The Ascent of Mount Carmel
The first of St. John of the Cross's great treatises (c. 1578–1585): the active night of sense and spirit, in which the soul strips itself of every desire and walks in pure faith, hope and charity towards union with God. 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 Lewis's scripture references as footnotes. Zimmerman's essay, the contents and the indexes are not included. Lewis's chapters follow the Spanish one for one, except that his 'Argument' of Book III is Silverio's chapter III.1, so his III.n is our l3-c(n+1).