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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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German & Latin

149–150

Dahero und gleich wie hierauß überflüssig erhellet / daß keine gemeine / sondern allein lebendig- und geistliche Metalla und Mineralia, eben so wenig auch ichtwas anders / so die Erde jemahls touchirt hat / zu unserm Werck dienlich: Also seynd sothane lebendig- und geistliche Metalla und Mineralia, und die Wurtzel / und Saamen der Metallen nirgend anders / als im Wasser zu suchen / oder zu finden. Allermassen es der seel. Arnd / so wohln der Author des Tractats de Metamorphos. Metallorum, und andere mehr / ebenfalls außtrücklich bezeugen.

149–150

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

149–150

From this it is abundantly clear that ordinary metals and minerals are not suitable for our work; only living and spiritual ones are. Nor is anything else that has ever touched the earth suitable. These living and spiritual metals and minerals, and the root and seed of metals, must therefore be sought and found nowhere but in water. The late Arnd, the author of the treatise On the Metamorphosis of Metals, and several others likewise expressly testify to this.

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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.