236
THE STAR IN THE WEST
namely , mere
phenomena , the
reader is
necessitated
thereby again to undertake
the
deduction of
all
our
knowledge
à
priori
”
(
p.96
).
(
And since
the noumenon
can
possess
no
predicate
--
what
is
it
then that
it
does
possess
?
It
is
the Reason itself which
is
at
fault
;
the
delicate time
-
piece
of
Kant's intellect has gone wrong
,
it
has ceased
to
“
tick
,"
and with the terrific blow
of
an
à
priori club
,
he
proclaims
it
mended
,
and regulates
each chiming clock
in
the house
of
many mansions
by
means
of
its
handless face
.]
Thus has the great lion
of
Crowleyanity
set the little crab
of
Konigsberg
and
his lunar hut
in
their appointed niche
in
the great solar
mansion
of
eternity
.
At
length we
have
arrived
at
the
end
of
our first
series
of
arguments
,
which may
be
generalized
as
the
infoldment
of
all
rational
philosophies
into
one
un
certain philosophic
problem
.
Berkeley
,
as
we have
seen
,
opened
the gateway
of
scepticism
,
and was the
first
to
vanish
in
the
Absolute
ether
of
Pyrrhonism
,
which
he
outwardly
symbolized
under
the
form
of
a
Bishop
of
the Church
of
England
.
Hume
following
,
clutched vaguely
in
the
night
of
doubt
at
a
“
some
thing
”
he
could not grasp
,
and whose watery
sub
stance
trickled
through
his
clenched
and searching
fingers
.
Kant similarly
losing his way
in
the night
of
Hume's
ignorance
,
struck
a
spark
on
the tail
of
his
shirt
,
proclaiming
the day
;
but
as
the flames
rose and
scorched his fundamental basis
,
he
,
also
,
leapt from his
empiric hose into the cool comfort
of
that watery ocean
Hume
had attempted
to
shadow
in
the
palm
of
his
hand
.
Then behind these
three
gallant
knights
clat
tered
along
their
no
less
gallant
esquires
:
Fichte
,
Schelling
,
and
Hegel
,
and
in
the distance
,
lost
in
the
dust
of
Reason
,
stand
the
present
-
day
yokels
of