The Spiritual Guide

Miguel de Molinos’s classic text of quietist spirituality teaches an inward path of prayer, surrender, and contemplative silence. Historically significant as a major statement of seventeenth-century mystical devotion, it presents practical guidance on interior recollection and the soul’s union with God.

Miguel de Molinos (1628–1696), often referred to as Michael de Molinos in English, was a Spanish mystic and author of the influential spiritual treatise The Spiritual Guide. His teaching on quietism stressed inward contemplation and passivity before God, and it became highly controversial within Catholic theology.