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The Concentrated Centre of Nature · Passage 56
German
Und ist ein frommer Christ, (die bösen mit ihrem bittern, sauern und brennenden Verstande schliesse ich gantz aus) der zum Natur-Priester innerlich von GOttes Weißheit beruffen ist, sich selbst durch Anweisung meines Schrifftgens wil examiniren, so hüte er sich vor allen Unkosten und grosser Mühe, findet er das lote Loch und die Materie, so wird ihm die Natur von sich selbst, ohn Handanlegung beystehen, daß er die wunderliche Erde zu besitzen kriegt. Sehe er nur wol zu und gebe achtung auff die Werck der Natur, es ist alles geringe, leicht und ohne Kosten.
English
If there is a devout Christian—I entirely exclude the wicked with their bitter, sour, burning understanding—who is inwardly called by God’s wisdom to be a priest of nature and wishes to examine himself by the guidance of my little writing, let him guard against every expense and great exertion. If he finds the ore-bearing opening and the matter, nature will of itself assist him, without his putting a hand to it, so that he obtains possession of the wondrous earth. Let him simply look carefully and attend to nature’s works. It is all humble, easy, and without cost.
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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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