Franklin Merrell-Wolff discusses the vertical and horizontal relationships with which man is confronted in terms of the following pairs of opposites: purity-impurity for the vertical relationships and compassion-incompassion for the horizontal relationships. He represents these relationships by plotting them on a rectilinear Cartesian coordinate system. He goes on to expand the definition of these pairs of opposites by introducing the concepts of goodness, righteousness, and benignity, and suggests a more comprehensive understanding of purity as a single-pointed devotion to the transcendental Consciousness. Wolff describes his imperience of levity during the ascension of consciousness in his transformation cycle of 1936.