[Infinite Consciousness]

The term 'spirituality' is not to be confused with:

(i) Spiritism, or belief in the existence of spirits apart from matter, which
when disembodied, haunt the nether regions as ghosts, or the lower
planes of the astral regions as angels.

(ii) Spiritualism, or belief in the survival of the human personality and in
communication between the living and those who have 'passed on', in
the form of spirit rapping, planchette writing,etc.

(iii) Mesmerism, or producing a state of trance by the consciously exerted
'animal magnetism' of the operator so as to subordinate the will-power
of his subject.

(iV) Hypnotism, which produces a kind of deep sleep in which the
consciousness is suspended and the patient is made susceptible to the
suggestions of the hypnotist.

SPIRITUALITY, on the contrary, is the science of developing Higher Consciousness in Man on the level of the soul, and making one transcend from mere body consciousness into Cosmic Consciousnesss and further on into Super Consciousness, so as to to enable one to understand the working of the Divine Plan.