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Discourse on the Universal · Passage 4
German
Als wir nun übers Lerchen-Feld bey der Stiffts-Schreiberin und Kitzings Garten gangen / hat er mehr denn einmal angefangen; Siehst du / Siehst du? Sagte ich: Ich sehe nichts: Er antwortete: Siehestu nicht in der Erden das Nichts der Philosophen / davon Pytagoras, Solon, Archelaus und Josaphat haben geschrieben / daraus die Welt geschaffen / ich sagte / ich sehe nichts / denn den Sand gläntzen / und die Sonne (so heiß schiene) blinckern / Ja sagte Er: Siehestu recht / aber nicht verstehestu es; sage zu wie gestern / daß du wilst treu seyn / als ich solches gethan / hat er mir angezeiget / gegen die Sonne getreten und das Blinckern darin gezeiget / daß dieses der Spiritus Mundi / so unvergleichlich herumschwebte / wäre / welcher durch GOttes Hauchen / Wort / und durch die Strahlen in alle Dinge sich legte / dieselben coquirte und fovirte, quia replevit totum orbem terrarum, dieser nähme nun einen Leib an / daß er corporalisch würde / den wolte er mir im Schatten zeigen / als wir hinter Ockels Weinberge im Schatten gangen / ist an der Fahrgleissen nach dem Regen es gar weiß / wie ein saltzig Erdreich zu seyn pflegt / und als wir in dem Sonnenschein eine lange Ecke daselbst gegangen / hat er gesagt:
English
As we crossed the Lark Field, beside the collegiate clerk’s wife’s property and Kitzing’s garden, he began more than once, “Do you see? Do you see?” I said, “I see nothing.” He answered, “Do you not see in the earth the philosophers’ Nothing, of which Pythagoras, Solon, Archelaus, and Josaphat have written, and from which the world was created?” I said that I saw nothing but the sand glittering and the sun, which shone hot, sparkling. “Yes,” he said, “you see correctly, but do not understand it. Promise, as yesterday, that you will be faithful.” When I had done so, he stepped towards the sun and pointed out its sparkling. This, he told me, was the Spirit of the World, hovering about incomparably. Through God’s breath, Word, and the rays, it entered all things, cooked and fostered them, “because it has filled the whole circuit of the earth.” It was now taking on a body, becoming corporeal, and he would show it to me in the shade. As we went behind Ockel’s vineyard in the shade, the cart-ruts were quite white after the rain, as saline ground commonly is. After we had walked along a long corner there in the sunshine, he said:
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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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