Franklin Merrell-Wolff examines the nature of consciousness and provides an explanation of his use of the term ‘consciousness’. He makes a distinction between consciousness as a relationship between a knower and a known versus Consciousness as the self-existent container of all subjects to and objects of consciousness. He suggests that this distinction might be better understood if we consider consciousness not as a completely definable conception, but rather as an indefinable or partially definable notion, the meaning of which can only be pointed to or evoked. He then describes a process whereby self-existent Consciousness may be known. He goes on to consider the Buddhistic conceptions of Sangsara, Nirvana, and Paranirvana as corresponding to the object of consciousness, the subject to consciousness, and the Pure Consciousness itself—Svabhavat. He concludes by suggesting a similar correspondence with the physicist’s conception of the state of positive and negative matter as Sangsara, its cancellation in a state of radiation as Nirvana, and the energy-momentum that remains invariant as Paranirvana.