The Star in the West

THE NEW WINE 229 perience , and an equivalence of statement . It may be a postulation of our egoity , but it therefore need not necessarily be so for all other personalities , as it cannot be in any way demonstrated as final . Kant did not have the necessary knowledge of taking into consideration the fact of inherited experiences , as Herbert Spencer was able to do , so worked at a dis advantage , postulating an à priori in place of organ iged intuitions . CROWLEYANITY AND THE PROLEGOMENA To illustrate the infolding of Crowleyanity , it will be necessary here to run through Kant's Prolegomena , reducing his arguments to the terms of this all embrac ing philosophy . ( To aid the reader , I will place all criticisms of a purely Crowleyan savour in square brackets . ) Immanuel Kant finding his master David Hume enmeshed in the negative net of an excessive Pyrrhon ism , set out to free him from the tangled conception of cause . To accomplish this end , and to avoid falling into the same entanglement of empirical uncertainties ( physical ), groping about in the dark for some weapon which might enable him to free his unfortunate master , himself fell into the same metaphysical pitfall , and tented himself by declaring his strangling senior as “ free .” In other words : “ It ( the source of meta physical knowledge ) consists , then , in knowledge à priori , that is, knowledge derived from pure under standing , pure reason (p . 11 ).” [ Then it is im con 1 These are the words of Crowley , the student . 2 Bohn's edition of the Prolegomena .