Marguerite Porete: The Mystic Who Loved Beyond the Bounds
Marguerite Porete
She was brilliant. She was bold. She was burned at the stake.
And still, Marguerite Porete’s words endure—floating like sacred smoke across centuries.
A 13th-century French Beguine, Marguerite Porete authored The Mirror of Simple Souls, a profound mystical text exploring the soul’s complete surrender to God. She described a spiritual state so free, so stripped of ego-self, that the soul becomes one with Love itself—no longer ruled by fear, willpower, or religious performance.
It was daring theology. Too daring, for some.
She was condemned as a heretic, her book publicly burned, and eventually—so was she.
What Did She Teach?
Marguerite wrote of the annihilated soul—a soul so utterly surrendered to Divine Love that it lives beyond virtue, beyond ego, beyond even the need to “do good.” This wasn’t moral apathy; it was mystical union.
She spoke of the freedom of the soul in God, a love so deep it cannot be tamed by dogma or contained by fear. Marguerite’s mysticism was about total trust, radical interiority, and the soul’s dissolution into Love.
Why She Still Speaks
Marguerite’s message is especially resonant today—for those who’ve been hurt by institutional religion, silenced for asking too many questions, or drawn to a freer, wilder intimacy with God.
At Loto Wellness Collective, we believe in this kind of freedom—rooted not in rebellion but in reverence and a deep love for Jesus. We create space for women to release shame, shed religious striving, and return to the quiet, burning center of divine union.
Marguerite’s courage whispers to every woman who has felt “too mystical,” “too emotional,” “too heretical,” or simply “too much.” She reminds us that love—true Love—is never too much.
It is everything.
Marguerite & The Loto Woman
The Loto woman is drawn to mystery. She is curious. She questions. She listens. She is learning to trust her inner knowing—God’s whispers in the stillness.
She may not fit neatly inside a system, but she burns with reverence.
Like Marguerite, she is willing to lose the illusion of control to gain the truth of love.
She knows that the goal isn’t just to do good—it’s to become love.
A Sacred Invitation
Marguerite Porete challenges us to trust Love with everything.
Where are you still trying to earn God’s affection?
What would surrender look like for you—not as defeat, but as liberation?
Can you allow yourself to be loved without condition?
You are not too much. You are not alone. You are not beyond the reach of divine love.
You are already held—in the mirror of Love.
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Marguerite Porete—Challenges us to trust Love with everything.