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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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Ferner und in dem vorigen proposito fortzufahren: Ob zwar alhier von Außziehung des groben Kittels unsers Subjecti, und dessen Entblössung ferner etwas zu handlen / nicht ungereimt seyn möchte; So will ichs doch umb jetztberührter und anderer Ursachen willen / bey deme / was oben im zweyten Capitel dieses Andern Theils / und anderstwo hiervon erwehnt worden / beruhen lassen; Wie ich mich auch derentwegen / so viel das Regenwasser anbetrifft / ebenmässig auff das / was oben im Ersten Theil in hoc passu angeregt / nemlich / daß vermittelst dessen Zerbrech- und Auffschliessung / ein herrlicher Spiritus, Oel / und Saltz darauß zu wegen zu bringen: Insonderheit aber auff vorgemelte mit sothanem Oel beschehene projection, deßgleichen andre obangeführte Exempla: und dann uff den Sperlingium beruffen thue / da Er sagt: Contra experimenta Scriptorum nulla authoritas.

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

140–141

To continue the preceding purpose: it might not be inappropriate to say more here about stripping off our subject’s coarse coat and laying it bare. For the reasons just mentioned and others, however, I shall leave the matter at what has been said in Chapter Two of this part and elsewhere. Concerning rainwater, I likewise appeal to the statement in Part One that by breaking it down and opening it, a splendid spirit, oil and salt may be obtained. I appeal especially to the projection already mentioned as performed with such an oil, to the other examples cited above, and to Sperling, who says: “Against the experiments of writers, no authority prevails.”

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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.