The Dark Night of the Soul

This reprinting memorializes the translation of E. Allison Peers which was hailed at the time by the London Times as “the most faithful that has appeared in any European language.”

It is perhaps not an exaggeration to say that the verse and prose works combined of St. John of the Cross form at once the most grandiose and the most melodious spiritual canticle to which any one man has ever given utterance.

The most sublime of all the Spanish mystics, he soars' aloft on the wings of Divine love to heights known to hardly any of them.

When we study his treatises—principally that great composite work known as the Ascent of Mount Carmel and the Dark Night—we have the impression of a mastermind that has scaled the heights of mystical science and from their summit looks down upon and dominates the plain below and the paths leading upward.