This is right of right, for this is the very addressing of fine love, who ever will maintain it. [198] I will naught of none!. And what they do, ye know also; but what they be, as for to speak of their value and of their dignity that know neither ye nor they, then may Holy Church not know., Oh, for God, saith Reason, who knoweth then?, That [knoweth] only God, saith Love, who hath made them and bought them; and ofttimes this may so be wrought [in them] that by his love alone they be both fulfilled and naughted and forgotten.. Their weenings be fully inclined, mine heart thought sometime, alway to have lived of love by desire of good will. 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. As the soul mounts, the same panorama is unfolded again and again, but the point of view continually changes; and with each step of the ascent our eye has command over a wider landscape. And in hope, I here them salute, by the love of peace of charity, in the High Trinity, that will warrant it,[21] seeing in them the witness of their living by record of clerks that have read this book. To it he attributes certain purgative and illuminative effects which become more marked as advance is made. The position of the Church in these matters is now so clear, that for Catholics the warnings against Pantheism and Quietism are superfluous. 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. Fallen, here and following = moved, changed. The mystical life is the fruit of these, and our author is careful to show that he addresses himself only to those souls who are called to the higher life. And 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. Abstract The life and works of the beguine Marguerite Porete were transformed by fire. 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. So long as the powers and feelings of the soul are active, the death of the spirit is not fully accomplished. . We have him, he is with us. think how these souls endure in their wit! saith Discretion. 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. And this is right hard, more hard without comparison than be the twain before. Download The Mirror of Simple Souls PDF full book. O My Lord God, mercy, mercy. Now hath Bounty unwrought free will as his property;[349] and he giveth us also, of his bounty, free will coming out of his might, without any for-why?, but for ourselves as a gift of his goodness. 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. Against this strength may none withstand; this is the soul that Love hath, by fine love passing herself, updrawn., The fifth is, that a soul behold what God is, who is, through whom all thing cometh; and she is not! There is none so great clerk in the world that can speak to you. Now may I see by this where I ought to be, namely, that I should resort there where I was, in that point that I was, within the One. For all those that be planted of the Father and come into this world be descended of perfect into imperfect, that they may attain to the more perfect. This book saith thus, that none knoweth these souls but God that is within their souls. Generally the subject is proposed on one side, and the opponent chooses his argument and defends it on the humaner line of reasoning. None of the single English fourteenth-century spiritual treatises cover the whole ground which our author treats systematically, yet not with that arid, methodical precision that mars much of the later spiritual treatises. But this election is not put in writing of mens hands, but of the Holy Ghost, who writeth this election marvellously in the soul, and the soul is thereunto precious parchment. . This wit all they who undertake works of themselves without the fervour of the willing of their inwardness.. Contextual introduction to Margherita Porete. The Cloud of Unknowing comes nearest to the teaching of our author concerning prayer, but does not include in its range the variety of problems which underlie the teaching of the Mirror and establish its value as a guide to the interior life. Well, I wot, I laid all mine heart in you, so long I have endured great servitude in which I have suffered many grievous torments, and many pains endured. 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. This is sooth, that there is nothing more certain than this, that God is not God if my will be taken from me, except my will will it. It seems to imply a final defiance on the part of the soul. It appears to follow the same version as the British Museum copy, is divided into large sections, but though the occurrence of many illuminated capitals might indicate chapter heads, these are not specifically numbered or analysed, nor do they correspond wholly with the Bodleian arrangement. She is so fulfilled in God that neither world nor flesh nor enemy may grieve her, for they may not find her in her works. Now is the will of the Beloved and the will of this soul turned into one, as fire and flame, for love hath this soul all drawn into him., Ah, right, sweet, pure, divine Love, saith this soul. And if ye cannot come soon to the understanding thereof, offer it meekly up to God, and by the custom of oft reading thereon, ye shall come thereto. And therefore love biddeth them that they do nothing that may break the peace and rest of their spirits. She knoweth all, saith Love, by virtue of faith, that God is Almighty, all wisdom and all goodness, and that God the Father hath done the work of the Incarnation and the Son also, and the Holy Ghost also. This that ye will, we will it, saith my friend, take your own will!, I answered anon: This that I am, is pure naught. These, saith Love, be much more courteous than be the other foresaid, and nevertheless, saith Love, yet be they little; so little that none can see it, as compared with the greatness of them that be dead of life of spirit, and be in the life of glory. 5 Chapter 2. 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. . Jr. - Ebook | Scribd Enjoy millions of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, and more, with a free trial Only $11.99/month after trial. Oh, what marvel it is they lead in dread, which suffereth them not that God work in them!, The second is that a soul behold what God counselleth to his special lovers, passing that that he commandeth. 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. In this point I found myself, saith this free soul, such a day I saw sometime. [9] The method is also that of the scholastic disputations at the Sorbonne, and reflects the interest of a society delighting in sophistry and intellectual subtleties of every kind. Here clearly the expression outruns the mystical intuition on which it is based. M. Take heed of these words, that the soul saith, that she hath none other usage[152] nor none other may have. Can none tell whence this line cometh?, No, saith Love, they that know cannot put it into speech., This is sooth, saith this soul, but I shall add here to this what I shall say. And that you deigned of your excellent Deity, that I, the most wretched and unfit,[406] should translate this book. This is the end,[148] saith this soul, of the peace of my spirit. Concerning the approach of this work that is so precious and noble; even as men may no more speak of the opening of the movings of glory that the gentle far night giveth, so no more can this soul tell of this precious shutting. She comprehendeth much when she beholdeth God, how worthy and glorious he is, and how powerful he is in all his works. Lady, what did ye to them for works of forfeit[378] that they did? Cf. [358] And his goodness may not suffer it since he hath so much of worth, that I should dwell a beggar. Then is it right that he sustain me of himself, for I am laid in him; I must stint, saith this soul, for I may not tell it., No soothly, saith Love, no more than the sun may stay[265] or dwell, no more may this soul say of this life as compared to that which truth to say truly is., Ah, Lady Soul, saith Abashings, ye be a continual spring of divine love, of the which spring of divine love waxeth the well of divine knowing, and the streams of divine laud., And of this spring of Divine Love, the well of divine knowing and of the streams of divine lauding, I remain, saith this confirmed soul, perfectly in his divine will., Now hath this soul, saith Love, her right name of Naught, in which she moveth, for she seeth that she is naught, and that she hath not of aught, neither of her nor of her even-Christian, nor of God himself. The dangers which the thirteenth-century critics foresaw, and against which they warned the author, were thoroughly fought out in the late fourteenth century, and again in the seventeenth century. Tina Beattie. And since the bounty of God may not diminish, dis-ease[396] may not in her grow of his work, unless it wax of her own. I have said, saith Love, that they whom I have summoned by their own inwardness to obey the perfection of virtues, who ought to have done so, that they dwell unto the time of death encumbered of themselves, though they travail every day with themselves to fulfil the perfection of the apostles, by study of reason and of goodwill, they shall never be unencumbered of themselves, neither of body nor of soul. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format. The author guards against the Pantheistic theory that the soul can be so absorbed into the divine nature as to become identical with it. Now shall mine heart be more free and more in peace than it hath been before. And then is a soul all spiritual when the body and the will is all mortified. The only answer is that many wearinesses and humours of sickness are often put to flight by a fresh sharp act of additional physical mortification. By all these messengers I sent to you, saith Love, that made you wit my will of the Beings where I would have had you, and ye alway refused it. 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.. My works that be done, these have ye done. They, saith Love, that in nothing are wrong, and know that they are in nothing right. 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