PREFACE.

...[v]ogel's useless spewing. It would be better if he gnawed on something else with his dog-like fangs original: "dente suo canino." To attack with a "dog-like tooth" was a common Latin idiom for biting or cynical criticism. and left the natural CHAOS CHAOS: In alchemy, this refers to the Prima Materia or "First Matter"—the raw, disorganized substance from which the world and the Philosopher's Stone are formed. of the nature-bound art of ALCHEMY and of alchemists unbothered a.

BOHV Hebrew: Bohu (בֹּהוּ), usually paired with Tohu to mean "waste and void" in Genesis 1:2. is to the Hebrews an "unordered mass" original: "indigesta moles."; instead of BOHV, the Greeks heard COHV: from which the ancients called the world COHVM, according to the testimony of Verrius, the very ancient grammarian. From this comes the word "to begin" original: "Inchoare." The author is attempting to link the beginning of the world with the etymology of the word.. Or: CHAOS (χάος) from cheo (χέω) meaning "to pour," as if to say: the first matter of the world—which was mud or slime made from water and earth—was liquid, flowing, moist, watery, and slimy. OVID says in book 1 b:

Before the sea and the land, and the sky that covers all things,
there was but one face of nature in the whole world,
which they called CHAOS; a rough and unordered mass,