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The Concentrated Centre of Nature · Passage 7
German
Siehe an die Exempel vieler 1000. welche durch Beliebung und Einmischung fremder Geschäffte erschrecklich sind gefallen; ein jeder Mensch, ob er schon aus seinen Zinsen lebt, hat doch so viel mit GOtt, seinem Nechsten und sich zu dienen zu thun, daß ihme, wann er diese 3. Dinge mit allen Kräfften, von gantzen Hertzen, von gantzer Seelen und mit gantzem Gemüthe verrichtet, und also mit seinem Fleische dem Teufel und der Welt eifrig streitet, wird ihm keine Zeit zum Müssiggang oder Alchymisterey können überbleiben.
English
Consider the examples of many thousands who have fallen terribly through their fondness for, and interference in, other people’s affairs. Every person, even one who lives on income from investments, has so much to do in serving God, neighbour, and self that, if these three duties are performed with all one’s strength, whole heart, whole soul, and whole mind, and one thus zealously struggles against one’s flesh, the devil, and the world, no time can remain for idleness or alchemical dabbling.
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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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