86: The Life and the Lives.  H. P. B. says in the Secret Doctrine.
"Occultism does not accept anything inorganic in the Kosmos.  The expression employed by Science 'inorganic substance' means simply that the latent life, slumbering in the molecules of so-called 'inert matter' is incognisable.  All is Life, and every atom of even mineral dust is a Life, though beyond our comprehension and perception....Life therefore is everywhere in the Universe...wherever there is an atom of matter, a particle or a molecule, even in its most gaseous condition, there is life in it however latent and unconscious."—S. D., I, 269, 281, 282.