John of the Cross
Spiritual Maxims and Sentences (later collections)
Traditional attribution
Spiritual Maxims and Sentences (later collections)
Avisos y sentencias espirituales (colecciones posteriores)
Devotional florilegia that for centuries spread an ascetic image of John of the Cross. They are listed so that readers can distinguish between what he wrote and what was attributed to him in the editorial tradition.
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Authorship note
Collections formed by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century editors mixing authentic sayings with extracts from his treatises and maxims by others; also the 'Degrees of Perfection'. Their authenticity is partial and debated piece by piece.
Editions and translations
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Français
John of the Cross
Les dits de lumière et d'amour, suivi des Degrés de perfection
The Conscious LibraryLes dits de lumière et d'amour, suivi des Degrés de perfection
Obsidiane, 1985
Translation: Bernard Sesé
ISBN 2904469168
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
- Sayings of Light and Love · 1585
- 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
- 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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