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The Concentrated Centre of Nature · Passage 36
German
Doch wurden die Centra in Leib, Geist und Seele nicht gezwungen aus GOtt, Lufft und Erde sich zu sättigen, sondern ihr Wille war frey, zum Ebenbilde des göttlichen freyen Willens, und konte die in lieblicher Sanfftmuth ausgebohrne Güte, leuchtende und süsse Lust, wieder in sich einziehen, zurück in seine circumferentz oder Eigenschafften, darüber er als Centrum herrschete, vertheilen, und entweder durch scharffe und ziemliche Bewegung seines Rundes oder seiner Eigenschafften in sich eine andre scharffe und böse Lust gebähren, zu einer andern untauglichen Speise, oder den Mund gantz zu thun, und nicht mehr anziehen.
English
Yet the centres in body, spirit, and soul were not compelled to feed themselves from God, air, and earth. Their will was free, in the image of the divine free will. It could draw back into itself the goodness, luminous and sweet desire, born in lovely gentleness, distribute it back into its circumference or properties over which it ruled as centre, and either, through a sharp and considerable movement of its circuit or properties, beget within itself another sharp and evil desire for another, unsuitable food, or close the mouth entirely and cease drawing anything in.
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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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