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6 What Is Finally to Be Concluded From the Preceding Long Chapter
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1723 pp 315–316Also ist aus vorgehendem Capite der general-Zweck aller separation, coagulation und fixation zu mercken, nach welchem alles andere als eine Regula certissima nachfolgen muß und soll, wie das Volck seinem König, als dem universal-Saamen, oder chaos pluviale aquosum; und wie im vorigen rationiret worden, so soll sich der Leser im nachfolgenden auch richten, argumentiren, speculiren, rationiren und ad praxin bringen, wil er anders profit machen und zum scopo kommen. Denn man lässet die Bücher darum ausgehen, daß man es zuvor wohl in Kopf fasst und verstehe, was mens Autoris in hoc vel altero puncto will, und solches wohl 100mahl ruminire, ehe daß man Hand anleget, damit es einem hernach nicht gereue, wenn er fehlet, und über den Autorem schmähe, der es ihm doch zum besten meynet. Denn weil der Autor nicht jederman kan die Hand-Griffe weisen, darum giebt er die Schrifften aus, also daß seine praxis auch andern seinen Neben-Christen zu gut komme, und ihren Nutzen daraus schöpffen. Derowegen habe ich das Regen-Wasser, das generirte Chaotische Wasser, und dessen separation und coagulation zuförderst angesetzet, weil alles aus diesem wächst und wird, damit der Liebhaber ab universali scopo an diesem ein Exempel und Regel habe, nach welcher er alle andere specifica & individua richten müsse, und er so judiciren könne, und solche in gleiche Art einrichten. Denn einmal ist gewiß, daß die gantze Natur im Anfang ein Wasser wäre, und durchs Wasser ist alles geboren worden, und eben durchs Wasser und dieses chaotische regenerirte Wasser muß alles wieder zerstöret werden. Denn wo kein Wasser ist, da ist auch keine Scheidung in dieser unserer Kunst, daß man das subtile von dem groben könne unterscheiden.
The Golden Chain of Homer: 6 What Is Finally to Be Concluded From the Preceding Long Chapter
1723 pp 315–316From the preceding chapter, therefore, one must grasp the general aim of all separation, coagulation, and fixation. Everything else must and should follow this as a most certain rule, as a people follows its king: the universal seed, or watery rain-chaos. The reader should guide himself in what follows by the reasoning already given, arguing, reflecting, reasoning, and putting it into practice if he wishes to profit and attain the aim. Books are published so that one may first grasp and understand well what the author intends at this or that point, and ponder it a hundred times before setting hand to work. Then one need not regret a failure afterward and revile an author who intends one's good. Since the author cannot show everyone the manual operations, he publishes his writings so that his practice may benefit his fellow Christians too and they may draw advantage from it. Hence I have put rainwater—generated chaotic water—and its separation and coagulation first. Everything grows and comes to be from it. The lover of the art thus has, from the universal aim, an example and rule by which to guide all other specific and individual subjects, judge them, and arrange them in the same way. For this much is certain: in the beginning the whole of nature was one water, and through water everything was born. Through this same water, this regenerated chaotic water, everything must be destroyed again. Where there is no water, there is no separation in this art of ours by which the subtle can be distinguished from the coarse.
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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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