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I.21 · The Generation of Animals
German & Latin
1723 pp 115Das XXI. Capitel. Was die Geburt der Animalien sey, und aus was Principiis solche bestehen und wieder resolviret werden.
The Golden Chain of Homer: I.21 · The Generation of Animals
1723 pp 11521 What Animal Generation Is, and From Which Principles Animals Consist and Into Which They Resolve Again
Chapter outline
A six-stage tree traces animal seed through bodily formation and hardening.
Animal bodies arise from watery seed and return through putrefaction to vegetable nourishment.
Volatile spirit explains mobility; its balance with fixedness and moisture explains differences in endurance.
The active spirit needs water in a suitable quantity to form and resolve the body.
Rapid animal putrefaction offers the practitioner a model for accelerating dissolution, with vegetable mediation still required.
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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.
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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