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The Concentrated Centre of Nature · Passage 18
German
Denn GOtt wolte nicht, daß der Himmel, das Hauß, Natur oder Reich, worinnen der Teuffel geregieret, und welches von ihme, als dem Centro sein Licht-Wort oder Bewegung hat empfangen müssen, derwegen nicht vorsetzlich, sondern per Consensum in die hitzige imagination sich mit Gewalt zu exaltiren, wodurch das süsse Licht in scharffe Corrosivische Finsterniß, die lieblich bewegende Wärme in schrecklich zusammen ziehende Kälte, und der HErr in irrdisches Wasser, in wässerichte Erde sich veränderte, gefallen, gantz und gar vergehen solte; sondern wolte die von Ewigkeit in ihm gelegene Ideam der Welt bilden, und also etwas neues, worinnen er sich weiter offenbahren und ergötzen könnte, formiren, fing derowegen die neue Schöpffung an, sprach mit seinem Worte durch den Geist in die Materia, und denete oder theilete sie aus in 3. Theil, welche drey forthin mit ihrer Zusammenwürckung solten durch einigen Ausfluß aller andern Dinge Anfang seyn. Doch, daß keines von diesen 3. ohne die andern 2, gleich wie in der GOttheit, bestehen könnte; wurde also aus dem einigen Chaos, oder wässerigen Schleime, fix, fliessend und flüchtigen Leib, Geist und Seele, Erde, Wasser und Lufft.
English
For God did not wish the heaven—the house, nature, or kingdom in which the devil had ruled—to perish utterly. It had been obliged to receive its light-word or movement from him as its centre, and had therefore fallen, not deliberately but by consent, into the heated imagination of exalting itself by force. Through this, the sweet light changed into sharp, corrosive darkness, the pleasantly moving warmth into a terribly contracting cold, and the lord into earthly water, into watery earth. Instead, God wished to give form to the idea of the world that had lain within him from eternity, and thus to fashion something new in which he could further reveal and delight himself. He therefore began the new creation, speaking with his word through the spirit into matter and extending or distributing it into three parts. These three, working together, were henceforth to be the beginning of all other things through a single outflow, yet none of the three could subsist without the other two, just as in the Godhead. Thus from the single chaos, or watery slime, came fixed, flowing, and volatile body, spirit, and soul: earth, water, and air.
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The complete supplied German–English edition of the 1682 collection: the main treatise attributed to Ali Puli, Helbig’s preface, distinct companion discourses, the short potable-gold preparation and the anonymous Father’s Last Testament, with four historical figures, 103 annotations and the full Diotimos study apparatus.
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The governing German witness is the complete 1682 collection in Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe, shelfmark 87 B 76050, with an unnumbered title and printed pages 1–80. The historical title’s Arabic and Portuguese antecedents and its authorial persona are retained as claims, not authenticated originals. Johann Otto Helbig (Hellwig), Martin de Delle, J. J. F. and the anonymous testament retain their distinct historical roles.
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