of more, and now shall I tell you, saith Love, how she is come into knowing of her naught; by this, that she knoweth that neither she nor others know [anything] of her horrible defaults as compared to that which is in the knowing of God.. I have said, saith the Holy Ghost, that I shall give to this soul all that I have given, saith the Holy Ghost. We say this, saith she, for the auditors of this book, that God loveth better [where there is] the more of himself [in a man], than [where there is] less of himself.[66], Oh, there is no less of himself, saith this soul, there is but all, and this I may say, and soothly say., I say, saith Love, that though this soul had all the knowing, the love, and the hearing, that ever was given or ever shall be given, of the divine Trinity, it should be naught in comparison with that which she loveth and shall love; nor this love may not be attained nor reached.. Now they be in hell without being, and shall be, without recovering the mercy of seeing God. Therefore his eye beholdeth me, that he loveth none more than me. . So that God the Father hath joined and oned human nature to the person of God the Son, and God the Son hath joined it to the person of himself, and God the Holy Ghost hath joined it to the person of God the Son. Three of these are in the Vatican,[7] and it appears that they are translations from the lost French text, and differ considerably from Methleys version made from the English translation. I am Love fulfilled with Bounty. This seed may never fail, but few folks dispose them to receive this seed. One, according to goodness, by conjunction of the strength and stirring of union of love. This is goodness enduring,[352] that yieldeth by nature of charity, the outpoured gift of all his bounty, and this bounty enduring engendereth bounty agreeable. It is not so with Gods grace, saith this soul, for it must be that God is not God, if virtues be taken from me maugre me. It is right great villainy to covet any witness in love. Miss Underhill wrote an account of the work which appeared in the Fortnightly Review, 1911, and published some extracts in No. They that love the Deity feel little of the humanity during the time of that usage. Amen. And therefore findeth she herself without finding any ground or end. Adds. But who believeth a thing which he is not? Then be all the virtues that be germain to Reason mothers of holiness? saith this soul. the condemned mystical work The Mirror of Simple Souls. MS. ne werke ye it, also schalle the deire but if ye lette him to dethe, werke. Lat. But this is not against us, saith Holy-Church-the-little, but we praise them among the glosses of our scriptures.[172], Ah, Lady Love, saith Reason, we would pray you if it pleased you, more openly to speak of those gifts that the Holy Ghost giveth to such souls, of his pure goodness so that no creature may be the worse,[173] through her rudeness, by hearing of the divine school., O Reason, saith Love, alway thou art rude and blind, thou and all the disciples of thy doctrine; for he is full blind that hath things before his eyes and seeth them not; and thus seem ye!. 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. Just as God hath will, so we have will that we may be more free, but it proceeds from his goodness and power; but Gods will is an attribute of his power and freedom. The last speeches of the free soul, taken in conjunction with all that has been said, do not convey an impression of heretical pantheism (cf. He seeketh naught, why then should I seek? But when a soul is drawn into herself from all outward things, so that love worketh in the soul by which the soul is for a time departed from all sin, and is oned to God by union then is the soul free, for that time of union, full little time [though] it is. it has never nothing of will. And this may not be but that ye were it [indeed]. The mystical life is the fruit of these, and our author is careful to show that he addresses himself only to those souls who are called to the higher life. This fire brenneth of him in him, in all places and in all moments of time, without taking any substance from Will, but of himself. There is none so great clerk in the world that can speak to you. But the understanding of divine love, that taketh the lead in a naughted soul which is made free, understandeth it without erring, for she is [of] the same [nature]., O thou understanding of Reason, saith the highness of the understanding of Love, understand now the rudeness of thy misunderstanding. The second thing is: that she see what she hath done with the free will that God hath given her; then shall she see that she hath taken from God himself his will, in one only moment of consenting to sin. The difficulty arises when our author, following the Dionysian doctrine as interpreted by Erigena and the Victorines, emphasises the monistic tendencies, and verges on Pantheism and on its corollary Quietism. The being of freeness hath no dread for she hath passed the point of the spear in putting away the pleasaunce of body, and in slaying the wills of the spirit. There is nothing more profitable, nor more sure to have than to know this., Now, Reason, saith Love, understand I come again for a little, touching to our matter. That she is come to; and how the divine beholding hath but one entent and of the peace of that food that love giveth her, CHAPTER I: Of what abundance of grace our blessed Lady had in the womb of her mother, and of certain beholdings that be convenable for the marred, to come to the being that this book speaketh of, CHAPTER II: Of the beholdings that this soul had in this foresaid life, CHAPTER III: How the beholding of the goodness of God and of her wretchedness sent this soul to meditation. This is the end,saith this soul, of my work, always naught to will. This identification of mystical union with the impoverishment of the soul is present also in Marguerite Porete's earlier spiritual allegory, the full title of which is The Mirror of simple annihilated souls and those who only remain in will and desire of love. This has often been established in the case of the saints. . Read More Christian mysticism In Christianity: Western Catholic Christianity continuing to disseminate her book, The Mirror of Simple Souls. Nor she leaveth naught for God. I know not what to say nor what to answer, to excuse this!, Oh, what marvel is it, saith this soul, these folks of thy nursing be on foot without going, and have hands without work, and mouths without speech, and eyes without sight, and ears without hearing, and reason without reason, and body without life, and heart without understanding, as long as they have this being, and therefore it is marvel upon marvel [to them]., Yea, soothly, saith Love, this is to them right marvellous marvels; for they be full far from the country where these others have these usages of high worthiness. in good understanding! For I tell you truly, that none may come to [a] deep foundation, nor to high edification, unless they reach it by the discrimination of great natural intelligence, and by the gladness of the understanding of the spirit. It has been collated with the British Museum and both English and Latin Cambridge MSS. Then is his bounty mine by the cause of my necessity and for the justice of his pure bounty. Possibly X (the author) presupposed this explanation of growth in the conquest of virtue, but he seems also to have had in mind the theory, developed further on in the book, namely, that the soul when liberated by Love becomes free from the anxious preoccupation concerning Virtue and being, of course, in grace and habitually pursuing virtue finds her attention focussed directly upon the contemplation of Gods love. For [in] reproaches of the Father, and threatenings of the Son, there is nothing [found] of the oil of peace. If, therefore, a certain monotonous sameness is felt, it will yield to reflection, and we shall find that new ground is really covered, and that the familiar lines of thought are gathered up in a new method of approach, and issue in a noble consummation. This that ye will, we will it, saith my friend, take your own will!, I answered anon: This that I am, is pure naught. The boldness and humour of the Fleming seems to have pleased his censors, and their verdict appears to have satisfied him. of that she never drank nor never shall drink. There is a certain rhythm in this latter part of the work, in the alternate descriptions of the condition of the free souls and that of the marred. A balance is kept where the tendency is to emphasise the lyrical side (cf. for this gift is also all that he is in himself, who giveth it to this soul, and this gift moveth her purely into himself. God his bounty, he may not lose., This soul, saith Love, is consumed by mortality, and brent in the burning fire of charity, and the powder of her not cast nor thrown, but given into the high sea by naught-willing of will. It is truth, saith Love, this is, that this soul knows of herself but one thing, and that is [that she is] the root of all evils and the abundance of all sins without number, without weight and without measure, and sin is naught and less than naught, and a hundred of horrible faults, under less than naught. This wit all they who undertake works of themselves without the fervour of the willing of their inwardness.. This is to say, without the work of this soul, and therefore saith she, that she shall tell the sum of her demands, that a soul may not suffer herself to be deceived for nothing that may fall, but that she keep this, and this is, that she see these twain [things]. 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). If I believed them, in such dread I should abandon this work, by their counsel. This to be in us, is very Being. It were to such souls a default of innocence and encumbering of peace, wherein this soul resteth from all things. 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. [343] Not that it were possible for me to sin if my will will not; then be we of his will, of which he hath fully set us in full possession. She would not grow discontented if she dwelt on his work, but it may arise if she centres on her own effort or life. There is none other way of beholding of this aforesaid gift, but only to look upon[342] the doing of our Saviour; for the Son bought us with his death by very obedience, to fulfil his Fathers will. This which thou speakest of virtues and of the reason, saith Love, this soul recketh naught of she may better do, for love worketh in her who hath led her into him, so that she herself is love. This is sooth, saith Love, this Love of which we speak is the union of love, and fire enflamed that burneth without smoke; she dare not dread, for now worketh her Beloved.. I pray you, saith Love for love, that ye hear it by study of your inward subtle understanding with great diligence; else they shall misunderstand it, all those that read it or hear it.. [For it is to be] in God without being, [for] in Gods self is being. In proportion as she grows in union, her self-consciousness diminishes. Why it is I know not, nor I keep not wit. For as for me henceforward, I make no fors, I disencumber myself of you, both of myself and of mine even-Christian. I am as foolish in the time that I make it except that love maketh it for me at my request as he should be that would shut the sea in the compass of his eye and bear the world upon the point of a rush, and light the sun with a shadow! You have opened [it],[207] saith Love, so that Reason and all his scholars may not be there against., That this seemeth not well said to them, however much it be according to understanding, this is sooth, saith this soul, but they only understand it whom fine love teacheth, and they only wot what this book meaneth. The tradition is based upon the mortification of the body to the extent of despising it in such a radical way as to arrive at annihilation of ones own personal will and ecstatic union with God. Here the dialogue is between Love (the judge and master of ceremonies in the disputation), this Free Soul, and Reason; and the point at issue is the freedom of the soul from fettering conditions in the highest stages of the spiritual life. The content of this treatise need not here be fully analysed. This sole power[226] of love, saith Love, giveth her the deepness, the rest, and the stillness, and also it giveth her the flame and the burning of the working of love; witness of Love himself. In this he hath set me of his courtesy; that he willeth this that I will, nor he willeth nothing that I unwill. If God hath drawn you into him, it doth not become you, saith Love, to forget what you were, when he made you first, and what you have been since if you took heed of your works and what you are and shall be, except [for] that which is of God in yourself.. By an unknown French mystic of the thirteenth century. No, in soothness, saith this soul, for because their wills dwell with them, they be servants to their wills. O soul touched of God, dissevered from sin, in the first estate of grace, ascend by divine grace into the seventh estate of grace, where the soul hath her fullhead of perfection by divine fruition in life of peace. These be two contrary words as meseemeth, saith Reason; I cannot understand them., I shall satisfy thee, saith Love; this is the truth, that this soul hath taken leave of virtues, as concerning the exercise thereof,[104] and of all the desires that they ask; but the virtues have not taken leave of the souls, for they are always with them and perfectly obedient to them. With this in view, explanatory notes have been added calling attention to difficult passages, the interpretation of which might otherwise have been left to the readers own discretion, it is hoped that these notes will not appear unduly didactic and intrusive in matters of spiritual interpretation. . glosses, and consist largely of quotations from Dionysius and the Victorines. Now I began at this trial[393] of my youth and of my former spirits, to come again to this, that will was dead and my works ended and my love also, that made me jolly. One is because it is good, and the second is, because he willeth it. And I tell you that when Jesus Christ transfigured him before three of his disciples, he did it for this, that ye should wit well, that few folks see the brightness of his transfiguration, and that he showeth it not but to his special lovers. Lady Love, saith this soul; so [I] was then, but now, your courtesy has delivered me in this way out of this bondage.[38] Therefore I say, Virtues, I take leave of you for evermore. (1) The right marvellous. For as I hold of my proper nature this which is evil, then am I all evils; and he is the greatness of all goodness that holdeth in him of his proper nature all goodness. If Love granteth me this, why should he not? 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. But, good Lord, of your great benignity, give them the grace of ghostly feeling. She is glad almost that her Beloved is such a one that men can tell her nothing adequate of him, and even Loves consolations fail to satisfy her high conception of Pure Love. 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