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The Concentrated Centre of Nature · Passage 28
German
Durch gemeinen dünnen Kinder- oder erwachsener Menschen-Dreck können mit blosser Bewegung in das von ☉ geschiedene Silber etliche gran ☉ gebracht werden. Gestossener Weitzen, wenn er vor mit geschiedenen Silber-Blechlein &c. in einer wolverschlossenem Cementir-Büchslein geglüet und verbrandt wird, gibt in dem 🜅 ☉ aus der ☽. Frische ungesaltzene Butter kan die rothe Corall seiner Tinctur mit einem kleinen Handgriff und Instrument berauben: Und der unbezwingliche Talc läst sich durch nichts, so viel mir bekandt, als durch vegetabilien und vornemlich durch Animalien solviren und in ein 🝆 bringen. Die 🝆 und Salia herbarum ziehen dem 🜍 seine Tinctur aus, und wie herrlich die Spiritus Salis und 🝆 von dem Weinstock in alle mineralien und Metallen radicaliter wircken und sie auffschliessen, ist überflüssig bekandt. Ohne Wein und Mensch ist es unmöglich eine vollkommene und aufrichtige ☉ Tinctur zu machen.
English
Through ordinary thin excrement from children or adults, and by movement alone, several grains of ☉ can be introduced into silver from which ☉ has been separated. Crushed wheat, when first heated and burned with small plates of parted silver and the like in a well-closed cementation box, yields ☉ from ☽ in the 🜅. Fresh unsalted butter can deprive red coral of its tincture by a small manipulation and instrument. And, so far as I know, unconquerable talc can be dissolved and brought into an 🝆 only through plants and especially through animal substances. The 🝆 and salts of herbs extract the tincture of 🜍. It is abundantly known how splendidly the spirits of salt and 🝆 from the vine act at the root of all minerals and metals and open them up. Without wine and the human being it is impossible to make a perfect and genuine ☉-tincture.
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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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