For [concerning] these dark words and high matters darkly spoken in this writing, [this] is done for to make the souls of the readers that be disposed to ghostly feelings to circle and ensearch by subtlety of wit, to come to these divine understandings, by the which they may be the more able to receive and follow these heavenly usages of Gods work. 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. This union is called unity of the mind, not only because the Holy Spirit brings it about and guides therein the mind of man, but because it is the Holy Spirit himself. [242] And if she had, saith Love, she would be for herself and with herself, and not for me nor with me at all. For, Lord, my weening[156] is this, and it is truth, that though none had sinned but I alone, you would have bought my soul with your love, late laid on cross for me, by the use of powers ordained to destroy my sin. This is another than the fifth, but little while it dureth in the sixth, then is she again put in the fifth. This is to say, in sooth, that they neither will nor not-will, any of these prosperities nor any of these adversities; for these souls have no will but [for the] thing that God willeth in them. Why then should I want anything? And this hath rested her of all things by excellent nobleness.. He is fulfilled abundantly of all goodness of himself. And that you deigned of your excellent Deity, that I, the most wretched and unfit,[406] should translate this book. O emerald, saith Truth, O the precious gem, very diamond, queen and empress! Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. . for the angels of the first order be not seraphins, nor may not be, for God gave them not the being of seraphins. Notwithstanding the apparent want of system and diffuseness of the Mirror, some trace of a method can be found. The peace of this life of divine life, it suffereth not to be thought of, nor spoken, nor written. Therefore true love hath but only one purpose, and that is that she might alway love truly. This soul hath no will, nor is she troubled about what God may do, but only that she do his will alway. And if I had as great torments as he is of might, I should love better these torments, if they came of him, than I should glory that came not of him, [even were I] to have it everlastingly. And I ask, saith Reason, for I never slept when she of me had need. And then I said to him, rather than I should henceforward do thing that were against his pleasing, it were more in my choice that his manhood should suffer on the Cross as much as he hath suffered of torments for me if it might be. [358] And his goodness may not suffer it since he hath so much of worth, that I should dwell a beggar. For no more be the angels encumbered to keep us than if they kept us not; neither is this soul [encumbered] any more by what she doth, than if she did it not. 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.. So that I say, for as much passing this, as I have naught that availeth, so much do you avail, better than the best of mine, for which you are given. 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. It explains the apparent contradiction which the previous paragraphs offer to the general message of the book, in the statement that some souls. 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. For Love is God and God is Love; and this soul is God by condition of love; and I am God by nature divine. I give thee an ensample. 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. Right so, tell I you, saith this soul, that the Father hath spread and given all his bounty in me. And if she think that we shall write more explicitly than other creatures have written, it is begging, this that she hears, for she would that her even-Christian found God in themselves by writings and by words. This soul liveth not in Truth, that is the Deity, but Truth liveth in her, who hath all sayings in her fulfilled. Him so high and me so low, that I might no more from thence rise, nor help of myself have and that was best. Her other work on Marguerite includes Seeing Marguerite in the Mirror: A Linguistic Analysis of Porete's 'Mirror of Simple Souls' (Peeters, 2011). Then Truth said to me, that I shall not see the divine Trinity until my soul be all so clean without spot of sin, as is the soul of Jesu Christ. He was haply ignorant of the fact that the author sent his inspired treatise for approbation to one Dr. I have none other usage nor none other usage may have, so overcometh me this knowledge continually.. And this love is of that which is wholly and solely fine in the state of work divine. www.capuchin.org.au, Capuchin Mission Office This is easy to trow,[323] for any who should open the divine wisdom. 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. She doth nothing by her inward [guiding], for whoso doth anything by the moving of his inwardness, he is not, saith Love, without-himself, for he is with-himself, and hath nature and reason with him. Then had she love in her of him without herself; she lived then of divine life, which made her have glorious life. And for this I say it is low and right little, however great the showing of this being seemed to me at the beginning, and the truth of them that such be, in the person of one, where all the others may be understood.. And though I think thereon, saith Love, what marvel is it? And some points Love declareth in three diverse ways according[17] to one. 297-300). . I have answered those points that have been mistaken, according to my simple learning. This is the deepness of meekness that there sitteth in her chair and reigneth without pride. This soul, saith Love, hath her mind and understanding and will, low; all is one being, this is in God. They desire, indeed, worship, and sorry be they if men despise them, but they keep themselves from vainglory and from impatience that leadeth to death of sin. This I say to the persons for whom Love hath made this book, to him for whom I have written it. They believe me well, but they will do nothing; they say to me, saith Reason, that they are not obliged thereto unless they wish it; for God hath not commanded it to them but counselled it, without more., They say sooth, saith this soul, these most uncourteous [ones]!, Oh, without fail, saith our Lord Jesu Christ, uncourteous be they! And it saith in another place before, that none can find them, nor know them but they whom Fine Love leadeth, and whoever should find such souls he could say the truth thereof. Yes, saith Love, all the virtues be mothers.. But if I might amend it, I would amend it, and if I had as much might as he[142] hath, I would love him as much as you are worth!, Ah right sweet soul, saith Love, ye may no more say! I tell you forsooth, saith Faith, that it is not now, since it may not be seen nor felt. To this you may answer, Where has it then gone? Nay, saith Truth, it was, and now it is not, understand wholly of the humanity. And so love leadeth in her, which giveth her this being, and she leadeth in naught and not in love; for a soul is with herself, that leadeth in love. Then am I not, if I am only that which is; and none is but God; and for this I find nothing but God, wherever that I look, for none is but he, sooth to say.. They have forgot that anything that I did for them sufficed me not unless I had done all that mine humanity might bear, unto the death., Ah, right sweet Lord Jesu Christ saith the soul, do not trouble yourself thereof, nor displease yourself, for these souls be so for themselves, and with themselves, that they forget you, for the littleness of themselves, in which they suffice themselves., Oh, saith Love, without fail it is great villainy!, This people, saith this soul, be merchants; in the world they be called thralls, for thralls they be, for it behoveth not to any gentleman to be able to meddle with merchandise, nor to be one of them. And then, saith Love, to this creature, how may this soul will, when clear knowledge knoweth that there is a Being among the Beings, which is most noble of all Beings, which creatures may not have unless they have it by the not-willing?[75], Now, saith Love, hath Reason heard the answer of his questions, save where it saith, that the free soul hath in her a lack of sufficiency. Soothly, Lord, I am so abashed of that which I know, that I cannot but abash myself. For if they will, by this they may be and shall come to the being that we have spoken of, and shall yet be lords of themselves and of heaven and earth.. Obviously no deductions in favour of self-indulgence are to be drawn from this passage by those who have not attained that state. It is in the whole Trinity, which is one Will; then is the will of God in Trinity robbed by one default! [222] And if ye be disencumbered of all things, and be folk without will, in life [desirable], tell few your understandings of the things of this book., I have said, saith Love, that this is a life of more high understanding, one beyond the other without comparison, for right as it is a little comparison to say a drop of water compared with all the sea, the sea is full great against the drop; even so it is, to speak of the first estate of grace, as compared with the second, and right so of the second compared to the others; it hath naught of comparison. Teach it us, for love, that all wot, and so shall we appease them that be dismayed or marvelled to hear this book, for all Holy Church would marvel, say these three divine virtues, if she heard it., Sooth, saith Love, that Holy-Church-the-great, of [ours], saith divine Love, which is governed by us.[98]. Understand ye lovers what this is., I have said, saith Love, that this soul is fallen of me into naught, and less than naught without number. And if God will, I shall no more be deceived; I will no more hear gab of your divine goodness.[69]. The mirror of simple souls by Porete, Marguerite, approximately 1250-1310. But she is settled in the fifth state[217] with her Beloved, there faulteth her nothing. what faulteth me then? Divisions I-V contain the chief doctrines set forth in all their vigorous originality, and the method is chiefly descriptive. And he that this other [thing] willeth, willeth it not, but only to fulfil the will of God in himself and in others. Understand these words for love, auditors of this book, and principally of this far night, that we call celestrum esclistrum,[218] a manner of a swift opening and a hasty shutting, that taketh the soul in the fifth estate, and putteth her in the sixth estate, as long as the work endureth. Not only they, saith Love, but all the Trinity, through them. London. The first cost that this soul which is free hath, is this, that she hath no grudging of conscience, though she work not the work of virtues. If she took work of herself, she should be for her; if she be no-one, her working; may not be. Thus prayeth she not. 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. 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. The salvation of her even-Christian is her pleasure, and that is oned to her will. So liveth she without intermediary[311] by the life of glory, and is in paradise without being. Whether he himself was a monk of this or of a Charterhouse in the same locality, we cannot tell. Thine understanding is so low that thou mayest not reach so high as behoveth them that well would have the understanding of the Being that we speak of. And that is more mine which he hath which I have not nor shall not have than is this which I have and shall have in possession of himself.. She may not will by her own will, for her will is not with-her, but it is [without any leading thither], in him that she loveth. Ah, this blessed oneness lasteth but a little while in any creature that is here in deadly life, for the corruption of nature[257] may not suffer it. She marvelleth, saith Love, at the work of the far night. Such souls be all one in all things, and equable[124] in all things, for they do not unfree[125] their being, for nothing that may them fall;[126] for right as the sun hath of God his light and shineth upon all thing without taking any unclean- ness in him, right so have these souls their being, of God, and in God, without taking any uncleanness in them for thing that they see or hear., Eh, Love, saith Reason, do these souls feel no joy in their inwardness nor in; their outwardness?, No, saith Love, right as thou saidest, for the nature of them is mortified, and the spirit dead for all will is from them departed; thus live they, thus be they, in such a death according to the divine will.. And I am full enlumined and abundantly fulfilled of abundance of delights, by holding his divine bounty in me, without seeking him by the paps of his consolations,[277] as this book deviseth, saith this soul. So that I witness, my beloved Lord, that you have well quitted me of my debt, for I find no thing in which I find not peace, however it befall or hath fallen concerning my sins, your peace dwelleth with me. I know well, saith this soul, that Love herself maketh them to endure, that is mistress of this work., I have said before, saith this soul, that nothing faulteth me,[145] since that my love hath all in him, of his rightwise nobleness, without beginning and shall have without end. She was simultaneously commanded to cease It has been pointed out that St John of the Cross has in these matters been influenced by scholastic theology, but our author lived in the day when St Thomas was still lecturing and writing, and it must have been shortly after his death that the Mirror was sent to Godfrey of Fountains for censorship. It displeaseth her will, and so it doth God; it is his own displeasure that to this soul giveth such displeasure. This burden of heaviness may no one lose except he be an innocent. O what do ye then, right sweet soul, tell us? saith Holy-Church-the-little-with-all-his-rude-scripture. Abstract The life and works of the beguine Marguerite Porete were transformed by fire. 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. Lord, they fail to say well of you, that alway speak of you, and never say nothing of your goodness. So they stand to attend [upon], and wait to follow the Lords work, who is sovereign master; for if they do the contrary, truly, it will unrest them. But it may oft be had by the goodness of God, who is the worker of this work in souls where he vouchsafes [it]. Therefore his eye beholdeth me, that he loveth none more than me. And this, the beams of divine knowing work in this soul, which draw her out of herself, without her [help], into a divine peace dbonnair, felt by a gladsome swimming love of the most High, the jealous one, who giveth her, in all places, masterful freedom., Jealous, saith this soul, so seemeth it well by his works, who hath robbed me of all myself and hath put me into divine plesaunce[237] without me, and this union of fulfilled peace joineth and conjoineth me by the sovereign highness of the creation of the other equal member[238] of that union, who is divine. I excuse me to you and to all those that lead in naught, that be fallen of love into this being, for I have made this book right great and high by words, which to you seem right little and low. She swimmeth and is drowned in joy, for she leadeth in joy without feeling any joy. One, according to goodness, by conjunction of the strength and stirring of union of love. And of the book of life and the opening thereof, CHAPTER IV: Of three beholdings that one should have to come to peace. There be three manners of unions that devout souls feel, in sundry dispositions, but I mean of the highest, that is best; and that is the union where, through ravishing of love, the soul is knit and oned to God, so that God and the soul is one spirit. Doth he anything or ceaseth he[136] to do [it], for high or for low, except it please him?, I grant well, Love, saith Reason. 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. For it falleth oftentimes that when white and black are come together, the one may be seen the better from the other; for white seemeth more white by black, and black by white. Ah, ah, fine love of my heart. This wit all they who undertake works of themselves without the fervour of the willing of their inwardness.. But who believeth a thing which he is not? But these substantial experiences are unsubstantial compared with the purely spiritual fire, that seeks no outward phenomena, but issues in a spiritual and clear knowledge and valuation of things as they are. Uploaded by it shall not be long thereto, that it shall come to an end., Saith this soul, Then shall be great gladness!, Now, saith Reason to this soul, tell me whereof ye be most glad!, Lady Love, saith this soul, shall say it for me., Of this, saith Love, that she hath taken leave of you and of other virtues. Thus she comprehendeth much and soon forgetteth. M. Take heed of these words, that the soul saith, that she hath none other usage[152] nor none other may have. MS. by comprehending of partie in consenting of will, without receivings., The soul cannot express fully the painful sacrifice she perceives; possibly the sentence is left unfinished, and it is to be understood that now God asks these things of her, when she says I said to him.. The method is more descriptive, allusive, with the art and artlessness of an earlier generation. This we believe perfectly, without doubt, Lady Love! say the Virtues. [67] For that is all the glory of the love of my soul and shall be without end. The Doctrinal Significance of the Mirror, CHAPTER I: An exhortation to a soul to ascend to the stairs of perfection, and how this book may be understood, CHAPTER I: For whom this book has been made, and of the perfection that is needful to all them that will be saved, CHAPTER II: Of the counsel of perfection and of the laud of charity, CHAPTER I: Of the life naughted, and of nine points of the soul that liveth in that life, and how she willeth nothing that cometh by mean, CHAPTER II: How this soul hath six wings as have the seraphin, and what she doth with them, CHAPTER III: How this soul taketh leave of virtues, CHAPTER IV: Of certain things that the soul recketh not of, and how she is lost in the right high by plenty of knowing and become naught in her understanding, and whereto she is come by that, CHAPTER V: How a soul that is mortified of all outward desires can no more speak of God; and how it is meant, that this soul hath taken leave of virtues, and how such souls be become free; and what the greatest torment is that a creature may suffer in this life, CHAPTER VI: How these free souls have nothing of will, and what their continual usage is, CHAPTER VII: How love taketh one of these souls for all, for to speak more readily, and of certain works of virtue that this soul hath no desire to; and of what the [most] perfect gift is that God giveth to creatures, CHAPTER VIII: Of the proper names of this soul, and how the true contemplative should have no desire, CHAPTER IX: Of the first point that is spoken of afore, of the soul in life naughted; how none may find her, and how this is worthy and of true meekness, CHAPTER X: Of the second point, that is, how this soul saveth her by faith without works, and how this is understood, CHAPTER XI: How this soul is alone in love, and how she doeth naught for god, nor she leaveth naught for god, and how these three points be meant, CHAPTER XII: How none may teach this soul, nor none may rob her, and how this sixth point is understood, CHAPTER XIII: Of the eighth point, that is, that none may give to her, and how this is under- stood, and of the ineffableness of God, CHAPTER XIV: Of the ninth point, that is, how this soul hath no will, and how this [is] meant, CHAPTER XV: Of the perfection of them that live after the counsel of reason; and of the perfection of these souls that fine love leadeth, CHAPTER XVI: How this soul hath all and she hath naught; she wot all and she wot naught; and of the sacrament of the altar; and how this soul willeth all and she willeth naught, and how this is understood, CHAPTER XVII: How these souls so set their thoughts in the Trinity and be so divine that they rest them not in things that be passing or made, CHAPTER XVIII: how this soul giveth to nature all that it asketh without grudging of conscience, and how this is meant, CHAPTER XIX: How these souls have no heaviness at heart for things that they take; and of the peace that they have in taking the needfulness of nature, CHAPTER XX: How these souls can no more speak of God and what their custom is, CHAPTER XXI: What knowledge, faith, hope and charity have of these souls, and who hath the very knowledge of them, and how virtues be commanded for the souls, and not the souls for the virtues, and of mortifying will and desire, CHAPTER XXII: What the perfect being is that God giveth to creatures; and how none knoweth these souls but God that is within them, CHAPTER I: How it is meant that this soul hath taken leave of virtues; and of a land of this soul; and of the desire that they that live in will and desire must have, CHAPTER II: Of the two staffs that this free soul leaneth her upon; and how she is more drunk of that she never drank nor never shall drink, than of that she hath drunk, CHAPTER III: Of the freedom of these souls, and how they do nothing that is against the peace of inwardness, CHAPTER IV: How that consolations that comfort the souls by feeling of sweetness, it profiteth not a soul, but meditation of pure love; and how that hath only one meaning, and what that meaning is, CHAPTER V: Of the joy of those souls and of the accordance of will of the beloved and the soul; and of the union of love, CHAPTER VI: What it means that this soul doth no thing that is against the peace of her inward being, and of an example thereupon, CHAPTER VII: How this soul findeth God in all things; and of the incomprehensibleness of God, CHAPTER VIII: A complaint of this soul, and of the comfort that love giveth her, and how she is not sufficed nor appeased in that which love telleth her, but wherein she is sufficed, comforted, and appeased; and wherein she hath the full substance of her demands, CHAPTER IX: How it is more in this soul and better she loveth that which is in her beloved that she hath not, nor never shall have, than that she hath in possession; and how the body for his boisterousness and fleshliness cannot speak of the takings of the spirit, CHAPTER X: Of the gifts that this soul hath received of her beloved, and what her usage is, CHAPTER I: Of the visions that this soul hath had, and how no human body may see them; and how they that know their nothingness shall do naught; and what it behoveth them to do who cannot come to the knowing of their naught; and of the defaults of this soul, and by whom they be acquitted, CHAPTER II: How God hath loved this soul without beginning and shall without end; and of the obedience of reason to this soul; and of the accordance of the will of God and of this soul; and of her peace and of perfect charity; and of grudging of conscience, CHAPTER III: How all that this soul hath said, is said of love by this soul, and of this loss of time, CHAPTER IV: What ordinance is, and how that the Deity felt not what the manhood of Jesu Christ suffered, and how in all things behoveth to have discretion, CHAPTER V: Who be perfectly wise, and who be dipped in meekness, and how this soul is become naught in her beholding; and how she is dead to all feelings inward and outward, and what case that soul is in, in time of this usage, CHAPTER VI: How this soul is not with-herself and where she is; and how by naught witting and naught willing she hath all, CHAPTER VII: How this soul by all giving hath all received, CHAPTER VIII: of the being of this soul. And though I had it, ye see well what I should be, when I were quit of one sin. [381] And then I beheld his great purity and truth. Not for me, nor for my disciples, but for them that have taken leave of me, that this book may bear light if God will!, Reason, saith Love, those under your teaching have yet much to do [to come to the understanding] of the two deaths in which this soul is dead, but the third death understandeth none alive, but they of the mountain., O Lady Love, saith Reason, tell us this, what folk be they of the mountain?, They have not in earth, saith Love, shame nor worship nor dread for thing that may befall., Eh, saith Reason, Lady Love, for God, answer us our questions, ere you say anything more; for I am a-wondered to hear the life of these souls., Reason, saith Love, they that see this book, that have the being of this life, understand it well save this, that it behoveth them expound the glosses. And this people that thus be marred, hold themselves for caitiffs, and so they be, but they may come to the free being, the which we speak of, by the teaching of this divine light, of whom these little [ones] that be marred, ask the dressing of their way., Yea, yet little, saith the Holy Ghost, in sooth, as long as they make askings either of Knowing or of Love, or do anything that may be in love,[213] or in knowing, or in craving, for no wise man prayeth without cause, nor careth he for that which may not be. 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. Soothly no, not for to have it evermore, for I might not! And it would be right, that I should have myself no more; this Right is written within the book of life. But whoever will understand it and learn how they perish who dwell in Virtues, [let him] ask it of Love. This is the substance of my heart. Now I shall tell you my answer that I said to him, concerning himself, that he would prove me of all points. Such is the Beloved of our souls, saith this soul. NIHIL OBSTAT: Georgius D. Smith, S.T.D., Censor deputatus. Adds. And bounty is what God is. Contents Prologue . And I am cause of that. [308] Thus have the aforesaid virtues naught to answer. For the divine will that God maketh to will in them, draweth in them beams of divine knowings and the feelings of divine love and the union of divine magnificence and laud. 14 day loan required to access PDF files. He that is lame of limbs may not well go, nor the feeble may not swim. MS. These be the wings that she flieth with. And therefore, they dwellin works., Alas, how they be deceived, who of this think them to suffice! This lady seeketh no more of God, there is no more to do [about it]. 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). 242.144. The editor wishes to acknowledge a great debt of gratitude to all who have kindly assisted in preparing this edition. But your questions have made them long, because ye have need thereof yourself, and for your disciples,[206] those of your household who have flys hearts! These souls, saith Love, that such be, have so long led in love and in obedience of virtues, that they be become free.. O courteous without measure, this ought to seem well to me, saith this soul, when you will meekly suffer. For until then is not the soul wholly refined, until she do that which pleaseth her and that she be grudging of doing the contrary of her pleasaunces. 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