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Candida Phoenix Philosophica

The White Philosophical Phoenix

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Part I — Theorem IV

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Daß zu præparirung einer Universal-Medicin, kein particulare, und weder ein Animale, Vegetabile noch Minerale, sondern ein Subjectum Universale und Catholicum gehöre.

Alhier ist zu præsupponiren / daß / gleichwie die gantze Welt bekannter massen in superiorem & inferiorem unterschieden: Also wird mundus inferior (als welche der Mensch besitzt / und davon anjetzo mein Vorhaben zu reden) hinwiederumb in diese drey Subalterna, benanntlichen die Animalia, Vegetabilia und Mineralia getheilet.

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Candida Phoenix Philosophica: Part I — Theorem IV

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That preparing a universal medicine requires no particular thing—animal, vegetable, or mineral—but a universal and catholic subject.

We must first assume that, just as the whole world is, as everyone knows, distinguished into the higher and the lower, so the lower world—which humankind inhabits and which I now intend to discuss—is itself divided into three subordinate realms: animals, plants, and minerals.

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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.