As a Catholic, of course, McLuhan had no quarrel with spiritual reality, but spiritual reality as understood by the Christian tradition. According to this tradition, God had created the universe, which therefore had a very real existence and which participated, in some sense, in the divine life. God had emphasized this participation in the most dramatic way imaginable, by Himself becoming man in the person of Jesus Christ. Furthermore, McLuhan adhered to the traditional Catholic philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, which insisted that the senses and the intellect, if properly used, gave a trustworthy account of the universe God had made. The orderliness which the intellect and the senses perceived in the universe, far from being illusory, were analogous to the perfect order of its Creator.
