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The Concentrated Centre of Nature · Passage 53
German
Aus diesen hab ich sehen mit gebührlichen △ gebähren, die Artzeney der krancken Animalien, Vegetabilien und Metallen, wovon so viel 100. Bücher im Druck sind. Durch wenig von diesem wiedergebohrnen Saltze der Natur, hab ich viel geringes Metall zu ☉ und ☽ gemacht.
English
From these, with the proper △, I have seen the medicine of sick animals, plants, and metals brought forth—the medicine about which so many hundreds of books are in print. With a little of this regenerated salt of nature, I have made much base metal into ☉ and ☽.
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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