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The Concentrated Centre of Nature · Passage 57
German
Aber wie man weiter gehet und nach Besitzung des wahren Philosophen ☿ii, in welches Erkänntniß viel irren, wenn sie meinen, der ☿ Philosophorum sey ipsum Sal Naturæ Regeneratum oder Lapis Philosophorum, welches falsch, seine Arbeiten zu dem Meisterstück der Natur fortsetzet, schreibe ich hiebey nicht, weil dieses Blümlein vor die Weißheit- und nicht geldsuchende dienen soll.
English
But how one proceeds further after obtaining the true philosophers’ mercury and continues one’s work towards nature’s masterpiece I do not write here. Many err in understanding it when they suppose that the philosophers’ ☿ is the regenerated salt of nature itself or the philosophers’ stone, which is false. For this little flower is to serve those who seek wisdom, rather than money.
Socrates
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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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