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Candida Phoenix Philosophica

The White Philosophical Phoenix

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Part II — Chapter 6: Rainwater as a Subject

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Wiederumb zu geschweigen / daß dasselbe / wie oben ebenfalls sattsam und überflüssig demonstrirt worden / kein Leben hat: Und wo kein Leben ist / da kan auch keine Tödtung vorgehen. Quandoquidem privatio præsupponit habitum. Solimodè ergò (inquit Filius Sendivogii in Lucerna sua Salis Philosophorum) in nostro Azoth & nullâ re aliâ Mundi fortissimæ fortitudinis fortitudo indaganda & obviam speranda; nam in universâ naturâ rerum, res non est nisi una, ex quâ ars nostra se veram esse profitetur, & in ea tota consistit &c.

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Candida Phoenix Philosophica: Part II — Chapter 6: Rainwater as a Subject

144–145

Not to mention again that gold has no life, as was also abundantly demonstrated above. Where there is no life, no killing can take place, since privation presupposes possession. “Therefore,” says the Son of Sendivogius in his Lamp of the Philosophers’ Salt, “only in our Azoth, and in no other thing in the world, must the strength of the strongest strength be sought and its discovery hoped for. For in the whole nature of things there is but one thing from which our art declares itself true, and in that thing it wholly consists.”

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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.