De-centred

In the on-going search for the feminine in the Trinity, or a Trinity defined by the feminine, or an anointing of the inner and outer forms of the Divine Trinity inclusive of the feminine, I'm blessed with the opportunity to quote some more from 'The Mirror of Souls' by Marguerite Porete.

Porete proposes a unique trinity here between her jealous God, herself, and herself:

'Jealous is he truly! He shows it by his works which have stripped me of myself absolutely and have placed me in divine pleasure without myself. And such a union joins and conjoins me through the sovereign highness of creation with the brilliance of divine being, by which I have being which is being.' (Ch 71)

'And so long as I was at ease and loved myself 'with' him, I could not at all contain myself or have calm: I was held in bondage by which I could not move...I loved myself so much along 'with' him that I could not answer loyally...Yet all at once he demanded my response, if I did not want to lose both myself and him...I said to him that he must want to test me in all points.' (Ch 131)

'Now this Soul...has left three and has made two one. But in what does this one consist? This one is when the soul is rendered into the simple Deity, in full knowing, without feeling, beyond thought....
Higher no one can go, deeper no one can go, more naked no human can be.' (Ch 138)

De-centred because she has to annihilate herself from her own centred, jealous, love, she has to give up loving being loved, and she has already surrendered to loving herself. De-centred, but yielding, shining forth in and receptive to, the overwhelming, radiant and abundant love, the love of her God. Love gone beyond, gone far, far beyond, loyalty.

To undo the creature in us.

I'll have what she's having :)


Ref: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/common_knowledge/v008/8.1carson.html