There was in old time a lady, the which was a kings daughter of great worthiness and noble nature, that dwelt in a strange land. Amend ye my defaults, and if any word I have said tendeth to any goodness, to the profit of souls, to God only be the worship from whom all goodness cometh. And in this more to all fulfilling, is enclosed, saith she, the sovereign [im]mortality of the love of my spirit. She is then under the work of cleanness, and above the work of charity. Beyond these we know we shall never see, but the freshness, newness and joy thereof shall remain for ever inexhaustible. And of this fruition agreeable, the understanding [is] of the wisdom of the Son. And Gods Son is our ensample; we ought in this beholding to follow him, for we should will solely in all things the will of God, and so shall we be the sons of God the Father, to follow the ensample of Jesu Christ his Son. But yet also she doth the other, as by usage of good custom, as Love saith, in this book, that by usage of good custom this soul doth these outward works. But she doth it without desire and without that kind of usage that she had before, in labouring by outward impulses;[51] but fully she attendeth in all that she may to the usages of love, which be all divine and upward. Love! Himself saith in the Gospel: Whoever believeth in me, he shall do such works as I do, and yet more greater shall he do. 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.. Thus then speaketh this soul, abashed by naught-thinking, by this far night of night; who in peace delighteth herself. And if it so fall that he gaineth much of his master, and learneth so well that he is more rich and more wise than the master, and is held better and more worthy than he be, then he that was master to him, seeth for certain that he that was his servant is more worth, and is more able[105] in all manner ways than he, and dwelleth with him for to obey to him in all. She hath neither bottom nor floor, therefore hath she no place, and if she hath no place, then hath she not love for herself. For she is lady beyond the thought of her youth, and Sun that shineth, heateth and nourisheth life of being, discovered! It is possible, and his views are much illuminated by a comparison with those of the writer of the Letter. It is the easiest of his literary sources to trace. But now I am stirred to labour it again new, for, because I am informed that some words thereof have been mistaken, therefore, if God will, I shall declare those words more openly; for though Love declare those points in the same book, it is but shortly spoken, and may be taken otherwise than it is meant, by them that read it suddenly and take no further heed; therefore [if] such words be twice opened it will be more of audience,[11] and so, by grace of our Lord good God, it shall the more profit to the auditors. So it befell that this lady heard tell of the great courtesy and of the great largesse of King Alexander; and anon she loved him for his noble gentleness and for his high renown. But my free will, freely hath given it me; that, he may not take from me, unless it please my will. God is divine; so have I a being that is divine., When this soul, saith Love, is thus drawn out of herself, without herself, by God, for him, in him, in this divine work, she cannot never work works of charity of human body;[239] nor can any who attains to this work., O understand holily, saith this soul, the sweet words of Love, for these words be hard to understand for them that desire the meaning of the gloss., This is sooth, saith Love, for work of creatures may not be compared to divine work made of God in creatures, of his bounty, for creature., O God, saith this soul, how far is the country of the Perished and the country of the Marred from the country of freeness and of fulfilled peace, there where the Settled dwell!, That is sooth, saith Love, and I shall say one word soothly, saith this soul, against Will, in which the perished and the marred dwell, that lead life of perfection. And therefore the falling is credited[31] to the sensuality, and not to the holy souls that perfectly have set their will in God, by which love maketh them free for the nobility of his work; therefore it may well be said, not that we be lords free of all, but his love for us [maketh us free]. N. So hear now a little for to show you how love may do all without any misdoing. Upon these two staffs she is apeased,[115] and taketh no count of her enemies, neither on the right side nor on the left side. This they believe, and this believing giveth them so little satisfaction in their being, that they hold themselves as caitiffs, and as marred. R.H. Steuart, S.J., who have kindly read the MSS., and have made valuable suggestions with great generosity and courtesy. And thus I have in me by his pure bounty, his goodness divine and have had without beginning, and shall have without end. For Love hath drawn all her nature into him, that Love and this soul are all one thing; not twain, for that were discord, but only one, and therefore this is a good accord. It is right, saith Love, that this soul that thus is free of these four costs, that she ascend afterwards to sovereignty., Ah, Love, saith Reason, is there yet anything more high?, Yea, saith Love, this that is her next neighbour. Without their witting, these folks be meeked of God himself, who is Almight., I promised, saith this soul, concerning the takings of love to say some things of the seven estates that we call Beings, for so it is. In this and the preceding chapter the French tendency to spin out ideas to their utmost logical conclusion is very marked. These souls, saith love, live of knowing of love and of hearing. This is [the] continual usage of these souls without departing them [therefrom]: for knowing and love and magnifying dwelleth in them. A play on words, the most, a word for wine, ale; also, as will occur again later, used for God who is the, These souls are all one in all things, and equable in all things, and they are not troubled about their condition whatever may befall them, forthynken not repent of, are displeased at; Bod. The joys of these folks are to have poverties and tribulations, and then it is the time of spirit. And yet in all this time is not the spirit perfectly dead while the wills [still] have their powers by inward feelings. And so do the perished as the marred do. It has been collated with the British Museum and both English and Latin Cambridge MSS. What is art that giveth science in creatures? saith this soul that seeketh. There she prayeth not,[401] no more than she did ere that she was aught. [150] Right so, I tell you, saith this soul, that is better and more worth to hear thing that is written and said of God than if men heard naught., O my Beloved, saith this soul, how can I keep my wits[151] when I think on the gifts of your bounty, the which you have given me. Here endeth the prologue of the translator that drew this hook out of French into English. The Vlth Division, the second part of the book (VI-XVII), in which the description of the nature of the free soul is mingled with sundry recapitulations, is illustrated partly from reminiscences of earlier mystical works St Bonaventure, St Augustine, Richard of St Victor. But that is not the case with the wide circle of readers who do not recognise the Church s authority, and in this age those heresies are more widespread and flagrant than in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. And this is, that ye should have no vainglory, for unto that time none ought to speak. [26] And for your peace we say it [unto] you, for this seed should bear holy fruit in them that hear it and be worthy. There is the divine school held with closed mouth, that no wit of man may put into speech., Ah, Love, saith Reason, say among us something of the country where this soul dwelleth., Thus it is, saith Love, where this soul is, of him, in him, for him; that is, without receiving from any, but purely from him. Perhaps he was one of the unknown fourteenth-century mystics who wrote as disciples of Rolle or Walter Hilton. Right so I tell thee, saith Love, by ensample of this soul, it fareth with her. Nor he loveth never divinely who loveth bodily. The Mirrors Of Simple Souls - Translated by MN - 13th Century writings from an unknown Christian Mystic : Peter-John Parisis : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive The Mirrors Of Simple Souls - Translated by MN - 13th Century writings from an unknown Christian Mystic by Peter-John Parisis Publication date 2015-11-28 Topics A curious point is that these MSS. The Sum of all[399] hath acquit her of her debts that she owed Jesu Christ. She is, so rightwise that she may not flit for nothing that [be]falleth. 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. Since that his soul was oned to his divine nature it might not be that the body that was mortal, might do sin. [211] Where is that best, for which ye allow them more than the perished?, Where is it?saith Love. This soul, saith Love, can no more speak of God, for she is naughted of all outward desire and of all the affections of the spirit, so that [which] this soul doth, she doth it by usage of good custom, or by commandments of Holy Church, without any desire; for will is dead which gave her desire. 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. And they that are thus burdened say little and have heaviness of heart, saith this soul, until they have their usages. As our ascent progresses the details of familiar buildings are less easily discerned, they are hidden in surrounding greenery, and that itself is merged in the plain, and the plain tends to merge into the hills, till at last range beyond range of hills fixes and stills our vision. We have not one spark of him in comparison with the all of him. He faileth her in naught that she should seek him; why then should she seek him? 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. 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. This, which Jesu Christ did, set [things] better to rights[377] than that which the former set [wrong]. Then is she of that place whence she is. The Mirror of Simple Souls comes with a very good introduction: a brief outline of the writing, a history of the author, her group, and the historical context. This is goodness enduring,[352] that yieldeth by nature of charity, the outpoured gift of all his bounty, and this bounty enduring engendereth bounty agreeable. London. She may not thence move nor have dis-ease, as long as her beloved is at ease, though any [should] fall into sin, nor for sin that ever was done. Now worketh love in her without her, so that no dis-ease with her may dwell. Lady, what said ye to them for that there was in them cruelty? The bondman must have the four precious costs before he is fit to be freed. N. O Love of divine Love, saith this free soul, now tell us why these marred have so great wit beyond what the perished have, for they have the same usage except in that wit alone for which ye praise them above the other., For this, saith Love, that they hold that there is a better being than is their being, and these know well that they have no knowing of that better being. All work is forbidden her,[402] and she is in the simple Being of the Deity, as it was commanded sometime of Jesu Christ, the Son of God the Father. This is the first modern English translation of the complete text. 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. Thus the virtues be mistresses, and every virtue maketh her to war with its contrary, the which be vices. 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 book is divided by all the scribes into long sections, approximately the same, but Bodley further subdivides into chapters, and in a late fifteenth-century hand there are added analyses of the subject-matter of these chapters, written on small scraps of paper and pasted in the margin opposite the capital letters which denote the chapter divisions. This is the originality in an age when religious treatises were either ascetic or speculative, and when the mystical life was sometimes studied as a department of philosophy, or seen only through the eyes of moralists, or even degraded by the interpretation of heresy and self-indulgence. In this short work there can be found elements of Benedictine mysticism and traces of the Beghard spirituality of Porete, that are grafted onto an Augustinian-Bonaventurian orthodox matrix of the three ways (purgative, illumative and unative). 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. 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. 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. 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. There the soul is abandoned in God for him, in him, of himself. 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. 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. Burns Oates and Washbourne Ltd. Publishers to the Holy See. . ii). The valuable introduction by the translators narrates the archival . For God the Father hath given to his Son all his goodness, and this bounty of God is given to be known to mankind by the death of Christ Jesu his Son; and this Son is the magnificence of the Father everlastingly and the buyer of mankind. And if I wist without doubt that your will would it, without diminishing of your divine goodness, I would grant it without anything further willing more; my will taketh its ending in this saying.. And the Virgin Mary drank of the one after, and of the most high drink is this noble Lady inebriated. The Son is fruition agreeable. Cf. And then I said this, that if I had of my proper condition this [which was] aforesaid, I should love better and rather choose that it went to naught without recovering, than that I should have it, unless it came of him. In heaven when the divine Trinity made the angels of the courtesy of his divine noblesse, some were evil, on account of their perverse election in agreeing to the evil will of Lucifer, who desired to have, by his nature, that which he might not have but by divine grace. This might I not do except he had given it me. And with all our virtue, is that we should do all our works purely for him. Cf. The Latin translation has: Perhaps forbid, translated literally from F. defend., The bodily works refer to works of piety over and above that which is commanded . To this accordeth holy writ, where that it saith: Septies in die cadit justus. This knowing of the divine bounty maketh her to renounce herself, and then is the soul of all servitude quit, and of free being is put in possession. And without them they have the beams of the divine sun they keep cleanness of heart, and none but they. 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. He lacks naught; then, I lack naught, and this point taketh from me the love of myself, and giveth me him without mean and without withstanding. As much as I comprehend of my feebleness, of my foolishness, and of my wickedness. Then came to me Righteousness, and asked me what sparing I would have of him or of thing that torment might do to me. 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. - Volume 71 Issue 4 . 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). This is the uncreated goodness[348] that he hath made created; so leadeth goodness unwrought, the goodness that he hath wrought. Not work of bounty that ever I did, nor that ever I might do; that giveth me neither comfort nor hope, but my wickedness only, for I have by them this certifying. It pleaseth them best that it be as God will have it done, [even] though they might, by their prayer, have it any otherwise, they offer all unto his divine ordering and will. This is the peace of the food that Love giveth me to love him. Amen. And so she doth in that she asketh him afresh by her wit, by understanding, of the most high and pure thought, and there she seeketh; this is a begging creature also. Before this time I have had a desire to hear speak of him, for no creature might tell me of him, but that I heard it gladly with a good will. Now appease yourself! And this soul, saith the Holy Ghost, is of such condition, that if she had in her the same that we have, she would yield it to us; all this as we have it without willing any guerdon in heaven nor in earth, but right according to our will alone. There she shippeth and saileth and floateth and swimmeth, and is filled of divine peace without the moving of her inwardness and without the work of her outward doing. [191] And that is no marvel, but without fail none will believe how great loss this is to them, to whom this seemeth strange., Such folks, saith this soul, be so blind, that great things seem little to them., It is sooth, this that ye say, right sweet soul, saith Love, for right as the work of God is more than the work of man, right so is more worth this naught-willing in God, than well-willing for God! And after, saith Love, she lived in the life of spirit, which life of spirit is born in the death of mortifying nature. She answereth to none, nor oweth she to do so, unless he be of her lineage, this is to say, unless it be according to her disposition within herself. 1451) died as vicar of Mount Grace, Charterhouse, in 1528. And since the bounty by me is known, I am his glory and his laud, for none other thing is his glory nor his laud, but the knowing of his divine bounty. They swim into the retina, to be instantly classified by experimental knowledge, and most speedily dismissed in the search for the ultimate, ever-increasing joy of the mountain ranges. Rather than merely a list of erroneous propositions, the text is a polemical narrative which employs various genres and literary styles from the canon of anti-heretical writings. This edition also con-tains invaluable historical sources in Appendix A (214#218). This is right of right, for this is the very addressing of fine love, who ever will maintain it. This I shall tell you how and for why and in what? . In this life of spirit for these souls so called, there must still be active mortification of all that affects the will; the spirit must overcome the will as well as the flesh.Truth protests with the observation that such a spirit will sorely wear out the body. Here the dialogue is between Love (the judge and master of ceremonies in the disputation), this Free Soul, and Reason; and the point at issue is the freedom of the soul from fettering conditions in the highest stages of the spiritual life. But this What the far night is? She should ask, saith Love, who is mother of her, and of the other virtues that be of her germain.[279]. Before God! saith Reason, what is this to say?, I answered thee, here before, saith Love, and still I tell thee that all the masters of natural wit, nor all the masters of scriptures, nor all those that take the lead in love and in obedience of virtues, understand it not; thereof be right sure, saith Love, but those only, without more, whom fine love so leadeth.[57], But whoso found such souls, they could tell thee the truth an they would; but I am not in pledge that men may understand it, except only those whom fine love leadeth. 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. The mirror of simple souls pdf Wendy R. Terry, Ph.D. (2007), Graduate Theological Union, is a Continuing Lecturer in Religious Studies at University of California, Davis. Her pleasing is our will, by the purity of unity of the will of the Deity, wherein we have enclosed her. ABSTRACT In 1946 Romana Guarnieri identified Marguerite Porete as the author of the Mirror of Simple Souls. And if God will, I shall no more be deceived; I will no more hear gab of your divine goodness.[69]. This soul seeketh not the fulness[307] of her understanding, but God seeth it in her without breaking her. For though she had all the knowing that all the creatures have that be and shall be, It is naught, saith this soul, as compared to that which is, which may not be said., The seventh point, saith Love, is this, that men may not rob her. Then is it right that he sustain me of himself, for I am laid in him; I must stint, saith this soul, for I may not tell it., No soothly, saith Love, no more than the sun may stay[265] or dwell, no more may this soul say of this life as compared to that which truth to say truly is., Ah, Lady Soul, saith Abashings, ye be a continual spring of divine love, of the which spring of divine love waxeth the well of divine knowing, and the streams of divine laud., And of this spring of Divine Love, the well of divine knowing and of the streams of divine lauding, I remain, saith this confirmed soul, perfectly in his divine will., Now hath this soul, saith Love, her right name of Naught, in which she moveth, for she seeth that she is naught, and that she hath not of aught, neither of her nor of her even-Christian, nor of God himself. . He left, besides this work and his translation of the. The first is the Mirror of Simple Souls, written in the vernacular by Marguerite Porete, a woman condemned as a heretic, and the vernacular (re)trans- lations of this well-known text. Then since I shall see so high a thing as is the Trinity, there shall not be taken from me the knowing of the angels and of souls. A reader has complained of the perpetual recurrence of certain themes to the point of satiety. In addition to M.N.s interpretation of the passage, it may be remembered that the author probably referred to the mode of prayer of those souls, as will appear later. Thus my will is martyred, and my love martyred; ye have them to martyrdom brought. 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. And I tell you that when Jesus Christ transfigured him before three of his disciples, he did it for this, that ye should wit well, that few folks see the brightness of his transfiguration, and that he showeth it not but to his special lovers. She feeleth no joy, for she herself is joy. The difficulty arises when our author, following the Dionysian doctrine as interpreted by Erigena and the Victorines, emphasises the monistic tendencies, and verges on Pantheism and on its corollary Quietism. Then may ye ask if it went as it came. Then is she mistress and lady over the virtues, for she hath them all within herself, ready at her commandment, without bitterness or painfulness of feeling to the soul. Perhaps Gerson when he fulminated against the letter and those who exaggerated its doctrines, had our author in mind. This I may clearly see since the one hath all and the other hath naught, in regard of his all. Ah, ah, fine love of my heart. Now soothly this is right, saith Pure Courtesy, that these be her right names., Ah, Love, saith Reason, you have named this soul by many names, so that the Actives may have some knowing, at the least by hearing of the right noble names [by which] you have named her. This to be in us, is very Being. 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. What thing it is that giveth this soul and is most noble being that may be had in this life, CHAPTER XV: What thing it is that hath given this soul freedom in enduring of things, CHAPTER XVI: Of the peace of this divine life, and how Mary Magdalen had it when she was in the desert. I creature made of the Maker, by me that the maker hath made, [do make] of him this book. The MSS. . The article looks at Marguerite Porete and her Mirror of Simple Souls through the lens of Michel Foucault's ideas of veridiction, and its four distinctive types: prophecy, wisdom, teaching, and parrhesia. 297-300). Reason judgeth after that which she knows. To it he attributes certain purgative and illuminative effects which become more marked as advance is made. Fallen, here and following = moved, changed. 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. For this, that I am the greatness and the sum of all evils. And this goodness is given to mankind to be known by my wickedness. 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