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Candida Phoenix Philosophica

The White Philosophical Phoenix

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Part I — Theorem VII

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Und ob man sich zwar hierdurch zu salviren vermeynet / in deme man unter Gottes Willen / und Gottes Allmacht distinguirt und vorwendet / daß sothane Reden der Allmacht Gottes nicht nachtheilig: Dann man bekenne / daß es GOtt nach seiner Allmacht wohl thun / und gleich anfangs eine vollkommene materiam erschaffen können / aber Er hats nicht thun wollen. So ist und bleibt es doch nichts desto weniger / vermög gegenwärtiger so wohln auch angeregter im andern Theil folgender gründlich- und wahrhafften Deduction, der Warheit und per consequens, dem Allerhöchsten / der die Warheit selbst ist / und insonderheit Gott dem H. Geist / als dem Lehrer der Warheit / viel zu nahe und zu wider geredt. In gleichmässiger consideration und Betrachtung / so wenig das Wort Schamaym jemahls ein confusum Chaos, eine unvollkommene Massa, ein indigesta Moles, ein untüchtiger Klump und Mischmasch &c. geheissen / oder noch heissen kan / eben so wenig hat Gott der H. Geist auff dem Wasser geschwebt / und dasselbe und die Erde / nach deren Erschaffung erst außbreiten und vollkommen machen müssen.

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Candida Phoenix Philosophica: Part I — Theorem VII

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Some think to defend themselves by distinguishing God’s will from his omnipotence. Such words, they say, do not detract from his omnipotence: they acknowledge that God could have created perfect matter at the beginning, but did not wish to do so. Nevertheless, according to the sound and truthful argument given here and to follow in the Second Part, such language remains a grave affront and contradiction to truth, and consequently to the Most High, who is truth itself, and especially to God the Holy Spirit as teacher of truth. Likewise, just as Schamaym never meant, nor can mean, a confused chaos, imperfect mass, undigested bulk, useless lump or mishmash, so God the Holy Spirit did not hover upon the water and then have to spread out and perfect it and the earth after their creation.

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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.

About Diotimos Editions

This historical edition credits Diotimos Editions as its English translator.

Rights

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.