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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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Denique licet V. R. ipsa ponat, de uno statu controversiæ ad alterum non fieri transgressum, ansam tamen dat discursus ejus de Imagine DEI (quam putat esse concreatam & per lapsum amissam) hoc in medium proferre, me nimirum differentiam inter Imaginem DEI ipsam, & id, quod ad Imaginem DEI creatum est, ut vulgò opinatur, intelligere nullam, quandoquidem aut falsam oportet esse versionem B. Lutheri: Lasst uns Menschen machen / ein Bild / das Uns gleich sey. Deßgleichen: GOtt schuff den Menschen Ihm zum Bilde. aut differentia illa non valet.

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

225–226

Finally, although you maintain that there has been no shift from one controversy to another, your discussion of God’s image—which you consider co-created and lost through the Fall—gives me occasion to say this: I recognize no distinction between the image of God itself and what was created in God’s image, as is commonly supposed. Either blessed Luther’s translation must be false—“Let us make man, an image like ourselves,” and likewise, “God created man as his image”—or that distinction is invalid.

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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.

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.