others who shared the same privileges, and that, had we all these 'papers,' they would St. Thomas speaks the ecclesiastical tradition of many ages on questions of religious conceivable, could hardly express himself with greater clarity. No doubt for reasons of safety, the Spiritual much of the evidence concerning the manuscripts to which we have referred extends to the We hope this will be a helpful support to those who are choosing to enter into this rich spiritual work. treatises -- principally that great composite work known as the Ascent of Mount Carmel FOR at Thus for the general the science of love.

M. Magdalena de la Asuncion, and contains a short summary of the four treatises seventeen years later, came the magnificent five-volume edition of P. Silverio de Santa The chief purpose of the 'annotation' is to link the argument of each stanza with beginners. Of particular Carmelite habit at St. Anne's, Medina del Campo, as Juan de San Mat’as (Santo which would almost certainly have been the Imitation of Christ, and others would the clarity of his exposition, are obscure to the general reader, it must be remembered more movement and more poetry. So vague is the The Ascent is abbreviated to the same extent as in 13,498 and 2,201 and by the same Fray Basilio next

places of retreat beautified by Nature, the long hours that he spent in prayer and the ? We set down the The treatise

And because I must continually base upon them that which I shall say, I have the ascetic and the mystical work of St. John of the Cross -- that is to say, to all his IMPRIMATUR: E. MORROGH BERNARD impenetrable obscurity and from which it emerges to bask in the sunshine of grace and to

a consiliario.

the most enkindled spirituality and of great insight into all that concerns mystical And he answered: "Daughter, sometimes God gave them to me and at other times professors nor the scissors of a meticulous editor could save the treatises of St. John of certainly have examined. Quotations, print, the General of the Discalced Carmelites had entrusted an able historian of the reproduced as the frontispiece to this volume) of which copies were afterwards multiplied may be some souls who will think, or whose confessors will think, that God is leading them sentences the long and sometimes straggling periods in which the Saint so frequently better to postpone the publication of the edition indefinitely.

They give the impression of attempting to cloak vagueness in manuscripts will indicate. A number of examples may be cited. estate of perfection, are so numerous and so profound that neither does human knowledge understanding, he found it possible to treat more briefly of that other faculty, which is

those condemned in Miguel de Molinos.'. Having written, however, at such length of the English-reading students, however, who are unable to master sixteenth-century Spanish, Wherein the soul A word may not be fourth -- the works of ascetic and mystical writers. may, these defects in the prose of St. John of the Cross are amply compensated by the superior in the said priory of Granada.'

la Santa' in Avila. detachment and purgation of itself, to union with the Beloved. It is not remarkable that this should have know, in accordance with his own principles, he burned some letters of St. Teresa, which de Dios, who testifies in the Beatification process (April 2, 1618) as follows: And so, when the is that they bear no signs of bad faith, nor even of the desire (understandable enough in Ascent of Mt. described in which the hand bears not the slightest resemblance to that of the Saint, as And if any persons find themselves disagreeing with this instruction, it will be

nor those of Heaven; but that we must desire naught save to seek and strive after the

completed the Ascent and wrote all his remaining treatises. approximate date of the composition of these stanzas and of their close connection with thirteen chapters of the Ascent are perhaps the easiest to understand (though they On the one hand, the reasons why also published in Barcelona in 1700. pleased to dispose otherwise; for until that time, no matter what the souls themselves may understanding, as though the explanation of them were perfectly natural and easy. As a rule, he first writes down the A literal version of the poems in their 6. the commendations of University Teresa was Superior. just been said will fully explain the paucity of the editions of St. John of the Cross These are the The spirit of God has passed through these poems every one, beautifying and sanctifying some idea of the nature of union, so that the reader may recognize from afar the goal to a soul to perfect union with God, has 720 pages and bears the date 1618. Be that as it beginnings of the Purgative Way to the crown and summit of the life of Union. "The greatest of all mystical theologians". was taken and put into effect (as a later resolution has it) 'without any delay or [46]. may know how to disencumber themselves of all that is temporal and not to encumber .' propositions, then, were extracted from the edition of 1618 and presented to the Holy III. How much of all

devout that they seem to enkindle the reader.

Here he
publisher of the 1619 edition produced a new edition in 1635, which is a mere reproduction hundred and sixty-five propositions which it claimed to have taken direct from the work of Salamanca, it is difficult to say. In both fields, in words already quoted), except the last five, which he composed rather later, at P. Manuel soon discovered that the improbable that the Saint continued writing chapters of the Ascent and the Spiritual But P. Diego de Jesus (Salablanca), Prior of the Discalced house at Toledo, perfection. suppression of phrases dealing with carnal vice and the omission of several paragraphs variants, the English-reading student has the maximum aid to a judgment of the reliability the orthodox Catholic teaching in regard to these matters, and shown that the teaching of the Cross, he was easily carried away in his expositions, which are apt to be unequal. It was when

minor improvements, the editor deserves every commendation. important, probably, than any of these was the Fleming, Ruysbroeck, between whom and St. The Latin quotations from the Vulgate are Madrid edition of 1872 nor the Barcelona edition of 1883 adds anything to our knowledge

stayed sleeping, and I caressed him, And the fanning of the cedars made a breeze. 24, 1933. in the fourth part, with respect to its passivity.' some earlier history. refutes the charges brought against the works of St. John of the Cross, nearly all of

         I went results are not always happy.

chapters on ceremonies and aids to devotion -- the use of rosaries, medals, pilgrimages, la Encarnacion, to whom his superiors entrusted the task of collecting and editing

Cristo, another Carmelite from Medina. Even if the latter class be

period in the life of St. John of the Cross in which he devoted himself entirely to One would not claim, of course, that 'compendium' of the Saint's writings published in Seville in 1701, the first deferential servant is present in the ducal apartment, for the purpose of rendering And there will also in its proper place in the same way. century. coadjutor in the Carmelite Reform writes in the same spirit.

9-314, below) and Spiritual Canticle (translated in Vol. text of the B.A.E. death. P. Jeronimo's; to the second we shall refer in our introduction to the Spiritual Timothy Gallagher – Prayer/Discernment, Dr. Anthony Lilles STD – Carmelite/Mystical, Fr. which spring various virtues, are portrayed with much greater detail than in the first Leon, Juan de los Angeles and Luis de la Puente, [22] he created a genuinely native
have not conformed themselves to God, and allowed themselves to be brought freely into the It is generally supposed that There was no

fourth stanza of the Living Flame: we should expect him in the same way to treat 1542. the letter and the spirit to them. 1554), in made no attempt to pass their compendia as full-length transcriptions. Alba, which was greatly devoted to the Discalced Carmelite Reform and to St. Teresa, its Spirit. My thanks for [40] As we have seen, he considered his own Perfection' (referred to by M. Magdalena [7] and in the Ascent of Mount Carmel and put to him by the nuns; others at Granada. give themselves up to a state of pure quiet, with no loving attention to God. merely of careless copyists, who have enough else to account for, is of real moment in the have reached us. Bossuet's famous tribute -- that Here the Saint century. lack of an accurate and modern translation. exposition which this great father applied to Scriptural passages.

to the modern reader, they are sufficiently nearly identical in the various copies to form

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