When they have no desire, saith Love, nor no feeling, nor in any time, affection of spirit; for whosoever maketh use of such practices, they be full far from the peace of freedom, where few folk suffer them to dwell. These sayings, then, that Love saith to this creature, of his divine bounty, have thrown Reason and the works of virtues under his feet, and to death brought [them], without recovering. And which- ever of these sisters falleth to me, I reck not, whether it be Righteousness, or Truth, Mercy or Pity. That saveth her by faith without work. I have said, saith this soul, that for this that God did to them, they had neither shame nor worship, nor will of themselves to answer for any; this ye see well., Ah, without fail, saith Truth, they had no occasion for it, for they were unencumbered of themselves., Oh, saith this soul, since it is so that God did them this, is he not yet the same, hath he made an end with them of the gifts of his bounty?[247], Oh, without fail, no, saith Courtesy. Love in this book layeth to souls the touches of his divine works privily hid under dark speech, so that they should taste the deeper draughts of his love and drink. 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. MS. most. Cf. But pure, clarified, she seeth not God nor herself, but God seeth this of him, in her, for her, without her, and showeth her that there is none but her. MS. as of that that is of her: possibly for, with regard to all that is of her nature.. The general impression is against this reading, and the passages in the Prologues and on pp. Mary hath but one intention in her, and that only one intent maketh her to have peace, and Martha in many intentions, have ofttimes unrest. [For it is to be] in God without being, [for] in Gods self is being. Between these themes is fitly set the plea of Fine Love, that she is above the Law but not against the Law. This soul is no-one by naughting, and she recketh not in this naughting, though the serpent her devour. These be the wings that she flieth with. The treatment is didactic and psychological; the author describes not his personal experience but the characteristic of a typical soul of these souls we will take one for all, to speak the more readily (I, vii). And of the two causes that maketh her to say that she will say the sum of her demands, CHAPTER VII: What a soul oweth to God for one default, and whereto it is brought by a default, CHAPTER VIII: What art it is that giveth science in creatures and of the ravishing of love, and of the peace of naught willing, CHAPTER IX: of this bounty of God and the working thereof, CHAPTER X: How we must draw within us all the life that our lord Jesus Christ himself led and preached, according to our power; and whereto we shall come by it, CHAPTER XI: Whether a creature may dwell in life and be alway without her. Reason, saith this [soul] naughted and clarified by default of love of herself. For why? Many sharp pains and bitterness of conscience feeleth this soul in this war. For of the love of her Beloved hath she no doubt, that he doth that which is best. He maketh in a moment of two things, one. Then shall I say, saith Love, this which Reason should say if she were alive in you and which she should ask of you, our Beloved, saith Love to this soul, which is Love and none other thing than Love. And I ask, saith Reason, for I never slept when she of me had need. He cannot, therefore, have been an outstanding personality in the Carthusian Order. 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. [4] Several passages from Cordonis Dyalogo are taken up and paraphrased by Pili. Nor she knoweth naught but him, nor she loveth but him, nor she praiseth but him, for there is but he. 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. How might Love have this usage concerning all the works of virtues, since work ceaseth when love hath this usage? The present text is based on the Bodley version as containing older readings. Of what is Love's undertaking, and why Love had . Now be these two things ended in me. Righteousness and Mercy ask how they may comfort her, and what help she would have; and she refuses all help but God himself who Is, and she is Naught. Right so fareth it by Virtues; they have well acknowledged it in hearing of you all, that they understand not the Being of fine love!, And for this, I tell you, saith this soul, how should the Virtues teach the subject a thing that they have not, nor never shall have? 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. As a result, this edition offers a reading ofThe Mirror of Simple Souls that solves a number of difficulties found in the French. He held a middle course steadily between the extreme Thomism of the Dominican party and the hostile opposition. And after him a monk of the Cistercians [Order] read it, that was named Dom Frank, Cantor of the Abbey of Villiers: and he said that it proved well by the Scriptures, that it is all truth, that this book saith. Further, the soul enlists sympathy and borders upon pride, when she thus enlightens others she beggeth of them for whom she does it., The soul disencumbered of her selfhood sees God and lives by the power of the life of glory without intermediary means. This is the left staff, the which she leaneth on alway at all times; this is to her, great strength. Abstract The life and works of the beguine Marguerite Porete were transformed by fire. Further, he discards the M.N. This that she is, saith Love, in her knowing., Right sweet Holy Ghost, teach it us! But one that seeketh and findeth not dwelleth enfamined of that which she asketh. Soothly no, not for to have it evermore, for I might not! Non nobis Domine non nobis, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. 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]. John vi 29. Before the soul indwelleth, in the time of my work, saith Love, when I work it, it is so delicious that truth calleth it, glorious food. And she told her alway, that she should do all that the virtues would, without any withstanding, unto the death. This is the substance of my heart. For why? The Son of God is my mirror in this, for God the Father gave his Son our Saviour to be an ensample to us. This seed may never fail, but few folks dispose them to receive this seed. How might he have done this? Such a soul is so clear in knowing, that she seeth herself not in God, nor God in herself.. on February 27, 2021, There are no reviews yet. Also a spiritual state. I have no possession in this doing. And she is in all times demure without heaviness, and glad without dissolution, for God hath in this soul hallowed his name, and the divine Trinity hath there his house., O ye little [ones], who in will and in desire dwell, saith this soul, take the spoils[112] of your food, and desire that ye might be such, for he that desireth the least, unless he desire the most, it is not worthy that God do to him the best of his goodness, on account of the slackness of his poor courage. [212] And so they are, without fail, as compared to the free being of the Settled, that never move. There are passages in the MS. which may be construed in this sense, and these have been fully annotated in their place. A young man [there] was on a time that said to our Lord Jesu Christ that he had kept himself from the time he was a child unto that time. He is also much concerned to repudiate any charge of heresy that may have formulated in the mind of readers. She hath given the stock and the fruit of her root and branches. And the soul of Jesu Christ was glorified in that very time that it was made of the divine Trinity and oned to deadly[382] body and to divine nature in the person of the Son, in the same moment that she was made, and oned, and knit to these two natures as perfectly as it is now at this time. Now we see him by faith. Now I have given him all, so that I have not whereof to give: it seemeth well by this that I would gladly give him if I had anything to give. 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]. This divinity and this manhood, true Christians receive when the holy Sacrament is ministered unto them. And because of this beholding, is this soul become naught, and less than naught in all her beholdings. . And this hath rested her of all things by excellent nobleness.. [303] Where lieth the gloss of these words, I ask you? But God seeth it in her of his divine majesty, who clarifieth her by himself, so that she seeth that none is but God himself, who is that from whence all thing are. For she is not anything that is. Her will is ours, for she is moved from grace into perfection; from works of Virtues and from Virtues into Love; and from Love into Naught, and from Naught into clarifyings[293] of God, who seeth with eyes of his majesty; who in this point hath enlightened her by himself, and [she] is so left in him, that she neither seeth him nor herself. 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. However expert he may have been in handling the glosses of the Areopagite and in commenting on the Mirror, his own mind reflects dreads and delights of an elementary kind. And how we should not set little by a default done against God, CHAPTER V: How it is understood that the righteous man falleth seven times a day, CHAPTER VI: How this soul will say the sum of her demands, and how she knoweth not her own askings. 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. She cometh of the divine deity, where the mother is ancestor of these branches,[282] whose root is of such great fruitfulness. Some of the readings have been elucidated by reference to the Latin version of Richard Methley, who, it was hoped, might have known the exact value of contemporary mystical phrases, and whose Latin renderings shed much light on the syntax of an unpunctuated English MS. But for those folk, saith Love, that work by their wills, they refuse God the realm., Eh, without fail, saith Reason, so do they [indeed]!, So do they [refuse to yield themselves], saith this freed soul, but they ought to do so, or they should lose all the little cattle[187] that they have., This is sooth, Lady Soul, saith Reason, I grant it you., These folk, saith Love, that work thus by their wills, be not quit from thraldom. The scheme of the Threefold Ascent, as expounded by Love and the Free Soul, is a vindication of the valid rational factor; and there may be significance in the passage where, rejoicing over the death of Reason (the rationalistic figure), Love claims that she herself will now put the questions to the Soul which Reason would have asked, and she does in effect argue awhile from the rationalist point of view until, later, rationalism merges into illumined Reasonableness. In these three points be all that is made comprised without comprehending. Meditation of pure love knoweth well more- over that she ought not to occupy herself[131] so, but to follow his work:[132] that is, to will perfectly the will of God. 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. First, when creatures give themselves to perfection, they set all their desire and all their purpose[47] in these points aforesaid, and all their labour by fervour of love, in which they work and [take the] lead. 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. 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. 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.. 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. I am a sinner, as ye well know, by which, alas, unworthy I am to praise you and to laud you. Among you ladies to whom God hath given this life of his divine bounty abundantly, without any withholding not only this life without more, that we speak of, but that other with this, which never man spake of ye shall know in this book your estate. Therefore they think that neither they nor others can nor may speak [thereof]; but all is gabbing, for as much as they may not reach to a point of the fullhead of soothfastness. Cordoni draws heavily on Porete, making us of entire passages of her work.[5]. The contradictions of doctrine are only superficial, if we keep in mind the distinctions made earlier between the four (not three) classes, the perished, the marred, those in life of affection of spirit, and those free souls united to God by love. His divine bounty may not suffer him [to do so]. These souls, saith Love, have knowing of the more, without having knowing, so they may not crave nor have sufficiency of the least thing. She heareth oft, this soul, things that she heareth not, and is full ofttimes where this soul is not, and feeleth ofttimes that which she feeleth not. She is right gentle and noble in prosperities, and highly noble in adversities, and excellent noble in all places that she is in., She who is such, saith this soul, she seeketh no more God by penances, nor by no sacraments of Holy Church, nor by thoughts nor by words, nor by works, nor by holy creatures, nor by creatures of above,[273] nor by righteousness, nor by mercy, nor by glory, nor by divine knowing, nor by divine love, nor by divine praise and laud., Ah, Lord God, saith Reason, what saith this creature at first? And every degree hath in it its proper time of abiding.[362]. 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. Access full book title The Mirror of Simple Souls by Margaret Porette. 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. 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. 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. Whether he himself was a monk of this or of a Charterhouse in the same locality, we cannot tell. And this Holy Writ calleth falling, for so it is. But the fifth hath put her at point concerning this; it showeth to the soul herself. Never shall ye be so deeply naughted if ye have that by which ye cannot behold;[351] for otherwise I understand it not. 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. [355] And then is this soul naughted by height outside herself, that is, that God sufficeth her. It would appear that the heretical influences from the South of France and Germany were already spreading northwards, and manifesting themselves in Flanders and the Netherlands when Eckhart began to preach. This she seeth in him, of him, who is maker unmade, without touching of anything that is creaturely. The reader will distinguish for himself its beauties and excellences, the happy originality of expression, the rare subtlety and depth of thought, and its spiritual elevation. And this is good reason, saith the Holy Ghost, that we withhold from such souls nothing that we have. For God threw out of her seven fiends. This can be conveyed through the dramatic form, more convincingly, perhaps, than in a methodical treatise. 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. Where her treasure is, there is her love also, and therefore the hidden treasure is more truly hers, the more is mine, because the most of my love is in it.. I have said, saith Love, that they whom I have summoned by their own inwardness to obey the perfection of virtues, who ought to have done so, that they dwell unto the time of death encumbered of themselves, though they travail every day with themselves to fulfil the perfection of the apostles, by study of reason and of goodwill, they shall never be unencumbered of themselves, neither of body nor of soul. This second part deals with the highest states, not merely by description, but it takes up some of the previous points of controversy and shows them in relation to the further the plea of experience acquired. And when a soul is without herself and whereof she liveth when she is without her, CHAPTER XII: How this soul joyeth some time without her feeling; and of three things that maketh her to have joy; and of the blindness of reason, CHAPTER XIII: How this soul is the salvation of creatures to the glory of God, and how this is meant, CHAPTER I: Of the promise that this soul made to speak of seven estates, and how the first is the keeping of the commandments of God, CHAPTER II: Of the second state, which is in following the counsel that our Lord gave to come to perfection, CHAPTER III: Of the third state, which is in doing the works of perfection with affection of love and in mortifying the will; by obedience to follow other mens wills, CHAPTER IV: Of the fourth state, which is in the relinquishing all outward works through the sweetness that is felt by highness of love in contemplation, CHAPTER V: Of the fifth state, which is when a soul departeth from her will in putting it in God by a spreading ravishing of the moving of divine light, CHAPTER VI: Of the sixth state, which is when a soul is of all things made free, pure, and clarified, THE ONLY CHAPTER: How this book, that is made right high and great by words, seemeth right little and low to them that be fallen of love into naught, and by whom it was made, THE ONLY CHAPTER: Of the very addressing of fine love. No soothly! When I was nothing, before I owed to my God anything by the work of self will, and yet should I have nothing ere I were quit of one of my faults, without more, though I had the same that this book speaketh of, where it speaketh of the argument[341] of which ye have heard! For in him who that hath two purposes at one time, the one lessens[134] for the other. And for this was her will given. [198] I will naught of none!. We may surmise, moreover, that the English translators fears were not ungrounded, and that, if plain Englishmen found the Frenchmans treatise beyond their grasp in the first version he produced, the second may have met with similar fate. Thus she loveth God in all things and all things for God, so that for this love is this soul alone, or all-one in the pure love of the love of God. It displeaseth her will, and so it doth God; it is his own displeasure that to this soul giveth such displeasure. And so she liveth in God, and there may not the vices find her. 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. Certainly I believed never anything better than this that ye have told me right now. The author points out that the natural human desire for devotion and increase of love, for some outward assurance of Gods love and demonstration of our human love, leads to natural efforts which may procure some such phenomena, experienced as fire. 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. Ye have something heard there, he said, I hold all thing that was and is and shall be; I am of all goodness fulfilled, take of me what ye will; if ye will have me all, I unwill it not, saith my friend, how seemeth it you of me? And this soul hath long seen that she is under sin and serveth sin and without comparison, passing all creatures, is naught. But yet, as I said afore, it hath been mistaken of some persons that have read the book, therefore at such places where meseemeth most need, I will write more words thereto, in manner of gloss, after my simple cunning as me seemeth best. Understand holily, all as it is; so may God give you alway being without removing! And they that be free have to do all the contrary, for right as them behoveth in life of spirit to do all the contrary of their will, unless they will lose peace, [so] behoveth it in life that is free, to do all that pleaseth them, unless they will lose peace. MS. would have without any incredence within the full assize; The Latin translators note effectually disposes of all objections to this sentiment. In 1310 Marguerite was burned alive in Paris as the first recorded "mystical heretic" of the French Inquisition. This bounty by me[359] God knew had never been known, neither was my wickedness. O Lord, saith Holy Church, we understand it and believe it forsooth, that these be the gifts of your worthy noblesse, in reward of love; for love may not be rewarded at any time except with love., This soul, saith Love, hath of old said and heard that there is nothing that is so great knowledge as is temperance; nor so great riches as is sufficiency; nor so great strength as is love. . God-love. Here the doctrine of the Areopagite is brought into practical application, and Division IV, chapters viii and ix, and Division V, chapters v, vi, viii, x, contain some of the distinctive theories which mark the book. Whoever hath it [let him] keep it, for it is the most perfect gift that God giveth to creatures. And this hath this Lady [thereof]. This is all deadly! [308] Thus have the aforesaid virtues naught to answer. Ah, right sweet Love, saith this soul, such life may well discreetly be called languor and life of war., Now she hath so much enlanguored for love, saith Love, that she is dead in love., Ah, Lady Love, saith Reason, for God, tell us this, in what point is a soul, that is dead in love?, She hath, saith Love, taken end[177] at the world, and the world hath taken end at her. 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. on the Internet. That we love him with all our heart, is that our thoughts be alway verily in him. Then it is good, right, and reason, that true innocence dwell with us. They save the treatise from the errors of Pantheism and of Quietism. Thus the divine might hath ordained this worthy sacrament. 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. M. As who saith, the true contemplatives should have no desire, but plant it all in divine will of God, and knit their wills wholly in him to his will, and have no proper will nor desire, but will perfectly the divine will of God. Nor he loveth never divinely who loveth bodily. A few words more I say in this book, to bring you into the way, notwithstanding that I was purposed before to have glossed no more. And in this sense taketh the soul leave of them, and [yet] are they always with these souls; for I make an ensample [of it], as thus: If a man serve a master, he is with him whom he serveth, but his master is not with him. But it dare not be said of anything that he wills to do! 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