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The Concentrated Centre of Nature · Passage 32
German
Sed hic labor, hic opus est. Es scheinet sehr schwer, das universale Centrum aller geschaffnen Kräffte zu finden: Weil es von vielen gesucht, aber von wenigen ergriffen wird: da doch leichtlich dazu zu kommen, wenn ihr nur die heilige Schrifft in der Grund-Sprache mit nachdrücklicher Andacht durchleset. Es ist denn solches Universale Centrum des ▽ 🜃 und △er, klar und deutlich, ohne der sonst gewohnte Verblühmung zu reden, der Mensch, welchen GOtt umb sein selbst willen hat geschaffen am 6. Tage aus der leiblich gemachten Liebes-Begierde der gantzen Natur.
English
But here lies the labour, here the task. It seems very difficult to find the universal centre of all created powers, because many seek it but few grasp it. Yet it is easy to reach if you will only read holy scripture in its original language with earnest devotion. For that universal centre of ▽, 🜃, and fire is—to speak clearly and plainly, without the usual figurative concealment—the human being, whom God created for his own sake on the sixth day from the embodied desire of love of the whole of nature.
Socrates
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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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