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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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Gestaltsam / und weil wir (pro quarto) in der gantzen H. Schrifft nicht lesen / daß unser HErr GOtt die mineralia auch durch ein sonderbar- in der Schöpffung außgesprochenes Wort erschaffen / noch ihnen ein solch particular Leben / und einen eigenen Saamen / wie den animalien und vegetabilien gegeben und eingepflantzt / (darumb de Nuysement recht sagt: Mineralia nec sensitivam, nec vegetativam facultatem obtinent, sed vitâ tantum vivunt essentiali) hingegen die Erfahrung bezeugt / daß dieselbe gleichwohl durch Gottes Fürsehung in der Erden generirt / und zu des Menschen Notturfft darauß gebracht werden; So ist hierab zu schliessen / daß das Wasser und die Elementa die mineralische Natur durch Gottes Universal-Wort nicht allein potentiâ, sondern auch actu haben.

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

132–133

Fourthly, nowhere in Holy Scripture do we read that our Lord God created minerals through a particular word spoken in the creation, or gave and implanted in them a particular life and a seed of their own, as he did in animals and plants. Hence de Nuysement rightly says: “Minerals possess neither a sensitive nor a vegetative faculty, but live only with an essential life.” Experience nevertheless testifies that minerals are generated in the earth through God’s providence and brought out for human necessities. We must therefore conclude that through God’s universal Word, water and the elements possess mineral nature not only potentially but also actually.

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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.