"As a man thinketh, so is he."  This is a truism and a platitude of occultism.  Therefore, what is true of the individual is also true of the group, and as a group thinks, so does it eventually react.  As the group thought-waves penetrate into the mental atmosphere of humanity, men become impressed, and the inaugurating of the new ways of living and of developing proceeds with increased facility".

The Changing Face of Education

"The word "spiritual" does not refer to religious matters, so-called. 

All activity which drives the human being forward towards some form of development—physical, emotional, mental, intuitional, social—if it is in advance of his present state is essentially spiritual in nature, and is indicative of the livingness of the inner divine entity. 

The spirit of man is undying; it forever endures, progressing from point to point and stage to stage upon the Path of Evolution, unfolding steadily and sequentially the divine...