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The Concentrated Centre of Nature · Passage 35
German
Der Leib aber gebahr auch aus seinen Eigenschafften ein Centrum im Willen, Lust und Krafft von seinen Muttern, ▽ und Erden zu essen, zu trincken, von ihren Brüsten zu leben; Aß derwegen auch und lebte eine Dreyfachheit in dem Menschen, auf daß er wäre GOttes Bild und gleich als Er.
English
But the body also brought forth from its properties a centre in will, desire, and power to eat and drink from its mothers, ▽ and earth, and live at their breasts. Thus a threefold being also ate and lived within the human being, so that it might be God’s image and like him.
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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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