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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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Zu geschweigen / daß ob- und mehrerwehnter opponent, sich gleichsam selbsten contradictirt, in deme er vermög mehrangezogenen Canonis negiret / daß das Gold auß dem Wasser entspringe / und doch hingegen dessen Ursprung der Erden zuzuschreiben vermeynet. Dann wer sihet nicht / daß das Wasser ein edler corpus, weder die Erde? Und was die schwere anbelangt / ist zu beobachten / daß selbige eben von dem Wasser herkommt / anerwogen / wann man eine Erde calcinirt / und auff das Wasser wirfft / selbige nicht eher zu boden fallen wird / biß sie sich zuvor wieder voll Wassers gezogen.

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

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Not to mention that the opponent repeatedly referred to virtually contradicts himself. On the strength of the rule cited, he denies that gold arises from water, yet proposes to assign its origin to earth. Who does not see that water is a nobler body than earth? As to weight, observe that it comes precisely from water. If an earth is calcined and thrown onto water, it will not sink until it has first drawn itself full of water again.

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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.