The Cloud of Unknowing ~ Christian Mysticism

Selected excerpts from the text, "The Cloud of Unknowing" -
formatted for meditation/contemplation. A number of translations
have been used but most were taken from Carmen Acevedo Butcher's
translation. The Cloud of Unknowing is an anonymous work of
Christian mysticism, most likely a Carthusian monk, written in
Middle English in the latter half of the 14th century. The text
is a spiritual guide on contemplative prayer in the Late Middle
Ages. The underlying message of this work suggests that the way
to know God is to abandon consideration of God's particular
activities and attributes, and be courageous enough to surrender
one's mind and ego to the realm of "unknowing", at which point
one may begin to glimpse the nature of God. The Cloud of
Unknowing draws on the mystical tradition of Pseudo-Dionysius the
Areopagite and Christian Neoplatonism, which focuses on the via
negativa road to discovering God as a pure entity, beyond any
capacity of mental conception and so without any definitive image
or form.


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