THE WHITE PHILOSOPHICAL PHOENIX or a sincere description of the matter of the Stone and of the Philosophers’ Mercury, through the analogy and mystery of rainwater.

In which the true principles of Hermetic philosophy are also faithfully, distinctly and clearly explained, and the operations of the aforesaid matter and of the subject of the art are sufficiently indicated and set forth.

First Part.

Philosophical motto: Through prayer, reading, meditation and labour.

Frankfurt am Main: published by Christian Hermsdorff. 1680.

Scaliger:

Nothing is more blessed than knowing; nothing more divine than teaching.