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The Cloud of Unknowing and the Book of Privy Counseling William Johnston
Publisher: The Doubleday Religious Publishing Group

THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING and THE BOOK OF PRIVY COUNSELING are the first explorations in the English language of the soul's quest for God. I have chapters 55 and 62 marked to keep going over, in The Cloud of Unknowing, but am on ch 8 of The book of privy counselling . The Cloud of Unknowing & the Book of Privy Counseling (Spiritual Classic (St. The Cloud of Unknowing: and The Book of Privy Counseling (Image Book Original). London: Penguin Books, 1961, 1978. He begins the book by talking about how all of our reflections and thoughts about God in themselves can never really capture who God is, and that while we can acknowledge the reality of God, we need to recognize that we ourselves are limited. Ed., The Cloud of Unknowing and The Book of Privy Counseling, Doubleday, New York: 1973). Anyway, I jumped in with the Cloud of Unknowing and the Book of Privy Counseling (they're combined for this edition) yesterday. I haven't hit the actual text yet; just a few pages into the introduction. The Cloud of Unknowing: and The Book of Privy Counseling (Image Book Original) book download Download The Cloud of Unknowing: and The Book of Privy Counseling (Image Book Original) . "reject all thoughts, be they good or be they evil" (The Cloud of Unknowing and The Book of Privy Counseling, edited by William Johnston, Image Books, 1973, chapter 1, p. A very readable version, Three other works of the author of The Cloud are included in this single volume. God is bigger and more In this, Rollins draws upon the teachings of mystics and their idea that union with the God is found in entering into a "cloud of unknowing," finding God in the dark. Scholars believe that this luminous text was written by a monkish clergyman from the East Midlands of England around the year 1380. Earlier, the same man had composed the much admired Cloud of Unknowing. For a direct, unsystematised method of mystical practice we need look no further than an anonymous 14th-century Christian codex known as The Book of Privy Counselling, or The Epistle of Privy Counsel. The Cloud of Unknowing the Book of Privy Counseling.