The Ascent of Mount Carmel: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Ascent of Mount Carmel, credited to Saint John of the Cross, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Ascent of Mount Carmel by Saint John of the Cross. (Translated by David Lewis.) Read in English by Ed Humpal The Ascent of Mount Carmel is one of the timeless classics of Christian contemplation, radical in its time and deeply influential in the world today. St John of the Cross and St Teresa of Avila worked together to reform the Carmelite Order in the Roman Catholic Church, in which he is honored as one of the Doctors of the Church. An active priest and teacher in his lifetime, this work is considered primary source material the training of Spiritual Directors, and an essential set of guidelines for all students of Revelation through Divine Love. ( Ed Humpal)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Ascent of Mount Carmel
• Author credits: Saint John of the Cross
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 93
• Listed recording duration: 11:51:12

Catalogue topics

• christian
• mysticism
• spiritual life
• camelite
• divine love
• spiritual direction
• roman catholic
• divine union

Opening tracks: first 24 of 93

1. 01 - Stanzas — 3:00
2. 02 - Prologue — 10:02
3. 03 - Book I, The Obscure Night; Chapter I, Two Kinds of this Night — 3:37
4. 04 - Book I, Chapter II, The Nature of the Obscure Night — 3:53
5. 05 - Book I, Chapter III, The Privation of the Desire — 4:37
6. 06 - Book I, Chapter IV, The Mortification of the Desire — 10:43
7. 07 - Book I, Chapter V, The Same Subject — 10:35
8. 08 - Book I, Chapter VI, Two Great Evils of the Desires — 8:56
9. 09 - Book I, Chapter VII, The Desires Torment the Soul — 4:39
10. 10 - Book I, Chapter VIII, The Desires Darken the Soul — 9:21
11. 11 - Book I, Chapter IX, The Desires Pollute the Soul — 8:39
12. 12 - Book I, Chapter X, The Desires Make the Soul Lukewarm — 4:41
13. 13 - Book I, Chapter XI, Freedom from the Desires — 12:49
14. 14 - Book I, Chapter XII, Desires Which Injure the Soul — 6:46
15. 15 - Book I, Chapter XIII, The Night of Sense — 9:13
16. 16 - Book I, Chapter XIV, The Second Line of the Stanza — 3:21
17. 17 - Book I, Chapter XV, The Last Lines of the Stanza — 1:54
18. 18 - Book II, The Second Night, Chapter I, The Second Stanza — 5:57
19. 19 - Book II, Chapter II, The Cause of the Second Night — 3:01
20. 20 - Book II, Chapter III, Faith, The Dark Night of the Soul — 7:21
21. 21 - Book II, Chapter IV, The Soul Must be in Darkness to be Guided — 10:42
22. 22 - Book II, Chapter V, Union of the Soul with God — 11:33
23. 23 - Book II, Chapter VI, Virtues that Bring the Soul into Emptiness and Darkness — 7:29
24. 24 - Book II, Chapter VII, Freedom and Detachment in the Way of Life — 15:08

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