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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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Welches alles und was bißanhero von der Materia der Metallen gesagt worden / und noch gesagt werden wird / ich nicht weniger von denen Edelgesteinen will verstanden haben. Inmassen auch bereits oben im fünfften Capitel erwehnet worden / daß selbige auß eben der materia, wie die Metalla (& quidem etiam primâ instantiâ, absque ullo semine, seu materiâ proximâ) entspringen. In Erwegung / wie vorgedacht / das Wasser und die Elementa, die mineralische Natur actu & potentiâ haben. Deme dann ebenfalls keinen Abbruch thut / daß der Philosophorum Meynung nach / der Diamant allein auß dem vapore Naturæ, ut loquuntur, & absque Sulphure gezeugt werde, in Betrachtung derselbe so wenig ohne Schwefel / als ohne Saltz (utpotè quod teste Nuysemann. ipsi duritiem præbet) seyn kan. Taceo quod aliàs in nostrâ Philosophiâ, utrumque & album & rubrum Sulphur detur.

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

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I intend all this, and everything said so far or still to be said about the matter of metals, to be understood equally of precious stones. Chapter Five already noted that they arise from the same matter as metals, and likewise in the first instance without any seed or proximate matter, since water and the elements possess mineral nature both actually and potentially. This is not impaired by the philosophers’ opinion that the diamond alone is generated from the vapour of nature, as they call it, and without sulphur. It can no more exist without sulphur than without salt, which, according to Nuysement, gives it hardness. I pass over the fact that both white and red sulphur are otherwise found in our philosophy.

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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.