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"... she has fallen into certainty of knowing nothing and into

certainty of willing nothing. And this nothingness gives her the All,

and no one can possess it in any other way." ~Marguerite Porete

 

Marguerite was a 14th century, French mystic who authored a book

entitled "The mirror of simple annihilated souls and those who only

remain in will and desire of love". This book was condemned by the

French Inquisition as being heretical. Marguerite Porete was asked to

recant. When she refused to respond to her inquisitors, she was

condemned to death. On 1 June 1310 she was burned at the stake in

Paris.

 

Lalla was a 14th century, Indian mystic. She too, was condemned and

harassed by her peers. But she was also revered and had many

followers who responded to her outpourings of bliss. India’s long

history of spiritual endeavor allowed for the expression that

manifested as it did through Lalla. She went naked and sang bhajans

all over India.

 

When you see yourself and someone elseas one being,

when you know the most joyful day and the most terrible nightas one moment, then

awareness is alone with its Lord.

~Lalla

 

 

In France, the climate of the Catholic-dominated cities and towns

would not allow for the likes of Marguerite Porete. Everything she

said and did went against church dogma and doctrine. It was the same

experience of Al-Hallaj in 900. He was a poet-mystic and the OneSong

flowed through him uninterruptedly. He said, “I Am the Truth,” and

would not recant when the Islamic clerics and officials insisted he

do so. Al-Hallaj was imprisoned, tortured and eventually dismembered

and decapitated at a public execution. And still, unto the end, he

uttered the Mystery with his lifeblood and his song.

 

Your Spirit mixed with my Spirit little by little, by turns, through

reunions and abandons.And now I am Yourself, Your existence is my

own, and it is also my will.

~(Diwan al-Hallaj)

I have seen my Lord with the eye of my heart, and I said: "Who are You?" He said:"You."

~(Diwan al-Hallaj, M. 10)

I do not cease swimming in the seas of love, rising with the wave,

then descending; now the wave sustains me, and then I sink beneath

it; love bears me away where there is no longer any shore.

~(Diwan al-Hallaj, M. 34)

~ Little River Beach, Eureka, Ca

 

 

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