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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

97–98

Von dem Winde.

Was für seltsam- und wunderliche Ursachen abermahl dem Winde / insonderheit ratione seines Ursprungs und Bewegung von denen Philosophis vulgaribus zugeschrieben werden / das ist am Tage. Wann wir aber das Werck der Schöpffung / und die Wunderwerck Gottes / wie sie von dem H. Geist / und den Männern Gottes beschrieben werden / betrachten / so seynd wir viel anders darvon zu judiciren verbunden: Dann was zum ersten dessen Ursprung anbelangt / ist oben im Ersten Theil gnugsam demonstrirt und dargethan / was massen Wind und Lufft eines / und derselbe auß dem Wasser herkommen und geschaffen worden. Worbeynebenst ich mich auch nochmahl auff des Nuysement dictum: Ventus nihil aliud est, quam aër commotus, beruffe.

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

97–98

Wind.

The strange and extraordinary causes ordinary philosophers assign to wind, particularly its origin and motion, are well known. But if we consider creation and God’s wondrous works as described by the Holy Spirit and the men of God, we must judge very differently. First, concerning its origin, the first part sufficiently demonstrated that wind and air are one, and that air came from water and was created from it. I again appeal to Nuysement’s saying: “Wind is nothing other than air in motion.”

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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.