> [[jc-ascent-07|← Previous]] | [[jc-ascent-toc|TOC]] | [[jc-ascent-09|Book II →]] # Book the First Wherein is described the nature of dark night and how necessary it is to pass through it to Divine union; and in particular this book describes the dark night of sense, and desire, and the evils which these work in the soul. [73] [[jc-ascent-08-00|Stanza the First. On a dark night, Kindled in love with yearnings -- oh, happy chance! --I went forth without being o...]] [[jc-ascent-08-01|Chapter I. Sets Down the First Stanza. Describes Two Different Nights Through Which Spiritual Persons Pass, According...]] [[jc-ascent-08-02|Chapter II. Explains the Nature of This Dark Night Through Which the Soul Says That It Has Passed on the Road to Union]] [[jc-ascent-08-03|Chapter III. Speaks of the First Cause of This Night, Which Is That of the Privation of the Desire in All Things, and...]] [[jc-ascent-08-04|Chapter IV. Wherein Is Declared How Necessary It Is for the Soul Truly to Pass Through This Dark Night of Sense, Whic...]] [[jc-ascent-08-05|Chapter V. Wherein the Aforementioned Subject Is Treated and Continued, and It Is Shown by Passages and Figures from ...]] [[jc-ascent-08-06|Chapter VI. Wherein Are Treated Two Serious Evils Caused in the Soul by the Desires, the One Evil Being Privative and...]] [[jc-ascent-08-07|Chapter VII. Wherein Is Shown How the Desires Torment the Soul. This Is Proved Likewise by Comparison and Quotations]] [[jc-ascent-08-08|Chapter VIII. Wherein Is Shown How the Desires Darken and Blind the Soul]] [[jc-ascent-08-09|Chapter IX. Wherein Is Described How the Desires Defile the Soul. This Is Proved by Comparisons and Quotations from H...]] [[jc-ascent-08-10|Chapter X. Wherein Is Described How the Desires Weaken the Soul in Virtue and Make It Lukewarm]] [[jc-ascent-08-11|Chapter XI. Wherein It Is Proved Necessary That the Soul That Would Attain to Divine Union Should Be Free from Desire...]] [[jc-ascent-08-12|Chapter XII. Which Treats of the Answer to Another Question, Explaining What the Desires Are That Suffice to Cause th...]] [[jc-ascent-08-13|Chapter XIII. Wherein Is Described the Manner and Way Which the Soul Must Follow in Order to Enter This Night of Sense]] [[jc-ascent-08-14|Chapter XIV. Wherein Is Expounded the Second Line of the Stanza]] [[jc-ascent-08-15|Chapter XV. Wherein Are Expounded the Remaining Lines of the Aforementioned Stanza]] --- ![[maps/bibliography#^biblio-jc-ascent]] > [[jc-ascent-07|← Previous]] | [[jc-ascent-toc|TOC]] | [[jc-ascent-09|Book II →]]