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Ascent of Mount Carmel by St John of the Cross - Book 1

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The Stanza, Fired With Loves, Love's Longings, Ok?

The spiritual part of the soul needs to be fired with another, with a more urgent longing for spiritual things outside of that material. Thinks he you have the purgation, and you also have this firing of h love towards the greater spiritual things. And then, very briefly, at the end,. saint john gives a very quick exposition of the three remaining lines of the stanza, ah, sheer grace. I went out unseen. My house now now my house being now stilled, to be released from a prison by the sheer grace. Everything' stilled, and we head forward to enjoyment and union with christ, with god.

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