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Volume one includes the The Ascent of Mount Carmel and the The Obscure Night of the Soul. The Ascent of Mount Carmel is divided into three books: “The Nature of the Obscure Night,” “Proximate Means of Union, Faith,” and “The Purgation and Active Night of the Memory and Will.” The Obscure Night of the Soul is divided into two books: “OF the Night of Sense” and “Of the Night of the Spirit.”

except the book of the law, to be laid up with the ark where the manna was preserved.—‘Take this book, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God’*—and the rod of Aaron, type of the cross. ‘Take back the rod of Aaron into the tabernacle of the testimony.’† That soul which has no other aim than the perfect observance of the law of God, and the carrying of the cross of Christ, will be a true ark containing the true manna, which is God. Two great evils of the desires:
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