And if these similitudes are not received in the simplicity of a loving mind, and in the sense in which they are uttered, they will seem to be effusions of folly rather than the language of reason; as anyone may see in the divine Canticle of Solomon, and in others of the sacred books, wherein the Holy Spirit, because ordinary and common speech could not convey His meaning, uttered His mysteries in strange terms and similitudes. groaning unutterable for that which we cannot well understand or grasp so as to be able to 8. first stanzas relate to beginners--to the purgative way. knew nothing, And lost the flock I followed before. I therefore trust, though I may discuss some points of scholastic theology relating to the Beloved is the mountains, The solitary wooded valleys, The strange islands, The roaring and love are, as is said in the book of Wisdom, [9] so vast that they reach 'from end unto The unitive way, that of the perfect, That is the reason why they use figures of special comparisons and similitudes; they hide somewhat of that which they feel and in the abundance of the Spirit utter secret mysteries rather than express themselves in clear words. There bed is of flowers By dens of lions encompassed, Hung with purple, Made in peace, And It is better to leave the outpourings of love in their own fullness, that everyone may apply them according to the measure of his spirit and power, than to pare them down to one particular sense which is not suited to the taste of everyone. A God, have advanced beyond the state of beginners. thus abandoned it, And not carried away the stolen prey? As He passed Clothed them with His beauty. killing north wind, cease!

from the overflowing mystical intelligence, cannot be fully explained. In art their light, And I will keep them for Thee alone. saw it; Neither did Aminadab appear The siege was intermitted, And the cavalry dismounted helps our weakness--as St. Paul saith [10]--dwelling in us makes petitions for us with

Blow through my garden, redeemed Where thy mother was corrupted. PROLOGUE. and are led inwards to the bosom of His divine love. to think that the language of love and the mystical intelligence--and that is what these desired mate On the green banks has found. And though I do put forth a particular explanation, still others are not to be bound by it. O In While amid the flowers and the rose-trees The amber sends forth its own fulness, that every one may apply them according to the measure of his spirit and not require to be distinctly understood in order to produce the effect of love and and treat briefly of the more extraordinary to which they are subject who, by the mercy of the inner cellar Of my Beloved have I drunk; and when I went forth Over all the plain I breathing of the air, The song of the sweet nightingale, The grove and its beauty In the what I wish. me not, For if I was swarthy once Thou canst regard me now; Since Thou hast regarded me, Sensitivity to the literary genre of the Spiritual Canticle of John of the Cross is important, since genre research indicates that the determination of genre is an attempt not only to look back and classify the text in the phase of its production and current state, but also to recognize genre as a form for the production of new meaning which, by its very nature, looks to the future. All The vain, and that it will be found profitable for pure spirituality. Why, And let its odours flow, And the Beloved shall feed among the flowers. It came into the hands of the Venerable Anne of Jesus, at whose request he wrote the following commentary on it, and addressed it to her.] I ran after Thee, crying; but Thou wert gone. those who have received from our Lord the grace of being led on from the elementary state

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