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Candida Phoenix Philosophica

The White Philosophical Phoenix

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Part I — Theorem VII

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Das Subjectum artis anbetreffend: Obschon in gegenwärtigem discurs aller sichtig- und begreifflichen Creaturen / und daß vielberührter Spiritus darinn befindlich / gedacht worden. Dieweil aber derselbe / wie ebenmässig erwehnt / in denen Animalien animalisch / in denen Vegetabilien vegetabilisch / und in denen Mineralien mineralisch: Als bleibts nicht weniger darbey / daß zu einer universal-Medicin, auch ein Subjectum universale und catholicum gehörig sey; Wie in folgender Resolution und Antwort / auff die zweyte Frag oder dubium erleutert / sowohln unten im andern Theil wiederholt werden wird. Und so viel von der ersten alhier movirten Frag / oder dubio. Die andere Frag / oder dubium aber anbelangend / wird dasselbe auch ohnschwer zu resolviren seyn / wann man distinguirt, inter potentiam universalem, & potentiam particularem. Quoad potentiam universalem, behält dieser Geist sein durchauß gleichförmiges Wesen. Quoad potentiam particularem autem, ist Er / wie mehr erwehnt / in denen animalien animalisch / in denen vegetabilien vegetabilisch / und in denen mineralien / mineralisch.

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Candida Phoenix Philosophica: Part I — Theorem VII

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As for the subject of the art: although this discussion has mentioned all visible and tangible creatures and the presence of this spirit within them, it nevertheless remains true that a universal medicine requires a universal and catholic subject. For, as already mentioned, the spirit is animal in animals, vegetable in plants, and mineral in minerals. This will be clarified in the ensuing solution and answer to the second question or doubt, and repeated in the Second Part. So much for the first question raised here. The second question is also readily resolved if we distinguish universal potentiality from particular potentiality. In respect of universal potentiality, this spirit retains its entirely uniform being; in respect of particular potentiality, however, it is, as said repeatedly, animal in animals, vegetable in plants, and mineral in minerals.

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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.