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3 How Nature Destroys Plants
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1723 pp 226–227Wenn aber solches verhütet wird, so kan man mit denen verfaulten Vegetabilien die Gärten düngen, aber chymice die principia distillando separiren. Und das ist die natürliche separation, oder calcination und destruction derer Vegetabilium in primum. Es möchte einer fragen, warum ich das verfaulte Regen-Wasser dazu gebrauchte, und was dann in dem Regen-Wasser solle seyn, das zur Fäulung behülfflich wäre, oder welches Principium im Regen-Wasser putrificiren mache? Diß will ich beantworten: Erstlich, gleichwie ich habe probiret, daß alles mit und durch solches wieder zerstöret wird, denn es ist ihr homogenes fermentum fermentans, wiewohl etliche Chymici nicht unrecht einen Sauerteig, Bier oder Weinhefen darunter mischen; daß ich aber das Regen-Wasser hiernehme, habe ich wollen anzeigen, weil ich nur zeigen wil, daß alles nur aus dem chaotischen Wasser geboren und durch solches alles wieder zerstöret wird. Was aber das putrefaciens principium sey, das kan der Leser erachten: Denn das Alcali ist balsamisch; Ergo ist das Volatile und Acidum zerstörend, denn das Regen-Wasser ist ja augenscheinlich mehr flüchtig als fix, so ist ja auch das Acidum mehr darinnen, als das Alcali, so folgt, daß das Volatile und Acidum das putrefaciens ist.
The Golden Chain of Homer: 3 How Nature Destroys Plants
1723 pp 226–227If this is prevented, the rotted plants can be used to manure gardens, while chymistry can separate their principles by distillation. Such is the natural separation, or calcination and destruction, of plants into their first state. Someone might ask why I used putrefied rainwater for this, and what rainwater contains that assists putrefaction, or which principle in it causes putrefaction. I shall answer. First, as I have demonstrated, everything is destroyed again with and through it, for it is their homogeneous fermenting ferment. Some chymists do, with good reason, mix in sourdough, beer yeast, or wine lees. But I have chosen rainwater to make my point, because I wish only to show that everything is born from chaotic water alone and that everything is destroyed again through it. The reader can judge which principle causes putrefaction. Alkali is balsamic; therefore the volatile and acid are destructive. Rainwater is visibly more volatile than fixed, and likewise contains more acid than alkali. It follows that the volatile and acid are the agents of putrefaction.
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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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