

Shibboleth / Open Athens technology is used to provide single sign-on between your institution’s website and Oxford Academic. This authentication occurs automatically, and it is not possible to sign out of an IP authenticated account.Ĭhoose this option to get remote access when outside your institution. Typically, access is provided across an institutional network to a range of IP addresses. If you are a member of an institution with an active account, you may be able to access content in one of the following ways: The artwork used for the cover is 'Poem of the Soul - First Communion' - by Louis Janmot.Get help with access Institutional accessĪccess to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. Production notes: This ebook of The Cloud of Unknowing was published by Global Grey in 2018, and updated on the 5th February 2023. This book has 41,669 words, 58 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1922. The book remains an influential work in the Christian mystical tradition and continues to inspire contemplative practices and spirituality to this day. The author encourages the reader to cast aside all distractions and negative thoughts, and instead focus on a constant, loving gaze at the divine, represented by a cloud of unknowing that separates the soul from direct knowledge of God.

Drawing on the mystical tradition of Christian Neoplatanism, the book focuses on contemplative prayer and the idea of reaching a state of pure devotion and union with God by transcending the intellect and one's own thoughts and desires.

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