_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?
_Ans._ Yes.
576. (21.) Are spirits in the lowest level of the second sphere
destitute of effulgence?
_Ans._ Yes.