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Dive into the profound depths of Christian spiritualism with The Mirror of Simple Souls, an early 14th-century work by Marguerite Porete. It's exploration of Oneness with God, though influential at the time of its writing, was denounced by Church authorities as heretical and banned for its supposed connection to Antinomianism.

Since its attribution to Porete in the 1940s, The Mirror of Simple Souls has come to be regarded as among the most important works of medieval Christian mysticism.

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There are books that teach.

There are books that persuade.

And then there are books that feel less like reading and more like recognition.

The Mirror of Simple Souls belongs unapologetically to the last category.

This is a text the Vatican did not want us to read. Not because it was confusing, but because it was too clear. Porete did not debate doctrine. She stepped around it. She spoke from a place beyond obedience, beyond fear, beyond the careful architecture of religious control. And for that, she was burned, while her book was condemned, banned, and buried.

Yet the words survived.

What I notice most is not simply how much I understand this book, but how often I feel drawn back to it. I want to listen to it again and again. Not to master it, but to rest inside it. It has become something I return to for meditation, for prayer, for grounding myself in gratitude, both in times of abundance and in times of lack, in suffering just as much as in ease.

It does not change depending on my circumstances.

I do.

Reading this work today feels nothing like encountering forbidden knowledge. It feels like remembering something quietly taken away. In contrast, much of the King James Bible often reads as instruction filtered through authority, hierarchy, and law. The Mirror of Simple Souls reads as soul speaking directly to soul. It does not demand belief. It assumes knowing.

Porete writes of annihilation, not as destruction, but as release. The dissolving of the striving self so that Love may move freely, without negotiation. There is no threat here. No bargaining. No promise dangled in exchange for obedience. Only an unsettling freedom. That the soul, united with Love, no longer needs permission.

This is precisely why the text was dangerous.
There is no church required between the soul and God in these pages. No intermediary. No fear-based compliance. What emerges instead is a radical intimacy with the Divine that cannot be regulated or owned. A spirituality that does not ask to be followed, only remembered.

The language is deceptively simple, almost conversational, yet it carries immense interior gravity. It does not perform holiness. It assumes it. And in doing so, it exposes how much of what we were taught to call faith was actually conditioning.

Returning to this book feels less like study and more like devotion. It meets gratitude in abundance and gratitude in suffering with the same steady voice. It does not rush comfort, nor does it dramatize pain. It simply remains present, as Love does.

Reading Porete today feels less like rebellion and more like coming home.

This book does not pull you forward.
It pulls you inward.

And then quietly asks why you ever thought you were separate.

If the King James Bible feels like instruction, The Mirror of Simple Souls feels like remembrance. A truth that does not argue, but waits patiently to be heard again

Not read, Remembered - the book I return to, to rember God

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