![]() This form of contemplation is not directed by the intellect, but involves spiritual union with God through the heart. 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. 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. ![]() The text is a spiritual guide on contemplative prayer in the late Middle Ages. 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. Translated by Evelyn Underhill (1875 - 1941) ![]() Download cover art Download CD case insert The Cloud of Unknowing
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