Dark Night Of The Soul And Other Great Works
By: St. John of the Cross 
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Description: St. John narrates this journey of the soul, which requires death to self and detachment from the world. In a step-by-step process, he shows how God can use this “dark night” to eventually bring our human spirits into great illumination, revealing:

• Divine wisdom and the passion of divine love.How the soul can walk securely through the darkness and the wonderful effects that are wrought in the believer as a result of the dark night.
• Includes CD of selected excerpts from book.

Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591) was a poet, priest, philosopher, and mystic who helped to bring about reform within the Roman Catholic Church during the sixteenth century. A member of the Carmelite Order, he worked diligently with Saint Teresa of Avila to return their order to its proper foundation, a deep devotion to Jesus Christ. As a result of their efforts, John was imprisoned. Central to Saint John’s beliefs are the death of the self-life, the mortification of the flesh, and overcoming the devil, the world, and all temptations so that the soul can be completely united to God and His love.