And the same is true of the Occult Teaching that there is "Life in Everything--the Universe is Alive." For years, this idea was hooted at, and we had learned scientific discourses upon "dead Matter," "inert substance," etc. But, only within the past decade--yes, within the last five years, has Science discovered that there was Life in Everything, and that even in the Atom of mineral and chemical substance, there was to be found evidence of Mind. And Science is beginning to plume itself on its "recent discovery," and to account for it by a new theory, which is "quite a different thing, we assure you," from the old Occult Theory. And the same will prove true in the case of the Occult Teaching of an Universal Mind, or Cosmic Mind. Science and Philosophy have long laughed at this, but even now their foremost investigators have come to the borders of a new country, and are gasping in amazement at what they see beyond its borders--they are now talking about "Life and Mind in the Ether"--and before long they will discard their paradoxical, absurd, hypothetical Ether, and say, "We are bathed in an Ocean of Mind"--only they will insist that this "Ocean of Mind" is, somehow, a "secretion of Matter"--something oozing out from the pores of Matter, perhaps. But Science is doing valuable work in the direction of investigation and experiment, and in this way is _proving the principal occult teachings_ in a way impossible to the Occultists themselves. So, you see that both Occultism and Science have their own work to do--and neither can do the work of the other. Just now Science is coquetting with the question of "Thought Transmission," etc., at which she has for so long sneered and laughed. By and by she will accept the facts, and then proceed to prove them by a series of careful and conclusive experiments, and will then announce the result, solemnly, as "a triumph of Science." And so, in this book you will find a marriage of the old Occult Teachings and Modern Scientific Researches and Investigation. And the two are bound together with that bond forged by the writer of the book--heated in the oven of his mind, and hammered into shape with his "untrained" thought--a crude, clumsy thing, but it serves its purpose--a thing called "_The Theory of Dynamic Thought_."