glosses, and consist largely of quotations from Dionysius and the Victorines. And he that this other [thing] willeth, willeth it not, but only to fulfil the will of God in himself and in others. The mystical life is the fruit of these, and our author is careful to show that he addresses himself only to those souls who are called to the higher life. And such end, saith Love, taketh nurture.[107]. His language is midland with some northern characteristics, and the book seems to have been written towards the end of the fourteenth century; for this, as well as for reasons of style and thought, he seems more akin to Hilton in prudence and balance, though the tone of his Prologue, and of the devotional outpouring which forms an epilogue, recall the abundant fervour and simple tenderness of the followers of Richard Rolle, the group of writers of whom William of Nassington is chief. Cf. She loveth more that which is in God, which was never given nor never shall be given, than she doth that which she hath and which she shall have. (7) The union of hearing. 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. by. Thus my will is martyred, and my love martyred; ye have them to martyrdom brought. So that it is verily his own precious body, that for us suffered death: thanked and worshipped be he ever therefor. An examination of the original work of Richard Methley, the Latin translator of the Mirror, shows that he had hardly imbibed the teaching of his author. And only by [this] one understanding of this great highful everlasting goodness doth new goodness grow.. Now Truth, saith this soul, tell to none, whatever I say of God, but to him. These that be such as this book deviseth, are come to the knowing of their naught; that is to say, they may not know of their naught by any thing that is in them, for their knowing is too little to know their loss; and so they are come by believing of more.[181] And see here the knowledge of their believing! He faileth her in naught that she should seek him; why then should she seek him? Meekness, saith Love, but not that meekness that is meekness by works of virtue. So whatever this creature doth, it is oned to Love, [so] that it is Love that doth it. And this will is come out of his goodness and it is given us by his grace. 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. Lady Soul? saith Reason. The country of virtues that the marred work in is full far from the country of forgetting and all-naked, naughted, or clarified souls, that be in the most high being. on the Internet. The unity of the mind with God, in the man who keeps his heart raised to heaven, is the state of the perfection of the will which tends towards God. also Division XX, chap. . [241] Nor unto this time is the spirit perfectly dead until it have lost the feeling of his love, and the will is dead that gave her life. But the righteous keepeth him from consenting to the fault, which might increase by such inclination, so that his falling, in which the righteous falleth by inclination to-fore said, is more virtue to him than vice, because of the will that dwelleth free by rejecting the fault, as it is said before; now may ye understand how the righteous falleth from high to low. And he giveth himself simply to show that there is none but he whence all things have being. And in hope, I here them salute, by the love of peace of charity, in the High Trinity, that will warrant it,[21] seeing in them the witness of their living by record of clerks that have read this book. And she will not have her will, for she is naught and hath no will. and such is the Beloved of my soul, saith the soul herself.[144]. O God, say the Virtues, Lady Love, who shall bear us witness, of this that you say, that those who live all by our own counsel, perish? Ah, Truth, saith this soul, what am I? [214] Therefore it may well be said, that they be little that often ask, but those be lords that nothing ask nor crave, for all beings, whatever they be, are but as strong as a reed,[215] and a default as compared to the sovereign Being of naught-willing; where the free in their right being may not remove, nor will, nor nothing ask, for nothing that men may do; but give all that they may, to love truly and keep., Ah, God, saith Reason, what thing hath aneantised[216] these souls?. But this I shall tell you, saith this free soul, what behoveth a creature ere he come thereto. So then, heretics may not it attain, for their sensuality will not suffer it. The proposer takes the superficial rationalist and often satirical point of view, and at the end an appeal is made to the Judge of the Court, who sums up and solves the problem. Therefore his eye beholdeth me, he may not suffer nor will, but that he be conjoint within me. Love leadeth them, and Reason leadeth us. For nothing may see the high divine things, but that which ought everlastingly to be. Therefore his eye beholdeth me, that he loveth none more than me; my necessity requireth it. The first thing is that she see this alway, if she see aught: what she was when God made her out of naught [into] aught and that she be sikker in certainty that she is none other than that, as far as she herself is concerned, nor never shall be; without this [doth] she never [arrive] at the divine bounty. Who that asketh these free souls sure and peaceable, if they would be in purgatory? Now be these two things ended in me that made me out of my childhood go; and there it showed me the country of freedom. Lord, this is a greater thing to embrace our hearts in the love of you, by thinking on one of your benefits that ye have done for us, than were all the world and the heaven and the earth, if they were set on fire for to destroy one body. (4) She on whom all Holy Church is founded. For this soul, saith Love, recketh not of hell, nor of paradise, nor of thing that is made, she neither willeth nor unwilleth anything that is here said., Oh, what then, for God? saith Holy-Church-the-little-with-all-his-rude-scripture. In God is this choice, but it is not of Time, where mine may not attain to his.. Of a soul that languoreth for love, and in what point dead in love; and of the profit and peace of naught willing, CHAPTER IX: how these souls that this book deviseth be come to the knowing of their naught and how by that they be come into believing of more, and how this is meant, CHAPTER X: Of the peace of this soul; and how she is all free by naught willing; and of the diversity of naught willing and well willing, CHAPTER XII: Of two beholdings of this soul, and how they that will understand this book must be dead of all deaths, CHAPTER I: Of them that be perished, and in what, and of what, and for what, CHAPTER I: Of them that be marred, and what difference is between the perished and the marred, CHAPTER II: Of a swift opening and of a hasty shutting that the far night giveth to this soul; and what this far night is, CHAPTER III: Of the three lives of the soul, which be born in mortifying of three things viz., of sin, of nature, and of spirit, and how this soul is alway without-her, CHAPTER IV: Of the first death that a soul must die ere she come to the second life viz., the death of sin, and which complexion hath best help to understanding, CHAPTER V: Of a question that love asked: which is the most noble; the soul in gladness of glory, or the soul that is oned to this glory? A special tribute of thanks is due to the General Editor of the Series, Dom R. Hudleston, O.S.B., and to the Very Rev. This wit they that have been marred. Ah Love, saith Reason, that understandeth eagerly and leaveth the sweetness, what wonder is it, though this soul be deprived of the feelings of grace, of desire, of spirit, since she hath taken leave of virtues, which manners giveth to all good souls? She would alway truly do the work of those things that appertain to her and she is purblind, that she may not so highly see; therefore maketh she to the soul this complaint. For wit well this; I have nothing more of worth than this, for nothing that I love sufficeth me; for if it sufficed me this that I love, I should descend from that little that I have of love. This is a work miracleful; this, then, his lamentations[394] may not say. So that the knowing of this naught compared with the greatness of all, hath acquitted her and made her free, that she lacketh nothing. 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. O latest loved in all moments for me! It has, however, been suggested with more probability, that if the Mirror did get into England through a Carthusian door, it may have been on the occasion of the foundation of the Charterhouse at Shene in 1414, when a number of monks from various Flemish Charterhouses were sent over to help fill the cells (forty in number, an altogether unprecedented size for a Charterhouse), the English houses being unable to furnish a sufficient quota.. Then is she not whole, for she is not naked. And our even-Christian as ourselves, is that we should not think, nor say, nor do against our even-Christian, otherwise than we would they did to us. For as for me henceforward, I make no fors, I disencumber myself of you, both of myself and of mine even-Christian. And when she seeth this, thus saith to herself, that she will seek him. And yet that little that I know of my wickedness, it hath given me the knowing that I have of your goodness. As the soul mounts, the same panorama is unfolded again and again, but the point of view continually changes; and with each step of the ascent our eye has command over a wider landscape. M. This word perished, may not be taken for perishing of the perdition of soul, that they should not be saved, but it is to mean, right as Love saith, they lean so upon their own works, weening that it is best so, that they continue to follow none other, and therefore they may not attain to the highest; but for the least they lose the best, therefore he calleth them perished; not for the works, but for their satisfaction [in them]. Not, saith the Holy Ghost, by nature divine, for that may not be, but by the strength of love, for that behoveth to be.[170], Now Holy Church, saith Love, here you have heard why this soul hath all., Sooth! saith the Holy Ghost, all that I have received of the Father and of the Son, who knoweth that she hath all that I have, saith the Holy Ghost, and the Father and the Son have nothing but that I have it in me. For whosoever it be that speaketh of God, when he will, and to whom he will, and where he will, he may doubt.[96], This is sooth, without fail, saith this soul, nor did he feel the true tidings of divine love that maketh the soul at all times abashed without her perceiving [it];[97] for the very tidings, refined, purified by divine love which are without [the intervention of creatures] and given of the Maker to the creature, truly take away such usages. 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. And right as it is of some angels compared with others, as ye have heard say, right so it is by grace of the naughted souls that we speak of, as compared with all those that be not. Reason, saith the soul, that ye hear me complain, it is mine all and my best in well-understanding. And hastily she taketh the stirrings of her wills, and fasteneth it in him that she loveth. Then am I the laud of God everlastingly and the salvation of mankind, for the salvation of all creatures is none other thing than knowing of the bounty of God. He presenteth this to me which he hath made of his courtesy, and if he take it again, he doth me no wrong. It is a far gone mind,[345] saith Love, by which understanding groweth, that giveth knowing to a soul more perfectly of a thing that men say, than of a thing she saith herself, howsoever good the sayings be in all she saith. And thus their will, which they had chosen, made them lose this high vision by giving their will to that which they could not attain. Of what should the inwardness of these souls feel? Margaret Porette (circa 1248/1250-1310) was a French-speaking mystic and the author of The Mirror of Simple Souls, a work of spirituality dealing with Divine Love. She had no need to seek when love had taken her. even thus the deer will run to the death unless you hinder it. . Now am I all evils and he is all goodness, and to the most poor ought the alms from his equals to be done, or else there is taken from him the thing that should be his of right. 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. All is one to me, without joy and without heaviness, for I cannot see that he neither increaseth nor diminisheth by the justice that he taketh of me; nor by mercy that he doth to me, and so fare I. I have no joy of the one nor misease of the other, since my Beloved in this neither loseth nor winneth. 5 Chapter 2. The Sum of all[399] hath acquit her of her debts that she owed Jesu Christ. Thus think the free naughted [souls] and arrayed with delights, that see by themselves, the servitude of the others; for the very sun shineth in the light of them, so they see the motes within the sunbeam, by the brightness of the sun and of the beam. This is the left staff, the which she leaneth on alway at all times; this is to her, great strength. For she hath no more of her that might make her glad or heavy. They, saith Love, that in nothing are wrong, and know that they are in nothing right. 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. The seventh is of the seraphins, how they be in the divine will.. Now understand. Oh, what a sweet meaning [is this]; for Gods love understand it all! That doth naught for God. Will you have of your beloved a thing that appertaineth not to him to give, nor for you to take? So that this soul sitteth without moving herself, in the seat of peace, in the work of life, in virtues of good conscience, and in freedom of perfect charity; thus is she all free. To have applied this mode to the consideration of the mystical life, shows an ingenuity not altogether unworldly. Her pleasing is our will, by the purity of unity of the will of the Deity, wherein we have enclosed her. For such [a] will is [a] divine will, and this divine will giveth Being to free creatures. her from her former being. It is, nevertheless, from Methleys version of the Authors Prologue that we derive certain definite indications concerning the three censors who are less fully characterised in the Vatican MSS.[8]. Oh, what marvel it is they lead in dread, which suffereth them not that God work in them!, The second is that a soul behold what God counselleth to his special lovers, passing that that he commandeth. Why take we him not without seeking? That is to say, during the time of that usage; for indeed every usage standeth for the time of its working; not that the soul is continually in them, for that may not be. Soothly of that Love that is Mistress of Knowing, not of that Love that is Daughter of Knowing, for she knoweth never; but of that Love that is Mother of the Knowing of Divine Light. Such a soul is so clear in knowing, that she seeth herself not in God, nor God in herself.. Right thus, all such words must be declared within themselves [by them] that read this book. All those that live in life of grace, in fulfilling the commandments, and so live as to be satisfied in that, these have name of soul soothly, and not name of spirit, but name of soul for the life of grace that they stand in. NIHIL OBSTAT: Georgius D. Smith, S.T.D., Censor deputatus. At what time that it be, let them not ever refuse what love sendeth, for to do the message of the will of love, by letters ensealed of his signet. 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. I am not. 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. And this soul seeth naught but God himself, for whoso seeth this of himself, he seeth not but Gods self. For she is not anything that is. N. The saints that be in heaven should see him in none other likeness than we ourselves do if they saw him in such a likeness [i.e., in the Host] as we see him; but they see by understanding of spirit. The main challenge it poses to Catholic . The text reveals a vibrant evangelical-mystical spirituality, making it an authentic treatise of perfection. Soothly none, for the truth of believing is in the being of him who believeth. they say Nay. Eh! But God willeth that she will this, and that she have such [a] will. 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 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. And therefore is he the thing which is of his bounty. My heart that was so high, is cast down so low, that I may nothing reach; for all that maybe said of God, or written, or in the heart may be thought, that to which the greatest sayings attain, it is more gabbings than it is true sayings. None may believe, saith Love, the peace on peace of this, unless he be the same.. He cannot, therefore, have been an outstanding personality in the Carthusian Order. For this is the custom of such souls, much to comprehend and soon to forget by the subtlety of the Beloved., Ah, Holy Trinity, saith Faith, Hope, and Charity, where be these perfected souls, that be such as this book deviseth? There is no mean[225] between them and the Deity, nor no mean desire they; these souls may not suffer the thanking of any earthly love, nor the love of divine feelings, for the pure divine love that this soul hath to Love.. God grant us alway to do his pleasing and bring us to him when it is his will. And this it behoveth me to be, if I will have my own; otherwise I may not have it. And solely the nature of my wickedness hath arrayed me also of this gift. Though it were all at their pleasure to choose any of these aforesaid, they desire not nor they will not none of these.. Ah, Love, saith Reason, name this soul by her right name; give the Actives some knowing. And Love nameth her by thus many names. Edmund Colledge, O.S.A. Camaioni notes that the 1536 Capuchin Constitutions are much more than a juridical text or a spiritual commentary on the Rule (1223) of Francis. But this falling maketh not peace to be less, by troubling the conscience, [so] that the soul liveth not in peace by the gifts that be given her from above. Also in other usages that be all inward, they pray not neither, but it all prayeth afore God[233] But yet they pray in common, by the rule and ordinance of Holy Church, all things unite alway their will to his will, who hath made and bought them. Reason, saith this soul, if I shall be loved without end, of the three Persons in Trinity, I have been loved of them already without beginning. Well, I wot, I laid all mine heart in you, so long I have endured great servitude in which I have suffered many grievous torments, and many pains endured. And that hath led this soul into his bounty, by bounty now she is all and she is none, for her Beloved hath made her one. God is enhabited in them[61] and worketh in them, and these souls suffer him [to] work his divine works in them. This soul, saith Love, is entered into the flood or waves of divine love. And in paradise is the seventh, that is made perfect without any lack. The author refers probably to a rough classification of rationalists and mystics among the teachers and disciples within the general body of the Church each regarding itself as an, It is enough to know that God has hidden these souls yet are others near them, for they are always among us, unknown. Whoso hath perfect charity he is mortified in affection of [the] life of spirit,[36] by works of charity. He is also much concerned to repudiate any charge of heresy that may have formulated in the mind of readers. 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. All we know about her derives either from her book, the Mirror of Simple Souls, or from documents connected to her condemnation in Paris Expand 2 PDF Life and Death by the Book: A Dramatic Reading of Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls Manuel Ceballos Art 2018 He is fulfilled abundantly of all goodness of himself. This soul, saith Love, is quit of services, for she liveth in freedom. IV and VI), but it is mingled with the doctrine of the far night (which we shall discuss later), and which seems here to mark the souls full entry into the passive state of Quiet, experience of Rapture or Ecstasy (Division XI). He is not praised by any direct and conscious effort of the soul, but by indirect modes of love and praise, of which the soul is largely unconscious. So beholdeth she the deep by the deep, and by the high, the highful and sure one; for they do ever unite the all and the nothing,[204] as long as she hath it in her beholding., Ah, right sweet soul, deep in lowness, full of entire meekness, and right clean and pure in the pleasure of plain truth, and by love of passing more alone perfected, except for them of your demesne, saith Reason, tell us what these dark words, that fine love toucheth, mean.. After this she relinqu[ish]eth these works in which she hath this delight and putteth to death the will that she hath of this life and obligeth herself to do the martyrdom of her will, by obedience to the will of others, in abstaining the works of her will, in fulfilling the will of others, her will for to destroy. He calleth me to peace, without fail., It is right, saith pure Courtesy. 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. Burns Oates and Washbourne Ltd. Publishers to the Holy See. I encumber myself with writing these words, but thus I take my recourse to come to my strength and succour and to my last crowning crown, of the being of which we have spoken of; which sitteth all in freedom, that is, when a soul resteth in pure naught without thought; for till then she may not be free., Ah God, saith Reason, what do they that be in being, above their thoughts?, They marvel themselves,[318] saith Love, of him that is in the mount of their mountain, and they abash themselves of the same, that is, of the deepness of their valley, by a naught thinking, which is shut and ensealed in the most pure and secret closet of this excellent soul. 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