For it is said of them, that for all their false fairness openly, yet they should be full foul lechers privily. And if thee list have this intent lapped and folden in one word, for thou shouldest have better hold thereupon, take thee but a little word of one syllable: for so it is better than of two, for ever the shorter it is the better it accordeth with the work of the Spirit. Some row with their arms in time of their speaking, as them needed for to swim over a great water. The author of The Cloud of Unknowing was influenced by earlier writings of the Greek mystics who were trying to show the limits of the intellect, and recognised that the ultimate reality was ineffable and unknowable by the human mind. Xxvii., Royal 17 D. v., and Harl. Further, he communicates to them certain "ghostly devices" by which they may overcome the inevitable difficulties encountered by beginners in contemplation: the distract- ing thoughts and memories which torment the self that is struggling to focus all its attention upon the spiritual sphere. Your patience in sickness and in dealing with different kinds of problems pleases God even more than the keenest devotion in times of good health. And therefore let the voice of our Lord cry on these actives, as if He said thus now for us unto them, as He did then for Mary to Martha, "Martha, Martha! Reason is in the dark, because love has entered "the mysterious radiance of the Divine Dark, the inaccess- ible light wherein the Lord is said to dwell, and to which thought with all its struggles cannot attain. WONDERFULLY is a man's affection varied in ghostly feeling of this nought when it is nowhere wrought.
"Of God Himself can no man think, " says the writer of the Cloud, "And therefore I would leave all that thing that I can think, and choose to my love that thing that I cannot think. Use thee continually in this blind and devout and this Misty stirring of love that I tell thee: and then I have no doubt, that it shall not well be able to tell thee of them. Yes, in the beginning it seems demanding and severe, when you're not yet used to it but as your devotion grows, contemplation ceases being hard and instead becomes very restful and easy. All these agree fairly closely; except for the facts that Harl. But recklessness in venial sin should always be eschewed of all the true disciples of perfection; and else I have no wonder though they soon sin deadly. And yet it is the lightest work of all, when a soul is helped with grace in sensible list, and soonest done. If the cloud of unknowing makes you feel alienated from God, that's only because you've not yet put a cloud of forgetting between you and everything in creation. And some there be that they be so weak in body that they may do no great penance to cleanse them with.
HERE ENDETH THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING. Today's Lines by Heart reading is brought to us by Bristol Hub Leader at The Reader, Michael Prior. AND why pierceth it heaven, this little short prayer of one little syllable? Venial sin shall no man utterly eschew in this deadly life. Bezaleel wrought it and made it in the Veil after the ensample that was shewed in the mountain. They will always keep you from seeing him clearly by the light of understanding in your intellect and will block you from feeling him fully in the sweetness of love in your emotions.
Good, when it is opened by grace for to see thy wretchedness, the passion, the kindness, and the wonderful works of God in His creatures bodily and ghostly. As all man's feeling and thought of himself and his relation to God is comprehended in Humility, so all his feeling and thought of God in Himself is comprehended in Charity; the self-giving love of Divine Perfection "in Himself and for Himself" which Hilton calls "the sovereign and the essential joy. " Unlettered, or ignorant. Sometime we profit in this grace by our own ghostly cunning, helped with grace, and then be we likened to Bezaleel, the which might not see the Ark ere the time that he had made it by his own travail, helped with the ensample that was shewed unto Moses in the mount. Surely, not in many words, nor yet in one word of two syllables. Chapter 67 – That whoso knoweth not the powers of a soul and the manner of her working, may lightly be deceived in understanding of ghostly words and of ghostly working; and how a soul is made a God in grace. 674; the same volume which has provided the base-manuscript for the present edition of the Cloud. AND if ever thou shalt come to this cloud and dwell and work therein as I bid thee, thou behoveth as this cloud of unknowing is above thee, betwixt thee and thy God, right so put a cloud of forgetting beneath thee; betwixt thee and all the creatures that ever be made.
For an it so be that thou mayest have grace to destroy the pain of thine foredone special deeds, in the manner before said—or better if thou better mayest—sure be thou, that the pain of the original sin, or else the new stirrings of sin that be to come, shall but right little be able to provoke thee. "—"Actives, actives! Be thou but the tree, and let it be the wright: be thou but the house, and let it be the husbandman dwelling therein. Next, he has a great simplicity of outlook, which enables him to present the result of his highest experiences and intuitions in the most direct and homely language. And all these four powers and their works, Memory containeth and comprehendeth in itself.
And therefore when they read or hear spoken of ghostly working—and specially of this word, "how a man shall draw all his wit within himself, " or "how he shall climb above himself"—as fast for blindness in soul, and for fleshliness and curiosity of natural wit, they misunderstand these words, and ween, because they find in them a natural covetyse to hid things, that they be therefore called to that work by grace. What art thou, and what hast thou merited, thus to be called of our Lord? Chapter 16 – That by Virtue of this work a sinner truly turned and called to contemplation cometh sooner to perfection than by any other work; and by it soonest may get of God forgiveness of sins. And smite upon that thick cloud of unknowing with a sharp dart of longing love; and go not thence for thing that be- falleth. But more openly is that thing known and shewed unto Him, the which is hid in deepness of spirit, sith it so is that He is a Spirit, than is anything that is mingled with any manner of bodilyness. The tradition of "unknowing" was already well established in Western philosophy by the likes of Socrates (through the writings of Plato) and Dionysius, who spoke of the via negativa or the "negative way" —also know as apophasis—by which any attempts to describe God can only be made in terms of what he is not. "If you wish to enter into this cloud, to be at home in it, and to take up the contemplative work of love as I urge you to, there is something else you must do. And if he that hath a plain and an open boisterous voice by nature speak them poorly and pipingly—I mean but if he be sick in his body, or else that it be betwixt him and his God or his confessor—then it is a very token of hypocrisy. And this is one of the readiest and sovereignest tokens that a soul may have to wit by, whether he be called or not to work in this work, if he feel after such a delaying and a long lacking of this work, that when it cometh suddenly as it doth, unpurchased with any means, that he hath then a greater fervour of desire and greater love longing to work in this work, than ever he had any before. Indeed, specific passages bear uncanny resemblances to oriental sutras and upanishads, such is their exposition on the nature of thought, being in the present moment and the act of immersing the self in a state of unknowing, which the anonymous author deems synonymous with a "cloud". But, if they will prove whence this stirring cometh, they may prove thus, if them liketh. They without it profit but little or nought. And that ableness may no soul have without it.
Stick to it, in all circumstances. Your eyes only understand that something is long, wide, small, large, round, square, near, far and colourful. And although that it be sometime called a rest, nevertheless yet they shall not think that it is any such rest as is any abiding in a place without removing therefrom. Fill thy spirit with the ghostly bemeaning of it without any special beholding to any of His works—whether they be good, better, or best of all—bodily or ghostly, or to any virtue that may be wrought in man's soul by any grace; not looking after whether it be meekness or charity, patience or abstinence, hope, faith, or soberness, chastity or wilful poverty. One such word, however, which occurs constantly has generally been retained, on account of its importance and the difficulty of finding an exact substitute for it in current English. These are now accessible to the general reader; having been reprinted in the "New Medieval Library" (1910) under the title of The Cell of Self-knowledge, with an admirable introduction and notes by Mr. Edmund Gardner. But the third part that Mary chose, choose who by grace is called to choose: or, if I soothlier shall say, whoso is chosen thereto of God. Let Lewd Namely To hinder. If we may judge by the examples of possible misunderstanding against which he is careful to guard himself, the almost tiresome reminders that all his remarks are "ghostly, not bodily meant, " the standard of intelligence which the author expected from his readers was not a high one. The tree and the cup I call this visible miracle, and all seemly bodily observances, that is according and not letting the work of the spirit.
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