An active priest and teacher in his lifetime, this work is considered primary source material the training of Spiritual Directors, and an essential set of guidelines for all students of Revelation through Divine Love. St John of the Cross and St Teresa of Avila worked together to reform the Carmelite Order in the Roman Catholic Church, in which he is honored as one of the Doctors of the Church. The Ascent of Mount Carmel is one of the timeless classics of Christian contemplation, radical in its time and deeply influential in the world today. Published by ICS Publications, available from Amazon.Īnd are good sources of new and used books.Download cover art Download CD case insert The Ascent of Mount Carmel Carmel, Dark Night of the Soul, Spiritual Canticle, and Living Flame of Love, as well as letters, poetry, and his Sayings of Light and Love translations by Kicran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriquez. You must possess it without wanting anything.īecause it is the center of its humility. You must go by a way in which you are not.Īnd when you come to the possession of the all You must go by a way in which you possess not.

You must go by a way in which you know not. To come to the knowledge which you have not You must go by a way in which you enjoy not.

To come to the pleasure which you have not Instructions for climbing to the summit, the high state of union: These verses are from his drawing 'The Ascent of Mount Carmel,' which contained Of Discalced Carmelites, after having spent many months imprisoned in a small cell in Toledo,

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