The fifth point is this, that this soul leaveth not, for God, to do anything that she would do., This is, saith Love, that this soul may not do [aught] but the will of God, nor may she will aught else; and for this she leaveth naught for God, for she hath not in her inward thought anything that is against God, and for this cause she leaveth naught for God., The sixth point is this, that none may her teach., Now for God, saith Reason, Lady Soul, say what this is!, This is to say, saith Love, that this soul is of such great knowledge that though she had all the knowing of all the creatures that ever had been and shall be, she would think it naught, as in regard of[65] that which she loveth, which was never known nor never shall be known. 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. A love I have which hath no mother, proceeding of God the Father and also of God the Son. 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.. And if I might comprehend one of these two natures I should comprehend both. And then the wound is opened, to heal where it is hurt. www.capuchinfriars.org.au. 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. 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. I pray you, saith Love for love, that ye hear it by study of your inward subtle understanding with great diligence; else they shall misunderstand it, all those that read it or hear it.. O God, saith divine Love, that through him resteth concerning this, in soul naughted, how far is their life from the life of freeness, over which not-willing hath lordship. And thus doeth God of his bounty in his creatures, his divine works. 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! As a result, this edition offers a reading ofThe Mirror of Simple Souls that solves a number of difficulties found in the French. This means, he saw God who is paradise; for paradise is not [any] other thing than to see God. Now, Reason, saith Love, understand thy question. God grant us alway to do his pleasing and bring us to him when it is his will. 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. The general impression is against this reading, and the passages in the Prologues and on pp. And if he be [afeared], he is not all fully drunk. O God, O God, saith this soul, what am I now, when I was naught before I owed anything; what am I now? We know that the teaching of St Bernard in the addresses on the Canticles and the treatises by Richard of St Victor cannot have been intended for the uninitiated, and, moreover, both St Teresa and St John of the Cross suffered the same accusations as were evidently brought against the theories of our author. In these words is the gloss of this song.. Why, saith Love, marvelleth Holy Church, though the virtues serve the high heavenly souls, and why should they not? The method is more descriptive, allusive, with the art and artlessness of an earlier generation. And she is naked encircled of this harbour and of this garrison which is the darkness of sin, that containeth in him all perdition. And I am a creature right wretched and unable to any such work, poor and naked of ghostly fruits, darkened with sins and faults, environed and wrapped therein ofttimes, the which take away[13] my taste and my clear sight, [seeing] that I have little of ghostly understanding and less of the feelings of divine love. It has been collated with the British Museum and both English and Latin Cambridge MSS. [381] And then I beheld his great purity and truth. Now, of the Father and of the Son is the Holy Ghost, one person in Trinity. Then thus, my Beloved, you have suffered all that you have suffered in your sweet humanity for me, as much as if none had sinned but I alone! This is the life [of the first] of them, who in all, mortify the body, in doing works of charity. Our Lord God Christ bring it to a good end. 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. This is the end,[148] saith this soul, of the peace of my spirit. So that it is verily his own precious body, that for us suffered death: thanked and worshipped be he ever therefor. Ah God, what great words these be; whoso should understand the truth of the gloss?, Ah God, saith Understanding of the soul naughted, am I not enough in prison of corruption, where I am obliged to be; will I or nil I; though I allow me not to the cart of correction? Right so I tell you, Reason, saith Love, all things owe me tribute. He loveth not the spiritual things, who loveth temporalities. It may not be., Ah, God, saith Reason, how dare any say this! This soul rejoiceth herself sometimes in the supreme part of him, without her feeling, willing nothing of other[s] than of [him who is] her nearest. This soul desireth not despite nor poverty, nor tribulation nor dis-ease, nor masses nor sermons, nor fastings nor orisons, and she giveth to nature all that she asketh without grudging of conscience.. Then is she not whole, for she is not naked. And with all our soul, is that, upon our life, we should not say but truth. of that she never drank nor never shall drink. 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. Her pleasing is our will, by the purity of unity of the will of the Deity, wherein we have enclosed her. And this naught shall tell you all. These were verse competitions produced at the Puys, in which some question is mooted and alternate sides are taken by two or more characters. And of this conjunction amiable, the wills [are] of the goodness of the Holy Ghost. And since I love not myself but for him, there faileth me nothing whatever, as I have said afore. This edition also con-tains invaluable historical sources in Appendix A (214#218). Then comes the final breakdown of selfhood, the death of affection of spirit. The personal poignancy has survived the diffuseness of the other pages, and comes down to us through the centuries, echoing first the bitterness of Rama and then the triumph of the Magdalen. Charity hath no shame, nor dread, nor dis-ease. 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. The editor wishes to acknowledge a great debt of gratitude to all who have kindly assisted in preparing this edition. Note that it is the possession of a faculty, not its absence, which makes them that have, have not.. Into this servitude enter they, saith this soul, that in all, they believe and follow these two virtues, Reason and Dread, for they nourish Will. Therefore his eye beholdeth me, that he loveth none more than me. She hath lost the usage of her wits;[347] not her wits, but the usage of them; for love hath ravished her from the place that she was in by leaving [the stirrings of] her wits, for love hath taken from her the former usages. But God, who can all things do, doth it, if he will, and if he will not, she recketh no more of the one than of the other all is one to her. For I tell you truly, that none may come to [a] deep foundation, nor to high edification, unless they reach it by the discrimination of great natural intelligence, and by the gladness of the understanding of the spirit. And then I beheld the seraphins and asked of them for what cause were done the works that charity did of the Incarnation of the Manhood of Jesu Christ, or of this, that the divine Trinity made them, and of all that he shall do without end in creature, of his bounty. 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. John vi 29. She receiveth this that she hath, of the bounty of God, of the will of his love, of this gentle far night. Love hath made me by nobleness, seven verses of song to find that which is of pure Deity, whereof reason cannot speak. You said to me that in the company of Beloved and l over, there is no lordship nor sovereignty but there is! That is, to understand it better, that whoso knew of him all that is said, it should be naught as in regard of the great knowledge that dwelleth in him beyond our knowing. 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. I wot[39] well your service is too travailous. Just as I have made a little ensample afore, the better to understand, of the sea and of a drop, yet not therefore is there any so great estate in the four estates, but the soul [nevertheless] doth live in great servitude therein; but the fifth is freed by charity, for it is uncumbered of all things, and the sixth is glorious, because of the openings of the swift movings of glory, which the gentle far night giveth. And what shame hath John the Evangelist, or what glory of this, that God showed him his privities? At that time the author of the manuscript was unknown. Obviously no deductions in favour of self-indulgence are to be drawn from this passage by those who have not attained that state. And forasmuch as I will naught, saith this soul, I am a solitary soul, and separate from myself,[197] and all free. To him only, saith this soul, that is so strong that he may never die, whose doctrine may not be written, nor by works of ensamples showed, nor by doctrine sounded. None may believe, saith Love, the peace on peace of this, unless he be the same.. 297-300). [Though] it is not wilful, it is not a little thing this since it pleaseth not the divine will, but displeaseth him.[328], Ah God, saith Knowing of Divine Light, who is he that dare call this little? The soul, fulfilled of God, breaks out into rapturous praise and aspirations of love (indeed all the latter part of the book is characterised by the triumphal emergence of the affective powers), and is led by Truth, first through a short series of contemplations, given as a means for the liberation of the marred souls from their self-centredness. [It is as] if a lord would have tribute in his land because men owed it him by rights; for the lord owes not tribute to his servants, but the servants owe it to their lord. 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. 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. Also, she is naked from her body, for as the skin [of an animal] is made naked of bodily clothing, right so is her spirit naked from her body, so that it is not in the body, for the sensuality of her body is worn away and delivered by divine works. 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. What a sweet union is this, that I am drawn into the thing that I love more than me; thereby have I lost my name for loving, who so little may love! It was burned at Valenciennes by Gui II, Bishop of Cambrai 1296-1305. . And then holdeth the soul that there is none higher life than to have this, of which she hath lordship; for love hath so greatly fed her with his delights that she wot not that God hath any greater gift nigh to give to the soul than this love, which Love, by love, hath within her spread. That surpasseth all those that lead in will; but these, that lead in full sufficiency, they have full much peace and delights which their love giveth them by union of love; more than these other have, for war is with them that have anxieties. Cordoni draws heavily on Porete, making us of entire passages of her work.[5]. And now she liveth of the life of glory, the which life of glory is born in the death of mortifying the spirit. I will nothing that he willeth not. For in all things wherein she abandoneth judging, she maketh no judgement, except always for the best. I beheld him in me and me in him, and willed great wills for him. And for this, saith Love, you would not when I sent to you by the sensitive Virtues and by mine angels. And thus hath Right yielded me mine [own] by rights, and showed me a naught that I am not. For by right, the contemplatives should pass the state of scholars, as masters of divinity be passed schools. (12) Forgettelle is her name. 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. . And because they hold themselves as marred, they ask often times by the way, by burning desire, of her that wot, that is. This to believe, this to say, and this to think, is true contemplation. And under this there be five [beings] in which men must live according to the perfection of the call[295] of every [man], before a soul may have this, which is the sixth, which is most profitable and best and the most noble and the most gentle of all the other five. The main idea of his work is the glorification of love above intellectual knowledge; of the immediate knowledge of God above the rational reason. How may one understand by this saying that he hath not given me all? 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. The gist of this teaching seems to be from Clement of Alexandria (Strom. Now seeth the will by the diffused[365] illumination of divine light. And those who thus address themselves wot if I say the truth. Damsel Knowing-enlumined-of-divine-grace; and these have little of their questions. I am Love fulfilled with Bounty. She passeth the sea to gather the shoots[259] of the high cedar; for none taketh nor attaineth to this cedar unless they pass the high sea, in naughting their wills unto the waves. And this it behoveth me to be, if I will have my own; otherwise I may not have it. I have said before, saith Love, that these souls have as lief [to endure] all manner of adversities of heart, for body and for soul, as prosperities, and prosperities as adversities. No more can they say truly what good God is. And for this enclosing, Holy Church cannot know her; the which Holy Church is specially the dread of God, for the holy dread of God is one of the gifts of the Holy Ghost. MSS. And for this, saith the Holy Ghost, that this soul hath given us all that she hath, and all things that she hath not also, by way of a game,[176] it behoveth, saith the Holy Ghost to Holy Church, that she be given that which We have, by justice of love. In this secret, the divine Trinity hath ordained the holy Sacrament of the Altar to nourish and to sustain holy Church, saith the soul of Faith, illumined by the divine Trinity. The Quarterly Review,' " The Mirror of Simple Souls" and " Soeur'Threse de l'Enfant-Jsus" (under the title of "A Modern Saint") in The Fortnightly Review,' "The Blessed Angela of Foligno" in Franciscan Essays,' " Julian of Norwic " in TheSt. I have, by my far night, sent letters to you; but none asketh, What is this far night? When he showeth his glory to the soul, his works may not be told! Whoso serveth, he is not free; whoso feeleth he is not dead, whoso desireth he would [have], whoso would [have], he beggeth. Ah God! The Mirror is a theological treatise which analyzes how love in human beings is related to divine love, and how the human soul by means of this relation may experience a lasting union of. 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. If she took work of herself, she should be for her; if she be no-one, her working; may not be. (1) The right marvellous. And the soul beholdeth with great dread that God hath commanded her to love him with all her heart and her even-Christian as herself. 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. Nevertheless, saith the soul, lest any should say that I know the questions that I ask, [it is not so], for all the nine orders of angels, nor all the saints that be in these orders, know it not; then witteth it well the tenth estate, that is in the glory without being, and none of these nine orders.. [135] And the being, which we speak of, is very innocence. Right so as do the angels of the third hierarchy; for this wit well, and I do them well inform, all those to whom love sendeth his message, that if they refuse them at any point there where the virtues would have them, by the inward working of virtues that should have lordship over the body, and [if] they refuse them in this point, they shall never make their peace with the Sovereign that the message sendeth, but that they shall be taken and troubled in knowing, and encumbered of themselves for default of trust, for love saith that in great need men may know their friend. For this soul, saith Love, willeth so perfectly the will of God, that she cannot will and may not will but the will of God. Thus they do nothing as in their own sight and judgement, but God doth all thing that good is. Contextual introduction to Margherita Porete. Therefore his eye beholdeth me, thou makest of two wills one will. This goodness of the Holy Ghost conjoineth her in love of the Father and of the Son. It dwelleth not long in any creature, but only in the space of its moving, and therefore is this gift noble and good, saith Love that doeth this work. For nothing may see the high divine things, but that which ought everlastingly to be. This is the deepness of meekness that there sitteth in her chair and reigneth without pride. This sole power[226] of love, saith Love, giveth her the deepness, the rest, and the stillness, and also it giveth her the flame and the burning of the working of love; witness of Love himself. And why, saith Love, knoweth not Holy Church[100] these Queens, Kings daugh- ters, Kings sisters, Kings spouses? Even if they have some possessions, they themselves are hidden from men. Love leadeth them, and Reason leadeth us. Capuchin Friars Australia In these three points be all that is made comprised without comprehending. This wit they that have been marred. Thus the divine might hath ordained this worthy sacrament. In the same Trinity this soul planteth so deeply her will, that she may not sin, unless she unplant it. This soul, saith Love, is so arrayed with the clothings of this passing peace wherein she liveth and endureth, and was, and is, and shall be, without her being. . [315] Certainly, do it they must, before they come to perfect freedom of all points. One manner she declares to actives, the second to contemplatives, and the third to common people. Now is this soul, saith Love, in him, of him, for him; that is, without receiving any but only from him., Then is she in God the Father, saith Truth, for we know well that there is no person in the Trinity that hath not received something from another person beside his own person, save only the person of God the Father., Ye say sooth, saith Love, for God the Father hath divine might in him without receiving might of any other but of himself. 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]. Venerabilis Godfridus de Fontanis, Master of Theology at the Sorbonne, who flourished c. 1286-1303, and who appears to have died in 1306, when Ruysbroeck was a child of thirteen. But some things shall I expound to thy questions. She recketh not of herself, nor that she is naught. Those that are dipped[163] in meekness, saith Love. For first a soul must taste ere it have very understanding and true sight of ghostly workings of divine love. Whoso seeketh thing that he hath, doth so for default of knowing; he that so doeth hath not the art which giveth science increatures.[344]. For all the orders of angels have not one same name if any would name their greatest name and yet be they all angels. The division into XX Distinctiones, or Divisions, and the subdivision into chapters, is more arbitrary than systematic; nevertheless the work falls into three parts, of which Divisions I-V; VI-XVII; XVIII-XX mark the approximate boundaries. He has derived from the same sources as our author those distinctions of flesh, psyche (i.e., mind and will), spirit, regarded as states of the soul, from and in which she needs purgation; and accordingly distinguishes the Dark Night as being first of the senses, then of the soul, lastly of the spirit. 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. To the worship of God and of tham that be made free of God; and to the profite of tham that ne bene, that yet schall be, and God wille.. Understand the gloss. Pelzer, of the Vatican Library; Miss Hope Allen; Mr. J.A. The contradictions of doctrine are only superficial, if we keep in mind the distinctions made earlier between the four (not three) classes, the perished, the marred, those in life of affection of spirit, and those free souls united to God by love. This is, he dwelleth with us without seeking, why seek we him any more? Emphasizing the complexity of the Mirror of Simple Souls and its 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 This soul seeketh not the fulness[307] of her understanding, but God seeth it in her without breaking her. But, Lord, though that ye be righteousness, and truth, and judge, saith this soul that hath misdone, O King full of debonnairety Pity and Mercy, that be your sisters germain, sweet and courteous, dwell with you to acquit me of my debts! Right then, saith she, when love hath opened me his book, for his book is of such condition, that what time that love openeth the book, the soul wot all and hath all, all works of perfection it hath in her fulfilled, at the opening thereof. And if they have anything, these that be such, few folks wit where they be, but it behoveth that there be [men who] by the goodness of God, in whom is all bounty, [should supply something] to sustain the faith of Holy Church. Throughout, the method of English mystics is unsystematic, descriptive, and more suggestive than doctrinal, except in the case of Hiltons Scale of Perfection. And thus much I certify you, saith this soul, without doubt, who hath anything to answer, he hath something to show; else he hath naught to answer.. A young man [there] was on a time that said to our Lord Jesu Christ that he had kept himself from the time he was a child unto that time. To this come they that give all, for all who give all, have all and not else. Therefore I did not want it for your sake. There are passages in the MS. which may be construed in this sense, and these have been fully annotated in their place. Perhaps Gerson when he fulminated against the letter and those who exaggerated its doctrines, had our author in mind. Oh, without fail, saith Love, and if they had willed, they had been delivered of that in which they are in right great servitude, at little profit, and they shall [continue to] be so as compared to the other. [337] So may not the virtues be against virtues, but above them. The following phrase seems to be a parenthesis addressed by such souls to others for these three modes of hiddenness are a benefit to us.. We will keep fighting for all libraries - stand with us! Such folks be servants to the law, but these others be above the law; not against the law, witness of truth; she is fed and fulfilled, God is in her will., O right sweet divine Love that is in Trinity, saith this soul, such work there is, that I marvel how they may endure, whom Reason and Dread govern work and will, and who can the great nobleness of naughted being devise., O pure, O heavenly, saith the Holy Trinity, I pray you, dear daughter, that ye let this be. n 4: THE MIRROR OF SIMPLE SOULS Pt^-pL P CL/V4-4-cu4-' 2 5", 2.01,-By an unknown French mystic of the thirteenth century 5 Translated into English by M. N. 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