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The Concentrated Centre of Nature · Passage 8
German
Probier dieses, vor einmahl fange von gantzem Hertzen in GOttes Krafft an fromm zu werden; und alles was du wilst, daß dir die Leute thun sollen, thu du ihnen auch. Liebe die dich hassen, segne, die dir fluchen, thu guts, denen, die dein Verderben suchen, hasse dein Fleisch und alles, was ihm wol thut, stille deine unartige Gemüths-Bewegung, und ziehe sie aus der wütenden Circumferentz in das stille und sanffte Centrum: so wirstu in deiner Seelen hören ein sanfftes, liebliches Sausen, welches dich unaussprechlich erfreuen, und deinem Willen nicht zulassen wird, wieder aus dem heiligen süssen Licht in das sündliche scharffe Feuer, aus der Gedult und Vergnügung in die Hoffahrt, Eigen-Liebe, und der Welt-Liebe einzutreten, du wirst gantz ein ander Mensch werden, und deine in Wollust, Ehr- und Geld-Geitz verlauffne Zeit mit Thränen für GOtt bereuen. Du kanst täglich, ja augenblicklich GOttes wunderliche Geschöpffe anschauen und sagen: HErr ich freue mich deiner Hände Werck, du kanst seine Allmacht und grosse Weißheit gnugsam an dir alleine abmercken, und darffst den Stein der Weisen Natur-Meister nicht darumb begehren, daß du doch GOttes unbegreifliche Wercke mögest zu sehen kriegen.
English
Try this: for once begin with your whole heart, in God’s strength, to become devout. Do to others everything you wish them to do to you. Love those who hate you; bless those who curse you; do good to those who seek your ruin. Hate your flesh and everything that gratifies it. Still your unruly inward movement and draw it out of the raging circumference into the quiet, gentle centre. Then in your soul you will hear a soft, lovely whisper that will delight you beyond words and prevent your will from passing again out of the holy, sweet light into the sinful, sharp fire, or out of patience and contentment into pride, self-love, and love of the world. You will become an entirely different person and with tears before God repent of the time you spent in sensual pleasure and greed for honour and money. Every day, indeed every moment, you can contemplate God’s wondrous creatures and say: “Lord, I rejoice in the work of your hands.” In yourself alone you can observe enough of his omnipotence and great wisdom; you need not desire the philosophers’ stone, the master of nature, merely to obtain a sight of God’s incomprehensible works.
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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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