12. Philosophy and Theosophy

This gulf found its final expression in a philosopher under whose influence the nineteenth century was caught in a net from which it can hardly escape: Kant. Basically, he is the last outgrowth of the split caused by the medieval rift. He strictly separates faith from that which man can achieve through knowledge. [He undertook a complete separation of purely theoretical and practical reason, whereby the latter stands on the mere standpoint of faith, while in theoretical reason only things of thought play a role, which, however, can never reach reality and essence, the “thing in itself”. Man always remains stuck in the subjective; he cannot approach truly objective thinking. This is the fundamental error of Kant's philosophy.