Reason. Ah, Lady Soul, says Reason, you have two laws, your own and ours; ours for belief and yours for love; and therefore you say to us what you please, and so you have called those whom we nurture7 fools and asses. The Soul. The men whom I call asses, says this Soul, seek God in creatures, through worshipping in churches, in paradises they create, in the words of men and in their writings. Ah, truly, says this Soul, in such men Benjamin is not born, for Rachel still lives8 in them; and Rachel must die at Benjamin’s birth, and till Rachel is dead Benjamin cannot be born. It seems to beginners that men such as these, who seek God in this way, up hill and down dale, think that God is subject to his sacraments and to his works. Alas, they suffer such trials that it is pitiful, 9 and they will go on suffering them, says the Soul, so long as they maintain this way of life and such practices. But those men spend their time well and profitably who do not worship God only in temples and in churches, 10 but worship him everywhere11 through union with the divine will. ― Marguerite Porete, The Mirror of Simple Souls

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Reason. Ah, Lady Soul, says Reason, you have two laws, your own and ours; ours for belief and yours for love; and therefore you say to us what you please, and so you have called those whom we nurture7 fools and asses. The Soul. The men whom I call asses, says this Soul, seek God in creatures, through worshipping in churches, in paradises they create, in the words of men and in their writings. Ah, truly, says this Soul, in such men Benjamin is not born, for Rachel still lives8 in them; and Rachel must die at Benjamin’s birth, and till Rachel is dead Benjamin cannot be born. It seems to beginners that men such as these, who seek God in this way, up hill and down dale, think that God is subject to his sacraments and to his works. Alas, they suffer such trials that it is pitiful, 9 and they will go on suffering them, says the Soul, so long as they maintain this way of life and such practices. But those men spend their time well and profitably who do not worship God only in temples and in churches, 10 but worship him everywhere11 through union with the divine will. ― Marguerite Porete, The Mirror of Simple Souls
Reason. Ah, Lady Soul, says Reason, you have two laws, your own and ours; ours for belief and yours for love; and therefore you say to us what you please, and so you have called those whom we nurture7 fools and asses. The Soul. The men whom I call asses, says this Soul, seek God in creatures, through worshipping in churches, in paradises they create, in the words of men and in their writings. Ah, truly, says this Soul, in such men Benjamin is not born, for Rachel still lives8 in them; and Rachel must die at Benjamin’s birth, and till Rachel is dead Benjamin cannot be born. It seems to beginners that men such as these, who seek God in this way, up hill and down dale, think that God is subject to his sacraments and to his works. Alas, they suffer such trials that it is pitiful, 9 and they will go on suffering them, says the Soul, so long as they maintain this way of life and such practices. But those men spend their time well and profitably who do not worship God only in temples and in churches, 10 but worship him everywhere11 through union with the divine will. ― Marguerite Porete, The Mirror of Simple Souls

Reason. Ah, Lady Soul, says Reason, you have two laws, your own and ours; ours for belief and yours for love; and therefore you say to us what you please, and so you have called those whom we nurture7 fools and asses. The Soul. The men whom I call asses, says this Soul, seek God in creatures, through worshipping in churches, in paradises they create, in the words of men and in their writings. Ah, truly, says this Soul, in such men Benjamin is not born, for Rachel still lives8 in them; and Rachel must die at Benjamin’s birth, and till Rachel is dead Benjamin cannot be born. It seems to beginners that men such as these, who seek God in this way, up hill and down dale, think that God is subject to his sacraments and to his works. Alas, they suffer such trials that it is pitiful, 9 and they will go on suffering them, says the Soul, so long as they maintain this way of life and such practices. But those men spend their time well and profitably who do not worship God only in temples and in churches, 10 but worship him everywhere11 through union with the divine will.
― Marguerite Porete,

The Mirror of Simple Souls

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