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The Concentrated Centre of Nature · Passage 26
German
Die Hn. Doctores, welche den bekandten Unterscheid machen zwischen Animalien, Vegetabilien und Mineralien, sprechen sich täglich mit augenscheinlichen Wercken entgegen. Denn sie geben einem Animali den Krancken Menschen unzählich viel Mineral- und Metallische Medicamenten ein, wodurch, wenn sie ohn △ und corrosiv bereitet sind, er viel besser, als von andern gesund wird. Weil nun Gesundwerden anders nichts ist als Correctio Spiritum Acri-acidorum aut degeneratorum, und aber kein unartiges Wesen gecorrigiret wird, oder das Corrigens muß mit seiner besten Essentz in das Corrigendum radicaliter gehen, und sich mit demselben unscheidentlich vereinigen: So folgt unwiedersprechlich, daß der Mineralien und Metallen Essentz mit den Animalien könne vereiniget werden; So müssen sie im Natur-Grunde eines Wesens und der Unterscheid nur accidental seyn.
English
The gentlemen doctors who make the familiar distinction between animals, plants, and minerals contradict themselves daily through visible deeds. For they administer countless mineral and metallic medicines to an animal—the sick human being—through which, when they are prepared without △ and corrosives, the patient recovers much better than through other remedies. Now recovery is nothing other than the correction of sharp-acid or degenerated spirits; and no disordered substance is corrected unless the correcting agent enters the thing to be corrected at its root with its finest essence and unites with it inseparably. It follows irrefutably that the essence of minerals and metals can unite with animals. They must therefore be of one substance in nature’s foundation, their difference being merely accidental.
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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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