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Gnosticism & Christian Mysticism
Dark Night of the Soul
- First published16th c.
- TraditionGnosticism
- Shelf132 books
John of the Cross, the sixteenth-century Spanish Carmelite mystic and poet, wrote this commentary on his own poem describing the soul's journey to union with God. He explains the dark night as a process of purification in which the senses and the spirit are stripped of attachments and consolations. The work is a classic of Christian mysticism, and its central image has become a widely used term for spiritual crisis and transformation.
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