They put the soul in the "obscure night", as St. JohnoftheCross 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. JohnoftheCross 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.