IMMORTALITY AND EVOLUTION
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Slit,—From among the several letters upon the above subject, appearing in your issue for November 6th, may I call attention to two striking points raised by F. C. Constable? (1) The quotation from Bradley that " Outside of spirit, there is not, and cannot be, any reality." (2) The reference to Kant, " one of these conceptions must be a conception of the soul in man."
When one comes to examine one of these statements from the standpoint of the other one, the intensity of the subsequent logic is thrilling. If spirit is the only reality, what is man ? Is he real or not real ? Does he exist or not exist—as reality ? If as reality, then he is- spiritual, real, immortal, outside of a time and space universe—i.e., matter.
Then what constitutes the " soul in man " ? - If we accept man as " outside of spirit "—i.e., outside of reality, it does not appear to matter what we believe. It cannot be real ! But if man is one with reality—" I and my Father are one "- might not the " soul in man " be the unfolding consciousness of his own realness in Reality ? The Nazarene spoke of Truth as Life. What greater Truth of Life could come to the. con- seiousness of a man than the voluntary realizations that deathless self-consciousness is his for the taking ?
To a spiritual entity, what greater death could we imagine than the loss of self-realization, or real consciousness ? To lie mentally dead and buried in the illusion that that is real which Bradley logically terms unreal ? What greater life could be granted to us than the realization of the Truth that the human form, and all other time space forms, are but, symbolic effigies arising out of our illogical superstitions. Due to belief in the reality Of that which is not real !
Is it possible that we continually find our way back to this plane of mental chaos and disorder through failure to realize real consciousness of our own volition. That it is possible to break away from it all by voluntary acquisition of the immortal, eternal—i.e., real-self- consciousness. If the " resurrection " took place, was this the conscious power that waked behind the scenes ?--I am, Sir, &c.,
OSCILLATOR.
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