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001 - Record Identifier

• control field: 6469

005 - Version Identifier

• control field: 20240301123910.0

100 ## - General Processing Data

• General processing data: 20191112agrey50 ga0

152 ## - RULES

• Subject system: TU

230 ## - Authorized Access Point - Title

• Entry element: The cloud of unknowing
• Language: gre

300 ## - Information Note

• Information note: The Cloud of Unknowing draws on the mystical tradition of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and Christian Neoplatonism, which focuses on the via negativa road to discovering God as a pure entity, beyond any capacity of mental conception and so without any definitive image or form. This tradition has reputedly inspired generations of mystical searchers from John Scotus Eriugena, Nicholas of Cusa, and John of the Cross, to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (the latter two of whom may have been influenced by The Cloud itself). Prior to this, the theme of The Cloud had appeared in the Confessions of St. Augustine (IX, 10) written in AD 398. The author is unknown. The English Augustinian mystic Walter Hilton has at times been suggested, but this is generally doubted. It is possible he was a Carthusian priest, though this is not certain. (Wikipedia)

676 ## - Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC)

• DDC number, single or beginning of a range: 248.22
• DDC edition: 23

686 ## - Other Classification Numbers

• Class number, single or beginning of a range: CU