Dark Night of the Soul
Edition: Facsimile Ed edition
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: March 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781564595805
Subjects: Christian mysticism; Saints & hagiography; Religion - Classic Works; Religion - Catholicism; Religion; Christian Life - Inspirational - Catholic; Mysticism; Inspirational - Catholic
First sentence: IN this first song the soul relates the mode and manner she pursued as regards her emotions and sensations, when she set forth from herself and all things, dying with unfeigned mortification to herself and them, so as to attain at last a sweet and pleasant life of love in God; and she says that this going forth from herself and all things, was "In a dark night," whereby she means purgative contemplation, as shall afterwards be said; the which causes in the soul the negation of herself and of everything.