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St John Of The CrossA major new translation of the inspirational classic.
When prayers go dry on the tongue, and any sense of God in the world is lost, it seems the spiritual seeker has nowhere to turn. This is the dark night of the soul that the great 16th century saint, John of the Cross, experienced when he could no longer feel God's presence and when prayer and spiritual practice no longer inspired him.
The poem he wrote while in prison, on a scroll smuggled to him by one of his guards, is the ultimate expression of the journey from estranged despair to blissful union with the divine. And the commentary to that poem, which he added later, shows why this work has become such an inspiration for people throughout the world who have experienced a major challenge in their life, and found their experience of it to be spiritually transforming.
The poem and commentary have never before been translated by anyone outside the Catholic church. In her beautiful new rendering of them both, Mirabai Starr brings renewed insight and relevance to this ancient mystical classic.
