The Cloud Of Unknowing: A classic of Christian mystical wisdom, now in modern English, Chirag Patel
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The Cloud Of Unknowing: A classic of Christian mystical wisdom, now in modern English

Author: Chirag Patel

Series: Illuminated Ancient Wisdom in Modern English #9

Narrator: Chirag Patel

Unabridged: 5 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook

Publisher: Findaway Voices

Published: 03/12/2020

Genre: Religion - Christian Rituals & Practice

Synopsis

In the middle ages, Christianity shared much with Buddhism and other Eastern philosophies. Read on to learn how Christian mystics came to the same conclusions as those from very different faiths. This edition has been adapted from the 1923 version into modern English to make the ideas more accessible to today's reader, the Cloud of Unknowing distills a complex mystical epistemology and discipline into engagingly readable prose.

The Cloud of Unknowing is a work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the latter half of the 14th century. It is a spiritual guide, which focuses on using contemplative prayer to know God by abandoning consideration of God's particular activities and attributes, and having the courage to surrender your mind and ego to the realm of "unknowing", at which point one may begin to glimpse the nature of God.

The book counsels the young student to seek God, not through knowledge and intellect, 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.

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