Course VIII - Teaching 8: Spiritual Life

Today the expression “Spiritual Life” is quite often used by many souls interested in transcendental maters. But this expression can be interpreted differently and give way to various surmises.
“I am in quest of the Spiritual Life”, “I follow the Spiritual Life” are common sentences suggesting other question: “In fact, what is Spiritual Life?”
We could say the Spiritual Life is the opposite of mere physical and material life. People do not desire to be confined in mere natural reactions but this involves sometimes quite intermittent efforts to rise over vulgarity and needs of the sensory life. It is an effort that could be called spiritual but in no way is Spiritual Life.
Also we are usually told that the Spiritual Life is practiced by those who avoid acting vulgarly or ordinarily, love and feel arts, investigate and study unknown powers of the universe and science in general, are practically devoted to religion, and try to contact supernatural things. Also this is not to follow the Spiritual Life. It is a sentence too much grand and lofty to become so general.
As a concept, Spiritual Life is only and exclusively applied to those who live a supernatural life and have made of it their most important aspirations. To follow the Spiritual Life is to experiment and live known truths in a methodical, continuous, speculative and mystical way.
Only he who knows and practices the Spiritual Life can deserve the title that Spiritual Life grants.
Spiritual Life is privilege of those who follow the Good Way.