This soul, saith Love, hath so great faith in God, that she hath no dread to be poor, for as much as her love is rich; for faith teacheth her that right so as she hopeth of God, right such shall she find him, and thus hopeth she. Ye live all of the grain of wheat, for ye have no more of will. And the knowing of this maketh her to separate the will from the place where he is not. 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 some things shall I expound to thy questions. in sooth, saith Love, though they might through this well-willing for God do miracles and receive every day martyrdom, it is, saith Love, nothing in comparison to that, for as much as Will dwelleth in them.[192], No, saith Love, though they were every day through this Will, ravished to see the Trinity, with Saint Paul the Apostle:[193] let me not speak of it, saith Love, for I may not![194]. For if I be discomforted of that which I lack, I am recomforted againward, in that he lacketh nothing. Abstract The life and works of the beguine Marguerite Porete were transformed by fire. It is not so with Gods grace, saith this soul, for it must be that God is not God, if virtues be taken from me maugre me. There is none other way of beholding of this aforesaid gift, but only to look upon[342] the doing of our Saviour; for the Son bought us with his death by very obedience, to fulfil his Fathers will. And the soul that receiveth by light of understanding the nighing and the knitting,[85] in the accord of union in plenteous love, seeth the being where she aims at having her dwelling place; heareth gladly the light of knowing,[86] that bringeth her tidings of love; and then she would be made the same, so that she had but one will in love, and that is the sole will of him that she loveth.. The Holy Ghost inspireth where he will and is marvellous in his creatures., Ah, Lord, saith this soul, ye have so much suffered for us and can so much work in us, by you, of you, for us, that these other works have taken their end in us, but that is right little refined. Thus it is [concerning] this book, and myself, saith this soul, who was of God and of creatures. God himself offers her that she should take what she desires and have her own will. In this, saith this soul, that I give him freely my will, without any withholding, purely for his bounty and because of his sole will, just as he gave it me of his gift, for a profit to me, of his divine bounty. Now hear among you, the great perfection of the naughted souls, these which we have spoken of. The author points out that the natural human desire for devotion and increase of love, for some outward assurance of Gods love and demonstration of our human love, leads to natural efforts which may procure some such phenomena, experienced as fire. And all those that never understood this point be full little to her, saith this soul, in comparison with the more great whereof we speak not. Within him, he hath the abundance of all goodness without any failing. . And then I beheld who these should be that should ascend to heaven. And then this I said to him, that if it might be that he might will that another loved me more than he loveth me? Thus my will is martyred and my love martyred, ye have them to martyrdom brought. N. O Lord, though I had no other reason to abash me than this, that you have given to my soul the vision of all the Trinity and of angels and of souls, that you have not given to your precious body that is knit and oned to the nature of the Father, in the Person of the Son;[154] it would be a marvel that I may see so much! They have forgot that anything that I did for them sufficed me not unless I had done all that mine humanity might bear, unto the death., Ah, right sweet Lord Jesu Christ saith the soul, do not trouble yourself thereof, nor displease yourself, for these souls be so for themselves, and with themselves, that they forget you, for the littleness of themselves, in which they suffice themselves., Oh, saith Love, without fail it is great villainy!, This people, saith this soul, be merchants; in the world they be called thralls, for thralls they be, for it behoveth not to any gentleman to be able to meddle with merchandise, nor to be one of them. Therefore I did not want it for your sake. (4) She on whom all Holy Church is founded. Wherefore she was full oft discomforted, for no love but this sufficed unto her, and when she saw [that] this far love to her so nigh was so far from her, she sought to comfort herself of him by imagination of some figure, that might bear the likeness of him that she loved, for whom she felt her heart full oft wounded. Nothing may grieve her, nor nothing encumber. 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 for this, I love better that which is in him out[146] of mine understanding, than that which is in him within mine understanding. They that be in this knowing of their wrong and of their right, see so clearly, that they see themselves under all creatures in filth of sin; and that the enemy is servant to sin. Oh, without fail no, sweet Love, saith this soul, [even with regard to] the least point of my love, without more for there is none other God but he that none may know, which may not be known. Adds. But it may oft be had by the goodness of God, who is the worker of this work in souls where he vouchsafes [it]. These souls, saith Love, that such be, have so long led in love and in obedience of virtues, that they be become free.. a free soul, drunk! [326], Oh, what a great pity it is when wickedness hath the victory over goodness. That communication of divine Love is made to the soul in such a hidden way that she does not perceive it but the fruit is that humility which rejects those habits of talking about God., The distinction is not to be interpreted literally or of any divisions in Holy Church. 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.. She recketh no more of the war that she was wont to have, for the will of her is nakedly laid in the place whence it was first taken, where it ought by rights to be. [186] This soul hath in all places her peace, for she beareth always peace with her, so that for this peace, all places be convenient to her, and all things also. And these, be they mothers of none? saith this soul. 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. For she hath naught of herself, she hath all given freely without any for-why? in him that is all. O haste you to understand, ye that be chosen and called to this sovereign being, for it is a full great way between the first estate of life of grace to the last estate of life of glory, which the gentle far night giveth. I behold this Lady at the Cross in the presence of her Sons death. O right well born, saith Love, to this precious days eye,[200] and ye are truly in free [hold] dwelling, where none entereth except he be of your lineage without bastardise. Because of this, saith this soul, he loveth me not against himself; for though all these that the Trinity hath wrought in his [know-ledge] should have been damned without end; Jesu Christ, the Son of God the Father, hath not, in sooth, granted to save all., Oh, ah me! saith this soul, from whence came it to me this to say? They love riches, and sorry be they when they be poor, and if they be rich, sorry be they when they lose; but always they keep themselves from the death of sin; for they will not love their riches against the will of God, neither in winning them. This is to be understood, that these folks do the contrary of that which delighteth them. This that ye will, we will it, saith my friend, take your own will!, I answered anon: This that I am, is pure naught. For why? Then with true love they print so their wills in Gods will, by meek obedience, that they cannot pray in this time for themselves, nor for none other. for God does not move himself, nor does she move herself.. Uploaded by Nor she knoweth naught but him, nor she loveth but him, nor she praiseth but him, for there is but he. 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. The French book that I shall write after is evil written and in some places for default[18] of words and syllables the reason is away. In Beguines 1300; The Mirror of Simple Souls) is thought to be the greatest religious tract written in Old French. 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. Ah, right precious sweet being, saith Love, that hast all usages lost, and by this lost usage, hast ceased from all methods:[199] for in sooth, these usages and this loss be made in the naughting of your soul, and in this naught, ye swoon, saith Love, and dwell dead. Further, it seems to be a transition towards the ideas of St John of the Cross. And when this sun is in the soul and this beam and this brightness, the body hath no more feebleness, nor the soul dread, for the very Sun of Righteousness, when he did his miracles on earth, never healed soul without the body; but he healed both body and soul; and right so he doeth yet, but he doeth it to none that hath no faith in the same.. For nothing may see the high divine things, but that which ought everlastingly to be. Nor do they do nothing, saith Love, that is against the peace of their inward being, and thus they are in peace, in the ordinance of Love. MS. God loveth better the more of him in him, than the less of himself., And in the perfect fulfilment of this more , The soul protests against the exaggerated spiritual talk of others, urging first that these speak too little of Gods. Emphasizing the complexity of the Mirror of Simple Souls and its I allow me not, do not willingly submit to the punishment of the cart of correction . Then the soul is dangerous, noble, and delicious, in which she may not suffer that anything touch her but the touchings of pure delight of love, in the which she is singularly gladsom and jolly, and it maketh her proud, of abundance of love. Divisions XV, XVI, and XVII are short interludes, an apology for himself, and an exhortation to discreet secrecy put into the mouth of the Blessed Trinity. He findeth not this that may not to this attain. Ah, ah, what a thing it is, to think of; who durst ask this, unless his own bounty had made it that Jesu Christ should be poor and despised and tormented for us? 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. This is the fulfilling of all their love and the last denial of their way. But will ye wit how this may be; for it had to be, for God had promised it him. It may not to them come, for all that ever is done of them, it is all encumbrances to them. . Ye give all by pure fine noblesse, without asking of love his richesse, but [only] the will of his divine pleasing. 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. In this ineffable and unthinkable way man merits to become of God, yet not God, for that which God is by nature, man is by Grace.. For she hath nothing wherewith to sin, for without will may no creature sin. At my will, Reason, saith Love, who have turned her wholly to me., And what be ye, Love? saith Reason; be ye not a virtue with us, except that ye are above us?, I am God, saith Love. And therefore see we ourselves, that we have naught of ourselves; see we also this, without knowing of ourselves. Now We have all this, saith the Holy Ghost, of our very divine condition, and this she hath given us by way of a partie,[174] that is, a thing in love of good will, in a game[175] of holy meaning. . The divine goodness is no more entertained by Will, but is in all times without will. It is not too much to say that, in this period, it is unique both in form and in content. 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. Now ye dare not reck of sin if she leave her will there where she hath planted it, that is, in him who hath given it her freely, of his bounty; thence will she not take it, but there she planteth it all wholly, freely, without any for-why? And not for her [sake], but for him, for two things. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Adds. This daughter of Sion desireth neither masses nor sermons, fastings nor orisons. And of the praising of this soul, and how, by having no more of will, she is above the law, but not against the law, CHAPTER I: Of secrets that this soul speaketh of, whereof the trinity prayeth her to leave for deeming of others that be governed by desire, reason, dread, will, CHAPTER II: Of certain things that this soul would be departed from, by the which she was servant, and of the love (?) And it saith, that she hath naught, for all that this soul hath of God in her by divine grace, it seemeth [to] her naught. The second thing is: that she see what she hath done with the free will that God hath given her; then shall she see that she hath taken from God himself his will, in one only moment of consenting to sin. Then is his bounty mine by the cause of my necessity and for the justice of his pure bounty. This is sooth, saith Love, for all others than these make answer through want of simplicity, but only these naked [souls] forget and have naught to answer., This soul, saith Love, doeth no more work for God nor for herself, nor for her even-Christian, even as it is said before in this book. The form derives, perhaps, from the verse Jeu-Partis. Chief of these was Walter de Manny, who, with Michael of Northbrook, Bishop of London, was co-founder of the London Charterhouse. And this doeth she in sooth, at all times when she is unencumbered of herself. This is, he dwelleth with us without seeking, why seek we him any more? A few words more I say in this book, to bring you into the way, notwithstanding that I was purposed before to have glossed no more. '[PDF] DOWNLOAD' The Mirror of Simple Souls by Marguerite Porete, Margaret Porette, Clare KIRCHBERGER Now seeth the will by the diffused[365] illumination of divine light. He calleth me to peace, without fail., It is right, saith pure Courtesy. It is truth, saith Love, this is, that this soul knows of herself but one thing, and that is [that she is] the root of all evils and the abundance of all sins without number, without weight and without measure, and sin is naught and less than naught, and a hundred of horrible faults, under less than naught. O ye that shall read this book, do ye as David saith in the psalter : Gustate et videte[15] that is to say Taste and see. Now understand, since it is so, that the righteous falleth seven times a day, then must it be that he riseth seven times, or he may not of the falling seven times arise! 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. Then came Mercy, and asked me what help would I have of him. This has been admirably analysed by Dom Justin McCann, in his Introduction to the Cloud of Unknowing, in this series. The mirror of simple souls by Marguerite Porete, 1993, Paulist Press edition, in English Love maketh in her of righteousness this union, that hath made her drink of the most of his highest drink, and [it] never shall be otherwise. And because they did it not, they all abide in this [state] that ye have heard with themselves. We will keep fighting for all libraries - stand with us! But I shall tell you, saith this soul, wherein I am appeased concerning this people; in this, Lady Love, that they be out of the court of your secrets, right as a churl is out of a gentlemans court, in judgement at Paris, for there may none be admitted unless he be of gentle lineage and nameable in the kings court[224] And in this I rest me,saith this soul, for even so, they be driven out of the court of your secrets, there where these others be called, who never forget the works of your sweet courtesy, that is, the despites and poverties, and the torments unsufferable that ye have suffered for us; they forget never the gifts of your sufferings, it is alway as a mirror and ensample to them., To these folks, saith Love, are ordained all necessary things, for God commanded them in the Gospel. And the moon all full, for never ye shall diminish. Jr. - Ebook | Scribd Enjoy millions of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, and more, with a free trial Only $11.99/month after trial. but right drunk and more than drunk! Begin we here, saith Love,at the commandments of Holy Church, by which every creature may in this book learn wisdom by the help of God, that commandeth us to love him with all our heart, with all our soul, and with all our virtue, and ourselves as we ought and our even-Christian[33] as ourselves. She oweth him naught however [much] she was against him in debt. a forgotten soul, drunk! No doubt this is the part of which the translator warned us that the French boke is yuel writen and in sum places for defaute of words and silables the reson is awaye. He has exercised his discretion, but in these latter obscurities, thinking that prudence was the better part of valour, has often translated word for word, so that the hopeless obscurity of his English version occasionally yields some light if it be translated back literally into Old French. Hear this if ye understand it. MP writes in a lyric prose style which I find enjoyable. Now they be in hell without being, and shall be, without recovering the mercy of seeing God. I have not so much of being that may make me be of him. [274] What shall my disciples say? I beheld him in me and me in him, and willed great wills for him. And they that are thus burdened say little and have heaviness of heart, saith this soul, until they have their usages. If these twain cannot tell it, none shall tell it me, for none knoweth it unless he be of the lineage. Such a soul hath nothing of will; for this being should be our being, for we have nothing more availing before God than this, that we leave our will for his will, and that we give perfectly our will to his will, without willing anything but only the measure of his work, according to the ordering of his bounty., To this I hold me,[178] saith this soul, here I lack nothing since I will naught; for none hath so much perfect peace as they only that have naught of will., Ah, without fail, so do I, Lady Love, saith this soul, for I have perceived it by certain proofs that I must be dead,[179] and so am I.[180], They have no will that nothing will, and this soul hath her will given so that she hath naught whereof to will, but the will of him to whom she hath given her will. 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. But that is without their witting, for they ween they be, and for that weening they are content with their state., They have so much pleasure in their doings, saith this soul, that they ween[188] there be no better, and that deceiveth them from coming to better; thus they stand, within,[189] in their good wills., Such folk, saith Love, be never fulfilled.. And I acknowledge that I may have no greater joy nor greater worship than to be servant to this soul., Do you know this? saith Love, you could do no better than to know this!, Ah right sweet soul, saith Reason, what shall I do for my people that I have to govern, that shall no more see of this souls ordinance[162] in her outward usages?, Why? saith Love, is there other ordinance but this?, Nay, saith Reason, not for them that see nor for them that be chosen in this assize: but of such be few in earth, I dare well say., Now, Reason, saith Love, what callest thou ordinance?, I call ordinance, saith Reason, the life of works of virtues [lived] continuously, by thy counsel and that of Discretion, after the ensample of our Lord Jesu Christ., Reason, saith Love, this which the manhood of Jesu Christ suffered, the Deity felt it not. Even in their hybrid forms, these modes were still tied to specific institutions of truth-telling, with particular participants, spheres of address, and manners of speaking. i.e., liberty is my sole support. And if any say thus Ah, for God, let us [suffer] nothing of ours nor of none other than of him henceforward to be within us, which it behoveth God with his bounty to put out, this is a begging creature, that by her emptiness seeketh God in creatures. . For [in] reproaches of the Father, and threatenings of the Son, there is nothing [found] of the oil of peace. He wist without beginning that I should believe him well, without witnessing. Soothly, yea, saith the understanding of Reason, but it seemeth that the ninth point saith all the contrary, which saith that the soul naughted willeth naught with regard to that which she would will; nor may she have that which God wills that she will. She is then under the work of cleanness, and above the work of charity. I will nothing that is not of the bounty of Love. But the first angels have not the name of seraphins, but of angels, and the seraphins have both the one name and the other; understand without saying[240] what this means! This God is over all in his divine nature, but the manhood is in heaven glorified and joined to the divine person of the Son, and [beside that] only in the holy Sacrament of the Altar. Herself she withholdeth not, and oft promiseth thing that she hath not, for the great largesse of herself, in hope that he, that most giveth, most with him dwelleth. Another life [there] is that we call peace of charity in life naughted. And for this I say it is low and right little, however great the showing of this being seemed to me at the beginning, and the truth of them that such be, in the person of one, where all the others may be understood.. What emerges from this new approach is the Mirror and its author's unambiguous didactic intent - a fact long . 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. And I see that I know myself, and that taketh from me also the knowing of myself, for otherwise might I no knowing have of myself., This is sooth, saith Love, what you say, Lady Soul. Who that asketh these free souls sure and peaceable, if they would be in purgatory? Not, saith she, for them that have attained, but for them that have not, that shall so God will; but always they shall missay, till they be the same. She hight[244] pure heavenly spirit of peace, for she sitteth in the deepness of the valley; there she seeth the highness of the mountain, and, then, in a state of faith,[245] she gazeth upon the mountain of highness, that it may not there downfall. And I am full enlumined and abundantly fulfilled of abundance of delights, by holding his divine bounty in me, without seeking him by the paps of his consolations,[277] as this book deviseth, saith this soul. Understand ye lovers what this is., I have said, saith Love, that this soul is fallen of me into naught, and less than naught without number. And it should be given me without end, if my body had left my soul.. For it falleth oftentimes that when white and black are come together, the one may be seen the better from the other; for white seemeth more white by black, and black by white. Michael of Northbrook had visited Flanders as a young clerk, before his active career in the service of Edward III brought him there as a statesman; and the early documents and charters of the London Charterhouse make it clear that there was communication between the houses in Flanders and the new foundation, in the establishment of which the Bishop had a larger share than is commonly known. Letter to the Brethren of Mons Dei (M.P.L. They suffer themselves to be governed by affection of life of spirit in sufficing of themselves. Cordoni draws heavily on Porete, making us of entire passages of her work.[5]. This is all deadly! 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.. This freedom, the highest state of the soul, implies a perfect union of will with God, so that the desires are transformed, and only that which pleases God is desirable. He that is lame of limbs may not well go, nor the feeble may not swim. I pray not.. 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. 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