[To THE EDITOR OE THE " SPECTATOR."1
Sts,—Mr. Tom Anderson prefers correspondents who " deal in realities," and implies very plainly that Lady Waldegrave and others who write from the Christian standpoint are concerned with matters that are utterly unreal and unimportant, and quite beneath the consideration of " thinking men and women." But what does he mean by " realities," and is he in a position to judge what are realities and what are not? Judging from his letter he seems to be ignorant that there are three
planes of human consciousness, viz., physical consciousness as
the sensuous nature, reasoning consciousness as the intellectual nature, and spiritual consciousness as the intuitive faculty. As the intellectual plane is higher than the physical, so is the spiritual plane higher than the intellectual. Each person's ego is meant to make constant progress from the lower plane to the higher, but unfortunately in the case of many people this development is arrested, and the ego is never lifted to the realm of spiritual life. Such people are as deficient in spiritual consciousness as some are in intellectual development, and they are therefore ignorant of the higher spiritual realities which are the true realities. Mr. Tom Anderson is evidently a case of arrested develop- ment. He has never reached the plane of spiritual conscious- ness. He must therefore necessarily be ignorant of matters on that plane, i.e., of spiritual realities, and he is therefore not competent to judge what are true " realities " any more than a blind man can judge the beauties of a landscape. Only he is in a worse plight than any sensible blind man because he does not recognize his own deficiency, and flatly refuses to believe that there is any landscape at all. One feels that in these circumstances a little more humility and considerably more courtesy would be more suitable, but these being virtues of both the knightly and the Christian character, doubtless they are not inculcated in proletarian schools.—I am, Sir, &c., M. E. B.
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