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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

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Daß aber die Philosophi unserm Subjecto so viel mineral- und metallische Nahmen gegeben / schliesse ich an meinem wenigen Ort / daß es erstlich darumb geschehen / weil es die metall- und mineralische Natur vor allen andern gantz reichlich hat / sonderlich aber / und zum andern / ist zu distinguieren inter materiam crudam & materiam à superfluitatibus jam separatam; Wiewohl sie es auch / drittens / die Unwissenden dardurch zu verführen: So dann / und viertens die Veränderung der Form- und Farben unsers Subjecti in dessen operation dardurch zu bemercken / gethan haben mögen: Inmassen nachgesetzte Sprüche bezeugen.

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

150–151

As for the many mineral and metallic names the philosophers have given our subject, I conclude, for my humble part, that they did so first because it possesses metallic and mineral nature more abundantly than anything else. Second, and especially, we must distinguish raw matter from matter already separated from superfluities. Third, they may also have used these names to mislead the ignorant; and fourth, to indicate the changes in our subject’s form and colours during its operation. The sayings that follow 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.