Antikrisis: A Short Rejoinder and Defense

If he is as good a Rosicrucian Rosencreutzer: a member of a secretive cultural and intellectual movement in early 17th-century Europe that claimed to possess secret wisdom as the ingenious, elegant, and artistic epigram a short, pithy poem he placed at the head of his defense is, then he surely cannot be mediocre, and there must be outstanding, noble poets within your society.

It certainly does not escape me that truth exists in five degrees or orders: in being, in the mind, in speech, in the mind and speech together, and in being, mind, and speech all at once original Latin: "in ente, mente, sermone, mente & sermone, in ente, mente, & sermone simul". Specifically, I learned long ago from Metaphysics whether truth is spoken of concerning God and created things in the same sense, in different senses, or by analogy original Latin: "univocè, an æquivocè, an deniq; analogicè"; likewise, whether something can be true in Philosophy that is false in Theology, and vice versa.

Furthermore, it is public knowledge that specific questions in specific fields must be confirmed or refuted not by foreign principles original Greek: "ἀλλοτρίοις" (allotriois) but by principles proper to the subject original Greek: "οἰκείοις" (oikeiois). Similarly, this is not the place to discuss the various subjects you touched upon in passing, and as if by an index, regarding the Disciplines; I have no intention of constructing an Encyclopedia. Nor should you have doubted my knowledge in Chemistry, for I keep so many writers of Alchemy—both modern and ancient—acquired at great expense, such as Quercetanus Joseph Duchesne (c. 1544–1609), a French physician and chemist who championed the medical theories of Paracelsus.