The Star in the West

234 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 .