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Preface by Helbig to the Reader · Passage 5
German
Seine Besitzung eröffnete mir wunderliche Dinge, Ich fand ihn überall, aber concentrirt mehr an 2. Orthen in der grossen und kleinen Welt, in der Lufft und im Menschen, und bey beyden in den verachtesten Materien. Die eine liefferte ohne Zusatz Animalien Vegetabilien, und Metallen, nach dem ihr eine dazu gehörige Bewegung gegeben wird. Aus der andern aber habe ich biß dato alleine Metallen bringen können, doch niemals zu grossen Schätzen, sondern allein zur NaturErkändtniß gnugsam.
English
Possessing it opened marvellous things to me. I found it everywhere, but more concentrated in two places in the great and little world: in the air and in the human being, and in both cases in the most despised materials. One of these yielded animals, plants and metals without addition when the appropriate motion was imparted to it. From the other, however, I have so far been able to bring forth metals alone, though never great treasures, but enough only for knowledge of nature.
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.
Historical Text and Translation
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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