Written work
The Mount of Perfection (drawing of Mount Carmel)
Monte de perfección (dibujo con leyendas)
A graphic outline of the Ascent: two side paths seeking goods of heaven or earth that go astray, and a central path marked 'nothing, nothing, nothing… and even on the mount nothing' leading to the summit, where 'here there is no longer any path'. It is the visual synthesis of his teaching.
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Authorship note
Authentic in design: John drew it for the Discalced nuns of Beas and distributed copies; the original is lost and survives in copies made by the nuns and in the engraving of the 1618 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
Obras completas
Editorial de Espiritualidad, 2008
ISBN 9788470683459
Ed. José Vicente Rodríguez y Federico Ruiz Salvador. Contiene esta obra.
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
- 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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