He is of the opinion that to pay much attention to persons
who are imbued with spiritualistic ideas is rather useless, because what they
have, though it has a germ of truth, has much of personal imagination added to
it.
Moreover, when after much effort they become Bahá’ís, they
are reluctant to turn a completely new sheet in their life and begin to
conceive Bahá’í ideals in spiritualistic terms. There are thousands of other
pure souls who are more ready for the teachings and who would accept it
unreservedly. So we had better concentrate our attention upon them. The Cause
everywhere has suffered from spiritualists with psychic pretended powers, and
it is high time to take a step along that line.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter
dated 10 July 1928, written of behalf of Shoghi Effendi; compilation:
‘Spiritualism, Reincarnation and Related Subjects’, prepared by the Research
Department of the Universal House of Justice, published in ‘Baha’i
Institutions’ a compilation by India Publishing Trust, 1973)
