Franklin Merrell-Wolff discusses his need for more personal time to allow for the “brooding” necessary preceding the production of a discourse. He then comments upon the influence Ramana had in helping to bring about his propaedeutic Realization, “I am Nirvana.” He asserts that his series of five realizations and the continuing action of the “transcendental function” form the basis of what he has to give, although he does acknowledge correlation with Buddhism, Vedanta, and the Greek current of thought represented by the mathematical spirit of Pythagoras. He asserts that it is this mathematical element that characterizes the authentically Western contribution to yoga. He then makes a distinction between the aesthetic yoga of the East and the theoretic yoga characteristic of the West noting that in addition to Northrop’s designation of the “indeterminate aesthetic continuum,” he is working to formulate the notion of a corresponding “indeterminate theoretic continuum.” Wolff offers a description of the experience of mathematical beauty and again expresses a desire to be somewhat withdrawn from making new contacts so that he may direct his attention to completing his fundamental philosophical statement during his remaining years of production.