Cloud of Unknowing The Classic of Medieval Mysticism

Mysticism explores the nature of reality, beginning with the individual struggle for a clear vision of reality and leading to the transformed consciousness arising from that vision. This fourteenth-century manual was written by an unknown monastic as a guide for a young person starting on the path to a contemplative life. It states that a "cloud of unknowing" separates people from God, and that this cloud cannot be penetrated by the intellect--only by love. Unabridged republication of A Book of Contemplation the Which is called The Cloud of Unknowing, in the Which a Soul is Oned with God, originally published by J. M. Watkins, London, 1912.Underhill, Evelyn is the author of 'Cloud of Unknowing The Classic of Medieval Mysticism' with ISBN 9780486432038 and ISBN 0486432033.