ABSTRACT
True spirituality consists in directing psychic attention to the job of purifying moral action. Moral development through the course of a person's life is only possible through the stewardship of a dedicated spirituality. Spirituality is essentially individual whereas religion is the institutionalization of the spiritual enlightenment of the individual. Spirituality is that mental discipline whose goal is the purification of motivation. The aim of false spirituality, like false mysticism, is the enhancement of self-inflation. It aims to give the self the feeling of righteousness without having to act morally. The types of spirituality which have shown they to be false in this way are the gnosticism which was prevalent in the early centuries of the Christian era, and those modern spiritualities which depend upon drugs for their activation. What typifies all these spiritualities is their divorce from moral action.
