PREFACE.

Preface.

a Yes / eternal Wisdom itself has privileged it with its own presence / so that one shall not go astray. For the Salt of Wisdom dwells therein macrocosmically, original: "Grossweldisch." This likely refers to the Macrocosm, the "Great World" or the universe as a whole, as opposed to the Microcosm of man. bodily, and universally.

...the bird's useless spitting. It would be better if he gnawed on something else with his dog-like tooth original: "dente suo canino." A Latin idiom for a biting, snapping, or snarling critic. and left the Natural CHAOS of the nature-conforming Art of ALCHEMY and the Alchemists unmolested a.

CHAOS and where the name comes from.

original Hebrew: "Tohu wa-Bohu" (תהו ובהו)
Formless and empty.

BOHU among the Hebrews refers to an unformed mass; for BOHU, the Greeks heard COHU: from which the ancients called the World COHUM, according to the testimony of Verrius, the most ancient grammarian. From this comes the word Inchoare To begin or to start.. Alternatively; CHAOS (ΧΑΟΣ) comes from cheo (CHEO), meaning to pour; as if to say the First Matter MATERIA PRIMA: The original, formless "stuff" from which all things in the universe were created, according to ancient and alchemical thought. of the World—which was a Mud or Slime made of Water and Earth—was liquid, flowing, moist, watery, and slimy. OVID b:

b Book 1 of the Metamorphoses

Before the Sea and the Earth, and the Sky that covers all,
there was but one face of Nature in the whole Orb,
which men called CHAOS; a rough and unformed mass,
original: "Ante Mare & Tellus, & quod tegit omnia, Coelum, Vnus erat toto Naturæ vultus in Orbe, Quem dixêre CHAOS; rudis indigestaq́; moles." These are the opening lines of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a standard classical reference for the origin of the universe in the 17th century.