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| Prologue. |
3 |
| Book I |
| The Nature of the Obscure Night, the Necessity of Passing through It in Order to Attain to the Divine Union: and Specially the Obscure Night of Sense and Desire, with the Evils which These Inflict on the Soul |
| Chapter I |
| Two Kinds of This Night, Corresponding with the Division of the Soul into Higher and Lower. |
8 |
| Chapter II |
| The Nature and Cause of the Obscure Night. |
8 |
| Chapter III |
| The First Cause, the Privation of the Desire. |
11 |
| Chapter IV |
| The Necessity of Passing Truly through the Obscure Night of Sense, which Is the Mortification of the Desire. |
13 |
| Chapter V |
| Continuation of the Same Subject. Proofs from Scripture. |
18 |
| Chapter VI |
| Two Great Evils of the Desires: Negative and Positive. Proofs from Scripture. |
23 |
| Chapter VII |
| The Desires Torment the Soul. Proofs and Illustrations. |
27 |
| Chapter VIII |
| The Desires Darken the Soul. Proofs and Illustrations. |
29 |
| Chapter IX |
| The Desires Pollute the Soul. Proofs from Scripture. |
33 |
| Chapter X |
| The Desires Make the Soul Lukewarm and Enfeeble Virtue. Proofs and Illustrations. |
37 |
| Chapter XI |
| The Necessity of Freedom from All Desires, However Slight, for the Divine Union. |
39 |
| Chapter XII |
| The Nature of Those Desires which Suffice to Injure the Soul. |
44 |
| Chapter XIII |
| How the Soul Enters by Faith into the Night of Sense. |
47 |
| Chapter XIV |
| Explanation of the Second Line of the Stanza. |
51 |
| Chapter XV |
| Explanation of the Last Lines of the Stanza. |
53 |
| Book II |
| Proximate Means of Union, Faith. The Second Night of the Spirit. |
| Chapter I |
| Explanation of the Second Stanza. |
54 |
| Chapter II |
| The Second Part, Or Cause of This Night — Faith. Two Reasons Why It Is Darker than the First and Third. |
56 |
| Chapter III |
| Faith, the Dark Night of the Soul. Proofs from Reason and the Holy Scriptures. |
57 |
| Chapter IV |
| How the Soul Must Be in Darkness in Order to Be Duly Guided by Faith to the Highest Contemplation. |
61 |
| Chapter V |
| The Union of the Soul with God. A Comparison. |
65 |
| Chapter VI |
| The Three Theological Virtues Perfect the Powers of the Soul and Bring Them into A State of Emptiness and Darkness. Proofs from S. Luke and Isaias. |
70 |
| Chapter VII |
| The Straitness of the Way of Life. The Detachment and Freedom Necessary for Those Who Walk in It. The Detachment of the Intellect. |
74 |
| Chapter VIII |
| No Creature, No Knowledge, Comprehensible by the Intellect, Can Subserve as Proximate Means of Union with God. |
80 |
| Chapter IX |
| Faith Is the Proximate and Proportionate Means of the Intellect by which the Soul May Attain to the Divine Union of Love. Proofs from the Holy Scriptures. |
85 |
| Chapter X |
| The Divisions of the Apprehensions and Acts of the Intellect. |
87 |
| Chapter XI |
| Of the Hurt and Hindrance Resulting from Intellectual Apprehensions Supernaturally Produced through the Instrumentality of the Exterior. Senses How the Soul Is to Be Guided Under Such Circumstances. |
88 |
| Chapter XII |
| Of Natural and Imaginary Apprehensions. Their Nature. They Cannot Be Proportionate. Means of Union. The Evil Results of Not Knowing How to Detach Oneself from Them in Time. |
96 |
| Chapter XIII |
| The Signs to Be Observed by the Spiritual Man That He May Know When to Withdraw the Intellect from Imaginary Forms and Discursive Meditations. |
101 |
| Chapter XIV |
| The Fitness of These Signs. The Necessity of Observing Them for Spiritual Progress. |
104 |
| Chapter XV |
| Of the Occasional Necessity of Meditating and Exerting the Natural Faculties on the Part of Those Who Begin to Enter on the Contemplative State. |
112 |
| Chapter XVI |
| Of Imaginary Apprehensions Supernaturally Represented to the Fancy. They Cannot Be Proximate Means of Union with God. |
114 |
| Chapter XVII |
| Of the Ends and Way of God in Communicating Spiritual Blessings to the Soul through the Interior Senses. Answer to the Question Proposed. |
122 |
| Chapter XVIII |
| How Souls Are Injured Because Their Spiritual Directors Do Not Guide Them Aright through These Visions. How These Visions, Though from God, Become Occasions of Error. |
128 |
| Chapter XIX |
| Visions Revelations and Locutions, Though True and from God, May Deceive. Proofs from Holy Scripture. |
133 |
| Chapter XX |
| Proofs from Scripture That the Divine Locutions, Though Always True, Are Not Always Certain in Their Causes. |
142 |
| Chapter XXI |
| God Is At Times Displeased with Certain Prayers Though He Answers Them. Illustrations of His Anger with Such Prayers. |
147 |
| Chapter XXII |
| It Is Not Lawful Under the New Law as It Was Under the Old to Enquire of God by Supernatural Ways. This Doctrine Profitable for the Understanding of the Mysteries of Our Holy Faith. Proofs from S Paul. |
155 |
| Chapter XXIII |
| Of the Purely Spiritual Apprehensions of the Intellect. |
167 |
| Chapter XXIV |
| Of the Two Kinds of Spiritual Visions which Come by the Supernatural Way. |
169 |
| Chapter XXV |
| Of Revelations: Their Nature and Division. |
174 |
| Chapter XXVI |
| The Intelligence of Pure Truths. Two Kinds Thereof. The Conduct of the Soul Therein. |
175 |
| Chapter XXVII |
| Of the Second Kind of Revelations, the Disclosure of Secrets and Hidden Mysteries. How They May Subserve and Hinder the Divine Union. of the Many Delusions of the Devil Incident to Them. |
184 |
| Chapter XXVIII |
| Of the Interior Locutions which Occur Supernaturally. Their Different Kinds. |
188 |
| Chapter XXIX |
| Of the First Kind of Words Formed by the Mind. Self-Recollected the Causes of Them. The Advantages and Disadvantages of Them. |
189 |
| Chapter XXX |
| Of Interior Words Formally Wrought in A Supernatural Way. of the Dangers Incident Thereto; and A Necessary Caution Against Delusions. |
195 |
| Chapter XXXI |
| Of the Interior Substantial Locutions: the Difference Between Them and the Formal. The Profitableness of Them. The Resignation and Reverence of the Soul in Respect of Them. |
199 |
| Chapter XXXII |
| Of Intellectual Apprehensions Resulting from the Interior Impressions Supernaturally Effected. The Sources of Them. The Conduct to Be Observed by the Soul, So That These Apprehensions Shall Not Hinder It on the Way of Union. |
201 |
| Book III |
| The Purgation and Active Night Op the Memory and the Will. |
| Chapter I |
| Of the Natural Apprehensions of the Memory: which Is to Be Emptied of Them. That the Soul According to That Faculty May Be United with God. |
206 |
| Chapter II |
| Three Kinds of Evils to which the Soul Is Liable When Not in Darkness; with Respect to the Knowledge and Reflections of the Memory. Explanation of the First. |
213 |
| Chapter III |
| Of the Second Evil, Coming from the Evil Spirit through the Natural Apprehensions of the Memory. |
216 |
| Chapter IV |
| Of the Third Evil, Proceeding from the Distinct Natural Knowledge of the Memory. |
217 |
| Chapter V |
| The Profitableness of Forgetfulness and Emptiness, with Regard to All Thoughts and Knowledge which Naturally Occur to the Memory. |
219 |
| Chapter VI |
| Of the Second Kind of Apprehensions: the Imaginary and Supernatural. |
221 |
| Chapter VII |
| The Evils Inflicted on the Soul by the Knowledge of Supernatural Things If Reflected Upon. Their Number. |
222 |
| Chapter VIII |
| Of the Second Evil: the Danger of Self-Conceit and Presumption. |
224 |
| Chapter IX |
| Of the Third Evil: the Work of the Devil through the Imaginary Apprehensions of the Memory. |
226 |
| Chapter X |
| Of the Fourth Evil of the Distinct Supernatural Apprehensions of the Memory: the Impediment to Union. |
228 |
| Chapter XI |
| Of the Fifth Evil Resulting from the Imaginary Supernatural Apprehensions: Low and Unseemly Views of God. |
228 |
| Chapter XII |
| The Benefits of Withdrawing the Soul from the Apprehensions of the Imagination. Answer to An Objection. The Difference Between the Natural and Supernatural Imaginary Apprehensions. |
230 |
| Chapter XIII |
| Of Spiritual Knowledge as It Relates to the Memory. |
236 |
| Chapter XIV |
| General Directions for the Guidance of the Spiritual Man in Relation to the Memory. |
238 |
| Chapter XV |
| Of the Obscure Night of the Will. Proofs from Deuteronomy and the Psalms. Division of the Affections of the Will. |
240 |
| Chapter XVI |
| Of the First Affection of the Will. What Joy Is. Its Divers Sources. |
243 |
| Chapter XVII |
| Of Joy in Temporal Goods. How It Is to Be Directed. |
244 |
| Chapter XVIII |
| Of the Evils Resulting from Joy in Temporal Goods. |
247 |
| Chapter XIX |
| The Benefits Resulting from Withdrawing Our Joy from Temporal Things. |
253 |
| Chapter XX |
| The Joy of the Will in Natural Goods Is Vanity. How to Direct the Will to God Therein. |
256 |
| Chapter XXI |
| The Evils of the Will’s Rejoicing in Natural Goods. |
258 |
| Chapter XXII |
| The Benefits of Not Rejoicing in Natural Goods. |
262 |
| Chapter XXIII |
| Of the Third Kind Sensible Goods. Their Nature and Varieties. The Regulation of the Will with Respect to Them. |
264 |
| Chapter XXIV |
| The Evils which Befall the Soul When the Will Has Joy in Sensible Goods. |
267 |
| Chapter XXV |
| The Spiritual and Temporal Benefits of Self-Denial in the Joy of Sensible Things. |
269 |
| Chapter XXVI |
| The Fourth Kind of Goods: Moral Goods. How the Will May Lawfully Rejoice in Them. |
273 |
| Chapter XXVII |
| Seven Evils to which Men Are Liable If the Will Rejoices in Moral Goods. |
276 |
| Chapter XXVIII |
| The Benefits of Repressing All Joy in Moral Goods. |
281 |
| Chapter XXIX |
| The Fifth Kind of Goods in which the Will Has Joy. The Supernatural Their Nature and the Difference Between Them and Spiritual Goods. How Joy in Them Is to Be Directed Unto God. |
283 |
| Chapter XXX |
| The Evils Resulting from the Will’s Rejoicing in This Kind of Goods. |
285 |
| Chapter XXXI |
| The Benefits of Self-Denial in the Joy of Supernatural Graces. |
290 |
| Chapter XXXII |
| The Sixth Kind of Goods in which the Will Rejoices. Their Nature. The First Division of Them. |
291 |
| Chapter XXXIII |
| Of the Spiritual Goods Distinctly Cognizable by the Intellect and the Memory. The Conduct of the Will with Respect to Joy in Them. |
293 |
| Chapter XXXIV |
| Of the Sweet Spiritual Goods which Distinctly Affect the Will Their Diversities. |
293 |
| Chapter XXXV |
| The Subject Continued the Ignorance of Some People in the Matter of Images. |
297 |
| Chapter XXXVI |
| How the Joy of the Will in Sacred Images Is to Be Referred to God So That There Shall Be No Hindrance in It Or Occasions of Error. |
300 |
| Chapter XXXVII |
| Motive Goods Continued. Oratories and Places of Prayer. |
302 |
| Chapter XXXVIII |
| The Right Use of Churches and Oratories. How the Soul Is to Be Directed through Them Unto God. |
305 |
| Chapter XXXIX |
| Continuation of the Same Subject. |
307 |
| Chapter XL |
| Of Some Evils to which Men Are Liable Who Indulge in the Sensible Sweetness which Results from Objects and Places of Devotion. |
308 |
| Chapter XLI |
| Of the Three Kinds of Devotional Places. How the Will Is to Regulate Itself in the Matter. |
309 |
| Chapter XLII |
| Of Other Motives to Prayer Adopted by Many; Namely, Many Ceremonies. |
312 |
| Chapter XLIII |
| How the Joy and Strength Op the Will Is to Be Directed in These Devotions. |
313 |
| Chapter XLIV |
| Of the Second Kind of Distinct Goods in which the Will Vainly Rejoices. |
317 |
| The Obscure Night of the Soul. |
| Book I |
| Of the Night of Sense. |
| Chapter I |
| Of the Imperfections of Beginners. |
327 |
| Chapter II |
| Of Some Imperfections to which Beginners Are Liable in the Matter of Pride. |
329 |
| Chapter III |
| Of the Imperfections of Avarice in the Spiritual Sense. |
333 |
| Chapter IV |
| Of the Imperfection of Luxury Spiritually Understood. |
335 |
| Chapter V |
| Of the Imperfections of Anger. |
338 |
| Chapter VI |
| Of the Imperfections of Spiritual Gluttony. |
339 |
| Chapter VII |
| Of the Imperfections of Envy and Spiritual Sloth. |
343 |
| Chapter VIII |
| Explanation of the First Line of the First Stanza. |
345 |
| Chapter IX |
| Of the Signs by which It May Be Known That the Spiritual Man Is Walking in the Way of This Night Or Sensitive Purgation. |
348 |
| Chapter X |
| How They Are to Conduct Themselves Who Have Entered the Obscure Night. |
353 |
| Chapter XI |
| Explanation of the Second Line of the First Stanza. |
356 |
| Chapter XII |
| Of the Benefit8 of the Night of Sense. |
359 |
| Chapter XIII |
| Of Other Benefits of the Night of Sense. |
365 |
| Chapter XIV |
| The Last Line of the First Stanza Explained. |
369 |
| Book II |
| Of the Night of the Spirit. |
| Chapter I |
| The Second Night; That of the Spirit. When It Begins. |
373 |
| Chapter II |
| Of Certain Imperfections of Proficients. |
375 |
| Chapter III |
| Introduction. |
377 |
| Chapter IV |
| The First Stanza Spiritually Explained. |
379 |
| Chapter V |
| Obscure Contemplation Is Not A Night Only, But Pain and Torment Also for the Soul. |
380 |
| Chapter VI |
| Of Other Sufferings of the Soul in This Night. |
384 |
| Chapter VII |
| The Same Subject Continued. Other Afflictions and Trials of the Will. |
388 |
| Chapter VIII |
| Other Trials of the Soul in This State. |
393 |
| Chapter IX |
| How It Is That This Night Enlightens the Mind While It Brings Darkness Over It. |
396 |
| Chapter X |
| Explanation of This Purgation by A Comparison. |
402 |
| Chapter XI |
| A Vehement Passion of Divine Love. The Fruit of These Sharp Afflictions of the Soul. |
405 |
| Chapter XII |
| How This Awful Night Is Like Purgatory. How the Divine Wisdom Illuminates Men on Earth with That Light in which the Angels Are Purified and Enlightened in Heaven. |
409 |
| Chapter XIII |
| Other Sweet Effects of the Dark Night of Contemplation. |
412 |
| Chapter XIV |
| The Last Lines of the First Stanza Spiritually Explained. |
417 |
| Chapter XV |
| Explanation of the Second Stanza. |
419 |
| Chapter XVI |
| How the Soul Journeys Securely When in Darkness. |
419 |
| Chapter XVII |
| Obscure Contemplation in Secret. |
426 |
| Chapter XVIII |
| How This Secret Wisdom Is Also A Ladder. |
431 |
| Chapter XIX |
| The Mystic Ladder Has Ten Degrees. Explanation of the First Five of Them. |
433 |
| Chapter XX |
| Of the Other Five Degrees. |
438 |
| Chapter XXI |
| The Meaning of ‘Disguised’. The Colours in which the Soul Disguises Itself. |
441 |
| Chapter XXII |
| Happiness of the Soul. |
445 |
| Chapter XXIII |
| The Wonderful Hiding-Place of the Soul, which the Devil Though He Penetrates into Other Higher Places, Cannot Enter. |
446 |
| Chapter XXIV |
| The Last Line of the Second Stanza Explained. |
452 |
| Chapter XXV |
| Third Stanza Explained. |
454 |
