The Star in the West

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