The personality has appreciated to some extent the opposition between the natural and the spiritual, and has chosen the spiritual.

He adopts a new attitude or mood, towards the world in consequence, and that is an attitude of fight against the world of nature.

But everything is vague; the individual has not yet appreciated the spiritual world as his own, and feels that he is a stranger in the higher world, rather than an ordinary fully privileged citizen.

He has not yet associated himself closely enough with the Universal Spirit, everything is superficial, there is hunger and thirst for the higher things in life, but these have not yet been satiated.
Some people never get beyond this vague appreciation of the spiritual until perhaps some great trial or temptation, a long illness or sad bereavement falls to their lot.

Then they feel the need for a religion that is more satisfying than the Universal Religion with which they have in the past been content.