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The valley of unknowing by philip sington ebook summary download. Widely considered a hallmark of western literature and spirituality, the cloud of unknowing is an anonymous english monks sublime expression of what separates god from humanity. Philip sington is the author of the valley of the unknowing and the einstein girl. Watkins, 1912, also by walter hilton page images at hathitrust. The valley of unknowing is the sort of novel that once youve finished reading it you regret having to put it away in the bookshelf. The valley of unknowing, by philip sington the independent. This document has been generated from xsl extensible stylesheet langua ge source with renderx xep formatter, version 3.
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