#the cloud of unknowing

[noosphe-re]

[many-sparrows]

Roommate went book shopping. My influence grows.

[veryslowreader]

The Cloud of Unknowing

In My Father's Den

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Photographer: Michael Coots

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‘We can’t think our way to God. That’s why I’m willing to abandon everything I know, to love the one thing I cannot think. He can be loved, but not thought. By love, God can be embraced and held, but not by thinking.

- The Cloud of Unknowing, :: transl: Carmen Acevedo Butcher

(Jim Fagiolo)

[apilgrimsprogress]

God may be reached and held close by means of love, but by means of thought, never.

Anonymous, Cloud of Unknowing

[aschenblumen]

Él [Dios] no puede ser aprehendido por nuestro intelecto ni el de ningún hombre, ni siquiera por el de los ángeles, ya que tanto ellos como nosotros somos criaturas creadas. Mas solo resulta incomprensible para nuestro intelecto, no para nuestro amor. *** Si alguna vez consigues llegar hasta esta nube [la del «no saber»] y vivir y trabajar en ella como te sugiero, pondrás también una nube del no saber que actúa como si se hallara encima de ti, entre tú y Dios. Tendemos a pensar que nos hallamos muy lejos de Dios a causa de la nube del no saber que existe entre nosotros y Él, pero sin duda es más correcto decir que estamos mucho más lejos de Dios cuando la nube del olvido no media entre nosotros y la totalidad del mundo creado. (...) [R]esulta muy poco o nada provechoso pensar siquiera en la bondad y dignidad de Dios, Nuestra Señora, los santos o los ángeles, o en la dicha celestial, por mucho que creas que con tales meditaciones reforzarás tu propósito, y lo digo con reverencia. En esta materia en particular, no te servirá de nada, ya que, por muy bueno que sea pensar acerca de la bondad de Dios y amarlo y alabarlo, es mucho mejor pensar de manera desnuda acerca de Él tal cual y amarlo y alabarlo por sí mismo.

—Anónimo, La nube del no saber. Texto anónimo inglés del siglo XIV (apartados 4 y 5). Traducción de Maite Solana y Albert Freixa.

[the-hesychast]

[martaviktorijasblog]

11 (Tailwind). 2023, plaster, pigment, 17 x 21 x 10 cm.

[idealog]

Here are preserved the vessela of Life.

For the Anns in the middle

[ehj3]

MACHINE GHOSTS AVOIDING A VOID

“The science which compels the inanimate limbs of the machinery, by their construction, to act purposefully, as an automaton, does not exist in the worker’s consciousness, but rather acts upon him through the machine as an alien power, as the power of the machine itself.” ― Karl Marx So let me talk to you about existentialism and 20th-century “weird” science. Existentialism is a philosophy…

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

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"Humility in itself is nothing but a true knowledge and feeling of oneself as one is."

~ 'The Cloud of Unknowing'

(an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the latter half of the 14th century. The text is a spiritual guide on contemplative prayer in the late Middle Ages. Per Wikipedia.)

[Thanks Ian Sanders]

[abstracteddistractions]

Roman Verostko (September 12, 1929 – June 1, 2024)

Mr Verostko was an American artist and educator who created code-generated imagery, known as algorithmic art.

The Cloud of Unknowing, 1998. Algorithmic pen & ink drawing. 11.5" by 14.5 "

[eebie]

this is the lowest ive ever gone. rewunding the first minute of hillbillyman over and over just to listen to the guitar and vocals Just to feel something . Damon albarn im going to fucking get you for this

[shadowsageingempress]

Decided that I wanted to draw the ‘Longsword, Glock, Bat, Taser’ meme with Ff7 characters

Also featuring:

Pan

Daggers

And Ancient and Unknowable God Devouring Horror

[martaviktorijasblog]