Dark Night of the Soul Audiobook (Free)

With His gentle hand He wounded my neck And caused

all my senses to become suspended.

Part poetic masterpiece, part mystic treatise, The Dark

Night of the Soul by 16th century Carmelite monk,

St. John of the Cross, addresses the sensation of being

forgotten by the Presence of the Almighty that each

Christian desirous of strolling more closely with God

must pass through in order to find out to walk by beliefs and

not by view.

Spiritual persons suffer great tests…by reason…of the

fear about Dark Nights the Soul which they have of being lost on the road, thinking

that all religious blessing has ended for them and that God

has left behind them since they find no help or satisfaction

in good stuff. Then they develop weary, and try to

focus their faculties with some degree of pleasure

upon some object of meditation, thinking that, when

they are not doing this yet are conscious of making

an effort, they may be doing nothing.

Perhaps one of the most widely recognized of the mystical

writings, St. John’s traditional Dark Nights the Soul isn’t

only practical theology but a lovely balm of healing to

anyone whose heart provides ever echoed the words of Christ,

“My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?”