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Candida Phoenix Philosophica

The White Philosophical Phoenix

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Part II — Chapter 7: Other Waters and Philosophical Earth

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Gleichwohl will ich sein B. Fleiß und curiosität gerühmet / auch seine Medicin, was das Aurum Auræ und Spiritum Mundi anbelangt / nicht verachtet haben / sondern bekenne mit dem Authore der Offenbahrung Göttlicher Majestät / daß in dem Wind und Lufft nicht wenig Geheimnuß seyen. Es mangelt aber / sage ich nochmahln / dem B. einen als den andern Weg das rechte Geheimnuß. Will geschweigen / daß die Astronomia Inferior für phantastisch haltet / wann man den Lufft durch sonderbahre Instrumenta auffängt:

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Candida Phoenix Philosophica: Part II — Chapter 7: Other Waters and Philosophical Earth

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Nevertheless, I wish to praise B.’s diligence and curiosity and not despise his medicine, so far as the Gold of the Breeze and World-Spirit are concerned. I acknowledge with the author of the Revelation of Divine Majesty that wind and air contain no few mysteries. But B., I say again, lacks the true secret by either route. I pass over the fact that Inferior Astronomy considers it fanciful to collect air with special instruments.

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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.

About Diotimos Editions

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.