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What does "on two different planes" mean in

Behind all the fantasy of the Gothic imagination there remained, on two different planes, a sharp sense of reality. Source : Barron's SAT workbook.

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Plane here is used in its alternative meaning of level. You could replace:

On two different planes.

With:

On two different levels.

Though I can't really say more about it without the previous and following sentences.

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