The author examined through a comparison of Kagaku Murakami, an artist of genius whose profession of faith, acompanying modern-day anguish, bore fruit on his canvases, with a patient who traversed the world of mental illness, passed through psychotherapy, and experienced a Buddhistic salvation. As a psychiatric case, a chronic hallucino-paranoid male was selected, and his psychotherapy, particularly the course of the changes in appearance of the mental images he displayed in art therapy, were briefly presented. Then a brief account of the career and artistic course of Kagaku was given. Despite the great social disparity the two men were very close in age, and they also resembled each other closely in the circumstance. In the unfolding of their images there was a remarkable resemblance. Their ways of arriving at the religious especially Buddhistic spheres were remarkably similar. The purpose here was to show how psychotherapy closely resembles the process of Buddhistic enlightenment. That is in the conquest of present day suffering in anticipation of the times, both experienced a Buddhistic "salvation" and "transcendence". Despite the forms themselves of the phenomena were different, it may be considered that the choices availlable to the human spirit were along similar paths.