Franklin Merrell-Wolff responds to a letter from a student who poses a series of questions concerning the aesthetic versus the theoretic approaches to yoga presented in Northrop’s The Meeting of East and West. He begins by contrasting three approaches to the thought process: apologetic, logical, and postulational. He then suggests that the distinction between the aesthetic and theoretic orientation may be based more on racial factors than on geographic location. He goes on to point out that Buddhism is not a fixed dogma and raises the question as to what new growth might come into the Buddhist current from modern Western thought. Wolff continues by addressing a portion of the letter that describes Indian metaphysics as orientated neither to the aesthetic continuum nor the theoretic continuum, but rather to the introceptual order of cognition. He submits that while Sri Aurobindo made a significant contribution toward the meeting of the East and the West, he did not adequately understand the development of pure mathematics, which is the true genius of the West. He proceeds by discussing the intermediate zones of consciousness not realized during his own Mystical Awakening and to differentiate between the orientation to nirvanic withdrawal and to transforming the development within the evolution. He concludes by describing his fifth Realization as occupying a position midway between that of Buddhism and the Vedanta.