A Book of Contemplation the Which Is Called the Cloud of Unknowing, in the Which a Soul Is Oned with God : Edited from the British Museum Ms. Harl. 674, with an Introduction (Classic Reprint)

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The little family of mystical treatises which is known to students as the Cloud of Unknowing group, deserves more attention than it has hitherto received from English lovers of mysti cism f or it represents the first expres sion in our own tongue of that great mystic tradition of the Christian Neo platonists which gathered up, remade, and salted with Christ's salt all that was best in the spiritual wisdom of the ancient world.

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