Golden Chain of Homer

Of the Generation of things, Part I

Chapter 1

What Nature is.



Chapter 2

How all things proceed therefrom.



Chapter 3

How all things are further generated.



Chapter 4

How the Universal Sperm is generated by the four Elements



Chapter 5

In what manner the divided Chaotic water is regenerated and becomes the Universal and General Sperm of all Things, called Anima or Spiritus Mundi.



Chapter 6

Of the Heavens and their Influence.



Chapter 7

Of the Atmosphere or air, and its Influence.



Chaper 8

Of Water and its Effluvium



Chapter 9

Of the Earth and its Effluvium.



Chapter 10

Discovery of the genuine Universal Sperm in the regenerated Chaos, the corporified Animal or Spiritus Mundi.



The one is Nitre The other is Salt The one is Acid The other is Alkaline The one is Spirit The other is Body This is the Father This is the Mother This is the Male Sperm This is the Female Sperm This is the Universal Agent This the Universal Patient Primordial Sulphur Primordial Mercury and Salt Fire and Air The Magnet Chalybs Sendivogii The Magnet The Hammer The Anvil Sulphur Naturae Mercury and Salt Naturae

Chapter 11

That nitre and salt are found in the air and in all things in this World.

Chapter 12

That there is nitre and salt in all waters and earths.



Chapter 13

That nitre and salt is found in Animals, that Animals proceed from nitre and salt, and are resolved into nitre and salt.



Chapter 14

That nitre and salt is found in Vegetables; that Vegetables consist of nitre and salt, and are resolved into nitre and salt.



Chapter 15

That nitre and salt is found in Minerals; that Minerals are formed of nitre and salt, and are resolved into nitre and salt.



Table of Generation



Anima Mundi Fire in Nitre and Salt United and fermented become acid and Corrosive dissolve a suitable Earth and form

A vitriolic Soft butyraceous Gur; The above Vapours becoming more and more corrosive retain their androgynal nature of Nitre and Salt and constitute now a double sulphureous and arsenical or merurial Vapour this setting by corroding forms nature vitriol, sulphur, arsenic, and by succeeding sulphur vapours, and also arsenical Vapours, they form and generate When Sulphur predominates When Arsenic predominates Sulphurous Macarsites Arsenical, Marcasites, Cobalt Pyritis, Antimony etc, Wolfram etc. Bismuth etc. Mars Venus Sun Saturn Jupiter Moon When both principles are in equality they form [unidentified symbol] cinnabar mercury Mercury

Chapter 16

Of the principal Gate Key to Nature, the author of destruction and regeneration of all things, called Putrefaction.

