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Sal Lumen and Spiritus Mundi Philosophici
Clovis Hesteau de Nuysement · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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II.3.3 invokes the Homeric chain to describe the continued connection of heaven and earth after their differentiation. The first separation makes different parts, expressly not contrary ones. A tree's connected members give an ordinary parallel: distinction within an organism does not require severance from the whole.
The chain's gold conveys dignity and strength of connection, not a prescribed metal to be added to a work. It prepares the contrast with the second separation, which removes alien or harmful admixture. Confusing these two kinds of separation would make the cosmic order itself a disease to be purged rather than the organized relation within which purification occurs.
Places to read
- Book Two · Chapter 3 · Unit 3Homeric image is read as earth's unbroken linkage with heaven.
- Book Two · Chapter 3 · Unit 4Distinction of connected parts differs from removal of alien, harmful admixture.
Word family
Chaisne and connected parts: continuity through the first separation. Exact historical spellings are listed separately.
Attested forms
chaisne d’or; Homere; chaisne