The Cloud of Unknowing PDF By Evelyn Underhill [Free Download]

The Cloud of Unknowing Pdf

The Cloud of Unknowing Pdf is an unknown work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the late 14th century. The text is a spiritual handbook on meditative prayer in the late Middle Ages. 

The underlying message of this work indicates that the way to know God is to renounce thinking of God’s particular activities and characteristics and be brave enough to surrender one’s mind and ego to the domain of “unknowing,” at which point one may begin to notice the nature of God.

The Cloud of Unknowing Pdf

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The Cloud of Unknowing sketches the mystical tradition of the Areopagite, Christian Neoplatonism, and Pseudo-Dionysius, which focuses on the via negativa route to discovering God as a pure entity beyond any degree of mental conception and without any final image or form. 

This practice has reputedly inspired generations of mystics, from Nicholas of Cusa, John Cross, and John Scotus Eriugena. Before this, the theme of The Cloud had appeared in the Confessions of St. Augustine (IX, 10), written in AD 398.

Regarding the placement of The Cloud of Unknowing in the directions of the Catholic Church at the inexact time of its writing, the work joins a more comprehensive medieval movement within Christianity toward a religious experience of a more unique and passionate view of the relationship with God.

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The book suggests the young learner seek God, not through intellect and knowledge, but through intense thinking, inspired by love, and deprived of all thought.

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Author Anonymous
Number Of Pages 131 Pages
Country England
Language Middle English
Subject Spiritual guide to contemplative prayer
Genre Christian mysticism
Publication Year
 14th century

Reader’s Reviews: 

This is an excellent book concerning the understanding and practice of the contemplative life. Its purpose is clear and written by one who experiences this life. I would recommend the Cloud of Unknowing to anyone who desires a closer encounter with God.
This translation is as close to exact as possible (I guess) given the history of its existence and of the English language. This copy I sent to my brother who has a degree in (protestant) theology and objects to my being Catholic. If he can understand it. Thank you.
The very simple language of this translation makes this spiritual classic available to those who might otherwise find it difficult to understand. I use it in a contemplative prayer group which I facilitate in a prison for inmates with psychological disorders. Many of them are illiterate or nearly so. We are moving very slowly through this book because it has stirred up the best discussions we have ever had., They are really getting it. I have used other more beautiful translations with better-educated groups and many just don’t like the book. I think it might be useful for children. This book really fills a need.

 

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