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    The Cloud of Unknowing

    Late 14th-century English mystical work

    The Cloud of Unknowing is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the latter half of the 14th century. The text is a spiritual guide on contemplative prayer. The underlying message of this work suggests that the way to know God is to abandon consideration of God's particular activities and attributes, and be courageous enough to surrender one's mind and ego to the realm of "unknowing", at which point one may begin to glimpse the nature of God. Wikipedia

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    The Cloud of Unknowing (Middle English: The Cloude of Unknowyng) is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the latter half of the 14th century. The text is a spiritual guide on contemplative prayer.The underlying message of this work suggests that the way to know God is to abandon consideration of God's particular activities and attributes, and be courageous ...
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  4. catholicspiritualdirection.org

    The Cloud of Unknowing Anonymous. p. 98 Chapter 65: Of the first secondary power, Imagination by name; and of the works and of the obedience of it unto Reason, before sin and after. . . . . p. 99 Chapter 66: Of the other secondary power, Sensuality by name; and of the
  5. andrewjtaggart.com

    The Cloud of Unknowing and the Cloud of Forgetting: Sat and Asat. The "cloud of unknowing" refers to that state of being that is not of the sensible or the mental nor is it unified with God. Zen calls this samadhi, a largely thought-free state in which all is gathered into one. Most new meditators, catching a brief glimpse of this state ...
  6. explorethefaith.com

    The Cloud of Unknowing is a spiritual guide for contemplative prayer. It was written by an unknown author in the late Middle Ages. It suggests the way to know God is to abandon any practice of meditation, and instead surrender to the realm of Unknowing. This teaching parallels The Dark Night by John of the Cross.
  7. media.bloomsbury.com

    An anonymous monk of the fourteenth century wrote this book to teach the art of contemplation, a spiritual practice of union with God beyond the intellect. The book explains the method, the worth, and the pitfalls of contemplation, using a style of Middle English that requires effort to understand.
  8. Cloud of Unknowing documents techniques used by the medieval monastic community to build and maintain that contemplative knowledge of God. Scholars date the anonymous authorship of Cloud of Unknowing to 1375, during the height of European monasticism. Written as a primer for the young monastic, the work is instructional, but does not have an ...
  9. The Cloud of Unknowing (Middle English: The Cloude of Unknowyng) is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the latter half of the 14th century. The text is a spiritual guide on contemplative prayer in the late Middle Ages. The book counsels a young student to seek God, not through knowledge and intellection ...
  10. librivox.org

    The Cloud of Unknowing (Middle English: The Cloude of Unknowyng) is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the latter half of the 14th century. The text is a spiritual guide on contemplative prayer in the late Middle Ages. The book counsels a young student to seek God, not through knowledge and intellection ...

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