The Golden Chain of Homer

2In the preface, first page, line 6, read “demonstration” for “indication”; line 14, “art” for “nature.” On the second page, line 12, read “effort” for “touching upon.” Page 1, line 16: delete “alone.” Page 2, line 2: read “out of chaos” for “out of the great chaos”; lines 14–15, “continually successive” for “continual.” Page 5, lines 8–10: read “that the first matter of this great world, after God, is chaotic water and vapour dissolved into water.” At the same place, lines 17–18: “Whoever now desires to reach the origin and fountain of the mystery, let him retain,” and so forth; line 22, “in all the subjects of the whole,” and so forth; lines 24–25, “so they return to this again in their furthest dissolution.” Page 6, line 6: read “the volatile and fixity” for “digestion.” Page 7, line 3: read “to take shape” for “to become viscous”; lines 15–17, “also four and five. At the beginning it was one, as a simple water. Two: a water that concealed its spirit within itself. Three: when it passed into a”.