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6 What Is Finally to Be Concluded From the Preceding Long Chapter
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1723 pp 317–318Und obschon einige Subjecta seyn, welche von Natur in Überfluß ihr eigenes humidum destruens bey sich haben, und ihren eigenen destructorem sufficientem oder Todt auf eigenem Rücken tragen, und also deßwegen aquae chaoticae oder Regen-Wasser-Hülffe unvonnöthen haben: Als die Animalia und Vegetabilia sind sehr safftiger, feuchter, liquorischer Natur, welche nach ihrer Kleinmachung oder Zerquetschung durch eigenen Safft gleich in die putrefaction, corruption und fermentation gehen, und so ihnen ja an ihrem humido was mangelte, so kan man ihnen das flüchtige Regen-Wasser zu Hülffe geben, dadurch sie Fruchtbarkeit (Feuchtigkeit) genug bekommen, desto eher in die putrefaction zu gehen; entgegen aber die Steine, Metalle und Mineralia, als welchen ihr humidum so sehr vertrucknet und starck coaguliret, wollen diesem flüchtigen Wasser nicht pariren. Wenn aber das fixe und halb fixe chaotische Wasser, das ist, das Sal und Nitrum in eine solche Natur gebracht wird, aus welchem die mineralia selbst geboren worden, alsdenn werden die Pforten der Höllen zerbrochen u. die Jnwohner derselben losgemacht. Nun aber im ersten Tractat de generatione mineralium habe ich gesagt, daß die mineralia aus einem resolvirten saltzig-spiritualischen Acido gezeuget worden, welches da ist ein Nitrum und Sal, so in der grossen Erden ventriculo per fortem fermentationem versauert, und spiritualisch durch die central-Hitze ad viscera montium in forma vaporis spiritualis aufgetrieben wird, und alldorten allerhand Sorten Mineralien gebäret. Solche vapores sind ein Universal-Saamen, und Sal & Nitrum resolutum & Sp. Salino-Nitrosi, welche die Universal-Homogeneität zu allen Mineralien haben.
The Golden Chain of Homer: 6 What Is Finally to Be Concluded From the Preceding Long Chapter
1723 pp 317–318Some subjects do indeed possess by nature an abundance of their own destructive moisture. They carry on their own backs a sufficient destroyer, their own death, and therefore need no assistance from chaotic water or rainwater. Animals and plants, for example, are very juicy, moist, and liquid by nature. Once reduced to small pieces or crushed, they immediately enter putrefaction, corruption, and fermentation through their own juice. If their moisture is deficient, volatile rainwater can be added to help them, giving them sufficient fertility—moisture—to enter putrefaction sooner. Stones, metals, and minerals, by contrast, whose moisture has become so dried and strongly coagulated, will not obey this volatile water. But when fixed and half-fixed chaotic water—that is, salt and nitre—is brought into the nature from which minerals themselves were born, the gates of hell are broken and their inhabitants set free. In the first treatise, on the generation of minerals, I said that minerals were generated from a dissolved saline-spiritual acid: nitre and salt soured by powerful fermentation in the great stomach of the earth, then driven upward spiritually by central heat into the entrails of the mountains as spiritual vapour. There it gives birth to all sorts of minerals. Such vapours are a universal seed, dissolved salt and nitre, and saline-nitrous spirits, possessing a universal homogeneity with all minerals.
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Reading The Golden Chain of Homer · 6 What Is Finally to Be Concluded From the Preceding Long Chapter · B2C06S006 · 1723 pp 317–318
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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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