Franklin Merrell-Wolff suggests that there is reason to believe that an impulse has gone forth to establish a new dispensation in our philosophic and religious orientation. He points out that although a new truth may not be in the same direction as the earlier truth, it is not to be viewed as a contradiction of the earlier truth insofar as it is made possible by and built upon that earlier formulation. He goes on to make a distinction between the “initiate adept” who has been pledged to keep secret his knowledge and the “redeemer savior” who has made a breakthrough within a specific culture in order to share this knowledge with others. He reviews his thesis that Sangsara and Nirvana are interdependent, complementary opposites and asserts that the new dispensation would not only be other-worldly, but “this-worldly” at the same time.