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The Concentrated Centre of Nature · Passage 34
German
Und diese 2. eingeblasene Kräffte der Leben formirten in dem Menschen auch ein jegliches sein eigen Centrum in sich, welches war ein Wille, dasjenige allezeit zu begehren, davon sie hergekommen. Sie sehneten sich nach ihrer Mutter, umb von ihr zu essen, gebahr also hier der Wille, als Vater, im Centro des Lebens, die Sehnung oder Lust, als seinen Sohn, aus welchen Zweyen, Wille und Lust, ausging der Geist, das war die Krafft durch Aushauchung von GOtt und der Lufft-Welt zu leben. Lebten also beyde aus GOtt und Lufft.
English
Each of these two inbreathed powers of life also formed its own centre within the human being. This was a will continually to desire that from which it had come. They longed for their mother, to feed from her. Here, therefore, the will, as father, begot longing or desire as its son in the centre of life. From these two, will and desire, proceeded the spirit: the power to live through exhalation from God and the air-world. Thus both lived from God 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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