The Dark Night of the Soul by St John of Cross is a treatise on applied mystical/negative/apophatic theology. The Saint opens his Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ thus: "In as much as this canticle seems to have been written with some fervor of the love of God, whose wisdom and love are, as is said in the book of Wisdom, so vast that they reach "from end unto end," and as the soul taught and moved by him, manifests the same abundance and strength in the words it uses, I do not purpose here to set forth all that greatness of the fulness the spirit of love, which is fruitful, embodies in it." (SC p. 1) With this statement the author sets the agenda of his mystical theology. The reach from "end unto end" implies an immanent pervading by the sacred of all that is created, that is, the secular/mundane reality whereby the sacred is filled with sacred meaning. It is effected through the negation of secular or material reality, thus opening the world and the soul to an influx of the divine light. When the soul is sublated into the Oversoul in a mystical union, it becomes of the same nature as the latter. That is, its individual identity is negated to become at one with Godhead.
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