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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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128–129

So viel aber die andere Objection anbetrifft / gleich wie oben demonstrirt / daß das Wasser am ersten / und das Regenwasser under sothaner erstlich erschaffenen grossen Massa des Gewässers / mit erschaffen / auch nachmahls an sich selbst nicht verändert worden / und man demnach die materiam remotam hieran gnugsam haben: Also kan man auß demselben hinwiederumb die vermeinte materiam propinquam auch leichtlich zuwegen bringen: Dann wann man ein Regenwasser seine Zeitlang putreficiren lässt / thut solches einen Schleim und Erden nidersetzen.

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

128–129

As to the second objection, it was shown above that water was created first, and rainwater with it, within that great mass of water first created; moreover, rainwater was not afterwards changed in itself. We therefore possess the remote matter sufficiently in rainwater. From it, in turn, we can readily obtain the supposed proximate matter. For when rainwater is allowed to putrefy for its proper time, it deposits a slime and an earth.

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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.

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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.