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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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135–136

Auff die viert- und letzte objection ebenmässig zu antworten / ist und bleibt der angeführte Canon an sich selbst waar.

Es erscheinet aber gleichwol auß sothaner objection gnugsam / daß dieser Philosophus nicht weiß / was die Hermetische vorher beschriebene Kunst und Goldmachen ist: Ingleichem weder die causas & principia rerum verstehet / noch auch deren interiora zu scrutiren gelernet hat / sondern sich allein mit dem blossen äusserlichen Ansehen eines und des andern Dinges behelffen muß.

135–136

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

135–136

To answer the fourth and last objection also: the rule cited is and remains true in itself.

Yet the objection makes sufficiently evident that this philosopher does not know what the Hermetic art and gold-making described above are. He understands neither the causes nor the principles of things, and has not learned to investigate their interiors. He must make do instead with the mere outward appearance of this or that thing.

135–136

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.