![]() It is likely that the poem was written between 15. The time or place of composition are not certain. John of the Cross, in eight stanzas of five lines each, narrates the journey of the soul to the mystical union with God. In modern times, the phrase "dark night of the soul" has taken on the broader meaning of spiritual dryness and existential doubt and loneliness. The author himself did not give any title to his poem, which together with this commentary and the Ascent of Mount Carmel ( Subida del Monte Carmelo) forms a treatise on the active and passive purification of the senses and the spirit, leading to mystical union. It follows after the second phase, the illumination in which God's presence is felt, but this presence is not yet stable. ![]() ![]() John of the Cross in his treatise Dark Night ( Noche Oscura), a commentary on his poem with the same name. The Dark Night of the Soul ( La noche oscura del alma) is a phase of passive purification of the spirit in the mystical development, as described by the 16th-century Spanish mystic and poet St. ![]()
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