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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.

In both the dark night of the soul, in which the soul’s light is eclipsed chiefly by personal karma, and the dark night of the Spirit, in which the light of the I AM Presence is eclipsed by planetary karma as well as Christic initiation, the individual must deal with the tests unique to his lifestream and those common to all on the path of the ascension.