London Lectures of 1907

Psychism and Spirituality Our subject to night consists of two words: psychism spirituality. People think of one thing and use the name of the other, and so continually fall into blunders and mislead others with whom they talk. For if a person, desiring to unfold the spiritual nature, uses the means which are only adapted for developing the psychic nature, disappointment, possibly danger, will result; while, on the other hand, if a person desires to develop the psychic nature, and thinks that he will reach that development quickly by unfolding his spiritual powers, he also is equally doomed to disappointment; but in the second case, only to disappointment for a time.