The Dark Night of the Soul
Contributors: Halycon Backbouse (Editor)
Edition: Rev Ed edition
Publisher: Hodder Headline
Published: August 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780340422748
Subjects: Poetry & poets: 16th to 18th centuries; Poetry anthologies: 16th to 18th centuries; Religion; Religion - Classic Works; Institutions & Organizations; Religion / Christian Life; Christian Life - General; Christian life; Christianity; Early works to 1800; Gifts, Spiritual; Spiritual life
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.
Notes: Hodder Christian Classics