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Candida Phoenix Philosophica

The White Philosophical Phoenix

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Part II — Chapter 5: Generation of Precious Stones

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Daß aber das Bireische Wasser mit dem Wein / darein es gegossen / Purpurfarb worden / ist / meines Erachtens / daher geschehen / weiln des Weins innerliche wesentliche Farb roth ist / und mehrgedachtes Bireische Wasser (wie der darauß gemachte Smaragd bezeuget) sich bereits auff die grünlechte Farb innerlich specificirt, und dieselbe eigentlich an sich genommen gehabt: Dann wann zwo underschiedliche Farben under einander gemischt werden / so wird deren keine bleiben / sondern die dritte herauß kommen. Wiewohln auß grün auch an sich selbst eine schöne rothe Farb kombt; Inmassen an dem Vitriol zu sehen ist. Unde: auß dem Blut des grünen Löwen / muß gemacht werden / das Blut des rothen Löwen.

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Candida Phoenix Philosophica: Part II — Chapter 5: Generation of Precious Stones

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In my judgment, Bier’s water became purple with the wine into which it was poured because wine’s inner essential colour is red, while that water had already become inwardly specified toward green and properly acquired that colour, as the emerald made from it testifies. When two different colours are mixed, neither remains; a third emerges. Yet a beautiful red also comes from green itself, as may be seen with vitriol. Hence: “From the blood of the green lion must be made the blood of the red lion.”

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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.

About Diotimos Editions

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.