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कृतियाँ

• लगभग 1300सरल आत्माओं का दर्पण

  प्रेम, तर्क और आत्मा का संवाद: सात अवस्थाएँ उस विनष्ट आत्मा तक ले जाती हैं जो कुछ नहीं चाहती और ईश्वर में जीती है।

मत

“The Mirror of Simple Souls”, written in Old French, describes the soul’s ascent through seven states to a condition in which it has annihilated its own will and lives in God “without a why”. In the dialogue, Reason, who speaks for the Church’s teaching, finally dies of astonishment. The annihilated soul, Porete writes, “takes leave of the virtues”: it no longer serves them as masters, because it is beyond the striving in which virtues are needed – a phrase her judges read as a licence to sin. Her theology of the soul’s nothingness has close parallels in Meister Eckhart, who was in Paris in 1311; many scholars think he knew her book.

जीवन और संदर्भ

Marguerite Porete (c. 1250–1310) was a beguine – a religious laywoman living outside a convent – from Hainaut in the French-speaking Low Countries. Her book was condemned and burned by the bishop of Cambrai around 1300; she continued to circulate it. Arrested in 1308, she refused to answer the inquisitor and was burned at the stake in Paris on 1 June 1310.

अन्य प्रमुख कृतियाँ

• The Mirror of Simple Souls (c. 1296–1306)

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