Now ye dare not reck of sin if she leave her will there where she hath planted it, that is, in him who hath given it her freely, of his bounty; thence will she not take it, but there she planteth it all wholly, freely, without any for-why? And not for her [sake], but for him, for two things. He writes on the doctrine of the union of the soul with God. This soul rejoiceth herself sometimes in the supreme part of him, without her feeling, willing nothing of other[s] than of [him who is] her nearest. Soothly, yea, saith the understanding of Reason, but it seemeth that the ninth point saith all the contrary, which saith that the soul naughted willeth naught with regard to that which she would will; nor may she have that which God wills that she will. Her lot hath this of freedom, ended of every cost; there hath she her full purity. They love riches, and sorry be they when they be poor, and if they be rich, sorry be they when they lose; but always they keep themselves from the death of sin; for they will not love their riches against the will of God, neither in winning them. And this synagogue that our Lord Jesu Christ bought with his precious Body, that heareth not the bestiality of those who, in this travail, please themselves thus. And thus it is meant that this soul taketh leave of virtues.! 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. Why it is I know not, nor I keep not wit. And they that are thus burdened say little and have heaviness of heart, saith this soul, until they have their usages. Why was the thief in paradise as soon as the soul was departed from this body, and Jesu Christ, Gods Son, ascended not into heaven before the Ascension, and the thief was in paradise on that same day? Here, again, the emphasis is on faith rather than experience. And we shall tell you, saith the Light of Faith, how this humanity dwelleth with them, as thus by [a] similitude: Take this sacrament and put it in a mortar with other things, and pound this sacrament so that you may not see nor feel [aught] of the person that you have put in. 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. No doubt the mentality of the northern race found the stilling of the intellect less trying than did the Latin races. This is the substance of my heart. She passeth the sea to gather the shoots[259] of the high cedar; for none taketh nor attaineth to this cedar unless they pass the high sea, in naughting their wills unto the waves. And then came Love to me fulfilled with bounty, that so often times had cast me out of wit, and in the fire had given me death. It is right great villainy to covet any witness in love. [190], Nothing, saith Love, she willeth naught. Then it is very right that I have not myself. 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. 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. His book, however, must have been carefully guarded as was prescribed for no trace of the vernacular version is to be found to this day, and we have only the English version and the Latin translation made from it by Richard Methley, together with the various Latin versions in the Vatican, made from the original French version. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. And the soul that receiveth by light of understanding the nighing and the knitting,[85] in the accord of union in plenteous love, seeth the being where she aims at having her dwelling place; heareth gladly the light of knowing,[86] that bringeth her tidings of love; and then she would be made the same, so that she had but one will in love, and that is the sole will of him that she loveth.. And her questions be out of all creatures knowledge, where creatures may have no knowing thereof., What marvel is it, saith this soul, if they wit it not; why should any wit it, but he of whom I am, that in me is the same [one], and he is the secret of love that is between [us] made, where my love is enclosed, without me? And because of the opinion that these people hold thus, that this is the best of all beings that may be, therefore this people, saith Love, be blinded, and so they perish in their works. We be excused, provided we believe you by the understanding that we have; for we be made of you, to serve such souls., Oh, without fail, saith this soul to Virtues, it is well said, men may well believe you, and therefore I tell you, saith this soul, and all those that hear this book, that whoso serveth a poor lord, since a long time, poor allowances shall he have, and little wages. She recketh no more of the war that she was wont to have, for the will of her is nakedly laid in the place whence it was first taken, where it ought by rights to be. She was burned at the stake for heresy in Paris in 1310 after refusing to recant her views. Whoever hath it [let him] keep it, for it is the most perfect gift that God giveth to creatures. When he gave her of his bounty then he made her lady. And she followeth this, and she doth that which she ought to do, and she willeth only one thing, and it is that the will of God be alway in her done., She is right, saith Love, for this is all. N. O Lord, though I had no other reason to abash me than this, that you have given to my soul the vision of all the Trinity and of angels and of souls, that you have not given to your precious body that is knit and oned to the nature of the Father, in the Person of the Son;[154] it would be a marvel that I may see so much! Hear and understand, ye auditors of this book,[72] the true understanding of these words, and what that is that this book saith, in so many places: that a soul naughted hath naught of will, nor naught may have, nor naught may will. There is no mean[225] between them and the Deity, nor no mean desire they; these souls may not suffer the thanking of any earthly love, nor the love of divine feelings, for the pure divine love that this soul hath to Love.. Notwithstanding the apparent want of system and diffuseness of the Mirror, some trace of a method can be found. This is the fulhead and the substance of my peace, and the true rest of my thought, for I love not myself but for him. But those have a good time and profitable who seek him neither by more nor less, nor on plains,[236] nor on mountains, but have him in all places, by union of the gift of will., O right well born! saith Reason, where seek ye him?, I find him over all, saith this soul, he is one Deity, one only God in three Persons. Also, I have [together] with my poverty, the great filth of sin and of sins, which none knoweth but Truth alone. This to be in us, is very Being. And so is she oft into the sixth state ravished only a little; while it endureth, for this is a work of the Beloved, which is a swift opening and a hasty shutting; in that state may none long dwell. This wot none, but if he have assayed this point. So that this soul sitteth without moving herself, in the seat of peace, in the work of life, in virtues of good conscience, and in freedom of perfect charity; thus is she all free. For why? 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. And since the bounty of God may not diminish, dis-ease[396] may not in her grow of his work, unless it wax of her own. Gerson, who is the next French author to write on these matters, always fuses The Mirror the devotional, the ascetic and the mystical, The Mirror of Simple Souls is a treatise according to the older method, but our of some 60,000 words, on the progress of the author has some instinct at least of the dis-soul from the earlier stages of the . quote the Authors Prologue Ego creatura, at the end of the text, but without any indication that it forms an epilogue or a misplaced prologue. Then doth she all without her. Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition 77. And there they may be deceived, that love by tenderness that they have to affection, which suffereth them not to come to knowing. This bounty given, it is in God himself. M. This ensample that Love maketh of the innocents that they do nothing nor leave to do, for high nor for low, except it please them, it meaneth, that these creatures should not do for one or for another whatever might unrest the quiet of their spirits. Available formats PDF Please select a format to save. Now hath his goodness by pure bounty given me free will by bounty; he hath not given me a greater thing of all that he hath made for me. 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. For these spiritual souls that be lovers of God, to whom Love speaketh in the person of one, to be understood for all; they are so led and updrawn by the work of the Holy Ghost, that they may not suffer that anything touch them but the pure touchings of love or things which lead thereto. The chapters of the last three Divisions are amongst the finest in the whole work and may be considered autobiographical. Oh, is he not Almighty? But it dare not be said of anything that he wills to do! 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. If we have seemed to stress the possible defects and dangers of our treatise, it has been done with a view to forestall the critic. All is one to me concerning him that is one; and this point maketh me one or else I should anon be twain. Mirror of the Simple Soul From the Original 15th Century English Translation Author: Marguerite Porete Publisher: ISBN: Category: Body, Mind & Spirit Page: 250 View: 581 DOWNLOAD NOW This edition of The Mirror of the Simple Soul was originally published in 1927. But the Espoused of me may not be with herself, for though she had done as much sin as all the creatures of the world have done, and has as many gifts of grace as all those of paradise have, and that all this good and all this evil were shown before all this people, this lady should have neither shame nor worship in her thereof nor will to justify herself. I speak, saith Love, of three deaths, into which they enter, ere the soul may into this life be born. I have said here before, saith this soul, that he hath given me no more but my free will. I have said, saith the Holy Ghost, that I shall give to this soul all that I have given, saith the Holy Ghost. 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. Our author is clearly more influenced by Franciscan than scholastic philosophy, a follower of St Augustine and St Bonaventure. What marvel is it he might not withhold himself from this work; for the support of love by which he loved us constrained him thereto, forasmuch as he had taken the nature[380] of man, by which he might do this. Letter to the Brethren of Mons Dei (M.P.L. But him behoveth to be dead and mortified of all deaths, that finely should understand it.. But she hath not the usages of them, for she is not with them[44] as she was wont. It will be seen that the second part of the book, from Division VI approximately, is more obscure, more subtle in thought, often monotonous in expression and repetition of phrase and word. Pdf_module_version 0.0.8 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210304104308 Republisher_operator associate-jeanette-beleno@archive.org Republisher_time 643 Scandate 20210227205151 Scanner And since it is so, that he shall be in me, without end by love, right so have I been loved of him without beginning., Look what you say. certainly through baptism be they never openly feeble,[258] saith Reason, nor encumbered of themselves., Oh, saith this soul, no soothly no, love destroyeth not, but she keepeth and nourisheth and feedeth all those that trust in her. But the thoughts of this soul be so divine, that they rest not so much in things that be passing nor made, as to conceive any dis-ease for [them] in her inwardness, since God is good beyond [all] comprehending., This soul giveth to nature all that he asketh without grudging of conscience, for all covetousness[94] of nature is mortified in these creatures; and therefore the law of our Lord Jesu Christ is within such life enclosed, and the divine gifts be above this law. This bounty by me[359] God knew had never been known, neither was my wickedness. Soothly, whatever men say, neither they nor I can say aught of your goodness, but the more I hear said of you, the more I am abashed. Into this servitude enter they, saith this soul, that in all, they believe and follow these two virtues, Reason and Dread, for they nourish Will. Wot they and none other to whom God hath given the understanding: for no Scripture teacheth it, nor may mans wit comprehend it, nor travail of creatures nor desert may not reach it. This soul saith thus: However well God loveth me as he hath showed by his divine work and the suffering of his manhood, he loveth me not, saith this soul, against himself. Then seemeth it, saith Reason, that they that be such, [would] know them that be such, if they were where these be?, This is sooth, saith Love, for these that be such, if they were where these be, they should know their fellows by their usages, but most by the virtue of the gift that is given them, which is singular., Singular!saith Reason. John of Querayne, whose judgement, in virtue of his life of perfection, was unassailable. And you, Reason, do you marvel of this? saith the soul, that he willeth what I will. Without having to destroy the shell that it may appear. This is truth; doubt ye not, lady, in this of me. This book showeth by thoughts of partie,[353] by works of perfection, by demands of reason, that it behoveth us to draw unto us all the life that Christ Jesu himself led and preached to us, according to our power; for he said of far, thus: Whosoever believeth in me he shall do such works as I do and yet more greater shall he do. She hath nothing with holden. Then is his bounty mine by the cause of my necessity and for the justice of his pure bounty. . This is the first modern English translation of the complete text. For the bounty of his pure nature is known by the wickedness of my cruel nature. 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 And Love may do all that she will. And with all our virtue, is that we should do all our works purely for him. [314] This same, that the righteous God it seemeth that he cannot come again. And the more that she seeth, in this knowing by truth, that she may not know her wickedness, of the least point into which she is fallen by wickedness. The Mirror of Simple Souls, here for the first time printed, came to light in 1911, when Mr. J. Martha is much encumbered; most wise is she not: for her encumbering troubleth her; she is far from the life of peace. This form he owes to his age, which delighted in the highly sophisticated discussions of the Puys and the Courts of Love, and which in drama turned from the earlier Mystery plays to the Morality. She seeth also her wretched nature by inclination of naught, to which nature she is inclined, and her willd[366] hath put me in less than naught. . They have indeed a being, and that a right good being, to come to the best being that we speak of, to which the perished can have no succour.. He left, besides this work and his translation of the. And when a fault overcometh this complexion and this [new] creation, which is made of the divine goodness seemeth not a little thing however little that fault may be. Download The Mirror of Simple Souls PDF full book. And then I beheld the seraphins and asked of them for what cause were done the works that charity did of the Incarnation of the Manhood of Jesu Christ, or of this, that the divine Trinity made them, and of all that he shall do without end in creature, of his bounty. The main idea of his work is the glorification of love above intellectual knowledge; of the immediate knowledge of God above the rational reason. We are told There she prayeth not, all work is forbidden her, and she is in the simple being of the Deity. This is glossed as follows: If the soul never did any work she would not have written this book for our edification; but it is to be understood, as I have said before, as being for a short time (i.e., when the soul is at prayer). And without them they have the beams of the divine sun they keep cleanness of heart, and none but they. 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. They fare like the crow that weeneth there be none so fair a bird in the wood as his bride, the crow. The only answer is that many wearinesses and humours of sickness are often put to flight by a fresh sharp act of additional physical mortification. It is this life of God in himself which is the object of her worship and love, and her treasure being thus hid with Christ in God, even the possession of God within herself becomes a secondary love.It is because the souls very Being is thus focussed in the divine life that she can be indifferent to all lower material and spiritual desires and wills; indifferent as to whether pain or pleasure, mortification or prosperity befall her. And with all our soul, is that, upon our life, we should not say but truth. In these three words is fulfilled all the perfection of this clear life. I have, by my far night, sent letters to you; but none asketh, What is this far night? When he showeth his glory to the soul, his works may not be told! Oh, without fail, saith Love, and if they had willed, they had been delivered of that in which they are in right great servitude, at little profit, and they shall [continue to] be so as compared to the other. This is to be understood, that these folks do the contrary of that which delighteth them. She knoweth all, saith Love, by virtue of faith, that God is Almighty, all wisdom and all goodness, and that God the Father hath done the work of the Incarnation and the Son also, and the Holy Ghost also. And for this, I love better the most of him that never I shall know, than I do mine which I know. station39.cebu The gist of this teaching seems to be from Clement of Alexandria (Strom. It seemeth well that these folks that thus seek him by hills and dales and valleys, hold that God is subject to his sacraments and to his works. And with twain she flieth, and so dwelleth in understanding and in sitting. Thinking is worth no more, nor work, nor eloquence; Love draweth me so high. This, which Jesu Christ did, set [things] better to rights[377] than that which the former set [wrong]. One is because it is good, and the second is, because he willeth it. On these two staffs she is strong against her enemies, as is a castle upon a hill, or is surrounded with water, which may wash away.[114]. Therefore it is said in such terms as alway, thus, in this wise. Many such other words in this book must be taken [thus]. [303] Where lieth the gloss of these words, I ask you? That communication of divine Love is made to the soul in such a hidden way that she does not perceive it but the fruit is that humility which rejects those habits of talking about God., The distinction is not to be interpreted literally or of any divisions in Holy Church. Margaret Porette (circa 1248/1250-1310) was a French-speaking mystic and the author of The Mirror of Simple Souls, a work of spirituality dealing with Divine Love. They that love the Deity feel little of the humanity during the time of that usage. Alas! And, Lord, this gift you have given to my spirit, as long as you shall be God. [274] What shall my disciples say? 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. [What shame had she] of this that her sins be known before all the people, by such witnesses as be the Evangelists? The foregoing paragraph must not necessarily be interpreted as teaching the impeccability of the soul in these highest states; the writer may not have been thinking of sin, but of all the positive aspects of mans relationship to God, in which unity of will may be freely exercised; such as desire for union, prayer, and the aspirations of Love. This Love, the Holy Ghost, swimmeth in a soul and is poured out in abundance of delights, of a gift right high that is given of upraised ravishing, by knitting of union of the sovereign Beloved, that giveth himself simply and simple her maketh. His being is always in the perfect plain of his pure will. Now, behold, to what head they are come., Alas, alas, saith Truth, why love we will, since such loss is made by will?, I shall tell thee, saith Love, why a soul hath will; because it liveth yet in spirit. And bounty is what God is. Now is this soul, saith Love, in him, of him, for him; that is, without receiving any but only from him., Then is she in God the Father, saith Truth, for we know well that there is no person in the Trinity that hath not received something from another person beside his own person, save only the person of God the Father., Ye say sooth, saith Love, for God the Father hath divine might in him without receiving might of any other but of himself. Lady, it may not be that ye had been [his mother]. The humour at the expense of Reason that characterises this work, is at times a double-edged sword, but more generally it is a persistent contempt for rationalistic interpretations, which is quite distinct from and compatible with a real acceptance of the rational point of view. have appeared, nor has any trace been found of the thirteenth-century French original of which the Mirror is a translation. This is easy to prove, saith this soul; see here the proof! And therefore findeth she herself without finding any ground or end. Now worketh love in her without her, so that no dis-ease with her may dwell. And this lady, saith Love, hath this being attained, the which is most highest and most worthy and most noble. 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. For God threw out of her seven fiends. This soul hath no will, nor is she troubled about what God may do, but only that she do his will alway. In view of this no further analysis is needed. And this beholding giveth her a marvellous abashing to see that he is all bounty that hath put free will in her who is naught, but in all wickedness. Ah, my soul, saith this soul, what have you done for me? The same thing happens (in suo modo) in a manner, in the union of man with God, as in that which unites the Son substantially with the Father, and the Father with the Son. God hath nowhere to put his goodness, saith she, unless he put it in me, for one may have no greater rascal[356] to be made noble by him, nor can he have any [better place] where he may put all. Right so I tell thee, saith Love, by ensample of this soul, it fareth with her. Love attempts to comfort this soul by the promise of great rewards for her present sense of loss, but the soul refuses this. This soul is no-one by naughting, and she recketh not in this naughting, though the serpent her devour. Faith is the cause of this.. 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. But God hath kept me well, saith this soul, from such lore of Reasons disciples they shall not hold me in their counsel, nor their doctrine will I no more hear; I have been long therein holden, sometime I thought it was good, it is not now my best; of that, they know nothing; for a little wit may not put a price [upon a] thing of worthy value, nor understand anything unless reason be master thereof; and if they did understand it any time, it is not often. St John of the Cross, two last books). And now I shall tell you why it was done in the mountain. The issue that Mystics face is trying to put into words what is ineffable/wordless. This soul liveth not in Truth, that is the Deity, but Truth liveth in her, who hath all sayings in her fulfilled. The Trinity openeth to this soul and showeth her of his glory, of which none can speak bu the, the same. At the first beginning, this soul lived in the life of grace, the which life of grace is born in the death of mortifying sin. 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