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The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Treatises [The Epistle of Privy Counsel] (Paperback)
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The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Treatises [The Epistle of Privy Counsel] (Paperback)
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2014 Reprint of 1952 Revised Edition. Full facsimile of the
original edition. "The Cloud of Unknowing" is an anonymous work of
Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the latter half of
the 14th century. Along with "The Cloud" were written six
accompanying treaties. Chief among these is "Epistle of Privy
Counsel" which is also reproduced in this text. "The Cloud" is a
spiritual guide on contemplative prayer. The underlying message of
this work proposes that the only way to truly "know" God is to
abandon all preconceived notions and beliefs or "knowledge" about
God and be courageous enough to surrender your mind and ego to the
realm of "unknowingness," at which point, you begin to glimpse the
true nature of God. The book counsels a young student to seek God,
not through knowledge and intellection (faculty of the human mind),
but through intense contemplation, motivated by love, and stripped
of all thought. This is brought about by putting all thoughts and
desires under a "cloud of forgetting," and thereby piercing God's
cloud of unknowing with a "dart of longing love" from the heart.
This form of contemplation is not directed by the intellect, but
involves spiritual union with God through the heart.
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