Franklin Merrell-Wolff asserts that the law of change in nature tends towards degradation if left to its own natural tendency and he cautions against making changes in a direction that may not be viable. He outlines the conception of entropy and points out that it is while energy is descending toward the condition of maximum entropy that it can be used. He then raises the question of how the second law of thermodynamics might be relevant in assessing the ascension or degradation of races in the process of human evolution. Wolff goes on to state that the physicist’s conception of entropy violates the principle of equilibrium or balance and that it may only apply to the sangsaric phase of consciousness where energy would tend toward a minimum. He then suggests that this phase could be counterbalanced by a movement in an opposite sense within the nirvanic phase of consciousness where energy would tend toward a maximum. He concludes by suggesting that if energy from the nirvanic state could be introduced into the sangsaric universe, we would have the potential for development or progress from lower to higher levels and a new understanding of what is meant by evolution and redemption.