The Cloud Of Unknowing, Evelyn Underhill
The Cloud Of Unknowing, Evelyn Underhill
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The Cloud Of Unknowing
A classic of Christian mystical wisdom, now in modern English

Author: Evelyn Underhill, Chirag Patel

Narrator: Chirag Patel

Unabridged: 5 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Lamplight

Published: 10/09/2024

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Edvard on January 06, 2016

This beautiful, extraordinary and timeless book by an anonymous 14th century author is one of the greatest mystical treatises of any time in any religion. It is to be most warmly recommended to all true and sincere students of mysticism. It radiates the warmth of St. Francis de Sales, touches in a u......more

Goodreads review by Olabode on August 19, 2009

Not a book for amateurs or spiritual tourists...only for serious readers with enough foundation to relate constructively to the message. Can be confusing at times ...I would recommend to someone with enough time for meditation and reflection (in solitude) and not to read on a vacation (especially wi......more

Goodreads review by David on July 28, 2018

An esoteric medieval Christian text 17 January 2015 Well, most authors that I know want as many people to read their book as possible, yet with this guy (whoever he was, though it is believed that he was a monk) opens, and closes, the book with who he doesn't want to read this book, which is basicall......more

Goodreads review by Gary on October 12, 2017

In The Cloud of Unknowing, an anonymous 14th-century monk, a master of the practice of Christian contemplation, explores both the philosophy/theology behind the practice and the method of practice itself. He writes particularly for an unidentified younger monk who is considering the call to a contem......more

Goodreads review by Rose on December 09, 2022

How I loved this book! I was in high school and I wanted to be a nun. (Not that I carefully thought about all that would entail.) I was young and I was in love. Somehow I found out about "The Cloud of Unknowing," which I made my business to read. As a New York kid, I could go to the "great public libr......more

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