The Dark Night of the Soul
St. John of the Cross's commentary on his poem of the Dark Night (c. 1584–1585): the passive night of sense and spirit, in which God purifies the soul by dark contemplation and leads it to the union of love. It was left unfinished. Spanish critical text of P. Silverio de Santa Teresa with his notes; English translation by David Lewis, revised by Benedict Zimmerman.
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Source: Spanish critical text with Silverio's notes (manuscript variants, scripture references) kept as footnotes. OCR of the scan; page furniture removed; footnotes matched to their references page by page; OCR errors corrected by consulting P. Eulogio Pacho's modern text (Editorial Monte Carmelo, via Documenta Catholica Omnia), which was used only to find errors and never copied. Chapter summaries are taken from Silverio's own table of contents. · English translation with its footnotes (scripture references and the Spanish variants of Gerardo's edition). Zimmerman's introduction, the contents and the indexes are not included.