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SOURCE: Lichtmann, Maria. “Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls: Inverted Reflection of Self, Society, and God.” Studia Mystica n.s. 16, no. 1 (1995): 4-29.
In the following essay, Lichtmann probes the political, social, historical, and theological grounds for Porete's condemnation as a heretic in the early fourteenth century.
Marguerite Porete, burned at the stake in the early fourteenth century, along with her book, a mystical treatise which nevertheless went on to influence mystics and mystical traditions down the centuries, offers a particularly apt study for the interplay between mysticism, feminism, and society. Marguerite Porete's treatise, The Mirror for Simple Souls, proposed to turn the ecclesiastical hierarchy on its head by inverting the present “Little Church,” ruled by a morality of Reason, and supplanting it with her “Great Church” ruled by an ethic and total vision of Love. The “Great Church” made up of God's true lovers was to rule over...
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