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The Concentrated Centre of Nature · Passage 50
German
Hiemit hab ich den Weg getreulich angewiesen, und wil noch dieses zum Überfluß dabey fügen: Die Welt, worinnen der Weisen höchste und nechste Materia zu ihrem Meisterstück zu finden, der Mensch ist die Grube, darinnen das lote Loch und Ertz, das beste und schlimmeßte, köstlichste und schlechteste Wasser, Lufft und Erde, zugleich und doch keines allein; sondern ein Sohn und Saamen von diesen dreyen reinesten Leibe, Geist und Seele in dem Menschen, zu seinem besten und seiner Nothdurfft gebohren und TESSA genandt:
English
In this I have faithfully indicated the way, and I shall add this for further assurance. The world in which the wise find their highest and nearest matter for their masterpiece—the human being—is the mine in which lie the ore-bearing opening and ore: the best and worst, most precious and least worthy water, air, and earth together, yet none of them alone; rather, a son and seed born from these three purest body, spirit, and soul within the human being for its good and necessities, and called TESSA.
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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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