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Candida Phoenix Philosophica

The White Philosophical Phoenix

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Part II — Chapter 13: The Controversy Over Light

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Quibus consideratis, ut & maximè quod in meis laboribus, gratiâ DEI ipse non semel tantùm Chrystallos ad Rubinorum instar vidi, illis quoque adstipulor, qui statuunt, URIM & THUMIM in Veteri Testamento Album & Rubrum Philosophicum fuisse: Prout etiam valdè mihi verisimile videtur, DEUM Altissimum electo Populo suo Israel, per hanc (& quidem purissimam & ab omni fæculentiâ liberatam) Substantiam, in negotiis suis peragendis respondere voluisse, utpotè quæ verbo suo substantiali immediatè creata est, & sic per consequens subsistit, ex quâ non minus omnia condita sunt, quâ etiam nihil in mundo, exceptâ hominis animâ, est preciosius.

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Candida Phoenix Philosophica: Part II — Chapter 13: The Controversy Over Light

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Considering these things, and especially because by God’s grace I have myself more than once seen crystals like rubies in my labours, I also agree with those who maintain that Urim and Thummim in the Old Testament were the philosophical White and Red. It seems highly probable to me that God Most High wished to answer his chosen people Israel in their affairs through this substance, purified and freed from every impurity. For it was immediately created through his substantial Word and consequently subsists; from it all things were formed, and nothing in the world, except the human soul, is more precious.

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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.

About Diotimos Editions

This historical edition credits Diotimos Editions as its English translator.

Rights

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.