Love Without Limits: Marguerite Porète’s Mystic Writing
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‘And Divine Love tells me that she has entered within me, and so she can do whatever she wills, such strength she has given me’
— Marguerite Porète, The Mirror of Simple Souls
Divine love
Marguerite Porète was a French Beguine and mystic born in the 13th century.
She wrote The Mirror of Simple Souls, a work of Christian mysticism that revealed the spiritual process she underwent to be transformed by divine love.
She believed that humans could achieve direct union with the divine without the intermediary of the church, an idea that was controversial.
The Catholic Church conducted a trial to decide her fate, and she was burned for heresy in Paris in 1310.
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True love
Marguerite’s writing reminds us that love is the essence of who we are. She knows that true love is found within.
Connecting with a universal love greater than ourselves is a profound and transformational act.
She writes, ‘Love has no beginning, no end, and no limit, and I am nothing except Love.’
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