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Candida Phoenix Philosophica

The White Philosophical Phoenix

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Part II — Chapter 2: The Three Philosophical Principles

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Wie auch hiehero gehört was Bazdorff. saget: Daß kein außträglicher particular sey / als wann man Gold und Silber zusammen schmeltze / daß sie kein Mensch scheiden könne. Inmassen dann diese letztere Wort anzeigen / daß solches allein von Philosophischen ex fonte universali kommendem Gold und Silber zu verstehen sey; Sintemahln das mineralische Gold und Silber nimmermehr also zusammen zu schmeltzen / daß sie nicht wieder von einander geschieden werden können: Und weil von diesem particular under andern der zu Nürnberg Anno 1667. getruckte Irrweg der Alchymisten / mehrern Bericht gibt; So will ich den Leser dahin gewiesen / bevorab aber aller andern / wie gedacht / nicht ex fonte universali gehenden Particularien (als welche nichts dann Betrügereyen seynd) müssig zu stehen / gewarnet haben.

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Candida Phoenix Philosophica: Part II — Chapter 2: The Three Philosophical Principles

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Bazdorff’s saying also belongs here: no particular work is profitable except melting gold and silver together so that no person can separate them. These last words show that he means only philosophical gold and silver proceeding from the universal source. Mineral gold and silver can never be melted together in such a way that they cannot be separated again. Since the False Paths of the Alchemists, printed at Nuremberg in 1667, provides further information about this particular work, I refer the reader to it. Above all, I warn him to abstain from all other particular works that do not, as stated, proceed from the universal source, since they are nothing but deceptions.

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About This Reading Edition

An anonymous Hermetic treatise of 1680, presented in its original German and Latin with a new English translation, 279 explanatory notes, the historical phoenix frontispiece, an introduction, reading guide, outline, glossary, bibliography, and original registers.

Historical Text and Translation

Anonymous, Candida Phoenix philosophica. Frankfurt am Main: Christian Hermsdorff, 1680. The chosen witness is the Wellcome Library copy digitized as b32993456; German and Latin, with French, Greek, and Hebrew passages retained.

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This historical edition credits Diotimos Editions as its English translator.

Rights

The 1680 source is identified as public domain by the Wellcome/Internet Archive record. The supplied 2026 transcription, English translation, introduction, notes, reading guide, outline, glossary, bibliography, and editorial arrangement are published with the site owner’s authorization. The frontispiece is retained from the supplied edition and credited to its historical witness.