The Cloud of Unknowing: Week 4—Chapter 44-58

This Week... Chapter 44: How a soul shall dispose it on its own part, for to destroy all witting and feeling of its own being. Chapter 45: A good declaring of some certain deceits that may befall in this work. Chapter 46: A good teaching how a man shall flee these deceits, and work more with a listiness of spirit than with any boisterousness of body. Chapter 47: A slight teaching of this work in purity of spirit; declaring how that on one manner a soul should shew his desire unto God, and on ye contrary, unto man. Chapter 48: How God will be served both with body and with soul, and reward men in both; and how men shall know when all those sounds and sweetness that fall into the body in time of prayer be both good and evil. Chapter 49: The substance of all perfection is nought else but a good will; and how that all sounds and comforts and sweetness that may befall in this life be to it but as it were accidents. Chapter 50: Which is chaste love; and how in some creatures such sensible comforts be but seldom, and in some right oft. Chapter 51: That men should have great wariness so that they understand not bodily a thing that is meant ghostly; and specially it is good to be wary in understanding of this word in, and of this word up. Chapter 52: How these young presumptuous disciples misunderstand this word in, and of the deceits that follow thereon. Chapter 53: Of divers unseemly practices that follow them that lack the work of this book. Chapter 54: How that by virtue of this work a man is governed full wisely, and made full seemly as well in body as in soul. Chapter 55: How they be deceived that follow the fervour of spirit in condemning of some without discretion. Chapter 56: How they be deceived that follow the fervour of spirit in condemning of some without discretion. Chapter 57: How these young presumptuous disciples misunderstand this other word up; and of the deceits that follow thereon. Chapter 58: That a man shall not take ensample of Saint Martin and of Saint Stephen, for to strain his imagination bodily upwards in the time of his prayer. Check out https://CAMP.fm for more!