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The Concentrated Centre of Nature · Passage 41
German
Aber wie der Teuffel durch böse Imagination das Recht und die Krafft der guten Imagination in sein gewesenes Reich, gegenwärtige Welt, verlohren: also hat auch Adam, der in dem Stuhl des gefallenen Engels durch gröbere substantz, weil der Fall des Lucifers, das Reich hatte gröber genaturet, von GOtt gesetzt war, durch gleiche böse Imagination die vorige Krafft der Gnaden, und sein Natur-Recht verlohren. Seine Imagination wird von der Natur jetzt gehasset und ausgespeyet, und behält der Mensch anders nichts übrig, als daß sein Geist und Leib von der Natur noch müssen unterhalten werden, neben dem Vermögen durch Verstand und Arbeit particulare Dinge in der Natur zu verbessern und zu verschlimmern.
English
But just as the devil, through evil imagination, lost the right and power of good imagination in his former kingdom, the present world, so Adam also lost the former power of grace and his natural right through the same evil imagination. God had placed him upon the fallen angel’s throne in a coarser substance, because Lucifer’s fall had given that kingdom a coarser nature. His imagination is now hated and spat out by nature. Nothing remains to the human being except that nature must still sustain spirit and body, together with the ability, through understanding and labour, to improve or worsen particular things in nature.
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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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