Ans. No.
571. (16.) If lighted by a peculiar spiritual sun invisible in our mundane region, do the rays of that sun consist of undulations of an all-pervading ethereal fluid, analogous to that assumed to exist by the undulationists?
Ans. Yes.
572. (17.) Or do they depend upon the last-mentioned fluid for existence?
Ans. No.
573. (18.) Are there not peculiar elementary principles appropriate, severally, to the spiritual world, and likewise to the material world?
Ans. Yes.
574. (19.) Is it not an error to suppose that any of the ponderable elements recognised by chemistry can contribute to the organization of the person of an imponderable spirit?
Ans. Of course, not without a loss of ponderosity, which involves a loss of identity or a transformation.
575. (20.) Is it not luminiferous matter which causes the effulgence of spirits, analogous in its effects to that of luminiferous insects, though consisting of a spiritual material entirely different from those which enter into the luminiferous matter of insects?