40+ Dark Night Of The Soul Poem Images. The stanzas expounded by the saint are taken from the same poem in the two treatises. John of the cross translated by a.z.
Translated and edited, with an introduction, by e.
The top of the cross. And then came one like a lion to the rescue with a mighty roar, pulling the troubled soul from the jaws of one like a strong bear. Although john wrote dark night of the soul for his christian brothers and sisters, his rapturous mysticism provides a way to union with the divine for a wide variety the poem is obscure metaphor. Traditionally, spiritual directors identify three primary stages (or ways) of growth in holiness.