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![]() The most interesting part of this sketch for me is the phrase along both sides: 'Now that I no longer desire them (or least desire them ), I have them. John of the Cross and is considered to be the introductory work on mystical theology. ![]() ![]() Thus for the general reader they were of great utility for the student, on the other hand, they have never been entirely adequate. John's 'Sketch of Mount Carmel' which he includes in his work. The Ascent of Mount Carmel is the third major work of St. ![]() Originally written between 15, the text outlines the progress of the Soul to the summit of the metaphorical Mount Carmel, where it encounters God. Their great merit was extreme readableness: many a disciple of the Spanish mystics, who is unacquainted with the language in which they wrote, owes to these translations the comparative ease with which he has mastered the main lines of St. Ascent of Mount Carmel is a spiritual treatise by 16th-century Spanish Catholic mystic St. First, the existing translations were never very exact renderings of the original Spanish text even in the form which held the field when they were first published. The translations of the individual prose works now in general use go back in their original form to the eighteen-sixties, and, though the later editions of some of them have been submitted to a certain degree of revision, nothing but a complete retranslation of the works from their original Spanish could be satisfactory. John of the Cross has been an urgent necessity. “EDITION FOR at least twenty years, a new translation of the works of St. ![]()
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