<p>Evelyn Underhill (6 December 1875 &ndash; 15 June 1941) was an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism.</p><p>In the English-speaking world, she was one of the most widely read writers on such matters in the first half of the 20th century. No other book of its type&mdash;until the appearance in 1946 of Aldous Huxley&#39;s The Perennial Philosophy&mdash;met with success to match that of her best-known work, Mysticism, published in 1911.</p><p>This book is Evelyn Underhill&#39;s translation of the medieval spiritual guidebook called The Cloud of Unknowing, written by an anonymous English monk. At the core is a mystical approach to Christian prayer, in which God is found not through rote knowledge, but through &#39;blind love.&#39; It has been described as Christianity with a Zen outlook. &mdash;J.B. Hare</p><p>The Cloud of Unknowing (Middle English: The Cloude of Unknowyng) is 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. The underlying message of this work suggests that the way to know God is to abandon consideration of God&#39;s particular activities and attributes, and be courageous enough to surrender one&#39;s mind and ego to the realm of 'unknowing', at which point one may begin to glimpse the nature of God. (wikipedia.org)</p>