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In the ascent to perfection, the soul passes through what [[Saint John of the Cross]] describes as the “'''dark night'''.” The first dark night is experienced as one encounters the return of his own personal [[karma]]—the human creation that almost completely obliterates for a time the light of the [[Christ Self]] and the [[I AM Presence]]. This “'''dark night of the soul'''” is in preparation for the '''Dark Night of the Spirit''', which involves the supreme test of Christhood faced by [[Jesus]] on the cross when he cried out, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”<ref>Matt. 27:46; Mark 15:34.</ref> In this [[initiation]], the soul is completely cut off from the I AM Presence and the heavenly hierarchy and must pass through the [[crucifixion]] and the [[resurrection]], sustained solely by the light garnered in his own sacred heart, while holding the balance for planetary karma.

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