I’m glad to see your references to the Carmelite “Doctors of the Church”.
I am a lay Carmelite and have been for 38 years. We are expected to know well the writings you mention.
In his prologue to “Ascent to Mt. Carmel”, St. John of the Cross writes:
“In discussing this dark night therefore, I shall not rely on experience or science, for these can fail and deceive us. Although I shall not neglect whatever of possible use I can make of them, my help in all that, with God’s favor, I shall say, will be Sacred Scripture, at least in the most important matters, or those which are difficult to understand. Taking Scripture as our guide we do not err, since the Holy Ghost speaks to us through it.”
Very good! What a gift to the Church the Carmelites are.
thank you very much.