This new edition of the Image classic, with more than 100,000 copies sold, brings E. Allison Peers's magnificent translation of St. John of the Cross's masterpiece Dark Night of the Soul to a new generation of readers and will renew the interest of those already familiar with its soaring poetry and timeless truths. The sixteenth-century Carmelite monk St. John of the Cross stands alongside St. Teresa of Avila as the West's best known and most beloved Christian mystic. As Peers writes in the Introduction to his definitive translation of Dark Night of the Soul, "The most sublime of all Spanish mystics, he soars aloft on the wings of Divine love to heights known hardly to any of them... True to the character of his thought, his style is always forceful and energetic." Dark Night of the Soul follows the soul's journey from a state of abandonment and darkness to a loving union with God. In a voice at once grandiose and melodious, and a style that combines the systematic theology of St. Thomas Aquinas with rapturous poetry, St. John describes the process of moving away from routine religious rituals and embracing a Being who can be known only through love. His words, Peers writes, "are a wonderful illustration of the theological truth that grace, far from destroying nature, ennobles and dignifies it, and of the agreement always found between the natural and the supernatural -- between the principles of sound reason and the sublime manifestations of Divine grace." One of the greatest contributions to the literature of mysticism, Dark Night of the Soul offers support and encouragement to all who seek oneness with God.

Dark Night of the Soul

Literature & Fiction

John, of the Cross

Essays & Correspondence

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Ascent of Mount Carmel (A Triumph classic)

Classics

Triumph Books

Counsels of light and love (The Spiritual masters)

Paulist Press

This volume contains carefully chosen texts that give a picture of the "essential" St. John of the Cross (1542-1591), a Spanish Carmelite. Included are selections from The Ascent of Mount Carmel, The Dark Night, and Spiritual Canticle.

John of the Cross: Selected Writings (The Classics of Western Spirituality)

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

How will I get through this? Will I ever feel God's love again? 
 Prayer, once filled with insight and consolation, now feels routine. When all roads seem impassable where do you turn? Let John of the Cross offer you his wise counsel as he gives you a roadmap through rough terrain, beckoning you to follow your ascent to God through darkness. 
 Each volume of the Classic Wisdom Collection provides time-tested spiritual guidance for living a Christian life.

Strength in Darkness: Wisdom from John of the Cross (Classic Wisdom Collection)

Pauline Books & Media

Darkness and light;: Selections from St. John of the Cross (Mysticism and modern man)

Sheed Ward

Saint John of the Cross was a major figure of the Counter-Reformation, a Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest who was born at Fontiveros, Old Castile. Both his poetry and his studies on the growth of the soul are considered the summit of mystical Spanish literature and one of the peaks of all Spanish literature. He was canonized as a saint in 1726 by Pope Benedict XIII and is one of the thirty-six Doctors of the Church. A four-stanza work, Living Flame of Love describes a greater intimacy, as the soul responds to God's love. It was written in a first redaction at Granada between 1585-6, apparently in two weeks, and in a mostly identical second redaction at La Peñuela in 1591.

Living Flame of Love

Burns & Oates

Counsels of Light and Love

St. John of the Cross on the state of beginners (Basket of tolerance series)

Dawn Horse Press

Excerpt from The Living Flame of Love About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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