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Candida Phoenix Philosophica

The White Philosophical Phoenix

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Part I — Theorem VII

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Darumb Er dann nochmahln auß solchen particularien zu keiner universal-Medicin zu ziehen. In Betrachtung / obwohln mehrberührter Geist auch in denselben quoad potentiam primam sein gleichförmig Wesen angeregter massen behält; so ist er doch quoad potentiam secundam schon specificirt / und also nicht mehr universalisch. Zu unserm hauptsächlichen Zweck und Vorhaben mich wiederumb zu wenden / wäre noch übrig / den oben Theoremat.4. angeführten Einwurff zu beantworten / nemblichen: Daß man der ersten von Gott erschaffenen Materiæ, darauß alles andere geschaffen worden / nunmehr nicht theilhafft- und fähig werden könne. Nachdeme aber derselbe durch die bißherige sattsam- und gründliche Deduction ohne das stattlich widerlegt; Massen dann darauß gnugsam zu ersehen ist / daß man sothaner von Gott erstlich erschaffenen / oder sonsten so genannten Materiæ remotæ, wol habhafft werden könne; wie auch abermahl unten im andern Theil gemeldet werden wird.

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Candida Phoenix Philosophica: Part I — Theorem VII

37–38

Therefore, once again, it cannot be drawn from such particular things for a universal medicine. Although the spirit preserves its uniform being within them in respect of its first potentiality, it has already been specified in respect of its second potentiality and is therefore no longer universal. Returning to our chief purpose, there remains the objection raised under Theorem IV: that we can no longer partake of or obtain the matter first created by God, from which all other things were made. Yet the foregoing thorough and sufficient argument has already strongly refuted it. That argument makes it clear enough that we can indeed obtain the matter God first created, otherwise called remote matter, as will again be mentioned in the Second Part.

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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.