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Candida Phoenix Philosophica

The White Philosophical Phoenix

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Part II — Chapter 3: Comets and Other Meteors

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German & Latin

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Von dem Donner / Blitz / und Regen.

Ob wohl die Gelehrte erkennen / daß vermög der H. Schrifft / GOTT der HErr der jenige seye / welcher donnert / und blitzet / so wohln auch die Wolcken in der Lufft hoch herführet / und regnen lässt auff Erden; So wollen sie jedoch ihme hierinn die causas secundas, und Natur zu viel zugesellen / und solches derselben fast am meisten zuschreiben; Ohngeachtet sie nochmahl (kurtz darvon zu reden) nicht wissen / noch bedeuten können / was ihre causæ secundæ, oder ihre Natur eigentlich sey. Wie dann auch zu sagen:

94–95

Candida Phoenix Philosophica: Part II — Chapter 3: Comets and Other Meteors

94–95

Thunder, lightning and rain.

Although the learned acknowledge that, according to Holy Scripture, it is the Lord God who thunders and sends lightning, brings the clouds high into the air and causes rain upon the earth, they nevertheless associate too much with him by way of secondary causes and nature, attributing these things chiefly to nature. Yet, to speak briefly, they still neither know nor can explain what their secondary causes or their nature actually are. The same must be said of the following.

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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.