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Discourse on the Universal · Passage 7
German
Drauff ich gebeten / was dieses sey mich zu berichten / hat er gesagt: Es sey ⊖ macrocosmi acquisitum per Sal microcosmi, der gedoppelte ☿ Bernhardi: das allerhöchste und fixeste / denn es 2. ☿ialische substantzen aus einer Wurtzel / nemlich ex Hyle Mundi, und ließ sich auch nicht zu wege bringen / als in seiner eigenen zum höchsten gereinigten substantz / da begehrt eins das ander / wie der Magnet das Eisen / oder der Mann das Weib / daß wäre der Philosophen ☉ / ☽ / ☿ / Corpus, Spiritus, Anima, ⊖, 🜍, ☿, quia ex terrâ microcosmi acquitur ☿, & per illum ☿ microcosmi, die doch beede aus einer Wurtzel / nemlich ex terrâ oder limo originem ducunt, das ist die Fontina Bernhardi / so er im Felde fand / und sich hierauff setzte / und zu pfützen anfing / kommt aus einer Wurtzel / nemlich Hyle, Spiritu Mundi, ist im Anfange / Mittel und Ende nicht mehr im Gesichte denn Eins / und seynd doch drey / nemlich Spiritus Microcosmi und Macrocosmi (die doch beyde aus einer Wurtzel) der qui ⊖ factus zum Saltz werden / & unus per alium acquisitus, hi tamen etiamsi uniti wider ihren Willen manent mortui, interveniente autem Spiritu æthereo, △e Philosophico (der sich im Donner Wetter öffentlich sehen läst) reviviscunt, und wird dieser durch die andern beyde / so doch ein Ding sind / gefangen / wie die Mauß in der Fallen / und sind diese 3. ein Ding / aber nicht ein Todes / denn der Geist der Welt ist kein todes Ding / denn ein lebendiges muß allezeit wircken / quia vivum semper operari oportet, Ergò erfreuet es sich im 4ten als im Saamen Auri eines jedweden Dinges / so es germinare (grünen und wachsen) machet.
English
I asked him to explain what this was. He said that it was the salt of the macrocosm obtained through the salt of the microcosm, Bernard’s doubled Mercury, the highest and most fixed: two mercurial substances from one root, namely the world’s hyle. It could only be brought about in its own substance purified to the highest degree. There one desires the other as the magnet desires iron, or man woman. This was the philosophers’ Sun, Moon, Mercury; body, spirit, soul; salt, sulphur, Mercury. For from the earth of the microcosm Mercury is obtained, and through it the Mercury of the microcosm: both derive from one root, namely earth or mud. This is Bernard’s little spring, which he found in the field, sat down beside, and began to clean out. It comes from one root, namely hyle, the Spirit of the World. At the beginning, middle, and end only one thing is visible, yet there are three: the spirits of the microcosm and macrocosm—both from one root—which become salt, one obtained through the other. Even when united against their will, however, these remain dead. But when the ethereal spirit, the philosophical fire, intervenes—it shows itself openly in thunderstorms—they revive. It is caught by the other two, which are nevertheless one thing, like a mouse in a trap. These three are one thing, but not a dead thing, for the Spirit of the World is no dead thing. A living thing must always act. Therefore it rejoices in the fourth, as in the golden seed of each thing, which it causes to sprout, become green, and grow.
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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