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Heinrich Khunrath’s Magnesia Catholica Philosophorum
Heinrich Khunrath · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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At a Glance
- The wordKhunrath promises a separate book on the truth, antiquity, and excellence of the Philosophers' Stone and alchemy.
- In KhunrathPage 31 follows the addition of the third Trumpet of Truth.
- In this editionThe modern note says that no copy is known and questions whether it was printed.
- A reading distinctionThe Greek formula belongs to the original margin.
Meaning
Khunrath promises a separate book on the truth, antiquity, and excellence of the Philosophers' Stone and alchemy. Its announced task is fuller proof, not disclosure of the matter's ordinary name.
Use in the book
Page 31 follows the addition of the third Trumpet of Truth. Khunrath says that divine assistance will allow a fuller and more than sufficient proof to be set forth in its own time. The margin identifies what is at issue by a Greek existence-formula and its Latin gloss: that there is a Philosophers' Stone.
The title gives three broad subjects, but the passage supplies neither chapters nor a publication date. It cannot be treated as a second extant text whose arguments may be quoted from memory. What it securely contributes to the Magnesia is a statement about the present argument's scope: the author asserts that more evidence for existence and standing is available for future treatment.
Places to read
- 1599 p. 30The third trumpet supplies the immediate argument preceding the promise.
- 1599 p. 31The book title and promise of fuller proof are explicit.
- 1599 p. 31 · margin2The fuller proof is specified as proof that the Stone exists.
Translation in this edition
The modern note says that no copy is known and questions whether it was printed. Those are editorial bibliographical statements. The primary page itself only promises future treatment.
Source note
The Greek formula belongs to the original margin. The modern note's expanded account of an Aristotelian distinction should not be mistaken for a further quotation in the treatise.