Excerpt from The Path of Vision: Pocket Essays of East and West Before we admit or question the sincerity and the soundness of this spiritual revival, let - us inquire first what is meant by the spiritual. Does it consist in turning, for guidance and solace, to the Orient, or to Christianity, or to spiritism, or to the So ciety for Psychical Research, or to theoso phy and mystic lore? There is in all these movements of the present day a common desire, to be sure, to turn from materialism, if only for a spell - and for a change. But every definition of the spiritual that they embody differs substantially from the other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.