CLOUD OF UNKNOWING "..fly toward a secret sky..."June 25, 2020 "...take a step without feet. " "...dimness and lostness of mind..."

EPIPHANY - NAKED IN GRACE

RELEASE ALL BEYOND BELIEF
=
INSTANT RELIEF
CLOUD OF UNKNOWING SUFFICETH*
ew
4:19 AM-6/25/20
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​Evelyn Underhill Introduction



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"…the very soul grew silent to herself
and by not thinking of self
​ mounted beyond self."
https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/gallacher-cloud-of-unknowing-introduction

"...MOUNTED BEYOND SELF."

​“Then,” 
says the writer of the Cloud     (of Unknowing)
--whispering as it were to the bewildered neophyte
the dearest secret of his love--​

--“then will He sometimes peradventure 
send out a beam of ghostly light, 
piercing this cloud of unknowing that is betwixt thee and Him;
 and show thee some of His privity,
 the which man may not,
nor cannot speak.”
​Evelyn Underhill – 
in her Introduction to
Cloud of Unknowing
Page 8
https://www.catholicspiritualdirection.org/cloudunknowing.pdf

Whoever is to be poor in spirit 
must be poor in all his own knowing 
so that he knows nothing of God, 
nothing of any created object, 
and nothing of himself.
~ Meister Eckhart
https://thedawnwithin.com/the-poor-man/

This is love:
 to fly toward a secret sky,
 to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment.
First to let go of life.
 Finally, to take a step without feet.
 Rumi

​​All Photos for today's OceanSpeak from:  March 29, 2019
FOOTLESS & PATHLESS   "... rhythm of sadness..."           "...One without two,..."      MILESTONE        March 29, 2019
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https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/oceanspeak-youthanasia-sanctarii/footless-pathless-rhythm-of-sadness-one-without-two-milestone-march-29-2019

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AFTERNOON

Experiencing Rumi's "take a step without feet".

The guises you employ
To protect yourself
From the world
Also deny you
Full access to your heart.  ...

...To love fully and completely
Demands the willingness
To be annihilated.
Wu Hsin




"…the very soul grew silent to herself
and by not thinking of self
mounted beyond self."
https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/gallacher-cloud-of-unknowing-introduction

​*See Read More  Below 
for
More from Cloud of Unknowing 
​Evelyn Underhill Introduction

 
“Then,”
says the writer of the Cloud--
whispering as it were to the bewildered neophyte the dearest secret of his love--
“then will He sometimes peradventure
send out a beam of ghostly light,
piercing this cloud of unknowing that is betwixt thee and Him;
 and show thee some of His privity,
 the which man may not, nor cannot speak.”
​Evelyn Underhill – 
in her Introduction to
Cloud of Unknowing
Page 8
https://www.catholicspiritualdirection.org/cloudunknowing.pdf
  
  

It is to those who feel themselves called to the true prayer of contemplation,
to the search for God, whether in the cloister or the world
—whose “little secret love” is at once the energizing cause of all action,
and the hidden sweet savour of life--
that he addresses himself.

These he instructs in that simple yet difficult art of recollection,
the necessary preliminary of any true communion with the spiritual order,
in which all sensual images, all memories and thoughts,
are as he says,
“trodden down under the cloud of forgetting”
until
“nothing lives in the working mind but
a naked intent
stretching to God.”

This “intent stretching”
—this loving and vigorous determination of the will--
he regards as the central fact of the mystical life;
the very heart of effective prayer.
Only by its exercise can the spirit, freed from the distractions
of memory and sense, focus itself upon Reality and ascend with
“a privy love pressed” to that “Cloud of Unknowing”
—the Divine Ignorance of the Neoplatonists--
wherein is
“knit up the ghostly knot of burning love
betwixt thee and thy God,
in ghostly onehead
​ and according of will.”
 
Evelyn Underhill –
in her Introduction to
Cloud of Unknowing
Page 4-5
https://www.catholicspiritualdirection.org/cloudunknowing.pdf




“That meek darkness be thy mirror.”
What is this darkness?
It is the “night of the intellect” into which
we are plunged when we attain to a state of consciousness
which is above thought;
enter on a plane of spiritual experience
with which the intellect cannot deal

. This is the “Divine Darkness”
—the Cloud of Unknowing, or of Ignorance,
“dark with excess of light”--
preached by Dionysius the Areopagite, and eagerly accepted
by his English interpreter.

“When I say darkness, I mean a lacking of knowing . . .
and for this reason it is not called a cloud of the air,
but a cloud of unknowing
that is betwixt thee and thy God.

” It is “a dark mist,” he says again,
“which seemeth to be between thee and the light thou aspirest to.”

This
dimness and lostness of mind
is a paradoxical proof of attainment.

Reason is in the dark, because love has entered
“the mysterious radiance of the Divine Dark,
the inaccessible light wherein the Lord is said to dwell,
and to which thought with all its struggles cannot attain.”

Evelyn Underhill –
in her Introduction to
Cloud of Unknowing
Page 7-8
https://www.catholicspiritualdirection.org/cloudunknowing.pdf

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https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/bio.html

In the TN Woods Sanctuary, 

Approx December 1986....
( Prior to Re-Locating to
Harbour Island,  Bahamas  February1987-February 2020)

....We shook our fist in the air
"demanding" to God that He take me somewhere  to
​ONLY
BE NAKED IN HIS GRACE...

See this page for part of the story:
A Seer stated before i left that i would experience (on island)
 being more 'alone' than ever heretofore this lifetime
https://dorotheamills.weebly.com/godseed.html

Today...all these earth years later
June 25, 2020
Senses to Be Confirmation of
Ouroboros Return
​to
NAKED GRACE CENTER

Harbour Island Dates
February 1987 - February 2020
33 years