Such power hath love over me. 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. Who that asketh these free souls sure and peaceable, if they would be in purgatory? Now I say that [which] Reason should say. Now, there is in this tun of divine drink, many fausets; this knoweth the manhood that is knit to the person of God the Son, who drank of the most noble wine next the Trinity. For God threw out of her seven fiends. And then I told him that if I wist that I should have as much of torment without end as he hath of goodness unless I misdid against his will, I should choose rather to go suffer those pains everlastingly, than that I should do thing that I wist should displease his will. 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. This soul, saith Love, is in her highest perfection and most nigh the far night when Holy Church taketh not of ensample[398] in her life. Ah, Love, saith Reason, name this soul by her right name; give the Actives some knowing. And Love nameth her by thus many names. 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]. And when be these souls become free? saith Reason. And though I had it, ye see well what I should be, when I were quit of one sin. I will nothing that is not of the bounty of Love. And then the wound is opened, to heal where it is hurt. Ye live all of the grain of wheat, for ye have no more of will. Then it is very right that I have not myself. She marvelleth, saith Love, at the work of the far night. That we love him with all our heart, is that our thoughts be alway verily in him. 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. 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. Truth, saith this soul. Who was the humble and spiritually minded M.N., who undertook the work of translation, and whose careful glossing in the direction of orthodoxy seems to have redeemed the English version from the fate of its original? But among you that have not been such, nor be, nor shall be, ye trouble yourselves in vain, if ye will understand it. Her lot hath this of freedom, ended of every cost; there hath she her full purity. Lord God, ye be all thing: thus is all thing made by you, and nothing is made without you, and I am naught; thus is all thing made without me. And therefore I will naught. 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 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. [128] They that burn with this fire aforesaid, without seeking substance to have or to will, see so clearly in all things, that they appraise the things according as they ought to be appreciated; for such a soul hath no substance in her that might blemish her clear sight, since she is made one [and] naughted by virtue of very meekness and she is open to all largesse of perfect charity, and she is ail one in God, This soul loveth no more anything in God, nor never shall love, how good soever it be, but only for God and because God wills it. 505), and a third in the Library of St Johns College, Cambridge (MS. 71), together with a Latin translation made from the English version, by Richard Methley of Mount Grace, Yorks, extant in MS. 221 of Pembroke College, Cambridge. And this is hers by righteousness of love, so that this precious beloved of me is learned and led of me without her [working] for she is turned to me in me. 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. Thinking is worth no more, nor work, nor eloquence; Love draweth me so high. And the soul of Jesu Christ was glorified in that very time that it was made of the divine Trinity and oned to deadly[382] body and to divine nature in the person of the Son, in the same moment that she was made, and oned, and knit to these two natures as perfectly as it is now at this time. There is no pearl of the eye so dangerous when one putteth into it the iron or stone, which is its death, as is divine love, if one do against him. For the divine will that God maketh to will in them, draweth in them beams of divine knowings and the feelings of divine love and the union of divine magnificence and laud. And it would be right, that I should have myself no more; this Right is written within the book of life. I know, saith this soul, that if ever I had anything to give, I would not give him so small a portion;[141] I that am naught and he is all. [343] Not that it were possible for me to sin if my will will not; then be we of his will, of which he hath fully set us in full possession. And if I had the same that ye have, with the creation that ye have given me, and might also well do my will, as I do of the will that ye have given me: and also if I had this, that I were equal unto you save in this, that I might change my will for other than for me, ye should not do this, since ye would it without any of your goodness these three points that be right grievous to grant. Emphasizing the complexity of the Mirror of Simple Souls and its Will ye, right this day, by courtesy, dissolve[375] me, ye fine Love?. But pure, clarified, she seeth not God nor herself, but God seeth this of him, in her, for her, without her, and showeth her that there is none but her. For he who feeleth [any thing] of God, through any substance that he seeth or heareth outside himself, or by effort that he maketh of himself, that,[127] is not all fire, but there is substance [mixed] with this fire. Nevertheless he is far from depreciating Understanding, as a separate faculty from the rationalising Reason, and the tenor of his argument brings him into line with the great mystics who have held together the value of Knowledge and the value of Love as means towards the apprehension of God. Perhaps some of the irony of the method of beholdings proper for the marred was intended for a school of thought that fostered imaginative meditation. 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. To have applied this mode to the consideration of the mystical life, shows an ingenuity not altogether unworldly. The book was originally written in Old French in about 1290 or so, possibly a few. There is a certain rhythm in this latter part of the work, in the alternate descriptions of the condition of the free souls and that of the marred. A balance is kept where the tendency is to emphasise the lyrical side (cf. Many sharp pains and bitterness of conscience feeleth this soul in this war. And after him a monk of the Cistercians [Order] read it, that was named Dom Frank, Cantor of the Abbey of Villiers: and he said that it proved well by the Scriptures, that it is all truth, that this book saith. 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. That is, that all that she coveteth and loveth and prizeth, it is of the divine bounty. Never had she will according to the senses, nor work of spirit, but [she had] the will of the Deity in work divine. Book excerpt: When Dr. Romana Guarnieri, in a letter to Osservatore Romano (16 June 1946), announced her discovery that Margaret Porette (d. 1 June 1310) was the author of The Mirror of Simple Souls, certainly a major French document of pre-Reformation spirituality, a sensation was created in the academic world. Notwithstanding the apparent want of system and diffuseness of the Mirror, some trace of a method can be found. John vi 29. Because of the sufficiency that they have in their doings, this people, saith Love, be called Kings; but this is a being where everyone is blinded but, without fail, those that have two eyes take them[208] for servants, saith this soul, but that is without their knowing. If a king give to one of his servants that truly hath served him a great gift, by which the servant were rich all the days of his life after, and never [had] to do service more, why should a wise man marvel at this, or why should he blame the king for his gift, and the freedom of the gift?, Nay, saith Courtesy, a wise man marvelleth not of thing that is done, that pertaineth to be done, but alloweth it and praiseth it and loveth it; and if he marvel, he showeth in that, that he doeth that which he ought not to do. It displeaseth her will, and so it doth God; it is his own displeasure that to this soul giveth such displeasure. 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? not given herself up to feelings of either doubt or confidence. . Ye have sat at my table, so I have given you my mess, and so have ye right well learned, and right well my mess savoured, and my vines of fulness, of which ye be the cutting. This is the uncreated goodness[348] that he hath made created; so leadeth goodness unwrought, the goodness that he hath wrought. And God may not from his goodness depart, that it should not dwell in him. This is Mary of peace, for alway she hath the peace of peace, for her Beloved appeaseth her. . And she followeth this, and she doth that which she ought to do, and she willeth only one thing, and it is that the will of God be alway in her done., She is right, saith Love, for this is all. Nor no one may teach her. And these pains and passions be not only in the exercise of the spirit, by putting away vices in getting of virtues, but they be also of bodily exercise by commandments of virtues and by counsel of reason; to fast and wake, and to do penance in many sundry wises, and forsake all her own pleasures and all lusts and likings; and in the beginning of all this, it is ofttimes full sharp and full hard. The Mirror of Simple Souls, written in a vivid literary style in Old French, is a dialogue among the allegorical figures of Love, Reason and the Soul. Why should it not? At that time the author of the manuscript was unknown. In all things it behoveth to have discretion, except in love. The sweetness draweth me, the beauty pleaseth me; what, then, can I desire more, than to live at peace?, O right sweet flower without lack, saith Reason. And this love is without work of body, and without work of heart, and without work of the spirit, for divine work hath fulfilled the law. 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. N. She hath no care[56] for anything that she lacketh, except at the time when she is in want. And a beggar must I be [according to the measure of my] strength, unless he give me all his goodness, since I am all wickedness. I shall tell it you, saith the Holy Ghost. M. It is thus that the manhood of Christ Jesu never cometh nor goeth. But when a soul is drawn into herself from all outward things, so that love worketh in the soul by which the soul is for a time departed from all sin, and is oned to God by union then is the soul free, for that time of union, full little time [though] it is. The opinion of all these censors is to the same effect, that the book was sound theologically, but laid itself open to misinterpretation at the hands of superficial and unlearned men. But this also has its echoes in the Mirror. . For she hath nothing wherewith to sin, for without will may no creature sin. It is, in general, the doctrine of Clement of Alexandria, These estates refer to St Augustines Seven Degrees of preparation for the knowledge of God in, The divine ray (rastro, apparitio) gives knowledge of Gods essence and of the soul s nothingness, so blinding, that afterwards the soul is left without. This is the substance of my heart. Reason, saith Love, I give thee an ensample, Behold the child that is a very pure innocent. This is to say, that the soul that hath given them all this, and nothing hath left to comfort nature with (that hardly the rightful man shall be saved) would then thus become sorrowful, be in hell and tormented unto the day of judgement, so that she might be in certainty, then to be saved. No, and God will, saith Love, she hath been servant long enough, now [is she] to become free from this time forward., Eh, Love, saith Reason, when was she servant?, When she took the lead[45] in love and in the obedience of thee and of other virtues, saith Love. [326], Oh, what a great pity it is when wickedness hath the victory over goodness. And this is, that ye should have no vainglory, for unto that time none ought to speak. This I say to the persons for whom Love hath made this book, to him for whom I have written it. her from her former being. The foregoing paragraph must not necessarily be interpreted as teaching the impeccability of the soul in these highest states; the writer may not have been thinking of sin, but of all the positive aspects of mans relationship to God, in which unity of will may be freely exercised; such as desire for union, prayer, and the aspirations of Love. i.e., liberty is my sole support. Without fail, Love, saith Reason, this may none understand by mine understanding, unless they learn it of you by your teaching; for my counsel is as the best that I can counsel that men [should] desire despite and poverty and all manner of tribulation, masses and sermons, fastings and orisons. Uploaded by Cf. God-love. Therefore to you only, be the worship and the praising thereof, and of all good works that be done under the sun. I said thus in the meantime, that I wist not how to suffer it, and this beholding yielded me manner. Tell me., Ye were naught, saith Truth, before ye had anything forfeited to me, of this which I gave you; now ye be another, for ye be worse than naught, saith Truth, at all times, when ye have willed other than my will. This is the end,saith this soul, of my work, always naught to will. He refers to a river, flowing through many countries, called the Meuse or Oise. 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. vilayn i.e., a matter of the law of villeins. Three of these are in the Vatican,[7] and it appears that they are translations from the lost French text, and differ considerably from Methleys version made from the English translation. But by his divinity and by his divine might, and by the virtue of his holy word, the host turneth into his precious body of flesh and blood. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format. And thus I have in me by his pure bounty, his goodness divine and have had without beginning, and shall have without end. The Latin version (MS. Pembroke 221) of the late fifteenth century made by Richard Methley from the English is interesting. No doubt other points will occur to the reader familiar with scholastic theology. The Mirror of Simple Souls is a classic work of medieval Christian mysticism that was lost for centuries. This masterpiece of Christian apophatic mysticism is notable for also containing a high degree of affective content. Wot they and none other to whom God hath given the understanding: for no Scripture teacheth it, nor may mans wit comprehend it, nor travail of creatures nor desert may not reach it. Nor they unwill[168] none of all the torments of hell. This creature is naked, and she is clothed with the life of glory that we have spoken of. That which is, is of his bounty; so loveth she his goodness which he hath by bounty given her. The being of freeness hath no dread for she hath passed the point of the spear in putting away the pleasaunce of body, and in slaying the wills of the spirit. M. Now understand by nobleness of understanding the gloss of these words. There are passages in the MS. which may be construed in this sense, and these have been fully annotated in their place. These folk be dead from deadly sin and born to the life of grace., Eh, without fail, saith this soul in freedom, these folks be little in earth, and right little in heaven and uncourteous! Wit it well!, O Lady Soul, saith Reason, beware what you say! Leiden: Brill, 2017. x + 384 pp. Ah, without fail, saith this soul, Lord, so shall you do, and henceforward I will your perfect will, in all things., O right sweet Love, saith this soul, grant me my possession that I have of the Trinity., Now tell your thought, saith Love, for you ought not to hide it., Ah, Lady Love, saith this soul, ye have told me that he that is in him [and] of him, shall be without beginning and without end; that he shall never have anything without me nor I without him., This is sooth, saith Love, I am pledge[157] of this., Then, saith this soul, since he shall never without end have nothing without me, then right so, he loved never nothing without me. As the revelation of God to the soul progresses, so the soul becomes more passive, both with regard to effort after virtue and search for knowledge. Then, saith the soul, he loved of his goodness the work that he should do in me, of his divine might., This is sooth, saith Love, he is and never withheld [love] no more than he doth now.[158], Now may you hear, Reason, saith this soul, the witness of Love.. And she wot all, for she seeth by the deepness of knowing of her naught, which is so great to her sight, that she findeth neither beginning, measure, nor end of it; but a deep darkness without ground or bottom. This is in the time of ravishing and union in God; it hath nothing of Time, for it lasteth but a little while in any creature here in this world, for the corruption of the flesh hindereth it, so that the soul may not long here abide. She was simultaneously commanded to cease Nor she knoweth naught but him, nor she loveth but him, nor she praiseth but him, for there is but he. Lord, ye be Father and Son and Holy Ghost, and I am feebleness, foolishness and wickedness. on November 29, 2015, The Mirrors Of Simple Souls - Translated by MN - 13th Century writings from an unknown Christian Mystic, Research, beginning with an Italian scholar named Romana Guarnieri, has established that Marguerite of Porete, a French mystic during the late 13th and early 14th century, wrote "The Mirror of Simple Souls." Then [i.e., for] this is a great villainy that men do me, to wit, that men should tell me something of the goodness of you. Then may ye ask if it went as it came. Our author is a little before their time, but he may have witnessed a beginning of the preaching movement within the Religious Houses, to which the public was attracted. This is to understand when the will of the righteous hath given the inclination[335] without any [actual transgression][336] to fulfil the fault. Of this substance enduring, the memory [is] of the substance of the Father. This drawing, his bounty maketh for me, who giveth me alway new love; but of this that he doeth in me, of him, for me; nor of that which I ask without my asking, by the ondrawing of his pure nature, I may not wit, saith his soul, nor [may] all those of glory [wit], but he only that is one in Deity and triple in Persons.. This soul hath six wings as have the seraphins, and also she willeth nothing that cometh by means. And because of this peace, the soul liveth in the world without grudging of conscience. Those that are dipped[163] in meekness, saith Love. This wit they that have been marred. Not, saith Love, everything that is., Now understand, auditors of this book, saith Love, the gloss of this book, for the thing is as much worth as it is appreciated. (READ) PDF The Mirror of Simple Souls. Ye have heard in this writing here, how I have all his bounty. The first cost that this soul which is free hath, is this, that she hath no grudging of conscience, though she work not the work of virtues. This may mean that she has no will i.e., she is indifferent concerning her own satisfaction, or that her will is made naught , MS. and this hase of failance and not of suffisance.. Now I did it for your peace and for to show the truth concerning low cowardice, the same that Reason hath to yield. Love hath me so wholly in his keeping that I have not wit nor will nor reason to do anything; wit it forsooth, but purely for him. The sixth beholding is how the manhood of Christ Jesu was tormented for us. There she prayeth not,[401] no more than she did ere that she was aught. Howsoever great she be, she is nothing, who loveth or desireth of me, saith Love, whether to lose me or to win me, except it be only for my pleasure; for otherwise she is with herself, and not with me [at all]. And the knowing of this maketh her to separate the will from the place where he is not. That is alone [or all one] in love. She knoweth by the virtue of faith that which she needeth to know for salvation; and she knoweth naught, for she knoweth naught of that which God hath in him, of him, for him, that he giveth to none but himself. God hath nowhere to put his goodness, saith she, unless he put it in me, for one may have no greater rascal[356] to be made noble by him, nor can he have any [better place] where he may put all. This soul saith thus: However well God loveth me as he hath showed by his divine work and the suffering of his manhood, he loveth me not, saith this soul, against himself. . For she is lady beyond the thought of her youth, and Sun that shineth, heateth and nourisheth life of being, discovered! And in none other usage than in this only point, show not the door at which ye be porters, that it do you not confusion; for in other point ye shall not be heard, but in this one only point, if it so befall that she be brought so low that she have of this need.. It appears also that the scribe had access to an older MS. with different readings and occasionally additional matter, and these readings correct the British Museum version. Now, Reason, saith Love, understand thy question. Lords hearing, Lords loving! To him be offered all glory and praisings to everlasting laud. Another life [there] is that we call peace of charity in life naughted. Lady, what would your thought [think] of them for this?. This edition also con-tains invaluable historical sources in Appendix A (214#218). Love, Virtue, Reason, Holy Church, etc. in sooth they would say, Nothing!. For if I be discomforted of that which I lack, I am recomforted againward, in that he lacketh nothing. If she took work of herself, she should be for her; if she be no-one, her working; may not be. After the description of the habits, the point of view of the free soul, her aloneness and peace in God, her independence of judgement born of true dependence on God (Division III), follows the explanation of her attitude towards the pursuit of virtues, and an outline of what freedom from desire and will imply in the spiritual life (Divisions IV and V). 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 this love is of that which is wholly and solely fine in the state of work divine. Now I shall tell you why God forbade them that they should not speak of that they had seen, till he were arisen. Why, saith Love, marvelleth Holy Church, though the virtues serve the high heavenly souls, and why should they not? And of the book of life and the opening thereof, CHAPTER IV: Of three beholdings that one should have to come to peace. When Love worketh in the soul and holdeth in her the sparkles of his bright beams, she understandeth well by clarity of that light and by sweetness of that liquor that she hath drunk, [that] the work of love is more worth and draweth more to the union in God than doth her own work. In this I [should] love myself if I lacked anything since he lacks nothing. Such power hath the union of the unity of [the] divine indwelling., This soul, saith Love, suffereth the dead to bury the dead, and the marred[203] to work the works of virtues. N. Ah, Lady Love, saith Reason, I pray you that ye summon[138] and call this soul to hearken all that may be said to her, of him that is all in all things.. But when she took love, she sought him by desire of will, in feeling of her spirit. Thus it is right, saith she, that all things be hallowed to me, even as all things be made for me, and for this I take it, as for mine, without challenging. 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. He wist without beginning that I should believe him well, without witnessing. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. The main idea of his work is the glorification of love above intellectual knowledge; of the immediate knowledge of God above the rational reason. . Reason! saith for the rudeness of thee, have I so oftentimes named her by her surname, for most [men] understand a thing by its surname, therefore it is to us now helpful, and yet shall be. 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