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. Now appease yourself! He had none other beholding in that doing, but the will of God his Father solely. 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. For nothing may see the high divine things, but that which ought everlastingly to be. John vi 29. A creature may be inhabited by grace in freedom for ever; but to stand continually in freedom, without sin, it may not, for the instability of the sensuality that is always flitting. And this opening hath made me have so clear sight, saith this soul, that it hath made me yield that which is his, and to take that which is mine. And this is, that ye should have no vainglory, for unto that time none ought to speak. If she be nakedly naught, this being[397] may not be., This is sooth, saith this free soul; in this point I am, by naughting, myself, for when I leave and naught myself perfectly, then his miracles give me very knowing of his divine gifts. One is because it is good, and the second is, because he willeth it. Emphasizing the complexity of the Mirror of Simple Souls and its St John definitely assigns a painful significance to the Dark Night, he regards it as a means of purgation, intervening between the stages of illumination. Now may I see by this where I ought to be, namely, that I should resort there where I was, in that point that I was, within the One. Moreover, they agreed that the fair promises of so high a spirituality might lead the unwise to adopt a course more exacting in its claims than they could foresee, and to which, not being called by God, they should certainly never attain. Lords hearing, Lords loving! And among you, actives and contemplatives, that to this life may come, hear now some crumbs[27] of the clean love, of the noble love, and of the high love of the free souls, and how the Holy Ghost hath his sail in his ship. O blissful Lady, it was needful to you to be so; for I hold of God his Son, that if he had found in you as much vanity as the quantity of a wrinkle[376] in a kerchief, of necessity he had never made of you his mother. So hath this soul that seeketh not divine science among the masters of the world, but the world and herself inwardly despiseth. Praised is Martha, but more Mary. 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.. it is his own proper deed. And then she drew God to her without seeking him. This soul, saith Love, of the Gospel that saith: Have the eye simple, and so shall ye not sin.[184] And this soul is at peace concerning all that God suffered for her, for she hath true intention[185] in all her purposes, and peaceable rest concerning the deeds of her even-Christian. In this and the preceding chapter the French tendency to spin out ideas to their utmost logical conclusion is very marked. Divisions VI and VII classify souls as perished, and marred, as distinct from those in life of spirit and later this latter type is again distinguished from those free souls in the highest life. For the influence of Porete via Cordoni on the writing of Francesco Ripanti da Jesi, The Circle of Divine Charity, see for Cargnoni. Lady, if it had been need, ye had for them that very time given your life rather than they should not have had forgiveness of God of that misdeed. Thus, of himself, he hath taken me, I can have no will because of him; thus it is! O full naked and dark, dry and unsavoury be the speakings and writings of these high ghostly feelings of the love of God, to them that have not tasted the sweetness thereof. She knoweth the All; and the More of All, in which More, the free soul is rested and dwelleth; she may not otherwise do, but in the All make dwelling., Now have ye heard, who are the perished, and in what, and of what, and for what., Now we will tell you also which be the marred. And in this the divine will perfectly is fulfilled. 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. And the soul to whom this far night hath given this gift, hath so great knowing of God and of herself, and of all things that she seeth in Gods being, by divine knowing. O what do ye then, right sweet soul, tell us? saith Holy-Church-the-little-with-all-his-rude-scripture. And if they had heard me, they had been delivered for right little; for so little, saith Love, as [merely] to give themselves [up] there where I would have had them, [even] as I showed them, by the Virtues whose office this is. I beheld him in me and me in him, and willed great wills for him. For to will what God wills is to be already like him; to be unable to will except what God wills, is to be already what God is, in whom to be and to will are one and the same thing.. [308] Thus have the aforesaid virtues naught to answer. We have not one spark of him in comparison with the all of him. teach me the understanding, who hast given me peace concerning my other questions!, This is, saith Love, that this is not with her,[93] nor may she have this of herself, for her thought is set in that [which is] peaceable, that is, in the Trinity. And this showing is given so swiftly that the person to whom this gift is given hath, at the time, no perceiving of her gift., What marvel is it, saith this soul, though I perceive it not? This is thought right enough for us to be disencumbered all the day of our life, if we will suffer the right work in us. I have found many of them who be perished in affection, and of the marred in life of spirit, by works of virtues, in desires of good will. The general impression is against this reading, and the passages in the Prologues and on pp. Now see how worthy, and strong and right free is she, and of all things disencumbered, whom Faith and Love govern; but none may come to this unless Faith hallow him. Ye that be in being and stand without default, nothing ye say. [325], Oh, saith this soul, why should I do anything that my Beloved doeth not, he wanteth nothing. A. Herbert, Keeper of MSS. A few years earlier her book, The Mirror of Simple Souls, had also been burned in Valenciennes, with Marguerite as a witness. Who that asketh these free souls sure and peaceable, if they would be in purgatory? 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? For such [a] will is [a] divine will, and this divine will giveth Being to free creatures. You say sooth in this, saith Love, but in the understanding lieth the mystery; for therein lieth the winning of divine love., We believe it, Love! say the Virtues, but this is not of our office, that we should understand it. And if I lost it, I should nor reck thereof but for him, and if he yielded it me again after this loss, I should not take it but for him. And thus she suffereth Love to work in her; therefore this, that Love saith, that these souls desire not masses nor sermons, fastings nor orisons, it should not be so taken that they should leave [them] undone. Now I have not in me neither this nor that, nor may I have. They follow [after] to attain a thing that is impossible, but I excuse them for their intention. But so far is he from me and I from him, saith this soul, that I cannot take comfort of myself: and to call[28] me he gave me this book, the which presenteth some usages of the love of himself. 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. Thus I shall tell you how I relinquish you and me and mine even-Christian, everyone, in witting of your divine wisdom, in the streams of your divine might, in. For one thing, Lady Love, I will say, that if it might so be that one of his creatures had in himself [by Gods gift] as much power and will to give me joy and glory as all those receive of his [heavenly] court unless he himself properly gave it me, I should refuse it without end, rather than [that] I should take it or desire it of any other, than of himself. Not by the reaching out of the understanding of love, but by the reaching and attaining of more praise[201] of right passing love. The similarity in point of view is, however, clear, and as we have seen, the Englishman who in the late fifteenth century translated the Mirror into Latin believed the work to have been composed by Ruysbroeck. Take we this soul that is best, that could now be richest and would be quit of her debt that she oweth to God, and pay him neither more nor less, but this that she oweth him for one fault alone. This often is disguised as zeal for our neighbours spiritual welfare, and so constitutes a further error by involving them in the love of creatures. It may not be., Ah, God, saith Reason, how dare any say this! Sometime I laid mine heart in you without any dissevering; ye wot well this; I was in all thing to you obedient. Her work can be situated within the ascetic-mystical tradition of Beguine spirituality or Free Spirit, which was formally condemned as heretical by the Council of Vienna of 1311-1312. For when she is thus free of these four costs and noble[269] by all the freedoms that of her be descended for no churl is accepted[270] in this marriage this soul that is thus noble, falleth then, saith Love, into dismay that is called naught, thinking of the far-off results of what is near;[271] that is her most nigh neighbour. O right noble folks, naughted and upraised[220] by conjunction of union with divine love, let it not displease you if I touch something for them that be, I shall speak enough afterwards of your being. This which thou speakest of virtues and of the reason, saith Love, this soul recketh naught of she may better do, for love worketh in her who hath led her into him, so that she herself is love. And he is no good lover that disposeth himself not to fulfil all that, by which he wist he might best please to his beloved. Though these self-seeking souls were rapt into the Trinity every day, yet they do not understand anything; it is nothing compared to the simple dependence of not-knowing and not-willing., This extremely obscure passage seems to be a plea for free will. And always you would not yet move yourself, nor nothing would you do, but always refused my messenger[251] that I made you wit, by the noble messengers that ye have heard; and such folk, saith Love, be encumbered of themselves unto their death day. Now they be in hell without being, and shall be, without recovering the mercy of seeing God. O Lady Mary, that art the vessel that more perfectly wert fulfilled of divine light, right in the womb of your mother, than were the twelve apostles the day of Pentecost, when they gathered the abundance of the gifts of the Holy Ghost! 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.. MS. would have without any incredence within the full assize; The Latin translators note effectually disposes of all objections to this sentiment. And nothing that is wrought entereth within these souls, but, only that God who hath made them; so that none knoweth such souls but God that is within these souls., Ah, Lady Love, saith Reason, be not displeased, for yet I must have one more question. when the last revelation is afforded (see p. 286). And always he assailed me for to have an answer, and so much I loved myself [together] with him, that I might not for nothing have discretion in this, and thus I was in distress. MS. thinking of the fartake of nigh .. 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.. Reason, saith Love, where be these double words that thou prayest me to discuss for the auditors of this book, who live in will and in desire,[77] the which book we call The Mirror of Simple Souls?, To this I answer, Lady Love,, saith Reason, for this book saith great marvels of this soul, which saith she recketh not of shame nor of worship, nor of poverty nor of riches, nor of ease nor of dis-ease, nor of love nor of hate, nor of hell nor of paradise. And then I said to him that if I wist it might more please him that I loved another more than him? Now, Reason, saith Love, why wilt thou that I call or summon this soul to hear of God, all that may be said?, For this, saith Reason, that she may dwell in her being of innocence without moving to hear you speak.[139], And shall I tell thee a truth? saith Love. For her will is departed from her which made her oft love, in the highness of contemplation, and in the fourth estate, fierce and dangerous. Contents Prologue . Then the divine goodness poureth forth before this will a ravishing outpouring of moving divine light, which is diffused within the soul, the righteousness of him who is. And when I will anything, saith this soul, then am I with myself so, and have I lost freedom, but when I will naught, and have all lost out of my will, then faileth me nothing; free-being is my maintainer. But ye shall love, my friend, saith Love, in his will, for in you he hath made his chamber secret, it pleaseth him there to dwell. The soul of such love, saith Love himself, may say thus to virtues: I take leave of you. To which virtues this soul many a day hath been servant., I assent. A reader has complained of the perpetual recurrence of certain themes to the point of satiety. Oh soothly she hath enough of faith without work to believe that God is good, without comprehending. [30] But this falling of the righteous is more merit than sin, because of the good will that standeth unbroken, and is oned to God. Nor is it more in comparison with that which she loveth, which is in him; which he giveth to none but to himself. 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. 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. But more righteous is he that alway abideth where stableness is. But it might be so, and if it were so, that by a game of change he might will this and that he did will it with all his will, [then] I answered thus, and said to him: O Lord, if it might be that this change might everlastingly endure in fact, as it is in supposition; I love you, for you and of you. And the Virgin Mary drank of the one after, and of the most high drink is this noble Lady inebriated. by. Many verse Mirrors of the World, and other didactic poems, are found in the French literature of the time, but no vernacular prose treatises of this dimension, still less of this nature, religious and mystical, are known to have existed. [242] And if she had, saith Love, she would be for herself and with herself, and not for me nor with me at all. Her joy of his bounty and the recording of the deeds of his bounty, maketh her also to have joy, without feeling of Reason. station39.cebu And therefore love biddeth them that they do nothing that may break the peace and rest of their spirits. These folks be the least that may be, as in their own sight, witness of God himself, who saith that the least shall be the most in the kingdom of heaven. Fauset = the tap of the cask, hence the Fountain. Also, as Jesu Christ is buyer of the people by his death, and the laud of God the Father, right so am I, because of my wickedness, the salvation of mankind, and the glory of God the Father. Then showeth she the privities of her heart that maketh her very tender and to melt in sweetness of love and by concord of union whereby she is put in possession of these delights. Thus then speaketh this soul, abashed by naught-thinking, by this far night of night; who in peace delighteth herself. Now ye that stand so, be not dismayed of coming to a more high, no more shall he [be dismayed] if he have a gentle heart within, full of noble courage; but little hearts dare not great things take, nor ascend high, for default of love. Ye have heard in this writing here, how I have all his bounty. The Mirror of Simple Souls by Margaret Porette, Kent Emery. At that time the author of the manuscript was unknown. Ah, Truth, saith this soul, what am I? Cost = treasure, something costly. But the servile hearts that be not wise, that know not for default of wit what honour and courtesy is, nor what the gifts be of a noble lord, they have thereof great wonder, and that is no marvel!, They have cause[276] in themselves, saith Truth, as ye have heard before., Ah, for God, saith Nobility-of-unity of the freed soul, why should anyone marvel that hath any wit in him? Therefore to these souls that be disposed to these feelings, Love hath of himself made this book in fulfilling of their desire, and often he layeth the nut and the kernel within the shell unbroken; that is to say, 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 [thereof]. And those who thus address themselves wot if I say the truth. He is also much concerned to repudiate any charge of heresy that may have formulated in the mind of readers. 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. What emerges from this new approach is the Mirror and its author's unambiguous didactic intent - a fact long . 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. And Love told me it was but all solely for one thing, and that is, that the divine will of all the Trinity would it. Therefore his eye beholdeth me, thou makest of two wills one will. 14 day loan required to access PDF files. Also, another understanding there is, and that is this. N. And if I willed it, why should he not suffer it, else should his power take from me freedom. peterjohnparisis Thus must a soul do first in her beginning, if she would live spiritual life. Her pleasing is our will, by the purity of unity of the will of the Deity, wherein we have enclosed her. 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. And then is a soul all spiritual when the body and the will is all mortified. [67] For that is all the glory of the love of my soul and shall be without end. This is the end,[148] saith this soul, of the peace of my spirit. Herbert, of the British Museum; to the Librarians of Bodley; of Pembroke and St Johns College, Cambridge, who kindly lent MSS. Soothly, saith she, they that be governed by reason, the rudeness nor the cumberings of them no man may say. This is the continual food, saith Love, of my chosen spouse. MS. as of that that is of her: possibly for, with regard to all that is of her nature.. Her other work on Marguerite includes Seeing Marguerite in the Mirror: A Linguistic Analysis of Porete's 'Mirror of Simple Souls' (Peeters, 2011). And she will not have her will, for she is naught and hath no will. This is sooth, saith Love, of this, Now, Holy-Church-under-this-Holy Church, saith Love, what will you say of these, that be thus so much[171] above you, you that use in all after the counsel of Reason?, We will say, saith Holy-Church-the-less, that these souls be in life above us, for Love dwelleth in them. 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. Are you not his creature? Such is the ordinance of the Sacrament of the Altar in [the] knowing of him [according to] my belief, through divine might., Marvel not, saith Courtesy, of the goodness of Love, though we, for love, tell you these things. My works that be done, these have ye done. And for this, I love better the most of him that never I shall know, than I do mine which I know. I am wise of my question.[137]. And when Love saw me think of him, he refused me not by [the way of] the virtues, but threw me out of their little service, and led me to the divine school and there withheld me without doing any service. This that she is, saith Love, in her knowing., Right sweet Holy Ghost, teach it us! . In these three words is fulfilled all the perfection of this clear life. For the peace of auditors was this proved. (1) The right marvellous. I ask of clarified and enlumined [souls] that lead otherwise than those before [named] do, if any creature of mankind may dwell in life and be alway without them? And thus it behoveth her to lead, in breaking herself, for to enlarge the place where Love would have his being; and to encumber herself with many beings, so as to [dis]encumber herself to attain her being.. 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 God may do no wrong, for this does not befit him. 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). How truly this manhood dwelleth with them, Faith teacheth it, and this clerks know.. He calleth me to peace, without fail., It is right, saith pure Courtesy. 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. And then, this fault troubleth us unto bitterness and driveth to a madness[327] against ourselves. I thank you, blissful Lord God, with all my poor heart, for all the gifts of grace that ye have given and done to me, that am poor unworthy creature. The Sum of all[399] hath acquit her of her debts that she owed Jesu Christ. O latest loved in all moments for me! 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