EXTRA-MUNDANE LIFE

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22110, 4 June 1937, Page 7

EXTRA-MUNDANE LIFE

TO TBS EDITOB OF THE PRESS Sir, — I was Interested in E. M. LovellSmith's criticism of my attempt to cast doubt on the existence of any extramundane life, organic or spiritual. E. M. Lovell-Smith's two main arguments seem to me to recoil and aid my own position. First, as to the irreconcilable natures of evolution and spirituality your correspondent gives space to exhibit the intense power of spiritual forces in the formation and progress of the earth. This seems quite a mundane performance and is therefore all that my argument needs, as the matter of irreconcilableness has no bearing on my investigation—the search for extra-mundane life. So, too, E. M. Lovell-Smith's second argument is a good point for me. He says I failed to take account of "the teeming life and activity" that resides in the ether. Certainly in my definition of our earth I did forget to claim some amount of ether or space as fairly belonging to it, much as a three-miles width of sea is deemed to belong to the adjacent coast; but whatever limit may be allowed me will provide, I think, ample room even for a super-infinite number of spirits, and as each one seems to toil at earthly progress till it becomes a god, these denizens of the ether seem quite mundane. They do not seem to operate even so far as our moon. With respect to a spirit . becoming a deity, I seemed to find evidence in my former letter that the operations of God are mundane.— Yours, etc., TERRENE. May 31, 1937.