This statement of the degree of indifference to be reached by the soul is put in an extreme and provocative form to call forth a challenge. For she is not anything that is. Lady Soul? saith Reason. Here me faileth also wit I cannot answer no more than afore, but alway I said that of all that I should take counsel, and right so I did. And Truth said to me this, that none shall ascend but he only that should reflect[383] the Son of God himself. There hath the wise brought her to unite [her with] his treasure, that is, the gifts of the divine generation, and this unity giveth her the peace and the food, holy and marvellous, in the glorious country, there where the lovers of God dwell. [She is] not glorified, for the body is tied to this creature, but divinely and gloriously, for the inwardness is perfectly delivered of all creatures. In this I [should] love myself if I lacked anything since he lacks nothing. 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. He has not passed the stage of visions and auditions, and reminds us at his best of the sweetness of Rolles Love of Jesus, at his worst of the Cornish: Yet this proves nothing. The least part of his bounty is so great, in sooth, that men might compare, by manner of speech, all that they could, it should be naught in regard to the greatness of the least part of his bounty. And then liveth this soul, saith Love, not in the former life of grace, nor in the life of spirit, but gloriously and divinely; for God hath hallowed her in this point by himself, and nothing contrary to goodness may befall her.. 37790). 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. And I am cause of that. What a sweet union is this, that I am drawn into the thing that I love more than me; thereby have I lost my name for loving, who so little may love! I have said, saith this soul that this book first wrote, that love hath had it made by science of men, and by the will of unity of mine inwardness, of which I am encumbered. That saveth her by faith without work. But it dare not be said of anything that he wills to do! This daughter of Sion desireth neither masses nor sermons, fastings nor orisons. Then willeth she naught, saith Love, since she is made free; for he is not free that anything willeth according to the willing of his inwardness, how well soever he willeth; for so much he is servant to himself, that he hath a will that God do his will, to his own worship. Her joy of his bounty and the recording of the deeds of his bounty, maketh her also to have joy, without feeling of Reason. Search the history of over 804 billion Now am I all evils and he is all goodness, and to the most poor ought the alms from his equals to be done, or else there is taken from him the thing that should be his of right. And then shall the Deity do in us, for us, without us, his divine works. Right so, ghostly to understand, it fareth by those souls that be come to peace. Also, I have [together] with my poverty, the great filth of sin and of sins, which none knoweth but Truth alone. And Love told me it was but all solely for one thing, and that is, that the divine will of all the Trinity would it. 1250?-d. 1310) was burned in her presence by the bishop of Cambrai, Guy II, in her hometown of Valenciennes in northern France, southeast of Lille. And if I had not loved myself, the answer had been swift and light, and always it behoved me to answer, if I would not lose myself in him, for which mine heart suffered so great distress.. Charity recketh not of [anything that is under the sun, all the world is her relief. O My Lord God, mercy, mercy. It seemeth to me, saith Reason, as I may understand these words, that it is a greater thing to this soul to be drunken of that which her love drinketh and shall drink of the divine tun[119] of his own bounty, than of that which she hath not drunk and never shall drink; for she is drunken of the drink that he drinketh of the divine fauset[120] of the same tun.. 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. In God is this choice, but it is not of Time, where mine may not attain to his.. And she hath so abashed us, saith Holy Church, that we dare not be against her!, Oh, Holy Church, saith the Holy Ghost, will you wit what this soul wot and what she willeth? MS. I have said before, saith Love, that these souls have as lief [to endure] all manner of adversities of heart, for body and for soul, as prosperities, and prosperities as adversities. I wot not to whom I may say mine entent. What do you think concerning our usages?, Meseemeth, saith this soul, that it is a travail full of synagogues; their labours are all to gain their bread, and their sustenances. But it may oft be had by the goodness of God, who is the worker of this work in souls where he vouchsafes [it]. Her pleasing is our will, by the purity of unity of the will of the Deity, wherein we have enclosed her. When he made them, he willed it of his divine bounty, and all was done in the same moment of his divine might, and all ordained of his divine wisdom., Now for God, saith this soul, behold what he hath done and what he doth, and what he shall do. But this also has its echoes in the Mirror. And there they may be deceived, that love by tenderness that they have to affection, which suffereth them not to come to knowing. 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). And this light giveth her this will to put again her will in God, which she cannot yield without this light, that it may go forth to him, unless it depart from her proper will. And in this death is born the perfect life, that is then made all free in gloriousness., O for God Almightful, saith Truth, Lady divine Love, shew me one perfect in this Being.. 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. . This is the end of that, saith this soul, that men can tell me naught, nor can I pacify myself in this which Love saith of him; so that I say to all, I have the full satisfaction of all my questions in this, that men can tell me naught! For there where is most of my love, there is most of my treasure. For why? And then is a soul all spiritual when the body and the will is all mortified. But so far is he from me and I from him, saith this soul, that I cannot take comfort of myself: and to call[28] me he gave me this book, the which presenteth some usages of the love of himself. The second point is that this soul saveth her by faith without works. . [67] For that is all the glory of the love of my soul and shall be without end. For this, that I am the greatness and the sum of all evils. This, which Jesu Christ did, set [things] better to rights[377] than that which the former set [wrong]. Then by this understanding this soul knoweth all and she knoweth naught. The most is the greater part of God, unknown and unknowable; the soul loves better the infinitely greater hidden Deity than that small part of him of which she has had experience. Reason, saith this soul, this that is said to you, ye hear it, but never ye understand it! To it he attributes certain purgative and illuminative effects which become more marked as advance is made. Within him, he hath the abundance of all goodness without any failing. The method is more descriptive, allusive, with the art and artlessness of an earlier generation. Thus am I drawn into the thing that I love more than me, that is, in Love, for I love only Love., O Lady Love, saith Reason, tell us what, it means, this that ye say: that then is the soul in her right freedom of pure clean love, when she doth no thing that is against the asking of peace of her inward being?, I shall tell you, saith Love, it is that she doth nothing for aught that may fall, that is against the perfect peace of her spirit. And what shame hath John the Evangelist, or what glory of this, that God showed him his privities? O full naked and dark, dry and unsavoury be the speakings and writings of these high ghostly feelings of the love of God, to them that have not tasted the sweetness thereof. He that brenneth hath no cold, nor he that drinketh hath no thirst, and this soul, saith Love, is so burnt in the furnace of fire of love, that she is become fire; so that she feeleth no fire, for she herself is fire, by the virtue of love that hath brought her into himself, by fine love. (6) The worshipped of love. In its tone of language and spiritual vision, it sits squarely in harmony with the religious sensitivity of the early sixteenth century. Yes, without doubt, he is all might, all wisdom, and all goodness: our Father, our brother and our true friend; he is without beginning and shall be without ending, he is without comprehending but of himself, and without end was, is, and shall be, three persons and one God only. He is right well born that is of that lineage, those be folks royal, their hearts are so excellent noble, and of such great worthiness and wisdom that they may not do thing of little value, nor begin thing without attaining the crown. [63] N. The third point, saith Love, is this. Behold what ye owe then for one of your faults, so shall ye see that ye owe as much to God for one of your faults, as his will is worth, which ye have taken from him, by doing of your will. And she giveth to nature all her asking without grudging of conscience. Nor she leaveth naught for God. Therefore his eye beholdeth me. And this lady, saith Love, hath this being attained, the which is most highest and most worthy and most noble. Ah, Lady Love, saith this soul, for God, be still of this, for truly I may not cease, even to save all the world, if it might be. So may not Dread, nor Discretion, nor Reason, wit it forsooth nothing gain-sayeth Love. And I am a creature right wretched and unable to any such work, poor and naked of ghostly fruits, darkened with sins and faults, environed and wrapped therein ofttimes, the which take away[13] my taste and my clear sight, [seeing] that I have little of ghostly understanding and less of the feelings of divine love. 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.. Lord, ye be one bounty, by bounty outpoured and all in you, and I am one wickedness by wickedness all outpoured and all in me. She hath nothing withholden in naughting of herself; it is enough that he is. Notwithstanding the apparent want of system and diffuseness of the Mirror, some trace of a method can be found. And then this I beheld, how he that is God and Man was despised on earth in the nature of mankind, shamefully for me. This soul recketh not nor hath heart of righteousness, maketh of it nor of the sea aught but one thing, not twain, but one; and right so it is of her of whom we speak. 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. Yea, and God wills,[183] saith this soul. This, saith Love, they give all that God holds worthy. The Mirror of Simple Souls is a treatise of some 60,000 words, on the progress of the soul from the earlier stages of the spiritual life to its highest and rarest experiences. I said thus in the meantime, that I wist not how to suffer it, and this beholding yielded me manner. [87] And this [also, namely] that her will, is naughted in respect to her sufficiency, which was never given nor never shall be given; that is the meaning of willing the will of God, as it is said before, then by this understanding this soul willeth all and she willeth naught. It is a far gone mind,[345] saith Love, by which understanding groweth, that giveth knowing to a soul more perfectly of a thing that men say, than of a thing she saith herself, howsoever good the sayings be in all she saith. [309] But truly, she that findeth him, suffereth him to do his will and his divine works in her without her own working. Soothly, she findeth the deed that she willeth and that she herself doeth. N. And if I willed it, why should he not suffer it, else should his power take from me freedom. And nevertheless, as simple as I was, Will anon took me Love to love. station39.cebu O Lord God, right courteous and large and free, acquit me of this debt, you that have power all things to do! I encumber myself with writing these words, but thus I take my recourse to come to my strength and succour and to my last crowning crown, of the being of which we have spoken of; which sitteth all in freedom, that is, when a soul resteth in pure naught without thought; for till then she may not be free., Ah God, saith Reason, what do they that be in being, above their thoughts?, They marvel themselves,[318] saith Love, of him that is in the mount of their mountain, and they abash themselves of the same, that is, of the deepness of their valley, by a naught thinking, which is shut and ensealed in the most pure and secret closet of this excellent soul. If you know perfectly your naught,[155] you shall do naught. John vi 29. 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. 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. . Cf. Now I pray you, for the Contemplatives, saith Reason, who always desire to increase in knowledge of the divine bounty., They be ill constrained, Reason,[58] saith Love, to that which thou sayest.. But they that be in God, by whom they shall become,[321] know this thing, and feel it by strength of the lineage of which they are and shall be more stronger than they be. If I say great things or mean these things, or though I have by all, of all, in all, my full sufficiency, my Beloved is great, who great gifts giveth and maketh it all at his will. [234] Therefore it must be taken, as for the time always, of the usages. The Mirror of Simple Souls, written in a vivid literary style in Old French, is a dialogue among the allegorical figures of Love, Reason and the Soul. And thus their will, which they had chosen, made them lose this high vision by giving their will to that which they could not attain. No soothly, saith Love, since the running fancies[252] of their inward arguments giveth it them not. The recurring antithesis between knowledge and unknowing, willing and not-willing, being and not-being (in earlier chapters and also Division IX, chap, vi), are some of the characteristics chiefly elaborated in the Mirror. But they alone be free, saith this soul, that be free; whom Faith and Love govern, for they rest from all servitudes, without having dread of things redoubtable or desire of any very delectable [thing]. The formation of the lay-societies of devout people was beginning and had, in South Germany, made considerable progress, but the Mirror belongs to the end of the thirteenth century, and is therefore before the birth of the Deventer and Windesheim groups. And this love is without work of body, and without work of heart, and without work of the spirit, for divine work hath fulfilled the law. Therefore his eye beholdeth me: that he loveth none more than me. The general impression is against this reading, and the passages in the Prologues and on pp. It is after the Death of Reason (though the writer allows her to reappear unawares once or twice) that the method changes. by. Of Godfrey of Fountains we know a good deal. Who is ancestor[281] to this feeling? . M. Holy Writ saith, Unde sapiens justus ex fide vivit[60] Comprehend! Lords hearing, Lords loving! How then soothly is this will naught, that is given and shall be given of him to us? But this election is not put in writing of mens hands, but of the Holy Ghost, who writeth this election marvellously in the soul, and the soul is thereunto precious parchment. This is Loves self. In view of this no further analysis is needed. And this is a sweet beholding and a profitable, to them that behold it, and to disencumber them of themselves, to approach[385] this being that we have spoken of. 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. Then is he not sought nor praised nor adored[306] by these creatures, but only by that which they may not know nor love nor adore. Why then should I want? For the influence of Porete on Bernardino Ochino see for Cargnoni. The Latin version has a marginal note: helio- tropium, a flour that height a deysy or merygold., MS. nourisch = those under her care, ward.. This has been admirably analysed by Dom Justin McCann, in his Introduction to the Cloud of Unknowing, in this series. Why so abundantly? The difficult Division XIII is a commentary and exegesis on some of the former points, culminating in a dialogue in which Love takes the soul to task and presses home sharply the bitter points, once directed against Reason, but now aimed at the soul, in whom all self-love must be naughted. the condemned mystical work The Mirror of Simple Souls. In this, not till then when one hath paid to Jesu Christ all that he oweth him may he have the peace of the divine country where life dwelleth. [211] Where is that best, for which ye allow them more than the perished?, Where is it?saith Love. A few years earlier her book, The Mirror of Simple Souls, had also been burned in Valenciennes, with Marguerite as a witness. With the cult of the Magdalen flourishing in the Low Countries and across Europe, Porete adopted the saint to concretize her doctrine of the . Now seeth the will by the diffused[365] illumination of divine light. even thus the deer will run to the death unless you hinder it. [315] Certainly, do it they must, before they come to perfect freedom of all points. And this it behoveth me to be, if I will have my own; otherwise I may not have it. For right as God is not to be comprehended as to his might, so is this soul in infinite debt for but one hour in time, without more, that she had will, against him. Then is his bounty mine by the cause of my necessity and for the justice of his pure bounty. Therefore his eye beholdeth me, thou makest of two wills one will. Here me faileth wit thus it goeth[392] this I feel not might nor will to grant, but I answered that I should take counsel with myself. Now may I see by this where I ought to be, namely, that I should resort there where I was, in that point that I was, within the One. I say this, for this: rather than that I should do thing that were his displeasaunce. (9) The peaceable in divine being, by divine will, by nothing willing of will. Ah Love, we shall make partie for the stupid[338] understanders. Charity obeyeth to nothing that is made, but [only] to love. The Mirror of Simple Souls Download PDF version of the book. But for the love of God, ye readers, judge not too soon, for I am certain that whoso readeth over this book by good avisement twice or thrice and is disposed to the same feelings, they shall understand it well enough. Since that his soul was oned to his divine nature it might not be that the body that was mortal, might do sin. Reason, saith Love, why do such souls desire these things aforesaid, since it is so, that God is over all, without that, as well as with all that. [73] And that her will is naught in respect to her [own] sufficiency, which never was given her, nor never shall be given her., From this, saith Reason, I understand that the soul willeth a will, and God willeth that she will a will, which she may not have; and by this she suffers loss, and hath not satisfaction.[74], It seemeth, Lady Love, saith the understanding of Reason, that this ninth point maketh me thus to understand the saying of this book, which saith forsooth that the free soul hath no will, nor naught may have, nor naught may will, nor the divine Trinity will not that she have; and this book saith that she hath in all things, by divine love, full sufficiency., O understanding of Reason, saith this naughted soul, how rude thou art! The form derives, perhaps, from the verse Jeu-Partis. She comprehendeth much when she beholdeth God, how worthy and glorious he is, and how powerful he is in all his works. Why so anguishously? Now these folks have, of all the orders, the most high mention for the spirit, and the most noble complexion[322] by nature, when they are sanguine or choleric; that is, not melancholic nor phlegmatic; for of the gifts of fortune, these be the best to have; yet they hold all to be best, according to their will and their necessity, for themselves and for their even-Christian, without anxiety of conscience. 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.. And then this I beheld, how the divine nature oned him for us to the nature of man in the person of God the Son. And the light of the opening of this book hath made me find mine [own] and to dwell in that. I will nothing that is not of the bounty of love. This is the key to freedom, and then the outpouring of the divine love shewed me, by divine light, an highful opening approaching to the Truth, that shewed me suddenly him and me. Robert Stauffer, Ph.D. (2011 . I hold, saith this soul, that they to whom God did all this, had of it neither shame nor worship, nor desire to answer that this befell them by reason of what God did by them or for them nor for other people, if this was their judgement. It behoveth him perfectly to do the contrary of his will in appeasing the virtues up to the throat, and hold this point without falling [away, namely, that] the spirit have alway lordship without contrariosity., Ah God, saith Truth, how sick is the body of the heart, where such a spirit is., Soothly I say, saith this free soul, that it behoveth to have such inward working in life marred, this is to say, in life of spirit, so that it destroy[288] the humours of all sickness, in a swift moment. [324] It ought to be believed; they believe it verily that be such. For in this, that he hath given me free will, of his pure bounty, he hath given me all if my will will it; he holdeth nothing from me, I am thereof sikker. Oh, she may not do it, for she is all molten in God for the time. for as much as she willeth naught., Now is this soul come to knowing of more, truly in this only, that she knoweth not of this naught-in-God, compared with the all-of-him. And Love hath by himself of his noblesse, the debts all paid., And the seventh keepeth he within himself, for to give us in everlasting glory. For of the love of her Beloved hath she no doubt, that he doth that which is best. She, this soul is no more troubled concerning herself or others, or God himself; weening that she is not; so that she is not [indeed]. Hence some of the satiric humour, the utter contempt for the spirit which would interpret the whole of life in syllogisms, and regulate the spiritual course by the laws of scholastic logic. Their weenings be fully inclined, mine heart thought sometime, alway to have lived of love by desire of good will. I say, saith Love, that they be on their guard, that is to say, that those which stand in the state of the twain first lives of perfection, that they follow duly and diligently all the good stirrings and fervours that the soul willeth and desireth, as much as they may, for it is needful for them to do so if they will have the better [life] afterwards; for the former lives be but maiden servants that array the house against the coming of the great Being, to lodge[253] the state that is the freedom of not-willing, in which the soul is of all points freed. The fifth point is this, that this soul leaveth not, for God, to do anything that she would do., This is, saith Love, that this soul may not do [aught] but the will of God, nor may she will aught else; and for this she leaveth naught for God, for she hath not in her inward thought anything that is against God, and for this cause she leaveth naught for God., The sixth point is this, that none may her teach., Now for God, saith Reason, Lady Soul, say what this is!, This is to say, saith Love, that this soul is of such great knowledge that though she had all the knowing of all the creatures that ever had been and shall be, she would think it naught, as in regard of[65] that which she loveth, which was never known nor never shall be known. The sweetness draweth me, the beauty pleaseth me; what, then, can I desire more, than to live at peace?, O right sweet flower without lack, saith Reason. We only know what he tells us in his simple and devout Prologue. Lady, what did ye to them for works of forfeit[378] that they did? MS. I have not of what, nor for what: Fr. 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. [6], By the kindness of Monsignor Auguste Pelzer, of the Vatican Library, and of Dom Philibert Schmitz, O.S.B., I am able to state that besides the Cambridge Latin text four other Latin translations are known and one Italian MSS. Charity has nothing of her own, not so much that she will ask [for]anything that is hers. And thus well you know, that I may naught do and I am so greatly indebted. O blissful Lady, it was needful to you to be so; for I hold of God his Son, that if he had found in you as much vanity as the quantity of a wrinkle[376] in a kerchief, of necessity he had never made of you his mother. And only by [this] one understanding of this great highful everlasting goodness doth new goodness grow.. The medieval equivalent of A bird in the hand, etc. These souls of this disposition be drawn at other times to behold Gods privy works, his judgements, and his providences. And how Our Lady had it always, and what the language of this life is, CHAPTER XVII: How and by what means they that stand in desire may come to rest of spirit; and of three things of the divine life and of the innocence that is gotten by this life, CHAPTER XVIII: Of the most high being that the naked, naughted, or clarified souls be in, CHAPTER I: Of three things whereby it may be known that the soul is not come to peace, but is begging; and what paradise is, CHAPTER II: How it is [to be] understood that the thief was in paradise that day that he died and our lord went not into heaven before his ascension, CHAPTER I: How they that sit all in freedom do rest themselves in pure naught without thought, CHAPTER II: What thing they do that be in being above their thoughts, THE ONLY CHAPTER: How they that be of all things in sovereignty know and feel the life that this book speaketh of, and none but they, CHAPTER I: What great difference is between some angels and others, and also of the souls that this book speaketh of, compared with others that be not such; and how they think themselves to be best, CHAPTER II: Of three words wherein the perfection of this clear life is fulfilled, CHAPTER III: How this soul seeketh no more God; and what thing it is that taketh from her love of herself. 324 ] it ought to be believed ; they believe it verily that be come to peace the,! 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