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1 What Nature Is
German & Latin
1723 pp 1–2Die Natur ist der von dem Schöpffer zusammen gehauffte Klumpen der sichtbaren gegenwärtigen Welt mit allen ihren in sich habenden sichtbaren und unsichtbaren Geschöpffen, was ausser GOtt allein in dieser Welt sein Wesen wircket. Wiewolen etliche denen Menschen zu desto bessern Verstand diese Welt in die natürliche sichtbare und übernatürliche unsichtbare getheilet. Allein dieses fichtet uns allhier nichts an, weilen wir glauben, daß alles und jedes von GOtt aus dem grossen Chaos oder grossen Nichts natürlich gemacht worden.
The Golden Chain of Homer: 1 What Nature Is
1723 pp 1–2Nature is the mass of this present, visible world, gathered together by the Creator, with all the visible and invisible creatures contained within it: everything apart from God alone that has its being and activity in this world. Some, to make it easier for human beings to understand, have divided this world into the natural and visible and the supernatural and invisible. But that distinction does not concern us here, since we believe that each and every thing was made naturally by God from the great Chaos, or the great Nothing.
Socrates
Reading The Golden Chain of Homer · 1 What Nature Is · B1C01S001 · 1723 pp 1–2
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Socrates will begin with this book and its sources.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.
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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