January 25, 2015
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The Mirror of Simple Souls (c. 1295) is a French text for which the author, Marguerite Porete, was burnt at the stake in 1310. A summary of the text (which, amongst other things, advises ego death) is found in The Pursuit of the Millennium (1957), Norman Cohn's study of millenarian cult movements.
Closer to home, the text is also mentioned in Greil Marcus's seminal Lipstick Traces (1989), which labels The Miror of Simple Souls as "one of a handful of Free Spirit texts not brought forth by torture." By torture, Greil Marcus means forced confession. He adds that Marguerite was "burned on the site of Michel Mourre's cafes."
Image: end of index and initial poem[1] of Mirror of Simple Souls.
See also: Christian heresies, Christian anarchism.
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