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This anonymous fourteenth-century text message is the glory of British mysticism, and one of the very most practical and useful guides to locating union with God ever written. Carmen Acevedo Butcher's new translation is the first to bring the written text into today's British idiom - while staying strictly faithful to the meaning of the initial Middle British. The Cloud of Unknowing consists of some letters written by a monk to his student or disciple, instructing him (or her) in the way of Divine union. Its theology is presented in a manner that is remarkably easy to understand, as well as practical, providing advice on prayer and contemplation that anyone can use. Previous translations of the Cloud have tended to veil its close, even friendly firmness under medieval-sounding vocabulary. Carmen Butcher has boldly helped bring the written text into vocabulary as appealing to modern ears as it was to its original viewers more than 500 years back.Also contained in the quantity is the associate work related to the same anonymous author, The Publication of Privy Counsel, which includes further advice for approaching God in a manner that emphasizes real experience alternatively than real human knowledge.
