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You find no solace in Scripture. Your prayers simply bounce of the ceiling. And your doubts about God, that you had hidden so carefully, are now impossible to ignore. As we walk upon the road of faith all of us will eventually find ourselves bogged down in a spiritual depression or what St. John of the Cross calls the Dark Night. In Dark Night of the Soul St. John teaches us that those moments, which seem so threatening to our spiritual vitality, are actually an invitation to move beyond besetting sin and move closer to God. As you continue down the narrow road of faith you are bound to face some Dark Nights. Let St. John of the Cross guide you through these nights, so that you can continue on your journey towards God.

This new edition of the Image classic, with more than 100,000 copies sold, brings E. Allison Peers's magnificent translation of St. John of the Cross's masterpiece Dark Night of the Soul to a new generation of readers and will renew the interest of those already familiar with its soaring poetry and timeless truths. The sixteenth-century Carmelite monk St. John of the Cross stands alongside St. Teresa of Avila as the West's best known and most beloved Christian mystic. As Peers writes in the Introduction to his definitive translation of Dark Night of the Soul, "The most sublime of all Spanish mystics, he soars aloft on the wings of Divine love to heights known hardly to any of them... True to the character of his thought, his style is always forceful and energetic."

Dark Night of the Soul follows the soul's journey from a state of abandonment and darkness to a loving union with God. In a voice at once grandiose and melodious, and a style that combines the systematic theology of St. Thomas Aquinas with rapturous poetry, St. John describes the process of moving away from routine religious rituals and embracing a Being who can be known only through love. His words, Peers writes, "are a wonderful illustration of the theological truth that grace, far from destroying nature, ennobles and dignifies it, and of the agreement always found between the natural and the supernatural -- between the principles of sound reason and the sublime manifestations of Divine grace." One of the greatest contributions to the literature of mysticism, Dark Night of the Soul offers support and encouragement to all who seek oneness with God.

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