Author: William Johnston
Publisher: Image
Published: 2012-01-11
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0307809056
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING and THE BOOK OF PRIVY COUNSELING are the first explorations in the English language of the soul’s quest for God. Written in Middle English by an unknown fourteenth-century mystic, THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING expresses with beauty a message that has inspired such great religious thinkers as St. John of the Cross and Teilhard de Chardin, as well as countless others in search of God. Offering a practical guide to the life of contemplation, the author explains that ordinary thoughts and earthly concepts must be buried beneath a “cloud of forgetting,” while our love must rise toward a God hidden in the “cloud of unknowing.” THE BOOK OF PRIVY COUNSELING, also included in this volume, is a short and moving text on the way to enlightenment through a total loss of self and a consciousness only of the divine. William Johnston, an authority on fourteenth-century mysticism and spirituality, provides an accessible discussion of the works, detailing what is known about the history of the texts and their author. In a new foreword, Huston Smith draws on his extensive knowledge of the varieties of religious experience to illuminate the relevance of these works for contemporary readers.
Author: Shakespeare Society (Great Britain)
Publisher:
Published: 1841
Total Pages: 238
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jim Morrison
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Published: 2012-09-01
Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9781479316366
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Privy Thoughts is a hilarious, biting, and, at times, bizarre collection of the graffiti found on the toilet doors of universities in Britain, Ireland, Australia, and the United States of America. Venture inside, where the thoughts, feelings, and observations of various students are arranged into categories ranging from sex, of course, to philosophy, by way of a limerick or two. For anyone in need of a laugh, a reflective moment, or just a reminder of student days, this book is a must. It veers from being thoughtful and intellectual, to being outrageously potty-mouthed, and back again. Read, savour, and smile without the need to wash your hands afterwards.
Author: Alfred Tresidder Sheppard
Publisher: London Hodder and Stoughton [1927]
Published: 1927
Total Pages: 374
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Eva March Tappan
Publisher: [Boston] : Houghton, Mifflin
Published: 1907
Total Pages: 530
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