The Cloud of Unknowing
83 chapters English Public domain
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This is Evelyn Underhill's translation of the medieval spiritual guidebook called The Cloud of Unknowing, written by an anonymous English monk. At the core is a mystical approach to Christian prayer, in which God is found not through rote knowledge, but through 'blind love.' It has been described as Christianity with a Zen outlook. --J.B. Hare
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83 chapters
76 Chapter 69: How that a man's affection is marvelously changed in ghostly feeling of this nought, when it is nowhere wrought 77 Chapter 70: That right as by the defailing of our bodily wits we begin more readily to come to knowing of ghostly things, so by the defailing of our ghostly wits we begin most readily to come to the knowledge of God, such as is possible by grace to be had here 78 Chapter 71: That some may not come to feel the perfection of this work but in time of ravishing, and some may have it when they will, in the common state of man's soul 79 Chapter 72: That a worker in this work should not deem nor think of another worker as he feeleth in himself 80 Chapter 73: How that after the likeness of Moses, of Bezaleel and of Aaron meddling them about the Ark of the Testament, we profit on three manners in this grace of contemplation, for this grace is figured in that Ark 81 Chapter 74: How that the matter of this book is never more read or spoken, nor heard read or spoken, of a soul disposed thereto without feeling of a very accordance to the effect of the same work: and of rehearsing of the same charge that is written in the prologue 82 Chapter 75: Of some certain tokens by the which a man may prove whether he be called of God to work in this work 83 Index of Pages of the Print Edition
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The Cloud of Unknowing
83 chapters English Public domain
About this book
This is Evelyn Underhill's translation of the medieval spiritual guidebook called The Cloud of Unknowing, written by an anonymous English monk. At the core is a mystical approach to Christian prayer, in which God is found not through rote knowledge, but through 'blind love.' It has been described as Christianity with a Zen outlook. --J.B. Hare
Table of contents
83 chapters
76 Chapter 69: How that a man's affection is marvelously changed in ghostly feeling of this nought, when it is nowhere wrought 77 Chapter 70: That right as by the defailing of our bodily wits we begin more readily to come to knowing of ghostly things, so by the defailing of our ghostly wits we begin most readily to come to the knowledge of God, such as is possible by grace to be had here 78 Chapter 71: That some may not come to feel the perfection of this work but in time of ravishing, and some may have it when they will, in the common state of man's soul 79 Chapter 72: That a worker in this work should not deem nor think of another worker as he feeleth in himself 80 Chapter 73: How that after the likeness of Moses, of Bezaleel and of Aaron meddling them about the Ark of the Testament, we profit on three manners in this grace of contemplation, for this grace is figured in that Ark 81 Chapter 74: How that the matter of this book is never more read or spoken, nor heard read or spoken, of a soul disposed thereto without feeling of a very accordance to the effect of the same work: and of rehearsing of the same charge that is written in the prologue 82 Chapter 75: Of some certain tokens by the which a man may prove whether he be called of God to work in this work 83 Index of Pages of the Print Edition
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The Cloud of Unknowing
83 chapters English Public domain
About this book
This is Evelyn Underhill's translation of the medieval spiritual guidebook called The Cloud of Unknowing, written by an anonymous English monk. At the core is a mystical approach to Christian prayer, in which God is found not through rote knowledge, but through 'blind love.' It has been described as Christianity with a Zen outlook. --J.B. Hare
Table of contents
83 chapters
76 Chapter 69: How that a man's affection is marvelously changed in ghostly feeling of this nought, when it is nowhere wrought 77 Chapter 70: That right as by the defailing of our bodily wits we begin more readily to come to knowing of ghostly things, so by the defailing of our ghostly wits we begin most readily to come to the knowledge of God, such as is possible by grace to be had here 78 Chapter 71: That some may not come to feel the perfection of this work but in time of ravishing, and some may have it when they will, in the common state of man's soul 79 Chapter 72: That a worker in this work should not deem nor think of another worker as he feeleth in himself 80 Chapter 73: How that after the likeness of Moses, of Bezaleel and of Aaron meddling them about the Ark of the Testament, we profit on three manners in this grace of contemplation, for this grace is figured in that Ark 81 Chapter 74: How that the matter of this book is never more read or spoken, nor heard read or spoken, of a soul disposed thereto without feeling of a very accordance to the effect of the same work: and of rehearsing of the same charge that is written in the prologue 82 Chapter 75: Of some certain tokens by the which a man may prove whether he be called of God to work in this work 83 Index of Pages of the Print Edition
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