They put the soul in the "obscure night", as St. John of the Cross calls it, or in the "great desolation", to use the phrase of Father Baker.

他们把灵魂，在“模糊之夜”，作为圣约翰的两岸通话，或在“伟大的荒凉”，用这句话的父亲贝克。

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Indeed, the Spanish mystic St. John of the Cross in the 16th century coined the term the "dark night" of the soul to describe a characteristic stage in the growth of some spiritual masters.

实际上，西班牙的神秘学家圣十字约翰在16世纪就创造了精神的“暗夜”这个词来描写精神大师成长过程中的这个富有特点的阶段。

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It houses more than 8, 000 objects, such as the Salvador Dali painting Christ of St John of the Cross and works by Rembrandt and Van Gogh.

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John of the Cross, with lines like these.

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