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The Concentrated Centre of Nature · Passage 25
German
Doch muß ich dieses zugleich sagen: Der allgemeine Natur- oder SaltzGeist, wiewol er an dem Hauch des göttlichen Aussprechens hänget, und in alle Dinge gesprochen wird, kan er doch nun nichts neues mehr zu wege bringen: Sondern wird allein zur Unterhaltung und Bewegung derer vormals durch eine sonderliche Schöpffung des Wortes GOttes gemachten Wercke, von dem erhaltenden Worte der GOttheit getrieben.
English
Yet I must say this at the same time: although the universal spirit of nature, or salt-spirit, depends upon the breath of divine utterance and is spoken into all things, it can now bring about nothing new. Rather, the sustaining word of the Godhead drives it solely to maintain and move those works formerly made through a particular creation by God’s word.
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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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