Franklin Merrell-Wolff addresses a group of university students on the subject of integrating the philosophies of “universal illusionism” and “universal realism.” He begins by describing what is meant by “Realization,” and then goes on to affirm that the West need not repudiate its own psyche in order to follow the yogic path. He emphasizes the role Pythagoras had in striking the keynote of the West, namely, mathematical proof. He goes on to give several examples of how an integrating concept may reconcile an apparent incompatibility in our fundamental conceptions. He then makes a distinction between “speculative” and “transcriptive” thinking, and describes the effects that transcriptive thinking may have on relative consciousness. He outlines the apparent contradiction between Shankara’s philosophy of universal illusionism and Aurobindo’s universal realism and presents his realization of “reality is inversely proportional to appearance” as an integrating conception that resolves this seeming contradiction.