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Catherine of Siena, Thomas à Kempis, Anonymous (Cloud), et al.
Seven-volume anthology binding canonical Catholic contemplative texts — including the Cloud of Unknowing (anonymous 14th-c. apophatic), Catherine of Siena's Dialogue, Imitation of Christ (à Kempis), and others. Cross-tradition contemplative ground; covers multiple centuries + registers in one corpus.
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What this book knows
Union with God is achieved not through thought but through love that transcends all knowing and self-forgetting.
mind-and-cognition
'a cloud of unknowing that is betwixt thee and thy God' — reason is in the dark, because love has entered the inaccessible light where thought cannot attain.
CAT7-LG-RC-686Let nought work in thy mind nor will but only God; forget both thyself and thy deeds — it is the condition of a perfect lover.
CAT7-LG-RC-735Travail fast in this nought and this nowhere; this work may not be conceived by outward bodily wits.
CAT7-LG-RC-763obedience-and-authority
Obedience is found in its completeness in the sweet and amorous Word, My only-begotten Son, who was prompt in this virtue to fulfill the Father's will.
CAT7-LG-RC-641The humble little ones, humiliated and subjected through love with holy obedience, are exalted by Me and taste eternal life even in this life.
CAT7-LG-RC-658faith-and-doubt
She dwells in Me and I in her, as the fish in the sea and the sea in the fish — thus do I dwell in the soul, and the soul in Me, the Sea Pacific.
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