Franklin Merrell-Wolff continues this series by suggesting that the descent of the Manasaputra as portrayed in The Secret Doctrine provides an explanation of how the noetic element of consciousness was added to the aesthetic element of the evolving nascent human beings. He points out that the discontinuity between these two cognitive functions is such that it is unlikely that the noetic element could have developed out of the aesthetic and that with the noetic added onto the aesthetic we have something transcending the purely aesthetic function of cognition. Wolff introduces a study in the use of language by the Eskimo, the Chinese, and the Japanese to describe how the aesthetic orientation to particulars and the noetic orientation to universals can again be observed. He points out that these two different psychological perspectives require different forms of yogic method and discipline.