The Obscure Night of The Soul
Gelesen von Ed Humpal
Saint John Of The Cross
(4,58 Sterne; 25 Bewertungen)
The Obscure Night of the Soul, better know today as The Dark Night of the Soul, is the distilled teaching of St John of the Cross, who reintroduced and revolutionized Christian Contemplation in the 16th Century. The text remains in print until this day, and has been an inspiration to seekers for centuries. St John's method is known as the Via Negativa, defined in Wikipedia as "a type of theological thinking that attempts to describe God, the Divine Good, by negation, to speak only in terms of what may not be said about the perfect goodness that is God...In brief, negative theology is an attempt to clarify religious experience and language about the Divine through discernment, gaining knowledge of what God is not (apophasis), rather than by describing what God is. The apophatic tradition is often, though not always, allied with the approach of mysticism, which focuses on a spontaneous or cultivated individual experience of the divine reality beyond the realm of ordinary perception, an experience often unmediated by the structures of traditional organized religion or by the conditioned role-playing and learned defensive behavior of the outer man." - Summary by Ed Humpal and Wikipedia (5 hr 1 min)
Chapters
Book II, Chapter 9, How this Night Enlightens the Mind While It Brings Darkness…
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Book II, Chapter 12, How this Night is like Purgatory, How Divine Wisdom Illumi…
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Book II, Chapter 14, The Last Lines of the First Stanza Spiritually Explained
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Bewertungen
Indispensable for those who want to be holy
Connie Rossini
(5 Sterne)
This great spiritual classic can be intimidating and discouraging for those who are not ready for it. Readers should start with John's Spiritual Canticle or Living Flame of Love. These works inspire one toward a greater love of God and put the difficult teachings on purgation in context. For those who want to surrender all, John's guidance through the purgation that is necessary is unrivaled in all of Christian history.
Almighty Ohm
(5 Sterne)
I find this an excellent read for anybody who finds themselves trapped in a state of apathy or just disassociation from what they used to consider their meaning or what they valued. St John is writing similar to Nietzsche and Jung would write many centuries later. I find, even being five plus centuries old, it still resonates today. Also an excellent reading.