The Spiritual Guide

<h2 class=ql-align-justify><strong><em>Seek silence in the midst of the tumult seek solitude in the masses light in the midst of darkness; find forgetfulness in injury victory in the midst of despondence and courage in the midst of alarm resistance in the midst of temptation peace in the midst of war.</em></strong></h2><p class=ql-align-justify>This book is a classic guide to what has been called Pure Prayer and Contemplative Prayer as well as the Prayer of Quiet. This Prayer is a passive alert receptivity to unseen off unfelt Presence or God... Though this long-standing tradition had been within the Catholic Church the author was condemned and the book listed as forbidden reading. (Anyone found in possession of this book will be excommunicated -Papal Decree 1687)</p><p class=ql-align-justify>Certainly this work poses a threat to the dominance of final reliance on accepted dogma and the mediation of human authority and the control by ecclesiastical structure.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>Banned by the Vatican Michael de Molinos started a movement called Quietism.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify><strong><em>This edition included a biography of Michael de Molinos.</em></strong></p><p><br></p>