The Spiritual Guide
work by Molinos
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Christian mysticism
- In Christianity: Western Catholic Christianity
…Molinos, author of the popular Spiritual Guide (1675), was condemned for his doctrine of the “One Act,” that is, the teaching that the will, once fixed on God in contemplative prayer, cannot lose its union with the divine. In France Mme Guyon and her adviser, François Fénelon, archbishop of Cambrai,…
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discussed in biography
- In Miguel de Molinos
…in 1675, he published his Spiritual Guide, a small handbook teaching that Christian perfection is achieved by a mixture of contemplation and divine assistance. Molinos believed that humans must banish their individual wills so that God’s will can work unhampered within them.
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