Dark Night of the Soul - Unabridged edition Audiobook [Download]

With His gentle hand He wounded my neck And caused

all my senses to be 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 feeling of being

forgotten by the Presence of the Almighty that every

Christian desirous of walking more closely with God

must pass through in order to learn to walk by faith and

not by sight.

Spiritual persons suffer great trials...by reason…of the

fear which they have of being lost on the road, thinking

that all spiritual blessing is over for them and that God

has abandoned them since they find no help or pleasure

in good things. Then they grow weary, and endeavor to

concentrate their faculties with some degree of pleasure

upon some object of meditation, thinking that, when

they are not doing this and yet are conscious of making

an effort, they are doing nothing.

Perhaps one of the most widely recognized of the mystical

writings, St. John’s classic Dark Night of the Soul is not

only practical theology but a beautiful balm of healing to

anyone whose heart has ever echoed the words of Christ,

"My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?"