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This revised edition of The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross was produced to mark the fourth centenary of the death of St. John of the Cross (1542–1591). The result is an English translation of his writings that preserves the authentic meaning of the great mystic’s writings, presents them as clearly as possible, and at the same time gives the reader the doctrinal and historical...

The appetites darken and blind a person 1. The third kind of harm the appetites bring upon a person is blindness and darkness. Vapors make the air murky and are a hindrance to the bright sunshine; a cloudy mirror does not clearly reflect a person’s countenance; so too muddy water reflects only a hazy image of one’s features. In just this way a person’s intellect, clouded by the appetites, becomes dark and impedes the sun of either natural reason or God’s supernatural wisdom from shining
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