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The Concentrated Centre of Nature · Passage 30
German
Ich selbst, durch GOttes Gnade, weiß aus Animalien eine Materiam zu kriegen, aus welcher auf sonderbahrer Weise bereitet Animalien, auf andre Manier Vegetabilien und wieder anders Mineralien oder Metallen, als Argentum vivum, Saturnus, Cuprum, Vitriol, Crystall, Vitrum, plumbum, Limus Mineralis &c. entstehen, und diese alle ohne der geringsten Beysetzung eines andern Dinges, allein aus sich selbst.
English
I myself, through God’s grace, know how to obtain from animal substances a matter which, prepared in a particular way, produces animals; in another manner, plants; and in yet another, minerals or metals such as quicksilver, Saturn, copper, vitriol, crystal, glass, lead, mineral slime, and so forth. All these arise solely from itself, without the slightest addition of anything else.
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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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