Anéantissement

'. . . a ravishing expansion of the movement of divine Light is poured into


the Soul and shows to the Will [the rightness of what is . . . in order to

move the Soul] from the place where it is now and ought not to be and

render it back to where it is not, whence it came, there where it ought

to remain. Now the Will sees . . . that it cannot profit unless it departs

from its own will. And thus the Soul parts herself from this will and the

Will parts itself from such a Soul and then renders itself and gives and

goes back to God, there where it was first taken, without retaining anything

of its own. . . .' - Marguerite Porete, Mirror of Simple Souls