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Candida Phoenix Philosophica

The White Philosophical Phoenix

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Part I — Theorem VI

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Ich spreche: Ein sehr künstlich Ding: Künstlich / ratione Causæ efficientis: Sintemahln es von dem Allerhöchsten / Allmächtig- und Allweisen HErrn / und Schöpffer aller Dinge / im Anfang der Schöpffung / mit und under dem grossen Hauffen des Gewässers erschaffen und bereitet worden: Künstlich ratione causæ formalis, necnon ratione originis: Dieweil es oberwehnter massen durch Gottes Wort / und auß nichts erschaffen worden. Alwo ich mich zugleich erinnere / was der Author der Offenbahrung Göttlicher Majestät schreibet / nemblichen: Es sey zwar auff Menschliche Weyse recht geredt / daß das Wasser (und also die Welt) auß nichts geschaffen worden / aber auff über-menschliche Weise / könne auch gesagt werden / daß das Wasser gleichfalls ein Urhab oder Ursprung habe / gestalten ich demselben hierin abermahln suo modo Beyfall geben muß / wann ich betrachte / daß Christus der HErr in der Offenbahrung Joannis (cap.3.) selbsten spricht: Er sey der Anfang der Creaturen Gottes.

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Candida Phoenix Philosophica: Part I — Theorem VI

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I say “a thing most artfully made”: artful in respect of its efficient cause, because at the beginning of creation it was created and prepared by the Most High, almighty and all-wise Lord and Creator of all things, together with and amid the great mass of waters; artful in respect of its formal cause and its origin, because, as stated above, it was created through God’s Word and from nothing. Here I recall what the author of the Revelation of Divine Majesty writes: in human speech it is right to say that water, and hence the world, was created from nothing; yet in a manner beyond human speech one may also say that water has an author or origin. In his own sense I must again agree with him, when I consider that Christ the Lord himself says in the Revelation of John, chapter 3, that he is “the beginning of God’s creatures.”

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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.