Candida Phoenix Philosophica

Name: Candida Phoenix Philosophica
Author: Anonymous

The White Philosophical Phoenix

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Part I — Theorem VI

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Also der Samen aller sichtigen Dinge / auch alle Kräffte und Tugenden alle Thier und wachsende Ding zu nehren &c. Daß alle Dinge auß denen Elementen bestehen / ist ohnnöthig weiter zu demonstriren. Nun sagt aber der seel. Dr. Arndt: Ex quibus constamus, ex iisdem etiam nutrimur & conservamur. Atqui ex Elementis constamus. Ergò &c. So wird auch kein wahrer Philosophus laugnen oder widersprechen / daß durch die anatisirte Elementa und dieses summum temperamentum, alle Kranckheiten curirt und geheilet werden können / als von welcher anatisation unten im andern Theil ferner geredet werden wird. Unterdessen folgt alhier:

Candida Phoenix Philosophica: Part I — Theorem VI

Thus the seed of all visible things, and all powers and virtues for nourishing animals and growing things, and so forth. There is no need to demonstrate further that all things consist of the elements. Now the late Dr Arndt says: “We are nourished and preserved by the very things of which we consist. But we consist of the elements. Therefore,” and so forth. Nor will any true philosopher deny or dispute that all diseases can be cured and healed through elements subjected to equal balancing and this supreme tempering. This equal balancing will be discussed further in the Second Part. Meanwhile the definition continues here:

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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