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The Concentrated Centre of Nature · Passage 55
German
Und hätten sie etwan andre Materien gehabt, wie frölich wolt ich seyn; denn hierdurch konte ich erkennen, daß GOttes Gnade durch mein Gebet und Fleiß in der Natur ein neues und unbekandtes Wunder offenbahret habe. Weil das Saltz der Natur aus meiner Materia so viel, wenn es durch den Künstler wieder gebohren wird, verrichtet, als der Alten Wunder und Meisterstück jemals gethan hat.
English
And if they should have had other matters, how glad I would be! For thereby I could recognise that God’s grace, through my prayer and diligence in nature, had revealed a new and unknown wonder. For the salt of nature from my matter, when regenerated by the artist, accomplishes as much as the ancients’ wonder and masterpiece ever did.
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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