The Mirror of Simple Souls

By: Marguerite Porete

Narrated by: Jody Lebel

Dive into the profound depths of Christian spiritualism with The Mirror of Simple Souls, an early 14th-century work by Marguerite Porete. It's exploration of Oneness with God, though influential at the time of its writing, was denounced by Church authorities as heretical and banned for its supposed connection to Antinomianism.

Since its attribution to Porete in the 1940s, The Mirror of Simple Souls has come to be regarded as among the most important works of medieval Christian mysticism.

©1927 Clare Kirchberger (P)2023 Licensing Management, Inc.

I didn’t like the narrator

There are thousands of other books out there that illustrate the same sentiment and wisdom. The language is mind numbing. The narrator has a very childish way of reading. That was hard for me to listen to.

Archaic and difficult for laity to follow, I look forward to a modern reading.

The enticing chapter titles were followed by an archaic and difficult language for today’s laity to follow, I still can’t understand why the author was killed for writing this book. I eagerly look forward to a modern version with a contemporary reader. Hope I’m notified when it does get updated!

A Third Grader Could Have Read A Mirror Of Simple Souls Better Than This Reader

The voice narrating this book is the worst reader I have ever encountered in an Audible book. And I’m a huge Audible fan because they always manage to find amazing readers whose voices are professional and easy on the ears. This woman’s voice literally gets on your last nerve!

The reader sounds like a second grade who has to sound out words that she sounds barely able to pronounce, let alone make a single sentence make sense.

The reader groups every sentence into improper word groups with awkward, staccato phrases and words incorrectly chopped up into unnatural syllable breaks, groupings and pauses.

I tried to hang in there after getting thru the introduction. I thought she would find more confidence in the first chapter, she did not.

In fact, I did not hear this reader pronounce a single sentence in its entirety Im a manner that made any sentence she read make sense. It degenerated into word gibberish of a toddler.

I will search for an ebook tomorrow. My nerves and ears cannot listen to any more of this …

The voice does this historic author, who was burned alive for writing this book, a grave injustice.

Audible needs to pay a scholar to re-record this book, then destroy the current, butchered version of this book and send everyone who bought this bad version a new recording that does this author’s work justice.

Unlistenable

Is she ought of her with thus speaketh love. For it behooveth love to then thus torment sayeth souls. Who that asketh they say nay for they sufficeith.

Love

In my complete yielding to God, I become nothing and receive everything. Revelation of the endless bounty of God’s Goodness.