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The Concentrated Centre of Nature · Passage 47
German
Dieses haben die Weisen gesucht und gefunden. Hievon hat Hermes seine 28. Bücher, die noch bey den Weisen der andern Welt unverfälscht verwahret liegen, und von mir gesehen sind, aufgesetzt. Dieses sucht auch ihr meine Freunde, in allerhand Dingen, habet aber bißher seine speluncken nicht erkennet, noch gewust, wie es, wenn ihr es sehen möchtet, aussehen soll.
English
This is what the wise have sought and found. About it Hermes composed his twenty-eight books, which are still preserved uncorrupted among the wise of the other world and which I have seen. You too, my friends, seek this in all kinds of things, but until now you have not recognised its hiding places or known what it should look like if you were to see it.
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.
Historical Text and Translation
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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