By St. John of the Cross
The nice Spanish mystic St. John of the go turned a Carmelite monk in 1563 and helped St. Teresa of Avila to reform the Carmelite order — enduring persecution and imprisonment for his efforts. either in his writing and in his lifestyles, he confirmed eloquently his love for God. His written concepts on man's dating with God have been literacy endeavors that positioned him on an highbrow and philosophical point with such nice writers as St. Augustine and Thomas Aquinas.
In this paintings — a non secular masterpiece and vintage of Christian literature and mysticism — he addresses numerous matters, between them delight, avarice, envy, and different human imperfections. His dialogue of the "dark evening of the spirit," which considers afflictions and soreness suffered by way of the soul, is by way of a longer clarification of divine love and the soul's exultant union with God.
This high-quality translation through E. Allison friends "is the main devoted that has seemed in any eu language: it really is, certainly, even more than a translation for [Peers] additional his personal worthy ancient and [critically interpretive] notes." — London Times.
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For, as they were weak and tender, there was no door closed to them, as Saint John says in the Apocalypse, iii, 8). And thus He leaves them so completely in the dark that they know not whither to go with their sensible imagination and meditation; for they cannot advance a step in meditation, as they were wont to do afore time, their inward senses being submerged in this night, and left with such dryness that not only do they experience no pleasure and consolation in the spiritual things and good exercises wherein they were wont to find their delights and pleasures, but instead, on the contrary, they find insipidity and bitterness in the said things.
This is a great benefit, and not one of the least that results from this aridity and purgation of the desire, for the soul is purified and cleansed of the imperfections that were clinging to it because of the desires and affections, which of their own accord deaden and darken the soul. 5. There is another very great benefit for the soul in this night, which is that it practices several virtues together, as, for example, patience and longsuffering, which are often called upon in these times of emptiness and aridity, when the soul endures and perseveres in its spiritual exercises without consolation and without pleasure.
This is the first and principal benefit caused by this arid and dark night of contemplation: the knowledge of oneself and of one's misery. For, besides the fact that all the favours which God grants to the soul are habitually granted to them enwrapped in this knowledge, these aridities and this emptiness of the faculties, compared with the abundance which the soul experienced aforetime and the difficulty which it finds in good works, make it recognize its own lowliness and misery, which in the time of its prosperity it was unable to see.