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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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Die Ratio ist: Dieweil die universal-Naturen / wie oben deducirt / durch das Universal- und Substantial-Wort Gottes geschaffen / welches ewig / und unvergänglich ist / derohalben auch solche Universal-Naturen ewig und unvergänglich seynd: Allermassen und ob schon die Decreta Dei, das Wort und Befehl / so Gott in der Schöpffung geredt / und außgesprochen / (gleich wie sonsten das gepredigte Wort Gottes) und demnach auch die particular-Naturen / sowohln der jetzige bewegliche Himmel selbst / gäntzlich auffhören / und per Resolutionem in principia universalia, wie oberwehnt / vergehen / so werden jedoch jetzt- und mehrberührte Universal-Naturen nicht gäntzlich auffhören / noch dem Wesen nach vergehen / sondern mehrbedeuteter massen transmutirt, und verwandelt werden:

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

230–231

The reason is this: as argued above, universal natures were created through God’s universal and substantial Word, which is eternal and imperishable; hence those universal natures are also eternal and imperishable. Although God’s decrees—the word and command he uttered in creation, like the preached word of God—and consequently particular natures and the present moving heavens themselves will cease altogether and pass away through resolution into universal principles, the universal natures will neither cease entirely nor perish in their being. They will instead be transmuted and transformed in the manner repeatedly explained.

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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.