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The Concentrated Centre of Nature · Passage 60
German
und wollen mich die Herren Doctores, gelahrte Naturalisten und erfahrne Chymici verlachen, und weil ich den Menschen die Welt, das lote Loch die Ertz-Grube, meine TESSA oder Materia, Saltz naturæ: und das Meisterstück, und eigentlich genandt der Stein der Weisen, Saltz Naturæ Regenerationis benennet habe, durch die Hechel ziehen, werde ich dar wenig Haar lassen und es gantz nichts achten. Von GOTT hab ich die Weißheit empfangen, mildiglich theile ich sie mit, und kehre mich an der Philosophorum Fluche gantz nicht, denn ichs aus ihren Büchern nicht erlernet.
English
And if the gentlemen doctors, learned naturalists, and experienced chymists wish to laugh at me and drag me through the heckle because I have called the human being the world, the ore-bearing opening the mine, my TESSA or matter the salt of nature, and the masterpiece—properly named the philosophers’ stone—the salt of nature’s regeneration, I shall leave little hair there and care nothing for it. I received wisdom from God and share it generously. I pay no heed whatever to the philosophers’ curse, for I did not learn it from their books.
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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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