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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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Gestalten auch folgender Spruch wohl zu observiren: Merck! Merck! Kein schwaches kan einem andern helffen: Und ich nochmahln erinnert haben will: daß man die Stärcke nicht in dem schwachen / noch die Krafft in dem ohnmächtigen suchen solle: Dann weil / wie erwehnt / das Gold selbst zu schwach / und darauß keine Tinctur zu Verbesserung der Metallen zu præpariren / massen es auch sonsten / ohngeachtet es das best- und perfecteste Metall ist / gleichwohl von sothaner seiner perfection und Güte nichts entbehren / und einem andern geringern mittheilen / und selbiges dardurch zu gleicher perfection und Güte bringen kan / so ist leichtlich zu erachten / daß solches noch viel weniger ein anders geringeres Metall oder minerale, es habe gleich Nahmen wie es wolle / zu thun vermögen / oder zu præparirung mehrbemelter Tinctur dienlich seyn werde.

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

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The following saying too deserves close attention: “Mark this! Mark this! Nothing weak can help another.” I wish again to remind the reader that strength should not be sought in what is weak, nor power in what is powerless. As stated, gold itself is too weak to provide a tincture for improving metals. Although it is the best and most perfect metal, it cannot spare any of its perfection and goodness, communicate them to a lesser metal, and thereby bring that metal to equal perfection and goodness. It is therefore easy to see that another, lesser metal or mineral, whatever its name, is still less capable of doing this or of serving to prepare the tincture repeatedly mentioned.

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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.