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23 January 2015

Review: THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING by Anonymous

We don't know exactly who wrote this, other than that it was an English monastic who wrote it almost 800 years ago. Now it's considered a classic of Christian mysticism.

The heart of the book is its approach to meditation. In essence, it is this: whatever is good and thus aligned with God, ultimately comes from God. Anything that doesn't is by definition sin. Therefore, thinking about God includes everything good, and thinking about sin includes everything bad. 

As someone deeply interested in these practices, I recommend this book, with one caveat: read it with a Bible in your hand.

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