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

The Cloud of Unknowing and The Book of Privy Counselling (Early English Text Society Original Series) Hardcover by P. The Cloud of Unknowing: And the Book of Privy Counseling (Unabridged) by William Johnston, S.J. Pick up any edition of The Cloud of Unknowing, and you are likely to find the following language a bit intimidating: Whoever you are possessing this book, know that I charge you with a serious responsibility, to which I attach the sternest sanctions that the bonds of love can bear. He can be grasped by love but never by concepts. 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. London: Penguin Books, 1961, 1978. 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 Book of Privy Counseling is a book of advice for the committed contemplative/meditator. So less thinking and more loving. A very readable version, Three other works of the author of The Cloud are included in this single volume. "God can be loved but he cannot be thought. The Cloud of Unknowing the Book of Privy Counseling. Kalamazoo, MI 49008-3801 Phone: (269) 387-8755. 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. Of his writings, The Cloud of Unknowing and the Book of Privy Counseling are the best known.