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	~~The~~ '''''Cloud of Unknowing''''' was a book originally written in Middle English by an anonymous fourteenth-century [[mystic]] as a practical guide to contemplation.		'''''The Cloud of Unknowing''''' was a book originally written in Middle English by an anonymous fourteenth-century [[mystic]] as a practical guide to contemplation.

	The author writes that all concepts, images, and thoughts must be abandoned “beneath a cloud of forgetting” while a man must “reach out to pierce the darkness above”—the cloud of unknowing that lies “between you and your God.” He explains that the cloud must be entered because “by love He may be gotten and holden, but by thought of understanding, never.... Yes, beat upon that thick cloud of unknowing with the dart of your loving desire and do not cease come what may.”		The author writes that all concepts, images, and thoughts must be abandoned “beneath a cloud of forgetting” while a man must “reach out to pierce the darkness above”—the cloud of unknowing that lies “between you and your God.” He explains that the cloud must be entered because “by love He may be gotten and holden, but by thought of understanding, never.... Yes, beat upon that thick cloud of unknowing with the dart of your loving desire and do not cease come what may.”