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Introduction
The Golden Chain of Homer: Introduction
p. 7The Golden Chain repays attention because its largest question remains available beyond the answers it gives. How do separate things belong to a common world? In its response, production depends on dissolution, stability arises within movement, and the least impressive material can be asked to disclose a universal relation. The task of an edition is to let the reader encounter that response in its particularity: its confidence and uncertainty, its Christian commitments, its operations, and its extraordinary scale of explanation. The chain becomes most intelligible when its individual links are allowed to bear their full weight.
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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.
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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