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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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Zur Sache selbsten nun zu schreiten / wiewohl under andern in gedachten beeden vorhergehenden Capiteln gnugsam angezeigt worden / worauß die Metalla und Edelgestein entspringen. Sintemahln aber solches einem Philosopho eigentlich zu wissen sehr nöthig: Als habe ichs alhie zu wiederholen und zu erläutern nicht umbgehen mögen.

Und zwar ist oben ebenmässig der Länge nach dargethan / welcher gestalt alle sichtige Dinge auß dem Wasser geschaffen und entsprungen: Derohalben abermahl folgt / daß auch die Metalla darauß geschaffen und entsprungen seyen; wie sie auch noch darauß geschaffen werden und entspringen / und es kein wahrer Philosophus widersprechen wird.

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

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To turn now to the matter itself: among other things, the two preceding chapters have already sufficiently shown from what metals and precious stones arise. Yet exact knowledge of this is so necessary to a philosopher that I could not avoid repeating and explaining it here.

It has likewise been demonstrated at length above how all visible things were created from water and arose from it. It therefore follows once again that metals too were created from water and arose from it, just as they are still created from it and arise from it. No true philosopher will contradict this.

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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.