Harmony and constitution

Meaning

Harmony is the ordered agreement of differentiated parts; constitution is the formed arrangement of the whole. The title's general constitution promises an account of true salt and universal spirit as an intelligible order, not simply a collection of recipes.

II.3.2 explains the order through separation: day and night, sun and moon, winter and summer would remain undistinguished without it. These pairs exemplify distinct positions and functions within a world, not ingredients to be physically mixed together. The same passage moves from cosmic ordering to generation and nourishment, making Nature's differentiating work the model for art. Harmony therefore does not mean abolishing all differences; it depends on their rightly constituted relation.

The capitalized title forms and the separate preliminary heading are recorded in their own layers. “Constitution” retains arrangement and formation rather than a political sense.