> [[jc-ascent-08|← Book the First]] | [[jc-ascent-toc|TOC]] | [[jc-ascent-10|Book the Third →]] # Book the Second of the Ascent of Mt. Carmel Wherein is treated the proximate means of ascending to union with God, which is faith; and wherein therefore is described the second part of this night, which, as we said, belongs to the spirit, and is contained in the second stanza, which is as follows. STANZA THE SECOND [[jc-ascent-09-01|Chapter I. In Darkness and Secure, by the Secret Ladder, Disguised -- Oh, Happy Chance! --]] [[jc-ascent-09-02|Chapter II. Which Begins to Treat of the Second Part or Cause of This Night, Which Is Faith. Proves by Two Arguments ...]] [[jc-ascent-09-03|Chapter III. How Faith Is Dark Night to the Soul. This Is Proved with Arguments and Quotations and Figures from Scrip...]] [[jc-ascent-09-04|Chapter IV. Treats in General of How the Soul Likewise Must Be in Darkness, in so Far as This Rests with Itself, to t...]] [[jc-ascent-09-05|Chapter V. Wherein Is Described What Is Meant by Union of the Soul with God. a Comparison Is Given.]] [[jc-ascent-09-06|Chapter VI. Wherein Is Described How It Is the Three Theological Virtues That Perfect the Three Faculties of the Soul...]] [[jc-ascent-09-07|Chapter VII. Wherein Is Described How Strait Is the Way That Leads to Eternal Life and How Completely Detached and Di...]] [[jc-ascent-09-08|Chapter VIII. Which Describes in a General Way How No Creature and No Knowledge That Can Be Comprehended by the Under...]] [[jc-ascent-09-09|Chapter IX. How Faith Is the Proximate and Proportionate Means to the Understanding Whereby the Soul May Attain to th...]] [[jc-ascent-09-10|Chapter X. Wherein Distinction Is Made Between All Apprehensions and Types of Knowledge Which Can Be Comprehended by ...]] [[jc-ascent-09-11|Chapter XI. Of the Hindrance and Harm That May Be Caused by Apprehensions of the Understanding Which Proceed from Tha...]] [[jc-ascent-09-12|Chapter XII. Which Treats of Natural Imaginary Apprehensions. Describes Their Nature and Proves That They Cannot Be a...]] [[jc-ascent-09-13|Chapter XIII. Wherein Are Set Down the Signs Which the Spiritual Person Will Find in Himself Whereby He May Know at W...]] [[jc-ascent-09-14|Chapter XIV. Wherein Is Proved the Fitness of These Signs, and the Reason Is Given Why That Which Has Been Said in Sp...]] [[jc-ascent-09-15|Chapter XV. Wherein Is Explained How It Is Sometimes Well for Progressives Who Are Beginning to Enter upon This Gener...]] [[jc-ascent-09-16|Chapter XVI. Which Treats of the Imaginary Apprehensions That Are Supernaturally Represented in the Fancy. Describing...]] [[jc-ascent-09-17|Chapter XVII. Wherein Is Described the Purpose and Manner of God in His Communication of Spiritual Blessings to the S...]] [[jc-ascent-09-18|Chapter XVIII. Which Treats of the Harm That Certain Spiritual Masters May Do to Souls When They Direct Them Not by a...]] [[jc-ascent-09-19|Chapter XIX. Wherein Is Expounded and Proved How, Although Visions and Locutions Which Come from God Are True, We May...]] [[jc-ascent-09-20|Chapter XX. Wherein Is Proved by Passages from Scripture How the Sayings and Words of God, Though Always True, Do Not...]] [[jc-ascent-09-21|Chapter XXI. Wherein Is Explained How at Times, Although God Answers the Prayers That Are Addressed to Him, He Is Not...]] [[jc-ascent-09-22|Chapter XXII. Wherein Is Solved a Difficulty -- Namely, Why It Is Not Lawful, Under the Law of Grace, to Ask Anything...]] [[jc-ascent-09-23|Chapter XXIII. Which Begins to Treat of the Apprehensions of the Understanding That Come in a Purely Spiritual Way, a...]] [[jc-ascent-09-24|Chapter XXIV. Which Treats of Two Kinds of Spiritual Vision That Come Supernaturally]] [[jc-ascent-09-25|Chapter XXV. Which Treats of Revelations, Describing Their Nature and Making a Distinction Between Them]] [[jc-ascent-09-26|Chapter XXVI. Which Treats of the Intuition of Naked Truths in the Understanding, Explaining How They Are of Two Kind...]] [[jc-ascent-09-27|Chapter XXVII. Which Treats of the Second Kind of Revelation, Namely, the Disclosure of Hidden Secrets. Describes the...]] [[jc-ascent-09-28|Chapter XXVIII. Which Treats of Interior Locutions That May Come to the Spirit Supernaturally. Says of What Kinds The...]] [[jc-ascent-09-29|Chapter XXIX. Which Treats of the First Kind of Words That the Recollected Spirit Sometimes Forms Within Itself. Desc...]] [[jc-ascent-09-30|Chapter XXX. Which Treats of the Interior Words That Come to the Spirit Formally by Supernatural Means. Warns the Rea...]] [[jc-ascent-09-31|Chapter XXXI. Which Treats of the Substantial Words That Come Interiorly to the Spirit. Describes the Difference Betw...]] [[jc-ascent-09-32|Chapter XXXII. Which Treats of the Apprehensions Received by the Understanding from Interior Feelings Which Come Supe...]] --- ![[maps/bibliography#^biblio-jc-ascent]] > [[jc-ascent-08|← Book the First]] | [[jc-ascent-toc|TOC]] | [[jc-ascent-10|Book the Third →]]