The Ethics of Sharing Mystical Knowledge: Meister Eckhart and the Cloud Author

The Cloud of Unknowing

Pick up any edition of The Cloud of Unknowing, and you are likely to find the following language a bit intimidating:

Whoever you are possessing this book, know that I charge you with a serious responsibility, to which I attach the sternest sanctions that the bonds of love can bear. It does not matter whether this book belongs to you, whether you are keeping it for someone else, whether you are taking it to someone, or borrowing it; you are not to read it, write or speak o...