Lord, they fail to say well of you, that alway speak of you, and never say nothing of your goodness. M. Take heed of these words, that the soul saith, that she hath none other usage[152] nor none other may have. Moreover, the originality of the book lies in the fact that the author dismisses in a few pages the whole subject of ascetic discipline, which as a rule forms the main part of the spiritual treatises of the epoch. The similarity in point of view is, however, clear, and as we have seen, the Englishman who in the late fifteenth century translated the Mirror into Latin believed the work to have been composed by Ruysbroeck. The chapters of the last three Divisions are amongst the finest in the whole work and may be considered autobiographical. And so shall ye do if ever I know you, but I reck not of you. Lords hearing, Lords loving! Some- thing must be allowed throughout for the form of the. MS. I have not of what, nor for what: Fr. 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. There the soul is abandoned in God for him, in him, of himself. What be they, and what do they? So do not they of glory, for they that be glorified use not of faith: they see not by faith as we do. 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. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The form derives, perhaps, from the verse Jeu-Partis. This I shall tell you how and for why and in what? on account of the simple understanding of other creatures who might to their damage misunderstand it., These souls, saith Love, that such be, as in this book is devised, which toucheth some thing of their usages; they have by righteousness of their beingwhich is the pure divine beingsuch condition, that if they had naught and were certain that they should live unto the day of judgement, they might not have heaviness of heart one hour, for thing that faileth them, nor spend a time to seek work for that which faulteth them, for all the gold of the world; except at a time when nature hath a need [in] which it is lacking, [that they may] give to nature that which is his. [19] Also, in translating of French, some words need to be changed or it will fare ungoodly, not according to the sense. 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. He is right well born that is of that lineage, those be folks royal, their hearts are so excellent noble, and of such great worthiness and wisdom that they may not do thing of little value, nor begin thing without attaining the crown. This I may clearly see since the one hath all and the other hath naught, in regard of his all. And there they may be deceived, that love by tenderness that they have to affection, which suffereth them not to come to knowing. Him so high and me so low, that I might no more from thence rise, nor help of myself have and that was best. The Son is fruition agreeable. But the understanding of divine love, that taketh the lead in a naughted soul which is made free, understandeth it without erring, for she is [of] the same [nature]., O thou understanding of Reason, saith the highness of the understanding of Love, understand now the rudeness of thy misunderstanding. 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.. And whoso beggeth, he hath a lack[284] of divine sufficiency. Her only comfort is in the knowledge of the sufficiency of her Beloved, according to Pure Love. Then is his bounty mine by the cause of my necessity and for the justice of his pure bounty. MS.properties probable translation of O.F. There are passages in the MS. which may be construed in this sense, and these have been fully annotated in their place. This wit they that have been marred. And so ye be the lark that before the king goeth. Right so fareth it by Virtues; they have well acknowledged it in hearing of you all, that they understand not the Being of fine love!, And for this, I tell you, saith this soul, how should the Virtues teach the subject a thing that they have not, nor never shall have? I am not. I might not suffer it unless I had it of the pure love that he hath to me, for me, of his pure bounty and of his sole will and love that a Beloved hath to his lover. It displeaseth her will, and so it doth God; it is his own displeasure that to this soul giveth such displeasure. For herself, cf. 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. And thus hath Right yielded me mine [own] by rights, and showed me a naught that I am not. It is right great villainy to covet any witness in love. 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. it. [35] This is counsel of perfection of virtues, who that holdeth well this teaching, he is in very charity. In this short work there can be found elements of Benedictine mysticism and traces of the Beghard spirituality of Porete, that are grafted onto an Augustinian-Bonaventurian orthodox matrix of the three ways (purgative, illumative and unative). Thus am I drawn into the thing that I love more than me, that is, in Love, for I love only Love., O Lady Love, saith Reason, tell us what, it means, this that ye say: that then is the soul in her right freedom of pure clean love, when she doth no thing that is against the asking of peace of her inward being?, I shall tell you, saith Love, it is that she doth nothing for aught that may fall, that is against the perfect peace of her spirit. Uploaded by Love hath made me by nobleness, seven verses of song to find that which is of pure Deity, whereof reason cannot speak. 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. But more righteous is he that alway abideth where stableness is. Italso seeks to be a formation resource of more general Capuchin Franciscan material. And with all our virtue, is that we should do all our works purely for him. Ye, Lord, have loved me and have done and shall do; with all your power, as Father ye have loved me and have done and shall do; with all your wisdom, as Son and brother, ye have loved me and have done so and shall do with all your goodness, as friend. But they alone be free, saith this soul, that be free; whom Faith and Love govern, for they rest from all servitudes, without having dread of things redoubtable or desire of any very delectable [thing]. 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.. What do you think concerning our usages?, Meseemeth, saith this soul, that it is a travail full of synagogues; their labours are all to gain their bread, and their sustenances. My works that be done, these have ye done. M. Forgettelle is her name, for it is her manner much to comprehend and soon to forget. Oh! I have said this, saith this soul, that he wants naught. 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. In an extended dialogue between Love, the Soul, Reason, and a series of other allegorical figures, Marguerite portrays a state of freedom and annihilation to which, she argues, all noble souls should aspire. But none may be fed with this heavenly meat that in desire dwelleth., These souls, saith Love, govern a country, they be well above and all without them. but right drunk and more than drunk! Oh, is he not Almighty? These passages should be compared with Fnelons writings on Disinterested Love. But they that be in God, by whom they shall become,[321] know this thing, and feel it by strength of the lineage of which they are and shall be more stronger than they be. But mans wit nor mans reason know nothing of inward love; nor inward love of divine science. 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? Love maketh her all drunken and suffereth her not to attend to any but him, by which strength in love she delighteth her so, that the soul may none other being hold precious,[363] for the great light of love hath covered her, that suffereth her not to see passing love. So am I of him fed, fulfilled, and sufficed. Sooth, saith Love, of that holiness that Reason understandeth, but of none other.. 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? The first is the Mirror of Simple Souls, written in the vernacular by Marguerite Porete, a woman condemned as a heretic, and the vernacular (re)trans- lations of this well-known text. Of this divine love the divine will useth in me, for me, and without my beholding. [So] saith this soul in her Beloved, that is full perfect love. And this hath this Lady [thereof]. The Mirror of Simple Souls is a classic work of medieval Christian mysticism that was lost for centuries. they leave it to the Master and are disposed[243] to show it or to hide it, all at his will. She ought to dwell within, and there loseth the soul pride and play, for the spirit is become bitter,[369] that suffereth her no more to be playing nor jolly. She is so far from the works of virtue that she may not understand their language. Now, since I am all evils, and he is all goodness, it behoveth me to have all his goodness before all mine evil be stanched, nor with less may not my poverty be sufficed. MS. vilayn i.e., a matter of the law of villeins. 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. There is no need for that, saith the Spouse of this soul himself. And it should be given me without end, if my body had left my soul.. Ah, Love, saith Reason, what is this to say?. Yet they be deceived that trust in it, for I am certain that men cannot speak [rightly]. Then it behoved her not to be, nor to put [her will] again where he is not. 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! For your will sufficeth to your Beloved, and here he sendeth you word by me, that ye may be certain of this that I shall tell you. This soul seeketh not the fulness[307] of her understanding, but God seeth it in her without breaking her. And this will is come out of his goodness and it is given us by his grace. As an opponent of the Mendicants his approbation formed a valuable counterpart to that of the Franciscan Friar, Fr. Then it is good, right, and reason, that true innocence dwell with us. For she perceiveth in her spirit, and not without witting, what is the way by which he cometh to the gate, where she is oned to his will. [219], This soul, saith Love, that liveth of the life of glory, is alway without-her., O Love, saith Reason, when is this soul without-her and when is she with-her?, She is without-her, saith Love, when she is in nothingness, neither in God, nor in herself, nor in her even-Christian, but in the naughting that this far night worketh in her. She hath long heard say, by the Holy Ghost, that God setteth the least little at the most high [worth], of his sole bounty, and therefore, this soul hath no distress because of sin that she ever did, nor hope on account of thing that she might do, but only in the goodness of him that is her Beloved. And that sufficeth them to salvation, together with this, namely, that they keep themselves from all that God forbiddeth, and do that which God commandeth. O God, O God, saith this soul, what am I now, when I was naught before I owed anything; what am I now? 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. And here beginneth the Prologue, in two chapters, upon the same book, that Love nameth The Mirror of Simple Souls. The root made you yours without more, nor never other shall be. 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.. With this is, perhaps, combined the sense that the soul labours according to the interior commands that urge her to act contrary to herself and her natural inclinations or wills . O Lord, I am a deepness of darkness, and in this darkness you will put me in, there dwell not the gifts of that grace of which love hath devised[161] us., Devised! saith this soul, all that love hath said of this grace, by me, creature, it is but japings, in comparison with his work., O sweet soul, saith Reason, I have well heard this that ye have said; more gladly heard I never thing, so that I understand perfectly, saith Reason, Lady Love, that this may none do but you alone, of whom this gift is given., Sooth, saith Love, of such a person that is the Holy Ghost himself [is this gift given. For why? 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. But if I might amend it, I would amend it, and if I had as much might as he[142] hath, I would love him as much as you are worth!, Ah right sweet soul, saith Love, ye may no more say! For the influence of Porete on Bernardino Ochino see for Cargnoni. Of Godfrey of Fountains we know a good deal. Another life [there] is that we call peace of charity in life naughted. This Love, the Holy Ghost, swimmeth in a soul and is poured out in abundance of delights, of a gift right high that is given of upraised ravishing, by knitting of union of the sovereign Beloved, that giveth himself simply and simple her maketh. And if I wist without doubt that your will would it, without diminishing of your divine goodness, I would grant it without anything further willing more; my will taketh its ending in this saying.. And Love hath by himself of his noblesse, the debts all paid., And the seventh keepeth he within himself, for to give us in everlasting glory. But yet, as I said afore, it hath been mistaken of some persons that have read the book, therefore at such places where meseemeth most need, I will write more words thereto, in manner of gloss, after my simple cunning as me seemeth best. That is to say, that none may ascend but they only that be Gods sons by divine graces, of whom he said: This is my brother, my sister and my mother, that doth the will of God my Father.[384]. O blissful Lady, it was needful to you to be so; for I hold of God his Son, that if he had found in you as much vanity as the quantity of a wrinkle[376] in a kerchief, of necessity he had never made of you his mother. Ye that be in being and stand without default, nothing ye say. for it may not be that Holy Church knew them perfectly unless Holy Church were within their souls. 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. The book was originally written in Old French in about 1290 or so, possibly a few. And then is a soul all spiritual when the body and the will is all mortified. His being is always in the perfect plain of his pure will. When all feeling of Love and Desire is dead, an act of cognition is still possible shewed me, etc. The Mirror of Simple Souls Download PDF version of the book. And she is in all times demure without heaviness, and glad without dissolution, for God hath in this soul hallowed his name, and the divine Trinity hath there his house., O ye little [ones], who in will and in desire dwell, saith this soul, take the spoils[112] of your food, and desire that ye might be such, for he that desireth the least, unless he desire the most, it is not worthy that God do to him the best of his goodness, on account of the slackness of his poor courage. (11) And [she who is] called without fail by the divine goodness, of the work of the Trinity. Then may not the body see the Trinity, since it may not see the angels and the souls. [325], Oh, saith this soul, why should I do anything that my Beloved doeth not, he wanteth nothing. And this soul, saith the Holy Ghost, is of such condition, that if she had in her the same that we have, she would yield it to us; all this as we have it without willing any guerdon in heaven nor in earth, but right according to our will alone. I say that I am obliged to answer [in] my language, what I have learned of secrets at the secret court of God, where courtesy is law, and love measure, and bounty is food. Reason, saith Love, where be these double words that thou prayest me to discuss for the auditors of this book, who live in will and in desire,[77] the which book we call The Mirror of Simple Souls?, To this I answer, Lady Love,, saith Reason, for this book saith great marvels of this soul, which saith she recketh not of shame nor of worship, nor of poverty nor of riches, nor of ease nor of dis-ease, nor of love nor of hate, nor of hell nor of paradise. Notwithstanding the apparent want of system and diffuseness of the Mirror, some trace of a method can be found. The Catholic Historical Review Marguerite Porete: The Mirror of Simple Souls translated and introduced by Ellen L. Babinsky preface by Robert E. Lerner LOVE: This Soul has within her the mistress of the Virtues, whom one calls Divine Love, who has transformed her completely into herself, is united to her, and which is why this Soul belongs Contents Prologue . [303] Where lieth the gloss of these words, I ask you? He had never mother that of this can speak. She marvelleth, saith Love, at the work of the far night. And who is then mother of virtues? saith this soul. His divine bounty may not suffer him [to do so]. Therefore his eye beholdeth me: that he loveth none more than me. 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. His love is not served in this, nor is this naught[297] it may not be. they say Nay. Eh! 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. You shall be still now, for me, Lady Soul, saith Reason, since love leadeth you and you not love; this is to say that love is in you and maintaineth you and leadeth and doth his will of you, without you. Thus she entereth and walketh in the way of illumination, that she might be taught into the ghostly influences of the divine work of God, there to be drenched[16] in the high flood, and oned to God by ravishing of love, by which she is all one spirit with her spouse. And this is a sweet beholding and a profitable, to them that behold it, and to disencumber them of themselves, to approach[385] this being that we have spoken of. The soul describes her own rapturous protestations to Love, and is brought up sharp by three penetrating claims for which she was unprepared. That love maketh a soul see that she taketh the lead in her pride and jollity; for Nature is with this love; they have this in being, somewhat to give and to take, and so is the soul dangerous and fierce. There is she overlooked, for so it is that there be two greater estates in this life than this is, but Love so leadeth that a soul is unseeing, by the gift of sweetness of the love that updraweth her as hastily as she approacheth to the same. 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. If this naughted lady willeth the will of God, the more that she willeth it, the more she would will it; and that may she not, on account of the littleness of [the] creature, for God withholdeth the greatness of his divine righteousness. 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. It is much to say of such a servant that serveth his Lord well at all points in all thing, that he knoweth that which might best please the will of his Lord. And all that men have need for, is needful, and no more. Now, Reason, saith Love, why wilt thou that I call or summon this soul to hear of God, all that may be said?, For this, saith Reason, that she may dwell in her being of innocence without moving to hear you speak.[139], And shall I tell thee a truth? saith Love. We be excused, provided we believe you by the understanding that we have; for we be made of you, to serve such souls., Oh, without fail, saith this soul to Virtues, it is well said, men may well believe you, and therefore I tell you, saith this soul, and all those that hear this book, that whoso serveth a poor lord, since a long time, poor allowances shall he have, and little wages. Reason, saith the soul, that ye hear me complain, it is mine all and my best in well-understanding. Bounty is more worth than all the work that any creature may do within an hundred thousand year or all Holy Church. She seeth well then, that God by his high majesty, he is in all. 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