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With this poem and commentary, the pre-eminent Catholic mystic, St. John of the Cross, maps his long and often dark spiritual journey. The contemplations of this Carmelite monk have encouraged generations of Christians to pursue Jesus Christ regardless of the immediate spiritual experience.
CHAPTER I Of the Imperfections of Beginners In an Obscure Night SOULS enter this Obscure Night when God is drawing them out of the state of Beginners, which is that of those who meditate in the spiritual way, and is leading them into that of Proficients, the state of Contemplatives, that, having passed through it, they may arrive at the state of the Perfect, which is that of the Divine union with God. That we may the better-understand the nature of this night through which the soul has to pass, and
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