Candida Phoenix Philosophica

Name: Candida Phoenix Philosophica
Author: Anonymous

The White Philosophical Phoenix

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Part I — Theorem VII

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46–47

So mag auch im übrigen solcher Geist / gleichwohl / als ein Geschöpff Gottes nach seinem Schöpffer / in Betrachtung derselbe heilig ist / heilig genannt werden. Gantz ohne jedoch / daß er darumb Gott der H. Geist seyn müsse. Zweytens / die / in unsern Teutschen Biblien befindliche glossam anbelangend / venerir- und ehre ich zwar des Authoris Gedächtnuß. Es zeigen aber solche seine eigene Wort an / daß er dieser seiner Meynung ungewiß: Gestalten ich auch an meinem wenigen Ort (wiewohl nicht als ein Theologus, sondern als der geringste Physicus) außtrücklich widerspreche / daß der Wind damahls noch nicht gewesen sey. Zumahln Wind und Lufft / nicht nur in heiliger Schrifft eines ist / sondern auch von denen Philosophis vor eins gehalten wird; Wie dann Nuysement außtrücklich sagt: Ventus nihil aliud est, quam aer commotus &c. auch unten im andern Theil davon geredt werden wird.

Candida Phoenix Philosophica: Part I — Theorem VII

46–47

This spirit, as God’s creature, may also be called holy after its Creator, because the Creator is holy. It by no means follows that it must therefore be God the Holy Spirit. Second, concerning the gloss in our German Bibles, I do indeed venerate and honour its author’s memory. Yet his own words show that he was uncertain of this opinion. In my humble position—not as a theologian, but as the least of natural philosophers—I expressly deny that wind did not yet exist at that time. Wind and air are one not only in Holy Scripture; the philosophers too regard them as one. Nuysement expressly says: “Wind is nothing other than air in motion,” and so forth. This will also be discussed in the Second Part.

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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