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Candida Phoenix Philosophica

The White Philosophical Phoenix

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Part II — Chapter 14: The World and Its End

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227–228

Das Vierzehende Capitel. Von der Welt und deren Ende.

Gleich wie ich den Anfang dieses Tractätleins von Erschaffung der Welt gemacht habe; Also will ich nunmehr / da ich zu dessen Beschluß zu schreiten gedencke / von derselben Ende handlen / und setze derhalben diese Frag anhero: Ob / nemblichen die Welt nicht nur denen zufälligen Dingen / sondern auch der Substanz und Wesen nach vergehen werde? Als von welcher Frag / wie bekannt / bey den Theologis, und zwar so wohl zwischen denen unserigen / benanntlich denen Evangelischen selbst / als diesen / und denen der so genannten Reformirten Religion zugethanen / unterschiedliche Meynungen seynd / alwo der eine diese / der andere jene behaupten will / und vielleicht nichts desto weniger einer / wie der andere (bonâ pace tamen tantorum virorum) im Irrthumb stecket.

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Candida Phoenix Philosophica: Part II — Chapter 14: The World and Its End

227–228

Chapter XIV. On the world and its end.

As I began this little treatise with the creation of the world, so now, as I intend to bring it to a close, I shall discuss the world’s end. I therefore pose this question: Will the world perish not only in its accidental features but also in substance and being? As everyone knows, theologians disagree about this, both among our own Protestant theologians and between them and adherents of the so-called Reformed religion. One maintains this view, another that; yet perhaps both—with all due respect to such eminent men—remain in error.

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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.