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I.22 · The Generation of Plants
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1723 pp 127–128Die Salia aber gehen nicht blos in ihrer Natur zu des Vegetabilis Nutriment, sondern sie zerlösen die Erde und machen sie auch subtil und zu einem lautern saltzigen Wasser, alsdann kan sie durch die Wurtzel wieder subtilisirt werden, damit es zum Nutriment kommen kan. Denn gleichwie die Natur denen Animalien die Art gegeben, daß sie das durch die Zähne und Zunge zermalmete und praeparirte Nutriment in den Magen schicket, allwo ein saltzig bitterer Liquor, welcher solch praeparirt Nutriment wieder subtilisirt und zu einer liquorischen Malta machet, hernach solche in das Mesenterium schicket, allwo der beste Safft heraus gezogen, und durch die natürliche Hitze per Poros in die Leber und andern Glieder Dampff-weise aufsublimiret und destilliret wird, welche Dämpffe sich in denen Vasis der Leber und andern Gliedern anschlagen, sich zu Wasser wieder resolviren, und dieses Wasser durch die Hitze wieder Dampff-weise resolvirt, in andere höhere und höhere Glieder sublimirt oder circulirt, und dieses ohne Aufhören, bis es zu seiner Perfection kommen.
The Golden Chain of Homer: I.22 · The Generation of Plants
1723 pp 127–128The salts do not enter the plant’s nourishment merely in their own nature. They dissolve the earth, making it subtle too and turning it into a clear, salty water. Then it can be further subtilized by the root and become nourishment. Nature has similarly endowed animals with the ability to send into the stomach the food ground and prepared by teeth and tongue. There a salty, bitter liquor further subtilizes the prepared food and makes it into a liquid pulp, which it then sends into the mesentery. There the best juice is extracted and, through the pores and by natural heat, is sublimed and distilled upward as vapour into the liver and other members. These vapours settle in the vessels of the liver and other members and resolve back into water; the heat again resolves this water into vapour and sublimes or circulates it into still higher members. This continues without ceasing until it has reached its perfection.
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The two-book alchemical work of 1723 in German with a new English translation, 399 notes, eight historical diagrams, chapter outlines, keyword essays, a glossary, bibliography, subject index, and 400 discussion questions.
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Anonymous, Aurea Catena Homeri. Frankfurt and Leipzig: Johann Georg Böhme, 1723. Traditionally attributed to Anton Joseph Kirchweger; the attribution remains uncertain. Historical diagrams from the Stiftung der Werke von C. G. Jung copy digitized by e-rara.
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