TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peers, E Allison
AU  - Peers,E Allison
TI  - Ascent of Mount Carmel:  Saint John of the Cross
SN  - 0860120961   
U1  - K36 
PY  - 1983///
CY  - London
PB  - Burns & Oates
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; Sets down the first stanza. Describes two different nights through which spiritual persons pass, according to the two parts of man, the lower and the higher. Expounds the stanza which follows .        .        .        .        .        .17  Explains the nature of this dark night through which the soul says that it has passed on the road to union . . . . ... .19  Speaks of the first cause of this night, which is that of the privation of the desire in all things, and gives the reason for which it is called night . n  Wherein is declared how necessary it is for the soul truly to pass through this dark night of sense, which is mortification of desire, in order that it may journey to union with God ........ 13  Wherein the aforementioned subject is treated and continued, and it is shown by passages and figures from Holy Scripture how necessary it is for the soul to journey to God through this dark night of the mortification of desire in all things   Wherein it described how the desires weaken the soul in virtue and make it lukewarm   Wherein it is proved necessary that the soul that would attain to  Divine union should be free from desires, however slight they be	.48  Wherein are treated two serious evils caused in the soul by the desires, the one evil being privative and the other positive ....  Wherein is shown how the desires torment the soul. This is proved likewise by comparisons and quotations .....  Wherein is described how the desires defile the soul. This is proved by comparisons and quotations from Holy Scripture .....  Wherein is shown how the desires darken and blind the soul    .  Which treats of the answer to another question, explaining what die  desires are tliat suffice to cause the evils aforementioned in the soul     .         Wherein is described the manner and way which the soul must  follow in order to enter this night of sense       .        .        .        .       Wherein is expounded the second line of the stanza         .       .     60  Wherein are expounded the remaining lines of the aforementioned  Which begins to treat of the second part or cause of this night, which is faith. Proves by two arguments how it is darker than the first and than the third   How faith is dark night to the soul. This is proved with arguments  and quotations and figures from Scripture         ......      67  Treats in general of how the soul likewise must be in darkness, in so far as this rests with itself, to the end that it may be effectively guided by faith to the highest contemplation ........ 70  Wherein is described what is meant by union of the soul widi God.  A comparison is given   ..........      74  Wherein is described how it is the three tlleological virtues that perfect the three faculties of the soul, and how the said virtues produce empti¿ness and darkness within them ........ 79  Wherein is described how strait is the v, ay that leads to eternal life and how completely detached and disencumbered must be those that will walk in it. We begin to speak of the detachment of the understanding . . Si  Which describes in a general way how no creature and no know¿ledge that can be comprehended by the understanding can serve as a proximate means of Divine union with God . ....... 88  How faith is die proximate and proportionate means of the under¿standing whereby the soul may attain to die Divine union of love. This is proved by passages and figures from Divine Scripture .... 93  Wherein distinction is made between all apprehensions and types  of knowledge which can be comprehended by the understanding         .        .        Of the hindrance and harm that may be caused by apprehensions  of the understanding which proceed from that which is supematurally repre¿  sented to the outward bodily senses; and how the soul is to conduct itself  therein	............ 96  Which treats of natural imaginary apprehensions. Describes their nature and proves that
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