Word: cloudly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here beginneth a book of contemplation, the which is called the Cloud of Unknowing, in the which a Soul is Oned with...
Published this week is a new version of The Cloud of Unknowing (Harper; $1.50) -this time an "interpretation" by an anonymous student at a Quaker center. Greatly abridged and rearranged, the language of the new version is pared down to plain English as spare as a Friends' meetinghouse. The result is far less colorful than the conventional editions but perhaps more useful to the modern reader...
Prayer is the subject of the Cloud-the wordless, upthrusting prayer of the soul seeking direct experience of God. Such a soul, says the author, must approach God with a "meek, longing love" and a "naked intent unto God alone, and not to anything that He has made." Meditation, even upon the goodness of God, is distracting; he who would follow this path must put aside all thoughts and images and concentrate his whole being on a yearning hunger for God. "The first time that you try you will find only a darkness, as though it were a Cloud...
...cloud of dust that is rising...
...there living beings-or Some form of life-on the planet Mars? No one knows. But last week Mars paid one of its close (63,000,000 miles away) visits to earth. Its inhabitants, if any, could have taken a good look at their big, cloud-blotched neighbor. And staring down the Martians' hypothetical throats from McDonald Observatory, Texas was Dutch-born Astronomer Gerard Peter Kuiper...