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Candida Phoenix Philosophica

The White Philosophical Phoenix

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Part II — Chapter 11: Theophrastus and the Homunculus

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Rectè, inquam, Theophrastum contra creationem, sed malè pro propagatione per solum Patrem sensisse, & contrarium opinantes, nec naturam nec scripturam hoc in puncto intelligunt. Moyses enim creationem hominis maris & fæminæ describens, specialissime refert, DEUM formato Adamô ex glebâ terræ, ipsi inspirasse animam in nares ejus, quod autem non dicit de fæminâ, sed quum costam de Adamo sumptam in mulierem extruxisset, viro illam adduxisse. Ex quibus patet, quod costa ista & ex ea formata mulier, jam fuerit animata.

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Candida Phoenix Philosophica: Part II — Chapter 11: Theophrastus and the Homunculus

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I say that Theophrastus rightly rejected separate creation, but wrongly favoured propagation through the father alone. Those who think otherwise understand neither Nature nor Scripture on this point. For when Moses describes the creation of humanity, male and female, he reports with particular precision that God, having formed Adam from a clod of earth, breathed a soul into his nostrils. He does not say this of the woman. Rather, after God had fashioned into a woman the rib taken from Adam, he brought her to the man. It follows that this rib, and the woman formed from it, already possessed a soul.

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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.