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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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Viertens des Vitriols vortreffliche Kräfften und Tugenden anreichend / will ich ihme an meinem Ort / dieselbe gantz nicht benehmen. Es folgt aber keines wegs: Dieses oder jenes Subjectum hat viel und vortreffliche Tugenden: Ergo, so ists ein Subjectum universale und catholicum. Inmassen weder à priori, noch à posteriori demonstrirt werden kan / daß der Vitriol ein Universale sey / und die Universal-Krafft habe / sondern es ist vielmehr gleichfalls bekannt / und unlaugbar / daß er / wie alle andere Mineralien / ein particulare, (Sintemahln und ob schon die Erde an sich selbst universal, so ist doch alles / was auß derselben kommt / und in derselben generirt wird / particular) dahero auch keine Universal-Medicin noch Tinctur darauß zu præpariren. Auff obige hierinn beschehene Deduction und beygebrachte fundamenta mich beruffend.

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

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Fourth, concerning vitriol’s excellent powers and virtues, for my part I have no wish to deprive it of them at all. Yet the following inference is entirely invalid: this or that subject has many excellent virtues; therefore it is a universal and all-embracing subject. It cannot be demonstrated, either from principles or from effects, that vitriol is universal or possesses universal power. It is instead known and undeniable that vitriol, like all other minerals, is particular. Although earth in itself is universal, everything that comes from it and is generated within it is particular. No universal medicine or tincture can therefore be prepared from vitriol. I appeal to the preceding deduction and the foundations supplied there.

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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.