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Part II — Chapter 2: The Three Philosophical Principles
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85–86Die Elementa seynd obdeducirter massen / wiederumb nichts anders / als ein Wasser / gleich wie sie auch alle auß dem Wasser herkommen / und entsprungen seynd.
Dahero ich mit dem Authore der Offenbahrung Göttlicher Majestät spreche: Ist nicht der Lufft ein Geist / und wird doch darauß ein Wasser.
Daß das Feuer Wasser sey / thut so wohl der von Nuysement, als jetzt- und dickbemelter Author der Offenbahrung Göttlicher Majestät / mit sattsamen Gründen beweisen. Alwo dieser auch in folgende Wort außbricht / und sagt: Ist nicht der Blitz / so etwas anzündet / ein Feuer / und wird doch auß dem Blitz ein seeliger Regen. Massen diesem D. Müller in seinem Geistlichen Liebeskuß, so fern beystimmet / in dem Er nemblich dem Blitz und dem Regen einen Ursprung zuschreibet.
Deßgleichen ist das Saltz eine Erde / und wird doch darauß ebenfalls ein Wasser.
Candida Phoenix Philosophica: Part II — Chapter 2: The Three Philosophical Principles
85–86As argued above, the elements in turn are nothing but water, just as all of them originate and spring from water.
I therefore say with the author of the Revelation of Divine Majesty: “Is air not a spirit, and yet water is made from it?”
Both Nuysement and that frequently mentioned author prove with sufficient reasons that fire is water. The latter exclaims: “Is the lightning that sets something alight not fire, and yet a blessed rain comes from lightning?” Dr Müller agrees to this extent in his Spiritual Kiss of Love, assigning lightning and rain a single origin.
Likewise Salt is an earth, and yet water is also made from it.
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Reading Candida Phoenix Philosophica · Part II — Chapter 2: The Three Philosophical Principles · II.085.2 · Source p. 85–86
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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.
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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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