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The Concentrated Centre of Nature · Passage 29
German
Wie Graß, Kraut oder Brodt die Animalia speiset, erhält, verbessert, und in denenselben zu so vielerhand Dingen verbessert und in denenselben zu so vielerhand Dingen verändert, hab ich vorn erzehlet. Alle Bauern wissen, daß die Animalia Stercus und Urin auch Vegetabilien essen, darvon fett und verbessert werden. Der Mensch allein hat in sich die Vegetabil- und Mineralische Krafft so öffentlich, daß er vielmals mit Schmertzen solches bekennen muß. Sind die grossen Steine sammt dem Sand in Nieren und Blasen, nicht Mineralisch? wovon wachsen sie, als von Vegetabilischen und Animalischen Safften, die der Mensch zur Speise gebraucht? ist nicht zwischen den Zähnen eines Toden-Kopffs ☉ heraus gewachsen?
English
I have already related how grass, herbs, or bread feed, sustain, and improve animals and are changed within them into so many kinds of things. Every farmer knows that animal dung and urine also feed plants, which grow fat and are improved by them. In the human being alone the vegetable and mineral power is so evident that one must often acknowledge it with pain. Are not the large stones, together with the sand in the kidneys and bladder, mineral? From what do they grow if not from the vegetable and animal juices used by human beings as food? Has not ☉ grown out between the teeth of a dead person’s skull?
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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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