Franklin Merrell-Wolff discusses two different orientations toward the realization of the ultimate value: the psychological or autochthonic and the philosophical or transcendent. He characterizes the first as exemplified by Christ, and as concerned with the problems of vital physical man; the second is exemplified by Shankara, and appeals to elite mental man. He quotes a lengthy passage from Jung’s Psychological Types to give a picture of how the redeeming value of the autochthonic factor, representing the repressed inferior function, is received by those to whom it is made known; and he reads his own “The Parable of the Jewels” to suggest how an orientation to transcendent consciousness contrasts with the autochthonous approach.