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Anonymous (traditionally attributed to Anton Joseph Kirchweger)

The Golden Chain of Homer

A New Translation from the German Edition of 1723

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1723 scan 446

Pag. 18. lin. 10. leg. Ist also hieraus zu verstehen lin. 20. pro also ist das alles Wort / leg. also ist alles worden / lin. 22. nach: es ist / add. je gröber aber / je unbeweglicher / träg und schläffrig. Pag. 19. lin. 4. pro geboten leg. gesetzt. Pag. 20. lin. 26. leg. mit der Lufft und subtilen Dämpffen. Pag. 21. lin. 11. pro extension leg. extenuation. Pro 23. lin. 22. nach je mehr / add. aufs höchste. Pag. 26. lin. 15. pro die untere wässerige und irdische Ausflüsse leg. mit den untern wässerigen und irdischen Ausflüssen. Pag. 28. lin. 3. pro oben leg. offt. Pag. 31. lin. 22. nach fix wird add. und nachdem eines viel flüchtig und fix wird. lin. 26. nach Samens add. aller Dinge. Pag. 32. lin. 19. pro coagulirtes Wasser leg. coagulirtes fixes Wasser. Pag. 36. lin. 10. pro die Erde flüchtig leg. die Erde flüssig. lin. ult. pro Subtilisirung leg. Sublimirung. Pag. 37. lin. 6. pro zu Himmel leg. zu Lufft und Himmel. Pag. 38. lin. 16. nach kommt add. je näher er aber zum Himmel kommt.

1723 scan 446

The Golden Chain of Homer: Original Variant Readings and Corrections

1723 scan 446

Page 18, line 10: read “Thus it is to be understood from this”; line 20, “thus everything has come to be” for “thus all this is word”; line 22, after “it is,” add “but the coarser it is, the more immobile, sluggish, and sleepy.” Page 19, line 4: “placed” for “commanded.” Page 20, line 26: “with the air and subtle vapours.” Page 21, line 11: “attenuation” for “extension.” Page 23, line 22, after “the more,” add “to the highest degree.” Page 26, line 15: “with the lower watery and earthly effluences” for “the lower watery and earthly effluences.” Page 28, line 3: “often” for “above.” Page 31, line 22, after “becomes fixed,” add “and according as a thing becomes very volatile and fixed”; line 26, after “seed,” add “of all things.” Page 32, line 19: “coagulated fixed water” for “coagulated water.” Page 36, line 10: “the earth fluid” for “the earth volatile”; last line, “sublimation” for “subtilisation.” Page 37, line 6: “into air and heaven” for “into heaven.” Page 38, line 16, after “comes,” add “but the nearer it comes to heaven.”

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About This Reading Edition

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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Historical Text and Translation

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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