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Candida Phoenix Philosophica

The White Philosophical Phoenix

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Candida Phoenix PhilosophicaPart I — Theorem VII

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Part I — Theorem VII

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Und zwar daß ich gesagt habe: Dieser Spiritus seye in seiner nuda & simplici spirituali forma nicht zu bekommen / sondern auß denen sichtigen Creaturen / darein ihn GOTT nach seiner unerforschlichen Weißheit eingeschlossen / zu ziehen &c. Da ist zu observiren / was der Author der Offenbahrung Göttlicher Majestät berichtet / nemblichen: Daß das Wasser erstlich unsichtig gewesen / und folgends von Gott mit einer Schale überzogen worden / damit dasselbe ein ansehen bekommen. Worbey dann wiederumb zu mercken / daß diese Schale zweyfach / nemblich eine substantial- und eine accidentalische; Gleichwie auch zweyerley Arten der Scheidung seynd / und von denen Philosophis beschrieben werden. Die eine nennen sie eine Auffschließ- und Zerlegung: Item eine Zertheil- und Abschneidung der widerwärtigen und überflüssigen Ding / so keine Verbündnuß der Natur mit der Substanz haben: Eine separation des subtilen vom groben / eine remotion und Abschaffung der Elementarischen Superfluiteten und Excrementen.

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Candida Phoenix Philosophica: Part I — Theorem VII

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As for my statement that this spirit cannot be obtained in its bare and simple spiritual form but must be drawn from visible creatures in which God has enclosed it in his inscrutable wisdom, observe what the author of the Revelation of Divine Majesty reports: water was at first invisible, and God afterward covered it with a shell so that it acquired a visible appearance. Now this shell is twofold, substantial and accidental; likewise the philosophers describe two kinds of separation. One they call opening and resolving, or dividing and cutting away contrary and superfluous things that have no natural bond with the substance: a separation of the subtle from the gross, a removal and rejection of elemental superfluities and wastes.

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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.