Candida Phoenix Philosophica

Name: Candida Phoenix Philosophica
Author: Anonymous

The White Philosophical Phoenix

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Part I — Theorem IV

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13–14

Da aber so wohl in genere, als auch / was das Regenwasser in specie anbelangt / vorgeworffen werden möchte: Ob schon das Regenwasser kein Animale, Vegetabile, noch Minerale, wäre es nichts desto weniger ein particulare, und kein universale und catholicum, angesehen / die Wasser zwar anfangs durch das ewige universal Wort Gottes / aber in einer massa geschaffen worden; dahingegen dieselbe anjetzo in unterschiedliche Theil geschieden / also solche Wasser nicht mehr universal seyen. Allermassen auch einige diesen Einwurff gebrauchen: Weil man der ersten von GOtt erschaffenen Materiæ, darauß alles andere geschaffen worden / nicht theilhafft- und fähig seye: So könne auch keine universal Medicin zuwegen gebracht werden. Derwegen diesen zwar ohne das unerheblichen Einwürffen zu begegnen zu wissen ist:

Candida Phoenix Philosophica: Part I — Theorem IV

13–14

Yet an objection might be raised, both generally and about rainwater in particular. Although rainwater is neither animal, vegetable, nor mineral, it is nevertheless a particular thing, rather than universal and catholic: the waters were indeed created at first by God’s eternal universal Word, but as a single mass; now they have been separated into different parts, and so are no longer universal. Some also raise the objection that, since we cannot partake of or obtain the first matter created by God, from which everything else was created, no universal medicine can be produced. To meet these objections, which are in any case without weight, we must know the following:

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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