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Candida Phoenix Philosophica

The White Philosophical Phoenix

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Part I — Theorem VII

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Derowegen meine schuldige Danckbarkeit gegen dem Allgütig- und barmhertzigen GOtt in etwas zu beobachten / ich Gottes des H. Geistes Ehr / so viel an mir / als dem unwürdig- und geringsten / hierdurch ferner zu retten / nicht unterlassen können. Zur Frag an sich selbsten nun zu schreiten / seynd der jenigen / so zu behaupten vermeynen / daß offtberührter Geist / Gott der H. Geist seye / vornehmste fundamenta, meines wissens / folgende / und zwarn: Erstlich das Wörtlein Ruah, und sonderlich das darbey stehende Wort Elohim. Zweytens die in unsern Teutschen Evangelischen Biblien befindliche Gloss: Wind ist dazumahl nicht gewesen / darumb muß es den H. Geist bedeuten. Welche etliche anjetzo auff nachfolgende Weiß ergrössern / in deme sie hinzu setzen und sagen: Der H. Geist habe die damahls erschaffen gewesene beede erste Stück / das Gewässer und die Erd / außbreiten und vollkommen machen müssen.

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Candida Phoenix Philosophica: Part I — Theorem VII

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To fulfil in some measure the gratitude I owe the all-good and merciful God, I could therefore not refrain from further defending God the Holy Spirit’s honour, as far as lies in me, the most unworthy and least of all. Turning now to the question itself, the principal grounds of those who maintain that this spirit is God the Holy Spirit are, to my knowledge, as follows. First, the little word Ruah, and especially the accompanying word Elohim. Second, the gloss in our German Protestant Bibles: “There was no wind at that time; therefore it must mean the Holy Spirit.” Some now enlarge this by adding that the Holy Spirit had to spread out and perfect the two first things then created, the waters and the earth.

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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.

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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.