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Candida Phoenix Philosophica

The White Philosophical Phoenix

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Part I — Theorem V

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Gestalten die Wasser durch angeregte Scheidung an sich selbst keines weges verändert / noch eines oder das andere zu einer particular Natur verordnet oder geschaffen / sondern wie sie anfangs durch das universal Wort Gottes / zu einer universal Natur geschaffen worden; also seynd sie auch nachmahls eine universal-Natur verblieben. Massen / und obschon ein Wasser besser / kräfftiger / durchsichtiger / dünner / zarter &c. weder das andere / so seynd sie doch nur so fern / im übrigen aber nicht verändert. Dirowegen und weil alhier vornemblich von dem Regenwasser zu schreiben mein Vorhaben / als argumentire ich also: Was kein Animale, Vegetabile noch Minerale, das ist ein Subjectum universale und Catholicum. Das Regenwasser ist kein Animale, noch Vegetabile, noch Minerale. Ergò, so ist es ein Subjectum universale und catholicum.

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Candida Phoenix Philosophica: Part I — Theorem V

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Through this separation the waters were in no way changed in themselves, nor was one or another ordained or created as a particular nature. Just as they were originally created with a universal nature through God’s universal Word, so afterward they remained a universal nature. Although one water is better, stronger, clearer, thinner, subtler, and so forth than another, they differ only to that extent and are otherwise unchanged. Since my principal intention here is to write of rainwater, I argue thus: Whatever is neither animal, vegetable, nor mineral is a universal and catholic subject. Rainwater is neither animal, vegetable, nor mineral. Therefore it is a universal and catholic subject.

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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.