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Candida Phoenix Philosophica

The White Philosophical Phoenix

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Part II — Chapter 9: Effects of the Elixir

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Und zwar seynd bedeutete remedia nicht allein den Kindern / sondern auch denen Alten in solchen Zuständen / deßgleichen im Podagra und andern hefftigen Kranckheiten ebenmässig sehr vorträglich / also / daß ihnen abermahl keine Medicin in den Apothecken zu vergleichen.

Da aber gleichwohl / damit ich wiederumb ad propositum schreite / ein anders ist / die Tinctura Physica, und die Medicina tertii ordinis, als welche nicht nur oberwehnter massen / alle Kranckheiten des menschlichen Leibs (davon zwar Poleman. den Stein excipiret / hingegen aber ex Helmontio berichtet / daß das Aroma Philosophorum das sicherste Mittel sey / für dem Stein zu bewahren /

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Candida Phoenix Philosophica: Part II — Chapter 9: Effects of the Elixir

183–184

These remedies are highly beneficial not only to children but also to older people in such conditions, and likewise in gout and other severe diseases. Again, no medicine in the apothecaries’ shops can be compared with them.

To return to the point, however, the natural tincture, the medicine of the third order, is another thing. It can swiftly remove all diseases of the human body, as already mentioned. Polemann makes an exception for the stone, but reports from Helmont that the philosophers’ aroma is the surest means of protection against it.

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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.