Sentence:  Even more perhaps than other kinds of genius, religious leaders have been subject to abnormal <WSD>psychical</WSD> visitations. Invariably they have been creatures of exalted emotional sensibility. [pg 007] Often they have led a discordant inner life, and had melancholy during a part of their career. They have known no measure, been liable to obsessions and fixed ideas; and frequently they have fallen into trances, heard voices, seen visions, and presented all sorts of peculiarities which are ordinarily classed as pathological. Often, moreover, these pathological features in their career have helped to give them their religious authority and influence. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Performed by or pertaining to the mind or spirit; mental, psychic. (from 17th c.)