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- The discussion suggests that the cloud of unknowing is the dark and obscure knowledge and love that fills the mind of the contemplative, when void of images and discursive reasoning. It rests silently in God in mystical sleep. Separated from any human consideration, this knowledge finds God's truth in His revelation in Christ.
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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.
- Anonymous Anonymous
- 1942
This chapter examines the meaning of the cloud and the dark knowledge it symbolizes. Mystical knowledge is dark, obscure, and found in a cloud. The author explains that the cloud he speaks of is a mystical grace in which the faculties are impeded and the soul rests silently in God.
Oct 10, 2018 · 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 p. 27 mystic who seeks the divine Cloud of Unknowing is to be surrendered to the direction of his deeper mind, his transcendental consciousness: that “spark of the soul” which is in touch with eternal realities. “Meddle thou not therewith, as thou wouldest help it, for dread lest thou spill all.
This book studies the mystical doctrine of the author of The Cloud against its background of medieval theology and in light of Christian tradition, giving special attention to the relationship between the Englishman's mysticism and Christianity as lived by the simplest person who believes.
The Cloud of Unknowing, a masterpiece of simplicity that distills a complex mystical epistemology and discipline into engagingly readable prose, embodies a paradox. It offers a method by which the suitably disposed reader may practice an advanced and even austere form of contemplation - the divesting of the mind of all images and concepts ...
The author of The Cloud constantly plays on the paradoxical theme of “knowing” and “unknowing”. Since God cannot be known by any activity of the reasoning power, the author tells his disciples to bury all conceptual thinking and rational discourse beneath a cloud of forgetting.
