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Cloud of Unknowing, The by ANONYMOUS

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The Cloud of Unknowing (Middle English: The Cloude of Unknowyng) is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism 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 book counsels a young student to seek God, not through knowledge and intellection (faculty of the human mind), 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. This form of contemplation is not directed by the intellect, but involves spiritual union with God through the heart. (Summary by Wikipedia)

  • 40 minutes 27 seconds
    00 - Introduction
  • 2 minutes 18 seconds
    49 - The Nine and Fortieth Chapter - The substance of all perfection is nought else but a good will; and how that all sounds and comfort and sweetness that may befall in this life be to it but as it were accidents.
  • 4 minutes 41 seconds
    55 - The Five and Fiftieth Chapter - How they be deceived that follow the fervour of spirit in condemning of some without discretion.
  • 4 minutes 23 seconds
    54 - The Four and Fiftieth Chapter - How that by Virtue of this word a man is governed full wisely, and made full seemly as well in body as in soul.
  • 5 minutes 8 seconds
    53 - The Three and Fiftieth Chapter - Of divers unseemly practices that follow them that lack the work of this book.
  • 2 minutes 31 seconds
    52 - The Two and Fiftieth Chapter - How these young presumptuous disciples misunderstand this word 'in,' and of the deceits that follow thereon.
  • 4 minutes 27 seconds
    51 - The One and Fiftieth Chapter - That men should have great wariness so that they understand not bodily a thing that is meant ghostly; and specially it is good to be wary in understanding of this word 'in,' and of this word 'up.'
  • 3 minutes 21 seconds
    50 - The Fiftieth Chapter - Which is chaste love; and how in some creatures such sensible comforts be but seldom, and in some right oft.
  • 5 minutes 6 seconds
    48 - The Eight and Fortieth Chapter - How God will be served both with body and with soul, and reward men in both; and how men shall know when all those sounds and sweetness that fall into the body in time of prayer be both good and evil.
  • 3 minutes 30 seconds
    57 - The Seven and Fiftieth Chapter - How these young presumptuous disciples misunderstand this other word 'up'; and of the deceits that follow thereon.
  • 5 minutes 6 seconds
    47 - The Seven and Fortieth Chapter - A slight teaching of this work in purity of spirit; declaring how that on one manner a soul should shew his desire unto God, and on ye contrary unto man.
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