Antikrisis: A Short Rejoinder and Defense

Furthermore, regarding the instruction you give me concerning Paracelsus Paracelsus: A famous Swiss physician and alchemist (1493–1541) whose work was foundational to Rosicrucian thought but highly controversial among traditionalists—namely, that one should speak nothing but good of the dead original: "de mortuis nil nisi benè loquendum esse"—would you wish this same rule to be observed for Simon Magus, Judas Iscariot, Nero, Caligula, Domitian, Julian the Apostate, Dracula the Wallachian Vlad the Impaler, Prince of Wallachia, Ivan of Moscow original: "Basilide Moscovita"; likely referring to Ivan the Terrible, and others?

But here too you arrive too late, and you offer advice after the die has been cast original: "post jactam aleam"; an allusion to Caesar’s crossing of the Rubicon, meaning the decision is already irreversible. Or like some Epimetheus In Greek mythology, the brother of Prometheus; he represents hindsight, acting only after it is too late, do you warn that a business should not be undertaken only after it is already finished? And now that Troy has been overturned, do you teach that Helen should not have been abducted?

I see what you wish for me, but I do not quite understand what you are advising—unless perhaps you call a rebuke an "admonition." But if you are rebuking me, you do so without cause, since I have used the testimonies of men whom I do not dare to accuse of lying. If, however, you are advising me, you advise too late. Nor do I even now have those books of his at hand so that we might delve into the matter for a moment; it is entirely possible that he wrote as a Christian, yet lived impiously—just as the opinion circulated about Cicero Note Well original: "NB" for "Nota Bene" was that he wrote like a philosopher, but lived like a man.

I would only like to hear this from you: by what histories is it proven that in Arabia there is a city called Damcar A legendary city mentioned in the Rosicrucian "Fama Fraternitatis," where the founder Christian Rosenkreuz supposedly studied secret wisdom inhabited only by wise men?