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Philosophical Discourse · Passage 21
German
Tuchscheerers Sohn zu Verona im Kloster gelernt / Eibingen 3. Meilen von im Kloster / bey den Canonicis regularibus 3. viertel Jahr / allda in der Stille laborirte / mir nichts sagte / als was ich wissen solte / nur daß ich bißweilen mit zum Feuer sehen muste / denn ich wuste damals nicht / was universal / particular oder Lapis Philosophorum. Unterdessen reisete ich nach dem Groß-Cantzler von Pohlen / so wassersüchtig gefährlich / unterdessen informirt er mich das Werck zu treiben / gab völligen Bericht der Farben / da solt ich keinen Menschen dabey kommen lassen / In der 7den Woche sahe ich Zeichen / wie ich schrifftlich hinterlassen; Wäre (sagt er) eine Tinctur oder universal Medicin / so ihm zu Verona sein abgestorbener Eydes-Bruder auffn Todbette und geleisteten Cörperlichen Eyde in Schrifften anvertrauet / das müste er verschwiegen halten biß an sein Ende.
English
A cloth-shearer’s son; learned in a monastery at Verona; Eibingen, three miles from … in the monastery, with the canons regular for three-quarters of a year. There he worked quietly and told me nothing beyond what I was to know. I only had to attend to the fire with him at times, for then I did not know what universal, particular, or the Philosophers’ Stone meant. Meanwhile I travelled to the Grand Chancellor of Poland, who was dangerously ill with dropsy. In the meantime he instructed me how to conduct the work and gave a full account of the colours; I was to allow nobody near it. In the seventh week I saw signs, as I have left in writing. He said it was a tincture or universal medicine which his deceased sworn brother at Verona had entrusted to him in writing on his deathbed, after a solemn oath. He was to keep it secret until his own end.
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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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