The Cloud of UnknowingThe Low Way · Collection I
Love reaching where thought cannot
The Cloud of Unknowing
An unknown English contemplative counsels a student to place created things beneath a cloud of forgetting and to meet the mystery of God with a simple, loving attention.
- Format
- Web · print · JSON · text
- Length
- about 38,000 words
- Status
- Semantic transcription · structural validation complete
Fresh Low Way edition
One text, many forms.
What this edition contains
- The author’s prayer, prologue, table, and seventy-five chapters
- Stable sections and paragraphs for reuse
- No Underhill introduction, glossary, notes, or index
Edition & provenance
Freshly structured,
not silently modernized.
Edited from British Museum MS. Harley 674 with an introduction by Evelyn Underhill. Second edition, 1922.
The historical translation is credited in provenance, but its introductions, commentary, notes, indexes, and publisher matter are not part of the reading text. The underlying edition was published before January 1, 1931 and is public domain in the United States. Copyright status can differ elsewhere.