This book enchants with its profound spiritual wisdom, offering a timeless contemplation beyond intellectual barriers. Its anonymous author conveys the beauty of reaching the divine through love rather than knowledge, making it a priceless read for those yearning to deepen their spiritual journey.

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In the fourteenth century there was a great flourishing of religious writings in English, both orthodox and heretical. Many of these works focused on Christ’s Passion and humanity, whereas The Cloud of Unknowing describes an abstract, transcendent God beyond human knowledge and human language. Drawing upon radically different traditions, it is a rich work full of intriguing contradictions that speaks to us with liveliness and wit even today. The unknown author, thought to be a priest and Carthusian monk, is also believed to have written the other three works in this volume: The Mystical Theology of Saint Denis, The Book of Privy Counselling, and An Epistle on Prayer, which, together with The Cloud of Unknowing, are the four texts at the core of medieval mystical theology in their call for contemplation, calm, and above all, love, as the way to understand the Divine.

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