According to Michael Taft, Ramakrishna reconciled the dualism of formlessness and form. As one's devotion matures,one begins to contemplate the truth of formlessness of the Brahman. Fairhurst's work embodies an antithesis between the accumulation of forms and the reduction into formlessness. Like Buddhism, the heavens were divided into the "three worlds" of desire, form, and formlessness. Formlessness is an intrinsic problem of democratic revolutions. Surrounding them is the dark formlessness that existed before creation.