Christian mysticism and contemplative spirituality
An anonymous masterpiece of 14th-century English Christian mysticism, edited by Evelyn Underhill from the Middle English. The unknown author instructs a young disciple in a form of contemplative prayer in which the intellect is set aside and the soul reaches toward God through pure love, entering the "cloud of unknowing" where conceptual knowledge fails. Drawing on the apophatic tradition of Pseudo-Dionysius, the work argues that God cannot be grasped by thought but only by love. Alongside Meister Eckhart and The Interior Castle, this is one of the supreme documents of the Christian contemplative tradition.
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