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Candida Phoenix Philosophica

The White Philosophical Phoenix

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Part II — Chapter 14: The World and Its End

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231–232

Da wird alsdann das jenige / was anjetzo unsichtbar ist / sichtbar; da wird ein neuer Himmel / und eine neue Erde: da wird also zu reden oder zu schreiben / die rechte terra foliata seyn. Finis denique est, & ut paucis me expediam, gloria DEI, quo ergò non caret, ut aliqui garriunt. Und so viel kan man von dem Ende der Welt / und deren künfftigen Zustand / oder der Beschaffenheit des Paradises / auß H. Schrifft / und der Erkantnuß der Natur / in dieser Sterblichkeit wissen / und discurriren. Dessen die jenige / so die Natur / auch was propriè & physicè Substantia oder Accidens: Item corruptio, resolutio &c. sey / nicht verstehen / noch begreiffen können / daß eben die corruptio das medium, dardurch alle Substantien / und zwar insonderheit auch die Elementa, von ihren excrementis und superfluitatibus liberirt, und in eine neue plusquamperfecte Form gebracht werden / entpehren müssen. Welche gleichwohl andere hierin meistern / und ihrer / wie erwehnt / spotten wollen.

231–232

Candida Phoenix Philosophica: Part II — Chapter 14: The World and Its End

231–232

Then what is now invisible will become visible; there will be a new heaven and a new earth, and, so to speak, the true foliated earth. Finally, to put it briefly, its end is God’s glory; it therefore does not lack an end, as some prattle. This much may be known and discussed in our mortal state, from Holy Scripture and knowledge of nature, concerning the world’s end and future condition, or the nature of paradise. Those who do not understand nature, or what substance, accident, corruption, and resolution properly mean in natural philosophy, must lack that understanding. They cannot grasp that corruption itself is the means through which all substances, especially the elements, are freed from wastes and superfluities and brought into a new, supremely perfect form. Yet they presume to instruct and mock others.

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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.