My own review says I read this only twice, but I know for sure that this will be at least my fourth read of this text, not to mention all the other times I have read sections for various reasons.
Your treasure in God is not purely your all.Īscent of Mount Carmel became one of inspiration sources for Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1973 film The Holy Mountain, along with Mount Analogue by René Daumal.April 19, 2023: Rereading again. You must possess it without wanting anything.īecause if you desire to have something in all You must go by a way in which you are not.Īnd when you come to the possession of the all You must go by the way in which you possess not.
You must go by the way in which you know not. You must go by the way in which you enjoy not. John's poem contains these famous lines of self-abnegation leading to spiritual rebirth: Eliot when he came to write the Four Quartets. John's spiritual method of inner purgation along the 'negative way' was an enormous influence on T. John shows how the Soul sets out to leave all worldly ties and appetites behind to achieve "nothing less than transformation in God".Īnd the fanning of the cedars made a breezeĪnd causing all my senses to be suspended The work is divided into three sections and is set out as a commentary on four poetic stanzas by John on the subject of the Dark Night. Written between 15 in Granada, Spain, after his escape from prison, the Ascent is illustrated by a diagram of the process outlined in the text of the Soul's progress to the summit of the metaphorical Mount Carmel where God is encountered. These two works, together with John's The Living Flame of Love and the Spiritual Canticle, are regarded as some of the greatest works both in Christian mysticism and in the Spanish language. Alongside another connected work by John, entitled The Dark Night, it details the so-called Dark Night of the Soul, when the individual Soul undergoes earthly and spiritual privations in search of union with God. The book is a systematic treatment of the ascetical life in pursuit of mystical union with Christ, giving advice and reporting on his own experience.
Ascent of Mount Carmel ( Spanish: Subida del Monte Carmelo) is a 16th-century spiritual treatise by Spanish Catholic mystic and poet Saint John of the Cross.
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