Antikrisis: A Short Rejoinder and Defense

...[that the land] had been inhabited, from whom the first Author of the Fraternity original: "Fraternitatis"; referring to the Rosicrucian Brotherhood allegedly learned the secrets of nature. Having been instructed by them, he reportedly traveled to Fez original: "Fessam"; a city in modern-day Morocco, central to the Rosicrucian origin story, and there found a similar society of Philosophers, which agreed most excellently with the Arabs.

For if this is so, it is a wonder to me that the Kings of Fez so often suffered the greatest disasters, when they could have remained safe and unharmed through their own omniscient and omnipotent subject Philosophers. But I wonder more that I find or read nothing regarding this matter in any writer of Africa, neither ancient nor more recent—such as Pomponius Mela, Columna, Volaterranus, Stöffler, Münster, Ortelius, Bertius, Aubanus Boemus, Coranus, Caelius Curio, Hayton the Armenian, Romanus Patricius, etc. These are notable 16th and 17th-century geographers, historians, and cartographers who documented the known world.

I notice that these authors have otherwise most diligently divided that most noble part—called Barbary The Barbary Coast of North Africa by our people—into four kingdoms, and have most precisely recorded in their writings the institutions, customs, inhabitants, crafts, and trade of the individual provinces and cities. Among these writers, Johannes Leo Leo Africanus (c. 1494–1554), a renowned traveler and author of "Description of Africa" must be counted, who says that those who live in the cities are most skillful in mathematical invention and Architecture, and very strong...