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3 How Everything Was Born
German & Latin
1723 pp 6–8Das III. Capitel. Wie alles geboren worden.
The Golden Chain of Homer: 3 How Everything Was Born
1723 pp 6–83 How Everything Was Born
Chapter outline
The first water is heated and putrefied by its indwelling spirit.
One matter unfolds into the two principles, three chymical modes, four elements and a fifth perfected state.
The elements emerge in ordered degrees of subtlety and coarseness.
Each created realm receives both particular reproductive power and a share in universal generation.
Heavenly influx and earthly efflux continually renew a common seed.
Socrates
Reading The Golden Chain of Homer · 3 How Everything Was Born · 3 How Everything Was Born
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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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