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SpiritualQuest - St John of the Cross - Dark Night of the Soul

by John of the Cross

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  • 16th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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While imprisoned in a tiny prison cell for his attempts to reform the Church, sixteenth-century Spanish mystic John of the Cross composed many of his now classic poems of the soul’s longing for God. Written on a scroll smuggled to him by one of his guards, his songs are the ultimate expression of the spiritual seeker’s journey from estranged despair to blissful union with the divine. You might also be interested in: The Perennial Way 2 of 4. Essential Guidance for the Spiritual Seeker. (available on Internet Archive)

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics.

  • Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive matched “Mysticism”. Retained metadata contains “Mysticism” in the subject metadata.

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    • “Mysticism”· in subject

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1577-01-01T00:00:00Z—English—Public digitized item

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