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The answer given is : There are fluids of various kinds. Electricity is called a fluid, and so was heat quite recently, but it was on the supposition that heat was some imponderable substance. This was during the supreme and autocratic reign of matter. When the latter was dethroned, and motion was proclaimed the sole sovereign ruler of the Universe, heat became “ a mode of motion.” We need not despair : it may become something else to-morrow. Like the Universe itself, Science is ever ''becoming'', and can never say, “ I am that I am.” On the other hand, Occult Science has its ''changeless ''traditions from prehistoric times. It may err in particulars ; it can never become guilty of a mistake in questions of Universal laws, simply because that Science, justly referred to by philosophy as the “ ''divine'',” was born on higher planes, and was brought on Earth by beings who were wiser than man will be, even in the seventh Race of his Seventh Round. And ''that ''Science maintains that Forces are not what modern learning would have them ; ''e.g.'', Magnetism is ''not ''a “ mode of motion ” ; and, in this particular case, at least, ''exact ''“ modern Science ” is sure to come to grief some day. Nothing, at the first blush, can appear more ridiculous, more outrageously absurd than to say, for instance : “ the Hindu initiated Yogi knows really ''ten times more than the greatest European physicist of the ultimate nature and constitution of light'' — both solar and lunar.” Yet why is the Sushumna ray believed to be that ray which furnishes the moon with its borrowed light ? Why is it “ the ray cherished ''by the initiated Yogi ? ”'' Why is the moon held as the ''deity of the mind'', by those Yogis ? We say, because light, or rather all its occult properties, every combination and correlation of it with other forces, mental, psychic, and spiritual, were perfectly known to the old adepts.