Spiritual Guide

Modern English Version with Notes and Commentary

By: Miguel de Molinos, Gonzalo García Olagorta (Gongarola)

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

A masterpiece of Christian mysticism that calls the soul to strip itself of all things in order to find true inner peace. The Spiritual Guide is the silent testimony of a path of surrender, humility, and union with God.

The Spiritual Guide by Miguel de Molinos stands as one of the pinnacles of Christian mystical literature. First published in 1675, it was met with enthusiasm across Europe and swiftly translated into multiple languages. However, its radical message—urging the soul to complete inner passivity and total self-abandonment to allow God to act unhindered—sparked controversy and was ultimately condemned by the Inquisition.

This book is neither a doctrinal treatise nor a devotional manual. It is a profound invitation to an inner path of dispossession, silence, and transformation. Within its pages, the soul learns to cease striving, to forsake the search for merit, to trust fully in God even in the deepest darkness. The “nothingness” it proposes is not negation, but the fertile space from which a new, deeper, truer life may emerge.

This edition presents the original text fully modernized, rendered in clear and contemporary language while preserving the spirit and force of the work. It also includes extensive explanatory notes that illuminate the author’s most profound ideas and connect them to universal mystical thought and to contemporary teachings such as A Course in Miracles.

A book not merely to be read—but to be passed through. And whoever passes through it is never the same again.

A great spiritual guide

A great spiritual guide and translation. Read and discern that which may have walked to far into Quietism. Still, lots of inspiration to be had. Great!