The Annihilated Self

<p>Over 700 years ago in Paris on June 1 1310 the Beguine mystic Marguerite Porete was burned at the stake for having written a popular book The Mirror of Simple Souls. Its primary message was that divine grace alone-not the religious precepts of the Church-inspires and activates a direct communion with God. That was her experience and her refusal to retract it led to this terrible moment.</p><p></p><p>Marguerite's book consists of a conversation between Love and the Soul. Her powerful dialogue inspired James F. Twyman to go deeply within. What came through Twyman is another transforming dialogue-<em>The Annihilated Self</em>-in which what is annihilated or dissolved is the separated sense of self (the ego) which reveals the path to Love and Truth and releases the soul into final spiritual freedom.</p>