The Spiritual Guide: With a short Treatise concerning Daily Communion - Biography included

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)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.Banned by the Vatican, Michael de Molinos started a movement called Quietism.