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The most in-depth and scholarly panorama of Western spirituality ever attempted!In one series, the original writings of the universally acknowledged teachers of the Catholic, Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Jewish, Islamic and Native American traditions have been critically selected, translated and introduced by internationally recognized scholars and spiritual leaders.The texts are first-rate, and the introductions are informative and reliable. The books will be a welcome addition to the bookshelf of every literate religious persons". -- The Christian Century
- Sales Rank: #2189670 in Books
- Published on: 1993-12
- Ingredients: Example Ingredients
- Original language: French
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .94" h x 6.18" w x 9.27" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 288 pages
Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
From the Back Cover
We know very little about Marguerite Porete, only that she was a beguine from Hainaut who was burned at the stake as a relapsed heretic in 1310. She might have been a solitary itinerant beguine who expounded her teachings to interested listeners.
About the Author
Robert E. Lerner is Professor of History and Peter B. Ritzma Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including The Age of Adversity: The Fourteenth Century (1968) and Western Civilizations, 13/e (1998).
Robert E. Lerner is Professor of History and Peter B. Ritzma Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including The Age of Adversity: The Fourteenth Century (1968) and Western Civilizations, 13/e (1998).
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
A Radical Message for the 21st Century
By James R. Sanders
Burned at the stake in Paris in 1310, Marguerite Porete might easily have been forgotten were it not for the fact that some copies of her book, "The Mirror of Simple Souls," escaped the flames intended to extirpate the written record of her heresy. Seven-hundred years later, the work remains a spiritual and poetic masterpiece, with much to say to our own age.
At a time when churches are suffering a decline in membership and financial support, when many former churchgoers are looking for non-traditional ways to satisfy their spiritual needs, when rapid change and uncertainty encourage escape through self-absorption and material gratification, Marguerite offers an alternate path, but it is not one that New Age advocates, self-realization sects, or the burgeoning ranks of enthusiastic evangelicals are likely to find congenial.
Annihilation of will and the melting into the “marrow of divine Love” is the terminus of a path described in the book. Such a soul is “scorched through mortification and burned through the ardor of the fire of charity, and her ashes are thrown into the open sea through the nothingness of will.”
Such a soul no longer needs to seek God through penitence, through sacraments, through the church, or through the practice of virtues, for it has “dissolved in Him.” Unencumbered with self, Love “nourishes and sustains those who pledge faithful loyalty to her, for she is satisfying and deep and a richly flowing sea.” Such a soul does not feel joy because she is joy itself, flowing out of the Divinity. Novices, says Marguerite, “insist that God be subject to their sacraments and their works.” In contrast, she seeks union with the Divinity.
That sounds fantastic to modern ears, but approached sympathetically, the book’s poetic spirituality will work its way into a reader’s soul, there to exercise its transforming power.
36 of 37 people found the following review helpful.
The Rumi of Christianity-Divinely Inspired
By Rakibe
Unique amongst Christian mystical writings and I say that having read a lot of them. Cloud of unknowing to Theresa of Avilla. This book was condemned by the French Inquisition as being heretical. Just like Joan of Arc, Marguerite Porete was asked to recant. When she refused to respond to her inquisitors, she was condemned to death. On 1 June 1310 she was burned at the stake in Paris for her crime of direct knowing. She said things like ;
"Thus it is better that the Soul be in the sweet country of understanding-nothing" ... (p. 142)
"(God) is incomprehensible except by Himself". (p. 84)
"I have only as much being as (God) is able to be of Himself in me". (pp. 174-175)
Margerete Porrete is much more purely gnostic in her message which is why the Inquisition burned all of her writings. Strangely this one book survived to express in an exquisite simplicity the path to god through meditation and devotion. SHe does this brilliantly, explaining her teaching through writing a dialogue between intellectual reason (the churches way of understanding), love , and the soul. She sometimes divides the dialogue further between other parts, but the way she presents it is amazingly more lucid than many other christian mystics.
THis book is for anyone who has a serious meditation practice and combines this with thier love of God. It is not an intellectual regurgitation of a young woman trying to be a spiritual writer. She is divinely inspired by her own gnosis of what is the truth and of what is love through entering the stillness and silence of the mind. She does this through deep surrender to Christ. This love seeks to motivate others to practice more than intellectual submission, this love pours a method out onto these pages, her method to go back into absorption with GOD. This same love eventually brought her to the same sacrifices as other teachers before her. I believe the Margerite Porette was simply trying to teach others in a simple way how to experience God directly through her method. And there is clearly a method in here for those that practice meditation (a method of concentration to silence the mind-surrender the self will). Thus the book is called the Mirror of simple souls.
It is a shame that so may others who review this book reduce it to a piece of invented, intellectual literature, really throwing Marguerite's truth and method back into the ashes. A shame as she was burned for her faith in what she was writing, not for being a scholar.
If you love the Philokalia, or Rumi or Meister Eckhart; or you just simply love GOD and wish to deepen your devotional meditation practice this book is for you.
41 of 44 people found the following review helpful.
A reliable edition
By Laura S. Miles
This is virtually the only available Modern English edition of originally Old French 'The Mirror of Simple Souls', so it is fortunate not only that it is part of the Classics of Western Spirituality Series but also that it rises to the exceptional level of scholarly excellence that marks the rest of the series while still presenting an accessible text. Marguerite's text is challenging no matter what language, but the introduction and footnotes will answer most questions of any level. Babinsky's edition is, and will be for some time, the sole point of access to Margeurite's work by students, scholars, the devout and lay alike.
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