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.
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Chapter 5: That in the time of this work all the creatures that ever have been, be now, or ever shall be, and all the works of those same creatures, should be hid under the cloud of forgetting...
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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 and the es...
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The author of the Cloud of Unknowing is puzzlement for the same reason Teilhard de Chardin was for the geniuses of my own era. He is not writing a “new gospel” for an elite group with the intuitive knowledge unknown since Adam.
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Resources for contemplative (centering) meditation. A workshop by Trappist monk and author, Fr. William Meniger. Christian prayer in general, in particular, contemplative prayer, leading to a direct experience of God. ... found a dusty little book in the abbey library, The Cloud of Unknowing. As he read it he was delighted...
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The seventy chapitre. ... Goostly freende in God, ... so that none yede forby, bot alle thei schulde streche into the soverein desirable and into the heighest wilnable thing, the whiche is God. For He is even mete to oure soule by mesuring of His Godheed; and oure soule even mete unto Him bi worthines of oure creacion to His...
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The Cloud of Unknowing, a masterpiece of simplicity that distills a complex mystical epistemology and discipline into engagingly readable prose, embodies a paradox. ... The Cloud of Unknowing, by contrast, is essentially apophatic in its emphasis and focuses almost entirely on the "silencing" described by Augustine:
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The second text I will consider is The Cloud of Unknowing. ... Library: Modern Documents : Mark Vuletic: The Yoga-Sutras of Patanjali and The Cloud of Unknowing: A Preliminary Step in Assessing the Ontological Accuracy of the Mystical Experience...
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