Franklin Merrell-Wolff continues his discourse challenging the Jungian concept of the unconscious by questioning whether Jung considers his conception of the unconscious to be essentially unconscious in itself or unconscious from the perspective of the relative, subject-object consciousness. He proceeds to distinguish his view that Consciousness is the fundamental constitutive element from which the universe is derived from the predominant view in the West, which regards the universe as essentially independent of consciousness. Wolff goes on to discuss the conception of Absolute Consciousness as it is described in The Secret Doctrine—a Consciousness that is not identical with the subject-object consciousness that stands in contrast to unconsciousness, but is a sort of blend of that dichotomy. He affirms that this other way of Consciousness is not a speculative idea and that it can be known through Introceptual Realization; however, for one in whom the introceptual function of cognition is not active, he suggests that it can be approached in the mathematical spirit by entertaining its possibility in a postulational sense. Wolff then states the first fundamental postulate in his philosophy—Consciousness is original, self-existent, and constitutive of all things—and contrasts its meaning with that of the materialistic prejudice of Western philosophy, psychology, and science. He concludes by raising the question of accepting the nirvanic withdrawal from this suffering sangsaric domain or of working to so transform this domain that it may also be redeemed.