{The Dark Night of the Soul (1) [continued]}[8th September 1989]

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What is interesting is that the whole work* is prefaced by a poem of 8 stanzas – of which the Night of the Sense and the Night of the Spirit are concerned with only the first two. If you fit these from r~ round to c on the inner circle, there is a slight correlation with the first Qualities but a clearer one with several of the images of T[arot]XIV to T[arot]XXI (particularly T[arot]XVI and T[arot] XVIII with Stanzas III-V). However, this is not clear enough to be conclusive.

*[St. John of the Cross: The Dark Night of the Soul – see last previous entry]

{→} {cf [[Redbook6:269][19890918:2030]{The Dark Night of the Soul (2)}[18th September 1989], ] 269}

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