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The Concentrated Centre of Nature · Passage 51
German
Kanstu es finden durch GOttes Gnade, und deinen Fleiß, so scheide das Reine von dem Unreinen, mache ohne △ und Beyfügung eines andern Dinges die Jungfräuliche Erden, ohne Geschmack, Geruch und Farbe; kriege heraus und scheide das Sal centrale, Vitriolum microcosmicum Philosophicum, und das Saltz Astrale, ☿ium Microcosmi, ♀em Philosophicam, saubre sie, und gebähre daraus einen Sohn, der besser als seine Eltern ist. So solt ihr sehen, warumb Quecksilber von den alten Ægyptiern so wunderlich ☿ gezeichnet ist: Nemlich unten mit den Zeichen des Kupffers, und oben mit dem Zeichen des Silbers.
English
If you can find it through God’s grace and your diligence, separate the pure from the impure. Without △ or the addition of another thing, make the virginal earth, without taste, smell, or colour. Extract and separate the central salt, the philosophical vitriol of the microcosm, and the astral salt, the mercury of the microcosm, the philosophical Venus. Purify them and bring forth from them a son better than its parents. Then you will see why the ancient Egyptians so wonderfully represented quicksilver by ☿: with the sign of copper below and the sign of silver above.
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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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