Written work
Sayings of Light and Love
Dichos de luz y amor
Just over a hundred short maxims on love, silence, faith and dispossession, among them 'In the evening you will be examined in love'. They are the most accessible door to his thought and the form his everyday spiritual direction took.
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Authorship note
Authentic. Maxims he handed out on loose sheets; a partial autograph survives (Andújar codex) and other series transmitted by copies. Their number and order vary by edition.
Editions and translations
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English
John of the Cross
The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross
The Conscious LibraryThe Collected Works of St. John of the Cross
ICS Publications, 1991
Translation: Kieran Kavanaugh y Otilio Rodriguez
ISBN 9780935216936
Edición revisada. Contiene esta obra.
Español
Dichos de luz y amor (códice de Andújar)
Editorial de Espiritualidad, 1976
ISBN 8470680862
Introducción y transcripción de José Vicente Rodríguez.
John of the Cross
Edición facsímil de los Dichos de luz y amor
The Conscious LibraryEdición facsímil de los Dichos de luz y amor
La Olmeda, 1990
ISBN 8440480237
Presentación de Tomás Álvarez y Valentín de la Cruz.
Obras completas
Editorial de Espiritualidad, 2008
ISBN 9788470683459
Ed. José Vicente Rodríguez y Federico Ruiz Salvador. Contiene esta obra.
Français
John of the Cross
Les dits de lumière et d'amour
The Conscious LibraryLes dits de lumière et d'amour
Obsidiane, 1985
Translation: Bernard Sesé
ISBN 2904469168
Prefacio de Michel de Certeau.
Other works by John of the Cross
- Spiritual Canticle (poem) · 1578
- Dark Night (poem) · 1579
- Living Flame of Love (poem) · 1585
- Song of the Soul that Rejoices in Knowing God through Faith ('How well I know the fount') · 1578
- Romances on the Gospel 'In principio erat Verbum' · 1578
- Romance on the Psalm 'Super flumina Babylonis' · 1578
- Stanzas Concerning an Ecstasy Experienced in High Contemplation ('I entered into unknowing') · 1580
- Stanzas of the Soul that Suffers with Longing to See God ('I live, but not in myself') · 1580
- 'Upon a quest of love' (stanzas a lo divino) · 1580
- 'A lone young shepherd lived in pain' · 1584
- Gloss 'Without support and with support' · 1580
- Gloss 'Not for all of beauty' · 1580
- 'With the divine Word' (Christmas song) · 1585
- Summary of Perfection ('Forgetfulness of creation') · 1585
- 'My soul is detached' (attributed stanzas) · 1600
- The Ascent of Mount Carmel · 1585
- The Dark Night · 1585
- Spiritual Canticle (redaction A) · 1584
- Spiritual Canticle (redaction B) · 1586
- The Living Flame of Love (commentary) · 1586
- The Precautions · 1580
- Counsels to a Religious on How to Reach Perfection · 1585
- Censure and Opinion on the Spirit of a Nun · 1588
- The Mount of Perfection (drawing of Mount Carmel) · 1579
- Letters · 1591
- Points of Love Gathered at Beas · 1580
- Spiritual Maxims and Sentences (later collections) · 1700
- Complete Works (collected editions) · 1618
Sources
- San Juan de la Cruz. Obras completas. Ed. José Vicente Rodríguez; introducciones y notas doctrinales de Federico Ruiz Salvador. Madrid: Editorial de Espiritualidad, 1980 (ed. revisada 2008, ISBN 9788470683459).
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