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THE STAR IN THE WEST
Kant would not say
(A) but
“
à priori truth
” ;
and as
to the
laws of cause
and
effect ,
[if we
accept caus
ality , etc. , then
we must regard
all
as
truly parts
of
one thing
,
perhaps even
as
aspects
of
one thing
.)
And
Kant
,
after
a
series
of
analytical arguments
,
comes
to
the conclusion
that
the
legitimacy
of
natural
laws
"
rests
on
the necessary connection
of
phenomena
in
an
experience
,
in
other words
,
on
the original laws
of
the understanding
,
”
(p
.
67
).
The understanding draw
ing
its
laws
à
priori not from nature
,
but prescribing
them
to
it
.
(
But these
original
laws
of
the
(
Kantian
)
understanding
are
themselves the
result
of
the em
pirical
laws
of
nature
,
and
of
an
inherited wealth
of
experience
;
“
Omnia exeunt
in
O.
”
And
it
is
certainly
not far from this
to
the Ego positing
the non
-
Ego
.]
At
length
,
thoroughly
entrapped
in
his own meta
physics
,
caught
by
that very same
net wherewithal
he
set out
to
drag
the infinite depths
of
eternity
;
he
defines
the noumenon
as
the
final term
of
an
infinite
series
,
and
asserts that
the
permanence
of
the
soul
can only
be
proved
in
the life
of
man
,
“
the proof
of
which
will
not
be
required
by
us
.”
Then
standing
aghast
as
the phantasmagoria
of
his mind crowd past
him
;
states
in
the plainest
words
,
that
the
Reason
itself
is
at
fault
,
and
casting
it
into
the
balance
of
Pyrrho
,
weighs
it
out
in
due terms
of
Crowleyanity
.
The following
are
the four transcendent
ideas
,
or
four dialectical assertions
of
the pure Reason
.
To each
accordingly
is
opposed
a
contradictory
assumption
(p
.
87
).
Thesis
Antithesis
I
The world
is
infinite
in
time
The world
has
a
beginning
(
boundary
)
in
time and space
.
and space
.