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

Earlier, the same man had composed the much admired Cloud of Unknowing. The Book of Privy Counseling is a book of advice for the committed contemplative/meditator. 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 has 271 ratings and 43 reviews.. Cook: Amazon.com: Books Red Leaves (Otto Penzler Book) $7.18. 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 (Spiritual Classic (St. 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. "The Cloud of Unknowing: and The Book of Privy Counseling (Image Book Original)" Overview. 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. Find This Book › Find signed. Condition, Acceptable: Light shelf wear. The Cloud of Unknowing And The Book of Privy Counseling (An Image Book Original). The Cloud of Unknowing: And the Book of Privy Counseling (Unabridged) by William Johnston, S.J. Scholars believe that this luminous text was written by a monkish clergyman from the East Midlands of England around the year 1380.