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Annihilated soul

Marguerite Porete’s teaching that the soul reduced to nothing, without will of its own, is united with God.

Also: Mirror of Simple Souls

Christian mysticism

In The Mirror of Simple Souls, the Beguine Marguerite Porete described seven stages of the soul’s ascent, culminating in the annihilated soul, which wills nothing and has given up even its virtues to God. She was burned as a heretic in Paris in 1310, though her book circulated anonymously for centuries.