Chapter 19
When Growth Feels Like Dying
Sets down the first line and begins to explain how this dark contemplation is not only night for the soul but is also grief and torment. The soul says that "in an obscure night," which is contemplation, and "fevered with love's anxiety," it went forth to union with the Beloved. This dark contemplation causes two kinds of darkness or purgation in spiritual persons according to the two parts of the soul, the sensual and the spiritual. And thus one night or purgation will be of the sensual part of the soul, which is that whereof we have spoken above, and…
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