Franklin Merrell-Wolff continues his discussion of the contrast between aesthetic and noetic yoga. He asserts that the yogic search need not be a regression to the sensuous or animal nature, but can be in the form of a progression through the conceptual being toward that which transcends the conceptual as well as the sensational. He relates that his own yogic search was motivated by an interest in attaining philosophical knowledge rather than by a dedication to resolve the problem of suffering, and he stresses the importance of the epistemological approach to the yogic Realization. He affirms that the discovery of the right conception may be the key to a state of consciousness that is a source of philosophic knowledge transcending sensuality and conceptuality. Wolff concludes by asserting that in the West mathematics plays a yogic role in realizing what might be called the indeterminate theoretic continuum analogous to that which aesthetic means plays in realizing the indeterminate aesthetic continuum in Eastern forms of yoga such as Tantra and Zen Buddhism.