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Candida Phoenix Philosophica

The White Philosophical Phoenix

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Part II — Chapter 6: Rainwater as a Subject

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Das Sechste Capitel. Worauß die Metallen / und Edelgesteine in der Erden entspringen. Worbenebenst zugleich die Warheit der Hermetischen Kunst durch sattsame und unwidertreibliche / eines theils von andern Philosophis (meines wissens) noch niemahlen beygebrachte fundamenta erwiesen wird.

Nachdem ich in obigem andern Capitel occasione der Beschreibung der dreyen Philosophischen Principien etwas de practicâ & quidem de viâ humidâ (ut vocant) gemeldet: So habe ich in beeden vorhergehenden / als im Viert- und Fünfften Capiteln / vermittelst Beschreibung der generation der Metallen / und Edelgesteine / auch eines und anders de operatione nostri Subjecti in viâ siccâ addiren wollen; Wie ich dann deßwegen selbige gegenwärtigem Sechsten Capitel vorgesetzt / da sie sonsten vielleicht in der Ordnung demselben nachfolgen sollen.

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Candida Phoenix Philosophica: Part II — Chapter 6: Rainwater as a Subject

121–122

Chapter Six. From what metals and precious stones arise in the earth. In which the truth of the Hermetic art is also established by sufficient and irrefutable foundations, some of which, to my knowledge, have never before been presented by other philosophers.

In Chapter Two above, while describing the three philosophical principles, I said something about practice, specifically the wet way, as it is called. In the two preceding chapters, the fourth and fifth, I therefore wished to add some remarks on the operation of our subject in the dry way, through an account of the generation of metals and precious stones. For that reason I placed those chapters before the present sixth chapter, although in the natural order they might perhaps have followed it.

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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.

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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.