Antikrisis: A Short Rejoinder and Defense

...[I remember] nothing more sharp or certain; in pronouncing judgment, nothing more modest, yet to those most hostile to the Brotherhood The Rosicrucians, a secret society of doctors and sages claiming ancient wisdom.: Yet leading men have declared that, by means of instruments crafted from above, they see what they owe to them; but when they begin to think about returning the favor, then truly the account of receipts and expenses in no way balances. I say nothing to you of the Old Scholastics Medieval theologians and philosophers who used logic to explain Christian doctrine., all of whom, to a man, the Brotherhood rejects: Gennadius, Caesarius of Arles, Smaragdus, Rabanus, Al-Battani, Scotus, Aquinas, Ivo, Alexander of Hales, Gerson, Gratian, Lombard, Comestor, Peter of Cluny, Pierre d'Ailly, etc. This list includes major intellectual heavyweights of the Middle Ages, ranging from legal experts like Gratian to the famous theologian Thomas Aquinas. The author is pointing out that the Rosicrucians dismiss the entire foundation of Western medieval thought. I say nothing of the Rabbis: Rabban Simeon, Rabban Gamaliel, Judah the Prince, Hillel the Prince, Rav Sherira, Rabbenu Asher, Rabbenu Jacob, Rabbi Levi ben Gershon, etc. These are foundational figures of Jewish law and philosophy, such as the compilers of the Mishnah and the Talmud. The author suggests they possessed deep wisdom that the Rosicrucians ignore. These men saw many things in this obscurity of nature and subtlety of philosophy which perhaps might have escaped even Aristotle himself.

Thus you labor in vain to build and confirm most of your arguments with your celebrated Sympathy original: "Sympathia." In early modern science, this referred to a "hidden" natural attraction between objects, often used to explain magnetism or medicinal cures at a distance.: For Vanity of vanities, and all is vanity original: "ματαιότης ματαιοτήτων, καὶ πάντα ματαιότης." A quote from the Book of Ecclesiastes 1:2 in the Greek Septuagint.: not that I do not have faith in the prodigious miracles of nature, which would be in a certain way