On a dark night, anxiously, inflamed in love, oh blessed fortune! I went out without being noticed, my house already being calm.
STATEMENT
1. In this first song, the soul recounts the manner and manner in which it had to leave itself and all things, according to the fans, dying for true mortification to all of them and to itself, to come and live a life of sweet love and tasty with God. And he says that this going out of himself and of all things was a dark night, which he understands here by purgative contemplation, as will be said later, which passively causes in the soul the said denial of itself and of all things.
2. And this exit she says here that she was able to do with the strength and warmth that the love of her Husband gave her in said dark contemplation. In which she emphasizes the good happiness that she had in walking to God this night with such prosperous success that none of the three enemies, which are the world, the devil and the flesh, who are the ones who always go against this path, could prevent her from doing so. ; inasmuch as said night of purifying contemplation made all the passions and appetites fall asleep and dampen in the house of her sensuality according to her contrary appetites and movements. So she says the verse:
On a dark night.