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Candida Phoenix Philosophica

The White Philosophical Phoenix

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Part I — Theorem VII

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Die andere Art der Scheidung wird allein eine distinctio der in situ & figurâ ungleichen / wegen der Substanz und Kräffte aber einander verwanden Theile geheissen / worvon Nuysemann gleichfalls gar schön discurriret. Die erste Art der Scheidung anbelangend / gehört dieselbe vornemblich hiehero / als davon unser Werck angefangen / wie auch dardurch vorgedachte accidental-Schale (nechst vorhergehender reduction unsers Subjecti in primam materiam) removirt und abgeschafft wird; Alwo ich dann ferner zu annotiren nicht umbgehen kan / was gestalt bey den Hermeticis auch wohl das jenige / so bey denen Philosophis vulgaribus, die materia secunda pro materia prima: und hinwiederumb / was bey diesen die materia prima ist / bey jenen pro materia secunda pflegt genommen zu werden. Massen alhier die reductio in primam materiam eines theils in solchem Verstand zu acceptiren: Anders theils aber auch an sich selbst statt hat; ob sie schon sonsten / und in denen particularien / wie obgedacht / keines wegs Platz finden noch geschehen mag.

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Candida Phoenix Philosophica: Part I — Theorem VII

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The other kind of separation is called merely a distinction between parts unequal in position and form, but related in substance and powers. Nuysement also discusses this very well. The first kind belongs especially here, since our work begins with it; through it the accidental shell mentioned above is removed, after our subject has first been reduced to prime matter. Here I cannot avoid noting that the Hermetic philosophers sometimes take as prime matter what ordinary philosophers regard as secondary matter; and conversely, what the latter call prime matter the former commonly take as secondary matter. Thus reduction to prime matter must here be understood partly in that sense; yet it also occurs in itself, although, as said above, it can by no means occur in particular things.

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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.