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The Concentrated Centre of Nature · Passage 54
German
Ob die Alten oder neuen Philosophi den Weg auch gegangen, und wie ich gearbeitet, bedisputir ich nicht. Meinethalben schreibe man von dieser oder jener Materia, ich bin zu frieden, und suche jetzund andere zum Beweißthumb weder anzuziehen, noch zu widerlegen. Weil mich als einen Kunstbesitzer selbst die Toden und Lebendige vonnöthen haben, durch meine eigene Erfahrung zu bezeugen, daß sie die Warheit der Natur an die Welt, wiewol etwas bedeckter, haben übergegeben.
English
I shall not dispute whether the ancient or modern philosophers followed this path too, or how I worked. Let people write about this matter or that, for all I care; I am content and now seek neither to cite others as proof nor to refute them. For both the dead and the living themselves need me, as a possessor of the art, to testify through my own experience that they handed nature’s truth to the world, though in a somewhat more veiled manner.
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.
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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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