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"He soars on the wings of Divine love"
"It is perhaps not an exaggeration to say that the verse and prose works combined of St. John of
the Cross form at once the most grandiose and the most melodious spiritual canticle to which any
one man has ever given utterance.
The most sublime of all the Spanish mystics, he soars aloft on the wings of Divine love to
heights known to hardly any of them. . . . True to the character of his thought, his style is always
forceful and energetic, even to a fault.
When we study his treatises—principally that great composite work known as the
Ascent of
Mount Carmel
and the
Dark Night—we
have the impression of a mastermind that has scaled the
heights of mystical science; and from their summit looks down upon and dominates the plain
below and the paths leading upward. . . .
Nowhere else, again, is he quite so appealingly human; for, though he is human even in his
loftiest and sublimest passages, his intermingling of philosophy with mystical theology; makes
him seem particularly so. These treatises are a wonderful illustration of the theological truth that
graced 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
sublimest manifestations of Divine grace."
E. ALLISON PEERS
DARK NIGHT
OF THE SOUL
by
Saint John of the Cross
DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH
THIRD REVISED EDITION
Translated and edited, with an Introduction,
by E. ALLISON PEERS
from the critical edition of
P. SILVERIO DE SANTA TERESA, C.D.
IMAGE BOOKS
A Division of Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Garden City, New York
IMAGE BOOKS EDITION 1959
by special arrangement with The Newman Press
Image Books edition published February 1959
1st printing January 1959
Electronic edition scanned by Harry Plantinga, 1994
This electronic text is in the public domain.
NIHIL OBSTAT: GEORGIVS SM ITH, S.T.D, PH.D.
CENSOR DEPVTATVS
IMPRIM ATVR: E. M ORROGH BERNARD
VICARIVS GENERALIS
WESTM ONASTERII: DIE XXIV SEPTEM BRIS M CM LII
TO THE
DISCALCED CARMELITES OF CASTILE,
WITH ABIDING M EMORIES OF THEIR HOSPITALITY AND KINDNESS
IN M ADRID, ÁVILA AND BURGOS,
BUT ABOVE ALL OF THEIR DEVOTION TO
SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS,
I DEDICATE THIS TRANSLATION

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