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Candida Phoenix Philosophica

The White Philosophical Phoenix

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Candida Phoenix PhilosophicaPart II — Chapter 1: Nature

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Part II — Chapter 1: Nature

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66–67

Deme ich dann nachfolgendes ebenmäßig beyzufügen für nothwendig erachtet. Nemblich weiln teste Joanne, alles durch Gottes Wort geschaffen / und ohne dasselbige nichts gemacht / was gemacht ist. Und aber alle und jede oberzehlte / und im ersten Capitel des ersten Buchs Moysis specificirte particular-Naturen / auch durch ein sonderbar Wort und Befehl / so GOtt in der Schöpffung geredt und außgesprochen / geschaffen; hingegen daselbsten (vers. nim. 1.) alwo die Erschaffung mehrgedachten Gewässers / und der universal-Naturen beschrieben / kein particular Wort oder Verbum: Fiat! stehet / noch zu finden ist: Als folgt hierauß unwidersprechlich / daß solche universali verbo Dei (λόγῳ ὑποστατικῷ) wie gesagt / und immediatè geschaffen seyen.

66–67

Candida Phoenix Philosophica: Part II — Chapter 1: Nature

66–67

I have also considered it necessary to add the following. According to John, everything was created through God’s Word, and without it nothing was made that has been made. Every particular nature listed above and specified in Genesis 1 was also created through a particular word and command spoken and pronounced by God in creation. Yet in that same passage, namely verse 1, where the creation of the waters and universal natures is described, no particular word or Fiat! appears or can be found. It follows indisputably that these were created, as stated, through God’s universal Word, the substantial Logos, and were created immediately.

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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.

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.