The Spiral Way

One of the most profound modern communicators on Christian Mysticism, Evelyn Underhill did not find it easy to discern her own spiritual path. For a full ten years - from 1911 to 1921 - she struggled to understand the spiritual experience through disinterested academic research, on both the tenets of Christian mysticism and the life of individual mystics. This led her to engage personally in active contemplation, and to the birth of her own profound view of the mystic life. The Spiral Way describes a spiritual journey of fifteen mysteries that are to be followed in the soul’s ascent to God. Underhill purposely eschews theological terms, so as to describe in simple language ‘some of the great truths concerning humanity’s spiritual life’. In this she succeeds admirably, and the book has become a well-deserved classic of the genre. Written in plain, easy-to-understand language, The Spiral Way is garnished with the wit and gentle wisdom that has made Underhill a must-read for all who struggle to follow a spiritual life in the modern world.